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[Farangbaa]

My current one:

 

Name: NaangFah. (Thai for Angel)

LI: none in ME1 (I killed Ashley on Virmire and only then acquired Liara), Miranda in ME2. And that's where it's at now.

Class: Adept. Assault Rifle bonus power in ME1, Warp Ammo in ME2 + assault rifle specialization

Background: Earthborn

Service History: Sole Survivor

Reputation: renegade in 'normal' situations, paragon in 'big' situations. (Saved Council, spared Rachni Queen, saved Feros, charmed Wrex... solved the renegade mission in a paragon way: I WILL NOT BE USED, HACKET). That goes for ME1.

This changes in ME2 though, where my aligment is all over the place, though it's still leaning towards renegade. It hasn't happend yet, but I will keep the Collector Base and rewrite the Heretics. I think I've only ever done one playthrough in which I destroyed the base, on my FemShep. In ME3 I'll just do what feels good Which I pretty much do in ME2 aswell.

Squad: Garrus + Wrex (ME1), Garrus + Thane where possible (ME2), Garrus + Liara where possible (ME3)

 

Thane is an absolute BEAST against Collectors, btw.  

[Manc4life7]

As another poster stated, your most "honest" Shep story (and therefore the one we should consider our canon) is the one from your first playthrough, where everything is new and consequences are completely unknown.  Since I was really late to the MEU party, I got to do this in one compressed time period (including all DLCs) - basically over a 6 week period this past summer.  Here was mine.......

 

Name:  Brad Shepard (custom)

Specialization:  Vanguard

Background:  Colonist

Service Record:  War Hero

Reputation:  Started mostly neutral, with a slight Paragon lean, and the lean just got stronger as the series progressed

 

ME1:

- Completed most side missions (I missed a few, like Luna) & one DLC

- Romanced Ash (didn't like her xenophobia, but thought there was more to her than was apparent on the surface....lol)

- Saved as many as I could on Feros - shot Jeong, saved Asari (can't recall name)

- Let Rachnni queen go

- Talked Wrex down

- Saved Kirahe (sp?)

- Kaiden died

- Saved Council

- Recommended Anderson

- Let Balak go (really conflicted on this one, but couldn't let hostages die)

 

ME2:

- Completed all side missions & DLC

- Never trusted TIM - basically never gave him anything he wanted

- Romanced Jack (my favorite single game LI progression in the series - chipping through her rough outer shell to find the pained young woman looking for love was great)

- Gained full crew, with only Miranda not loyal (couldn't calm things down after Jack's loyalty mission, didn't realize you could fix it later)

- All ship/crew upgrades

- Made paragon choices on Loyalty missions (Mordin saved data, let Maelon live, got Tali acquited without revealing her father's actions, convinced Jack not to kill whats-his-name, kept Garrus from killing anyone, saved workers and let Vido go, destroyed Greybox)

- Rewrote heretic geth

- Everyone survived the SM (Tali in tubes, Jacob leading second team, Mordin escorting civilians, Jack & Garrus with me)

- Destroyed Collector base (while giving TIM the double bird, at least in my mind)

- Saved David (sent to Grissom), wanted to shoot his POS brother

- Tried to warn Batarian colony during Arrival

 

ME3:

- Completed all side missions & DLC

- Continuted romance with Jack (if you can call it that - thanks Bioware)

- Again, paragon'ed through most side opportunities (encouraged EDI & Joker, convinced James to join N7, did not encourage Javik to look at shard, saved Samara, set Jack's students up in support, etc, etc)

- Cured Genophage, exposed the Dalatras at first opportunity (love me some Krogan)

- Stopped bomb on Tuchunka

- Let Rachnni queen go (again...ugh)

- Let Ash back on the ship (why, oh why)

- Killed Udina

- Negotiated peace between Geth & Quarians

- Stopped Aria from killing the General after retaking Omega, then ended up shooting him myself

- Let Garrus win at bottle shooting (this Shep is a softy for his crew)

- Invited everyone to party

- Killed Kai Lang on Chronos

- Chose.......synthesis (it was just so cheesy, but I couldn't bring myself to off EDI and Legion)

 

 

I am sure I left out a ton of the smaller details.  While I understand why we have the reputation check system that we do, I wish it was a little more open.  Most of the choices my "honest" Shep would make would be paragon, but that is due to lack of better options - it doesn't mean he would flinch from killing an enemy in cold blood if the situation called for it, or even verbally laying into an idiot who needs to be set straight.  Not many options for a paragade who doesn't suffer fools or give enemies any mercy. 

 

Some changes I made in what I call my "ideal" (in lieu of "canon") Shep story include romancing Tali all the way through (she's just great, and the content in 3 is light years better than a LI Jack), leaving the Rachnni queen to die in ME3 (she had her chance), choosing destroy, and last but certainly not least, choosing Kaiden over Ash on Virmire.

[bfoore]

NAME: John Shepard

LI: Ashley Williams* (ME1), Miranda Lawson (ME2 & ME3)

SPECIALIZATION: Soldier

BACKGROUND: Earthborn

SERVICE HISTORY: Sole Survivor

REPUTATION: Neutral (Unfettered Machiavellian Pragmatic Consequentialist True Neutral or Lawful Evil)

 

Do I really need to describe my Shepard? I'm one of the loudest people here on this issue. And the most colorful, mainly because I hate every character you're supposed to love, and love every character you're supposed to hate (or I hate them for different reasons than given in game: looking at you Kai Lame).

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[Farangbaa]

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This is not going to end well

[bfoore]

This is not going to end well

What gives them the right to criticize my Shepard without thinking I'm gonna respond and criticize theirs?  

[Iakus]

Name:  Jacob Shepard

LI:  Ashley Williams, entire trilogy

Class: Infiltrator

Background: Colonist

Service History: War Hero

Reputation: Paragon (cynical and snarky to bureaucrats, but always tries to do the right thing, even if it makes things harder for himself.)

 

After surviving Mindoir, Shepard has a need to save as many people as possible.  Thus why he fought so hard for Elysium during the Skylian Blitz.  He firmly believes in personal freedom, and that life is precious.  (just assume he at least tries diplomatic options whenever possible, spares who he can, and doesn't make major renegade decisions)

 

He disagrees with Ashley's inherent suspicion of aliens (or of anyone not Alliance) but she forces him to confront uncomfortable ideas.  That organizations like the Council don't really have humanity's best interests at heart.  That cooperation doesn't always pay off.  By ME3, he's pretty much certain of that, having been screwed over by both the Council and Cerberus.  Not that he trusted Cerberus anyway. 

[Farangbaa]

What gives them the right to criticize my Shepard without thinking I'm gonna respond and criticize theirs?  

 

Them?

[bfoore]

Them?

The guy that criticized my Shepard. What gives them the right? Its just my "canon" if you want to call it that.

[MassivelyEffective0730]

What gives them the right to criticize my Shepard without thinking I'm gonna respond and criticize theirs?  

 

Nobody gave me the right. I took it myself. That said, let's see you make an argument. It'll be fun.

[MassivelyEffective0730]

Name:  Jacob Shepard

LI:  Ashley Williams, entire trilogy

Class: Infiltrator

Background: Colonist

Service History: War Hero

Reputation: Paragon (cynical and snarky to bureaucrats, but always tries to do the right thing, even if it makes things harder for himself.)

 

After surviving Mindoir, Shepard has a need to save as many people as possible.  Thus why he fought so hard for Elysium during the Skylian Blitz.  He firmly believes in personal freedom, and that life is precious.  (just assume he at least tries diplomatic options whenever possible, spares who he can, and doesn't make major renegade decisions)

 

He disagrees with Ashley's inherent suspicion of aliens (or of anyone not Alliance) but she forces him to confront uncomfortable ideas.  That organizations like the Council don't really have humanity's best interests at heart.  That cooperation doesn't always pay off.  By ME3, he's pretty much certain of that, having been screwed over by both the Council and Cerberus.  Not that he trusted Cerberus anyway.

 

LAAAAAMMMMMEEE!

 

*It's just me man*

[bfoore]

Nobody gave me the right. I took it myself. That said, let's see you make an argument. It'll be fun.

Ahhhhhaha, so youre trolling? This should be fun as well as an...entertaining experience.

[MassivelyEffective0730]

Ahhhhhaha, so youre trolling? This should be fun as well as an...entertaining experience.

 

Calling for someone trolling is against the rules. Reported.

 

Back on topic everyone? Splendid!

[ImaginaryMatter]

Back on topic everyone? Splendid!

 

I can oblige you:

 

I don't really have a canon Shepard. For each class I have a single Shepard and together they combine to cover most of the decisions in the game. However, they all have a few things in common and there are certain romances I have avoided except for the less serious NG+ runs which I use to see new content with the help of gibbed. I don’t really consider my Shepards Paragon or Renegade (except for my boyscout Soldier) although they end up 40-60% / 40-60%.

 

Michael Shepard: Adept/Colonist/Ruthless. Has a hatred for Batarians and distrust for the other alien species because of them. However, he regrets his actions at Torfon as he believes he let his hatred of Batarians and a lifetime of anger cloud his judgment on that day and that the siege could have turned out differently if he was a better commander. Since then he has spent his life to live down and redeem himself from the title of “The Butcher of Torfon”. What starts off as a deep concern for Jack, as he sees her life as a parallel to his, turns to love.

 

Jillian Shepard: Vanguard/Spacer/War Hero. Brash, intelligent, and adept; Jillian has always excelled and has lived her life in search of adventure and creating a legacy. She wholly accepts her reputation as a war hero and lives up to her renown as a human paragon, although it hides a deeper callous and calculating nature, only known by those closest to her. She engaged in a romance with Liara as she found the Asari exciting as a species. Though, as the tensions of being Shepard mounted up she found herself increasingly relying on Liara for emotional support, although she sometimes doubts if she loves her.

 

Elizabeth Shepard: Engineer/Colonist/War Hero. As a result of the Batarian raid on Mindoir Elizabeth grew up distant from others. She excelled at her studies to become an Alliance engineer. When Batarians again raided her home at Elysium she refused to lose any one else. Since then she has lived her life to the service of others, saving all those she can and regretting her inability to save those she could not. She found a companion spirit with Kaidan whom she fell in love with.

 

Aaron Shepard: Sentinel/Earthborn/Ruthless. Aaron has always done whatever it took to survive and whatever was asked of him by his superiors. On Virmire he took the pragmatic option and chose the mission and Kaidan over the life of Ashley Williams who he had grown feelings for. Out of the many actions in his life this is one of few that he regrets. Despite his strong initial hatred of Cerberus, whom he saw as reckless and self-righteous along with its operatives, over time his feelings he became more accepting of the organization and Miranda Lawson.

 

Jason Shepard: Soldier/Spacer/Sole Survivor. Jason grew up in a famous military family, where he developed very idealistic and romantic views about the Alliance military, the exploration of space, and humanities placement in the galaxy. However, his experiences on Akuze, pursuing the rogue specter Saren, dealing with the ex-military faction of Cerberus, and the Council’s and Alliance’s eventual reaction to his death have slowly morphed him to a more pragmatic and nihilistic individual. His romantic feelings towards Ashley Williams and her coldness towards him after the Lazarus project along with the Alliance have made him in turn colder as well. His relationship with Kelly Chambers however has had a somewhat restorative effect on him.

 

As for the decisions I keep common in all the games:

 

The Collector Base is always given to Cerberus at the end of ME2. Although none of my Shepards have ever voiced support for the organization itself (they may of approved of their stated ideology and methods) they all agree that destroying the base on some principle is a bad decision and TIM, despite the varying degrees of doubt each Shepard has for him, is ultimately out for the good of mankind and that he can use the base to prepare for the war with the Reapers (woops!). Originally I had them planned to tell the Alliance about the base but nothing came of that.

 

I have each of them choose Refuse at the end because I dislike the end substitute it for the Marauder Shields comic canon. However, if ME4 (if or when I get it) has a ME3 import I'll switch them all to Destroy.

 

Everyone is recruited and kept alive except for the Virmire death in ME1 (I can't live without you Wrex!) throughout the course of ME1 and ME2. The only squadmates that die in ME3, former or current, are the required ones.

 

Never kept Diana Allers aboard the ship for the entire game (sometimes I pick her up to kick her off).

 

There’s probably some more stuff but I can’t think of them right now.

[FlyingSquirrel]

This is a fantastic post. You follow a philosphy that affects all your decisions. I bet your Shepard butted heads with Javik a lot. He specifically criticizes defending the weak; something Selyn Shepard seems to live for. Not many characters go without a romance ever. Not even a fling (Kelly? Shiara?). Very unique. It was funny how many asari came onto my Shepard. Shiara (before meeting Liara), Liara, Shiala, Morinth, and then Aria.

 

Thanks! And yes, she stayed strictly single and she consistently disagreed with Javik's philosophy. The hard part was metagaming a way for her to tell him not to look at the memory shard - if that had been her memories of Mindoir, she absolutely *would* look at it and draw strength from it. But I figured that by that point, she understands that she and Javik are two very different people and that it would be a bad idea for him. She also had her share of arguments with Mordin over the genophage in ME2.

 

The one other time I had to metagame a little was when she had to choose between saving Koris and saving the civilian survivors of his crew. Her instinct would have been for the latter, but that one dying quarian who told her it was important to save Koris and that the civilian captains had opposed the war convinced her that she needed Koris alive to have any hope of the geth/quarian conflict not ending in disaster.

[Iakus]

LAAAAAMMMMMEEE!

 

*It's just me man*

 

That's the beautiful thing about RPGs, you can play your character, I can play my character, and we can tell our own stories as we see fit.

 

Unless someone else decides we're doing it wrong and takes over...

[cyrslash1974]

Without a canon ending, hard to have a canon Shepard. My canon Shep would like to destroy reapers without destroying synthetics.

 

For my renegade Shep, control is not bad.

[MassivelyEffective0730]

That's the beautiful thing about RPGs, you can play your character, I can play my character, and we can tell our own stories as we see fit.

 

Unless someone else decides we're doing it wrong and takes over...

 

You're doing it wrong, I'm taking over.

[Iakus]

You're doing it wrong, I'm taking over.

 

Mac?  Is that you?

[eyezonlyii]

NAME: John Shepard

LI: Ashley Williams* (ME1), Miranda Lawson (ME2 & ME3)

SPECIALIZATION: Soldier

BACKGROUND: Earthborn

SERVICE HISTORY: Sole Survivor

REPUTATION: Neutral (Unfettered Machiavellian Pragmatic Consequentialist True Neutral or Lawful Evil)

 

Do I really need to describe my Shepard? I'm one of the loudest people here on this issue. And the most colorful, mainly because I hate every character you're supposed to love, and love every character you're supposed to hate (or I hate them for different reasons than given in game: looking at you Kai Lame).

 

Not enough heroism. David Bob is disappoint 

[Hadeedak]

Esperanza Shepard was a kid from Earth who got out of the foster care system as soon as she could and started providing minor muscle for some of the local gangs. As she grew up, it started being major muscle, and she was even starting a career as a boxer. Then she got her butt arrested, and was rather strongly encouraged to join the Alliance by her vocational counselor. She got her implant, though Shepard was never much good at manipulating mass effect fields any further than about a meter out from her body. She was quarrelsome, cocky, and a bit selfish. Until Akuze.

 

What was dragged out of Akuze wasn't anywhere near the headstrong kid who'd went in. Shepard began following orders to precision. She signed up for extra training constantly, and applied for all implants and gene therapy she qualified for. What horrified her was that she'd begun to understand what she could do. Shepard shut down emotionally, choosing to follow the Alliance's codes to the letter. She had seen herself as a monster, a view reinforced by combat and her abilities in it, and decided to accept that. She also decided she'd be damn careful about who got to hold her leash.

 

When she was thrown to the Council, Shepard found her place. For the rest of her life, then the rest of her second life, she'd serve the interests of the Spectres and the Council wholeheartedly. She strove for diversity in general, believing a radically diverse galaxy was a strong one. And she tended to rely on her imposing appearance and a lot of threats to push others that way. She did have a tendency to bully and shoot her way through obstacles. (Pretty renegade in ME1.)

 

The only thing that held her to Cerberus after her unceremonious resurrection was the Council's oblique approval, to see if it was worth investigating. It took a long time before she forgot about Akuze, and again, she was really standoffish with most of the crew. After meeting Samara and getting a look at her own possible future, she began to invest a bit more in relations, and did some loyalty missions. She also hooked up with Garrus. It started as a joke, but when he took her seriously, Shepard filed it under why not. She also took every upgrade possible, complete with weave under her skin, perforated muscles, and stronger bones, which was probably a pretty ruinous amount of surgery. The end result is that Shepard was basically a cyborg battering ram by the end of ME2. With a lot of renegade scars. She preserved information whenever possible.

 

And in ME3, she kept rolling. Garrus did manage to talk her into being a little less cold. She wound up controlling for ultimate preservation of information and diversity, and I pretty much imagine the Catalyst made from her having archiving information as its highest priority, while observing the cycle of evolution and politics from a distance.

 

 

Of course, what made her personality for me was a hilarious glitch in her first runthrough of ME1. While Shepard was sitting on her lonesome after the Normandy's locked down, sulking... Well, Esperanza had no love interest, but for some reason, her model hiccuped and she had her shotgun attached to her. So she was sitting alone with her guns.

[bfoore]

Calling for someone trolling is against the rules. Reported.

 

Back on topic everyone? Splendid!

I calls it like I see it bro

[MassivelyEffective0730]

Not enough heroism. David Bob is disappoint 

 

Nothing but... Anti-heroism! Hell, my Shepard might even qualify as an anti-villain.

 

I calls it like I see it bro

 

And you should read the site rules. Accusing other people of trolling is against the site rules.

[bfoore]

Nothing but... Anti-heroism! Hell, my Shepard might even qualify as an anti-villain.

 

 

And you should read the site rules. Accusing other people of trolling is against the site rules.

I never read the site rules. Probably should get on that since I'm apparently breaking them afterall

[sH0tgUn jUliA]

Irina "The Terminator" Shepard (not the canon but a fun one)

Colonist/Ruthless 

 

ME1

Laid waste to Feros, saved Shiala

Strong-armed Lorik for a beer

Saved the Rachni Queen

Interrogated and wasted Balak

Shot Wrex & dumped his body in the swamp

Saved Ash

Shoved a gun in Conrad's face

Sacrificed the Council

Romanced Liara

 

ME2

Let Zaeed kill Vido

Shot Maelon & destroyed data

Garrus shot Sidonis and Harkin

Watched the Batarian die

Gave the Batarian a taste of his own medicine

Threw the merc out the window

Shortest interrogation ever of Elias Kelham

Shot Joram Talid

Niftu Cal got tossed about like a rag doll

Miranda didn't see Oriana and shot Niket

Jack shot Aresh

Romanced no one - there was no one suitable

Destroyed base just for the big explosion

Even this one couldn't turn David over to Cerberus.

LotSB - reconnected w/ Liara. Encouraged her revenge.

Killed 300,000 Batarians for lolz.

Blew up the Heretics

Sided with Tali

I know I'm forgetting one or two deaths.

 

ME3

Romanced Liara

Faked Genophage - disarmed the bomb. Why not?

Shot Ash in Cerberus Phantom armor just so she'd know

Shot Udina

Saved Falare

Sided with Xen

Chose the Rachni Queen

Shot the can defeating Garrus in the shooting match.

I don't punch reporters.

Stopped Samara from suicide

Shot Legion 3 times -- Peace was available.

Aria made up the lost war assets

Watched Aria kill Petrovsky

Side with Liara vs. Javik

Blue nookie

Shot TIM

High EMS Destroy 

Killed Brooks

 

You ask me how she could have romanced Liara? It's... complicated.

[DuskWanderer]

Not my headcanon choices, just the game choices? Okay

 

 

Backstory

Male Shepard

Vanguard

Colonist

Sole Survivor

 

ME1

Did all the random sidequests, retrieved the matriarch writings, salarian medals, and whatnot

Spared all of the colonists on Feros, as well as Shiala (Honestly, wasn't their fault)

Spared Ethan Jeong (Last thing the colonists needed were crazy suits making life hell)

Scanned the Keepers (too creepy not to learn about)

Worked with Gianna Parasini (seemed to be the best choice)

Made the serum to save the Noveria folks (in case they were wrong and the bioweapon was contagious)

Saved the Sirta Foundation folks with no deaths (One of Shep's greatest challenges)

Saved Major Kyle (He needed to be executed, but the biotics could be disbanded peacefully)

Saved Toombs (Shepard felt pity for the guy)

Saved Talitha (by convincing her to take the pills herself)

Stopped the VI on the moon

Killed Wrex on Virmire myself

Sent Kaidan with Kirrahe

Left Ashley on Virmire

Rescued Liara on the last mission

No Romance (Liara was the only choice, and she was creepy)

 

 

ME2

 

Did all of the random sidequests (Cerberus paid, and Shep needed all the resources he could)

Recruited all 12 squadmates (needed the best of the best)

Did not let Miranda shoot Niket (She would have been distracted by it)

Let the feral colonists kill Jacob's father (What he did to them all, the men and the women, was so sick that he deserved it)

Stopped Garrus from killing Sidonis (The way turian society works, it was the better choice)

Let Mordin shoot Maelon (Guy was completely deranged, and might try something crazier)

Destroyed Maelon's data (Resurgent krogan was the last thing the galaxy needed)

Made Grunt part of Clan Urdnot (Focus and control is necessary on a high stakes mission)

Spared Aresh (Letting Jack shoot anyone she pleased, coupled with her temper, would cause problems)

Cleared Tali by shouting at the Admirals (Because the whole thing was total bull)

Killed Joram Talid (Racists like him prove Ashley right, and there'd be no changing him)

Killed Morinth (There was no way she could be trusted)

Spared the oil refinery workers (That's what we were there to do, Zaeed doesn't get to change mission parameters. I forced him to accept my terms)

Shot the pot in Hock's vault (because the damn thing was ugly)

Destroyed the Collector Base (TIM would never have shared the data)

Went through Lair of the Shadow Broker, not exchanging a word with Liara at all

Sent David Archer to Grissom (even if Gavin was good to him, TIM would never be)

Did not warn the batarians (Would have been pointless to try)

No Romance (Miranda wasn't his type, It would have been too dangerous to try for Tali, and Jack was too unstable)

No deaths on suicide mission (Because any deaths would have been due to poor decision making)

 

 

ME3

 

Brought Allers on this ship (Just ignored her the whole time)

Sabotaged the genophage, saved Mordin (Told him Wreav was worse than the Reapers)

Kaidan sided with me without question (Because capable leaders handle any problem in their offtime)

Kaidan shot Udina (He's gotta make big-boy decisions if he wants to be a Spectre)

Saved Samara and Falere

Sided with Xen and Garrell on arguments, but punched that bastard for shooting me down

Made Peace on Rannoch (That's the right thing to do)

Didn't pout on Thessia (Just went to the next mission)

Let Miranda defenestrate her dad

Headcanoned an entirely different ending

No romance (Shep likes the ladies, Liara is still too creepy, and he'd forgotten Allers existed).