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[RiouHotaru]

I find that people (especially in fanfiction) are fond of using Earthborn/Colonist and Sole Survivor/Ruthless combinations, seemingly just to give Shepard an excuse to be a mess (which makes for very d'awwww inducing fluff at times), which feels...rather redundant?  I mean, Sole Survivor and Ruthless both stink of PTSD galore, combine that with Colonist especially and it's 2 for the price of 1.

I mean, do people NOT like Spacer or War Hero?  Now, I'm sure people do use those two, I just don't see them very often when people are describing their Shepard.

Merely a curiousity I was hoping to satiate.

[LurchALC]

I made my Paragon a Spacer War Hero because I assumed only some one that sheltered and privalaged could be that dull.



BTW I'm from Earth, thats why I made my Shepard Earthborn, to have more in common with him.

[DaftPaycheck]

I used Earthborn Soul Survivor for my first playthrough, then followed with my next couple paragon playthroughs as Colonist War Hero or Spacer War Hero, with of course the obligatory Earthborn Ruthless for my main renegade playthrough thrown in as well. Sometimes the combos may seem a bit overlapping, but it all comes down to what you as the player prefer to think of your Shepard as.

[LucidStrike]

LurchALC wrote...

I made my Paragon a Spacer War Hero because I assumed only some one that sheltered and privalaged could be that dull.

Really?

Lucid Shepherd is an Earthborn war hero, because adversity often builds character and capacity for empathy, hence the Paragon disposition.

[LurchALC]

LucidStrike wrote...

LurchALC wrote...

I made my Paragon a Spacer War Hero because I assumed only some one that sheltered and privalaged could be that dull.

Really?

Lucid Shepherd is an Earthborn war hero, because adversity often builds character and capacity for empathy, hence the Paragon disposition.

You're mom calls to check up on you. She probably leave you a hand writtin "I <3 U" note in your armor.

And I would call living on the streets, or almost being killed by slavers adverse.

[Synthetic dreams]

My infiltrator is a Colonist/ War hero, Ya know past trauma pushes him to be better blah blah blah. Though i do prefer Earthborn /Ruthless for many classes, ruthless just seems the more realistic choice save the galaxy no matter the cost. Sole survivor seems kinda ...merit-less?

[Corephyfish]

my femshep paragon was a colonist/war hero and my regengade was a spacer/ruthless.



Totally different in my opinion and it set the tone for my 'personality/rpg' element

[Yootje]

I am very fond of the Spacer background, actually. Not everyone in the world has a traumatic life from A to Z and I like the idea of Shepard having a family, being part of a social structure. However, I prefer Sole Survivor over War hero and Ruthless. It just feels like the most natural background to start a character on. This character does the best she can and has the baggage of neither a saint nor a demon - now let's get this story started.

Also, War hero is just... it has 'hero' in it. Eek.

[Shady314]

Privileged? Bouncing from spaceship to spaceship with your career military family is only privileged compared to the earthborn and colonist backgrounds. I chose Spacer because I was SO tired of my parents being dead in RPGs. The spacer sidequest may be by far the most boring. But it's all made up for when calling my mommy who happens to be XO on a dreadnaught. Sweet. Some LIVING history for ONCE.

[LucidStrike]

LurchALC wrote...

LucidStrike wrote...

LurchALC wrote...

I made my Paragon a Spacer War Hero because I assumed only some one that sheltered and privalaged could be that dull.

Really?

Lucid Shepherd is an Earthborn war hero, because adversity often builds character and capacity for empathy, hence the Paragon disposition.

You're mom calls to check up on you. She probably leave you a hand writtin "I <3 U" note in your armor.

And I would call living on the streets, or almost being killed by slavers adverse.

Acctually, I was homeless for a time and went through a lot, including having to pretend to be a student at a university so I could use its computers to find work and sleep behind the stage in a student dormitory because it was Fall and wet and freezing outside (although several times I had to sleep out in the rain), stressed to the point that finding a long abandoned building to sleep in regularly sated me, even with the constant threat of being evicted...again, all while contnuing to carry on with community organizing. Yeah, 2009 was the time of my sheltered, 19-year old life.

As for Earthborn Shepherd, Shepherd enjoyed "a rough childhood in the slums" of Earth and enlisted at the age of eighteen, in order to avoid falling into the "trap of gang culture and poverty", as all us sheltered people do.

You've got us all figured out. Anyone who's not an *sshole has lived a shletered life and never experienced a wit of adversity.

And, yes, I love my mother. You got a problem with it? I love yours too.

Modifié par LucidStrike, 21 janvier 2010 - 08:23 .

[Marlina]

Ruthless earthborn. She learned the hard way how tough life could be, and then applied that knowledge in her service.

[Lehanna]

I like Spacer - War Hero, because I'm fond of not having a cliche 'emotional' RPG hero character that has his whole family dead or some other such traumatic scenario.

[Arrtis]

you know in a lot of movies the war heros tend to turn out to be real jerks or an emotional mess...but i guess sole survivor or ruthless in a movie would have them kill themselves.

Either way i had one of my runs with a spacer war hero killing everyone at every turn...poor conrad died...because my war hero did not care one bit.Its also nice to hear someone say how surprised to see you act that way in the game...

[LurchALC]

LucidStrike wrote...

LurchALC wrote...

LucidStrike wrote...

LurchALC wrote...

I made my Paragon a Spacer War Hero because I assumed only some one that sheltered and privalaged could be that dull.

Really?

Lucid Shepherd is an Earthborn war hero, because adversity often builds character and capacity for empathy, hence the Paragon disposition.

You're mom calls to check up on you. She probably leave you a hand writtin "I <3 U" note in your armor.

And I would call living on the streets, or almost being killed by slavers adverse.

Acctually, I was homeless for a time and went through a lot, including having to pretend to be a student at a university so I could use its computers to find work and sleep behind the stage in a student dormitory because it was Fall and wet and freezing outside (although several times I had to sleep out in the rain), stressed to the point that finding a long abandoned building to sleep in regularly sated me, even with the constant threat of being evicted...again, all while contnuing to carry on with community organizing. Yeah, 2009 was the time of my sheltered, 19-year old life.

As for Earthborn Shepherd, Shepherd enjoyed "a rough childhood in the slums" of Earth and enlisted at the age of eighteen, in order to avoid falling into the "trap of gang culture and poverty", as all us sheltered people do.

You've got us all firgured out. Anyone who's not an *sshole has lived a shletered life and never experienced a wit of adversity.

And, yes, I love my mother. You got a problem with it? I love yours too.

1) I was talking about Commander Shepard, a fictional character
2) You seem to be intentionally misinterpreting what I say
3) If you think I'm such an **** be'the bigger person' and 'walk away'

Because your story seems to be... well... inconsistent.

[Lucy Glitter]

I always go with Earthborn/Sole Survivor, because I like to be both neutral and have a reason to be so badazzzz.

(not in the jerk way, but the cold way)

Modifié par Lucy_Glitter, 21 janvier 2010 - 08:28 .

[Stofsk]

I don't like any of the other backgrounds other than Colonist. Colonist's 'I remember me' sidequest was actually moving, while none of the others hit me as hard. Hell, Earthborn you meet an 'old friend' who wants you to spring another 'old friend' out of prison, except they're both criminals and the guy in prison was in the slammer for attempted genocide of a Turian colony. There wasn't anything even remotely redeemable about any of them. I mean, wow, thanks for making the decision to say 'no, **** off' really easy for me, guys.



Spacer was just fairly mundane, and somehow I just don't like the idea of Shepard's parents still being alive. Plus, could they pick a more annoyingly inconvenient spot for the dude to be in? (Wards access tunnel) Colonist's background gives nuance and inflection to any character, you can go down either paragon or renegade route and both choices make sense. Whereas the other two just seem more cardboard-like.



As for the psych profiles, I like 'em all though I haven't played sole survivor for a long time. My recent playthrus for ME2 have had a Soldier Paragon Colonist-War Hero and a Infiltrator Renegage Colonist-Ruthless. I have two more planned, both with sole survivor.

[YR_Lim]

A colonist/sole survivor shepard would be a real screw up.

[LucidStrike]

LurchALC wrote...

1) I was talking about Commander Shepard, a fictional character
2) You seem to be intentionally misinterpreting what I say
3) If you think I'm such an **** be'the bigger person' and 'walk away'

Because your story seems to be... well... inconsistent.

1. Your wording betrayed your intended meaning then. You did use second-person pronouns, and replied to a post in which I said my Shepherd was Earthborn, so, yeah, some inconsistency there.
2. Am I? Might you be failing to properly communicate what you mean?
3. Bigger person? I'm no better than you, at any rate. No one's a better person than anyone.

That last comment was a fragment without context. Clarify?

[Stofsk]

YR_Lim wrote...

A colonist/sole survivor shepard would be a real screw up.

Not my Shepard. He overcomes life's adversities.

[Arrtis]

My shepard Col/Surv is a real broken up guy.Find it easy to kill people while easy to be extremely nice.

[RiouHotaru]

Heh, I went for Spacer because it's implied he's an only child, which makes him like Ashley, only a LOT more lonely (no siblings to keep him company, nor does he get to have any "childhood friends"), and War Hero because well, sure he held off an enemy platoon by himself, but to do so much on his own, with so much riding on your success or failure? That's stressful alright. Not to mention dealing with all the dead soldiers and civilians.



@stofsk: You're right "Remember Me" is a very emotionally moving mission, and I'm tempted to do another Male Shep just for that reason, it's a fairly traumatic thing to experience. But...having the backgrounds where your parents don't exist felt rather cliqued to me. I mean, who knows, maybe your Mom (or even Dad!) will play a role in ME2, and for my Shepard, I'd like to think having your parents out there helps you fight.



Of course, I realize it comes down to personal preference and what not, and I'm thankful that people gave good, honest responses about their Shepards. Means people are really attached to their Shepard, and/or feel like it's actually them. I hope I didn't make too many folks feel sore about their choices. I just felt that sometimes certain combos felt like textbook trauma. No offense.



Man though, I wish my Shepard would actually LOOK the part. Creating a decent custom Shepard is a pain, and there's always SOMETHING that looks out of place.

[Deran2]

I pick which ever options feel right for the character I'm making. My paragon femshep is an Earthborn/War Hero since it fits her personality. Can't remember exactly what I picked for my Renegade femshep, its been a while since I created her though I think it was Spacer/Sole Survivor.

[muse108]

My main character was a war hero spacer, my other "main" was a war hero colonist.

[AoiDreamer]

I went for Spacer/Sole Survivor. It fit to me, as I personally have a loving, albeit busy family and that seems to be the way it plays out for Shepard in this scenario. Also, I'm not really anything extraordinary, nor am I cruel. If something were to happen to me it'd make the most sense that I were just, in the right place at the right time. I can almost see myself getting stuck in some horrific nightmare, but staying together when everyone else just wasn't.



So it fit, to me.



Even though I'm aware of the Arch-types that seem to exist.. Colonist/Ruthless and... Spacer/War Hero respectively, I can't bring myself to belittle the people that want to play the game that way. It's a game, you play it how you want to, you know?