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[Autoola]

In any case, the narrative of the trilogy clearly does not want people thinking too hard about Shepard being synthetic, even if it partially acknowledges it.

Funny. I was playing the entire trilogy with this attitude just to learn in this forum that everything has a deep meaning and every word has to be taken literally. But my post "I dont know..." was more like "Perhaps the organs are even with bio-synthetic fusion still non-synthetic" and less like "I don´t know which bio-synthetic fusion-technique was used". Shep imo is still human, because without the organic part Shep wouldn´t live. The synthetic part helped rebuilding, but it isn´t required to stay alive (I don´t count osteosynthesis plates and screws) or am I wrong? Not like RoboCop or Marcus Wright. I guess they can be called "transhuman". Or not. I don´t know.

It means Shepard was brought back to life though amazing breakthroughs in fields of Applied Phlebotinum and the discovery of Handwavium

I don´t know what´s scarier. Needing a plot fuel or that it happens so often there´s a term for it! But this is how I understand the whole thing. Just a way to explain that in the future it is somehow possible to bring someone back to life.

The renegade eyes are a nice way to visualize the ruthless behavior. "I can play as Terminator, yeah!" But I guess this point of view is too simple. (Don´t want to offend anybody.)  And if the OP wants to know how much of Shep is synthetic, there is no reason to give not as much information as possible.

[ImaginaryMatter]

Funny. I was playing the entire trilogy with this attitude just to learn in this forum that everything has a deep meaning and every word has to be taken literally. But my post "I dont know..." was more like "Perhaps the organs are even with bio-synthetic fusion still non-synthetic" and less like "I don´t know which bio-synthetic fusion-technique was used". Shep imo is still human, because without the organic part Shep wouldn´t live. The synthetic part helped rebuilding, but it isn´t required to stay alive (I don´t count osteosynthesis plates and screws) or am I wrong? Not like RoboCop or Marcus Wright. I guess they can be called "transhuman". Or not. I don´t know.

 

The whole point of the Lazarus project was to build Shepard "Exactly as he was" not to improve him. Shepard's upgrades through the project are mostly relegated to game play (Skin Weaves, biotic implants, use of Claymore) and joke scenes (Shepard can drink Ryncol). While I'm a huge fan of story through game play the ME series usually kept those two separated which really diminishes the game play upgrades. More importantly the story usually avoids mentioning it like the plaque, going as far to avoid any of the philosophical ramifications of the procedure.

[SwobyJ]

Funny. I was playing the entire trilogy with this attitude just to learn in this forum that everything has a deep meaning and every word has to be taken literally. But my post "I dont know..." was more like "Perhaps the organs are even with bio-synthetic fusion still non-synthetic" and less like "I don´t know which bio-synthetic fusion-technique was used". Shep imo is still human, because without the organic part Shep wouldn´t live. The synthetic part helped rebuilding, but it isn´t required to stay alive (I don´t count osteosynthesis plates and screws) or am I wrong? Not like RoboCop or Marcus Wright. I guess they can be called "transhuman". Or not. I don´t know.

I don´t know what´s scarier. Needing a plot fuel or that it happens so often there´s a term for it! But this is how I understand the whole thing. Just a way to explain that in the future it is somehow possible to bring someone back to life.

The renegade eyes are a nice way to visualize the ruthless behavior. "I can play as Terminator, yeah!" But I guess this point of view is too simple. (Don´t want to offend anybody.)  And if the OP wants to know how much of Shep is synthetic, there is no reason to give not as much information as possible.

 

lol, by 'people', I mean 'most mainstream gamer demographics' .

 

Agreed that Shep is at least more organic than synthetic. He may be arguably (though I personally wouldn't entirely agree) a transhuman, but not from certain perspectives, especially his own. He has enough 'synthetic' to him to act as an assist, but by any large, his successes come from his human abilities, not anything that would qualify as transhuman.

 

At least in the main, non-DLC story, bypassing side content that seems to illustrate more how 'weird' Shepard has actually become.