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[Andrew Lucas]

I never role played, my Shepard is basically the same through multiple playthroughs. And yeah, I've tons of fun with this way. Sure, some things I changed because my views later changed, but by now, my choices and mostly the same when compared to some previous pt, not the first ones tho.

[KotorEffect3]

I lost my personal canon Shepard a couple of years ago when my old 360 was stolen.  Now I just play to play.  Don't worry about having a personal canon anymore.

[teh DRUMPf!!]

 Curiosity typically gets the better of me, and so I replay and role-play as different characters so I can do/say things that I did not previously but just want to know what happens when I choose it. That is, of course, if I have the time to actually play the game. These days I seldom do.

[DirtySHISN0]

I treat shepard as an extension of my ideology and morals, not of myself. So i usually end up with a gut reaction original file and many "how much of a jerk/goody can i be" files.

[sH0tgUn jUliA]

My canon Shepard is my first play through the story. It's the one not tweaked for the best results. It's the one where I blew away Wrex. It's the one where Shepard thought Asari needed other species to reproduce. Then she worked for Cerberus, so she acted like it. Then there was ME3. Shot Legion three times. Got her breath of air. True to Liara throughout... except for that dalliance with Thane, but he died on the Suicide Mission.

[RanetheViking]

I've literally dozens of Shepards, but the main one I like best and the one that I consider my "canon" is Sheploo, Paragade, Spacer, War Hero who romances Liara all through the Trilogy. He's loyal to the Alliance, although becomes a little disillusioned over the games. lol

 

Although I've tried every Class, tried all the different decisions and outcomes, and even played the awful FemShep a few times, the one above would have to be my favourite.

[sH0tgUn jUliA]

@Rane and others: Could we do this without the bashing of Hale's or Meer's voice acting for once.

[Excella Gionne]

Tell me another story about the Shepard never gets old.

[sH0tgUn jUliA]

It's getting late, but alright, one more story.

[Sifr]

I mostly stick to the Paragon route and the same origins for both Male and FemShep, just alternating their class and romances?

 

I dunno why, but I see Male Shepard as best suiting a Spacer and War Hero, someone who's been raised in a military environment his entire life. He's an idealist who is determined to show the best that humanity has to offer, who's natural leadership rallied the troops at Elysium to victory. He restrains himself from Renegade interrupts because he's trying to uphold the Alliance ideal and set a good example. If he were any other species, his strong sense of duty would probably make him a Turian.

 

FemShep meanwhile is a Colonist and War Hero, but life on the frontier and the death of her family in a slaver raid has given her far more of an edge. She's a tad more cynical and responds to an imperfect universe by trying to be the best she can be, with her determination to not allow another Mindoir on her watch lead her to lead the defense of Elysium. While mostly abstaining from Renegade Interrupts, she's far less willing to tolerate BS from people and innocents getting hurt is her berserk button. If she were any other species, her occasional urge to headbutt and shoot extremely irritating people, would probably make her a Krogan.

[RanetheViking]

@Rane and others: Could we do this without the bashing of Hale's or Meer's voice acting for once.

I can state my opinion if I like. Just like everyone else does in differing topics.

 

Right?

[themikefest]

It's getting late, but alright, one more story.

Don't forget to buy more dlc

 

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[GalacticWolf5]

I usually play the same Shepard everytime I play Mass Effect, but I recently started making other Shepards and it's really nice.

 

My canon Shepard:

 

Spoiler

John Shepard (Default appearance)
Spacer
Sole Survivor
Vanguard
Paragon

ME1:
Freed Rachni Queen
Calmed Wrex
Saved Kaidan
No romance
Every side missions and Bring Down the Sky DLC completed
Saved the Council

ME2:
Saved Maelon's data
Killed Morinth
Rewrote the Geth
No romance
Every side missions and DLCs completed
No death during Suicide Mission
Destroyed Collector base

ME3:
Saved the Rachni Queen (again)
Cured Genophage
Made peace between Quarians and Geth
Romanced Kaidan
Every side missions and DLCs completed
Paragon Control Ending

 

Other Shepards:

 

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Curently playing:

John Shepard

Earthborn   

Ruthless

Renegon

Romance: Miranda

 

Will be playing:

John Shepard (They're always called John ok haha)

Earthborn

Sole Survivor

Renegon

Romance: Kaidan

 

Will be playing:

John Shepard

Earthborn

Ruthless

Renegade

No romance

 

 

[RatThing]

No, that`s not how I play an RPG in general. In the first playthrough I more or less play myself making choices how I personally would. After that, when I know where the story is heading (and when the game is worth replaying), I define a different character beforehand and play trough the story like this character would go through it. Sometimes my character is based on a person from a movie or another game. For example, I have a Skyrim character based on Morinth, and one of my Shepards personality is based on a movie character. I find this way to play most satisfying. Sometimes, when I realy liked a playthrough, I replay a character.

[KrrKs]

Don't forget to buy more dlc

 

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This... Message -I still find it infuriating.

I had to wait until now to even be able to write this without going all 'caps-lock and name calling' mode.

[aoibhealfae]

My one true canon Shepard... well, somewhere along the line of the headcanon fanfic I'm currently writing.... and since Hawke is a version of Shepard...

 

Her real name is Marian Revka Amell. She was born on Mindoir to a fairly wealthy landowner on Mindoir, Malcolm and Leandra Amell and she had a brother, Carver, an Alliance soldier. In 2170, the Batarians attacked Mindoir, her family and the Alliance tried to fight off the invaders but everyone was killed by an artillery strike and she was buried alive but survived thanks to her biotics. When Alliance rescued her, she spent two years picking up pieces of her life before enlisting under a new name, Shepard. Although she's a biotic, she never show an inclination to use her biotic abilities for combat and instead specialized in tactical combat as an Infiltrator. In 2177, her entire unit was wiped out on Akuze by crazed thresher maws and she managed to escape solely from her mental conditioning and her skills and abilities. Later, she was recruited by the N-program and she spent several years with the program until she achieved the coveted N7 rank and the attention of a certain Captain David Anderson.

 

She's mostly a Paragade (like 80% Paragon/20% Renegade), she can be diplomatic most of the time but she does have a short temper with mercs, stupid people who talk too much, Council's BS, Udina and she hate Cerberus because of Akuze and she definitely hate TIM and TIM hate her back. In ME1, Kaidan was the one who aggressively pursued Shepard and not the other way around after she snubbed Liara's crush . Since they're both military and one is the subordinate to another, they're not in an actual relationship.. just friends... with benefits and developing feelings   Of course, she died and resurrected and he broke her heart and all the angst drove her to fix her squadmate's personal issues for them to get the suicide mission done. After she, Tali and Miranda screwed TIM over by blowing up the Collector Base, they ran around the Terminus system as space pirate.. ahem.. merc cleaners. Then Bahak system happened, Shep was incarcerated on Earth and six months later, the Reaper invasion happened. She got Normandy and Kaidan back but the later still have passive-aggressive issues with her and Cerberus and when she try to keep it professional, she ended up breaking his heart and then he nearly died and then she panicked. And her nightmare returns.. and more friends died.. sigh.. my Shepard and her drama... 

[Bardox9]

Everyone, I think, has their "The Shepard" and "HeroShep" and "EvilShep" and then a string of half played characters that they give up on after a few missions. EvilShep tends to do as much damage as possible. HeroShep tends to make decisions that keep as many people alive and structures intact as possible. "The Shepard" tends to come from taking the character far too seriously by thinking "What would the real Shepard do?".

[Arcian]

Why do you primitives insist on perpetually and shamelessly misusing the word "canon"? Something that is canon is canon for everyone regardless of their personal opinion or tastes, people can't have their own canon of things. If everyone has their own canon, nothing is actually canon for anyone. At that point you've just made a mess of things and proved the Protheans right about your intellectual and cultural shortcomings.

 

Seriously though, what's wrong with calling your Shepards "mains" and "alts"? "Canon" is literally the wrong word to use. Literally. Literally literally.

[SwobyJ]

Why do you primitives insist on perpetually and shamelessly misusing the word "canon"? Something that is canon is canon for everyone regardless of their personal opinion or tastes, people can't have their own canon of things. If everyone has their own canon, nothing is actually canon for anyone. At that point you've just made a mess of things and proved the Protheans right about your intellectual and cultural shortcomings.

 

Seriously though, what's wrong with calling your Shepards "mains" and "alts"? "Canon" is literally the wrong word to use. Literally. Literally literally.

 

Canon = accepted in the fictional universe.

 

Therefore everything is canon. However, one could personally consider some content to be 'less canon' because it is never brought up in any way by the company ever again. Morinth romance is one, ME2 Shep Death is another, some even go as far as to consider Citadel DLC at least half 'non-canon'.

 

But ultimately, canon itself has to do with what Bioware decides. We can have our personal perceptions of it though - that is inevitable.

 

I could get a game over by dying to Geth Drones on Eden Prime in ME1, and that'd be canon. But only really for my playthrough. It isn't actually canon for the franchise, which just keeps trucking on regardless of my decision to die to drones.

 

A dev talked about the possibility of the Vancouver level of ME3 reflecting a short scene from transferring a file from ME2 with a dead Shepard. This didn't happen for a good reason. While Shepard dying was technically 'canon', it was such a poor one that Bioware decided not to recognize it in ME3.

 

 

When people go 'my Canon Shepard', they tend to mean 'the Shepard that intend on mattering the most for my story, connected to the franchise'. I could have a canon MorinthMance Shepard, but it'd be a bad one - therefore I don't pick it, but do something else as my 'canon'. MY canon.

 

We are 'co writers' in the Story of Shepard. We do establish personal canons of this story, though Bioware provides the words and pages themselves.

 

 

You're right that there's personal taste, and no true canon. I just think that's irrelevant. The idea of Mass Effect is that each player can decide what their canon would be, as the 'writer' of their Shepard Story, even if the developers try not to think that way for the most part.

 

 

I say this as someone who does not believe in a definite canon Shepard. I just don't think people are 'shamelessly misusing' the word when they talk about their Mass Effect files. People can have their own canon of anything. It just may not be a very legitimate one (see: 'fanon'). The more you deviate from Bioware canon (which is nothing in particular when it comes to choices, but its still a story constrained to what we can pick) the more you create your own story, and your own canon, and your own fictional world.

 

Its even what Bioware seemed to want with the ME3 ending. 'Make your own story up'. What is canon then? Nothing, when it comes to Bioware (at least until the next game, and it was kinda worked against with Extended Cut), but everything, when it comes to the crafting of your OWN STORY. People have their personal canons all the time. It just happens that oftentimes, these personal canons are only accepted by a population of '1'. Therefore, not relevant to how Bioware creates their own official canon.

 

 

People aren't using 'mains' and 'alts', because they're talking about narrative, not assets.

[dorktainian]

the only canon ending should be the one where starjar is thrown out the airlock.

[Dunmer of Redoran]

 

 

My canon Shepard:

 

Spoiler

John Shepard (Default appearance)
Spacer
Sole Survivor
Vanguard
Paragon

ME1:
Freed Rachni Queen
Calmed Wrex
Saved Kaidan
No romance
Every side missions and Bring Down the Sky DLC completed
Saved the Council

ME2:
Saved Maelon's data
Killed Morinth
Rewrote the Geth
No romance
Every side missions and DLCs completed
No death during Suicide Mission
Destroyed Collector base

ME3:
Saved the Rachni Queen (again)
Cured Genophage
Made peace between Quarians and Geth
Romanced Kaidan
Every side missions and DLCs completed
Paragon Control Ending

Hey, your Shepard has the same name/appearance/background/class/morality as mine! Paragon ShepGuards unite!

 

Here's my "canon" Shepard for comparison (it diverges from yours a lot after ME1)

 

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John Shepard (Default appearance)
Spacer
Sole Survivor
Vanguard
Paragon

ME1:
Freed Rachni Queen
Calmed Wrex
Saved Kaidan (and Kirrahe's team)
Romanced Ashley (this causes him at the start of ME2 to be paragade until Tali's recruitment mission)
Every side mission and Bring Down the Sky DLC completed
Saved the Council

ME2:
Saved Maelon's data
Killed Morinth
Destroyed the Heretic Geth
Romanced Tali
Every side mission and DLC completed except Arrival
No death during Suicide Mission
Destroyed Collector base

ME3:
Saved the Rachni Queen (again)
Cured Genophage
Made peace between Quarians and Geth
Romanced Tali
Every side mission and DLC completed
Paragon Destroy Ending

Shepard Survives

 

Also, in ME2 and ME3, I have a strict policy of not letting anyone get dropped by an enemy. Medigels may only be used to heal someone if they are losing health. Otherwise, I have to reload. And Team Dextro accompanies Shepard in the final mission of each game.

[Reedirector]

People aren't using 'mains' and 'alts', because they're talking about narrative, not assets.

 

Absolutely! Do whatever you want with the story, I say! (bioware certainly did)

[Epyon]

Commander Commander Shepard, male Earthborn (cause that way the child reminds him of himself, explaining why he obsesses over it), Warhero or Ruthless depending on Paragone or Renegade, recruits all the aliens, romances Liara (the other two choices turn on you anyway and she's all but forced on you in ME3 anyway), spares Wrex, lets Ashley die (xenophobe/human supremist Ashley ever putting the Council before Shepard makes no sense, nor does her 4 promotions before becoming a Spectre. A non-romanced Kaiden is the only one I can accept the Virmire Survivor's behaviour from). Spares the council (they're basically resurrected in ME3 anyway), makes Udina Councillor (he's one in ME3 anyway), doesn't reactivate the Geth, doesn't destroy the Collector Base, chooses Quarians over Geth, denies EDI's requests to alter her programming, picks Destroy.