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[Lady Artifice]

Spacer/Ruthless, Renegade, Adept ManShep is where it's at.

 

Renegade, with a bit of a soft spot? 

 

Spoiler

http://andrewryanart...t/41537129&qo=0

[Hanako Ikezawa]

What was your Shepard like? I've never been able to decide between my paragon Sentinel and my paragade Engineer for which I consider my "canon" play through. 

Colonist War Hero Paragon Infiltrator. 

[Uccio]

He was mostly Paragon. Back in 2183 he was pretty much entirely the stand up good guy. In 2185 when he ended up teaming with Cerberus he stayed Paragon but went a bit more into the Renegade side(only so much). In 2186 once the Reapers came to wipe the Milky Way clean of organic life he went back to his old pretty much full Paragon ways.

 

He was a Vanguard through and through from start to finish.

 

Here's his appearance in ME2-

 

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He fell in love with Ashley back during the events that led to the Battle of the Citadel, but after coming back from death there was some "drama" to say the least. He ended up realizing he had feelings for Tali, which were reciprocated. They discovered an interest in one another that developed into love that blossomed during the Reaper War.

 

He ended up destroying the Reapers, at what seemed to be the cost of his own life as well as that of Captain Anderson, EDI, and the Geth. Then again, there was a breath of fresh air...

 

Your Shepard looks much like mine. My canon Shepard was colonist/sole survivor. Adept class through the series (space magic!) and paragon all the way. Romanced Liara T´soni and remained faithful to her through out the series. Destroyed the reapers too. In the second playthrough he romanced Tali. 

[Lady Artifice]

Colonist + sole survivor FTW. 

 

Colonist War Hero Paragon Infiltrator. 

 

 

I can't play Infiltrator as Paragon. It's just this weird thing I have. 

[Thermopylae]

57 pages in a Romance Topic already?

 

What would be hilarious for Andromeda is if the Romance option was with a Giger Alien or some Cthulhu like tentacle thing, thus the straight/ queer issue gets completely thrown out the window. 

 

"I have developed feelings for you despite your repulsive alien appearance and am willing to host your parasitical acid blood dripping progeny in my thorax, so long as we can surgically remove it before the whole chest bursting process, also I may need painkillers."

 

"Baby I believe this is the beginning of a beautiful commensual relationship between our species."

 

"Sure Cthulhu, lets talk about our feelings. I feel a megalomanical desire to collapse all spacetime into a singularity and also a desire for coffee."

[Hanako Ikezawa]

 

Colonist + sole survivor FTW. 

 

 

 

I can't play Infiltrator as Paragon. It's just this weird thing I have. 

 

Colonist Sole Survivor is my canon Male Shepard.

 

Really? Can you explain why? I'm curious. 

[KaiserShep]

Infiltrators are pretty much the rogues of Mass Effect, serving as saboteurs and assassins. I like tying personality to the class myself, which is why my Vanguard is a renegon, whereas an adept would be more paragon/paragade, and sentinels would lean more toward full paragon (like Kaidan). 

[(Disgusted noise.)]

Renegade, with a bit of a soft spot? 

 

Spoiler

http://andrewryanart...t/41537129&qo=0

Yep, and I like to think Kaidan constantly nags him about his tendency to Warp first and ask questions later.

 

 

Colonist + sole survivor FTW. 

Those two, especially together, are way too angsty for me, personally.

[Lady Artifice]

Colonist Sole Survivor is my canon Male Shepard.

 

Really? Can you explain why? I'm curious. 

 

Earthborn + Sole Survivor takes it for my male. Sole survivor forever.

 

Like KaiserShep said, it's like there are certain associations I can develop between class and personality. I like subverted expectation, like head canoning my SoldierShep as a ardent student of philosophy where most assume he's a meathead, or a AdeptShep as Krogan level aggressive when people often expect Adepts to be more elegant and cerebral. But with Infiltrator, I feel like there are immediate implications of a pragmatic approach to combat, and as a result I feel an impulse to play them with a certain pragmatism to their personality as well. It's not me thinking it's the right way to play an Infiltrator or anything, it's just the only way that works for me so far. 

 

 

Yep, and I like to think Kaidan constantly nags him about his tendency to Warp first and ask questions later.

 

Those two, especially together, are way too angsty for me, personally.

 

 

Aww. Does he have anyone else he cares about on the team, or is Kaidan his only soft spot? That's what I do, when I play a very Renegade type. I pick one companion, just one, that they care for enough to never hurt. 

 

Oh, give me the angst. Just inject it---directly--I just...I love it. I love the angst. That's why I need characters like Garrus and Varric. They're breaks from the angst I inflict upon my own characters. 

[In Exile]

I don't get the Sole Survivor background. Specifically, I don't get what part of "successfully didn't get killed by Thresher Maw" really qualifies Shepard as a stand out enough to be considered for the Spectres. 

[Lady Artifice]

I don't get the Sole Survivor background. Specifically, I don't get what part of "successfully didn't get killed by Thresher Maw" really qualifies Shepard as a stand out enough to be considered for the Spectres. 

 

Well...They successfully didn't get killed by lots of Thresher Maw. That's like Ellen Ripley level badass.

 

If that's not impressive enough, they still have the fact that they're N7, and I think we're safe to assume that they probably have a good resume even for an N7.

[Hanako Ikezawa]

Infiltrators are pretty much the rogues of Mass Effect, serving as saboteurs and assassins. I like tying personality to the class myself, which is why my Vanguard is a renegon, whereas an adept would be more paragon/paragade, and sentinels would lean more toward full paragon (like Kaidan). 

Don't really see it. Pretty much every Infiltrator we had was on the Good side of the spectrum. But to each their own. 

 

I don't get the Sole Survivor background. Specifically, I don't get what part of "successfully didn't get killed by Thresher Maw" really qualifies Shepard as a stand out enough to be considered for the Spectres. 

Nihlus tells us why. Shepard showed a remarkable will to live, which as he put it is a particularly useful talent for a Spectre to have. 

[aoibhealfae]

I don't get the Sole Survivor background. Specifically, I don't get what part of "successfully didn't get killed by Thresher Maw" really qualifies Shepard as a stand out enough to be considered for the Spectres. 

We don't know an exact number but I expect it was a group of maws that attacked Shepard's unit. And Shepard was trapped alone for days with everyone dead, being eaten and dying. I imagine it was something like this....

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Running around with a sniper rifle and no Mako and everyone getting insta-killed by acid blast...

 

and it made a lot of sense for Cerberus to resurrect someone they had their eyes on for years after Akuze. They were doing an experiment to study tresher maws and soldier's behavior under duress and Shepard came out alive. They even used Toombs for their super soldier experiments... isn't that pre-Lazarus Project? Besides, how on earth Cerberus would get Shepard's memory implants and knowledge to restore Shepard's body unless they spent years studying Shepard.

[CDR Aedan Cousland]

Spacer (Mom Shepard!); War Hero; Paragade (ratio: 85/15); Sheploo; Sentinel in ME1, Adept in ME2, and Vanguard in ME3. Either Kaidan or Steve work as a romance, but I'm still indecisive about that as far as my own canon goes. Maybe Kaidan just because of their history. Also, goes with the destroy ending, but since no ending is canon anymore, that means I have free reign the change everything I disliked about it!

 

My femShep who still needs work is a Colonist and War Hero, and either a Vanguard or Infiltrator, but is pretty much the same as far as everything else goes. Romances Liara.

[Cainhurst Crow]

The only way to make Player Sexual, and let's all be honest adults about this, that's exactly what it is, Is if they are honest about it. Make a few jokes written in about how everyone can't seem but to find the player attractive. Have some random NPC's throw some passes the players way or hit on them on occasion whether they romanced someone or not. Have the companion characters themselves even bring up the weirdness of the player characters sexscapade. Let us have more then 1 romance option? Hell if we can literally seduce anyone on our team to sleeping with us, we might as well get the two morally ambiguous characters to join us for a 3 way.

 

Have some goddamn fun with it. But treating it like its this uber-serious thing that the character fell for the player and only the player, and that it was love destined to be bullshit they pull in all of their games, even DAI had its share of this, is just blowing smoke up the players ass. And don't do what DA2 did where they had this and pretended they didn't. Anders claiming Karl was a friend for one gender and a lover for another shows just how flawed this is if you don't come out and embrace the fact that you've created a Relationship Singularity that nobody can resist.

[Uccio]

Those two, especially together, are way too angsty for me, personally.

 

I like the angsty part, it gives him more character to rise above his past as a paragon.

[The Elder King]

One background combo I like is Colonist/Ruthless. The former gives a reason for Shepard's ruthlesness on Torfan.

[daveliam]

The realism argument just doesn't hold weight for me for so many reasons.  The limitation of the game mechanic is an important one and one that gets hand-waved away.  They have to include at least:  1 straight man, 1 straight woman, 1 bisexual man, 1 bisexual woman, 1 gay man, and 1 lesbian OR 2 straight men, 2 straight women, 2 gay men, and 2 lesbians in order for everyone to get 2 choices in their romance option.  Of course it's an artificial restriction, just like the five dozen other artificial restrictions that game developers need to account for.  Why does this particular one get so much hate?

 

I'll give you another example:  why are the vast majority of squad members attractive, within Shep's general age range (or their species equivalent of it), and/or single?  Some combination of at least two of those?  It's super unrealistic to expect that, but it's the case and I rarely see people complaining.

 

Squad that fit at least 2 of those criteria:  Ashley, Kaidan, Liara, Garrus, Wrex, Tali, Miranda, Jacob, Thane, Jack, Samara, Morinth, Kasumi, James

 

Squad that doesn't:  Mordin (not attractive and 'older'), Grunt (not attractive and 'younger'), Zaeed (not attractive and 'older'), Legion (an AI), EDI (an AI)

 

That's 7 out of 8 humans who are attractive, young, and single.  It's totally unrealistic, but no one seems to complain.  Why is that?  I'm going to wager a bet that it's because they are all available for straight PC's except for one of them.  (With the James one-night-stand add in with the Citadel DLC, they are literally all available for straight Sheps with the exception of Kasumi.......)

[KR96]

Vega should have been a bisexual LI. He was Shepard's biggest fan although he did tone the fanboyism down after Fehl Prime. So much potential...

So a character should be bisexual because he/she is a fan of a certain person? Right...

[daveliam]

And if we're talking about real world statistics, how many real world soldiers look like Ashley? Young, pretty, feminine, and single?  Not a very large percentage, right?  But we are supposed to suspend disbelief in order to accept that the one random soldier who survives the attack on Eden Prime is a young, pretty, feminine, single woman. 

 

You know what?  I'm fine with that.  I accept it.  You know why?  Because it's a game and there's going to be suspension of belief happening.  I don't mind Ashley being the only survivor of her squad when, if we're going by real world demographics, she should have been a male and, likely, of average attractiveness.  Sure, it's possible that the lone survivor of an attack could look like Ashley, but isn't it also possible that there might be two options for gay males and lesbians, too?

[Panda]

Well it's always intrest to see where people draw realism lines. No boob plates/bikini armors in Dragon Age cause it's realistic? That's no-no, it's fantasy and there should be eye-candy! There is as many bisexual LI's as there is hetero LI's? That's so unrealistic! It seems like people bring up realism and fantasy arguments when it benefit what they want in game.

[(Disgusted noise.)]

 

Aww. Does he have anyone else he cares about on the team, or is Kaidan his only soft spot? That's what I do, when I play a very Renegade type. I pick one companion, just one, that they care for enough to never hurt. 

 

Oh, give me the angst. Just inject it---directly--I just...I love it. I love the angst. That's why I need characters like Garrus and Varric. They're breaks from the angst I inflict upon my own characters. 

 

Miranda post her strict professional phase at the beginning of ME2 through the rest of the series because he relates to her so easily. Although I don't usually play a Renegade who will go out of his way antagonize Normandy members since it's impractical to provoke people you'll be relying on.

[WildOrchid]

Renegade, with a bit of a soft spot? 

 

RenShepard with having some soft spot only to close friends and her lover is my weakness.

[SardaukarElite]

And if we're talking about real world statistics, how many real world soldiers look like Ashley? Young, pretty, feminine, and single?  Not a very large percentage, right?

 

I don't know. If you're recruiting a large pool of women aged 18-25 then I'd expect a fair representation of most of those things, depending on what standards you set.

 

The point stands that people are being very odd in expecting one category to show an completely representative distribution though.

[daveliam]

I don't know. If you're recruiting a large pool of women aged 18-25 then I'd expect a fair representation of most of those things, depending on what standards you set.

The point stands that people are being very odd in expecting one category to show an completely representative distribution though.

Right. Because if Ashley is allowed to not pull from 'general soldier' data, but from 'young woman' data, then why can't the m/m LIs just pulls from 'gay/bisexual man' data instead of 'total human population' data?

Basically, if you are okay with 4/4 of the female human squad members being young, gorgeous, straight, and single, then you should be okay with 2 bisexuals, a gay man, and a lesbian being among the crew.