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dalekofchaos · 5 days
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reichenbachfalle · 11 months
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sbeep · 1 year
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Unfortunate news: Eden Shepard is british. 
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crualex-de-vil · 11 months
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Commander of my heart 🫡
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soggy-frites · 1 year
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My girl.
Yes, that’s a Thresher Maw tattoo around her thigh.
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elfcollector · 1 year
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i think — you earned a rest.
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eletaniaaa · 5 months
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UNC: Missing Marines
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sole survivor Shep by mass effect 3, probably definitely: I have had it with these motherfucking maws on these motherfucking planets
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skullmoss · 6 days
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a bit of appreciation for my shepard because we love seeing a sole survivor shep take down a reaper with a thresher maw
and i just think she's neat.
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aceghosts · 8 months
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ROONEY SHEPARD (CP2077 AU)
You only feel it when it's lost Gettin' through still has a cost Quietly, it slips through your fingers, love Falling from you drop by drop -Who We Are by Hozier
TEMPLATE by @marivenah
Taglist (Lmk if you want to be added or removed): @sstewyhosseini, @nightbloodbix, @strangefable, @marivenah
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dalekofchaos · 5 days
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Fixing Kai Leng
The problem with Kai Leng is Mac Walters desperately tried to convince us that Leng was Shepard's ultimate equal when he could barely hold his own against an aged Anderson and a Drell with terminal cancer and in the end he was a tryhard egdelord that would make Kylo Ren embarrassed.
The solution to this is make Leng deeply connected to Shepard's personal history. Making him be a ghost from Shepard's past with a personal connection would have made this character much better. His backstory could change with whatever your selections are for Shepard.
If you are Earthborn, you are both members of the 10th Street Reds
If you are a Spacer, Leng and Shepard's families served together and Shepard and Leng were childhood friends
If you are a Colonist, Leng was Shepard's childhood friend and was in the rubble with Shepard
If you are a War Hero, Leng was wounded as Shepard held off the Batarians during Elysium. Leng's survival and stand against the Batarians attack on Elysium caught Cerberus' interest.
If you are Sole Survivor, you both survived an ambush on Akuze. Only Leng wasn't taken to be experimented on. Leng was recruited into joining Cerberus for his survival. Cerberus convinces Leng that the Alliance left him for dead and so did Shepard. Leng's sense of betrayal and human supremacy leads him to joining Cerberus
If you are Ruthless, you and Leng slaughtered the Batarians on Torfan without mercy, The sense of ruthlessness inspired Leng's cold hearted exterior and human supremacist beliefs and led him to Cerberus.
Where do we go from here? Replace Jacob with Kai Leng. And the books would be his ventures with Cerberus(but less as a cringe tryhard) Jacob ultimately added to nothing. He's so fucking boring and unlikable and turns into the stereotypical black guy who cheats on you.
Kai Leng's motivation when it comes to Cerberus would be this. I would say he was a young man who wanted to serve the human race and the alliance but when he saw that the politics of the Alliance kept holding him back from doing the right thing or the greater good,  he saw that Cerberus was the only ones helping humanity.
Remove the cyber ninja aesthetic and combine Soldier, Adapt and Engineer to make him a Cerberus super soldier.
As for Kai Leng. A Leng who has personal history with Shepard has potential, plus Leng being indoctrinated with Cerberus human supremacist beliefs, but also somebody with a moral conscience when it comes to the missing human colonists, somebody emotional that you could agree with or understand, contrasting Miranda as a starting squadmate.
Through the course of ME2, he would grow on you as the rest of the squadmates of ME2 did. His loyalty mission would be centered around our background. If we're a War hero, we hunt down the Batarians who survived Elysium. If we are Sole Survivor, we hunt down the Alliance officer who led their squad to Akuze. If we're Ruthless, we deal with Batarians who want revenge for Torfan who plan on giving human hostages to the Collectors. Throughout their talks, Shepard can convince Leng that Cerberus is wrong and eventually Leng's loyalty with Cerberus begins to wavers, especially after TIM sends them to be ambushed in the Collector ship.
Leng started completely loyal to Cerberus, but when he works with Shepard he sees that Cerberus is wrong, but stayed loyal, but also loyal to Shepard. When The Illusive Man asks Shepard to give the base over and when he/she refuses, he asks Leng to force it. This is where Kai Leng finally stands up to Cerberus. Kai Leng all his life, all he wanted to do is serve and protect humanity. He sees that the humans of the Terminus Systems were proceed into becoming a human Reaper and was horrified and when the man he looked up to for years says we should use what killed the humans, he gets the message we should sacrifice humanity and the costs of uplifting humanity. Kai Leng has had enough. He sees through the illusion of Cerberus and with Miranda tells TIM to fuck off and he stays loyal to Shepard.
Between the events of ME2 and ME3, when Shepard betrays Cerberus, they realize that Kai Leng is probably the strongest link between Shepard and themselves, and try to use him against Shepard. Not as lucky as Miranda, TIM does not want to lose Leng so he captures and indoctrinates Leng, making him an agent, and reprogramming his mind to become somebody he was not before, working mindlessly for TIM, as his first lieutenant in combat, much like Bucky Barnes, we have an emotional connection to Kai Leng before seeing him as a villain in ME3.
The first time we'd see Leng in ME3 is on Earth. We see this lead Cerberus Phantom in a unique mask stalking you and Anderson. And as we're leaving Earth, we see Kai Leng killing Anderson. With Shepard swearing revenge.
Throughout ME3, Leng would be stalking Shepard. Causing trouble as we encounter Cerberus. Trying to kill Eve, activating the bomb on Tuchunka and the attempt on the Council.
He would become the same Kai Leng that we all know and hate but we would be able to sympathize with him more.
When we finally confront him in Priority Citadel, we face him and omni-slash his mask off. We get the reveal. Shepard is shocked, Leng hesitates after hearing Shepard utter his name. Maybe in the Cerberus coup on the Citadel, if his loyalty mission was completed in ME2, he would not kill Thane, out of respect of a former squadmate, and regain conscious thought again for a brief moment to spare him. 
It would also help to explain his inexplicable plot armor. Rather than surviving against the onslaught of Shepard due to plot reasons, he would not be killed, as Shepard still sympathizes with him, and doesn't want to kill him, sparing him and letting him escape, or not being able to fully focus, hoping there's a little bit of the real Kai Leng still in there.
Of course this would lead to multiple outcomes towards the end of the game. He could either be recruited back or un-indoctrinated somehow, but for a good plot he would only be able to turn good again and rejoin the squad way too late in the game, maybe in the last third of the game, like Legion in ME2. Bonus points if you can romance him as Femshep, would still make a better romance carrying on to ME3 than Jacob.
Otherwise, he would have to be killed and could not be saved. I don't think that convincing him to commit suicide like Saren or TIM would work, because it would be too similar to the TIM suicide not too long, and would lose impact because of it. He would have to be fought and killed one last time in combat, and have a tragic end most likely.
If we saved Kai Leng, he would've been transported on the beam. Depending on your reputation and war readiness, Leng can break through the indoctrination and kill The Illusive Man or Leng kills himself, which distracts TIM and Shepard shoots The Illusive Man. If Leng broke through and killed TIM, he apologizes for killing Anderson and being unable to control himself. If you were just friends they hug, if they were LI, they kiss. Leng's fate would be either being aboard the Normandy to put Shepard's plaque on the memorial or finding Shepard's body and bringing him back and then we'd get Shepard putting Anderson's plaque on the Normandy.
SO that's how I would've handled Kai Leng. Making him more connected to Shepard and less of a tryhard edgelord that they made him to be in canon.
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inuhodo · 1 year
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Doomsday Clock
i have been slonking mass effect trilogy for the past month im nearly done. heaves. hi this is Danger "Dan" <<Badman>> Shepard shes been getting progressively more renegade each game
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theoriginalladya · 1 year
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Finally got Serafina through MELE2! Now heading into MELE3 with her...
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flame2ashes · 1 year
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Me: Sure, I’ll play a Sole Survivor Shepard, what could go wrong?
ME1: *Has a mission involving getting up close with a Thresher Maw*
ME2: *Has a mission involving getting up close with a Thresher Maw*
ME3: *Has a mission involving getting up close with a Thresher Maw*
Me:
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theshepcollective · 1 year
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Jocelyn (Josie) Shepard
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Josie is a badass and sensitive woman from the wonderful mind of @ladynyxeris.
Backstory - Earthborn (Chicago).
Background - Sole Survivor.
Class - Adept, though she can biotically kick and punch like a Vanguard if needed.
Alignment - 70% Paragon, 30% Renegade.
Lover(s) - Garrus.
Best Friend(s) - Also Garrus, though she’s also close with Tali, Wrex and Joker.
Some would say Josie’s worst enemy is Cerberus, but really it’s her own fear of not being good enough.
Josie was born in Chicago into a broken family. Her mother was a red sand user who never really got clean, not even when she was pregnant, so little Josie came into the world already addicted. It was a miracle she even survived birth. Josie's father instead walked out on her when she was too young to remember his face.
At 12 Jocelyn would lose her remaining parent to a red sand overdose, so she was sent to an orphanage run by nuns, but she soon ran away since the living conditions there weren't much better than her family home. Young Josie was a scrawny little thing and didn't think she could be anything different than a mouse surviving on scraps, always keeping her head down, always biting her tongue to survive. Now alone and without a place to go, she fell easy prey to the Tenth Street Reds, who mostly employed her as a working girl and a finesser to spy on rival gangs.
Jocelyn didn't know she was a biotic until her abilities awakened. It was a classic case of 'wrong place at the wrong time'. A local politician's son was trying to buy a huge amount of drugs from a gang member. After the deal Josie tried to sneak away without getting seen, but she accidentally knocked over a glass. The man was instantly on top of her, hellbent on getting rid of the only witness, but adrenaline and survival instincts did the rest. Jocelyn warped his head into a bloody pulp, and by her 16th birthday she was arrested for aggravated murder.
Anderson found Josie rotting in jail. Even if she was a minor during those events, money talks and it was unlikely she'd have gotten out anytime soon without his intervention. He got her a good lawyer, and after her release she got into an Alliance training program. At 18 she officially enlisted, trying to give back some of what Anderson gave her.
She had thought that would be a new chapter in her life, but then the Akuze tragedy happened, leaving her with physical and emotional scars.
Due to her being used and thrown away time and time again, Jocelyn is profoundly affection starved but afraid to pursue meaningful relationships at the same time. That's how she ended up in Garrus' arms. It was supposed to be just a casual thing, but she fell hard and fast for him, a sentiment reciprocated by the turian. And with the threat of the Reapers looming at the horizon, Garrus becomes Josie's main reason to fight.
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babygirlgarrus7 · 1 year
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Mila Reneè Shepard
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I wanted to introduce my version of female Shepard! There will be a series soon so I wanted to give a background of her before we dove into the story! I got this layout idea from @theshepcollective
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Sole Survivor
Paragon: 80 Renegade: 20
Romance: Garrus
Closest Friends: Garrus, Tali, and Joker
Mila was born in Seattle Washington in the month of May, to mother (Hannah) and father (Richard) Shepard. However, they didn’t stay on Earth since both parents are in the Alliance Military they went to different space stations, ships, and everything in between.
With that Mila only grew up knowing how to fight and use weapons. She was especially good with close combat and hand to hand. Her father taught more of her hand to hand skills while her mother taught her all the weapons she would be able to fight with.
Also being a spacer she learned that she loved to explore. To see new things, discover new planets. That eventually she would want to do it with her own ship and crew.
Right when she turned 18 she went and signed up for the Alliance military and graduated on the top of her class. While her mother was promoted to Captain and her father promoted to Sargent.
The Shepards stayed together until Mila hit the age of 20, being deployed with a group of men and women.
About 6 years passed as she ran with this squad, when your Captain was told to be deployed on a unknown planet she faced horrible odds. Being attacked by the habitants, creatures (including a Thresher Maw), and damn near everything.
Mila and another squad mate were the only ones left until the last day where the teammate got sick and died from the extreme conditions.
After being found and healed she was promoted to Commander and been offered in the N7 program. However, celebration was short lived as her father had died from cancer weeks after.
At the age of 28 she was assigned to Captain David Anderson and the Normandy Crew. Where she eventually took over the Normandy Crew and travelled across the galaxy to fight the Reapers.
Mila had a LOVELY crush on Garrus Valkerian when they first met. It turned slowly into a friendship as time went on, until she was able to see him again (ME2) When she realized that she actually did like him. It flourished turned into talking about the future and being together.
Rewrite the Stars: Garrus x Mila
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