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snowblindmods) wrote2015-04-06 10:43 pm
snowblindmods) wrote2015-04-06 10:43 pm
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Name: Jax
Age: 30
Contact Info: PM at
Other Characters: Beckett (
Character Information
Name: Jane Shepard
Canon: Mass Effect
Age: Early 30s
Gender: Female
Canon Point: Mass Effect 3, just post first cutscene/losing consciousness after the first Reaper hit on Earth.
Background Link: Mass Effect Wiki says...
Specifically, this version of Shepard is a woman (obviously) Sentinel (Biotic and technological abilities) with the Spacer/War Hero backgrounds.
Inventory:
Coming in in set of civvies including a sweet N7 hoodie and a set of dog tags. Alas, due to her canon point, that's all she's got. Perhaps @admin will be so nice so to let her coat and bag sport the N7 tag as well!
Personality:
Shepard is a choice-based protagonist, whose personality is shaped by the decisions made by the player aboit how to approach people and situations - with diplomacy and kindness, or with ruthless pragmatism. This particular flavour of Shepard is the most paragon that ever paragoned, kind, approachable, idealistic in all of her choices, always inclined to help people and Do the Right Thing. She'd shoot people, sure, but not in the back. She also prefers to do things by the book, and is a believer in laws and systems. You could call her a poster child, except she might shoot you.
Shepard is, first and foremost, a soldier. A military brat, brought up in space by her Alliance officer parents - she's still close to her mother, Captain Hannah Shepard - she had devoted her entire life to the Alliance and has complete faith in it. When forced to work with Cerberus to rescue the human colonists kidnapped by the Collectors, she struggles with the necessity of the mission and only sticks by it because once she has taken something on, she will not let it drop. Profoundly disciplined and determined, she believes in the chain of command and in following orders, though she does have something of the military mindset getting frustrated with politics, red tape and official channels putting obstacles in the way of swift action, such as what she believes is necessary to stop the Reapers. She tries her damnest not to let it show, though, and always prefers to work with and defer to civilian authorities.
As a Council Spectre, she has a great deal of authority and leeway to work outside procedure and the law, but for this reason exactly she sticks as close to those laws and procedures as possible - she never executes a captive enemy for example but always insists on fair trial. Even when working for Cerberus, she sticks to that code as much as she can, and tries to inspire her squad to follow it, as well. Cerberus have assigned to her a group of some of the roughest, toughest souls in the galaxy - rogues, assassins, people with checkered pasts and dark secrets. They'd like her to be part of that shadow world, perhaps... but Shepard is determined instead to drag all her new teammates into the light with her.
Shepard is very much a leader and mentor to the people under her command, and strives to be their inspiration, as well. She is always on the front line herself - the idea of telling others to go where she won't is totally foreign - and is very close to her squadmates, involved in their lives and determined to make a difference for them, even when it involves considerable risk or being distracted from her main mission and objective. She is a good listener, and good at giving decisive advice. She tries not to, but isn't beyond stepping in and stopping them from making what she sees as a mistake, especially a moral one, and she firmly believes in people doing what they need, not what they want It's a little harder for her to rely on them in turn, let them see her weakness, but she tries to talk and take comfort where it's offered, despite the difficulty. It's almost part of being a good soldier, to her.
Though she started out seeing herself as just an Alliance soldier, and not really happy to be at the top of the command chain, Shepard has a bit of a crusader streak in her, which the vision that she got from the Protean beacon ignited into a flame. She will stop the Reapers. No one is allowed to doubt that, least of all herself, and she is perfectly ready - perhaps even eager to sacrifice herself for that cause. Her zealous determination knowns no bounds, as does her commitment to doing said stopping by pulling all the bickering races and factions of the galaxy together for the battle. This can really be seen as an extension of her general idealism - she believes in cooperation, and in getting this cooperation in a way that would allow it to last even past the war. She genuinely believes that she can attain this, and that it's the only hope.
Despite her profound loyalty to the Alliance, Shepard gets along swimmingly with her alien squadmates and is very interested in aliens and their cultures. Her instinct before the unknown is to think the best of it and try to understand it, even when it means taking risk as she did when setting the Rachni Queen free. She understands the urge of some of her colleagues to protect humanity's interests in the galaxy first, but doesn't share it. Instead she deeply respects and is fascinated by the galaxy's older cultures, and is always eager to listen to her squadmates and learn more, even if she's hardly the scholarly type. She sees herself more as an ambassador for humanity than its champion.
Shepard's other hobbies include keeping fish aboard spaceships, driving ridiculous all-terrain vehicles, and being the worst dancer in the galaxy.
Flavor Abilities:
Shepard would retain the cybernetic components put into her by Cerberus as part of her revival, but they would grant her no abilities or survival advantage, just do their usual work of keeping her alive.
Suitability:
Although as a Spacer, she isn't quite used to working in hostile natural environment, Shepard is still an elite soldier and has lived through hell once or twice before, so Snowhell should be manageable. Mostly. She comes from an advanced enough world to have a conceptual framework of alternate realities and timelines, so that, too, should not distract her from her immediate resolve of Reapers did this I will end them everyone gets out alive.
Shepard has had greater forces meddling in her life for some time now, so should tackle this one with the same fierce challenge that she's successfully applied to most everything else. What should get interesting is when there stop being the more tangible goals and targets that she's used to, not to mention. I'd like to see how she copes, not with active war, but with something a lot like prolonged siege mentality, which suits her smash-through-all-obstacles nature a lot less. Her idealism and her faith in rules and structures would be tested in whole new ways. I'm also interested in testing her abilities as a leader - how much of an inspiration can she really be, when there's no battle to lead into?
RP Samples:
At the very useful test drive meme! Here is action and here is network!
ACCEPTED
A two-story A-frame house. The first floor has a living room, dining room, kitchen, bathroom, and two bedrooms. The second floor has a master bedroom, master bathroom, and balcony. The downstairs bedrooms are used for storage and contain a lot of boxes and trunks that seem to be pretty unorganized. All of the boxes and trunks in the right bedroom are empty. The master bedroom has a general astronomy theme from the stardusted comforter to the posters of galaxies on the wall. The galaxies are ones that exist in the observable universe from Earth. There's a chair on the balcony positioned as if it once was used to sit and observe the sky with a telescope, but the telescope isn't there anymore.
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