#[ anyway this is my mass effect oc and i finally sorted out her timeline ]

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Dr. Anne Pearce’s Timeline

May 12, 2149 - Anne Elizabeth Pearce is born to single-mother, Systems Alliance Captain Louise Pearce in London, Earth. Raised in the city for the better part of her childhood, Anne grew up on Earth but soon became familiar with space as her mother’s military career advanced, especially heading into the First Contact War of 2157.

2160 - Anne is 11 years old and moves to her first space station due to her mother’s deployment. She becomes quite familiar with many other Alliance families, and is often set to stay with other parents whose spouses are sent off on active duty. (If Shepard is from the Spacer background, Louise Pearce and Hannah Shepard are of the same cohort). 

2167 - Anne is 18 years old and decides to boldly apply to one of the many universities on the Citadel, despite lingering tensions after First Contact. She is accepted into the Engineering program, with an eventual specialization into Aerospace Engineering. During these years, Anne full invests her social life amid aliens, despite some tensions. She is one of a few humans attending her program, but it does not dissuade her in the slightest.  

2171 - Anne graduates with her Bachelors of Engineering, and begins working part-time for a small firm designing passenger vehicles for civilian use. In the meantime, she pursues her Masters degree. It is at age 22 that she becomes involved with Lucilla, a turian barista who works at a local cafe, sweet on Anne ever since she began ordering coffee there. Their relationship lasts for a year, mostly as something ‘hush hush’ to avoid scrutiny from their friends. They spend a good part of their time together navigating the various difficulties and incompatibilities between human and turian physiology and biology. Despite ending their relationship, they remain friends to this day. 

2173 - Anne is 24 years old and graduates with her Masters in Engineering, and continues her work with the firm while living in an apartment on the Citadel. She becomes quite busy with her work, earning two promotions over the course of two years. However, she also becomes quite enthralled with the nightlife of the Wards and has a number of personal relationships in this time. Most are short-lived. 

2177 - Anne completes her Doctorate of Engineering (PhD) by the age of 28 after a grueling four years in competitive academia. She becomes a research assistant for a renowned Asari professor, Dr. Talia T’Suzsa (elder sister to  professional Kepesh-Yakshi player, Polgara T’Suzsa) and begins a co-operative research project as part of her studies. This connection allows Anne to build a competitive portfolio of design, comfortable with both human and asari ship designs, looking to link them to bring out the best of both worlds. 

2178 - After graduation, Anne is offered a position working for the Systems Alliance. While she takes quite a lot of time to deliberate the offer, she decides to take her career to new heights - and in a way, follow her mother’s footsteps, albeit in her own way. She begins working for the Alliance as an Engineering Director within a small team that seeks to perform retrofits and redesigns for the Alliance fleet at large. 

** (It is in this time that she meets Lieutenant-Commander Magnus Shepard by chance, bumping into him and taking his coffee from the local café by mistake. Realizing she had been quite rude in her hurry, she meets up with him later at his quarters, and the two spend the night talking together. This is the first date. While Anne is polyamorous, Shepard becomes her primary partner. They are married by 2180.)

2183 - The events of Eden Prime unfurl. Anne is currently working a busy career within the Alliance, working to create more ships that combine other species’ constructions with their own. Similar to the SSV-Normandy SR-1, there are a number of ships in progress that the Alliance is intent to bring to the fleet. However, the Battle of the Citadel brings about destruction and danger to the station. Anne is evacuated in time, but experienced some of her worst fears that day. 

** With Shepard’s death, Anne finds herself at an utter loss. She always knew it was a possibility, but with no recovery of his body and an empty casket at the service, she never felt like she got proper closure. For six months, Anne takes a bereavement leave from the Alliance. Slowly, but surely, she gets back to work. 

2185 - After the Battle of the Citadel, Anne is relocated to London to work for the Alliance out of their headquarters there. Rumours of Shepard’s reappearance circulate but are never confirmed until nearly seven months later. 

** Anne is in utter shock but relieved that Shepard is alive. They are a great distance apart but keep in communication with one another as best they can. Shepard also begins a relationship with Miranda Lawson, which Anne is aware and encouraging of the relationship.

2186 - The Reaper invasion begins. London is hit first, devastatingly so. Anne is one of a lucky few who are escorted on an immediate escape vessel to the Citadel. However, her mother, Major Louise Peace, was killed in action during the initial attack on Earth. Anne rarely gets time to process her grief before the Alliance summons herself and her colleagues to work on a Top Secret project - the Crucible. From there, Anne spends most of her time organizing and completing parts of the blue prints to put together the ultimate tool to help them win the reaper war.

2187+ - After the war, Anne returns to Earth once again to help with the rebuilding efforts. 

** After Shepard’s disappearance, assumed to be KIA, Anne processes her grief in the company of Miranda, who she had previously established a relationship with during Shepard’s last send-off party in Anderson’s apartment. From there,  they had a discussion regarding their futures, and Anne already offered to be a gestational surrogate for Miranda and Magnus’ child. After the war, she takes up that offer, and the two raise a daughter together - Hannah Louise Pearce-Shepard.