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Connie, Tammy and the Kids Last Days of Vacation...….Part 4

Connie, Tammy and the Kids Last Days of Vacation…….Part 4

Now that Tina and the kids had left, things quieted down a bit.  I took a day to take Connie site seeing and shopping.  Our first stop was the Museum of Arts and Heritage.  It contains the actual house belonging to the founder of Harlingen, Lon C Hill.  Also their was the first Hospital of Harlingen and the Stage Coach Stop that was moved in from several miles out in the country.  Then on to the

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So, to prepare for LGBTQ+ Shepards week, I’m going to refamilarize myself with my LGBTQ+ Shepards, and maybe some of you will even enjoy reading about this as well, who knows. (Just to get all of them out here, I will also be posting about my straight cisgender Shepard but she won’t be tagged with any LGBTQ+ Shepard week tags) So, this is Ethan, my first protagonist in any non-Sims video game, ever and a proud pansexual. I’ve posted a brief bio before, but he’s changed since then.

Ethan has spent almost his entire life in space, only living planet-side for the first few months of his life in Montreal, while his parents were on leave. His mother, Hannah Shepard, was a hardworking marine who thrived in leadership roles, a characteristic she passed onto her only child. His father, Isaac Shepard, was an all around tech specialist who filled gaps on whichever ship he served on, from the engineering corps, to navigation, and even to special ops infiltration teams. Ethan’s parents separated when he was 9 due to disagreements on how to raise him. Only a few days after being reassigned to serve aboard a new ship, Isaac died in action after the ship was boarded by pirates. As a kid, Ethan was well known by all of his mother’s crewmates and always found himself fascinated by the engineers and the workings of the ships his mother served on. 

In school he excelled at science and math, as well as music. He enlisted in the miltary as soon as he graduated to pursue a career as a member of the Alliance Engineering Corps. While on shore leave in Elysium, visiting a man he had met on Arcturus Station, the Batarians attacked. Ethan effectively saved the colony by holding the invaders off until reinforcements arrived.

In 2183, he briefly pursued a relationship with Dr. Liara T’Soni, though he later admitted it was a grief-driven response to losing one of his closest friends, Gunnery Chief Ashley Williams, during the assault on Saren Arterius’ base on Virmire. When he came back from the dead in 2185, he and Liara decided not to rekindle their relationship. After his run-in with then Commander Kaidan Alenko, Ethan was thrown for a loop and found himself unable to focus on the flirtations he had begun with Miranda Lawson. He directed his attention entirely to his suicide mission, expecting a one-way trip. When he and Kaidan met again in 2186, Ethan was determined to repair their friendship and hopefully quell the gut-twisting pain he felt at the thought of the Major. It wasn’t until Kaidan mentioned the possibility of a relationship between the two that Ethan even realized he had been in love with him for over a year. To end the war between the sapient species of the Milky Way and the Reapers, Ethan chose to destroy all Reaper encoded synthetic beings. Ethan barely survived the resulting explosion, being found by a search and rescue team 3 days later. Ethan spent 2 years in intensive physiotherapy regaining movement in his legs and acquainting himself with a prosthetic arm. Kaidan and Ethan married on Armistice Day in 2189 in memory of Ashley and settled down with 2 dogs and 3 children, all orphaned by the war. Both veterans retired from the Alliance shortly after and were immediately poached by Jon Grissom Academy to teach engineering and biotics. Ethan would only teach for a few years before being selected as the new human councillor, splitting his time between his apartment on the citadel, Kaidan’s apartment in Grissom Academy, and their beachfront home on the Sunshine Coast in British Columbia.