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Mass Effect Legendary Edition - 30 Day Character Challenge

I've made a Character Development Challenge for your Shepards. I've taken inspiration from a bunch of different challenges. I love fleshing out my characters. Giving them a History, figuring out their feelings and thoughts. It really helps me connect with my character. Hope you enjoy expanding on your character! Day 1. Introduction· Name/Sign/Gender: Where does your character stand with their morality? Anything else you want to include? Day 2. Appearance· Hair color/cut - Eye color - Notable scars? How did they get them? Any tattoos? What do they represent? Day 3. Preferences· Favorite color?· What kinds of food do they like?· What is her Fashion Sense? What type of environment do they prefer spending time in?· Favorite type of music? · Genre of books? Vids?· Anything else that needs mentioned? Day 4. Service Record· Pre-Service History (Spacer, Earthborn, or Colonist): Psychological Profile (Sole Survivor, War Hero, or Ruthless): Training (class)? What made them pick that? Why did they join the military? Day 5. Personality· Overall summary of their personality Character strengths?· Character weaknesses?· Does your character grow at all during the game? Does anything change? Day 6. History/Character· Outside Game Canon, Did you expand on Shepard’s Past? What Language(s) does your Shepard speak? What Interests do they have? What Skills do they possess? Day 7. Fear· Does Shepard have any trival fears, like spiders or clowns?· What about more complex fears, like losing someone?· How do they deal with their fears? · Do they have any nightmares? What about? Day 8. Mass Effect 1 Squad· How does Shepard feel about their squadmates? Garrus- Tali- Liara- Wrex- Ashley- Kaidan- Day 9. Normandy SR-1 Crew What about the rest of the crew? Joker- Chakwas - Engineer Adams - Navigator Pressly - Jenkins- Day 10. Mass Effect 1 Romance· What’s your Shepard’s sexual orientation?· Who did they romance? What type of relationship is it/how do they handle the relationship(s)? Does Shepard and their romance have any interesting kinks?· What drew them to each other? What do they talk about? Day 11. Citadel· What were their initial thoughts about the Citadel? What is Shepard’s Relationship with the Council? What was the initial impression and future impressions of the people below: Anderson Udina Conrad Day 12. Mass Effect 1 Decisions· Did Shepard Recruit Everyone to her team? Did Shepard Save or Shut Down the Colony on Feros? Did Shepard Save or Kill the Rachni Queen? Did Shepard Save the Hostages or pursue Balak on the Asteroid? Does Wrex Live or Die on Virmire? Who did you save on Virmire and why? Did you Save the Destiny Ascension or Focus on Sovereign? Who did you Appoint to the Council and why? Day 13. Mass Effect 1 Reflection What was Shepard’s favorite Mission? Worst Mission? What was Shepard’s hardest decision? Favorite NPC? Day 14. Cerberus What were their initial thoughts about Cerberus bringing them back? What were their thoughts about working with Cerberus? How did Shepard change from when they were in the Alliance as a Spectre to working with Cerberus? What was Shepard’s relationship with the Illusive Man? Day 15. Faith and Death Does your Shepard believe in a religion? Why or why not?· How devout are they to their faith? Or how militant are they with their atheism?· How does Shepard feel about dying twice? Did they see anything? Day 16. Mass Effect 2 Squad· How does Shepard feel about their squadmates? How was their Reunion if from ME1? Garrus- Tali- Grunt - Thane- Jack- Miranda- Jacob- Legion- Samara &/or Morinth- Mordin- Kasumi - Zaeed- Day 17. Normandy SR-2 Crew How does Shepard feel about the rest of the crew? Joker- Chakwas - Kelly Chambers- Kenneth Donnely & Gabriella Daniels- Mess Sergeant Gardner - EDI- Did Shepard take care of her Fish? Were they able to keep them alive? Day 18. Old Squadmates How did Shepard feel about seeing their old squadmates? How was the reunion? Liara Kaidan or Ashley Wrex Day 19. Mass Effect 2 Romance· What’s your Shepard’s sexual orientation?· Who did they romance? Was there a love triangle? What type of relationship is it/how do they handle the relationship? If they romanced someone different, how do they feel about their old partner and what made them end the relationship? Does Shepard and their romance have any interesting kinks?· What drew them to each other? What do they talk about? Day 20. Mass Effect 2 Reflection What was Shepard’s favorite Mission? What was your favorite Loyalty Mission? What was Shepard’s hardest decision to make? Favorite NPC? Day 21. Mass Effect 3 Squad· How does Shepard feel about their squadmates? Garrus- Tali- Liara- Ashley or Kaidan- Javik - James Vega - EDI - Day 22. Normandy ME3 Crew What about the rest of the crew? Joker- Chakwas or Chloe Michel - Samantha Taynor - Steve Cortez- Engineer Adams - Diana Allers Day 23. Mass Effect 3 Romance· What’s your Shepard’s sexual orientation?· Who did they romance? Was there a love triangle? What type of relationship is it/how do they handle the relationship(s)? If they romanced someone different, how do they feel about their old partner? Did your Shepard have a hard time choosing between partners? Does Shepard and their romance have any interesting kinks?· What drew them to each other? What do they talk about? Day 24. Mass Effect 3 Decisions· Did they pick Destroy, Control, Synthesis, or Refuse? How did they feel when making their decision? If Shepard could leave any last message, what would they have said? If they pick Destroy and Lived, what happens to Shepard? Day 25. Mass Effect 3 Reflection What was Shepard’s favorite Mission? What was Shepard’s hardest decision to make? Favorite NPC? Day 26. Beliefs & Opinions What are Shepard’s opinions on the Genophage? What are Shepard’s opinions on the Quarian/Geth Conflict? What is Shepard’s favorite Alien Species? Day 27. R&R Does Shepard relax, or are they itching to get back into action?· Do they have any hobbies or talents?·. How often do they take a moment when they go to different planets? What do they do in different cities to relax?· What is Shepard’s alcohol tolerance? What does Shepard like to drink? Favorite way to relax? Day 28. Personal Style· What do they wear when they’re on duty? What about when they’re not? How do they decorate their cabin? · How do they dance, if at all? Are they clean or messy? Favorite Place on the Normandy? Favorite City? Day 29. Fighting Style· What was their favorite skill? Least favorite?· Favorite gun/guns?· How are they in hand to hand combat?· Do they tend to rush in or stay back and dictate action? Day 30. Mako Was your Shepard a good driver?· Favorite driving terrain? Least favorite? What Squadmates hated or loved traveling in the Mako Day 31. Ending What happens to your old companions after the final decision? How does the Day of the Final Decision go down in history? What was Shepard’s saddest or most difficult moment? Day 32. Face to Face How much of your Shepard is based off of you? Where are you alike? Where do you differ?· Would you get along with your Shepard? What would you do if you spent the day together? Day 33. Playlist· Find any number of songs that you feel fit your character, their relationship with any of their companions, or a specific moment in their story. List them here.

[bluu-spectre]

4, 11, 19 and 31 for the shep asks! 👀

-writhes like a worm- LET'S GOOOO

4. Is your Shepard any good at poker?

Not only is he good at poker, he's not allowed to play poker most nights unless the others really wanna lose their paycheck. Either that or some rookie thinks they have what it takes to beat him. They very quickly learn. The only people who have even come close to beating him is Kaidan and Vega. Man is literally unreadable while he plays, keeping a straight face and neutral tone throughout the match.

11. What order does Shepard pick up companions in me2?

Zaeed - Garrus - Mordin - Kasumi - Jack - Grunt - Tali - Samara - Thane

19. Are there any companions your Shepard just absolutely cannot vibe with or relate to

Ashley sticks out to me. Now, don't get me wrong, I've heard Ashley's character gets better in the later games (I wouldn't know because I literally cannot physically make myself leave Kaidan to die on Virmire) but her initial bigoted comments about the other alien species left a bad taste in Sebastian's mouth that he just really couldn't look past. He respected her as a soldier and mourned her death as a failure on his part for allowing the enemy to get the better of them, but the two never really got close beyond a mutual respect for their abilities.

31. Who can always make them laugh?

Maybe an obvious choice, but always Joker. I've talked about this before on this hellscape of a blog, but Joker just has this almost unnatural ability to make Sebastian laugh even in the most dire situations. He often makes it his goal to make Sebastian laugh at least once in a day to keep his head on right.

[eggoreviews]

My Top 25 Games Advent Day 16 - Mass Effect 2 (#10)

​​“They tell me it’s a suicide mission. I intend to prove them wrong.”​​

​​Here we have another example, and in my eyes the best example, of the product of Bioware being at their absolute peak. Mass Effect 2 is a nigh on masterpiece of a game that, even after almost a decade, still holds up extraordinarily well in every aspect. I love the Mass Effect series (well, the main trilogy anyway) for its cinematic storytelling, its interesting and unique plot concepts and gameplay elements, its intricate setting and, crowning all, its always unforgettable companion characters who go on your journey with you. The series’ second instalment, at least in my eyes, does all of this absolutely perfectly without 3’s wonky ending and 1’s slightly outdated settings and mechanics. If I called Dragon Age: Origins the Lord of the Rings of gaming, here’s Star Wars.​​

​​Mass Effect 2 doesn’t fuck around. It starts you up on the original ship from the first game, before immediately blowing it up and killing Commander Shepard, the vaguely cheesy space hero we all love so much. After Shepard’s revival at the hands of Cerberus, Mass Effect 2 kicks off with an epic space opera story taking you all across the universe, with espionage, emotive character arcs and an oppressive, genuinely fearful atmosphere created by the game’s big bads, the vastly superior alien race known as the Collectors. It’s amazing how they managed to blend that overriding fear of an enemy so powerful it could wipe out everything with this giddy excitement to explore. Whether that be the plethora of planets you can seek out, mine for resources and explore or some of the more densely populated space stations, such as the vast cityscape of the Citadel or the seedy, neon underworld filled with criminals and night clubs, Omega. Mass Effect’s universe truly has a life of its own and it tells such a grandiose story within it that it’s impossible not to become immersed. Each and every area you visit is packed full of memorable characters of various diverse species, like the awesome looking Turians and Krogans, down to the hilariously blunt Elcor, who communicate by prefacing everything they say with how they’re feeling. On top of this, a bountiful selection of engaging side quests and an overarching main story that largely involves you seeking out each of your party members to hunt down the Collectors make this a truly perfected combination of a well-realised sci-fi setting and story.​​

​​Drawing on those companion characters for a moment, I would say that this is one of the best, most diverse and engaging cast of characters you can find in a game, as each of them follow their own individual character arcs and have unique relationships with Shepard depending on your actions and the behaviour you exhibit towards them. The likes of Jacob (the guy you start with who is admittedly a bit boring), Miranda (the biotic who was experimented on by her family to make her ‘perfect’), Garrus (the kickass Turian who is everyone’s favourite and also has gotta be the canon love interest for male Shepard), Mordin (the quick-thinking, quick-everything Salarian doctor with a surprisingly dark past), Grunt (a wartime experimental clone taken by Shepard as a replacement for their original target, Grunt’s creator), Jack (a highly powerful, erratic biotic in a maximum security prison), Samara (Asari matriarch who can step on me and also everyone), Thane (the coolest, chillest assassin in the galaxy), Zaeed (amercenary veteran with a sick ass scar), Kasumi (cool space thief) and Tali and Legion (oneQuarian and one Geth, both interesting and unique characters in their own right, these characters draw upon the central conflict between the two races explored in the first game’s main story. In the sequel, the slow development of the two from sworn enemies to allies is something to behold, especially as both are so lovable on their own). Went on a bit of a tangent there but I felt it was important to include everyone in that list. The best part about this is you spend the entire game building your relationships with these characters, choosing a romance option, decking Shepard and the gang out in the best gear, upgrading your ship with the materials you mine from planets. And then it all comes down to the finale, the so-called ‘suicide mission’ in which anyone and everyone can die depending on your choices and upgrades beforehand, as well as any decisions you make during the mission. It is genuinely incredibly difficult to save everyone first try and is a great example of how to ensure the choices you give to your player have weight and lasting impact; in Mass Effect 2, everything is on your shoulders and no one’s survival is guaranteed.​​

​​As I said before, I don’t think it would be wrong to call this the Star Wars of gaming, and it wouldn’t take that title without a lot of pew-pewing and excellent use of the sci-fi genre. The gameplay and gunplay (which is the majority of your experience) is slick and well-executed, even feeling intuitive and fun almost a decade later. Even that final boss encounter, that I will never really understand the potent hatred people seem to have for it, is an awesome final test of what you’ve learned and how you’ve improved along the way, pitting you up against an all-out giant Terminatoresque killing machine as an excellently overblown ending to a game full of dramatic encounters to shoot at. Alongside this, the visuals are superb and do little break immersion even as time has gone by and I would argue that this game still holds some of the best graphics you can find from the previous generation. And last but not least, this game’s spicy ass mechanical sci-fi soundtrack is definitely something to flap about, especially when it comes to the combat and that Suicide Mission score is nothing short of incredible.​​

​​So now I’ve ranted aimlessly for three chunky paragraphs about each singular aspect of this game that I adore, you can probably see why this title has such an enduring memory to me. Playing this game for the first time at 12 years old off the back of the also amazing Dragon Age: Origins, Bioware took their perfected formula of knowing exactly how to craft a story, setting and excellently realised characters and shot it up into space both figuratively and literally. In my eyes, Mass Effect 2 is Bioware’s greatest title and it’s honestly more than a shame that we haven’t received anything from Mass Effect in recent years, aside from the less than great Andromeda. A Mass Effect 4 would kill me dead, but at the very least an original trilogy remaster would keep me ticking for a hot minute. Get on it, Bioware. Pls.​​

​​Standout Moment Award: Probably already mentioned this, but of course it’s the suicide mission. An unforgettable epic of a quest and one of my favourite overall game finales to date.​​

Standout Character Award: Thane Krios. The ice-cool, terminally ill assassin takes today’s award for being an all-around great dude.

​​It’s been a long ol’ month, but we’re finally getting there. Today, I kicked off my top 10 games of all time. From here on out, it’s going to be beyond difficult to stop myself from descending into rambles, but I’ll do my best to keep myself coherent. ​​ ​​Tomorrow: No. 9; An odd creature with floating appendages takes off to save some blue things in dire distress.

[ohlawsons]

so for anyone curious as to just exactly how cal fucked up so badly

sorry not sorry it’s so long, it ended up being as much me rambling to get a better sense of everything bc i’m still developing cal as it is me explaining the clusterfuck of a suicide mission

miranda: had to be recruited. cal Did Not Like her, which actually makes her the first shep to flat out loathe my wonderful beautiful biotic wife. i may mess with canon a bit, but cal didn’t do the loyalty mission bc it’s a family thing, they’d have to go all the way back to illium, and i’m gonna hc that she calls liara to help miranda bc cal’s focused, not a dick

jacob: had to be recruited. cal doesn’t trust him at first (no cerberus officer should be that nice and honest and open) but they get along. re: loyalty mission -- it’s an old signal, she agrees with jacob that someone’s just probably trying to get under his skin, and the alliance will probably check it out too. she promises they’ll look into it afterwards.

garrus: had to be recruited. cal’s disappointed with his life choices, but also just shrugs and accepts it bc hey, she’s a terrorist now so not much room to talk. she’d go a bit out of her way for his loyalty mission anyway since they’re friends and she trusts him, but it’s a quick detour on the citadel so no issues

mordin: had to be recruited. put simply, he instills a whole new respect for stg in cal. he lowkey terrifies her. re: loyalty, she has no desire to go to tuchanka, and her initial reaction is “well if you ~perfected~ the genophage you probably deserve to be kidnapped” bc she’s pissed and things are Hard and i think she may change her mind? but this playthrough it wasn’t finished so

jack: had to be recruited. jack is good for blowing off steam -- in every sense -- but she’s dangerous, and the minute she brings up peragia and gets all twitchy, cal goes straight there bc the last thing they need is jack taking out her frustrations on the ship. or the crew. or her, in any way that isn’t sexual.

grunt: he stays in his pod. cal doesn’t have a good track record with krogan.

zaeed: as far as cal is concerned, his loyalty lasts till his last paycheck, and the loyalty mission is a form of payment, so it’s finished and she actually has a decent amount of respect for him after learning he led the blue suns for so long.

kasumi: same as above, basically, but they’re better friends and cal has more fun during the party.

thane: recruited bc he’s an assassin, so he’ll fit right in. since kolyat is on the citadel and they stop there anyway, cal goes ahead and helps out.

samara: not recruited. a glorified cop aboard a ship full of criminals, mercs, and terrorists is a bad combination, in cal’s mind.

tali: not recruited. cal wants to, but doesn’t want to force tali to work with cerberus (bc she would if cal asked, she knows this), or bring someone who she remembers as Good And Pure onto a ship full of assholes. also she doesn’t want her to die, like the rest of them probably will.

legion: i’ll admit to metagaming a bit here, since i knew about the loyalty mission. destroying the heretics is basically a “trial run” of sorts for cal, to see if she can trust legion.

and the actual mission:

jack and legion both died on the ship bc i didn’t have all the upgrades bc i didn’t have tali or a loyal jacob (which was rly hard to sit here and let cal do what cal was gonna do ahghhhghhghhg)

the heat vents: she chose kasumi, bc she’s small and good with tech and most importantly cal trusts her. zaeed led the fireteam bc she figured if he can lead a merc group he can lead a tiny squad. garrus was her second choice, but she kept him with her instead. kasumi died (bc of zaeed, i think) here.

the crew: i wanted to lose part of the crew, bc i’ve always imported to me3 with a full crew. but cal didn’t want to spare someone to escort them back (bc if they can’t destroy the collectors they’re all dead anyway) so they’re all gone. even chakwas.

the swarms: zaeed led the fireteam again, and cal chose miranda for the bubble just bc she was going off pure biotic strength. i may hc that to be cal who does the shield bc adept. anyway, miranda wasn’t loyal so thane died, then zaeed died bc apparently he’s not a good leader.

the final run: she took garrus and miranda, garrus bc trust and friendship and shit, and miranda bc i always love to let her tell tim to fuck off. so jacob and mordin were left to [kirrahe voice] hold the line. mordin did not survive. miranda didn’t survive the v end bc she wasn’t loyal.

so cal, joker, garrus, and jacob.

i’m sure it was a fun ride home.