Ryder Confirmed to be Brother/Sister

Sept 8, 2016 15:06:14 GMT Ahriman said:

Sept 8, 2016 15:00:28 GMT shechinah said:

He also seems to be a bit of a renegade if his treatment of the guy getting dropped off a ledge is any indication. That's kind of neat. I'm really curious about his personality.

I wonder if he was an absent father due to being N7 in the military but I also hope that they might leave some details for the player to fill out through dialogue options.

Yeah, mother died early, father was cold and on duty most of the time. Typical premise for daddy issues.

If that is what they would be going with then that's where it would be nice to have options: like, say, there's options to indicate that he and Ryder still had a close relationship because of things like how they would frequently talk over the future phone so Ryder never felt like he was absent from their life. Basically, he might have been physically absent but he was never emotionally absent.  

Think about what we can do now with technology: Ryder's father could have done things like watch movies with them when he was off-duty and had access to an internet connection. He could even have read for them, helped them with their homework and so on. If they bring a computer with them, he could even be present at their birthdays, graduations and such.

Then there could be options where Ryder was sad but understood and options where Ryder was bitter and thought he didn't care that much.

Sept 8, 2016 15:17:38 GMT dalinne said:

Sept 8, 2016 9:44:14 GMT bshep said:

Really nice. Bro Ryder and Sis Ryder exist at the same time.

And their father is a goddamn hero. Those are some big shoes for them to fill.

Maybe his father is a hero who becomes a villain (or simply an antagonist, not necessarily evil) 

I'm hoping for that but only for the latter. I'll repost what I've said in the CSI thread:

I sincerely hope the N7 is not like Kai Leng. I'd rather they be sympathic in their motivation: they might steal technology from the Andromeda races but they'll do it because they believe it is necessary for the survival of the Milky races. Basically, a character that does what they do because of percieved necessity rather than spite or desiring superiority for them or their race.

We've had pro-human antagonists; now I'd like something else. I feel an antagonist that is motivated by necessity could help show the desperation and danger there sometimes lie in the colonisation of strange new land especially when returning to old land is not an option. We can have a sympathic antagonist and we can have a villanous antagonist in the same story; the sympathic antagonist can exemplify desperation and the villanous antagonist can exemplify danger. If we go by the supposed leak then there is a seemingly villanous faction of aliens and a non-villanous faction of aliens so this would not go right over into Unfortunate Implications.