Theory about the Ryder family in Andromeda (Speculation/ spoilers for plot character)

My current theory is that the father will have gone missing and searching for him will be a major part of the initial thrust of the plot.

in dai you could choose how you felt about your family.

@Hanako Ikezawa

I have to point out that so far, the other sibling playing an active part in the game is still pure speculation. What has been confirmed is that they will be somewhere in the cluster, doing their thing. We don't know yet the extent of interaction the two protagonists may have. For all we know, it might only be a mail here and there, the way Shepard's mother contacted him/her if you chose spacer as background. If that is the case, your interpretation of their respective personalities wouldn't be influenced by a canon. If they are more actively involved in the game, then yes, I would expect they will have a sort of canon personality, which we may or may not be able to influence. I'm okay with either scenarii, I do understand it won't be to everyone's taste though -shrugs-

Oh, and I wasn't suggesting options should be locked based on sex, but based on two different personalities, that happen to be of different gender. It's not like I have canon first names for them, So MRyder and FRyder it is for the time being. Or BroRyder and SisRyder (but somehow that sounds worse...). For me it's not different than having dialogue options locked away if you didn't chose another race than human, or chose another class than mage in DAs.

You not liking the Witcher franchise has mo bearing on the fact the gamer's decisions weren't influenced by his canon (not that I have read the books, I wouldn't know what the canon is). You can choose to be a merciless killer towards various sentient beasts, or you can choose to spare them. You can go all over-protective papa-bear on Ciri, or let her make her own decisions and support her. There are a lot things I don't like in the Witcher 3, most notably it's combat that I find rather boring and casualized, or the fact it's an open world, but I can't fault the dialogues options offered. I used Geralt only to show a case where freedom of choices was still preserved despite the character having a personality that is way more canon than anything Shepard was and Ryders bro and sis will most likely ever be. Take that as you will, reassuring you is not my responsability after all.

Those two examples aren't really good examples considering you could protest Cerberus in both ME 2 and ME 3 and protest 'joining' them to the point where you can make clear in no uncertain terms that you are just using them for their resources. And the Hawke scenario does not really work either consideing Hawke was no longer our character. Which just goes to the point of what is, one possible, scenario for ME A. Like Fade pointed out, whatever these characters do outside of our control is effectively their choice, we can only have control of them when we are playing as them.

It may be speculation, but it is also logical deduction. It is only logical our sibling is going to play a big role in this game, since if they were just going to send us mail or do what Hannah Shepard did there is no point in making the sex we don't choose to play as becoming our sibling.

Having personalities locked to a gender is exactly what I am afraid of. That means if you want to play that personality, you would be forced to play a certain sex. Say the male Ryder is more a Renegade and the female Ryder more a Paragon. So if a player wants to have a more Paragon personality, they are forced to play as a female. 
I understand options being locked if you aren't a certain class, like how if you were an Engineer you could do a special interrupt in the Omega DLC, but things should not be locked out for a player because of what sex the protagonist is. 

My post wasn't really about how much of a preset personality vs. blank slate a protagonist is, it was specifically about that personality changing depending on which gender you choose to play as. I, like Hanako, think that's a crime against roleplaying. No matter how much preset personality Ryder has, that shouldn't be different depending on which gender you choose any more than which class or which hair colour.

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Here's the thing, though: Certain dialogues being available to different races in DA isn't actually because of the race itself, it's because of the background that comes with the race. Knowledge that background would have that others would not. Same with a mage/non-mage. You lived a different life. But neither of these are comparable to gender, because gender shouldn't change your background in an RPG, in my opinion.

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"What if the central conflict in Andromeda, the big choice, the driving point between the plot is the Protag Ryder having to chose between their father's point of view on how to deal with the alien populations, and their other siblings?"

Hm... "... deal with alien populations..."

According to Flynn, humanity fled the MW to make a new home in Andromeda.  The mission (ARKs) is stacked with the
necessities for colonisation and not for conquest.  N7 is a trail blazer with a fixed number of  non replaceable assets, at his disposal.

The Pathfinder's training is to find, colonise, defend and supports their growth.  To that end, Ryder must make both strategic
and tactical decisions to support that mission objective. The latter become crucial, when met by warring space-faring races,
the Khet and pirates. N7 is in no position to go all Conquistadores. Besides, how do you deal with alien populations? Planetary
bombardment?... 'cause you certainly don't have the manpower or the infrastructure to support this path.