Fifty Feels to N7 Day

Ashley and Tali - they were getting drunk
Liara - busy taking armor from dead bodies
Garrus - he was calibrating
Kaidan - his implant was giving him headaches
edibot - trying to think of a joke
James - getting another tattoo
Javik - he doesn't care about the primitives

On the old BSN, I mostly stuck to the MP thread, so I was never really aware that many folks picked favorite squadmates to play almost exclusively throughout the game(s) (except for loyalty missions or where a character was mandatory). I just sort of assumed people played all the squadmates (of course, I should know what happens when "we" assume). Similarly, I assumed most folks played both male and female Shepards, maybe equally or close to it.

This has been quite a learning experience for me. And explains to a degree, why I so often go, "huh?", when reading about the experiences of others and their take on the game or their hopes for Andromeda. To include the idea that Shepard (and soon Ryder) is the avatar of the player. I think I am very much an outlier, from what I've read here.

Shepard, the Inquisitor and in the future ... Ryder ... is just the protagonist in the video game I'm playing, not me, not an avatar of me. Maybe I've played too much MP ... always playing different characters, different builds, different weapons ... I don't associate myself with any single character ... even if some are characters I really like and prefer over others.

When I say outlier, don't want to imply that my approach is unique ... but it is a lot less prevalent than I assumed. I suppose in one way, this would be expected, I've played the ME trilogy a lot and ME3MP a huge amount. Most folks only do a few runs, so exploring many of the options was not ... an option. I did a much more limited set of runs in the DA trilogy, never got into DAMP, managed to cover a lot of options in SP ... but nowhere near what I did in ME.