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yeah I'm looking forward to seeing how my hero turn out as well. I can see my fem Ryder getting on well with most of her team though especially as she'll try to use her humour to encourage them to give 100% to their jobs.

no she won't be using swords as she prefers to keep enemies at a distance anyone who tries to get to close will ge ta biotic throw tossed at them or a shockwave.

I'm going to flip a coin on everything. Coin flip to decide on Sara vs Scott, coin flip on base class. I'll dice roll on racial makeup, then I'll coin flip on whether or not I'll go with the default names. Everything else in the game will be chosen based on my mood or me closing my eyes and moving my mouse around like crazy until I stop to see which dialog choice I landed on.

I don't go into these games with a set personality; if a character does something that pisses me off, I'm going to choose the dialog that reflects that. If everyone in the game pisses me off, then all of the dialog will represent that; doubly so if I'm in a bad mood.

My Scott will be the more even tempered of the two, mixing up the Logic/Professional responses as I feel is appropriate. He'll be gay because while I can play as a lesbian, I can't as a straight man, and go for whichever gay or bisexual LI looks like the most fun. I'm thinking he'll be a sniper.

My Sara will be the more impulsive one, using the Heart/Casual responses about equally. She'll probably be straight, but might not be depending on what the LIs are like. Chances are she's going to be my biotic with a focus on crowd control.

By the time I've finished with those playthroughs if I want to play again (I probably will) I'll wing it from there, probably tailoring it to get the most out of a specific storyline, like I did with my Dalish elf who romanced Solas in my latest playthrough of DAI.

Not thought too much about it yet but I've at least gotten to sketching her personality out a bit.

Will somewhat use my Shep as a mold and add/remove traits first before I truly get Ryder to be an unique character. So far it's likely that Ryder will be an independant, sarcastic but moderately caring person. Also a person that tries to deflect a lot. Just not too comfortable with getting super close with people. Fear of losing close people to her and just a bit of distrust should make for an interesting playthrough. Also lets me have so much character development as the game progress

Hmm, it's hard to say seeing as we know very little about the Ryders. I do plan on naming my first character Gareth. Gareth Ryder has a nice ring to it. I heard we can't change our siblings name, if not I would have changed hers to Allison Ryder. As for personality, from the tones we have - heart, head, professional and casual - I'm leaning towards head with occasional casual responses. Head sounds like the scientifc/smart responses and casual sounds like humourous/witty dialogue. Should be a fun combo. Skin-tone will range somewhere from light-brown to dark-brown with hair being black. I'm hoping that the siblings can have different eye colours and whatnot. I want both Bro and Sis to get their eye colours from one of their parents. SisRyder would get DadRyder's eye colour while BroRyder would get MomRyder's eye colour(Of course, I have no idea if there is even a MomRyder). Also plan of giving Gareth a beard, but nothing to fancy, even a soulpatch would do. If there are options for tattoos and/or scars, I would put them too. Would like to give Gareth a cool neck tattoo.

As for romance, we still don't know who's available for who but I'm hoping to romance both a guy and a gal till they eventually confront me about it lol. I usually go for human romances the first time but who knows, maybe the aliens might be more appealing to me this time. As for class, I'm planning on doing an Engineer build. Gotta love those turrets and drones. 

I'd like to make my canon Ryder as different as possibe to my canon Shepard, but I already know that that's only going to work for her looks  I'm pretty sure that personality wise she's going to be very similar to all my canon PCs, because I just can't help it

That means that probably she's going to be mostly nice with her squadmates (I have to find one truly despicable not to do so) and will try to help them but interfering the least possible with their decisions (again,unless one is trying to do something really evil or that would affect somene else that I like), she will use most of the humorous lines avalaible and will probably try to have around as much as posible the most funny squadmates, and she's going to act more on principle than thinking about consequences, having no trouble at all ignoring the norms if needed. I also tend to turn my PCs into science/magic nerds whenever I'm given the chance. For her class I'm thinking going with infiltator this time for the first pt instead of soldier, and for her looks I'm thinking redhead with very pale skin and dark eyes

I'll use the default character, except for a personal touch somewhere. If it's an option in the character creator it's something I generally go for.

The names will be Mark and Mary (because they are more likely to be prerecorded and used in the game than my first choice of Valen and Valyn), and a Eurasian look. I will play with Mark first, and pick the "girlfriend's" class/build, i.e. whatever is easiest to play with, and start on the Easy setting to get used to the game. If there is a build that is easy to play and revolves around Smash, I will do that first, 'cause awesome.

I saw it mentioned iirc in the Twitter compilation that common names will be voiced in addition to Sara and Scott. I am fine with Ryder, tbh, but it will be a boon.