Your Character

My Character:
Name: Sara Ryder
I like the name and really like the idea of her being called by her first name sometimes.

Personality: Is there to get the job done. Can seem very serious but once you get to know her she is playful and has a wicked sense of humor. Extremely loyal to people she considers family (aka friends, crew, and actual family). Always trying to help everyone she comes across. But no matter what do not cross her; you definitely don't want to get on her bad side.

Looks: Depends on content but probably black hair and blue eyes.

Romance: Liam if possible. If not someone who is just as loyal and caring. Has never been in a serious relationship before; to scared of being hurt.

Family: Is close to her brother Scott. They tell each other everything and are very supportive of one another. Was close to her father but is starting to feel resentment over all the pressure he puts on her.

Class/Combat Style: Soldier with a bit of biotic.

As you can tell I haven't thought about this at all... Lol. Some stuff may change as we get new info.

I had no idea. Kind of appropriate for an Inquisitor then. I just picked it as I thought it worked well with the name Travelyan and the person I'm playing and tossing it around in my head. I've been thinking it works well with the name Ryder as well which was why I was considering using it again for my Ryder. Generally I pick my names at random based a little on the kind of person I'm creating. I've not had a Rachel Shepard though but I think I did use the name Sam once on one of my old Shep's which is one of the other names I'm thinking but that was quite some time ago..

Name: Zahn
I haven't decided on the personality yet. I'll come up with it as I go.

One 'problem' I am running into, doing this over in DA too, is that I am planning on likely making Robert a Soldier/ Infiltrator While Cassandra/ Sam/ Rachel is likely going to be a Sentinel/ Infiltrator/ Engineer.

The issue I have noticed I keep on wanting to run my favorite ME classes, Soldier, Infiltrator, Sentinel. I have never played as an Engineer before though.

I'll probably go with default Scott Ryder. Prob go for a soldier/tech build. Always went biotics in the trilogy so gonna mix it up. And personality wise prob diplomatic/paragon first run.

I'll be ManRyder (huhuhuhuhu).

And I'll follow the journey I had my Shepard on. While I viewed Shepard as an increasingly 'ascending' character, opening himself up slowly to new styles and views on things, he still was rather unmovable - no matter the 'class', he was still a soldier at heart to me, even in different flavors of it. NPCs in combat generally followed suit, but I still saw Shepard as a model fitting his setting, and I was ready for a new setting.

Anyway, my Shepard was more progressive than what might be the 'canon marketing' Shepard. I was Vanguard, not Soldier. I would later take on Energy Shield and Barrier and Flare, not other Combat or conventional feeling abilities. I was 'breaking free'. This was also in roleplay conversations - my Shepard knew his role (he wasn't auto-Paragon like previous playthroughs) but he still tried to become more.


Ryder will be that something more. I don't know if it'll be Vanguard exactly, but I'm tempted to keep some of the theme going. But I do know that where Shepard was hesitant, I'm happy to have Ryder be accepting. Where Shepard was cautious, Ryder will be curious. This all seems kinda expected perhaps, but maybe MEA will still let the protagonist continue to be hesitant, cautious, aggressive, etc - just more optionally than before - so I wanted to say this anyway.

I may accept technology more. I didn't feel my Shepard was the engineering sort, but Ryder can go for it! When I saw nanoswarms or whatever, I was not surprised, but I was pleased because that was right up my alley.

If I can 'romance' a 'male' AI, I just might. If I can romance a male alien, I just might. I was stuck with Kaidan or Steve last time, but others would have intrigued me more (for humans, James; for aliens, several).

My first Ryder will be HIGHLY inquisitive. The more I can absorb the story of everything going on, the better. He's trying to figure everything out. For me, its been 4-5 years since ME3 and I have to get this curiosity off my chest.


Despite a lot of this, Ryder will feel connected to the Milky Way. Anything I can say to value it, I will. This is not a mission to escape the past - no - it is a mission to journey with it in my heart, and reconnect to it in time.

Ugh! Carver! Lol. He drove me nuts, no matter what I did he hated it. I always tried to get on his good side but it never worked and I really wanted him to like me. I'm hoping the relationship with your twin in MEA is a lot more positive. I wouldn't mind some drama but in the end I want them to have a lot more of an accepting and friendly relationship. I love the idea of them supporting each other in bad times and questioning them when choices are being made. Overall I think whatever their relationship is like it (hopefully) can't be as bad as Carver could sometimes be.

I feel this way about how people already know what their Ryder is going to look like. I have a hard time envisioning him or her until I see all the options in Character Creation. And sometimes even then I still have a hard time picking what they look like.

I think you will always just be called Ryder unless you use the default names, then sometimes Sara or Scott. So you can use Samantha. At least that's the impression I got.

My female Ryder will be black, short black hair (yup, I dont get all the hype around needing long hair for females) and paragon. She will romance one of the female characters. She will be a mix of Biotics and Soldier (Vanguard).

My male Ryder will be Asian (South Korean look) with brown or dark blonde hair. He will be a renegade. He will romance a female (but not the same as my female Ryder). He will be an Engineer.

I know, I just use those terms to give a reference for how I will go about the personality type for each character.

Snark. As long as I can have all the snark and wit and bad jokes, everything else will fall in place. Looks will be decided on the fly, but I usually play the a red haired, green eyed chick. Name? Not sure at this point. I'm tempted to leave the default so people actually use her first name. It never really bothered me in the trilogy, but if the options there, why not?

Class wise I've always played infiltrator, so I'll likely be something close to that. Maybe a biotic power thrown in because slam was always a fun bonus power. Oh, that headshot didn't drop you. THIS will~ :3