What did you do today in ME?

So yesterday I rescued a primarch, raided a cerberus lab, woke up a prothean, and saved some biotic kids from cerberus.

I shutdown sanctuary, threw a party, and destroyed Cerberus. Tomorrow I am heading back to Earth for one final showdown with the reapers, and then I am thinking of making a female spacer war hero vanguard in ME1. That would be a good change of pace from my male earthborn ruthless soldier that I am in the process of wrapping up.

Ran a few errands on the Citadel

Finished off ME3 with my canon Femshep, was an interesting experience since I never replayed any Shepard so far
So here's the summary. And stuff. And more stuff. Ugh.

Hannah's at a point where she takes every help she can get to make the Crucible happen, to rally support against the Reapers. Even batarians and mercenaries. She knows what's at stake and that this is no time for old grudges.
The first hurdle after gaining the turian support is getting the krogan on board. She thinks about the offer from the salarian dalatress, but she hasn't decided anything when arriving on Tuchanka because Eve showed her a different side of the krogan and she respects her.
But due to Mordin and Hannah previously destroying Maelon's research data, Eve died during the mission. Because of that and in order to also gain salarian support, Hannah pulls out her gun in the heat of the moment, trying to intimidate Mordin into letting it go. When he wouldn't budge, she either had the choice of stopping him or letting him cure the genophage with the dangerous Wreav in charge. Defeated, Hannah shot her old friend in the back, realising she goes to any lengths in order to win this war, doubting herself and her actions, grieving for Mordin back on the Normandy. Funnily enough it is Javik that has the right words for her in this moment and she draws strength from them: she's on a path where morality doesn't matter anymore. She realises the Reapers will demand everything she has to give.
Following Liara's lead to an asari monastery, Hannah stops Samara from shooting herself in order to save what little is left of their family, a topic very dear to her heart.
On Rannoch, she makes peace between the quarians and the geth, trusting Legion enough to give it a try, and gaining another fleet to fight the Reapers.
Towards the end Shepard is tired and exhausted, and she welcomes the shore leave while the Normandy gets ready for the last assault.
At this point she has doubts about herself and if she can do what everyone, including herself, expects her to do.

Her squadmates are what give her strength during these times and she knows she lets all of them very close, some even too close, but she loves having them around. Her friendship with Liara, Garrus and Tali persists and grows deeper, and after breaking up with Kaidan to focus on the mission ahead they are also able to rekindle their friendship and loyalty.
After an initial dislike that EDI took over Dr. Eva's body, Shepard gets used to it and relies on EDI's crucial information, just as before. She doesn't want to judge her and Joker getting closer, so she tries to at least support them.
Javik is the one who surprises her the most, actually mirroring many of her thoughts, and she feels strangely connected to him, her distrust of aliens largely overcome at that point.
Despite liking James from her time in the brig, it created some tension between him and her when he wants to stay on Earth. After a Renegade-y sparring and both getting a bloody nose in the process, she feels like they've cleared the air, and likes that James has a nickname for her. She's intrigued by his flirting and wants to show him she can play this game, too. She supports him going for N7 and notices they share a lot of opinions, growing really close in the process. She eventually traps herself in their flirting game and is hurt when he rejects her while visiting her in the apartment on the Citadel. And despite knowing that James respects regs and his own fraternization rules way too much, Hannah pursues a one-night stand with him at the party to still her loneliness, but also finally admits to herself that she also did it because she had started to fall for him.
However, she also knows she can't allow herself to let those feelings flourish any further and focuses on the mission instead.

Together with James and Javik she fights through London and makes a run for the Citadel beam, until James is badly hurt in the process. All she cares for is getting him out alive, calling in the Normandy for evac, jeopardising the mission once again.
It breaks her heart to see him reaching out to her, but she has to finish this on her own. Managing to get up to the Citadel, Hannah chose to destroy the Reapers and took a breath in the end.

The headcanon part...


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Highlights:
- Running with James and Javik again, I adore these two, so good
- Since I skipped the Omega DLC the first time around with Hannah, it was great to see it play out this time. I used a mix of Paragon and Renegade and Aria had a hard time reading Shepard by the end, it was awesome
- The journey from mistrusting aliens to being friends with Garrus, Tali and others is still so rewarding, it was great to see again. And the bonding with Javik, I loooove it!

Lows:
- Had to do the pull-up challenge again
- No more ME for some time, I'm tackling Witcher 3 finally... let's see what all the fuss is about!

ah yes Thessia....

Let's help evacuate Thessia


Let's checkout Sanctuary




With Sanctuary completed, the Miranda mod kicks in. She will be on the SR2 for the rest of the game, and taken on all remaining missions including dlc's and side missions.

Went through the Omega relay. Miranda said "we'll bang" and Shepard responded "okay?". Normandy crew lost, but all squad loyal and alive, all in short only the warriors (and Joker) made it. Suicide Mission completed. Reaper intelligence given to Illusive Man.

Currently on an Adept run in ME2. I fucked Jack. I always do in every playthrough (but I always romance Miranda though).

I'm in ME2 now. Today I picked up Garrus and Grunt, did some N7 Missions and a lot of planet scanning.

Something I'm sure I've seen before but I forgot was the mercenary you come across in Grunt's recruitment mission.

Since the Shepard I'm playing was totally paragon in ME1 I don't have much in the renegade points at this part of ME2. I've started turning this Shepard a little more renegade since she hates the fact that the council isn't listening to her still. Thanks to Bioware's design of the paragon/renegade system in ME2 I didn't have enough points for the renegade option with the "wounded" mercenary.

So Shepard told him to say nothing. He does call in to his command post and you get a renegade interrupt to shoot him. I did take the renegade interrupt. Usually I have enough points either way and go with the paragon/renegade dialogue options right before this so that was different.

Completed the suicide mission today. I ended up loosing Mordin, Samara and the crew. Loosing Mordin was annoying since I had been using him a lot this playthrough for his tech powers. I kept Shepard's growing renegade streak going and did not give the crew an escort. The mission comes first.

I did destroy the Collector Base though. This Shepard doesn't trust any organization as they've all turned on her. So it didn't make much sense to hand it over to Cerberus.

I then finished up the two loyalty missions for the surviving crew members that I didn't do, Jack and Thane.

For this playthrough I ended up doing Arrival before the suicide mission.

This Shepard is now ready for import into ME3. Shepard still has more paragon points than renegade, but the reneged points really racked up in ME2.