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singularityderp2012-04-19 08:07 pm
circuitry) wrote in singularityderp2012-04-19 08:07 pm
GREETINGS, BROGRAMS
1. Comment in the post listing your characters.
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Alternatively, someone can ask you a specific question about the headcanon you have for a certain character. This gives you the option to answer questions pertaining to certain subjects, or think about a question you hadn't considered/answered with your headcanon yet.
There's no limit to the topics or the amount of times someone can ask about a character. It can be huge things like how their life was before their canon, or something smaller like their first time making sweet sweet... um, baked goods for the family. As long as you think it's something that is accurate to your character but it isn't in their canon.
Impossible n'est pas français.
TL;DR WARNING.
THE BLUE PILL:
Control isn't an acceptable choice. So far no one could really be certain that they could overpower the will of the Reapers. Saren had tried it. The Illusive man had failed. Shepard believed she could, mostly because failure wasn't an option, but there was still a chance that she could fail. Beyond that, setting up the cycle for a new phase, taking the word of some alien kid or hallucination that the Reapers would just...leave after she sticks her hands into some generator?
The amount of blood she'd have to lose for that to start making sense would leave her in the negative range.
THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER:
While Shepard isn't particularly invested in the concept of species or cultural diversity, or even race, she is very invested in the idea of individuality. She was a kid who refused to be told what to do, a person who deliberately chose every action they took in life and understood that those actions had consequences. She didn't hold with people telling her the way things had to be, and parsed knowledge and intelligence for herself.
Because of all these things factors (and a few others), she is supremely athiestic.
She's not taking it on the word of some little child creature, a completely unreliable source of information, that if she hurls herself into this beam of light everyone will become some supreme and ultimate evolution of life. The reapers won't have a purpose because there will be harmony?
Bullshit.
I don't think she's ever subscribed to life being on some divine order, or fate being some fantastical element behind the scenes. Because of that, I can't see her accepting that life had an ultimate evolution or that this little fucking kid would be so goddam all-knowing that he had forseen/calculated/determined what it inevitably had to be.
Whatever the ultimate, endgame, evolution of life was going to be, if there was one, it sure as shit wasn't going to be anything this little pissant kid could explain to her in thirty seconds.
(Shepard's really an optimist at her core.)
RED ENDING GOES HERE:
Ultimately, what it comes down to, is this: Jane Shepard doesn't deal in maybe.
The control option might work, might humanely spare all the races of the galaxy and give them the time and the freedom to progress, to reach a point where they could defend against the Reapers...but it might not. She might just be hooking herself to a battery. She might just burn up and leave everyone to die. If they did retreat, no one would know why or how. No one would know when they were coming back. That is not an end. Everyone who had died to get here, Anderson, everyone still dying? They didn't do it so that they could buy time before the next invasion.
They did it so this would be over.
Synthesis was a better choice, but based on intel so flawed and incomplete she might as well have dreamed it up for all it was worth. She didn't live her life, come to this point, just so she could tell other people what they could and could not do, what they would and would not be. She was a commander, but that was means to an end and this? Not an end. Just another stall, assuming it was true.
The only option that would work, whether the kid was lying or not, was the third.
She was standing in the central reactor on the citadel, heart of the Mass Relay network. The vast majority of Reaper dreadnoughts were gathered around Earth, fighting in the SOL system. The Crucible could have amounted to little more than a Prothean hood ornament, at this point. If the kid was telling the truth, then Legion's sacrifice was for nothing and EDI was going to die, to really understand what death was. She would be betraying everything she'd ever promised them. Shepard loved them as crew, but she never assumed anyone told her the truth.
If she shot at that juncture and set off the reactor core of the citadel? Earth was toast, the SOL system would go the way of Bahak, and all her crew and aid would be dead, but so would the Reapers.
It was the only way to be sure.
Everyone who had come to this point with her knew that they were probably going to die, they had come anyway, they were all ready for it. Many of them had already died so they could get here, to this moment.
This was a command decision.
If there was one thing she could make, it was command decisions.
SO. Seriously, TL;DR: RED ENDING.