Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* NotMeThisTime: When Bailey sees Shepard and Miranda standing outside the burning wreckage of an opera house, he asks Shepard to be honest about how bad their mission is going to be. Shepard quickly stops him, since he had ''nothing'' to do with this- the opera house was destroyed by competing Asari pianists who got into a fight, while he and Miranda were going to go on a date to see the two Asari perform.
Added DiffLines:
*** During some downtime on the Citadel, Shepard lets one of his friends use his Spectre code to help get supplies moved around, which create antics lifted straight out of the episode "Treachery, Faith, And The Great River," where Nog was the one with the Code.
*** The Salarians show up to the final space battle in a nearly identical way to the Klingons in Operation: Return.
*** The Salarians show up to the final space battle in a nearly identical way to the Klingons in Operation: Return.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
trope merge with Recruiters Always Lie
Deleted line(s) 89 (click to see context) :
* JoinTheArmyTheySaid: Shepard name-checks this trope in his thoughts as he hears Jedore's loudspeaker pep-talk while attempting to recruit Okeer.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 68 (click to see context) from:
%%* DrivesLikeCrazy: Shepard is in complete denial about this.%%About what?
to:
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 3,4 (click to see context) from:
Written by [[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2035529/Random-Equinox Random Equinox]], this fanfiction series is a novelization of the ''Franchise/MassEffect'' series with a spacer/war hero Shepard, with an interesting twist - it is run as a sort of biography [[ATrueStoryInMyUniverse compiled and edited by Anderson and later Liara]] from Shepard's [[AfterActionReport After-Action Reports]] and personnel evaluations. Thing is, this isn't the brazen badass Shepard that most players know. Instead, Shepard's true personality is not unlike that of Literature/CiaphasCain - he just wants to be someplace safe and not in the middle of the fighting, having become the hero of the Skyllian Blitz by accidentally leading a ton of batarians into an allied force that he didn't even know was there.
to:
Written by [[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2035529/Random-Equinox Random Equinox]], this fanfiction series is a novelization of the ''Franchise/MassEffect'' series with a spacer/war hero Shepard, with an interesting twist - -- it is run as a sort of biography [[ATrueStoryInMyUniverse compiled and edited by Anderson and later Liara]] from Shepard's [[AfterActionReport After-Action Reports]] and personnel evaluations. Thing is, this isn't the brazen badass Shepard that most players know. Instead, Shepard's true personality is not unlike that of Literature/CiaphasCain - -- he just wants to be someplace safe and not in the middle of the fighting, having become the hero of the Skyllian Blitz by accidentally leading a ton of batarians into an allied force that he didn't even know was there.
Changed line(s) 56 (click to see context) from:
* CompositeCharacter: Nyreen Kandros from the Omega DLC takes another role in this story - as Garrus's sparring partner from his "reach and flexibility" story.
to:
* CompositeCharacter: Nyreen Kandros from the Omega DLC takes another role in this story - -- as Garrus's sparring partner from his "reach and flexibility" story.
Changed line(s) 66 (click to see context) from:
* DisappearedDad: Apparently, Shepard's dad, Stephen. Nobody knows where he is. [[spoiler: He shows up in a side-story - having gone on a huge adventure of his own through time.]]
to:
* DisappearedDad: Apparently, Shepard's dad, Stephen. Nobody knows where he is. [[spoiler: He shows up in a side-story - -- having gone on a huge adventure of his own through time.]]
Changed line(s) 68 (click to see context) from:
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Shepard is in complete denial about this.
to:
Changed line(s) 72,73 (click to see context) from:
* FootnoteFever: Justified, as the story is apparently compiled from Shepard's after-action reports, and Shepard (as well as Anderson and Liara) help fill in some of the gaps. In addition, the story is based at least partially on the ''Literature/CiaphasCain'' novels, which made extensive use of footnotes as well, and in much the same manner - snarky asides, clarifying certain points, and interjecting personal opinions on the part of the author of the footnotes.
* ForWantOfANail: Despite his lesson about YouCantFightFate, there is one change that [[spoiler: Stephen Shepard enacted during his TimeTravel adventure on the final timeline - convincing Jien Garson that the anonymous benefactor that could help her fund the [[VideoGame/MassEffectAndromeda Andromeda Initiative]] was a fraud, eventually leading to the whole project being scrapped and the resources funneled into the Crucible and the Reaper war effort.]]
* ForWantOfANail: Despite his lesson about YouCantFightFate, there is one change that [[spoiler: Stephen Shepard enacted during his TimeTravel adventure on the final timeline - convincing Jien Garson that the anonymous benefactor that could help her fund the [[VideoGame/MassEffectAndromeda Andromeda Initiative]] was a fraud, eventually leading to the whole project being scrapped and the resources funneled into the Crucible and the Reaper war effort.]]
to:
* FootnoteFever: Justified, as the story is apparently compiled from Shepard's after-action reports, and Shepard (as well as Anderson and Liara) help fill in some of the gaps. In addition, the story is based at least partially on the ''Literature/CiaphasCain'' novels, which made extensive use of footnotes as well, and in much the same manner - -- snarky asides, clarifying certain points, and interjecting personal opinions on the part of the author of the footnotes.
* ForWantOfANail: Despite his lesson about YouCantFightFate, there is one change that [[spoiler: Stephen Shepard enacted during his TimeTravel adventure on the final timeline- -- convincing Jien Garson that the anonymous benefactor that could help her fund the [[VideoGame/MassEffectAndromeda Andromeda Initiative]] was a fraud, eventually leading to the whole project being scrapped and the resources funneled into the Crucible and the Reaper war effort.]]
* ForWantOfANail: Despite his lesson about YouCantFightFate, there is one change that [[spoiler: Stephen Shepard enacted during his TimeTravel adventure on the final timeline
Changed line(s) 94 (click to see context) from:
** Lampshaded again later, when they point out that his kleptomaniac tendencies are improving - he's not doing it ''during combat'' anymore.
to:
** Lampshaded again later, when they point out that his kleptomaniac tendencies are improving - -- he's not doing it ''during combat'' anymore.
Changed line(s) 109 (click to see context) from:
** Shepard and Miranda get in on it too - instead of the canon tryst in the engine room, they do it in the cargo bay.
to:
** Shepard and Miranda get in on it too - -- instead of the canon tryst in the engine room, they do it in the cargo bay.
Changed line(s) 127 (click to see context) from:
* ThePrankster: Shepard is one; ''The Prankster's Hero'' details some of his antics during his time in training, and ''The Hero Who Loved Me'' details how he nailed most of his crew on April Fool's Day. He also took great relish in probing Uranus and trolled Kasumi to a degree by walking back and forth in front of contact advertisement until she got annoyed - just to see what she would do.
to:
* ThePrankster: Shepard is one; ''The Prankster's Hero'' details some of his antics during his time in training, and ''The Hero Who Loved Me'' details how he nailed most of his crew on April Fool's Day. He also took great relish in probing Uranus and trolled Kasumi to a degree by walking back and forth in front of contact advertisement until she got annoyed - -- just to see what she would do.
Changed line(s) 139 (click to see context) from:
** ''The Hero Who Loved Me'' drops another one - Miranda mentions that a [[VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution Dr. Megan Reed]] was pushing heavily to make more of Shepard cybernetic than was necessary.
to:
** ''The Hero Who Loved Me'' drops another one - -- Miranda mentions that a [[VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution Dr. Megan Reed]] was pushing heavily to make more of Shepard cybernetic than was necessary.
Changed line(s) 151 (click to see context) from:
* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: Both Shepard and Miranda's thought processes go through the exact same phrasing in both ''The Hero We Deserve'' and ''[[POVSequel The Hero Who Loved Me]]'' - including the ''exact'' same number of "oh god"s - after their SlapSlapKiss moment mentioned above.
to:
* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: Both Shepard and Miranda's thought processes go through the exact same phrasing in both ''The Hero We Deserve'' and ''[[POVSequel The Hero Who Loved Me]]'' - -- including the ''exact'' same number of "oh god"s - -- after their SlapSlapKiss moment mentioned above.
Changed line(s) 155 (click to see context) from:
** A variation - Change Option A. [[spoiler: With his long-lost father's know-how and some random data packets obtained through his adventures, Shepard manages to enact the Crucible's Destroy option without committing synthetic genocide and minimizing the collateral damage to the mass relays.]]
to:
** A variation - -- Change Option A. [[spoiler: With his long-lost father's know-how and some random data packets obtained through his adventures, Shepard manages to enact the Crucible's Destroy option without committing synthetic genocide and minimizing the collateral damage to the mass relays.]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Deleted line(s) 117 (click to see context) :
* NeverLiveItDown: InUniverse. Shepard ''hates'' statues, and most specifically the one of him they errected on Elyssium. He shows sympathy for anyone else who gets their own statue.
Added DiffLines:
* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: Shepard ''hates'' statues, and most specifically the one of him they errected on Elyssium. He shows sympathy for anyone else who gets their own statue.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* PronounTrouble: When Shepard first activates Legion, he's confused as to how to refer to his new geth crew member. He settles for "they" in his logs in light of the geth's status as a collective entity.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 144 (click to see context) from:
* SlapSlapKiss: Shepard and Miranda's first kiss happens right in the middle of an argument about Miranda being jealous of Shepard.
to:
* SlapSlapKiss: Shepard and Miranda's first kiss happens right in the middle of an argument about Miranda being jealous of Shepard. Shepard deliberately accuses her of being jealous of him to break her out of a mental funk, which works exactly as he hoped it would in ticking her off. Next thing he knows, they're lip-to-lip.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* NothingIsScarier: While aboard the derelict Reaper, Shepard's unsettled nerves makes him imagine just what could be hiding in the shadows, to the point that when the team is attacked by husks, he actually finds it a bit of a relief.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 38 (click to see context) from:
** The sequels do the same. Shepard only goes without his full squad a handful of times, like responding to Ronald Taylor's distress call (minimal expectation of combat), going on Kasumi's Loyalty Mission (need for stealth), and Grunt's Rite (they decided that if too many came along, it would be too easy and defeat the whole purpose). Garrus is given command of the second team after he is recruited.
to:
** The sequels do the same. Shepard only goes without his full squad a handful of times, like responding to Ronald Taylor's distress call (minimal expectation of combat), going on Kasumi's Loyalty Mission (need for stealth), and Grunt's Rite (they decided (the Urdnot Shaman told them that if too many came along, it would be too easy and defeat the whole purpose). Garrus is given command of the second team after he is recruited.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 64 (click to see context) from:
* DeadpanSnarker: Just about ''everyone''. Even ''Legion''. [[WorldOfSnark Being around Shepard brings out everyone's inner snarker]].
to:
* DeadpanSnarker: Just about ''everyone''. Even ''Legion''. [[WorldOfSnark Being around Shepard brings out everyone's inner snarker]]. Anderson suggests as much.
Added DiffLines:
* GroinAttack: Upon seeing Samara for the first time, Shepard notes her deeply plunging neckline, and makes a mental note to not let his eyes wander when talking to her, lest she kill him, or worse, inflict this upon him with her biotic powers.
