oh that’s my GIRL !!!! i’ve been thinking about her so much lately bc i just finished my me1 playthrough with mshep and i,,,,miss her thanks for askin about her !!!!!!
1. full name: aina mayfair shepard (aina means always in finnish. her great-grandmother was finnish and had taught her mother a few words - it was supposed to be a promise, that her mother would always be there for her, but. well. mayfair is the name of the street she was born on, but she doesn’t know that - she didn’t even know her full name until the day she enlisted)2. best friend: joker, hands the fuck down. it’s - she doesn’t know how they clicked so quickly when they first met, but - threatening joker is her berserk button, probably (it doesn’t help that he’s the only one of her friends that can’t keep himself alive even when he’s safely ensconced in the cockpit - go eat). (garrus is a pretty decent second, though)3. sexuality: bless her heart she is So Straight4. favourite colour: blue ! it reminds her of neon signs and the electronics shops she spent too much time in as a kid5. relationship status: dating garrus lmao6. ideal mate: someone who challenges her, pushes her to be the best she can be but will still hold her when she’s Not Quite There yet. garrus vakarian, probably7. turn-ones: hooooooooooo boy competence is the Biggest One but also !!!! dexterity !!!! Good Hands !!!8. favourite food: actual (not tank-grown) steak, from a real-ass earth cow raised on real-ass earth grass. had it for the first time in her life when anderson took her out to celebrate being accepted to n school and never looked back9. crushes: she contemplates joker for a Good While but like. you can’t really Force these things - at least she can’t - and while joker would be easier, friendlier, he’s. well, he’s not a big spiky turian who always has her back and has really good hands, besides.10. favourite music: actually a big fan of slow jazz 11. biggest fear: being confined to one place forever. it was bad enough when she was under house arrest for six months - she’s ready to get another ship now and get the Hell off earth.12. biggest fantasy: exploration. if the reapers weren’t around and if she was. you know. alive, she would have signed her ass up for the andromeda initiative as soon as she Possibly could. as it stands after the war, she’s got too much tying her to the milky way, now (she could never leave her crew behind, not again, not even if they’re not her crew anymore). but she still dreams of the stars.13. bad habits: idk if this is a Habit per se but she refuses to cut her hair. it’s up in a bun all the time anyways and maybe it gets a bit heavy but it’s like. a Whole Thing with her, being able to grow it out instead of just takin scissors to it and hacking away every few months like she did when she ran with the reds. she also does this thing where somehow every single position she finds herself doing work in is Hell on her shoulders or back or something, but she’s too stubborn to train herself out of it. there’s always medigel, right?14. biggest regret: leading kaidan on while they were chasing saren down. he was always so much more interested - so much more committed than she was, and she just never found the time (or so she tells herself) to sit down and Have A Talk with him. that didn’t end well at a l l15. best kept secrets: she never talks about her family. after the war, Some Events (this is a fic i’m workin on lol) bring much of it to light, but - her mother was a red sand addict and she never knew who her father was.16. last thought: she’s stuck at a desk job on earth right now and she is yearning for the stars. weird, maybe, for a woman who’s been spaced, but she’s wanted them since she saw a starship for the first time on a tiny television screen in a storefront display, and she won’t let them go for anything. 17. worst romantic experience: hOOOOO boy she dated this one boy when she was sixteen and thinking about leaving the reds. he was the most straight laced person she had ever met and thought that she would make him More Adventurous or some shit. she wanted him to make her Normal. it was - bad, and she broke it off after two months.18. biggest insecurity: weird to think about, but her appearance. she’s always put on a bit too much makeup, she thinks, and her eyebrows are a Hot Mess, and she knows that she looks awkward as all get-out in a dress. she’s never really dwelt on it before - never had the luxury, but - sometimes some things bring it out.19. weapon of choice: she likes to stick to basics. a good ol’ predator (modded out the ass, of course) is More than enough for her. (she does have a huge soft spot for the widow, of course, but most of the time she’s too impatient to snipe.)20. role model: david anderson lmao
