Character trinket things bc that’s something I actually put a bunch of thought into at one point:
Ren Shepard has her mother’s wedding ring (a family heirloom, worn by her grandmother first) and a little amulet of St Michael given to her by her aunt Nela; she carries both on the same chain her dogtags are on.
Anna tends more to tattoos than to physical trinket type things (she’s covered in ink, all carefully placed to not be visible when she’s in uniform because Admiral Shepard’s kid can’t be looking like some sloppy non-comm, oh no), mostly because she’s learned to travel light; her exception is one set of her late father’s dogtags, which she wears next to her own.
- Ben’s little thing is the key to the motorcycle with an actual antique combustion engine he had back on Earth, pulled from a scrapyard; he doesn’t really need the reminder of where he grew up, but if he ever forgets, it’s there.
Blair, on the other hand, does not buy into your sentimental shit, because it’s just *stuff*, who cares. People kill each other over stuff and it’s stupid.
- Ada has her mother’s little fleur-de-lis pendant, which she tends to use as an anchor of sorts (or, at worst, a reminder of how heartbroken her mother would be at what she’s become).
- Jane has lived out of a shoebox as long as she can remember, and doesn’t tend to accumulate stuff, but wears a ring her folks got her when she finished Basic; it’s nothing fancy, plain little titanium band, but it suits her.
- Cari doesn’t tend to take sentimental stuff with her on rotation, but the exception is this smooth little rock she picked out of a river bed as a kid; it’s in her pocket and it’s the perfect size for her to fidget with when the situation allows.
- Petra has a rock, too, but hers is one she found along the seawall in Vancouver just before she shipped out to Basic (and she wouldn’t be back to Vancouver for years). It’s not a fidget for her, but she carries it around as a “that’s where you came from, and you’re not going back.”
- Payette (Ryder) never really had a token type of thing, but after (spoiler) happens, she finds herself carrying her father’s wedding ring in her pocket. She’s not going to wear his armor (oh my god no), but she can’t make herself put his ring aside.
When she needs to be, Payette can be very serious, like an actual adult.(negotiating first contact with an alien species?)
If it doesn’t need to be on, she’s an irreverent goof, a bit of a smartass--who has to try it at least once.
Things she’s done inc
- Getting pulled over clocked @ 120km/hr+ by Citadel traffic control--in her dad’s car.
- I’m pretty sure the twins at least tried to go swimming in the Presidium lake, at least once.
- Training platoon shenanigans, entirely too many to name. (As she puts it to her brother “we had fun and look at the guns I got out of it!”)
- (Jokingly) showing up to take her brother’s date to prom a bit ahead of him; she got into the ‘meeting the parents’ bit before Scott showed up (and proceeded to photobomb half the photos anyway).
- In revenge for something Scott did to her, she snuck up on him and a girlfriend making out in a car, tapped on the window, and said “what are you doing with my brother?”
- Also, she’s totally been known to go sock-sliding around the Tempest.
Mildly early-mid (ish) game spoilers for ME:A heads up, folks.
There are so many times that Paye finds herself thinking Dad would’ve had a better plan or Scott could have done that without offending anyone.
Her best efforts always seem to fall short of what her father or her twin could have done, and she feels trapped by the position she didn’t want to begin with.
Just when she thinks she’s got her feet, someone asks for her father, throwing it off-balance again. She’ll never measure up to what they were expecting--they thought they were getting Alec Ryder, certified badass, not his kid--and it feels crushing, sometimes--makes her chest feel like it did when she couldn’t breathe on Habitat 7.
Bits of a thing that may turn into a ‘snapshots’ style of thing, provided I can convince my brain to cooperate (ME:A)
tiny, not plot spoilers, entirely relates to Ryder fam.
Even though they’re twins, the kids couldn’t be more different. If they didn’t look alike, he’d wonder if they were even related.
Scott is his mother’s son; patient, good-natured, but always drawn back to logic and reason and science--it’s how he makes the world make sense.
Payette is a mystery to him. Distant one moment, affectionate the next, she doesn’t seem to see the world through the same lens her brother does. She’s not easy to reason with, seems to be driven by emotion--with a compassionate heart.
When Alec tells Ellen this, she laughs at him.
“She’s you,” Ellen says, when she’s stopped laughing. “She’s you, Alec. She’s got her own take on it, but oh god, she’s you. Maybe a little less closed off, but she’s all you.”
Can’t always wear Initiative whites and blues, Whats their dress style like? Do they prefer casual wear, or being in armor? Is it the same as it was in the Milky Way? How, if applicable, has it changed since arriving in Helius?
Armor hardsuits are kinda awkward and they eventually start to smell and have you ever worn one for any length of time on a planet where the sun would kill you? Ew. Casuals it is.
She tends towards darker neutrals, deeper blues than the Initiative blue, dark greens or teals. The clothes she wears haven’t changed a lot; the only thing that’s drastically changed is that nail polish is scarce as hell, so she goes without. Back in the Milky Way, she’d be wearing a glittery blue or green, for sure.
Payette “Paye” “I Didn’t Sign Up For Any Of This What The Fuck” Ryder, everyone.
Her face is a *insert ‘you tried’ star here*, but she looks a lot less like a confused chipmunk than my roomie’s does, the tattoo is.. ehhn, her eyes were meant to be brown, and if she wasn’t trapped in a BioWare game, she’d have medium-length-ish 3B curls
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whats the most important event in her life pre-game?
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Graduating Alliance basic training, I think. Her brother was assigned to a different training depot on the other side of the continent, but they finished just a couple weeks apart
