felt the need to introduce my little guys here 🫶 soooooo we got:
duke shepard (paragade. renegon. guy who's got ptsd but trying despite. earth-born + sole survivor. played him very much as a hardass with a warm center for specifically his team) who romanced a different character each game and did the synthesis ending even though i wanted to do control so badly. kaidan was always endgame and i could never get good screenshots of him because the lighting in this fucking game kills me. included my favorite citadel dlc quote
lark shepard (my immediate replaying of me1 once i finished me3... shes leaning much more paragon but still relatively renegade also. playing her more as a "by the book" kind of leader but she's also occasionally Scary<3 shes still in me1... garrus is endgame because i romanced liara/tali/kaidan with duke. shes a spacer + war hero.)
and then my ryder :) still just scott because i love when characters call your PC by their first name. look at him. he looks like a scott. frat boy with fuckass facial hair. im sooo attached to him unfortunately. guy in a tanktop + headphones and joggers that are hot pink. he looks like he just got back from the gym in most cutscenes where hes not wearing armor. i play him like he didnt take this stuff as seriously as his sister because he always figured she was the obvious choice for any leadership role and their rivalry was mostly just for fun. hes casual/impulsive/emotional. he kinda sucks. he cares a lot but hes also a little careless. hes trying to be a good leader by what he thinks his family would want him to be. literal wakeup call and all that