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theladypirate said: So basically your Elizabeth Shepard is a good person, but she’s got a very rigid notion of justice, which can be at odds with the often more grey-ish reality of the galaxy at large.

Yep! That’s a great way of putting it (i suck at being concise). However, she tends to follow her own moral code as opposed to laws, I guess? Whereas Natalie Shepard is very lawful good, Elizabeth... isn’t. She more... morally good, I guess. 

Like, Dr Saleon? Back in the first game? Natalie made to arrest him, because that was both the lawful and the right thing to do. Elizabeth believes he deserves to die, and has no qualms about making that happen. So it’s still... the... right thing to do, but it’s not necessarily the lawful thing to do. Plus she can get quite overemotional and involved in the plight of innocents, so she has the makings of someone sliding down the slippery slope. She never really makes it that far, though? She’s... very internally strong. She’s very passionate about saving people, and she’s not absolutely blind to the complexities of justice. A great deal of it comes from fear, as well. She saw what she could be on Torfan, and it terrified her. She never ventures too far down that path- she’s suffered for it, and made others suffer when she refuses to get off her high moral horse, but she’s too scared of what she might become if she doesn’t hold herself to very high moral standards.

She does struggle to see the shades of grey in between the black/white morality, though. That’s definitely true, and it does cause conflict both inwards and outwards.