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A LINE IS A JOURNEY AND LIFE IS WAITING TO BE DRAWN.

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A romantic encounter with Fennorian of House Ravenwatch...

His cries of agony echoed through the halls of the dwemer ruin and in that instant she understood she would sooner give her own life than have to live with knowing they hadn't made it in time...

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Part ONE of Kaidan Alenko - The Extended Cut Now Available! Send a note my way and let me know what you think! Good, Bad, Ugly...doesn’t matter! All feedback is good feedback!

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Shepard and team are on the hunt to safeguard Team Shepard’s Purple Ranger - Tali’Zorah nar Rayya - and bring her safely under the Alliance’s protective umbrella...

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Part 4 of my Kaiden Alenko - The Extended Cut series!

Shepard and the team face down the Saren before the Council and end up forced into a desperate hunt for more evidence to support Garrus Vakarian’s case.

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“Reach for the Stars, in hope for the future, and all that we can be, not just what we are.”

- John Denver, The Eagle and the Hawk

It describes the spirit of Kaidan & Shepard, and Mass Effect as a whole perfectly. 

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To get to where you want to be, you first have to let go of where you are.

R.A. Crandall of Walking Dot Studio

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Part 3 of my companion video series for my Mass Effect Fan Fiction - Kaidan Alenko - The EXTENDED Cut.

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The second in my companion videos for my fan fiction: Kaidan Alenko - The Extended Cut. Pretty soon there should be a hyperlinked MSWord document available on DeviantArt. Fully clickable tables of contents to navigate the story and link to these vids as I turn them out! :) Look for it!

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My first ever edited video, and a tie-in to my fan fiction of the same name. I always thought it was a disservice to the various romances to define them only by their fully-animated cut scenes and interactive conversations. There is so much in-mission and stumbled across on the Citadel that makes them who they are. I’ve tried to fill out the relationship as much as I could. Enjoy!

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The ground where empathy grows best is common.

R.A. Crandall of WalkingDotStudio

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As of today, still unfinished, this is my companion fan piece for Mass Effect's Commander Shepard and Kaidan Alenko.

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I've heard it said, in times of hardship we find strength we don't normally possess. I disagree. Hardship makes what we are into something stronger - or destroys what can't withstand it.

Jenna A. Shepard, Commanding Officer, SSV Normandy SR-2

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I seem to keep finding reasons to add one more piece to my 'Extras' for the Mass Effect series. It could alternatively be titled Kaidan Alenko - The EXTENDED Cut. In light of all the plot holes kicking around the game itself and my serious dislike of the horridly generic and basically non-variable ending - Shepard living or dying aside - after finding this Battlestar Galactica quote lying around the Internet, it just...fit...perfectly.

It is a work in progress - as I haven't finished my first play through yet - but here's a couple links to places you can find my attempts to smooth things over and fill things out over the course of the series.

The guiding principle behind what I write could be described like this: If I didn't have a budget to adhere to, audience expectations to answer to, What Would Shepard Do? ;)

http://walkingdotstudio.deviantart.com

https://www.fanfiction.net/~shametheredrose

Always looking for feedback and criticism, so feel free to drop me a line. 

Fair Warning: I've often wondered why my laptop isn't dripping 100% Pure Olde Fashioned Canadian Maple Syrup while writing.

Cheers!

~R.A. Crandall

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Don't try to look good for everyone. Just look and feel good. The right person will find that attractive.

- Me, Myself & I

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There is a fine line between ingenious creativity and a straitjacket.

Me, Myself & I

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Because they do. It has irked me to no end that most of Renegade Shepard's dialogue has him/her acting like a complete ass. Total jerk. Pretty un-likeable. Being a complete bad ass can be great fun, and if you can do it with wit and humor...so much the better. I hope my epilogue presents a convincing case to back-up the point. If Bioware had made the Renegade options blunt or coarse and full of tongue-in-cheek humor I would have launched myself head first into a second playthrough, but as it stands...I can't do it. I won't choose to be that kind of person.

Hint: If you held this design up to your breast and lined it up right, you'd find yourself with two bullet holes clean through the heart. ;)

Find the Mass Effect Epilogue @ www.walkingdotstudio.deviantart.com.

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Super-massive Mass Effect

 I began playing the Mass Effect games not too long ago and they triggered the formation of a gravitational vortex that has consumed pretty much all free time in its path. One really good thing about starting them now? A Mass Effect Marathon is possible. Can move directly from one game to the next as I finish them.     I heard not too long ago that there were plans in the works for a Mass Effect trilogy of movies. It occurred to me that they would be doing the fanbase a disservice by closing off the possibility that Shepard couldn't be played by a woman. Not that I tend to think of Hollywood as being rife with women who should be playing soldiers in the first place, but, if a woman with the brass and bravado to pull it off auditioned, for crying out loud, give it to her! Make the love interest Kaidan instead of Ash and write a script that could go both ways with some minor changes.      Without question, this generation, and every generation to come needs at least one Linda Hamilton from her Terminator 2 days. That movie, Aliens and a healthy helping of exposure to work by Boris Vallejo irrevocably attached me to the idea that women can and should be as strong or stronger. Actually, in her later years Sigourney Weaver has really started to look tough. Seeing her in Avatar and Paul really highlighted that and I love it. Hollywood! More Like This! Please!     As I started writing this plethora of fan fiction related to Kaidan, more and more I gave in to watching spoiler filled videos from the later games, at least in terms of the relationship, and I really noticed that you don't spend much time smiling around him. The character has great encouragements to offer Shepard, and is a support for him/her in a genuinely bolstering way, but there's no fun in the relationship. It's warm, it's caring and touching, but not fun. In real life, I don't think I could stick with someone I couldn't have a good time with. I hope I never have to live a lifestyle that has me strapped down that tight. Apparently the third installment really starts to grab on to the fun you can have with your crew and I can't wait for it.     Off in another direction...creating all of this stuff for Mass Effect has taken me in a direction I never thought I would go. I've started designing two t-shirts and I hope they come off the way I intended. One will say 'Renegades Have More Fun' and the other will have a silhouette of Female Shepard, Kaidan and Garrus and will read 'Best Friends...Stick with you, even when you've lost your mind, your pants...and your pistol.' I can't wait to put those designs onto shirts. I'm completely jacked to see this through. I just hope I don't run into font copyright or any other copyright issues. That would, um...suck.         Solar wind in your sails!  ~Rachel @ WalkingDotStudio

Head over to www.walkingdotstudio.deviantart.com to read through my take on events after the Mass Effect Trilogy concludes, and a few fun tidbits to add to the games themselves.

Warning: Don't read the bloopers when it's not safe to laugh out loud.