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CONTACT/TEAM PREFERENCES

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THE APP

Character Name: self-explanatory
Canon: If the canon has multiple versions, please be specific.
Reference Link: A wiki link is preferable, but anything that has a summary of the canon works. If there is no picture on your link, please provide a reference picture as well. If there is really nothing to link, write a short (no more than 200 words) description of the canon and character appearance.

Character History: A brief summary of your character's background. Only the highlights, please! This section should not be more than 300 words long.
Personality: Can be longer than the history, if necessary, but again, please try to be succinct.

Writing Sample: For this section, you have two choices:

1. Fill out an IC survey (copypaste below)
2. Write a first or third person sample on the subject of your choice. (~300-500 words)

C&P

THE SURVEY

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Character Name: (Commander) Jane Shepard
Canon: Mass Effect
Reference Link: Mass Effect Wiki | Picture 1 | Picture 2

Character History: Aged sixteen, Shepard's homeworld was attacked by Batarian slavers. A lot of colonists were enslaved, many more massacred. She was one of a small handful of people who managed to escape from the slaughter, rescued by an Alliance ground-team. Aged eighteen, she enlisted in the Alliance and started her training as an 'Infiltrator', a class of soldier specializing in both tech and combat. Six years later she served on a planet called Elysium during the 'Skyllian Blitz' where she single-handedly defended her squad after a breach in their defenses. For this, she was promoted to Commander and awarded the 'Star of Terra' for her bravery.

Shepard and her crew discovered that a race of giant, sentient machines ('Reapers') were on course to harvest all advanced organic life in the universe in what was known as a 'cycle', an occurrence that happened every 50,000 years. Though Shepard tried her hardest to warn people about the Reapers imminent arrival, very few people believed her. Frustrated by this, Shepard took matters into her own hands and set about delaying and preparing for the attack. She chased down a rogue Spectre who was working with the Reapers and stopped him from taking over the Citadel, she died in an attack by a race of aliens called 'Collectors' and was brought back to life by a pro-human splinter group (considered terrorists by many) and sent to wipe the Collectors out.

Though Shepard tried her best, she and the rest of the galaxy were still ill-prepared for the Reaper's arrival. She fled Earth in the initial attack to try and get help. The other races of the galaxy were uncooperative, preferring to use the time the Reapers were distracted with Earth to prepare themselves. After uniting the galaxy and resolving centuries-old conflicts between certain races, the Normandy (Shepard's ship) returned to Earth backed by thousands of alien ships. On arrival, Shepard was ordered to London to fight with and boost the morale of the ground-troops that had been holding out against the Reapers from the initial attack. In the final charge against the Reapers, Shepard took a direct hit from a laser and was badly injured, temporarily losing consciousness. After coming around, she managed to pull herself up and get to her objective, activating a super-weapon known as 'The Crucible' and destroying the Reapers. The explosion that activated the blast was supposed to kill her, but she somehow managed to survive, seen in a cutscene at the endgame taking a single breath from under the rubble of what is currently assumed to be London. This is where I'm pulling her out.

Personality: Shepard is a very intimidating woman, her manor screams of military discipline. She is in fact someone who is so used to scaring people away because of her status that she's become quite awkward in social situations with 'normal' people, trying her best to fit in as just another marine rather than the legendary Commander Shepard. Those who do approach her will find her to be a quiet but kind person who tends to forge very strong friendships. She's also very protective of those that she cares for, willing to go out on a limb to help them with their troubles and takes any insults or attacks against them personally (unless they're well deserved).

She has always been very objective-oriented and tends to become restless if she has to just sit on her hands. As much as she hates it, after fifteen years of military service she needs to keep busy, to have a goal to work towards. All her time in the Alliance has taught her several things she is grateful for, though. Like how to handle difficult people. She has a silver tongue and, in canon, usually managed to talk people down or shame them into helping her. However, if that doesn't work and it's imperative things go her way, she's a strong woman that isn't afraid or above using intimidation or dishing out a beating.

Shepard does not take failure well and usually shoulders all the blame herself. Towards the end of the series, Shepard is both physically and mentally exhausted and after been beaten by a Cerberus operative called Kai Leng the cracks in her armor started to show through. She suffers nightmares, plagued by the voices of dead friends and the child that she tried to help but died before her eyes when she was escaping Earth. Though she'll be hard pressed to discuss it, she's pining for her crew, desperate to see them again, to make sure they're okay. Her head is full of questions about what happened after she blacked out, questions that will no doubt go unanswered.

Writing Sample:

01. If given a choice, what would you like to be called?
Shepard.

02. Do you require socks to be part of your uniform?
. . . Yes.

03. Not including mandatory periods of silence, what is the longest you have gone without talking?
Never thought about it. I've spent the last fifteen years aboard various ships, surrounded by crew. Can't be more than a few hours.

04. Are you plagued by suspicions that other people, including coworkers and relatives, may be doing things behind your back that will hurt you?
No.

05. Other than a large egret, what wild animal would you like to domesticate?
I have a hamster. That's as wild and exciting as I like for a pet.

06. Are you functionally incapacitated by witnessing other people's misery?
I wouldn't say incapacitated, but I'll step in and help a person if they need me to.

07. What is your favorite flatware for, purely as an example, eating cake?
Odd question. I haven't had cake in years. A fork, probably.

08. Do you trust yourself?
I know what I can do and what my limits are.

09. Please list a crime that only you would know that you have committed.
I once pushed a guy out of a window. I don't know how many storeys high it was, but it was high enough that I didn't hear him hit the pavement. He was an uncooperative merc, so depends on who you ask whether it was a crime or not.

10. If you disappeared tomorrow would anyone miss you?
My crew, I mean. . . friends. My friends would miss me.

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