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Tag: clone shepard
IN CHARACTER
Name: Clone Shepard (doesn't have her own name! game subtitles and battle interfaces call her "Mysterious Figure" or "Clone". she'll go by "Jane Shepard" in character; I'll be referring to her as "the clone" in this app and tend to use "cloney" informally to differentiate her from the real Commander Shepard)
Canon: Mass Effect
Canon Point: Post death, with her mission played after Priority: Rannoch
Age: Chronologically two and a half; physically resembles a thirty-year-old due to accelerated aging; mentally a bratty teen; has been conscious for six months
History: Content warning: Mention of suicide.
Mass Effect Wikia
Mass Effect has player choices. The ones that affect the clone:
The real Commander Shepard is a woman. (The Wikia article refers to the clone as "it" because Shepard can be male or female, and the clone matches. In-game with a female Shepard, the clone is very much referred to as "she".)
Shepard had nine squadmates when the clone attacked. (Breakdown: Wrex survived Virmire and the genophage was cured, Garrus and Tali survived the suicide mission, Javik was defrosted, Ashley survived Virmire and rejoined the Normandy two years later, and Shepard made peace on Rannoch.)
Shepard attempted to save the clone when she was hanging off the Normandy's hangar door.
Personality: Content warning: Mention of suicide.
The clone was made as "spare parts" for the real Commander Shepard, and she knows it. Not only living, but being created in Shepard's shadow has given her a huge inferiority complex, which has not been helped by her co-conspirator Maya Brooks grooming her to replace the real Shepard. Her whole mission in life is to "take everything [Shepard has] and everything [Shepard is]", and given a second chance at life and a world where she is the only Shepard, she'll probably latch onto the role. She referred to the Normandy as her ship before even succeeding at stealing it and lost her temper when someone referred to Shepard, as opposed to acknowledging her as Shepard. With the same combat abilities as Shepard, she demanded to know "what makes [her] so damned special? why you and not me?" while they were both dangling over their deaths.
Her inferiority complex also manifests as her treating the people around her badly, as she has no understanding of the real Shepard's charisma and diplomatic abilities. She regularly threatened her own hired mercenaries, and was ruthless enough to see them as mere cannon fodder, telling them to "slow [Shepard] down" rather than to kill her. That's her allies. As for her enemies, she used Shepard's do-gooder tendencies to her advantage to disarm her by staging a hostage situation with her own partner in crime, and then just for spite, mocked Shepard's catchphrase. She also did the research to make sure she could name all but one member of her squad and have an insult ready for each of them, to the point that she knows about Shepard's first game choice to save Ashley or Kaidan and specifically picks on the survivor's guilt.
Said squad is, in her worldview, "emotional baggage" that holds Shepard back, along with being people who "abandoned their duty to join the cult of Shepard". She believes that Commander Shepard - both the real one, and herself stepping into the role - is supposed to be a "lone wolf"; while having Brooks at her side makes this sound rather hypocritical, it's telling that she used hired mercenaries as opposed to making actual allies or friends beyond Brooks. This could be because she's scared of abandonment: She was so hurt by her creators' intention to dispose of her that she ranted about it to Shepard, and when Brooks deserted her (and right after she witnessed Shepard's friends risk their lives to save her), she spurned Shepard's offer of rescue and committed suicide because she didn't know what to live for. Her self destructive loyalty to Brooks (the only person she'll pause to revive in battle) suggests Brooks was the only person who ever acted like she cared for her, and Shepard's subsequent act of kindness probably confused her.
Xenophobia is a way of life for her, thanks to being raised by a former member of a human supremist terrorist group and having had no to little experience with aliens. She expresses disgust with how Shepard, the first human Spectre, has "saved more alien lives than [she has] human", and for all but one of Shepard's non-human squadmates, the insult she picks is an assumption about their species rather than something about their personal history.
Finally, besides the blatant treason and assassination attempts, she's rather mindful of military regulations. She threw out all of Shepard's personal items from her quarters, with a note specifying that "a warship is no place for" a space hamster, and fired her Communications Specialist for "conduct unbecoming"; in universes where Shepard is in a relationship with said Communications Specialist, the clone fires her for fraternization.
Abilities/Skills:
She's a Sentinel, a class of soldier trained in biotics and technological skills as well as firearms and hand-to-hand. Despite having only had six months' training (partially with neural implants to give her the knowledge directly), she was able to keep up in a fight with Commander Shepard, who is at the highest level of proficiency in the special forces.
Biotics is the ability to create and manipulate mass effect (dark energy) fields; functionally it's telekinesis with an explosive option. She has an electronic brain implant to help her control her biotics and a biotic amp which plugs into this implant at the base of her skull which makes her biotic fields big enough to actually use. Her biotic combat ability is Warp, which creates multiple, rapidly moving mass effect fields to tear something apart. With practice she could use her biotic fields as more traditional telekinesis (player and squadmate character uses include throwing enemies around and pulling glasses of water), but at this point she's not at all trained for it.
She's also trained in combat use of omni-tools, which are basically computers with built in 3D printers, worn on the forearm. One of her omni-tool programs can create Tech Armor to boost her physical armor's kinetic barriers; this can be detonated to create an energy pulse to hurt everyone nearby, but she doesn't appear to like doing this, never canonically using this ability in battle. Her other is Incinerate, which creates and fires an explosive plasma round to set her target on fire.
In battle, she carries a shotgun, but as the default Sentinel weapon set is heavy pistols and submachine guns, I assume she's trained for them too but simply grabbed the first and biggest gun that came to hand. She can also construct and use shrapnel-filled grenades (Frag Grenade).
Strengths/Weaknesses:
Strengths:
Special forces level combat skills (firearms, biotics, technology, hand-to-hand)
Adherence to rules
Willingness to research
Quick to react
Weaknesses:
People skills
Xenophobia
Fear of abandonment
Inferiority complex
Items:
N7 armor and compression suit
Military grade omni-tool - lost in the Ingress on arrival
Biotic implant and amp
Shotgun: M-11 Wraith
SAMPLES
Network Sample: I'm a clone, AMA (I see it as a video thread)
Prose/Action Sample: Test drive meme
Are you 16 or older: Yes
Contact:
Tag: clone shepard
IN CHARACTER
Name: Clone Shepard (doesn't have her own name! game subtitles and battle interfaces call her "Mysterious Figure" or "Clone". she'll go by "Jane Shepard" in character; I'll be referring to her as "the clone" in this app and tend to use "cloney" informally to differentiate her from the real Commander Shepard)
Canon: Mass Effect
Canon Point: Post death, with her mission played after Priority: Rannoch
Age: Chronologically two and a half; physically resembles a thirty-year-old due to accelerated aging; mentally a bratty teen; has been conscious for six months
History: Content warning: Mention of suicide.
Mass Effect Wikia
Mass Effect has player choices. The ones that affect the clone:
Personality: Content warning: Mention of suicide.
The clone was made as "spare parts" for the real Commander Shepard, and she knows it. Not only living, but being created in Shepard's shadow has given her a huge inferiority complex, which has not been helped by her co-conspirator Maya Brooks grooming her to replace the real Shepard. Her whole mission in life is to "take everything [Shepard has] and everything [Shepard is]", and given a second chance at life and a world where she is the only Shepard, she'll probably latch onto the role. She referred to the Normandy as her ship before even succeeding at stealing it and lost her temper when someone referred to Shepard, as opposed to acknowledging her as Shepard. With the same combat abilities as Shepard, she demanded to know "what makes [her] so damned special? why you and not me?" while they were both dangling over their deaths.
Her inferiority complex also manifests as her treating the people around her badly, as she has no understanding of the real Shepard's charisma and diplomatic abilities. She regularly threatened her own hired mercenaries, and was ruthless enough to see them as mere cannon fodder, telling them to "slow [Shepard] down" rather than to kill her. That's her allies. As for her enemies, she used Shepard's do-gooder tendencies to her advantage to disarm her by staging a hostage situation with her own partner in crime, and then just for spite, mocked Shepard's catchphrase. She also did the research to make sure she could name all but one member of her squad and have an insult ready for each of them, to the point that she knows about Shepard's first game choice to save Ashley or Kaidan and specifically picks on the survivor's guilt.
Said squad is, in her worldview, "emotional baggage" that holds Shepard back, along with being people who "abandoned their duty to join the cult of Shepard". She believes that Commander Shepard - both the real one, and herself stepping into the role - is supposed to be a "lone wolf"; while having Brooks at her side makes this sound rather hypocritical, it's telling that she used hired mercenaries as opposed to making actual allies or friends beyond Brooks. This could be because she's scared of abandonment: She was so hurt by her creators' intention to dispose of her that she ranted about it to Shepard, and when Brooks deserted her (and right after she witnessed Shepard's friends risk their lives to save her), she spurned Shepard's offer of rescue and committed suicide because she didn't know what to live for. Her self destructive loyalty to Brooks (the only person she'll pause to revive in battle) suggests Brooks was the only person who ever acted like she cared for her, and Shepard's subsequent act of kindness probably confused her.
Xenophobia is a way of life for her, thanks to being raised by a former member of a human supremist terrorist group and having had no to little experience with aliens. She expresses disgust with how Shepard, the first human Spectre, has "saved more alien lives than [she has] human", and for all but one of Shepard's non-human squadmates, the insult she picks is an assumption about their species rather than something about their personal history.
Finally, besides the blatant treason and assassination attempts, she's rather mindful of military regulations. She threw out all of Shepard's personal items from her quarters, with a note specifying that "a warship is no place for" a space hamster, and fired her Communications Specialist for "conduct unbecoming"; in universes where Shepard is in a relationship with said Communications Specialist, the clone fires her for fraternization.
Abilities/Skills:
She's a Sentinel, a class of soldier trained in biotics and technological skills as well as firearms and hand-to-hand. Despite having only had six months' training (partially with neural implants to give her the knowledge directly), she was able to keep up in a fight with Commander Shepard, who is at the highest level of proficiency in the special forces.
Biotics is the ability to create and manipulate mass effect (dark energy) fields; functionally it's telekinesis with an explosive option. She has an electronic brain implant to help her control her biotics and a biotic amp which plugs into this implant at the base of her skull which makes her biotic fields big enough to actually use. Her biotic combat ability is Warp, which creates multiple, rapidly moving mass effect fields to tear something apart. With practice she could use her biotic fields as more traditional telekinesis (player and squadmate character uses include throwing enemies around and pulling glasses of water), but at this point she's not at all trained for it.
She's also trained in combat use of omni-tools, which are basically computers with built in 3D printers, worn on the forearm. One of her omni-tool programs can create Tech Armor to boost her physical armor's kinetic barriers; this can be detonated to create an energy pulse to hurt everyone nearby, but she doesn't appear to like doing this, never canonically using this ability in battle. Her other is Incinerate, which creates and fires an explosive plasma round to set her target on fire.
In battle, she carries a shotgun, but as the default Sentinel weapon set is heavy pistols and submachine guns, I assume she's trained for them too but simply grabbed the first and biggest gun that came to hand. She can also construct and use shrapnel-filled grenades (Frag Grenade).
Strengths/Weaknesses:
Strengths:
Weaknesses:
Items:
SAMPLES
Network Sample: I'm a clone, AMA (I see it as a video thread)
Prose/Action Sample: Test drive meme