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Commander Shepard_Controlby ~Gigi-FenixPhoenix

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Fifth installment in the Commander Shepard series. This is control. I feel that the quote used sums up the ominous tone of Shepard's speech. Shepard has become something akin to a Omnipotent Goddess.

I feel that this ending, however, would become a vicious circle. Stripped of emotions and the chaos of humanity (organics) she might end up picking up where the catalyst left and send the reapers out to harvest one more time. Or worse, she might end up coming up with a worst solution (destruction of the species that wish for too much power, perhaps?).

Then again, things might end up well with Shepard as the Universe' guardian, but I think that eventually the utopia she wishes for will crumble on the wake of organics' ambition.

*After talking with some of you through the comments on the other artworks, I realized that I had forgotten to include an interpretation for the option of "suicide" (where you decide to shoot the catalyst), so I'll also be doing that one.

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[link] Commander Shepard -- Doubt
[link] Commander Shepard -- Resolution
[link] Commander Shepard --Synthesis
[link] Commander Shepard --Destroy
Commander Shepard --Control
Commander Shepard --Peace
[link] Commander Shepard --Regrets
[link] Commander Shepard -- Refusal

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[FOUR] Spacer/Ruthless

[FIVE] Earthborn
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It seems each ending would lead to an unfathomable future for who wants to live forever or who wants to find their lives cut short by design?

~Nanahuatli Feb 25, 2013

I thought that all endings had something positive to them. Control leaves a shadow of doubt, especially if you're Renegade. It just might come crashing down spectacularly, but if it doesn't, then the galaxy will be protected by the might of the Reapers forever. And I think that, since Shepard was so singular, she's the only one capable of controlling the Reapers without becoming corrupted. I still prefer Synthesis, though. I wasn't willing to sacrifice the synthetics that had already suffered so much, or the friends I'd made, or the people who were learning to overcome their differences to stand up for each other in the face of extinction. And Synthesis (to me at least) represented the possibility of transcending the limits of organic and synthetic life to create a better galaxy for everyone, one that would never again need to suffer from a war in such scale. My Shepard found peace in that and could finally rest.

~Gigi-FenixPhoenix Feb 28, 2013

Thank you! I drew the synthesis version thinking pretty much along the same lines you did. Where Shep wasn't willing to sacrifice anymore than she already had. Yet, someone rose a point in the comments that I hadn't consider then. She said that she wouldn't want to chose synthesis just because it made her wonder if the Husks would remember who they were. If that was so, then their existence would be nothing short of nightmarish. Which is true. Even if they don't remember who they were, but become capable of thought, then they might just suffer.

~Nanahuatli Mar 1, 2013

Hm, that's a good point, but for one, I don't think she considered all the details, and for the other, maybe the "transcendence" I imagined helped the husks overcome the suffering of their condition. Or maybe they were 100% Reapers after all, so they'd only lose their thirst for destruction. If they did turn back into their former species, well... sucks to be a Brute, or a Praetorian, or a Cannibal, or a Scion.

~FullmetalHeart20 Feb 22, 2013

I don't think she'll be a problem. Weather it's the original Shepard or not, it's obvious she still feels. She'll be much better than the Catalyst because she was alive.

~Gigi-FenixPhoenix Feb 22, 2013

Perhaps, but looking back at her memories devoid of her actual feelings might corrupt her as well. Just think about it. Do you still feel the pain of heartbreak when you think back on your very first boyfriend? Or is it really a sense of detachment and indifference what comes over you? It might be the same for Shepard, maybe not immediatedly, but a thousand years later. After all, she's immortal.

~FullmetalHeart20 Feb 22, 2013

Well think of it this way. She's not the catalyst. She isn't bound by its programming to prevent AI wars. So basically the only guidance she has is her past experience. And despite what she says in the end, I can't imagine that god mode Shepard wouldn't be the least bit cautious about the Reapers.

~Gigi-FenixPhoenix Feb 24, 2013

Well, the reapers she can control. So the ones that would act unpredictable would be the organics. Those are the ones she would have to keep an eye on. Especially the salarians. Seems to me (due to their short lifespan) that they might be the first to want to overthrow Overlord Shep.

~FullmetalHeart20 Feb 24, 2013

Well that's just it. She was once an organic. I don't think any AI in Mass Effect could say the same. She isn't capable of looking at it through pure logic. She'll know how they'd react to her actions, why they'd react that way, and remember when she did the same.

~Gigi-FenixPhoenix Feb 24, 2013

It would be a question unanswered forever, lol. That's what we get with such a vague ending

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