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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 "refusal" (where you decide to shoot the catalyst), so I'll also be doing that one.
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Shepard Series
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gigi-fenixphoenix.deviantart.c… Commander Shepard -- Doubt
fav.me/d5hsspg Commander Shepard -- Resolution
gigi-fenixphoenix.deviantart.c… Commander Shepard --Synthesis
gigi-fenixphoenix.deviantart.c… Commander Shepard --Destroy
Commander Shepard --Control
Commander Shepard --Peace
fav.me/d5bu4m8 Commander Shepard --Regrets
gigi-fenixphoenix.deviantart.c… Commander Shepard -- Refusal
BONUS:
gigi-fenixphoenix.deviantart.c… Wallpaper
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The Shepard Files
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*the first link would be the fanfic, the second the image that goes with it
[ONE] Colonist fav.me/d5ekxy7 gigi-fenixphoenix.deviantart.c…
[TWO] Colonist/Sole Survivor gigi-fenixphoenix.deviantart.c… gigi-fenixphoenix.deviantart.c…
[THREE] Spacer
[FOUR] Spacer/Ruthless
[FIVE] Earthborn
[SIX] Earthborn/War Hero
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That's an interesting take on it. I also like your example very much. Yet, I can't help but wonder. I think if your Shep was paragon and you chose control, then maybe you can be right (since she talks about protecting). However, if you get the renegade speech, she seems to become aggressive (talking about fighting and subduing more than protecting).
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To me, the only real difference between them is how your Shepard plans to keep galaxy spinning in the right direction. I like to call it the 'Garrus Dilemma', because comparing Control-Paragon and Control-Renegade it's like comparing how C-Sec and the Spectres work. If there was a mixed alignment outcome, Shepard ould probably ask herself 'What would Bailey do in my shoes?'.
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Perhaps, but it's hard to say because remember the starchild said Shepard --as we know her-- would die as well. All that would remain in a shell of her --devoid of emotions but with the memories. Now, I don't know about you, but take emotions out of a memory and it's not the same. Like when you break up with someone. At first it stings and it's painful, but as your emotions give way to indifference, you start seeing the memories more objectively. Who is to say Shepard doesn't remember all the difficulties she had when she was a specter and decides that the species are too corrupted to help or even change.
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Devoid of emotions, yes, but The Shepard's core programming is built on the commander's ethics and the AI formerly at the helm of the reaper fleet turned out to be extremely reluctant to change its ways. Given that the upload of Shepard's mind into the Crucible could be seen a simple software update to overwrite the Catalyst's priorities, if they kept accurate records of the commander's personality, the species of the galaxy are pretty much going to know beforehand if they're heading into a dangerous direction, so whatever The Shepard does to rectify the problem, they very likely had it coming.
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Indeed, so the problem lies with the organics. It is in our genetics to be unable to be at peace. There's no way one species won't try to destroy the Shepard Overlord at some point.
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And don't forget, if Shepard cured the genophage and saved the rachni queen on both Noveria and Utukku, then The Shepard won't even have to intervene directly most of the time, because the krogans won't take kindly to someone trying to kill their national heroine-turned-goddess and the rachni will go postal if their saviour is threatened. In this scenario is very likely that it'll be the salarians on the chopping block, because their leaders are a bunch of egotistical b*****s (Dalatrass Linron, anyone?).
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True. And I agree, it would be the Salarians first (since all of those who knew of Shepard would die faster --with their short life-span and all-- and the rest would only know the overlord Shep), maybe the Turians second. If there had been enough Batarians left, they would be the first (given Shep destroyed their homeworld) but they haven't enough numbers to attack anymore.
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Actually, Shepard destroyed a mass relay and a batarian colony (305000 people) got blown up as collateral damage, the batarian homeworld was the first to fall when the Reapers invaded.
The post-Reaper War turians are a wild card: they were able to take Palaven back because of Shepard's work on Tuchanka, but some could end up hating all AIs because of the reapers' actions and become a problem for the reunited quarians and geth. And you can be sure that if that happens, The Shepard is going to be one pissed off Catalyst.
On another note, what would you think of a Mass Effect/Overlord crossover?
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You mean if there was a series that followed after the control ending?
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'Overlord' is a fantasy game series with an 'evil' overlord as a protagonist and an army of four kinds of minions at his beck and call to achieve world domination with. Dropping magic from the story, the concept could easily be adapted in a sci-fi environment, with Shepard as the overlord, genetically altered versions of the Mass Effect aliens as minions and Omega as their mobile headquarters.
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Is this a board game? I've never heard of it before, but by what I gather, it might indeed worked with Shepard. Maybe the minions could be previously defeated foes even: Illusive (human), Saren (Turian), Morinth (Asari) and can't think of the fourth. Maybe Grunt's "maker"?
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No, they're two pc-games. In them each kind of minion was color coded and had different abilities, here's the list:
Browns - the Overlord's melee fighters, they're the toughest of their species. In the Mass Effect version they're krogan-turian hybrids;
Reds - the Overlord's ranged fighters, they're physically the frailest of the bunch, but they are immune to fire and launch fireballs from their hands. In the Mass Effect version they're mutated salarians with goat hooves, horns and laser weapons implanted in their arms firing from the center of their hand palms;
Greens - the Overlord's assassins, they're the smelliest of them all, immune to poisons, able to turn invisible by standing still and capable of dealing massive damage if they strike from behind. In the Mass Effect version they're drell-turian hybrids with integrated tactical cloaking;
Blues - the Overlord's healers, they're the only ones capable of swimming, healing their comrades an bring them back from the dead, but they can't fight worth a damn. In the Mass Effect version they're mutated asari with webbed hands, feet and head tentacles, enhanced biotic powers, and the ability both to perform the ardat-yakshi killer meld and to secrete universal medigel from their hands;
I have uses for the other races but these are the original four.
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That sounds interesting. I've never heard of it before. But I think you've made a good job of integrating that game with the ME universe
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Best of all, I figured out how to have Omega zip around the galaxy without needing an obscene amount of eezo: the Higgs compensator. It's a machine that completely counteracts the Higgs boson (subatomic particle that gives mass to the matter) by producing an antiboson-laden force field around the station, meaning that, as far as the universe is concerned, the space station is going to register as totally void space and as such it will not only be able to travel at near infinite speed without relying on mass relays, but also be completely invisible and intangible as long as the field is active.
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I'm Destroy all the way, but this piece is making me doubt that choice.
;_;
..really great job
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If you think this is conflicting, think about Synthesis. The wars between organics and synthetics ended forever Also,the collective species of the Reaper fleet choosing to help rebuild. The first choice they make after being freed from the catalyst would be to create and nurture the galaxy.
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it might be more conflicting, but I like to think of things from a somewhat Indoctrination Theory point of view - and Synthesis is exactly what the Reapers want/have been doing every cycle. The Catalyst is the entire reaper intelligence and it favours Synthesis and even quotes Sovereign and Harbinger with the whole "synthesis is the final evolution" etc etc. Feels wrong to choose it :/
for me, at least.
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Eh, well considering how they tried it before, some glowing blue fusion seems tolerable for the kind of future it offers.
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fair enough
I'm so conflicted.
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Thank you very much! My first choice was destroy as well, wherein Shep survives. I guess all the choices have their good points and their bad. I fear that with this choice the cycle may just keep on going. That at some point the new Shepard will become as logical as the starchild and, absent emotion, she'll wipe out the advance species again.
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I agree, especially since her lines in that ending hint toward wiping out anything that challenges her/the universe/etc.
siiigh I've spent too much time thinking about this game ^^
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Especially if your Shepard was renegade. If you're paragon the lines shift from active-agressive to passive-agressive; from attack into protect.
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As much as I hate the control ending, this is fantastic! It fits very well. Bravo!
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Thank you! And yeah, Control is a rather creepy ending and I kind of wanted to show Shepard looking a little evil.
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Very welcome!
Well you succeeded quite brilliantly
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Wow another - and this is truly beautiful. Really good piece and I like the words too. Same request! Oh and sorry I forgot to drop you a link last time: [link]
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Thank you! I'm glad you liked it! Now only two more to go from this series!
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I saw a comment that jokes about the control ending,
"Assume control, through the reapers to the sun, win."
Here is what I think,
Control ending, Shepard orders reapers to rebuild him/her like in mass effect 2 beginning, then throw the reapers to the sun, and a nice happy ending with a living shepard.
Wow, this reminds me alot like Jesus.
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Lol, that's a nice idea. Someone should write a fic about it, lol. Except that I think the little guy tells you that you have Shepard's memories, but you are no longer Shepard (I guess maybe you lack feelings?). Which is why control Shepard refers to human shepard as: the woman/man I once was.
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Remember Mass Effect 2 when Shepard crash landed into the planet? Cerberus had been rebuilding him/her for 2 years. What I am saying is the same process, only the reapers are rebuilding him/her.
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That's true! Though they could also twist the game like the resident evil movies and say Cerberus had some spare Shepards lying around, lol.
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But then they would not make sense.
because in Mass effect 2, there is a chance your Shepard may die at the end, and then the saved data would transfer over to ME3. If Shepard died in ME2, you could create an entirely different character in replacement to Shepard.
Also, there is a spare Shepard, then Cerberus have cloned Shepard, when in actuality, they rebuild/healed him.
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Well, but that's the debatable thing. You learn in ME3 that Shepard was brain dead. In all actuality, they might have created a Shepard from scratch. Or they might have use a tiny bit of DNA to reconstruct her, which would mean that they might be able to construct more.
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Then that's cloning.
*insert Imperial March music*
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You've got to admit it would be awesome. I'm still wishing the next protagonist in the Mass Effect Games ends up fighting God Shepard.
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We shall see, youngling.... We shall we...
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Thank you 
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I chose the control option because I trust my paragon shepard. To give her credit, her paragon values would be considered as her future 'programming', to make sure all life exists in harmony, as she has always wanted. And at least she gets to watch her friends and protect them, and all others to come. People have complained enough about the original endings, I think Bioware has done quite well, all things considered. The speech at this ending made me tear up and think: 'Good for you Shepard, Good for you'
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Don't get me wrong, I love both speeches (the paragon and the renegade version). However, I think that the speech that made me tear up a little was actually Edi's speech in Synthesis. Regardless, I agree with you. Bioware did good. It's not perfect for everyone, but the things is... even if this is a game, they might be trying to portray a little of reality. There can never be a perfect ending.
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Now, we just need to see Reaper!Shep vs the Leviathans.... ooh, boy. If the Reaper!Shep is truly based off the original like they claim. I can imagine that no matter the alignment, Reaper!Shep would want revenge for the whole cycle business.
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That would be a game I would play!
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Control is such a vicious circle indeed. Well, the Paragon version is much less ominous, but what Paragon would choose this solution after everything the Illusive Man has done? Huh.
Anyway, amazing art 
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Thanks! 
Anyways, I hope you like the rest of the series
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Hell yeah, I do! Your interpretation of the endings is great and well-thought. I think all the endings are interesting in their own way and can give room for some good discussion, so it gets me tired to see people only arguing about which one is better. Watching your Shepard series is quite refreshing, then
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OMG, agreed 100% with you on that one. Some of the comments I've gotten have been people unhappy with an ending. It's fine and all, but it gets tiring if all they want to do is vent. I'm open for discussion, so long as you want to listen/read input that differs from yours. This is precisely why I wanted to show all endings and give my personal opinion on each (their good things and bad things). Glad you appreciate it
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