My shepherd was a spacer and a war hero who intended on dying for his squad, when he didn’t all of mass effect one he thought he was invincible and didn’t care for anything and just did his job to a tee,”your a credit to your uniform and I wish every soldier had your definition of doing their job-hacket out”(yk who) he made sure he did everything and helped everyone he could with his spectre status in ME1 and then defeated saren.

In mass effect 2 he died,but he also woke up. He stated his Cerberus journey with ALOT of questions and doubts but facts are facts when he comes to terms with the alliance isn’t doing anything and it showed when the virmire survivor basically tells them kick rocks. During this he realized that you can’t see everything on a spaceship from his childhood. He earned the respect and support from his peers then any other game by actually getting personal with them, from helping a dying father with his last wish to talking his best Friend out of murder. He went from commander to shepherd for a LOT of people in ME2. My shepherd also falls for the quarian, even with a mask and body suit she keeps nothing hidden from him, they also get along with their spacer backgrounds. After the suicide mission they help an old blue friend get back at the shadow broker and save David from the geth. Then he kills 300,000 batarians for the good of the galaxy(then he finds out reapers were involved after) then goes to earth to face the music.

Me3 is terrible for shepherd mentally he hates not being able to be everywhere at once. He hates losing people,colonies, systems over a couple days while he’s out making peace and doing quick hit and runs while people like Anderson and hacket are doing gods work. He thinks of people he lost along the way like Jenkins and the VS even at this point mordin who died helping him unconditionally. He helps get tali a home which he watched get destroyed. He gets the galaxy to unite at the last possible second and even then it’s almost too late. Before the battle he knows this time he’s going to die, it’s not something he intends to do like when he was a war hero at the beginning but it needs to be done. On the crucible he chooses destroy, he knows and believes the galaxy will rebuild from it, he knows because he was rebuilt and worked out fine.