Someone Else Might Have Gotten It Wrong

Thank you for everyone's very kind advise! I did decide to change my username from had-to-be-you --> moonraccoons.

Okee thank you, homies! Carry on <3

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rules: go to pinterest and type in the prompts below. whatever image pops up first is your image

Prompts: color, quote, character, hobby, accessories, song lyrics, flower

2, 13 and 15 for Marian.

Wooo! Yes, thank you for allowing me to play along! :)

Question #2: What habit does your OC have that they themselves find annoying?

I feel like Marian chews the inside of her mouth to shreds, which is very annoying, seeing as how she loves spicy food.

She also has not been able to kick her smoking habit. It was something she picked up after Mindoir when she was in the foster system for 2 years before enlisting. She got addicted instantly and, though she can go a long time without smoking (bootcamp/ missions / ect.) she will always find herself picking up a pack when she is on shore leave. She finds it really annoying that she cannot kick the habit.

Question #13: What is the easiest way to make your OC laugh?

Hmm, I think she laughs pretty easily when she is in good company. Always lending a little chuckle to a joke or a bark of laughter to a good story.

But I think the easiest way to make her absolutely belly laugh is rapid-fire witty/ gallos humor. This was something that made her and Joker very fast friends. Joker is also one of the only people who can make her laugh to the brink of tears.

Question #15: For how long can your OC stand in complete silence without breaking it?

If she is on a mission, she is laser-focused and can stand in silence for hours... Other than that, maybe 3 minutes. If she is working on something (a model ship/ cleaning her gun/ ect.) she will definitely start humming to herself without noticing. Subconsciously, silence makes her really uneasy so she will do something to help ease that anxiety.

For the ask game about MJ, I am curious about 1 and 5 :)

Hello!

Omg yes, you can always ask about MJ :) It helps me get to know her better as well haha.

Question #1: How vividly does your OC dream? What do they dream about, or do they even remember their dreams?

Oooh! I feel like Marian would typically have really vivid dreams in the moment, but forget them shortly after she wakes up. I feel like they would mostly be abstract experiences. More like clippings/snippets of consciousness bleeding together into an almost liminal type of dream.

I have a HC that she has always had an issue with recurring dreams (seeing as how she experienced that in ME3). In the past, it would be abstract and cruel interpretations of what happened to her family on Mindoir. Then it was her quad on Akuze. Then it became the vision she had on Eden Prime. Every time she would wake up with little memory of what she had dreamed, but the feeling would loom over her most of the day.

Question #5: What sound does your OC hate the most?

The sound of people smacking their lips when they eat (anyone else with Misophonia out there? lol). I have a HC that she had a little brother on Mindoir, and he would smack his lips just to annoy her. lol

Omg! Thank you for asking :)

I have so many OC's (mostly for D&D) but I think I am going to answer these for my OC Shepard :)

Question #4: What is your OC's ideal way to spend a Friday night, and has that changed over the years?

So, I am going to start with the Pre-Eden Prime mission in ME 1. Marian Shepard's ideal Friday night started with going to the boxing gym or the shooting range. She found out early on that the only way to calm her anxiety was to hone her survival skills ( just a hunch, but probably something to do with watching Mindoir burn around her as a kid). After that, if she ran into some of her Alliance comrades at the gym/ range, she would spend the night out with them. If she was alone, she would probably go out anyway and explore whatever colony/ settlement/ city she was in. Girl doesn't know how to sit still.

During the events of Mass Effect 1-3, she still finds herself honing her survival skills after finishing her reports. Though now she would meet her comrades in the docking bay to spar or talk guns. I feel like as long as she is doing something to occupy her mind, it would be ideal.

After the events of ME, (because she absolutely survives! Because she is Commander Shepard, and of course she does! ) ... the girl still cannot sit still, though she has slowed down a lot ... mostly due to the missing leg. But! She would spend her Friday nights with Garrus. Maybe they would go out, maybe they would stay in and go over her latest N7 training plan/ his latest reports on how to rebuild Palavan.

Question #10: Does your OC care about their appearance? Does this align with how much effort they put into how they look?

I feel like Marian does care about her appearance, but more so for how it is a byproduct of her hard work and physical skills. She really values her muscular/athletic build because it gives her comfort knowing she is physically strong enough to handle dangerous situations. She also just thinks having big muscles is hot, so I think she does put effort into her appearance for that reason as well lol.

I don't think she wears makeup much in her day-to-day (mostly because she doesn't have much practice in that department, except when she smudged her mom's black eyeliner on during that one phase she had as a young teen). I do have a HC that Kasumi teaches her how to apply makeup during ME 2, and she starts to use it a bit more afterwards.