#ingloriousboshtet

Ooh! Haha, haven’t done a lot of thinking about Jenna lately; this is exciting. :D

(In answer to this post, for those wondering.)

Canon: What actually happened.

Jenna took the control ending, merging herself with the Reaper threat in order to command them for all eternity rather than allow them to ravage the universe.

Headcanon: What you think happened, based on the characters, settings, storylines and all reasonable extrapolations thereof.

Jenna left personalized messages for most of the crew, set to be delivered in the event of her vital signs no longer being transmitted from her omnitool to the Normandy.

Heartcanon: What you feel ought to have happened, quite divorced from rationality or sense.

Jenna ought to have had a long happy life “living off the royalties from the vids”; I had several RP AUs in which she lost a leg in the Citadel collapse but was otherwise perfectly healthy and it was very nice, damn it.

Soulcanon: What you know happened, deep down in your soul, regardless of what anyone says. Including the creators of canon, themselves.

Jenna was able to make a certain amount of contact with people outside after merging with the Reapers, via holographic interfaces or the QEC or some similar communication technology -- at least enough to give some closure and let people know what happened and why all the Reapers were suddenly good guys.

Crotchcanon: What your gonads wish had happened, or, alternatively, what turns you on.

Send me a word, any word, and if it’s in my WIP document I’ll answer your ask with the sentence or line it appears in. 

Sooo... are you saying that your bear was bare? ;)

This question made my whole morning. :D Thank you!

Hmm. I'm not sure if you mean a favorite of each or a favorite overall across all the games so I will try to answer both, although it's hard. :P They're all my babies for different reasons; getting inside their head always makes me feel very protective of them after a while.

I'm reminded suddenly of a quote from Ender's Game that sums up my style of angst-ridden meta-gaming pretty well. :P

In the moment when I truly understand [them]... , then in that very moment I also love [them]. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them.... I destroy them.

:P

Anyway... it's an interesting question. [strokes jaw thoughtfully] It's probably no secret to the people who read my live blogs that I have a super big crush on Dom Trevelyan and a lesser one on Matty Shepard. ;) But speaking more objectively in terms of who I think ended up as the most interesting character...

Shepard: Hands down Jenna. She was my first and will always be my canon Shep; she is the one with the most complex outlook and I think probably the most unique and coherent motivations.

Warden: Probably Daniel. While I love Jaksa and her Dalish storyline, she suffered from the fact that she was the first DA character I ever messed with so I spent a lot of time feeling my way with her. Daniel was a lot more solidly developed personality and his ultimate fate with Morrigan was very satisfying.

Hawke: This one's tough. Probably Riley, ultimately; her personality turned out to dovetail really nicely (and painfully) with the storyline of the game. And while Elliot did turn out quite complex (more than I was expecting actually) he's also a real serious jerk. :P

Inquisitor: While I do love me some Dominic (and Cass! :P ), I think this one goes to Adi. Everything about her up to and including her romance was super organic and gave me mountains of feels and by the end I was very very attached to her and worried about what would happen to her.

Of these four, the overall winner is probably Jenna, just because she was the first char I really explored on Tumblr and probably is the one I most deeply explored and understood. :)

Hmm. I just had another look and I think you’re right -- certainly that’s a part of it at least. I’ll have another go keeping that more strongly in mind. (And any refs you have on hand I’d certainly appreciate. :) )