I’m really trying to clean up my Shepards’ story and it’s.... it’s getting Weird(TM)
I’ve got three Shepards. Adrian (my favourite, admittedly), the Renegade who chooses to Destroy the Reapers; London, the Paragon who chooses to Control the Reapers; and Ana-Dimitri, the Paragade who chooses Synthesis. Pretty straightforward.
So I started thinking... what if Ana-Dima’s outcome is the ‘final’ one? What if the three timelines converge at the Crucible, and when Adrian and London get there in their respective timelines, they link up with Ana-Dima and the synthesis not only involves organic and inorganic matter, but also the twin Shepards London and Adrian (they are twins, biologically) -- London the sacrificial Reaper and Adrian the all-too-human warrior? What if the synthesis creates a One out of the Three (a cosmic trinity, say), a Shepherd of Shepards, something intrinsically human and alien and machine that isn’t a Reaper but a... well, a Catalyst?
Maybe the Shepherd Catalyst quickens life and development when it looks like it’s flagging, instead of culling it when it looks like it’s getting too smart. I don’t know. I like it, though. It’s my kind of weird. I’m keeping it.
