Just a quick meet 'n greet with the main characters; the Shepards. This story is set around 20 years after the events of Mass Effect 3, in a scenario where no avoidable deaths occurred, including Shepard, who went onto start a family after retiring from the military as a soldier. This is the story of that family.
Lieutenant-Commander Ashley Williams and Commander James Shepard have been in a relationship for twenty-one prosperous years and have been married for eighteen of those. Over these long years they have gained six children; four boys, two girls; all very powerful, and all very different.
The oldest of them are the twins; John and Jane; both eighteen years of age, but couldn't have personalities any different.
Jane is a hard-working, fun, tomboyish kind of girl who wishes to join the alliance military once she is ready, to follow on from her parents. She also perceives thing like big dresses and boyfriends too girly for her, and claims she will never find love as romance is dead.
John on the other hand, is completely different. He sleeps in as much as he can, hardly ever leaves his joint room with his sister, and never gets his chores done. Also unlike his twin, he has no sensible plans for his future, and can only see himself in five years on beach resort with his long-time Asari crush, Liara T'Soni, who served with his father before his retirement.
The third oldest but the most mature and intelligent of the Shepard siblings, Jaeger Shepard is a ruthless seventeen year old who enjoys making his family and friends look stupid. However, he has a fierce sense of loyalty, so if someone messes with his siblings, they'd better run. When he gains enough money from his job as one of the best freelance mercs on the Citadel, he hopes to set up his own mercenary faction, which he will call, 'The Sentinels'. He has an emotional relationship with Quarian Faleen Dos Vas Citadel, daughter of Tali'Zorah Vas Normandy and Garrus Vakarian, which he sees as statistically perfect as he is reluctant to make physical contact with anyone, but this does not change the fact that he has strong feelings for her.
The fourth oldest child is sixteen year old Juliet Shepard. She is a sophisticated but flirty girl, the opposite of her only sister, Jane, whom she quarrels with regularly. Once she moves out of her parent's house she hopes to construct and run her own band 'The Mass Experience', as the lead singer with her Turian friend Primus on guitar and a Krogan called Dirk on drums. She is currently dating Ethan, the son of Miranda Lawson; former Cerberus officer and genetically grown from her father's DNA. She used the same technology to create Ethan, as she herself was infertile and couldn't have a normal relationship so she created Ethan to keep her company.
The second youngest sibling is Joel, a talented fighter who was adopted by the Shepard family after the father saved him from a slave ship headed for Omega. He has been trying a little too hard to fit in and repay the Shepards for saving him, even though everyone sees him as another one of the family. Even though he is only fifteen years old and was self-trained, he has taken to the streets of the Citadel as the masked vigilante 'Vanguard', without the knowledge of his family or friends.
Finally, the youngest child of the Shepard family is Jason, an intelligent fourteen year old with a talent in robotics and engineering. Once all of his siblings have left home he has agreed to purchase a studio apartment in the same building as his parents, so that they will never be too far away from at least one of their children. He is infatuated with Rosalie Moreau; an A.I. with a female appearance built by Normandy pilot Jeff 'Joker' Moreau and the ship's A.I.; EDI, whom he fell in love with. Rosalie is built so that her technological body ages, and her virtual brain learns so that she can simulate a real child and act as the daughter Joker and EDI could never have normally.
That is everyone as far as the Shepard-clan is concerned, at least for now. Now that that is out of the way, let the story begin!