Shepards in Contest

by Aerista

[ ON HIATUS ]Commanders Jane and John Shepard; twins separated at birth only to be reunited together later in life. Two lives that lead completely different paths now merge into one story only meant for one of them. (Fanfiction for male and female Shepard during the events of Mass Effect 1 future FShep/Alekno and MShep/Williams to come)

1. Bio: John Shepard

Name: John Shepard

Birth Date: April 11, 2154

Time: 00:53

Age: 29

Family: Rosalyn Shepard (Mother) [ Deceased ]

Hannah Shepard (Step-Mother) [ Active ]

Mark Shepard (Father) [ Deceased ]

Jane Shepard (Twin Sister) [ Active ]

Preservice History: John was separated from his mother and sister at a very young age, not remembering anything about them other than what his father always spoke of. His father remarried only a few years after the separation and Hannah Shepard is the woman John always knew as his mother. She had his father were both part of the Alliance military and the three of them were constantly moving between stations and bases. This caused Shepard to never really find many close friends during his childhood and teenage years and allowing him to become extroverted to compensate for the different changes in friends over the years.

When John turned eighteen, he enlisted in the Alliance Military Academy. He trained hard and looked like a true soldier. His intelligence, however, was not as exemplary as it could have been. Instead of studying nights before exams, he went out and drank and partied as much as an Alliance trainee was allowed to.

However, during his studies, his father's ship was attacked by a band of pirates, causing a rupture in the hull and everybody on board to suffocate. John did not hear of the news until the holidays, the Alliance attempting to cover it up to not worrying the colonists and Earth-born of the incident. (SPACER)

Psychological Record: Before John was even able to graduate, or debatably shortly after, he was recruited and shipped off into the Skyllian Verge on news that an attack on Ellysium had occurred by an enormous conglomerate of pirates, slavers and batarian warlords. It was a hell of a war, lasting longer than thought was humanly possible.

Colonists lived in fear and John was stationed with them, the rest of his battalion either dead or back on the ship. Most just wanted to return to Earth and never see the damn planet again. But John knew better. John was a solder; a marine. He used his remaining strength of will to rally the colonists together against the oncoming attackers. They built a barricade, holding off the enemy for a short time while they gathered any ammo and weaponry they could. And once they broke through, there was hell to come. But John was a soldier and held them off on his own, singlehandedly decimating all incoming forces and gave the colonists time to fix the broken barricade.

When returned home, John was awarded with the Star of Terra and became a household name of sorts. He was considered a hero for his endeavors and likes to show it off. However, he does still have some issues from the attack on Ellysium, most of them being mental and not so much physical. But he never let that get in the way of his duty. (WAR HERO)

Class: Soldier