User:Hunter Zealot/Jack Shepard

Commander Jack Shepard is an Alliance Navy N7 Marine and the first human Council Spectre. Jack was born on April 11, 2154, in New York City, New York. Commander Shepard is also the Captain of the SSV Normandy SR2, and the XO of the original Normandy.

Jack suffers from mild post traumatic stress disorder, the result of the aftermath on Akuze and Mindoir. However, it does not appear to effect his leadership or combat abilities. He also exhibits a mild form of prolonged hypersexuality, a disorder that increases the sex drive significantly. This disorder has affected his social life and relationships with other individuals.

Early Life
Born to Alliance servicemen Hannah and Eric Shepard on April 11, 2154, in New York City, New York, Jack initially had a tough life. Jack lived with his aunt and uncle Terry and George as his parents were often on active duty, especailly due to the new contact of alien life. Jack hardly saw his parents, and his father died in the First Contact War.

When Jack turned twelve, he ended up turning to violence and gangs, eventually joining the Tenth Street Reds. As a Tenth Street Red, he mostly assisted in moving drugs and random violence against other gangs. Eventually he was well respected, and he performed his first hit against the "Smoking Barrels" by shooting a policemen affiliated with the gang.

After escaping custody and the other gang, he later found both his uncle and aunt had been murdered, and was shipped by social services to his mother, who was on leave on the colony of Mindoir. He was reunited with his mother, and never looked back.

The rest of his life was fairly plain, and he adapted quickly to the smaller community and enjoyed much more than the city. His life was much more suited to him during his short time on Mindoir, and he fit in well at school and in sports, the rest of his time was mostly uneventful.

His first traumatic experience happened three days before his sixteenth birthday when an Element Zero refining factory went haywire, exposing him and twenty other students to the element. He was the only survivor of the supposed "freak accident" at the the Cerberus facility.

Nearly a year later, Jack had progressed a full recovery with some outstanding biotic powers, all do to his physical therapy teacher also being a biotic and former alliance marine. Jack was feeling the best he had ever felt in his short life, and he returned to school shortly thereafter.

Within a few months, however, when the Alliance interest had died down in the colony, and their activity was at an all time low. This is when the batarian slavers attacked. Within hours the small colony's resistance was wiped out, and only a few people had escaped capture; Jack was one of the few, having used his biotics to protect himself and a small group of civilians.

Eventually, an alliance patrol, led by Jack's mother, discovered that the colony had been attacked. They immediately called in Lieutenant Commander Hannah Shepard's cruiser, which supplied additional marines. The batarian threat was soon extinguished, but the actions of the batarians were burned into the colonists' minds forever, including Jack's.

For the next two years, Jack spent his life aboard ships and space stations with his mother, and their relationship finally rebuilt itself, and they became closer than they had ever since she was forced to leave him. He soon joined the Alliance at the age of eighteen.

Torfan
After four years in the Alliance Military, Jack had been promoted to Lieutenant for his unshakable loyalty, courage, and pride he held in the Alliance. The new Lieutenant had proved a formidable combatant and showed off obvious leadership abilities in earlier missions; A rare trait for someone of Jack's past and capabilities. During his tour in the Skyllian Verge, where war was all but imminent, he and his platoon, including his CO Major Kyle, began a scouting course over Torfan, and were immediately attacked by batarian extremists.

With the ship disabled, the SSV San Francisco sent a distress beacon to a nearby Alliance patrol of medium sized. The signal was sent too late, however, and the captain of the ship, Captain Joesph Haggard, ordered all personal in to the life pods. Within minutes of evacuation, the SSV San Francisco became the first Alliance ship to fall during the short war with the Batarian Hegmony, and it's captain with it.

Shepard, Major Kyle, and a platoon sized unit were pushed in deap when they regrouped at Major Kyle's crash site. Only five men lost their life during the batarian's relentless attacks, and eventually the Alliance sent in reinforcements after Shepard and a squad of twelve cleared out the remaining batarians. They eventually made plans to attack the underground strongholds on Torfan, and eliminate the batarian threat once and for all.

Midway into the assault, the batarins were revealed to have a much larger force than the Alliance had first expected, and human casualties began growing. After Major Kyle began to lose control, Lieutenant Shepard began an all out assault on the stronghold, and ruthlessly eradicating the batarian presence. Within days Shepard had lost over fifty percent of his forces, but his relentless campaign continued with only one goal in mind: Kill everything.

After a brief confrontation with Major Edward Kyle about the nature of Shepard's plans, which ended with Shepard striking Kyle, the Lieutenant and his outnumbered force immediately began to finish the remainng batarian soldiers, even citizens began to lose hope and fight back; None were shown any form of mercy.

With several defeats to the humans, multiple officers tried to surrender to Jack, only to be gunned down immediately. After several instances of absolute slaughter, the batarians began to realize that the "Butcher of Torfan" was never going to show mercy, and staged one last offensive against the marines. Their efforts failed miserably, and every batarian on the planet was exterminated.

After the fighting, Alliance personal began searching records for details on the Batarian Hegemony and its plans for the Alliance. Several raids were halted due to these findings, and it was revealed that some of the higher ranking officers had been hiring mercenaries and pirate gangs for a specific job: to attack the colony known as Elysium. Within a few days, a large fleet had assembled to protect the human colony.

After the incident, Lieutenant Jack Shepard became Lieutenant Commander Jack Shepard, and it was noted that what Shepard had done had been absolutely necessary, and few others could have made the choices that he was forced to face.

Skyllian Blitz
While on temporary leave, the Lieutenant Commander was stationed on Elysium, but was given some special "vacation time" alongside a few other marines. During his stay, he focused an healthy amount of attention on the press and his memories on Torfan and as a child. A night before the attack, he would meet an asari named La'Shala Terium, and spend the night with her.

Jack was awakened by an expected but unlikely attack, and was forced to ravage his enemies hall by hall within the hotel he and his asari lover had stayed in. After nearly three hours in the structure, they began to make their escape, only to find the entire hotel was crumbling.

Surviveing the collapse of the building, Shepard, alongside La'Shala and other marines he had rounded up, began to rebel against the overwhelming pirate forces. The young Lieutenant Commander began using hit and run attacks, taking few casualties and eliminating large amounts of enemy forces. Among his casualties were three marines, Privates Harald Jacobs and Stefan Karean alongside Lieutenant Al "Iron" Bojovisky, and an armed civilian, Aran Skyler.

During the battle, a good friend and fellow marine, Daniel "Dan" Stewart was killed while attempting to take control of a heavily fortified batarian landing zone; He was successful, however, and managed to cripple a small frigate that had made several runs from space to atmosphere, supplying reinforcements and equipment.

Shepard used Dan's memory to motivate himself and use his high energy and abilities to seal the resolve of the people around him. Jack continued his merciless attacks against the krogan, batarian, vorcha, and some human pirates, tatically planning out when to strike, hide, and run. From courtyards to skyscrapers, Shepard became notorious among citizens, marines, and most importantly, attacking mercenaries.

Eventually, Shepard's attacks caught up with him, and found himself, La'Shala, several marines and civilians surrounded by an unsuspected force of batarian and vorcha pirates. Jack forced La'Shala to leave with the civilians through the sewers, escorted by the remaining marines, policemen, and several security members.

The Lieutenant Commander prepared himself for the attacking batarians, who easily outgunned and out numbered him. Using the last supplies of ammo and grenades, he laid waste to a large number of the attackers, but eventually found his weapons dry. In a last ditch effort, the marine used his biotics to ravage the remaining forces, eventually causing the building to collapse; His demise was greatly expected.

Beating the odds, the marine would awaken only two days later, to find that his marines and the civilians had made it out, alongside La'Shala. He later heard that the Alliance fleet had arrived, and literally destroyed the entire fleet, the only survivors being the few ships that had left hours earlier.

Jack was recognized once again among galactic society, but with much brighter colors than the previous account. He received several accommodations, medals, and awards, and spent several months with La'Shala, training her in weapons and close combat, and making her realize her potential as a biotic, being an asari. After his final healing, he left La'Shala on unusually good terms.

Sole Survivor
Jack was sent to Akuze with a platoon sized unit. He was apart of Blue Squad and Fireteam B02, or FB3(Fireteam Blue Three). Upon finding the colony destroyed, they were attacked by ferocious creatures that emerged from the ground. Shepard managed to escape the initial battle with four other marines, Coporal Terrence Toombs and Staff Sergeant Reynold Jackson were among them.

The Lieutenant Commander led his men back to their drop off zone, and were immediately ambushed by the creatures, revealed to be Thresher Maws. Shepard managed to kill one with a grenades before his team was decimated and he severely injured. The marine manged to find a safe haven, a huge boulder, away from the Thresher Maw's presence.

For days he was stranded and terrorized by the giant worm-like creatures, forbidden by them to leave what he believed to be his death bed. During the nights, he believed himself hallucinating when he watched several of the creatures vaporized by incoming shuttles, which would then begin picking up bodies from the battle field. Eventually, e fell unconscious.

He would awake two days later to find himself in a hospital, and in a few weeks, he would begin rehabilitation. No one expected him to make a quick or steady recovery. He was likely to have multiple setbacks. His dehydration and hallucinations were expected to have severely damaged his brain.

Personalty and Traits
Jack Shepard is known as the "Butcher of Torfan", in account to his ruthless and brutal slaughter of batarian soldiers on Torfan. Although Jack is described as a Ruthless and cold methodological spectre, Jack is actually very moral and his actions on Torfan do not compare to his campaign in the Skyllian Blitz. Although Shepard is a very strong minded man, he suffers from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder after the events on Mindoir, his second home, and most recently, the Thresher Maw incident on Akuze.

Jack deals with his "disorder" abnormally; He completely ignores it, and only in his dreams does he have problems. Despite his mental condition, the commander is still highly functional on the field and with his personal life. Even when presented with similar threats from the past, nothing has been able to thwart the commander's mind.

Shepard is an intense biotic soldier, known as a Vanguard, and stands at Six foot one, and weighs around one hundred eighty pounds. Jack has blonde hair, blue eyes, and is neatly shaven. He originally cut his hair high and tight, but more recently has allowed it to grow out. He uses his relatively large size, high speed, and powerful biotics to his advantage, obliterating his foes in a "High-risk High-reward combat style."

Relationships
Commander Shepard has come across hundreds of unique individuals in his life time and fairly long military career, from elegant asari matriarchs to savagely brutal krogan warlords and turian generals. Because of this, Jack has accumulated a long list of close friends, acquaintances, enemies, partners, and terrible people. His views on most people are generally accepting, but some he is incapable of tolerating.

Jack possesses a deep and friendly relationship with his mother, Hannah Shepard. He holds a tremendous amount of respect for her as a parent, an officer, and a mentor. Despite his original "hatred" towards her as a child, mostly due to them being split apart, in the later years as a teenager and as a young adult, they forged together back their old memories from Jack's years as a child before she had to leave. Jack holds his mother closer to his heart more than anybody, and knows that the death of her husband and his father had a devastating impact on her; Whether or not she shows it.

His relationships with his squad mates is varied, and even Subject Zero, also known as Jack, is considered a friend, albeit loosely. His closest relationship is with Ashley Williams, his secret lover. Although his feelings for Ashley are strong, he did share a sexual encounter with Miranda Lawson, whom he also cares deeply for. Jack appears to view intercourse loosely, and even had sex with the Asari Consort Sha'ira for pleasure purposes only, even though he and Ashley had already expressed sentimental feelings for each other, and later with Subject Zero. Although a good man, this is his biggest weakness in his morals.

The Commander's relationship with krogan is normally strong, especially with Urdnot Wrex, Grunt, and Wreav, and even a shaman on Tuchanka. He shares a similar mentality of getting the job done, no matter the cost. However, Shepard appears to have much more patience, maybe with the exception of the shaman, and is more like a stabilizing element for both Wrex and Grunt. Jack's relationship with krogan can be compared to his friendship with Jack, although he does have a habit of disagreeing with her more; Often yelling and reminding her where her place is on the ship.

Jacob Taylor and the Commander share a tight relationship, one that resembles Jack and the late Kaidan's. Jacob's by the book and moral nature agree with the Commander's, allowing for a more human and "normal" friendship. They often debate on what to do in high risk situations, and are shown to be able to work together very well.

Jack holds a high respect for his fellow soldier Zaeed Massani, who acts very much like an uncle would to a young nephew. Their relationship is based on stories, past experiences, and loyalty to one another. Although more of an acquaintance than a friend, Jack appreciates the extra fire power that Zaeed can deliver on the battlefield, as it it always helps to have a veteran soldier to rely on.

His friendship with Liara is very similar to the one he holds to the beautiful matriarch Samara. However, where Shepard had to be blunt and aggressive to Liara, Samara is much more dark and mysterious, and only ponders if asked to. Jack holds tremendous respect for both of the asari, whether it is physical appeal effectiveness in the field, or having someone not quite as deluded to talk to, his friendship with them is unbreakable.

Although often annoyed with the very vocal Mordin, he has been able to form a sort of Doctor-patient-friendship with the highly intelligent and lethal scientist. There interactions with each other are normally about the health of the team and crew, and Shepard himself. Despite this, their relationship is healthy, and little to no arguments ever occur.

The mysterious and alien Thane Krios holds a fairly weak friendship with Commander Shepard. Both have different views on nearly everything, but both realise the importance each has on the squad. Jack is less cautious with Thane's emotions than other squad members, and is very blunt with the drell, to the point of being overly rude.

Garrus Vakarian holds a lot of admiration for the Commander, and often expresses his problem to his friend and who he considers his "officer". Garrus and Shepard are like brothers, often teasing and insulting the other, and pondering ideas together. Their friendship could be described as similar to a child and a neighborhood friend. On the battlefield the two are matched perfectly for each other, with Shepard going in close and the turian taking out enemies from afar.

Shepard's shares a very unique relationship with Legion, a mobile geth platform operating outside of the Perseus Veil. Shepard speaks to Legion when he requires the most logical and emotionally absent opinion, which is often the most effective way at handling problems aboard the ship. Legion is rarely allowed to leave the Normandy, likely do to the reaction the Council had upon seeing him. Although a cold and calculative machine, Legion has some curious admiration of Commander Jack Shepard.

Tali'Zorah vas Neema nar Rayya, or simply Tali, perhaps, gives the most loyalty to Commander Shepard; Not only as a Captain, but as family. Becoming part of the Normandy crew meant that Tali was becoming apart of every ones life on board. In Quarian custom, everybody must interact with each other and pull their own weight, and Tali's warm hearted nature insures friendship with everbody on board, including the Commander. Despite Shepard not allowing Tali to copy Geth encrypted data found in a Geth stronghold, she doesn't hold it against him. Tali is also one of the few women that ahve expressed feelings for Shepard that he did not take advantage of, hinting at a mutual respect. {C Jack's relationship with people like Admiral Steven Hackett and David Anderson is of complete and total respect; Not only becaus ethey are his officers, but because they recognise Shepard's achievments. Their bond, if you could call it that, became stronger when each of them recommended him as the first human spectre. Jack's respect for eitehr Admiral only increases, as neither have ever second guessed his actions. This share of respect is far different than what Udina and Shepard have, however. Shepard has a grudging respect for the Ambassador Udina, but views him as a terrible person due to his disregard for morals.

Commander Shepard also shares many relationships with other beings across the galaxy, from his the Pilot of the Normandy, Jeff Joker Moreau, to Sheaords strong sexual partner Li'Shala Terium. He has a shady relationship with Aria T'Loak, a former "buisness" partner, and has a strong hatred for memers of the Quarian Admiralty Board, other than Admiral Daro'Ken vas Moreh, who views as curious and strong minded. Other Quarians that shepard enjoys the company of are Kar'Danna vas Rayya, Kal'Reeger, and to a lesser extent,Veetor'Nara.

Li'Shala Terium, an asari and casual sex partner whom Shepard met on Elysium, is also very close to the Commander. Each one has a history of saving each others back, from their first intimate moments on Elysium, to the powerful asari biotic saving Shepard on Omega and assisting him throgh several missions. Her attitude caused several problems aboard the Normandy, to the point that she insisted that she leave. The Commander and La'Shala often meet privately, however.