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  | PLAYER INFO. ✖ Handle: Leon ✖ Contact: ✖ Are You Over 16: Y CHARACTER INFO. ✖ Character Name: Kaidan Alenko ✖ Canon: Mass Effect (post-Destroy ending) ✖ Character Age: 35 ✖ Pick A Number: 356 / 67 ✖ Canon Setting: The Mass Effect universe is set in a futuristic Milky Way, around 200 years from now, a few years after humanity discovered ruins on Mars of an alien race and a Mass Relay near the orbit of Pluto--a device capable of making spaceships able to instantaneously travel from star system to star system. Both things led humanity to the greatest cultural advancement it had ever seen before that. After fighting a war against one of the other races of the galaxy, humanity was opened doors to the Citadel, the so-called 'center of the galaxy' and the capital of the galactic community, and offered an embassy to represent their interests together with worlds to colonize inside Citadel space, which consisted of three quarter of the galaxy and was governed by the Council, the governing body of the Citadel. The Council is composed by the representatives of the three "Council races", which consisted of the asari (a race of blue-colored mono-gendered and feminine-looking aliens, generally seen as the diplomatic side of the Council and the oldest race of the galaxy), the salarians (a race of bipedal amphibians associated with gathering information and intel) and the turians (a race of avian-looking aliens known for their militaristic prowess and the first race humanity faced--and fought--after the discovery of the Mass Relay). Other important races populating the Milky Way are the krogans (large reptilians known for their brute strength), the quarians (who were once part of the Citadel space but were banished because of the creation of AI and lost their homeworld to their own creations), the geth (the AI race created by the quarians), the hanar, the drell, the vorcha, the volus and the batarians, even though not all of them follow the Council and its laws. The discovery of the Mass Relay not only benefited the humans territorially, but also culturally and to its technology and military. The Alliance Navy, for example, to which Kaidan serves under, became humanity's militaristic power in the galaxy and grew so large to rival the Turian's. Spaceflight and spacefaring became the norm, especially for military people; element zero and mass effect fields technology was adopted for almost anything, with guns as one of them; galaxy-wide communications were discovered and many other things. Another notable thing in the Mass Effect universe is biotics, an ability some lifeforms develop if exposed in-uterus to element zero particles. This ability makes them capable of creating mass effect fields to use as telekinetic-like powers (among other things) with the use of particular types of implants and training the user undergoes to learn how to control and harness them. Kaidan himself is a biotic. The events of the first Mass Effect game depict Commander Shepard--a newly assigned officer to the Normandy, a spaceship created as a collaboration of turians and humans--in his fight against Saren, a rogue agent of the Council (a SPECTRE to be specific, just like Shepard becomes during this journey), and his geth allies trying to lead the Reapers into the galaxy to start the harvest. The Reapers are a race of ancient machines created with the purpose of "saving" civilizations from their own failure once they advanced too much by "harvesting" them, ie by processing suitable victims into new Reapers and killing and destroying everything else, to the point of turning the harvested cultures into nothing more than ruins left behind. This has happened in cycles until the events of Mass Effect, and the one shown in the game is not the first. Kaidan's an officer serving on the Normandy who follows Shepard's command through the whole journey. During one of their missions he's chosen to be saved by the commander at the cost of his friend and fellow crewmember Ashley Williams. The journey ends with the later called 'Battle of the Citadel' where Shepard is appointed hero for saving it against the forces of Sovereign (the first Reaper met by this cycle) and its geth drones, delaying the harvest for a few years more. After this humans were also offered a spot on the Council, becoming the fourth Council race. Kaidan spends the duration of the second Mass Effect game on the background. After the death of Commander Shepard and the destruction of the Normandy, Kaidan goes back to Alliance and continues serving it, even ranking up during the time. When he later finds out Shepard was resurrected and working under a terrorist organization called Cerberus, he decides not to follow the commander, unable to trust Cerberus and unsure if the person he has in front of him is even the same he once knew. Meanwhile Shepard recruits a team to fight against the Collectors, a race serving the Reapers and kidnapping humans with the task of creating a human-reaper. After a successful mission against them, Shepard turns the Normandy and himself in to the Alliance awaiting for trial and hoping to be able to warn the galaxy of the imminent Reaper invasion in time. Six months after defeating the Collectors and delaying the Reapers a little more, the invasion starts and it's full out war for the galaxy with Earth as one of the first targets. Kaidan is promoted to Major during this time, leading and teaching teams of human biotics, and even made a SPECTRE later on. He joins Shepard this time on the Normandy and helps him with the task of uniting the galaxy and finding a way to stop the Reapers, which Shepard ultimately does, by using the Crucible--a mass-scale weapon capable of destroying Reapers--to wipe them out of existence. ✖ Character History: Wikipedia link | Kaidan's canon Shepard ✖ Character Personality: If there would be the need of describing Kaidan Alenko with only one word, that would probably be integrity. Because Kaidan is a lot about that: about ethics and morals and a lot of time spent questioning both things when it comes to himself and the decisions he makes. He doesn't force his ethics and morals on people, though, but he expects them to respect said integrity. He is the kind of man that would give his life to do what he believes is the "right thing". Being born with biotic potential, one of the first humans at that, marked Kaidan's live straight from the beginning. Human biotics were initially met with fear and disdain (and they still do now that he is an adult), being such a new thing for humanity, to levels that could be easily described as full-out discrimination, which made growing up as one not small thing. He was sent to what was supposed to be a school to learn how to control and understand them as a teenager, even if he later found that that 'school' was only half of what the space station he was sent to was supposed to be. His time in there was hardly easier, though, mostly fault of the abusive teacher who made him and the rest of the biotics kids with him go through hell whenever he could (asking a human-hating alien to teach human kids was not smart) and the harsh ways they were taught--and basically experimented on. It also did not end in the best way possible: Kaidan ended up killing said teacher during one particular harsh lesson, trying to defend another student he deeply cared about from him and then himself when the teacher attacked him with a knife. He wasn't charged for the crime (if it was guilt from the school or just a way to cover the whole thing up, Kaidan didn't know) but it messed him up. He's grown up since then, though, with the event still in his mind. He doesn't regret it, (he'd probably still do it if it meant again protecting a loved one), but he sure felt bad for killing him. It was the first person he's taken the life of, too. He hasn't let it define him, however. He's never hated aliens just because of his experience with his teacher, for example. Kaidan is a level headed enough man to understand that the actions of one individual do not define the ones of their entire race ("I mean, if one asshole was enough to judge a whole race, I'd probably hate humans too"). He's also grown up in a different way thanks of his biotics. Having to make an important decision early in his life. He could have let them dictate his life, have them ruin it and become one of the many human biotics who 'sit at home in their pjs killing themselves slowly with drugs', but he hadn't. He embraced them and decided that if he had to live with such an ability and the discrimination that came with it, he'd rather put them to good use. It's why he has joined the military. Kaidan is a good soldier and his rank shows that. He's loyal to his duty and allegiance almost to a fault, but he is seen not having many seconds thoughts about going against them for the right reason. He doesn't believe himself to be a born leader, someone able to make the right decision all the time, but he knows he is the kind of person who isn't afraid of taking responsibility if he ends up in a situation where leadership is required from him and whatever choice he makes ends up being wrong. Depending on the situation, he's either someone who spends a lot of time pondering about his words before saying something, or that kind of guy with a mouth three words ahead of his brain: the latter usually happening on social occasions he isn't used to, when flustered or embarrassed, when the subject is connected to his emotions, he mutters and stutters and generally has a hard time finding the right words; the former, instead, reserved to those moments too important to mess up (and where he's probably had enough time to actually think). He tries to take in consideration all the information, going to great length to put himself in the shoes of people and looking at their point of view before forming an opinion on them. And he also has no troubles revising his opinion if his initial stance ends up being wrong and with more information is presented. It's happened with Shepard, for example. His relationship with the commander is both very simple and complicated: there are very few people in the galaxy Kaidan can say he trusts as much, and it has showed during their first adventure. He never once had double guesses about following Shepard's orders, about dying for the mission, about following him to hell and back (even when the back was unsure), even if following him there meant going against his allegiance. And all of that was because he knew that Shepard was right and that he was the only man that could make a difference. Because he trusted him. Which had made the events of Horizon hurt more than he thought they would. Shepard's death was something that took long for Kaidan to get over with -- it felt like losing a limb -- and his reappearance with Cerberus, their enemies, did not make things easier. Seeing him standing there, flying under enemy colors... almost as if nothing had happened. It was something worse than a betrayal. He would've followed him anywhere, but not with Cerberus. Not when he wasn't even sure the man in front of him was the same he worked under two years before. Because for all he knew, he could have been a clone, a puppet of the Illusive Man or maybe he was controlled in a way he couldn't understand. ("I just want to know: Is the person I followed to hell and back still in there? Somewhere?") He was wrong, of course, but he won't realize that until very later on, after a heart to heart talk in a hospital and a moment where their guns are pointed against each others and their mutual trust is what kept them both alive (and he regrets not realizing it from the start, on Horizon, and not being there when Shepard needed it). Because Kaidan is like that: he'd go against the person he has faith in the most in the galaxy if what he believes goes against theirs, but at the same time he isn't above changing said beliefs if the situation changes and he realizes he's wrong. All in all, though, Kaidan is a pretty nice guy. It comes with his integrity. He dislikes mindless slaughter or violence and isn't against giving people second chances if possible -- unless that person committed mindless slaughter or violence, in which case he makes an exception to that. He's compassionate, often being shown worrying about others more than he worries about himself; calm. The kind of soldier that would keep a clear head even when things go FUBAR. He's seen comforting the daughter of a traitor mourning for her mother's death, for example; worrying about civilians in a war zone; defending a friend discriminated for her race. EDI has called him 'judgmental' once (but he's never been without good reason); Shepard 'stubborn' (and if he has any says on the matter, he'd say that Shepard is projecting) and 'not exactly the life of the party' by himself (and seeing how he's behaved during the Citadel party, he isn't wrong). He's also quiet, polite and sort of an introvert. The sort of friend who rarely declines invites out with friends but also the one you don't see starting things himself. Growing up as a 'freak' is probably the fault of both his social awkwardness and his self-control. When everyone around you thinks of you as a monster it's normal to find it hard to fit in, and it's normal to always try to keep yourself under control when a bad move could kill someone. And he'd know. ✖ Character Powers: BIOTICS.✖ First Person POV: [ ALL THE THREADS I HAVE ARE OLD ] ✖ Third Person POV: Write us, in prose or brackets, how your character is recruited by the CDC. If your application is accepted, this section of your app will become part of your character's game canon. CHARACTER ITEMS. ✖ Pick a Team: Green. ✖ Mission Freebie: What or who is your character's end mission request? ✖ Personal Item or Weapon: All characters are allowed one (1) personal item or weapon of their choice from their homeworld. ✖ Character Inventory: armor |