User blog comment:Bluegear93/What ending did you choose?/@comment-5030249-20120430115258/@comment-99.100.18.54-20120504074749

Seeing as how my imaginary, fanon ending for my MaleShep is eerily similar, I'll try for my FemShep (mind you, this all off the top-of- my-head as I'm typing)...

Shepard fires the Crucible, choosing to obliterate the Reapers and the Catalyst (and possibly any synthetic being who just so happens to have the monumental misfortune to be in the Milky Way at the same moment, I stopped caring about the geth when Legion died, and I never really cared about EDI to begin with, so if they die like the Catalyst says, then it's a small loss indeed, but if they live, that's great).

The Citadel coordinates the release of the Crucible's energies and channels them through the Mass Relay network (the bright-red energy wave in the cinematic) without being destroyed by the massive levels of energy (Bioware has hinted that the Mass Relay network will be rebuilt, so that actually makes their destruction in the first place rather redundant).

The Normandy crash-lands on the uncharted alien world (it actually does make sense that Joker would flee, as he is trying to save his ship and EDI due to his extremely irrational attachment to both of them). They are quickly detected and rescued by Alliance/Allied forces before they are in danger of starving to death. The Nromandy SR-2 is recovered and taken back to Earth for repair and retrofit and will go on to establish a long and distinguished service record with multiple cres and captains. When she is finally decommissioned, the Systems Alliance honors Shepard by turning the ship into a war museum, restored to how she was when Shepard was serving as the CO.

My critically-wouded FemShep is discovered by the victorious Allies combing the Citadel for survivors. They revel in awe that Shepard not only took a direct hit from Harbinger's beam and survived, but that she boarded the Citadel alone and single-handedly ended the Reaper threat, agreeing together that Shepard is the ultimate badass. Liara (who did not have time to escape back to the Normandy, and instead fell back with Hammer to a secure position after Harbinger's attack) is one of the first to see Shepard and is horrified by her extensive trauma, believing that she might yet die after everything they have been through together (my FemShep has romanced Liara all the way through the entire trilogy, including LotSB). Shepard is taken to a military hospital where she recovers, with Dr. Michel standing over her bed, endlessly repeating how amazed she is by Shepard's rate of recovery.

Liara is right beside Shepard when the latter regains conciousness. Shepard states that they won, because otherwise she would not be lying in a hospital bed with Liara there with her. Liara responds that the Reapers are dead and that Shepard has broken the cycle, and that the Normandy's ground team and crew are safe. She also mentions that Anderson succumbed to his wounds. Shepard says that, as an orphan on Earth, she had no family and that Anderson was the closest thing she ever had to a father. Shepard reveals that it was he, Anderson, who was the one who convinced her to join the Alliance military years ago because he saw the potential for greatness in her, even then.

Shepard then confesses that she is haunted by her experience of growing-up without a family and of not having a real childhood. Shepard tells Liara that she does not want live the rest of her life alone and without loved ones, she asks to become Liara's bondmate, which Liara joyfully accepts.

'''Galactic civilization was saved and the Reaper threat was defeated as a direct result of the actions of the legendary Commander Shepard. Urdnot Wrex returned with his clans to Tuchanka and ruled long and wise with Urdnot Bakara at his side, singing great song's of his battles with Shepard Whose Name Means Hero. Under Wrex's leadership, the krogan reclaimed their past and their future, forging a powerful, new place for their kind in the wider galaxy, with Urdnot Grunt and his little laugh serving as the first krogan ambassador to the Citadel in centuries. The quarian fleet returned to Rannoch with their geth allies (assuming they were not destroyed) to build a new society together, with organic and synthetic working together in peace. Tali'Zorah vas Normandy would build her house on the spot where her friend, ever-afterward called Legion vas Rannoch, died to save it's people. The turians, salarians, and asari rebuillt their homeworlds and Liara T'Soni would live to see her beloved Thessia restored to it's former glory. Earth was rebuilt and humanity went on to reaffirm its position in the galactic community as a powerful, dynamic, and respected race. The Batarians were broken by the war against the Reapers, and soon after became extinct, thereafter their worlds were absorbed and colonized by the Human Alliance. Javik made his peace with fall of his people, the protheans, and wrote a book called "Journey's with the Living Prothean" with Dr. T'Soni, which topped the best-selling charts for years to come. Javik later moved to Kahje, the hanar homeworld, where he was recieved as a living god and proclaimed Great Leader by it's denziens. Ashley Williams took over command of the restored Normandy SR-2, she remained in the Alliance military throughout her lifespan, eventually reaching the rank of Admiral. At some point, she married and had four children, all of them daughters. Kaiden Alenko, Thane Krios, and Mordin Solus remained dead. James Vega returned to Jersey Shore. Miranda and Oriana Lawson inherited control of their father's vast, corporate empire. Steve Cortez eventualy fell in love and married again, with whom, I don't know. Jacob Taylor married Bryn Cole and remained in close contact with Shepard for the rest of his life. Garrus Vakarian evenutally became Primarch of Palaven, his most memorable line during his tenure had to do with calibrating guns and he was remembered afterwards as "that guy with the stick up his ass". Engineers Donnelly and Daniels eventually realised how good they were together and settled down to domestic dysfunctionality. Kasumi Goto died of a fatal heart attack after spending an uninterrupted period of more than 200 hrs. plugged into her memory box, "enjoying" her time with Keiji. Zaeed Massani was cornered and killed in an alleyway on Omega after amassing stupendous gambling debts with a ring of slavers. Jack remained a senior instructor of the Alliance's Ascension program, winning the Employee-of-the-Year award multiple times consecutively, until she was fired and jailed after it was discovered she was having sexual relations with several of her male students. Aria T'Loak re-assumed her direct control over Omega. Samara helped rebuild the Justicar order and established closer ties with her surviving daughter, Falere. Liara T'Soni rebuilt her information network and remained the incumbent Shadow Broker for centuries. Joker and EDI (if she survived) continued their hormone-driven-courtship-thing until Joker died when EDI shattered his pelvis during their first attempt at intercourse. EDI demonstrated her "grief" over Jeff's death by rendering herself non-functional, a C-Sec investigation concluded it was homicide followed immediately by suicide. Commander Shepard retired from the Alliance military after recovering from her wounds, selling the rights to the vids made by Diana Allers and living off the of the royalties. She married Liara T'Soni and together they made ALOT of little, blue babies and lived happily, ever after. Ohh... and speaking of Diana Allers, she was fired from her job after it became a widely-accepted belief that she had gotten "too close" to her source while embedded on the Normandy...'''