video, backdated to pre-plots

[thebioticwoman]

[Shepard has settled into her quarters, and the background to her transmission is a thrilling expanse of undecorated wall with a little bit of couch cushion visible near the bottom of the frame. She herself is a red-haired, pale-skinned human woman with green eyes and a calm, no-nonsense demeanor, wearing what looks like it could be a military or merchant marine uniform, though it has no obvious insignia or rank.]

My name's Shepard. I just got here, obviously, and I have a question. The staff was polite about it, but considering one of them nearly dropped his datapad when I floated the idea, there's obviously something they're not telling me...why is "Spectre" a bad codename?

[She could just freakin' Space Google it, but this is a good icebreaker. Besides, she doesn't have her omni-tool and she finds the omnicomm interface unreasonably clunky and inflexible.]

Comments

oh, well played

[thebioticwoman]

[Shepard blinks, then laughs in disbelief, shaking her head.]

Okay, I'll bite, what's wrong with Joker?

[Besides brittle bone disease and a pathological inability to take anything seriously.]

haha! all my gl examples were too obviously evil, had to go for something more "subtle."

[spacesharks]

More like what isn't wrong with it. Where I'm from, it belongs to one of the most notorious homicidal maniacs the world has ever known. I guess a thousand years into the future, not much has changed.

I always just kinda feel a little bad for all the innocent clowns out there that haven't murdered anyone yet.

[Yet...]

[thebioticwoman]

...It's my pilot's nickname.

[Shepard ducks her head a little to rub her temple. She likes giving Joker a hard time as much as the next Normandy crewer, but "haha you share a name with a murderous criminal" is a bit much.]