What'd you name your Shepard and why?

[TakeyB0y2]

James, because that's... My name o.o

I could've stuck with the default name, John, though, because when I was about halfway through the game I stopped playing and watched 3 episodes of Two and a Half Men on TV and then when I went back to Mass Effect and got into a conversation, I noticed my Shepard looked incredibly similar to John Cryer. It was actually kinda creepy.

I named my second, non-canon Shepard Rise after the character from Persona 4 for no particular reason other than that I like the name.

 

[Of-the-Lion]

So yeah, self explanatory, gimme a name and and explanation. And just for fun, maybe throw in a pic or a screencap if you didn't go with the default look.

I named my mine Adrian. 10 internets to the guy who first gets that reference. I used the default MaleShep so no pic for you.

Half-Life: Opposing Force protagonist.
Default. I assumed that a fancy name would leave gaps in the dialouge.

 

[Gomi500]

Voveyoda. One of the names for the Boss, from MGS 3

 

[Not Lord Atkin]

John Shepard. I can never be bothered to make up an appropriate name for my characters, so I use the defaults. Also, John is my actual name.

 

[Treeinthewoods]

Shepard, that way I can pretend people are referring to him by his first name during romantic dialogue.

 

[Sabrestar]

Crystal, for the simple reason that I think it's a lovely name.

 

[DrDanger]

Badass Shepard. Because he's a space bully.

 

[DrDanger]

Badass Shepard. Because Shepard is a badass space bully.

 

[Zero_ctrl]

Alan Shepard, to further complete the reference to the first American in space.

 

[DSK-]

My real name, Souichirou, Jennifer, Jessica and my newest one on my laptop, German.

 

[Jnat]

Evil Shepard
Good Shepard
Solider Shepard
killeveryone Shepard

 

[Nicholas Woodruff]

Good old, John, because I'm lazy and uncreative. But if I named him, I'd probably go with something like, oh, I dunno... Damian.
Yeah, Damian Shepherd.
No, never mind, that sounds gay. Nope, no idea.

 

[reiem531]

I always-ALWAYS- name my RPG protagonists "Ness."

Why? Because it's awesome.

 

[soren7550]

Roslyn because I just love the name.

Spoiler: Roslyn Shepard in ME1 & 2

 

[mizutanitony]

I named my male Shepard Alexander because it just seemd to feel epic for the mission he was on. The females I have a lot of with different names but my favorite is Leela...and guess why.

 

[sharpsheppard]

my irl name is last name is sheppard so i just call him by my first name Shepard

 

[Sir Boss]

Let's see, I've had;
Carlson ( I like that name)
Eleanor (Bioshock 2 reference)
Celestine (Warhammer 40K reference)
Hadrian (sounds manly)
Eliza (can't remember)
Adrianna (can't rememeber)

fair amount yes?

 

[DJ_DEnM]

Nier.

Because of the Squeenix game.

Nier.