I like to believe that my Shepard (male/spacer) is actually the son of Zaeed Masani. Yep. Old Zaeed had a “dalliance” with Hannah Shepard one shore leave and nine months later she’s popping out a kiddo.

She chooses to claim that a fellow soldier (who conveniently dies while she’s pregnant) is actually the father so that her son doesn’t grow up “the child of a merc”. She told Shepard one day in his teens, maybe the day he enlisted, the truth and asked him to never seek out Zaeed.

So when Mass Effect 2 rolls around and ol Shep meets Zaeed on Omega, they both have quite the “oh shit” moment.

(This all started because I just wanted to hear Zaeed say ‘that’s my boy!’ one time. He deserves to be a proud dad.)