#[ obvs with spacer background sheps we can do true siblings ]

[blitzbefallen]

mobile post before work, if anyone wants to do familial stuff with their shep + astrid but the backgrounds conflict, we can always do the cousins route where hannah shepard is siblings with one of earthborn/colonist shepard’s parents.

in the case of earthborn, she loses contact with her sibling on earth and finds out about niece/nephew’s existence years later thanks to anderson and asks a favor of him to convince them to enlist.

with colonist, she more than likely knows of her sibling’s child and is one of the first to hear about the batarian attacks on mindoir, finding out her sibling is dead but her niece/nephew survived. just like with earthborn, she’d reach out to anderson, ask him to watch over them until they’re old enough to enlist.

it’s only after enlisting that hannah finally reaches out to them, probably after they go through basic training. she tells them who she is and her relation, and explains that they have a cousin who’s also enlisted in the alliance and around their age, and wants them to know they still have a family, no matter how recently discovered it is.

that being said, give me your sheps.