This ended up adding an element of unintended significance to her character’s eventual romance with Peebee. She felt it better people's attention be initially drawn by a mistake she could fix than something she couldn't change.

Why did my Ryder go as far as she did with her makeup? She hoped that if she went a bit overboard then that would be the first aspect of her face people noticed rather than her scar. Her solution? Overcompensating with makeup. As a result, she was very self conscious about her scarring as an adult. I started to view a Ryder who had been scarred accidentally at a young age and been bullied about it while growing up. Once I saw Ryder in game, and realised my mistake, I decided to come up with a story to explain her garish appearance. I added them to her because at the time they looked cool without thinking much about potential plot implications. When building my version of Ryder all of these attributes looked a lot less pronounced.

She also has a prominent facial scar on her left cheek. My Ryder in Mass Effect: Andromeda has far too much blush and eye shadow applied to her face, an amount that often looks comical to see during serious conversations. Ryder's Overbearing Makeup (Mass Effect: Andromeda)

Today, we’re going to talk a little about one of our own accidental character creator stories, as well as a couple of IGN fans who had their own accidental lore stories to tell.

Sticking with these characters in spite of their odd inaccuracies can lead players to create really interesting lore about their character that was never intended by the developers. Maybe we’re too excited to start playing the game, maybe the intro cutscene was long and we don’t want to sit through it again on launch day. Sometimes, however, players don’t start over. It’s time to dejectedly close the game and start over. You dedicate countless hours to crafting your character’s face, only to get into the game itself and find scars are deeper, makeup more exaggerated, teeth more prominent and skin tone notably lighter or darker than intended. Mass Effect Andromeda's character creator, much like many character creators before it, is atypically lit, meaning that characters may look different in the bulk of the game compared to the way they looked when first lovingly crafted. You know the deal: you stand in a blue and black void, a single light source coming from everywhere and nowhere simultaneously lights your character in a dim orange glow.

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