This led to Kaidan feeling pressured into living up to his parents’ success and fueled his desire to be acknowledged as a person and not simply Shepard’s son.
Kaidan Anderson 'Kay' Shepard, often playfully called ' Junior' by his friends, is the eldest son of the legendary John Shepard and Ashley Williams.īorn on the Citadel amidst the galaxy’s reconstruction effort less than a year after the Reaper invasion, he grew up in a life of great privilege and affluence because of his relationship to his famous father. I intend to find my own path, wherever the journey itself may lead me.” -A young Kaidan to his classmates “ Just because my Mom and Dad were both career soldiers, doesn’t mean that I have to follow in their footsteps as well.