Javik

Do-Gooder
Full Name	Javik
Alias(es)	Buggy, Prothy the Prothean (nickname suggested by Joker)
Origin	Mass Effect 3
Occupation	Soldier
Powers / Skills	Extremely skilled gunman, Very powerful biotics, Sensory powers- can absorb complicated information through touch
Hobby	Studying the current cycle, Talking about his cycle
Goals	Destroy the Reapers and avenge his people
Family	None known
Friends / Allies	Commander Shepard. Tali'Zorah vas Normandy, Garrus Vakarian, EDI, Jeff "Joker" Moreau, Liara T'Soni, James Vega, Kaidan Alenko, Ashley Williams
Enemies	Harbinger, Reapers, The Illusive Man, Kai Leng, Shepard's Clone, Maya Brooks, CAT6
Type of Hero	Tragic Anti-Hero from the past, Seeker of Vengeance, Last of Kind. Extremist

“	I am the anger of a dead people, demanding that blood be spilled for the blood we have lost. Only when the last Reaper has been destroyed will my purpose be fulfilled. I have no other reason to exist.	„
	~ Javik

Javik is one of the main protagonists and squad members in the video game Mass Effect 3, though he can only be acquired through the From Ashes DLC. He is the last living Prothean after the others were extinct and seeks revenge against the Reapers. He was sealed in a life pod for 50,000 years and was reawakened by Commander Shepard, subsequently becoming one of his/her squad.

He is voiced by Ike Amadi.

Personality

Due to all the horrors he saw in the Prothean-Reaper War, the destruction of his entire race being the most obvious, combined with being reawakened into a new cycle where nothing is what he expected, Javik is a very moody, violent, cynical and distrusting individual armed with a burning thirst for vengeance and a brutal honesty. He is very reluctant to make friends with the Normandy crew, believing it to not be his purpose. He also sees no value in honour or morality in battle, clearly implying that he sees no good side to it. However, this does not stop him from talking to Commander Shepard about his cycle, despite believing it doesn't matter now that his people are dead, as well as showing various signs of respect towards the Commander throughout the game.

Despite his reserved personality and unwillingness to open up to any of the crew, Javik is a very opinionated person, perhaps to the point of dogmatism, never hesitating to speak his view on a given situation. This is especially true when the subject is synthetics. Due to his race's unpleasant history with machines (such as the Reapers and the Zha'Til), Javik believes that all machines commit treachery eventually and that it is impossible for them and organics to co-exist. He backs up his claim by saying that synthetics know how they were created and why, while organics don't, meaning that, according to Javik, synthetics see no reason for organics to exist. He also says that while organics are trapped by the limitations of time, synthetics aren't and that because they are sentient, they are smart enough to wonder why they have to take orders from their inferiors. He firmly warns Shepard not to form an alliance with the Geth and not to taking any chances with Legion, insisting that he/she throw him out the airlock (which even Renegade-Shepard thinks is a little drastic) and that the Geth oppose the Reapers simply to eliminate the competition. This is especially notable considering he is seemingly willing to do anything to end the war against the Reapers, clearly implying that he considers an alliance with synthetics as the line.

Javik dislikes arrogance, viewing it as not strategy, but stupidity and while he does appear to show arrogance at times, he is in fact simply being honest and sees no need to apologise for the truth. As the Avatar of Vengeance for his people, Javik is always in favour of the most ruthless, yet efficient methods possible. Examples of this include his above mentioned insistence that Shepard throw Legion out the airlock and his belief that the turians should have detonated a bomb to wipe out the krogan rather than deploying the Genophage. He also claims that the asari should have executed the Ardat-Yakshi instead of imprisoning them in a monastery, claiming that his people would never allow such monsters to walk among them, though Tali notes that few species would, and the asari were very kind to keep them alive. However, Javik admits that, having spent his whole life as a soldier, he finds it difficult to think outside the box, and under different circumstances, he may have been the person Liara wished him to be.

Javik despises traitors, describing them as the worst form of enemy; as he puts it, in his cycle, they would punish traitors by tearing their limbs off and giving them a choice; eat their own flesh or starve. He claims that traitors are never to be trusted, even by the enemy, saying that if they can betray their allies, they can easily do the same to their enemies. As far as Javik is concerned, the only enemies in the war are Reapers and any others aren't worth his time.

Throughout the game, Javik is disturbingly unfazed by atrocities that other crew members are horrified by, due to the fact that he had seen far worse in his own war. Tali'Zorah felt very sorry for him that he had to see such horrors, sympathy that Javik appreciated despite considering it unnecessary. In fact, beneath Javik's cold, stoic exterior lies a deeply tormented soul haunted by traumatic events, to the point that he was grateful that he couldn't remember the faces of his people, since the pain was gone with it. If convinced by Shepard to take the Echo Shard and relive all the memories, he remembers a horrific time that all of his crew got indoctrinated and he was forced to kill them by slitting their throats. That day, he realised that war is an atrocity committed in the name of survival, which he describes as a lesson he wishes he never learned.

Gallery

Javik using his biotics