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I guess this is the intellect check response because you think to ask your companions for healing but I think it's more about trolling Kai with the phrasing.

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youve died a thousand times before who caaares just climb out of this grave again & again &agaian & agaian & again & again & aga

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you can say that your favorite mass effect character is the one who was kidnapped by the government to experiment on their telekinetic power and who was then tortured and used as a guinea pig, implanted with faulty tech that made people go crazy and develop tumors, tortured by an alien race who attempted genocide against their race just a couple of years earlier and who then had to kill a teacher in self defense because said teacher was torturing them based on his own racial bias and half the fandom wouldn't even know you're talking about kaidan alenko

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has this been done before idk but if it hasn’t that’s a travesty

And after Shepard and Grunt leave, there’s a phone call that goes:

“Kahlee, how do you feel about grandkids”

“Fuck’s sake, David–”

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Anderson: That's ridiculous. No one thinks I'm Shepard's father.

Hackett, to his coworkers: Raise your hand if you thought Anderson was Shepard's father.

Everyone: *raises their hand*

Anderson: Shepard, put your hand down!

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Mass Effect comics I drew while playing the LE (finally finished the first one)

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Kaidan wip

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me: I ship them

friend: oh like romantically?

me: no. like cursed object passed between hands for centuries, they are cosmically linked, probably bonded by blood ritual, I think they’ve fought in a war together in at least three lifetimes, and their souls make direct eye contact every time they breathe in the same room

friend: so… romantically?

me: yeah. like. with kissing.

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Oh you’re tired?? Well i know a GREAT place to nap it’s called my chest with my arms holding you ever so gently yeah it’s got great reviews

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i know i played this game before, but i don't think it really sunk in last time the way shepard's image and myth were so distorted and used after her death. the general public was never even informed that she died--this, at least, sheds some light on why the normandy was left a wreck on a forgotten planet, the remains of the crew who died with her equally forgotten until shepard personally retrieved their tags and placed an (alliance commissioned) performative memorial on the site. (if the alliance did anything about this before shepard came back, they'd have to admit what actually happened to her, and that the best ship in their fleet was taken down by a terrifying unknown enemy). when she was dead, the alliance used her image to drum up recruitment, made her the actual face of military propaganda, but when that didn't bring in enough new people they swapped her real appearance for a composite that tested as more appealing to a broader audience. in death, she was a tool for the alliance, in this new life she's a tool for cerberus. everywhere she looks, she is resurrected to be used by someone else, even down to mindoir putting her face on their colonial seals. she is so astoundingly dehumanized by these institutions she is a part of and the world writ large

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living in 2025 when u love truth and beauty and integrity

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do i piss you off platonically. are you mad at me forever as a friend

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i hate this weird trend in fandom where subtext is seen as a Bad Thing and is only done if the creators are too cowardly to commit to showing something. i hate to break it to you but nuance and layers are what make stories interesting, if you have no subtext then you have a very flat story

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war criminal pussy got me acting unwise

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i fall to my knees every time there’s a cutscene

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if you can explain to me why ashley williams racism is somehow worse that garrus vakarians constant racism in a way that doesn't come off as you judging women more harshly than men, maybe i'd take you seriously. strange that people never can.

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i realized your health bar goes from 1 to 3 when you first meet your LI during citadel dlc's beginning and the obvious implication is that they've given you medigel. but im choosing to believe that seeing kaidan strut along in his biotic glow while saying "seems like you're having a bad day shepard" was so fucking powerful that it healed shepard.