#☆angara

[sol-consort]

There is this reddit post I saw months ago that stayed with me to this day. From what I remember, the OP had a newly hatched baby chick that was immensely weak after struggling out of its egg. It might have been a rescue or something... the details are foggy.

The chick could barely walk, wouldn't speak, refusing to eat and everything else. It seemed like a lost cause, and the OP didn't know what to do.

Then they remembered a post they read long ago (ironically enough) in which a person said that the essence of hugging could be condensed into simply pressing someone against your thyroid—or was it a different part near the carotid artery? It's a fragile part of the neck, is what it is.

It's the closest to your pulse point, where your mortality is most exposed, much like wolves shield each other's necks when an enemy attacks.

Having exhausted all other options with no progress, the OP thought to might as well try it. They really cared for the chick and wanted it to survive. So they scooped it up in their hand and gently held the baby chick against their neck, warming it up, letting it feel the movement of their airway with every breath, not just listening to your heartbeat but feeling the expand and deflate of the vein under the thin skin

Now, in my opinion, there is no feasible way to hug a creature that's smaller than your fist. You're just too large, you might crush it. You may cradle it to your chest, but that's not hugging. Even then, birds don't have any arms to hug you back. It will never be a proper hug. Nothing will fit right.

But after some minutes, the baby chick began moving again, squeaking out, gradually regaining its strength after. It was comfort all along, what it desperately needed, and feeling the pulsing heartbeat of another soul while scooped up against its weakest point, managed to soothe it.

Days passed, and it was eating regularly again, full of energy and life.

To me, it might not be a hug on a technicality, but to the baby chick, it meant the whole world. And I'd have to be blind to deny the difference it made.

This story feels relevant to the above example with angara handholding. It's not possible to entangle all of your fingers with theirs, but who's to say that the essence of handholding can't be condensed into hooking one finger into another person's, this fragile small bodypart, so easily breakable.

Life tethers at the tip of your fingers, after all, hands growing cold once the soul departs. Isn't the first thing a newborn does when interacting with others is to grab your finger with their tiny fist? To hold your hand in the only way they can manage how.

Angara anatomy shows that their last three fingers are webbed together by a thin layer of flesh, leading to less flexibility than a human hand offers.

A lot of human hand gestures (pinky promise, middle finger, peace sign) are impossible for them to perform. We count on our fingers because it's the easiest way to teach human kids numbers by folding down each separate finger, while the angara can only fold three at a time. Do they use something different to count on?

Meaning, there is no feasible way for a human to hold hands with an angara; you can't entangle your fingers into theirs without the webbed flesh coming in the way.

:(

(On an unrelated note: what's up with angara and the number three symbolism continuously showing up? They birth three children at a time, they have three fingers fused together, they have 3 repeated letters in their name)

[emmavakarian-theirin]

I HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS

[baggesa]

[naiitiel]

Angaras. My pretty boys.

[yuko27]

Sara Ryder&Jaal Ama Darav

UPD I added extraterrestrial backgrounds to my previous drawing :)

[bellamer]

Mass Effect Characters that I think are black coded or poc coded since this game has like 3 black characters in the entire series but one dies, one is meh and the other is the worst fucking character in the series who’s every negative black stereotype in the book

Jaal Ama Darav- Fucking obvious. Tbh most Anagara are black. Maybe all of them. Yeah all of them.

Almost all Asari. Like I can’t even choose one because every one I meet gives me black woman vibes, even Liara, especially with how they’re sexualized constantly . I think all Asari are black women ot just women of color (shut the fuck up don’t say ‘they’re blue of course they’re woman of color’ I will eat your soul) but I’m claiming Liara, Matriarch Benezia, PeeBee, Samara, Morinth and Aria mostly

Most if not all Krogan but I’m claiming Wrex, Drack, Eve, Kesh and Grunt as black. The others can be whatever

Vetra, Syd and Kandros are my only black turians

If I’m claiming Salarians I’m only claiming Kirrahe and Kallo because Kallo reminds me of my nerdy ass brother

All prothean’s are black because they remind me of the angara

Thane is black and since he’s like the only Drell I know besides his son he’s the only one I claim as black plus his son. Maybe that one drell Liara likes or whatever but I don’t remember his name and I don’t care to google it

As for the other races like the Volus, Batarians, Vorcha and Hanar they can be whatever. I feel like Quarians or some sort of European coded but then you have Reegar who sounds like fucking soldier from TF2 so idk I’m not touching it

Also don’t come for me with “Oh why are you headcanoning most of the krogan as black they’re aggressive that’s stereotyping” which like in the game all krogans are stereotyped as aggressive but you have those who aren’t like Kesh but she’s treated as such by Tann and others just because she’s Krogan even though she’s a scientist who wants to use her brains, Eve who’s physically restrained even when she’s the one in danger all because of the stereotype of all Krogan being violent when she prefers to use her brains and even criticizes other Krogan for their old archaic ways of thinking with violence, like they’re treated how black women are treated all day every day 24/7 365. I’ll headcanon them as black if I want to.

If you want to know why I claim most of these characters as black feel free to ask but so far this is my list. Also I might do a thing where I draw a human design for the characters I think are black.

And if you disagree with these let me know why. Even though I most likely won’t read it because nine times out of ten when someone objects to a non human character being head cannoned as black it’s for racist reasons so I genuinely don’t really care if you disagree

[queen-art0]

Which version do you prefer? 7v7

this is also useful to practice angara anatomy 😏

[shiara-tsoni]

Angara Concepts, Art of Mass Effect Andromeda

[plasticfreckles]

late night thought about uncanney valley, extraterrestrial life (mostly mass effect aliens), monsterfuckery and all that

brought to you by the fermi paradox hypothesis that alien life may be so immensely different from human life that we'd never find each other bc we're looking for Humanoid Signs and the Inhabitants of HIP-413b are looking for HIP-413b'ian Signs

i watch star trek and i play mass effect and consume monster pornography and im like

they kinda sexy

but lets be real if I opened the door to go to work one day and Garrus Vakarian stood in front of me

best case, uncanney valley hits like bruh your cosplay so good, so screen accurate it actually freaks me out

worst case, i shit myself and vomit on the spot or just straight up die bc I'd be terrified

like sort of, the appeal is that they're inhuman, yeah, but also that they're not real?

bc im trying to imagine a creature that's easily taller than my room height, covered in some sort of biological, scale shield against radioactivity with its waist the circumference of my forearm and extremities the dimensions of... idk sth tall and skinny you get the idea

he could tell me there's no shepard without vakarian all he wants i will not survive that encounter and not even bc he'd kill me or I'd kill myself bc honestly

i dont think the human mind is equipped for that. The average human mind can barely comprehend that the number of ESTIMATED stars in the OBSERVABLE universe is this number: 10^24. TO THE POWER OF TWENTY-FOUR. I DON'T EVEN KNOW 24 PEOPLe. Like for all that math is what makes up the universe [or so I've been told. i have dysalculia, i wouldn't actually know] if Just Some Guy can't process that how tf would JSG process The Very Model Of A Scientist Salarian?*

We all played Andromeda and watched Jaal stalk down those stairs and went 🥵 but if this mountain of skin easily thrice my mass came stalking down stairs towards me?? REALISTICALLY??? Evfra could call off his snipers and get the cleanup crew bc i died right there and evacuated every last of my orifices thankyouu.**

[angara [AND KETT HOLY SHIT] only get worse when u think about their origins but since I'm passed on before anyone even speaks it's not conducive to my point so im ignoring it]

also i think salarians would be worse bc they look rather close to what ThE gReEn MaRsMeN are depicted as

quarians and asari are just larping and cosplaying probably

but you know what would absolutely yeet me into the next life? NA'VI bc they hit alienism and uncanney valley at the same time and now translate that into conceivable carbon-based intelligent life? absolutely not goodnight

I once spent 10 bucks on an exclusive character in a Crusty Dating Sim in which you met that character's alien creators and MC straight up vomited and back then I laughed but honestly? probably same

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*dont actually tell me i dont wanna hear it

** dont talk to me about societal shift or whatever from having grown up with aliens and landing on an alien planet in an alien galaxy for human expansion thats not what this is about. its about that, take em outta mass effect and plop em in front of your door you're dead on scene

[dirtybiowareconfessions]

Confession: an angaran orgy complete with electrostim would fix me (to the mod(s): thank you for running this blog! I keep coming back, I love it here ❤)

[beamer7thepoko]

Heres a Mass effect andromeda jaal appreciation and admiring post & gif collection because I was thinking about him recently.

[sol-consort]

How do you think the mass effect depicts would react to trick or treating? (Sorry if it’s been asked before and I missed it)

Halloween Pt.1

[Part 2]

Dw, you're good it's never been asked before. Even then, I don't mind repeating prompts if I had something new to add... Otherwise I just let it marinate in my inbox in shame.

Gonna assume this is about Mass Effect alien species and not specific characters since that's what I'm mostly asked about. If anything, it shows how impressive the world building in the franchise is for the whole foundation of my blog to be set upon mostly just the species content.

Asari

They think it's a little novel of a holiday

Surprisingly down to participate in it, both to "welcome our new human neighbours" and because they're genuinely intrigued

Most asari are hardcore

They take the costume making part of Halloween very seriously

A good handful of them do end up dressing up as Aria

Doesn't end well.

The first year of Halloween to them is a big hit

Becomes a whole trend and the Next Big Thing

Then like all trends, it ends up simmering down with time

A couple decades into the future and only some asari still celebrate Halloween, mostly the ones with human relatives or friends

But a lot of houses, stores, and even offices keep a honorary candy bowl for humans during this time of year

More as an accommodation

Human demand free candy from you during this one day, it's a given fact across the galaxy

And the asari are nothing but courteous and considerate of other species' customs.

The asari only ever hand out asari candy, absolutely refuse buying anything else.

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Turians

You give the war nerds a chance to dress up as their favourite hero and expect them NOT to jump on it?

They even use real guns and weapons in their costumes

Aren't in it for the candy

Frankly they can't even eat 90% of it, and houses rarely have dextro candy soo...

They're content with being the person with the most badass Halloween costume in the room

Get too into character, however.

Especially the ones cosplaying as a specter

Especially the ones cosplaying as a certian specter Sniper from an infamous Normandy team

Turians think humans have the right idea about Halloween but the wrong execution

Everything is too easy it's...too boring

Where is the pizzazz? Where are the stakes?

The tricks. Oh yes the tricks

Instead of freely offering candy, you must impress the whole turian household first before they deem you fitting of receiving their favour

Sometimes whole competitions are put in place

They like it enough to incorporate an altered version of trick treating into their own holiday calendar

At least the human Halloween parties are fun

Turian houses hand out energy candy bars and dextro candy, which is...poisonous to humans.

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Angara

So why can't they just give you the candy right away?

Why do you have to wait and dress up?

You can just ask, they'll give you free candy any day :)

Despite their words, they're the most likely species to pick "trick" when approached

They're just curious, they wanna see what trick you have up your sleeves

What do you mean "it's just a saying"

You don't have anything prepared? Then why did you offer in the first place

Now they're just disappointed, human.

They find the holiday a little strange, some are sceptical of how it could be enjoyable, others are very intrigued and excited

Chances are the angara would just observe the humans from afar

At least in the first Halloween year before deciding to take a dip in the pool

Others straight up immediately canonballing into the whole Halloween thing from day one

They end up enjoying it more than they thought. Going door to door and seeing their neighbours, meeting other friendly faces

They still don't see a point for the rehearsed lines, why not just ask directly for candy?

A lot of Angara do actually bother to prepare a trick

Ringing the doorbell to an angaran household, the door opens for you to be greated by one of the mothers looking at you in endearment

She compliments your costume, little nitpicky with the details, but hey, it's her sincere opinions

Lifting your candy bucket up in anticipation

You receive!

Goob

A scoop of yummy angaran goob piped into candy wrappings

As your treat

[flaccidpncake]

My angara oc, Teraahj Do Tehjiit

[baggesa]

[tarkankurdu]

Ankara da mevsimler

İlkbahar

Yaz

Bu ne soğuk amk

Kış

[yuko27]

Sara Ryder+Jaal Ama Darav ❤