#☆nihlus

[sol-consort]

Might I offer a pretty turian I spotted in my play through of me3 who has lingered in the back of my mind ever since.

The dual-colored face paint really stuck with me, after having seen the same patterns in the same colors over and over in me2. At first I thought it was a graphics bug that my game had given me but I wasn't complaining at all, there was a different turian model on my screen after so long.

If I remember right, he was either arguing with the shopkeeper/bartender or checking surveillance systems nearby that kiosk where we meet up with our virmire survivor post citadel attack.

A turian so pretty I just had to spend hours studying his face paint in an attempt to replicate it. I found a clearer picture online that confirmed, yes, it is multicoloured and not a glitch

Left is extracted from the OG pic version.

Right is what I drew based on what i imagined the original symmetrical design to be.

I kept the wavy lines under the assumption that it's inspired by flower petals. I wanted a transparent bg, but the checkered design would've gotten lost with the tumblr bg.

My absolute favourite turian face paint design is this guy in here

Something about seeing hot pink on a guy makes me weak in the knees. Even though turians don't hold the same gender/colours associations humans do, to my ape brain, still makes him appear ten times more confident in his masculinity.

Finding out turians can use multiple colours in their face paints makes me wonder if it's like the human equivalent of country flags but for clans? Since a lot of the designs are similar in certian areas–those two top flower petals are found in 3 different designs....it could also be the Mass Effect devs copypasting to cut corners.

Either they're used as a symbol of something, maybe indicating a clan belongs to aristocracy, or it's just a common design in turian culture. Much like humans love rectangles and straight lines in their flags, turians love wavy and flowery/nature inspired ones? Nihlus markings almost look like the outline of a butterfly wing.

[wetsocksinbed]

alternatively: if the council weren’t fucking nards

[masseffectgayz]

Listen it’s funny

[dalekofchaos]

Update:I made a post on what a Virmire Sacrifice replacing Kai Leng could look like

[thatwildwolfart]

drawing memes of my own fics again

this is their dynamic in reflections

[yorusylph]

[howgalling]

mr. one shot over here felt awful confident with that little shotgun... lmao i do like nihlus alot despite his short appearance <3

[katarrinskey]

Quiet night away from the city

Sketched this a few days ago, thought i might as well post it on N7 day, since it was coming up

Been a while, folks

[nowandthane]

the moment i knew i would love the game

[queen-art0]

nihlus is so handsome that he deserves his fanart too! <3

[uraniumrailroad]

Nihlus Kryik (Mass Effect Legendary Edition)

[sol-consort]

I could've fixed Saren, any human could've fixed him it would've been like super easy

[tragerfcks]

mass effect legendary edition 🪐

Nihlus Kryik

[illusivesoul]

Got the random idea for this and I just had to make them

[callista-curations]

Turians in crop tops showing waist, you agree, reblog

[deep-space-lines]