#Avitus-

[deadangelos]

You guys got this! Ave Romania!

[wyldblunt]

pov u jokingly pulled off his hair ribbon

[callista-curations]

Turians in crop tops showing waist, you agree, reblog

[gemsbokk]

i think they should let you romance avitus rix right after his husband dies. you know, for old times sake.

pictures unrelated

[mostmagical]

Pairing: Avitus Rix/Macen Barro Rating: G Words: 342

Summary:

Mornings waking were golden yellow, in sheets like velvet, twisted right His name: “Avi,” across the breadth of just one pillow, always whisper light An Avitus that takes a little longer to accept. Grief in eight stanzas.

For N7 Month Day 1 - Poetry

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[most-datable-undatable]

[fleshofmensis]

hi hello i have words to scream cry about some things

FUCKING MACEN BARRO AND AVITUS RIX

.. OH MY GOD IM SOBBING THEYRE SO GAY I CANT AND I LOVE THEM PLS PLS PLS MACEN COME BACK TO LIFE AND MAKE AVITUS HAPPY AGAIN MY POOR SWEET AVITUS ??? MACENS VOICE RECORDING MADE ME SO SAD AND WHEN THE SAM ON NATANUS STARTED MALFUNCTIONING AND TALKING TO AVITUS AS MACEN ..

guys i'm not okay .. i love tragic gays and they are the most tragic in andromeda imo

i boybosswd so hard to make avitus the turian pathfinder AND MY BOY NEEDS THERAPY

also i love the turians dearly.. KANDROS? HELLOOOO BBG

[annasezen-art]

Cassiel (left) and Avitue (right) from Tamara Jerée's The Fall That Saved Us

[aceouttatime]

Character bingo, gimme Avitus aaaand Kal'Reegar pls?

AVI RAHHHH- okay okay, so it's so funny that you ask about him because i just met him for the first time in this run of andromeda and will be crying about him and macen for the next week, thanks. it does NOT help that i have CERTAIN FRIENDS that WRITE ABOUT THEM and HAVE GREAT AND PAINFUL HEADCANONS that i accept as canon. (totally not reading cast's cold and unfamiliar home rn. fuck.)

anyways. he has been through a lot of shit, and i have so much respect for this bastard and his dubious ruthlessness.

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and KAL'REEGAR, MY BELOVED. i swear to god, he needs a break. PLEASE get reegar a blanket, spiked dextro hot cocoa, and a buddy to watch fleet and flotilla with. he works so hard. he is THE rural farmer kid you went to elementary school with who wanted to be a firefighter so badly because he wanted to save lives and then got really into wwII history. if anyone's seen the one meme with him where it's like 'fictional character but they're from my country/state now', i saw one where they put kal'reegar in a cowboy hat outside'a buckee's, and that's canon to me now.

[lordsireno]

I was following the pack, all swaddled in their coats

With scarves of red tied 'round their throats

To keep their little heads from falling in the snow

And I turned 'round and there you go

Avitus belongs to @shiroplain2

[mass-effect-anonymous]

CONFESSION:

As a gay guy I can't help but feel that the Avitus/Macen mini arc was created for the sole purpose to con us to believe the developers do care about creating content for us.  And while it was a nice attempt it only accomplished two things for me. First, it made me naturally assume The Turian Hierarchy is homophobic,  And secondly (I'm embarrassed to say) it did bring out the juvenile side of me and my guy as well and all we ended up wondering is how they do it.  Bioware  really needs to do better.

Mod Note: Hey confessor you have everything off (which I can understand) so I am replying here. First thanks for your submission and there is nothing offensive about it. Its a valid confession and I showed it to my bro and bro in law and they had similar thoughts so you are not alone. My brother actually refers to it as a "placating gesture". I'm sure many others who follow this blog will feel the same way. Thank you again for your submission.

[deadangelos]

THE FINAL BATTLE!

[wyldblunt]

warming up with my new revenant. he's so dumb. his skull is so empty and every demon in a ten mile radius was like "it's free real estate!!!"

[aroaceleovaldez]

okay I said i’d talk about my praetor ocs so here they are. my guys. If you follow Deadangelos you’ve probably seen a lot of them already but get ready for the in-depth version because they’re probably my favorite OCs i’ve made purely for the askblog and they’re very fun to me.

Behold: Dee Keystone (child of Janus) and Cadeyrn “Cade” Avitus (legacy [grandson] of Summanus), the praetors before Jason and Reyna!

(Explanations under the cut cause this got long)

They were made with two main shticks in mind: A.) Reverse-engineering Jason and Reyna to figure out what their predecessors might have been like based on their own personalities, with the idea that they might have tried to model themselves based off of mentor figures, and B.) A personal headcanon of mine that the Romans tended to favor promoting demigods who could potentially fit the Great Prophecy description but with a much wider concept of what “a half-blood of the eldest gods” could potentially mean. At least until the Titan War ended. When the war ended they just presumed Jason was the prophecy kid and they were a year off about his age and all was good.

I brainstormed a bunch of praetor designs for this and ended up picking these two (and one of the other scrapped designs became Athanasius “Mac” Macbeth, one of the centurions of the 5th cohort before Jason and Reyna) cause I felt they worked best and also i just liked their designs. They’re a bit older than I imagine most praetors would be just cause I personally figured it’d make the most sense for the Romans during the Titan War to be drawing in reserve forces from retired legionaries, and so those in the legion who would normally retire just kind of stayed until the war ended. Ergo, these two being possibly the oldest praetors Camp Jupiter has ever had. (Their ages/years in the legion is specifically them in TLO, since that’s the time they’re mostly showing up on the blog.)

Cade is very specifically meant to mirror Jason and Thalia a ton (ergo Comparison Thalia) - Summanus is the Roman god of nocturnal storms and sometimes considered just a sort of variation of Jupiter. My thought with him is that his family lives in New Rome and they fostered Jason when he arrived (because who better to raise a baby who can short-circuit camp’s entire power grid with a sneeze than a legacy family who all also have lightning powers and have raised electrocuting toddlers before?). Plus, Cade just so happens to be extremely similar to Thalia, so baby Jason latched onto him pretty immediately and Cade ended up his big-brother figure. Also yes, I did make extended families for basically all the roman ocs I’m making for this event; Cade has an aunt and two cousins. Cade’s appearance is also purposefully reverse-engineered from Thalia and Jason - his hair is supposed to look a lot like Jason’s except Jason always has a cowlick sticking up (and later gets an undercut, which is why Dee has a half-shaved head cause xe’s reverse-engineered too) with the idea that it’s symbolic of Jason trying to live up to Cade’s legacy but he can never quite be the same, because It’s My Askblog And I Can Flesh Out The Underdeveloped Characters’ Backstories If I Want To. (Jason getting an undercut later and how that relates to Dee is Dee as a child of Janus represents decision and paths and I will get into more detail later on the blog about how Dee specifically represents to Jason what decisions he makes about what path he wants in life and him getting an undercut during HoO/between series is kind of a symbol of him moving away from the original path laid out for him at Camp Jupiter and forging his own path instead. This OC breakdown is actually just Jason character analysis/headcanons in disguise.) Cade also has some face scars to mirror Jason’s scar on his lip. His SPQR symbol is just a lightning bolt over a moon for “nocturnal storms.” Cade also happens to be the same age Thalia would be if she hadn’t been turned into a tree and then became immortal. This also means him and Dee are the same age as Luke. That’s probably symbolism, idk.   ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  

If Cade is primarily Jason’s mentor figure, Dee is primarily Reyna’s. This is extra fun cause Cade is kind of the more serious between the two of them whereas Dee leans a bit more towards Jason’s brand of not-quite-golden-retriever energy, so they kind of swapped there. The “9yr” thing is how long both of them have been in the legion specifically - for Dee, that also includes moving into Camp Jupiter in general, but for Cade it’s just the legion cause he was born there. Yes, this is more parallels to Reyna and Jason (Jason being raised in CJ versus Reyna joining later). Also again, Dee’s hair is meant to somewhat parallel Jason’s undercut he gets later. I really put way too much detail into these guys. It’s fun though.

Some more fun little things!:

Dee has a girlfriend who’s a rogue. and also a daughter of Arke. aka a Greek demigod. That part is extremely complicated so I won’t get into it right now but the short version is: Comedy of Errors (Arke is the twin of Iris, whose Roman name is... Arcus. They’re both goddesses of rainbows. Everyone is confused.) They met during the war and it’s very cute (except for The Horrors but we can ignore that for right now).

The 5th cohort centurion guy i mentioned earlier, Mac, is a legacy of Dis Pater and also dating Cade.

As a legacy of Dis Pater, I like to imagine Mac is the one who gave Jason the coin weapon he originally had.

There’s a whole background New Rome political drama that bleeds into the plotline involving the praetors, Mac, and Mac’s cousin (a guy named Brennus Brinley, a legacy of Bacchus and former augur/Octavian’s mentor). It’s all very complicated and way too detailed for something that will basically never get addressed on the blog but it’s very fun to me.

Currently on the blog I’m doing a flashback event of Jason’s backstory/time at Camp Jupiter and we’re in the portion explaining the Roman side of the Titan War and Dee just basically got told to fake their death cause they found out Brennus is working for the Titan Army so. That’s a whole thing. Why is Brennus working for the Titan Army (something that will definitely never get the chance to be explained on the blog)? See aforementioned political drama. Yeah his family is just trying to get power. So he threatened the life of a praetor during battle which is a horrible idea really but whatever. It’s fiiiine. anyways Cade is sad about that now and I should be working on the next set of panels to explain the rest of what happens with that whole mess.

The interesting part though is I very lightly got to touch upon what Dee’s powers are as a child of Janus and it’s basically just xe can see potential outcomes of a scenario or different paths that are most likely to arise as the result of a decision:

Like here’s xem having xyr life threatened and deciding what to do about it. And xe saw one option had like, waaaay more death, so they picked the other one.

(Also if you’re wondering “Wait, is Dee wearing a CHB necklace?” again, see: Xe’s dating a greek demigod in the Titan Army. It’s complicated. Short version though, said greek demigod was formerly a camper and gave her beads to Dee. Dee still doesn’t know about CHB though. Xe just thinks xyr girlfriend is from New York.)

Cade’s powers I don’t get to go into as much detail about in the plotline I have but generally - he just has lightning powers. They’re a bit more muted than Jason’s though they get stronger at night, obviously. But also because he’s a legacy he’s not as electric-proof so he can’t really do a ton without getting injured himself. He’s more electric-proof than most people though, which is why he’s able to mentor Jason without getting absolutely fried. Also his mom is a cloud nymph which doesn’t really have any impact on him powers-wise and also isn’t super relevant but I think it’s fun and also if he ever grew out his hair/beard it’d totally get wispy like clouds or fog. Again that’ll never come up on the blog but it’s fun to me.

Lookit him. Cloud hair. What a guy.

Anyways that’s all I can think of for right now but feel free to ask about these guys or tbh any of the ocs from Deadangelos because I am always happy to ramble about background characters that I put way too much thought into that will definitely never be addressed.

[acciokaidanalenko]

Taking on the Universe: Chapter Nineteen

Chapter Nineteen: Special Tactics and Reconnaissance

Summary: Natasha is given a crash course in what it means to be a Spectre. CW/TW: None

Preview of chapter below the cut. AO3 link: here.

[lieutenantabrudas]

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect: Andromeda, Mass Effect - All Media Types Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Macen Barro/Avitus Rix Characters: Avitus Rix, Macen Barro, Saren Arterius, Desolas Arterius, Original Turian Character(s), Original Asari Character(s), Original Human Character(s) Additional Tags: Murder Mystery, Fake Marriage, Fake/Pretend Relationship, Alternate Universe - No Reapers (Mass Effect), Graphic Description of Corpses, Undercover, Enemies to Lovers, Rivals to Lovers, Minor Character Death, Rating May Change, Tags May Change Series: Part 2 of Dead Parents Club Murder Mysteries Summary: The year is 2169, and Saren and Desolas's great-grandfather is dying. To get his little brother some fresh air (against his will), Desolas takes Saren along to meet with an old friend and mentor of his. First problem: when they get there, General Agonian is dead, poisoned and gone mere minutes before his guests arrived. Given who Agonian was, and his location on a colony near the human border, Desolas demands Council and Special Tactics intervention, and gets it. Second problem: on a colony full of veterans, Saren is too recognizable, and too emotionally close to the case.

Enter Avitus Rix, a few years into his career and much less infamous than Saren. The mission: go undercover with a partner as newlyweds moving into the neighborhood, and investigate discreetly from there. The partner: one Macen Barro, Avitus's old squadmate from basic training, whom he is less than pleased to see again. It's up to the two of them to infiltrate the community and find the killer - while coming to terms with their own old rivalry and new feelings.

happy birthday to me:andromeda. barrix fake married murder mystery be upon ye

this is technically a prequel to to catch a rabbit, in that it takes place 5 years prior, but they’re standalone stories and aren’t necessary for understanding each other, unless you feel like hurting yourself with more context of why saren’s great-grandfather being in his last few months hurts very bad :)

there’ll be some casual saren/avi in here too later but it’s not there yet trust the process have i ever steered y’all wrong (don’t answer that)