#I also love Garrus

[reallyquitestrange]

"KAIDAN IS BORING! HES SO BORING OMG!"

I'm sorry you don't want to hang out with a guy who has his shit together cause he has to be on ALL THE FUCKING TIME. I'd bet half the migraines he gets are from having to constantly box his problems up and deal with everyone else's shit! Comparatively, the backstories of all the other romance options in the first game, Kaidan is the only one who actually learned something from his own mistakes! Ashley "family honor" Williams takes 3 games to really learn that hey aliens aren't the problem, government is; And Liara "mommy issues" T'soni has to be perfect so everyone will love her and not see her as "the girl with the dead mom who helped Saren"

Kaidan is already there, 32 year old independent man with trauma he has dealt with and dealing with of his own design. he knows the Alliance and governments meddle and make hard, fast decisions the enlisted pay for with their lives. He gives you advice on how to avoid making those mistakes. Emotional maturity isn't your turn-on? That sounds like a you issue.

[shittybundaskenyer]

[uglynicc]

How I used to draw turians:

How I draw turians now:

Proof you really just gotta stay thirsty to draw what you love better 🕺💕

[universe-prime]

This is less of a "character study" and more like my own personal "bullshit cheat sheet"

Bioware is a bunch of cowards and REFUSES to show us naked turians so, in the chance I need to do my part for society, I wanted a personal reference for Garrus + some little extra stuff of Null. Feel free to use this for yourself if you like, but just know that biology was NOT in the forefront of my mind and I purely designed shit based on aesthetic/what kinda makes sense visually

[sailforvalinor]

Wait. You’re telling me that the pilot of my starship having an enemies-to-lovers romance with my starship’s robot AI is a real plotline that happens in Mass Effect 3?? What is this???

[sydnieminty]

You’ve been on my mind all year.

This is Garrus not coping well after Shepard “dies” in the beginning of Mass Effect 2

He really looks up to her in ME1 and I think it would especially hit him hard if this woman who tried to convince him to do things by the book was ultimately killed because she was off doing busy work for the Council instead of handling things her own way

[teashadephoenix]

The way Garrus sees himself: takes no bullshit cowboy cop turned merc bc he wasnt Doing Enough Good In The Universe

Everybody else: sends letters to Shepard to Please Look After That Sweet Himbo before he hurts himself

How my Shepard sees Garrus: if he shouts "scratch one!" one more time i am going to have to get him in a headlock and give him a noogie

Also my Shepard: gonna rock that nerd's world before the year is out is2g

[spaghetticat3899]

Kinda wish male and female Turians looked identical. I don’t care if it’s lazy, if anything it would’ve been easier to pull off, since the only reason they were introduced so late is because of the reduced memory the games had, therefore having difficulty adding a whole new model. Now, I don’t hate the female turian design, I know some folks do, but I’m kinda indifferent to them, there’s things I like and dislike. Their faces can be pretty, but the lack of back-head-covering feels a tad odd to me, especially since the plates are meant to provide protection from solar radiation. They could’ve still had the crests, just smaller or flatter, no? There’s also a line of dialogue saying most can’t tell the difference between a male and female turian, which implies they’re near-identical, right?

I don’t know, it was just something I was thinking about because I’ve been thinking about Mass Effect again.

[choccy-zefirka]

Genuinely fascinated by folks that go out of their way to prevent viddy gaem Blorbo from starting a background romance with another character in playthroughs where Blorbo is not the LI. How do you make friends in the fandom knowing that they have OCs that also romanced Blorbo?

[lovelywingsart]

Fuck it, quick No-Reapers AU shitpost because I got tired of lining a bigger piece and I wanted to sketch something stupid and didn't really bother making it perfect

Cam and Nihlus share a braincell and Saren is having absolutely none of it (He still loves them tho even though he won't admit it)

Cam was probably reading something and Nih is making fun of them for it, he enjoys teasing them like a shit Also, to whoever decided that Nihlus was essentially a giant brick-shithouse himbo in fanfiction, i love you and Kryterius has also consumed me.

[kaidanalenkosprmanager]

THE BEST OF PRIORITY: PALAVEN

Featuring: Cmdr. Sophie Shepard, Lt. James Vega, Dr. Liara T'Soni, Garrus Vakarian, and EDI With: Flight Lt. Jeff "Joker" Moreau, General Corinthus, Primarch Adrien Victus, and Councilor Tevos War is your resume- and at a time like this we need leaders who have been through that hell. And honestly? Uniting these races may take as much strength as facing the Reapers. Mass Effect 3: Legendary Edition (2021)

+BONUS:

[camalyng]

"I'd be more comfortable if they didn't have access to engineering and the CIC."

[tenleaguesbeneath]

I feel like ME3 kinda leaves the revelation on Chronos Station hanging when EDI is like “oh yeah Cerberus is Indoctrinating civilians and augmenting them with Reaper cybernetics, that’s why they treat their soldiers’ lives so cheaply”

It comes really late in the game, after Shepard’s walked over a pile of Cerberus bodies. Maybe part of that is that by the time she has a chance to rest after having it confirmed, she’s done fighting Cerberus for good. But then, it’s pretty heavily foreshadowed. Grissom has datapads saying they plan to make Phantoms out of the biotic students if they can take them. Eden Prime has a thing where they’re pretending to the civilians they’re occupying that the people they’re kidnapping are being taken away for forced labor and hiding that they’ll never be seen again. fucking Mars has you see their Reaper-cybernetic-altered faces, though you don’t find out about them not being willing volunteers until later. Liara seems to be aware of this given her convo with Aethyta.

I’m not sure if it’s my copy of ME:Legendary or something else but sometimes when I throw them they get stuck ragdolled in a corner with hit points remaining but they’re not getting up, and finishing them always feels kinda grim.

The version of Shepard they portray who has no comment on either doing that or finding out that she’s been doing that to people who were taken from their families against their will and mind controlled is, like...

it says disturbing things about how inured she is to violence. the entire squad, really.

[madamedramatics]

I have several Shakarian WIPs that have sat in storage for months, close to a year now. Some I'm more committed to than others. Some are meant to be specifically written in between works to give myself time and space away from what I've already done. Some will probably never see the light of day because I'm just not that interested in the concept anymore.

It feels so odd to let some of these passion projects go to waste, so I've been thinking I should post snippets/or entire chapters of them here, and if at least one person gets to enjoy it, that's good enough for me. ❤️

[wanderingaldecaldo]

Ten Characters, Ten Fandoms, Ten Tags

Tagged by @fly-amanitaa, @ghostoffuturespast, and @luvwich, thanks chooms!

Mitch Anderson, Cyberpunk 2077

Garrus Vakarian, Mass Effect

Elizabeth Bennett, Pride & Prejudice

Dana Scully, The X-Files

Starbuck/Kara Thrace, Battlestar Galactica

Camina Drummer, The Expanse

Hannibal Lecter, The Silence of the Lambs/Hannibal (TV & movie); featuring both Sir Anthony Hopkins & Mads Mikkelsen

George Smiley, various books/adaptations by John LeCarré; featuring both Sir Alec Guinness & Gary Oldman

Blackwall/Thom Rainier, Dragon Age (Inquisition)

William T. Riker, Star Trek: The Next Generation

Taggging with no pressure: @pacificaisstillpacifica @drunkchasind @peaches-n-screem @glitchinginthegarden @cinnamon-mey @thegreatdivide @arachnophobic-larantula @humberg @juststayquiete @irrigone

[sailforvalinor]

Love it in Mass Effect when the Paragon option is to punch someone in the face. Get wrecked in the name of justice.