#Persephone celebrates MEversary

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Commander Katja Shepard beginning her Journey once more...

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persephonechiara replied to your post “i’m going to be back for a while. i kinda need mass effect right now,...”

Welcome back! I am currently doing a trilogy & MEA replay, the tag is "Persephone celebrates MEversary". Mass Effect and esp, Shepard are helping me through this dark time.

Thank you, will check it! :) (if anyone has a tag or a current playthrough they want to talk about, I’m all ears)

And yeah same. I actually think just being here and checking the tag again and remembering everything I love so much about this franchise (and the fandom) is helping me. 

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FEROS

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“Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.” ― Percy Bysshe Shelley

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“Siha, I’m afraid I’ve picked a bad time to leave....” Thane’s voice rattled as their hands found each other, intertwining as lovers have since time immemorial.

“You couldn’t disappoint me, Thane, not even now!” Katja reassured him, her own voice brimming with both emotion and unshed tears. She blinked them away and brought his knuckles to her lips. “I love you so. Stay with me, my love....”

“Such pleasantries from your lips, I cannot tell you how much I want to...” Another attack shook him, his cough spraying blood on her dress. “Forgive me, my dearest one, my warrior angel. But there is one more thing I must do before it gets worse. For you, I must....”

Feverish words of fear followed by immediate consolation and reassurance and when Kolyat brought out the prayer book Katja knew the battle was lost. She owed it to him to make his parting easy, to curb her selfish need and to love him more than she valued her own happiness.

“Guide this one to where the traveller never tires, the lover never leaves, the hungry never starve. Guide this one, Kalahira, and she will be a companion to you as she was to me." And then the time came, Thane drew one last deep breath, smiled at them and the fight went out of his body, the soft glance of his dark eyes breaking in a last locked gaze with her. Katja’s mouth felt ashen, her chest tight with pain.

“Kolyat....” She began, still holding Thane’s hand tightly. “Why did the last verse say she?”

“The prayer was not for him, Commander. He has already asked for forgiveness for the lives he has taken.” Kolyat swallowed hard, his eyes soft with pity. “His wish.....was for you!”

Katja felt a tightening in her chest, knocking what little breath she had out of her lungs. That he should spend his last thoughts trying to reassure her, to ask for blessings on her behalf....it was too much, she could bear no more. The urge to run near swallowed her whole but she forced herself to stay, to close his eyes and place one last kiss on his brow.

“Wait for me,” She pleaded under her breath, her tears falling freely now. “You won’t be alone long.” She avowed, her head spinning after near forty-eight hours without sleep, never mind the blood she had lost or the lack of nourishment and water. What she needed most was no longer of this world. Letting go of her beloved she drew Kolyat into a tight hug. 

“I will have a Memorial on the Normandy before we depart from the Citadel. Please, if you are able, attend?”

“It’d be my honour, Commander.” Kolyat agreed. 

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Something more than friendship

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Oh Blue Rose of Illium......

Too soon?

Remember when ME3 used a tiny ME2 side quest to reduce me to a blubbering mess?

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Peace and Serenity

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*Echoes of loud sobbing*

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Victory Cuddles

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Come back soon!

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This is so heartwarming. The way Katja LOOKS at him like he is her ENTIRE WORLD.

And he returns her gaze just as deeply, just as desperately.

I can’t believe how much these two came to adore each other!

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Apologies for spamming her a lot lately but this MEversary has been REALLY emotional and I have an important question. It was the first since my amputation and two bouts with sepsis. Now more than ever a heroine like Katja Shepard, a fractured soul like myself, means the world to me. IDK how emotional I will be re: the amputation references in ME3 (There are two that I recall, maybe even more) but I know that BioWare, unlike most studios to whom limb loss is very often just a kill shot mechanic, has treated this with sensitivity and gravitas.

Part of me is even considering to change my Canon and have her survive as an amputee. I mean, sure, Drusilla Trevelyan becomes an amputee IN Canon, though she lost an arm & not a leg but....idk, it would feel SO empowering to have this be a reality. Would it be weird to have her choose Destroy but have her uplink with the Crucible, destroy the Reapers without losing EDI and the Geth and have her marry Kaidan instead of flying across the sea to where Thane is waiting for her? (That can still become a reality later)

I could write fic based on my own experiences, seeing myself in her. But Idk if anyone would be into seeing headcanon based fic on a character whose last game came out 8 years ago?

What do you think? I’m honestly asking for support here.

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Testing one of my new armour mods. And I’m IN LOVE?

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“Kaidan, you know me.....” Katja began, almost frantic in her desire to prove to him that she was doing this for the right reasons. In truth, she was still trying to prove it to herself.

“Damn right, I know you! Or at least I thought I did! I knew you could be ruthless, hell, you got hundreds if not thousands killed in that little adventure on Torfan! But allying yourself with terrorists? That’s low, even for you!” Kaidan snapped back, fury and anguish etched upon his handsome features.

His words had her rear back, tears stinging at the corners of her eyes. Her fury, always bubbling close beneath the surface, roared in anguish but she bit it down, her hands clenched into fists.

“Even for me?” She repeated numbly, the tears damn near spilling beneath her visor. She brightened it to hide them. “Even for me?” The words stuck in her throat like a poisoned dagger.

“Shepard, I loved you. But you betrayed everything we stood for. I don’t give a damn what your reasons are. Far as I know Cerberus is controlling you somehow as their latest sick experiment. I want none of it, no matter how pretty the packaging. The Shepard I knew, the woman I adored, died on the Normandy. I have no idea who you claim to be. You aren’t her. You aren’t even anywhere near her league!”

“Kaidan that’s enough, I know Shepard and this is the real deal. Another word out of line and.......” Garrus stepped forward, his eyes blazing with fury. The threat died away when Katja lifted her hand to calm him.

“Leave it, Garrus. He has made his feelings quite clear.” Turning towards Kaidan, she smiled bitterly. “Go, if you wish, I will keep you no further. But know this before you go. I remember every single moment of our night before Ilos as if it had been yesterday.”

Kaidan’s mien softened, his eyes darkening with emotion. Katja had made it under his skin, she knew it. And then she twisted the knife with a flourish.

“You made me feel human too.” That said, she turned away from him, unwilling to let him see her tears. He said something else but she couldn’t make out the words, the grief storming through her like a tempest blocked everything out. Garrus eventually linked with Joker and EDI. They all had had enough of Horizon.

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You make me feel human!