#Shepard x Vakarian

[dreams-of-an-escapist]

Fellow Shakarian fans pls give me good Canon divergence-AU long fic recs🙏

Preferably longer than 20k words and finished or active ongoing😅

Though there's a high chance I've already read everything that might have caught my eye

But I'm asking for a chance that I missed something 🙃

[ohmypawsandwhiskers]

Last Line Meme tagged by @the-rebel-archivist

Rules:  In a new post, show the last line you wrote and tag as many people as there are words.

From my mass effect Valentines prompt:

The look is unfamiliar to Kei. In all the time she has known Garrus, he has never shown hesitancy to be close to her, but she shrugs it off, counting it as something she is reading too much into as she plucks a silver streamer from his fringe and teases, “Between the blush and the streamer, though, it seems like you’re getting into the holiday spirit.”

Tagging: @curiousthimble @askweisswolf @athenril-of-kirkwall @astudyincontrasts @girlwondersteph @hanatsuki89 @kirkwallgremlin @roseategales @roguelioness @in-arlathan @ink-and-dagger @impossible-rat-babies @noire-pandora and anyone that wants to do this!

[bonjourviolette]

[rosebud1773]

Chapters: 87/? Fandom: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death Relationships: Female Shepard/Garrus Vakarian Characters: Female Shepard (Mass Effect), Garrus Vakarian, David Anderson (Mass Effect), Ashley Williams, Vortash (Mass Effect), Erash (Mass Effect), Sensat (Mass Effect), Monteague (Mass Effect), Lantar Sidonis, Weaver (Mass Effect), Butler (Mass Effect), Mierin (Mass Effect), Melanis (Mass Effect), Grundan Krul, Ripper (Mass Effect), Garm (Mass Effect), Jaroth (Mass Effect), Tarak (Mass Effect), Mordin Solus, Urdnot Wrex, Donnel Udina, Chloe Michel, Liara T'Soni, Kaidan Alenko, Jack | Subject Zero, Illusive Man | Jack Harper, Miranda Lawson, Karin Chakwas, Zaeed Massani, EDI (Mass Effect), Grunt (Mass Effect), Samara (Mass Effect), Javik (Mass Effect), Original Asari Character(s), Original Turian Character(s), Saren Arterius, Sovereign (Mass Effect), Harbinger (Mass Effect) Additional Tags: Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Epic Friendship, Epic Battles, Epic Love, Interspecies Relationship(s), Interspecies Romance, Interspecies Sex, Heartache, Pining, Awkwardness, Major Character Injury, Character Death, Tension, Heartbreak, Love Confessions, Friends to Lovers, Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Eventual Relationships, Eventual Romance, Eventual Smut, Slow Burn, References to Drugs, alcohol use

Summary:

Shepard tries a number of times to reach Garrus. She finally opts into reaching out to his sister. Solana can only give her so much information. The comm buoys are down all around Palaven. It doesn't leave Shepard much to go on as Ashley is taken to Huerta Memorial for her injuries. A meeting with Udina awaits.

[naomifj97]

Taylor Swift's "The great war" but it's Garrus and Shepard

[catsharky]

And on that day, Garrus learned two things: to shut up and let Shepard fight the losing battle against gravity, and a whole lotta new human swear words

Comic Masterpost

Also, while I didn't end up being able to match the vibe of the rough for this panel, I like it so much that I must share it with the world

[scripts4dreamers]

Something that really stuck with me while I was playing Mass Effect 2, and that I feel was so important to understanding the relationship between Shepard and Garrus, whether you romance him or not, is that Garrus is your only companion from ME1 who never moved on.

You died. The crew watched you die. Assumedly they grieved you, there was a funeral service, there were tears and all five stages of grief. Things were rough, but eventually life took on a shade of normalcy again.

Kaiden/Ashley got reassigned and continued their work for the alliance. Liara fights tooth and nail to get your body to Cerberus, but then it’s out of her hands and she becomes an information broker. Tali goes back to the Floatilla, like she was always supposed to. Wrex becomes a clan leader. And yes, they’re all fundamentally changed by their time on the Normandy, but no one seems as stuck as Garrus Vakarian.

Because he doesn’t go back to the Citadel. He doesn’t join the Turian Hierarchy. He ships himself off to Omega, one of the most dangerous places he could be, and makes a life out of pissing off the most dangerous people there. It’s kind of a suicide mission, especially after what happened with Sidonis. He kind of figures he’s going to die doing this, but what else can he do?

There is no normalcy for Garrus in a world without Shepard, and I think that’s why he’s always immediately ready to come back to the Normandy. The Normandy, and Shepard, are home for Garrus and that’s why I think romancing him feels like the natural conclusion for so many femme Sheps, because Shepard feels that way too.

Of all the companions, no one needs Shepard to live more than Garrus, and no one needs Garrus more than Shepard. They’re perfectly matched, as lovers, as friends, as soldiers, as whatever they are in your universe and when you’re that perfectly matched with someone, you never quite feel whole without them.

No Shepard without Vakarian.

[noeliacortes]

Quick study of Garrus Vakarian

[topaz-carbuncle]

recruiting garrus in me3

saying goodbye to garrus in me3

it's probably nothing, but i love how he uses the same phrase both at the start and at the end. as if shepard's stupid for suggesting he won't be by her side for more than a mere second

[lizah-aart]

Save me, I fell down the Mass Effect Rabbithole.

[shepsfishtank]

saw this meme goin around the bird app and immediately thought of these two

[milkywayes]

someone's let his guard down >:)

[topbanana-art]

I don't even know what to say.

My brain connected Shepard and Garrus to that one post and I was simply possessed to draw it.

[thefloatingstone]

Local Man forgets the "proposal" part of marriage. More at 11.

(He's so stupid and embarrassing in ME3 and I love him so much sdfkhsdf)

[strawberrykidneystone]

someone’s probably already done this but oh well

[leafy-yezi]

I miss them very much