#and she mentioned she's dislocated joints multiple times in the past year

[commander-damneron]

My EDS work buddy got her official diagnosis 🎉🎉🎉

[crqstalite]

Character Name: Brione Petrakis

Full Name: Brionetta Sarai Petrakis 

Nick Names: Brione, Bri

Gender: Female

Age: 31 (ME1), 34 (ME3)

Birthday/year: October 24th, 2152

Sexuality: Pansexual

Marital Status: Single (Games), Married (Post-war)

Spouse: Married to Garrus Vakarian post-war (2187)

Hair: Long and a natural red. Usually in a ponytail or braided bun.

Eyes: Hazel, green-brown with flecks of gold in the sunlight.

Origin: Born in London and lived there until she enlisted in the Alliance military at 18.

Language: Brione is fluent in English and semi-fluent in Mandarin (though she posses a strong English accent)

Blood Type: AB

Height: Brione is 5″10.

Weight/Body Structure/Physical Faults: Brione weighs 143 pounds. With a lithe form, she’s the perfect candidate for a sniper, both flexible and durable should the job require it. She doesn’t employ heavy armor like her comrades do, but she’s light on her feet and with a proper stealth generator, she doesn’t require the ability to deflect bullets. There are multiple scars on her arms from bad falls (which leads to sore joints). She is also hyperflexible, but suffers from pinched nerves and twice dislocated her shoulder on postings.

Race/Species: Human.

Parents/Elders/Guardians: She genuinely doesn’t know. A man named Ezekiel took care of her for years. She doesn’t know where he is now.

Siblings: She never had any.

Beliefs/Religion: Brione is an atheist.

Career/Past Careers: She’s always been in the Alliance since she enlisted, and rose through the ranks through elbow grease and hard work. Kept behind a desk for the most part (she’ll deny it but she’s got a tongue of gold and a WPM score to shame an AI) until her assignment to the Normandy SR-1, she was then assigned to the investigation division alongside then Staff Commander Alenko for two years, then reassigned to the Cerberus Normandy SR-2 for undercover work. Later restored to the Alliance Normandy SR-2 as one of it’s senior officers, a Captain.

Hobbies: Brione’s guilty hobby is honestly government sanctioned spying -- and even unsanctioned work gets her excited. One could call her manipulative, and she despised being on the Citadel for so long, but rich ambassadors always think twice if they know she’s posted there or even on leave. The look on their faces when she catches them is something she can’t recreate anywhere else. But on the ‘normal’ spectrum, she likes to sketch when she can.

Likes: Brione loves to read. She’s such a voracious reader that she has a subscription going with one of the book lenders on the Citadel. Most are murder mysteries (which considering her cold exterior, people think is perfect for her), but anyone who went snooping would probably find a hefty stack of fluffy light novels and at times, the smuttiest works one could find on the Citadel. That’s on the assumption this One wasn’t murdered on entry though.

Loves: She absolutely loves a good intellectual discussion. Anytime to get a discussion of morals or ethics going is when she’s at her best -- even though her intention isn’t to put people down for their beliefs. That and spending time with Garrus. She’s surprised she feels so safe around him, but she definitely doesn’t mind it at all.

Dislikes: People. She doesn’t like people who can’t read a room or get a clue. That’s not to say she doesn’t understand social cues are hard to pick up on, but people who annoy and prod at her on purpose would get a fist to the face.

Loathes: She hates politics, even though she knows how to play the Council rather well. Politics are the same reason she stayed at the bottom of the food chain for her entire childhood, and the same reason that parts of the Citadel are suffering the same way she was. Not to mention their idiocy during the Reaper War. She’d say screw it if she could.

Fears: Brione fears the day she becomes a puppet for others’ gain. She’s already being thrown around as an example, sent wherever the Alliance needs her with no regard for what she’s truly capable of (hence so many nearly avoided injuries). She’s forced to say what will keep the Alien races in line -- even if it disgusts her to agree with certain people. Brione doesn’t want to be a mouthpiece, she doesn’t want to lose control over who she is.

Strengths: Brione is extremely analytical, and thinks quick, then acts. While she’s not a biotic like a majority of her teammates, her mind makes up for it. She sees through people rather easily, and can convince them of much of anything. While one is reaching for a knife, she’s already shot their hand off.

Weakness: Brione is seen as manipulative and rash by the people around her. Even though she has best intentions and her actions are often correct, the ethical part of her work rarely intervenes by the time she’s already done something. Secrets are difficult to keep from her, and someone should always be worried it can be used against them in the long run.

Supernatural Powers & Abilities: She has none.

Temperament: Brione is, by nature, smart. She reads people like open books, taking notes of every little thing they do or say. It’s not often that she’s wrong about someone or their intentions. However she reads as very cold, which she is. After so many people have let her down or left her, her goal isn’t to become friends with people no matter how hard they try. Garrus is one of the few people who managed to break that ice, but after that, winning this war and getting out alive is what matters -- not how the job gets done.

Crew Relationships:

kaidan alenko ➝ friend (2183-) ashley williams ➝ acquaintance (2183-2183) garrus vakarian ➝ friend (2183-2185) lover (2185-2186) husband (2187-) urdnot wrex ➝ best friend (2183-) tali’zorah vas normandy ➝ acquaintance (2183-) jeff moreau (joker)  ➝ friend (2183-)

miranda lawson ➝ colleague (2185-) jacob taylor ➝ acquaintance (2185-) mordin solus ➝ colleague (2185-) jack (jacqueline nought)  ➝ friend (2185-) urdnot grunt ➝ acquaintance (2185-) thane krios ➝ friend (2185-2186) samara ➝ colleague (2185-) legion ➝ acquaintance (2185-2186)

james vega ➝ colleague (2185-) EDI ➝ acquaintance (2185-2186) annika johansson  ➝ acquaintance (2183-) kodelyn shepard-velasquez  ➝ friend (2183-) citlali velasquez  ➝ acquaintance (2185-) ezekiel  ➝ guardian

[halsejonell]

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[ourcollectivefantasy]

Fates and Irony (Part 1)

Once I worked up the will to finally realign my dislocated joints, I was able at least to sleep for a few hours. However, the soreness and ache I fully expected the next morning was far worse than I imagined, as it was from multiple points throughout my body. Nevertheless, I am fully aware that the worst thing you can do in such situations is nothing, so after a but of time I slowly moved my shoulders uo and down, trying to rotate some of the stiffness from my joints, then after a bit of stretching I carefully rose to my feet and started moving around slowly as much as my shackles would allow. It was hard and painful, but it was something to focus on: it wasn't as if I had anything better to do, after all.

In fact, boredom was my greatest enemy, now. I saw no one save for when guards came in twice a day, and it isn't as if I could converse with them. There was no entertainment, no books, not even many noises filtering down from above or from the corridor of cells. My mind was a fertile jungle of fears and imaginations both plausible and far fetched that the long, quiet hours only cultivated to unrecognizable overgrowth. The detailed mental pictures of my childrens’ bloodied corpses and Iloam in chains and torment under his insane mother haunted me, and there was no distraction to keep the dark imaginings away.

One day, and then another passed, and the jungle grew and overflowed the borders of my imagination to steal its way into the more orderly, civilized realms of logical thought. Not only did I imagine scenario after scenario in crystalline clarity, my more rational thoughts leant anecdotal observations, prior research, and psychological and sociological realities to really make the fantasies that more plausible. Iloam was absolutely and without question burning and cannibalising his way through the streets, a slave to Maebh, the mother who he always adored no matter what she did to him. Iloam could once again let his control go, diving again into blood and killing and torture with absolutely no qualms. The witch obviously wore Fib and Sean’s sweet heads on her belt, having used them to craft some powerful spell over their father: the proof was all there. My House was glad to be rid of me, obviously: Jericho filled the role as leader both effectively and with the kind of stoic grace everyone desired in a Lord and military commander. Everyone was happy to not have to deal with a spoiled little girl acting like she was in charge. And for my friends? For Ylanna and Eltheas and Lyra and Lysonde and Calanus? Life went on; it just did. I was only really a blip in their lives, and not a particularly compelling one at that. I have never been very good at cultivating lasting friendships.

The reality of it all is that I may be a very intelligent person with a strong will, but I am still young, and overthinking has always been one  of my biggest flaws, and I am a person just like anyone else. In the right circumstances, a mind will break and attack itself. It isn't a sign of weakness, it's just scientific fact. Strong will can hold out for awhile… but not forever. I am a mortal person, just like any other. Even I have my limits.

In the end it was the Shadows that inadvertently saved my sanity. They were a warm comfort in my silent solitude, and fed me with whispers and manipulated my fears - as the Shadow will. On the third day after I realigned my shoulders and joints, as I walked my small area to regain strength and mobility, I noticed how much darker my cell had become. And I noticed how deep and endless the shadowed corners seemed. Of course I noticed the smokey dark tendrils that writhed around me, strengthened by my own anger, fear, and despair - but I had not been able to will them into action as I have in the past, so I paid them no mind after awhile. That was a mistake, obviously. As every priest and practitioner of Shadow magic learns very, very early, the Shadow is fueled by negative emotions, and it hungers endlessly. It may indeed exist as a primal force alongside the Light, but to wield it is to court the Void. The Void always hungers, always consumes, always reaches for more… and if one does not control themselves, one can be consumed by it. The Shadows whisper seductive madness like a perverted lover, and to let it freely inside your mind to move as it will is to abandon your own will to insanity. I had let my Shadows work it's way into my thoughts with no limit, and they were driving me mad.

Well, that was stupid, I chastised myself. If I had not been thoroughly educated and if I had not embraced balance between Light and Shadow in my personal service, I would have never noticed until it was too late.

The solution was to change my mind. I sat with legs criss-crossed on my bedding, closed my eyes, and imagined Light brilliant and bright, cleansing the dark corners of my overgrowing imagination with life-giving fire. And then I stared into that Light, the symbol of love and joy and connection between me and all living things, including those I loved. Meditation is difficult for me, but I got much better at it as I endured for hours, sitting, staring, clearing my mind the moment a stray, shadowed thought tried to insinuate its way into my mind and break my concentration.

Some time later my thoughts were a blank slate, and I breathed slowly. Then I began to imagine every loving moment between Iloam and I, from the moment he let me wear his father's sweater briefly after an explosion destroyed my clothes when we were only friends, to his simple and sincere promise that I would never be alone. I remembered when he gave me the castle, when it was a broken, ruined pile of stones, and I relived every tiny, miniscule moment when he tried to fight his own nature and inclinations for me. I stood again in that opened windowed room of the half-restored castle when he told me he had faith in me, when he of all people never had faith in anyone or anything. That he believed in me, and in us.

Then I remembered Jericho, the summer of our engagement, how patient he was to my angry, defiant teenage self. I thought back to how he reached out, to assure me that he never wanted me to feel trapped. How he gave up his own life to be the husband and Lord I needed him to be. I relived the moment he first held Sean and fell completely in love with my newborn children. I recalled how hard he fought, how intently he led my House’s soldiers against our enemies and endured the self-doubts with guilt when we lost even one in battle. I remembered him wearing Akh'Argar’s colors while fighting at my side, and the personal attention he gave every soldier and servant.

I thought back to my children, and their sweet playfulness and love. To nights snuggling and reading, and days walking and playing and making cookies. To watching the intelligence and sensitivity in their eyes as they explored their worlds. And I remembered my friends, dress shopping with Ylanna and banter with Eltheas. Lyra listening with real interest to my ramblings, and Lysonde truly wanting to be my apprentice. Calanus’ teasing and smirks at my puns, and really… There were others. Some I was closer to, some I barely knew, but there were others who cared in their own ways. No matter how close I was, there were connections, even small ones. Positive interactions encouraging positive feelings that strengthen the connection, and thus, between us, the Light is stronger.

Thus, logically, it was impossible that I had been abandoned, replaced, left to die. There are too many connections, too many positive emotions, too many I am connected to in the Light. For whatever reason, they have not come for me yet. But that does not mean I will not escape, or that I will never be free, and most importantly, I need to remember not to give up hope. I must remember, I cannot let the Shadows have their freedom to do as they please. Because I've seen people who are lost to the Shadow, and that kind of insanity… is just not for me.

Once my head was clear, I began to actively combat boredom. My ability to manifest Light and Shadow - along with my connection to the House mindlink - were being thwarted by a jeweled circlet I could not remove. Everytime I tried, I'd have a skull splitting headache on top of the reality that the circlet seemed to have tiny hooks or barbs that literally stuck it deep into my flesh. Nevertheless, I constantly attempted to pull it from my forehead multiple times, digging under it with my nails. Once I bent the plate I was given with my food, sharpening the edge on the stone floor and then I tried to use it to cut into the skin of my head around the damned thing to maybe pry under it, but the headache became too much and blood streamed into my eyes from the cuts on my forehead.

I pushed against every stone for that one cliche loose stone; nothing. I examined the shackles that held my wrists, but though they were crafted of pure arcane energy, it was like the weapons wielded by the Duskwatch and other Nightborne soldiers - solid as steel and unwavering in its magical effect. There was nothing in my bedding, the plate was taken once the guard came to pick it up, and I tried to get his attention with the whole batting lashes and pouty lips, but without words my ability to really grab him was quite stunted. Not to mention the fact that he clearly saw me the way most Nightborne viewed outsiders: I was barbaric, uncivilized, diminutive, corrupted and neutered in power. Who cut her own head to a bloody mess, and killed his colleague. I have never felt so utterly frustrated and impotent as I did then.

But I had to keep the Shadows away, so even though I had no way of escape that I could perceive at the moment, I drew up elaborate fantasies of what I would do when I got out of this cell. And I hummed a lot, all sorts of songs, from Tauren Chieftains to music from the recording Iloam gifted to me last year, and songs from the goblin radio.

Then one morning the guard who brought my breakfast came with two Felsworn guards like the ones who ambushed us in the Crimson Thicket. They were holding sharpened arcane swords, and stared at me with pitiless intent. Well, shit, I mused to myself, rising to my feet. Time to cull the excess prisoner? Consolidate resources? Maybe Iloam and Jericho have come and they're here to keep them from getting to me... Either way, I needed to quickly figure out how to deal with three armed guards with no magic and no weapons. Maybe use my blanket to blind them and run? No, I was shackled. Maybe use my the chain of my shackles to pull a sword from one of the guard's hands? It was a pretty advanced maneuver and not something I felt really confident would succeed, but my options were very limited. Perhaps - if I turned quickly and they didn't behead me - I could pretend whatever injury they inflicted had actually killed me, and I could find a way to escape as they transported my “corpse.”

What actually happened, however, is that my guard made the arcane shackles around my wrists disappear with the touch of a control orb, then the two armed guards immediately grabbed my upper arms and half dragged me out as if I would resist the chance to get the fel out of there. The pulled me up the stairs and through hallways I had snuck through in my first escape attempt, walking across plush carpets and cold floors as they took me to whatever destination. I didn't fight at the moment, since I knew it would be unnecessarily risky. Perhaps the time had come for whatever judgement to be passed; I needed more information about my current situation before I could decide what to do next.