#do i mention halo 3 came out 2 months before me1 did?

[emmavakarian-theirin]

okay i'm having some mass effect/halo feelings so fuckING BEEP BEEP INCOMING [SPOILERS TOO OBVIOUSLY]

so in halo 3, these 3 characters can be in the same room at various points in the game

you've got this dude, arbiter, same voice as anderson (for the moment, let's pretend he's the protagonist and forget master cheif)

you've got johnson, who's probably the closest to garrus you can get in halo

then you've got commander keyes, who's basically femshep

the last time they're all in the same room? know what the mission is called?

storm the citadel.

they're in the citadel, one of the last missions.

know what else?

'femshep's forced to aim her gun at 'garrus' (so close! 'anderson' isn't there yet...)

what are they trying to avoid?

letting a madman activate a weapon of mass destruction under beliefs it's for a good thing.

and by the end of it, one is fatally wounded and the other is dead. in this case, however, femshep is dead (shot in the back by the madman/illusive man. this is where it gets slightly AU-y)

after battling hordes of aliens as well as giant machines that shoot beams, anderson eventually finally reaches them... only it's too late..

femshep's lifeless body is lying in garrus' arms, garrus barely able to move. garrus tells anderson to stop the weapon from being activated and save the rest.

to which he does by killing the illusive man after arguing with him over what he's doing all the while simultaneously being controlled by the enemy in some form.

and then the game goes on for a little bit but that's what i've been dealing with so enjoy