#femshep x Liara

[minamoreh]

Flatterer

[gabrielcrossleyart]

Little Shiara piece! I haven't drawn mass effect fanart in aaaaages and I really loved working on this!

You can commission me via ko-fi here!

[oh-kays-stuff]

she showed up on normandy mission briefing like this

[solusfaust]

daydreams

[amys2885]

A redraw of a 5 year old piece :)

See below for the original

[rizzyun]

Yes this is my fave couple at the game thank you.

Liara by me Fem Shep by @rachasakawa Photo by @ronaldoichi

[royalbs]

So proud of my contribution and how they turned out. Can't wait for the new game to come out, Happy N7 Day everyone

[scavenger-rey]

„It would be easy for a single ship to get lost up there. Wouldn’t it?“

[jxsmindoodles]

Pride month may almost be over but these blorbos won’t stop taking over my brain 😒

[circesoracle]

ETERNITY'S EMBRACE by CircesOracle

“There is no logic to belief, not when it comes from you truly and deeply, the song that strums within you chords you did not know could be played, that would remain silent were it not there to play them.”

Knight-Commander Shepard, crowned Kingslayer for her dethroning and beheading of a false king, was a woman who brought with her name fear for the unjust and hope for humanity. Through unusual and unwelcome circumstance, she finds herself summoned to the Thessian court, the last on a long list of suitors for the sole heir to the Asari throne. A simple arrangement of political gain for humanity, yet what the Asari gain Shepard can not begin to imagine, much less when she meets her bride, who seems as well versed in people as Shepard herself is in politics.

In the halls of the palace, shadows whisper. The empress is hiding something, Shepard is sure of it, yet her growing feelings put her at a disadvantage, less focused on the political scheming around her and far easier to manipulate for the fascinations of her heart.

Read Chapter One Read Chapter Fifty-One

Art by the amazing @orbitalwings as commissioned and posted here with permission.

[ghostymermaid]

Been playing the game a bit more

[minamoreh]

some shepard sketches

[angstyastro]

Howdy space gays.

[unabashedllamamusic]

Yk what's fucking great about Mass Effect? In my two playthroughs so far (both femshep, one with a Traynor romance and one with a Liara romance), Shepard wants a normal family life. With Liara, it's lots of "little blue" kids, and with Traynor it's a house, white picket fence, two kids, and a dog. I feel like 99% of the time when a badass female lead wants children it takes away from their badassery or their independence, it's a way to tie them down and make them seem more domestic. Somehow (I credit Jennifer Hale's incredible voice acting), instead it feels more like Shepard wants to be normal. She spends three games getting thrown into insane situations that she didn't ask for, losing friends, literally dying, having an entire galactic war on her shoulders, going into a mission expecting to die TWICE, and all that on top of whatever trauma her background leaves her with. Bonus points if you do colonist + sole survivor, because that woman must be so far beyond PTSD. But even after all the shit she's gone through, at the end of the trilogy she can say with absolute certainty that she wants to experience a normal life- something she's never gotten before, no matter your background. The best part is she doesn't mention retiring, there's no reason she can't keep her rank and have kids at the same time, she was raised by active-duty officers in one background so it's definitely a possibility. This isn't the "female lead wins by giving up her powers and becoming a mother" trope, it's proof that she's still a normal human despite everything. That's also why I prefer Traynor's romance to Liara, Shepard opens up to her more and seems more human. The mix of flirtyness and honest vulnerability is incredibly normal, through all the galaxy's insanity.

In general, Shepard's trauma is often mentioned in passing but never really shown. No matter the background or choices you make, they've been through hell to begin with and go through it a dozen more times throughout the trilogy. Everyone around them is like "oh wow that must've been tough" but Shepard usually just brushes it off, or gives a line or two about how much they miss whoever it was that died. She definitely had a lot more nightmares than the game let on.

I've walked through a destroyed city once, and it's haunted me daily for five years. I can't imagine being in multiple cities, on multiple worlds, as they're being destroyed, and knowing stopping it is your job, not to mention losing a shit ton of friends + family, your unit, or just the occasional comrade (background depending)

[solusfaust]

Going so soon, Doctor?

[amys2885]

Amy!!! I miss your Shiara art!!!!!

Hey! Thank you, and I honestly miss them too. I'm enjoying seeing all your drawings of them, though!

Here's a quick doodle of them for your ask :).