#femshep x Liara

[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!

[amys2885]

A little Shiara doodle to start 2025. I'm also a bit late for this (as I've been unwell over the holidays) but Happy New Year to you all. I just hope for a kinder year for everyone.

[minamoreh]

Flatterer

[oh-kays-stuff]

she showed up on normandy mission briefing like this

[solusfaust]

daydreams

[scavenger-rey]

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

[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

[rizzyun]

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

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

[jxsmindoodles]

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

[ghostymermaid]

Been playing the game a bit more

[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)

[amys2885]

A redraw of a 5 year old piece :)

See below for the original

[minamoreh]

some shepard sketches

[ohmyblues]

Hello, I'm back with my BS <3

This is what happened in the Citadel DLC right?

...or Illium.

Yes I know I'm several weeks late hush

[solusfaust]

Going so soon, Doctor?