#i look at you mass effect

[acecubus]

biggest wish at the moment is a BioWare game where I can romance the fuck out of anybody I want to as whatever gender and/or race and have a happy ending with my partner. no sacrifices, just happy fluff - is that too much to ask for? q.q

[milkywayes]

GARRUS VAKARIAN: DATABASE IMAGE ACCESS. > PT. 1 : 2160, 2166, 2170. > all files backdated according to user preferences: (terran_coordinated.calendar).

[puppppppppy]

littlest furth shop

@laikascomet

[deep-space-lines]

I am inflicting, or perhaps bestowing, upon you: Garrus as various unnecessarily sexualized references that come up if you look up refs of women with guns :)

(( @milkywayes i know we’ve like almost never interacted but the silly comment i left on your post would Not leave my brain. I need to show u what you inspired ))

[foxprints]

Hello @mishikaiya! I'm your gifter for this year's @masseffectholidaycheer event! I've never drawn Kasumi before but she's so much fun! I hope you like her! 💛

[astorythatwritesitself]

yes good day hi I am being COMPLETELY normal don't look at the tags about this Valentine's YCH from @valkblue 😭

[emmavakarian-theirin]

nvm i can't find it in a single post but THIS i was so proud of myself, i wish that nerf gun still existed i'd recreate this in a heartbeat

[that-wildwolf]

pouncing turian artist's rendition

[a-driftamongopenstars]

Thane Krios' romance holds me in such a chokehold.

his romance is just so... raw. and surprisingly realistic. it's down to earth because people go through tragedy and carry so much baggage that sometimes it weighs them down until they can't see light. his story is filled with tragedy and loss and fuck ups. he's a widower with a son he failed and a career that took out every bit of self from him. he made so many wrong choices and in a manner, he had no other way.

and still, when he meets Shepard, he allows himself that bit of belief that someone cares about him. he accepts a helping hand, he starts making himself better - and tries to fix things. he knows he doesn't have long to live, but that's the point for me.

people die. people get sick and wither away and sometimes there is nothing you can do. sometimes all you *can* do is be there for that person.

the way Shepard loves him, sees past any defenses Thane put up, and allows him to drop them because she's a safe person...

this is a love story of two incredibly complex adults who know exactly what loss is. it's people who live such a dangerous life, that they simply have to take their chance then and there because tomorrow might never happen.

[clericofshadows]

REGIS SHEPARD, KAIDAN ALENKO, AND ASHLEY WILLIAMS MASS EFFECT 1 - VIRMIRE "Either of these two will do, Commander. Both seem willing to sacrifice their lives if necessary, though if we are lucky, such sacrifices won't be required."

[thedustyleaves]

I know the Asari don't look like this but... I can dream...

[shenkospectres]

Shepard checking out Kaidan's ass right after a speech about integrity and trust is a Top 5 moment in the entire Trilogy, don't @ me.

[vakarianshepard]

sole survivor!shepard and ashley’s friendship is so important to me. two people who survived an impossible situation, lost almost all their friends, and just. kept going. neither of them really had time to mourn, to process anything. shepard shipped off to N training, and ash is reassigned to the normandy and it’s just go here, on to the next mission. you survived. you’re fine. so what if you don’t feel like you deserve this? so what if your “success” cost you your friends? you’re lucky. right?

no one really gets it, and people bring it up like it’s something you should be proud of. and you can’t really blame them, how could they know? you lived, that's impressive! no one understands what it feels like to be the last person standing, surrounded by the bodies of people you failed care about.

but shepard knows. ashley knows. they don't have to talk about it much, but it's nice to have someone who understands. who you can turn to with your doubts and your questions and your grief. someone who can hear you out and say "i've been there" and mean it. someone who knows WHY you have to push yourself, why you have to be good enough— you have to be worth the lives of all the people who died to get you where you are. (how far are you going to drive yourself? are you trying to be a martyr?)

but no matter what, one of them dies. even if it’s temporary in shepard’s case. the only other person who got it. another friend, gone. whether shepard loses ashley on virmire or ashley loses shepard on the normandy, one of them is left behind. ash outlives two of her closest friends only a few months after losing her entire squad.

it makes me think about foundation, where after ash talks to rasa/brooks, she remembers one of her squad telling her "luck is for the lonely." i really think that would be on her mind again after both virmire and the destruction of the normandy. sure, she keeps getting "lucky" but always being the last one standing is pretty damn lonely too.

[transmasc-tabris]

People saying that Davrin and Lucianis are really mean to each other or that Neve is an angry bitch if you help Treviso or that Taash is mean for finding Emmrich weird... Wouldnt last an hour in the asylum where they raised me or whatever:

[edains]

Zaeed Massani's Armor Locker (LE2): Original release - Should've been canon edition

Zaeed Massani's Armor Locker (LE2)

[one-little-nerd-stayed-home]

Y'know I'm still thinking about Shepard's resurrection because after the initial wtf wears off, after you’ve resigned yourself to your cerberus crew, recruited a few people you feel you can halfway trust and maybe even one or two you know have your back - then you wind up on Illium and Liara pays your docking fees and you're kind of excited because hallelujah someone you know. Someone you trust!

And then you find out she's the one who put you here in the first place.

I keep thinking about being rebuilt by your enemies. Accepting the fact that they found you first, that this is just how it is. How it was always going to be - and then finding out one of the people you trusted. Maybe even one of the people you loved was the one who gave your body to them in the first place.

I think it's just that sometimes the good things fuck you up worse than the bad ones because it's good to not be dead right? To be loved to such an extreme that someone would go to those lengths to have you back… That’s a gift isn’t it? Nevermind what it does to you right?

You can admit to yourself, to others that the bad things were bad. But Isn’t it good to have a healed body and advanced cybernetics and all of the strength and skill with none of the scars you’ve earned through your life? Aren't you grateful to be alive? Aren't you happy to be loved? Aren't you proud to be brought back to save lives?

Does it matter whether you are or not?

I dunno dude it just fucks me up.