#jealously squeeze the characters to my chest without letting anyone step in

[invinciblerodent]

Oh spell ellie's name out for the nsfw ask meme B)

as if yall aren’t used to me going waaaaay too wordy huh

E= Experience (How experienced are they? Do they know what they’re doing?) 

So I know this is mainly about sex, but I have some of her romantic history worked out, and fuck me if I’m not gonna use this opportunity to rant a bit.

The cornerstones of Ellie’s romantic past would be the Jesses; Jesse and Jessica, who both go by “Jess”. Jessica who was her first ever girlfriend (dated for about a year when they were like 16-ish, was her first in pretty much everything), and once they split up, her good friend and probably her biggest emotional support after her mom and brother. (Really, Ellie was maid of honor at Jessica’s wedding [to a lovely asari] when they were 25.)

Jesse she dated on-off, for basically all her college years. And yeah, they had a lot in common and whatnot, got along well (when not dating), went to high school together and started dating freshman year of college, but they were like.... not even like oil and water, but more like bleach and vinegar. Just very, very bad together.

Like, I could talk for hours about all the ways they didn’t work, about how many times they broke up with one of them storming out of the apartment they shared throughout grad school, and then ended up getting back together a few weeks later. But that relationship ended FOR GOOD when Jesse caught wind of the Andromeda Initiative and the role Ellie’s dad played in it. (He saw it as a colonialist shitshow just waiting to go wrong, and tbh, after that, Ellie kinda doubled down on it out of spite, and she would have rather bit her own tongue off than admit that she kinda thought he had a point.)

So Ellie’s pre-Andromeda love life (and sex life, by extension) was more or less just her.... navigating around her and Jess’ thunderous relationship, short periods of calm happiness, and a few rebound relationships lasting a month at best between spells of Jess. As a result of that, she’s pretty cautious and insecure in love, and for a 28 year old, she’s not very experienced either, never really managing to stick around with anyone before Jess swept back into her life and made her forget about whoever she was thinking about getting serious with.

..... that “sweeping” included a lot of near-violent makeout sessions in bar bathrooms, stumbling into her apartment already halfway naked, awkward, clumsy, kinda-drunk banging, having a soft and cuddly breakfast, and resuming the fighting over dinner.

L = Location (Favourite places to do the do)

Tbh, I’m thinking couches. Liam’s ratty, but oh-so-comfy couch. The weirdly angular and annoyingly slippery couch in her cabin. They joke about the comm room couches and having to time it right so nobody will catch them bare-assed.

There is just some kind of urgency about it that she likes. It just makes her feel wanted. So far they have not managed to watch a whole movie together, from beginning to end, and also remember it all over the cuddling/making out/having sex with a movie in the background.

Except for Earth Girls Are Easy. It’s her comfort movie, and she made him watch it with her when she was particularly bummed out.

I = Intimacy (How are they during the moment, romantic aspect…) 

I imagine her to be giggly and playful, if given a chance. She’s kind of an awkward giraffe baby with those long, bony limbs and confidence issues, but it somehow just works with Liam’s own playfulness.

I mean, sometimes she’ll get on his lap, and he’ll just blow a raspberry on her boob. Or she’ll dig her oddly cold jesus christ why are they so COLD fingers in his armpit. Or they’ll take over the shower, and splash around while everyone else is on shore leave. Or he’ll take her base jumping on Eos and bang her in the dust without realizing that everyone in the control center can hear, which is canon and better than anything i could have come up with. Sex between them is almost always fun.

(Except that time after she found out that her dad was a lying scumbag who didn’t give a flying fuck about her, and also kidnapped her mother and made his kids bury her. I have a plan of writing that one out at some point.)

O = Oral (Preference in giving or receiving, skill, etc)

Now that I think about it, I... kinda see her as a little bit of a pillow princess? Sad as it sounds, for a long time, she had only really had sex with people she.... didn’t much like in the romantic sense. Or wasn’t happy with at the moment. So I kinda imagine her having gotten used to just giving in and letting it happen, rather than being a proactive and enthusiastic partner.

But, now that she is in a happy, loving, fulfilling relationship, she’s happy and eager to learn. Winkyface.

T = Toy (Do they own toys? Do they use them? On a partner or themselves?)

I actually thought about this and how it would work with the limited Ark luggage! 

So I recently remembered the quarian-made e-stim programs that were mentioned... I think in ME2? (and I’ve also been reading this webcomic, “Love Not Found”), and I’ve decided that fuck logic this is sci-fi, I’m sure it’s possible to install a sexy app on a standard omnitool. I mean let’s face it, as soon as something cool is invented, there WILL inevitably be a person somewhere whose first thought is “I wonder how I could get my jimmies off with that”.

And, I’m sure people were allowed to bring a personal data stick. So I’m pretty sure that was on Ellie’s: her favorite playlists, a lot of movies and tv shows, a lot of books, and in a password-protected folder, a small selection of programs for the e-stim application on her omnitool. Probably less sexy than the question suggests, but what the hell. (And, I mean, there are already toys that can be remote controlled by a partner through an app, so it could work. Also it could because I said so, but it’s good to know that it’s at least feasible in-universe.)