#mass effect

[helila]

you know what actually, let this be its own post

[elynnism]

I wish I could erase my memory of it and play it again for the first time.

I remember being breathless! It was the first time a video game ever did that to me. I instantly rebooted it to play it again and — for the first time — experienced that I could not experience it again.

It was the beginning of the downhill of my life.

mass effect 2's cold opening of having to float your way through the destroyed normandy after being attacked by a giant hyperintelligence squid with the coldness of outer space, minimal lighting, and your breathing as the only sounds. i think the kids call that popping off

[artbymesa]

Sorry Shepard that was my bad. I didn't mean to embarrass you in front of your future husband stumbling into him like that.

[azatas]

even more mass effect textposts (4/?)

[combustiblecake]

I love how Garrus is like "Sure. I can sleep with Shepard and take one step down these relationship stairs…" But then he slips and goes BONK BONK BONK. He's clattering and clunking in his stupid huge armor all the way to the bottom of the stairs. ‘Oops. Lost control and now I'm engaged??’

[patrickdiomedes]

And I Will Also Adopt A Krogan Son

ME2 is just I Will Collect Every Single Traumatized Person Desperately Searching For Meaning And Direction In This Entire Damn Galaxy And I Will Also Go Pick Up Tali Because I Miss Her

[edgepunk]

Mass Effect Legendary Edition: ME3 (dev. Bioware)

[atuscruz]

No one asked for a red dressed Liara's. But I did it anyway! (And without the dress to)

[gammaraydeath]

˗ˏˋ ★ ˎˊ˗BAD DANCE DOESN'T MATTER ˗ˏˋ ★ ˎˊ˗

[spacevixen2024]

Depends if it were my Conrad Verner fic 😂😂😂😂

How do fanfic writers feel knowing that people might have been masturbating to their work?

[onewingedangels]

Sara Ryder in MASS EFFECT: ANDROMEDA (2017) dev. Bioware

[iris-valentim]

[theredtrails]

How many Jackanda pieces can I finish this year and do you think they will become hornier and hornier

If you're in the mood for something spicier, you can find a topless version on Bluesky here 👀

[andersfeathercoat]

He first felt something after the "I don't think I ever met anyone like you" convo, but it was nothing that couldn't pass as admiration for his turian mind. It couldn't be anything other than admiration right? At least not those kind of feelings.

And then Shepard dies, and he feels lost and helpless, and he grieves so much harder than he's ever grieved anything else before. But then again, anyone would have reason to grieve Shepard, especially him, she was his friend, his mentor. Of course he would grieve her.

But he never feels quite whole again, and he doesn't understand why, something's missing and there's anger and hurt in him. So he ships himself off to Omega.

And then he sees her. She's here, she's alive. The world has colors again, he feels hope for some reason.

It's not long after he gets back on the Normandy that he understands that this right here, is his home. That she, is his home.

Oh no.

He tries to play it off, feeling as dumb as he is flustered.

Then she approaches him, and his mind is reeling. What does she want? Does she feel the same things? Does this mean anything to her or is this just to release some tension before the suicide mission? In any case, he can't mess this up. He can't loose her again.

But she's sincere, and she feels the same way he does. And suddently his anxiety dies. He feels safe, at home

There's no Shepard without Vakarian.

[swaps55]

This is currently on the cutting room floor, but I kind of like it, so I'm sharing it.

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“The alternative was to let you fall into the hands of those who would use what was left of you and discard it," Liara tells him. "I had one option. I took it.”      

“You could have done nothing.”

“Could you have done nothing?”

After a moment, Shepard shakes his head.

“I will not apologize for doing what had to be done,” she says quietly. “Only that I was not able to do more to protect you from them.”

A sad smile flickers past his face, just like the one he’d given her when he’d asked if she was happy. With an exhale he gets to his feet and begins to wander around her apartment, peering at the degree from the University of Serrice she’d hung on the wall. The glass case containing artifacts from Ilos. He lingers in front of a holo set on an end table, displaying a photo from the Normandy. Tali had taken it during one of their regular card games. Wrex sits at the head of the table, glaring at the camera with his cards still clutched tight in his hands. On the left, Ashley Williams has two fingers propped up behind Joker’s head, with Tali slightly blurred in front of them in her rush to find her place before the photo took. On the other side, Garrus slouches in his chair to avoid blocking Liara’s head, and Alenko sits wedged against Shepard’s shoulder so everyone can fit in the frame. His radiant smile matches Shepard’s, though Shepard isn’t looking at the camera. His eyes are on Alenko.

“And the Alliance?” he asks, so quiet she has to strain to hear it.   

She hesitates, then tells him the truth, such as she knows it. “They decided that recovering the Normandy was not worth the risk of entering the Traverse. They worked out a deal with the elcor on Thunawanuro to salvage the black box and databanks containing Alliance intelligence, but chose to leave the wreckage.”

And you.

“I see,” he murmurs, still staring at the holo. “Did Anderson agree to that call?”

“I do not know. I have not spoken with him since the aftermath of the Battle of the Citadel.”

She comes to stand beside him. They all look so happy in that photo. Snapshots of a time that no longer exists, and the people in it who still do are not the same.