#mass effect chakwas

[dr-vauclair-art]

Portrait 20/30 - Dr. Chakwas (Mass Effect)

[kibagib]

Updated ME icons

And once again, happy N7Day!

FINISHED VERSION HERE

[ampdraws]

[writers-dilemma]

Shepard, driving the Mako:

Every unfortunate squad member chosen for the mission:

[valka-arialitan]

''I'm a healer, but...''

She's also a major 🤌✨

Redrawing stock photos because low quality content is still content. Season 1, episode 2.

Feel free to send me stock photos and request characters !

Ref under the cut

It's looking creepier on my phone than on my computer :')

[margoteve]

Making a drink but we don't know what the other people put in there Normandy SR 2 Style.

Miranda: Miranda Lawson. we all have learned that i don't trust them, so i am putting in some lemonade.

Tali: Tali here! i am gonna put in Poppi because I feel like Shepard is going to put in a lot of liquor. Trying to play it safe

Garrus: Garrus Vakarian. i am putting in lemonade because Shepard just got dumped and I can tell they will try to go hard tonight, so....

Mordin: Mordin Solus. Sprite. Team consisting of hardened military and criminal element. Lots of liquor suspected. Trying to protect liver.

Jacob: I'm Jacob. i am putting in OJ, because I am kinda scared of Shepard

Shepard: Hi, this is Shepard. it's been some long ass week, so I'm putting in some Everclear *sniffs the bottle amd recoils* *starts pouring* *assesses and pours in way more*

Jack: *flips off camera* *adds liquor*

Zaeed: *adds more liquor*

Kasumi: *trying to shake the container but some spills* what the fu-

Cut to entire squad taking a shot. Cue sputtering and shouts of "Jesus Christ!" and "Holy Everclear!!". Shepard with mild grimace pouring themselves, Zaeed and Jack another shot.

[ricedbanana-art]

The Tango Lesson

This fic has had a chokehold on me from the moment I read it. It's got everything; amazing Ash characterization, Shakarian, James Vega being James Vega, and tango! If you haven't read it already, I highly recommend :) (nsfw tho)

So I felt like I had to draw a scene from it. This was such a challenge, I hate backgrounds, but I'm pretty happy with how it turned out - James and Ash especially.

Also the tango in ME3 is one of the reasons I take Argentine tango lessons lmfao

[average-mako-enjoyer]

Planning my longfic here, and you know what Mass Effect really needs? Older women who are not mothers or mother figures.

Older women being messy, angry, in love, terribly romantic, sad, jealous, soft.

I need old women yuri in my mass effect, and I need it NOW. (might give Karin Chackwas a gf)

[flowerynameslover]

“I don’t have a family to speak of, really. I’m the last of a prestigious line of medical professionals. The Alliance is my spouse, and you’re all my children.”

Mass Effect: Karin Chakwas

Female Awesome Meme: Doctors/Nurses (1/3)

[rawliverandcigarettes]

Replaying Mass Effect 1's intro because I'm doing a technical analysis of how the original Jenkins/Chakwas dialogue is constructed for an example in a Branching Dialogue class, and damn Bioware is *so* efficient during this introduction, it's quite remarkable.

Not only does it introduce two whole NPCs, the immediate intrigue and offer up information about the world and dynamics of power within this world (okay it does veer towards "as you know, [stuff everybody knows about]" territory, but given the density of that world and the fact that it's optional information the player has to voluntarily seek, I think it's as fine as they could get away with honestly), but it introduces Shepard as a player-character and a concept pretty wonderfully too. It's a great tutorial for how the conversation system works, what is Renegade and Paragon behavior and how NPCs will react to that, how choices will be recorded and reacted to (aka: Jenkins reacting to your background, AND you're given a chance to personalize your Shepard's reaction to the public perception of your life events), and on top of that, your role as a commander.

I know Jenkins is a joke character, but he does a very efficient job as a tutorial for the way NPCs will look up to you, how you might influence them, and how you are responsible for them --foreshadowing more complicated moments later down the line with Wrex, Ash, Kaidan and even Garrus for example.

This dialogue takes between 1'30 to 4' tops if you explore every option, and it demands the player to engage actively with the system almost the entire time. The efficiency on display is seriously impressive. It's deceivingly simple-looking too, while actually hiding a non-negligeable number of little checks under the hood for what appears to be very straightforward conversation.

Anyway. Some long overdue Mass Effect Appreciation moment! The writers/system designers sure knew what they were doing here.

[msunitedstatesjames]

Man, poor Dr. Chakwas. What did this woman do to get all the deadly experimental technology shoved directly into the room next to the medbay with only one puny door standing in the way?

First of all, she's got the AI core in there, which considering the galaxy seems to be under constant threat of imminent techology based destruction from one group or another, has got to be a little anxiety inducing.

Then they find some mysterious talking Geth who may or may not want to kill them all, and the crew is like, where do we stash this dude? How about right next to the medical center?

Then they recover the body of "Dr. Coré," who just nearly murdered multiple crew members of the Normandy, and they're like, "Yup, let's dump this in here completely unsupervised. That's fine." And then EDI gets involved and a fire breaks out in there and Dr. Chakwas has really gotta be like, "For fucks sake, now what?"

Like, couldn't they have found some storage space for any of this that was next door to someone with more immediate defensive capabilities, like, I don't know, the genetically perfect Krogan, the merc slaughtering vigilante, the multiple extremely powerful biotics, or even, dare I say it, the Quarian tech expert? (Though to be fair, Tali probably would have destroyed most of these if left unattended with them.)

Hell, I'm surprised they didn't shove Javik in there, too. He may not be deadly tech, but at this point you might as well just stick the only known survivor and avatar of vengeance of an ancient race in there. Dr. Chakwas is used to potential death loitering on the other side of one unlocked door.

[bellamer]

Man alright I’ve deduced it and here’s who absolutely did and didn’t tell Kaidan about Shepard and Garrus

Garrus- If Kaidan wasn’t on speaking terms with Shepard for joining Cerberus, why would he actively reach out to talk to Garrus ? And if Garrus was too busy to shoot Shepard a “U good” message to his girl Kaidan was definitely the last one on his mind.

Liara- Literally what reason would she have ? I’d assume she was too busy with shadow broker shit and her studying the prothean artifact unless she just did it to be mean because Geena originally rejected Liara for Kaidan and then moved onto Garrus like Kaidan was nothing but in ME3 she still assumes that she still has a thing for Kaidan but I don’t think it was her unless she wanted to be a bitch even though I don’t know how she’d know about Shepard and Garrus in the first place since she was too busy playing with her shiny new shadow broker toys.

Tali- Again, if he wasn’t on speaking terms with Shepard he wouldn’t be on speaking terms with her now matter how much she claims to hate Cerberus. If he didn’t believe his girlfriend why would he believe tali ? Also I can’t see them talking outside of a work basis anyways.

James- He didn’t even know that Kaidan knew Shepard so I doubt he knows their romantic history and he just freshly met Garrus while Kaidan was still comatose in the hospital and depending on how you play Garrus and Shepard might not even rekindle their romance until after visiting Kaidan or whatever. I don’t know, I know it wasn’t this idiot.

EDI- She’s way too smart for that and I can’t understand any scenario where she’d drop the bomb on Kaidan on their mission to mars since that’s the only time they interacted until he officially comes back but that’s way after he already confronted Shepard

Now let me tell you who it could have been:

Dr Chakwas- She cares about Kaidan deeply and even though she did join up with Cerberus she wasn’t officially part of them. She took a leave of absence from her actual job because the Cerberus thing was just a “temporary gig and Shepard needed her” and I can see her visiting him in the hospital and telling him that she knows Shepard and Kaidan had a thing but to not get his hopes up. She might have let it slip so that Kaidan doesn’t find out that hard way and gets hurt.

Joker- Even though he joined up with Cerberus too he technically started “ working” under the alliance again and since EDI only “obeyed” his commands and the alliance was too dumb to figure it out and he still had direct contact with Anderson, I figure he could convince Kaidan to have a drink with him. He probably accidentally let it slip and said that he wouldn’t say more and to just “ask Shepard”

Thane- If Thane is still alive in the play through it’s mentioned that he and Kaidan met in the hospital and while talking he probably let it slip and Shepard and Garrus hooked up but refused to say more once he saw the look on Kaidan’s face, knowing that he misspoke.

Any other answer kind of doesn’t make sense as to who snitched to Kaidan. Like it would take several convoluted reasons to explain to me why Urdnot Wrex, Kasumi, Grunt, Miranda, Jacob or whoever would go out of their own way to tell Kaidan that Shepard moved on like a day after they broke up but whatever

[seithr]

shepard waking up in me2 and joker shows up

[valka-arialitan]

My Shepard sucks at biotics. In many ways.

BUUUT I recently re-played that one mission on Illium where you get exposed to Minagen X3 ((thanks @mallaidhsomo for reminding me of its name)) and thought I could make something out of it.

Quick recap for those who don't know what it is ; it's an illegal chemical that boosts biotics, but a large quantity can be lethal to the user.

[shadesofmauve]

Hands off the disability aids

(Ken Donnelly has a cane in Sunset and Evenign Star, after getting caught in an IED on Omega in aStSHB)

"Chief, Commander." The Specialist Jones nodded politely as he put his tray down on the mess table, stepping over the bench. His foot hit something that rattled, and he reached under the table,

"It's in the way, I was just going to move it over here."

Donnelly looked over at Shepard without taking his hand off the cane. "Permission to shoot him if he touches my cane again, ma'am?"

She looked away from her conversation with the XO, face bland. "What was your last firing range score?"

Donnelly blushed. "It's, er, been a while."

"Then no."

Jones' you-got-yours smirk of satisfaction was interrupted by Joker's snort before it even got started.

"Permission to shoot him on Donnelly's behalf?" Joker asked.

The corner of Shepard's mouth twitched up. "Granted."

Jones started to splutter, realized he was spluttering at the Commander, and swallowed it. Barely.

XO Nguyen's 'impassive' face let even less through than Shepard's. "I think the doctor have something to say about giving the crew permission to shoot each other."

"Oh no," Shepard said, and now she was definitely suppressing a smile. "Chakwas has permission to shoot whomever she wants."