#mass effect cortez

[gemsbokk]

I know I’ve yapped here a lot about me killing BioWare if they revivify Shepard again in ME5 but I also like my self indulgent art once in a while

Based on this art because well I haven’t seen a single artist who hadn’t done their otp in this and I felt like it was my time

Also the go is in sepia but I decided to go with a monochrome of the biotic blue

[baggesa]

[lilmissnatcat24]

for no other reason than i worked at an ice cream shop for eight years, here's what ice cream the mass effect characters would eat

shepard: neapolitan, strawberry for their paragon side, chocolate for their renegade, vanilla to balance

garrus: moose tracks, but will pick it apart just for the peanut butter cups and give shepard the leftovers

tali: literally any booze flavored ice cream

liara: mint chocolate chip because she secretly kind've fucks with the taste of toothpaste but will never admit it out loud

kaidan: butter pecan. it's not everyone's favorite, but it's his, and he's totally cool with it

ashley: whatever the 2183 equivalent to the tonight dough. cookie dough chunks, brownie chunks, butterscotch, chocolate chips, malt chunks, everything

wrex: this man is old as balls!!!!!! rum raisin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

joker: lemon sherbet. you cannot tell me that man is not lactose intolerant

miranda: cherries garcia, little bit sweet, little bit tart

jack: the most sickening sweet shit you can think of. cotton candy with marshmallow superman with a side of sugar

jacob: some sort of dark chocolate peanut butter ice cream that sounds good in theory but in reality you can only take like 3 bites of before you get a tummy ache

zaeed: banana splits that he likes to mash together with a spoon and eat like some deconstructed milkshake

kasumi: the weird avant gard shit you see in hipster vegan shops, like some bacon sweet potato rosebud ice cream

mordin: coffee ice cream, because he likes the taste of coffee but if he were to actually drink it he would spontaneously combust

grunt: those froyo shops that were everywhere in 2014 where you could make a bowl with like 5% froyo and 95% other toppings and it cost 14 dollars

thane: doesn't like ice cream because it reminds him of how he abandoned his child and how his wife is dead and he could never go back to the life he left behind, the life of stability, because his body is engineered for a deadly purpose and he can never atone for his sins rocky road

samara: this woman is old as balls!!!!!!!!!!!!! pistachio!!!!!!!!!!!

legion: tried vanilla ice cream. too sticky, got stuck in his wiring.

james: one of those brownie sundaes that weighs approximately 5 pounds and is majority whipped cream

steve: chocolate chip. classy, just like him ;)

traynor: something smooth and rich and velvety and inexplicably sexy, like raspberry chocolate chunk

edi: takes the idea of ice cream a little too literally and just has a bowl of heavy cream with ice cubes. is confused why everyone is disgusted.

javik: ice cream is for primitives (peaches and cream)

[amys2885]

Inktober 8 & 9 - Shep & Cortez

Reference used

[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

[noodlini]

First Kodiak trip post Priority: Citadel! A lot has changed since the good old days

Bonus Garrus. He heard his name

[clericofshadows]

REGIS SHEPARD, KAIDAN ALENKO, AND STEVE CORTEZ MASS EFFECT 3 DESPONIA: LEVIATHAN

[ghostymermaid]

[major-alenko]

i just KNOW in my heart that Steve Cortez and Kaidan Alenko become really, really good friends. Like, Shepard and James are wrestling in the shuttle bay and Kaidan and Steve are just sitting there on an Alliance Procured Futon watching and drinking hot cocoa as they talk shop lmao

[gemsbokk]

inspired by someone saying broshep isn't representation and also me being absolutely fucking tired from everything i had in my plate lately so. shortez as a treat :)

[hum-tittle]

Happy N7 day! Here is something I've been working on 😬

So in mass Effect we know ✨adult films✨ exist and that Shepard is famous enough to have a VI made of them, meaning that there’s probably ✨ Shepard impersonators ✨

With that this is how I think the crew would find out. (Preface in ME3 if you romance Garrus, Joker sent him vids to help him woo Shepard)

[ampdraws]

hello shoker nation how did ur Shep handle Joker's rejection? bc Eva got hhhHAMMERED about it

[phoeberaven]

Commission of my Shepard and Cortez by the wonderful @beemot! THANK YOU. Here they are, at the Citadel party, being all cute and stuff!

[painterofhorizons]

bring unto me (irregular nights)

Shepard sees the Kodiak more often than she should, and at irregular times. Steve and James have different opinions about it, or don't they? (1k, gen/no warnings, ME3 cargo bay domecticity)

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„Did you notice?“

Steve Cortez was already up and moving by an hour when James Vega crawled out of bed in the morning. James had heard the elevator’s whiz – characteristic, yet soft enough to not startle him in his corner –, heard the familiar bubbling of the coffee maker, and heard Steve rumble in the shuttle bay a mere two minutes later. Same time, same lag, same routine. Just like every morning. Every movement was executed with such a precise reliability, that James noticed it, smiled a little, and rolled around to catch a few more minutes of sleep. As long as Steve’s routine stayed alive, there was little to worry about. As far as that could be true in times of galaxy wide war and Earth burning.

To James, it felt like that guy never slept. At all. Not a single hour. And it wasn‘t like James spent a long time in bed either – it was barely five thirty in a 24 hour cycle – but Steve motherfucking Cortez? It was a miracle how he was able to stand on his own two feet and still be the best damn shuttle pilot James ever met. Best requisitions officer, too. Second best armory representative. Disregarding this singular blind spot, guy was a real physiological miracle. The first human to not need sleep or something. Or maybe he was on really good drugs. Whatever it was, sometimes James caught himself being envious on that guy.

„Notice what, Esteban?“ James replied, still tired and not yet near to where his brain would be after he’d had his first coffee. The one he knew was waiting for him already, because Steve was a goddamn machine and making him coffee was just one of the tiny tasks in his morning routine.

„That she‘s spending her nights in the Kodiak.“

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Read on AO3. Props for the title to @shadoedseptmbr