#n7 training

[i-think-i-should-go]

Garrus: that’s just the gun

Shepard: I DON’T KNOW THAT, DO I???

[emmavakarian-theirin]

tfw your train has been delayed an hour but one of the kids on your platform starts watching bluey

[swordmaid]

thinking about claire (my shep) who is a biotic in the ruthless background meeting her old commanding officer major kyle in his biotic cult is kinda funny because a) because of what she did in torfan, she was kinda responsible for his ptsd and b) with her being a biotic— which I imagine she used her biotic powers to perform said slaughter in torfan (killing both the batarians and kyle’s men)—not only was she responsible for his ptsd but it’s like him starting that biotic cult was his trauma response of her actions. the survivor’s guilt in torfan mixed with the fact that he was her commanding officer, it could’ve been like if only he was able to keep her in check, maybe that slaughter could’ve been avoided. and since he couldn’t ‘save’ her, he could save all these other biotics from themselves and he could prevent something like torfan happening in again which is sooooo 💀💀 shep gave him nothing but GRIEF. she’s a menace to the man in literally all the worst ways possible not even in jest

[max--phillips]

After playing Andromeda some I’m honestly a little scared they’re going to make ME5 be a “Shepard goes to Andromeda” joint. I mean, it’s not a huge fear, but the chance is greater than 0. The geth are brought up a few times, as is the abandoned dark energy subplot from ME2, and the quarian ark is hinted at being in trouble at the end of the game. So. Idk

[husband-steve-cortez]

I don't even think Ezra smokes that much but the minute I put him in an au I'm like "that man has a cigarette in his mouth regardless of if the setting even has cigarettes"

No guns, no omni-tool and no N7 training means he's a bit more of a nervous wreck and has one foot that much more in the grave.

[hellt00th]

I do not understand the logic behind letting ryder have N7 armor without N7 training. Its massively insulting to Ryder Sr., Shepard, and pretty much every N7 that existed

[fandomnerd9602]

Friendly Little Wager

Wolf!Natasha x Reader

You and your wolf hybrid best friend turned lover Natasha Romanoff were enjoying a nice little afternoon at the training grounds. A little area just north of the Westview Sanctuary.

You and Natasha were locked in a bitter competition. Just because you were dating, this didn’t mean all your competitive spirits suddenly vanished. If anything you both became more prone to friendly little wagers.

“Last one to nail the bullseye has to pay for dinner tonight” your wolf girl gives you a playful wink before firing a couple shots.

“I know I’m gonna pay either ways” you fire your own shots.

Natasha sets her gun down and reloads the magazine. Her reddish wolf tail begins swaying a little, a mischievous idea forms in her mind.

“What’s on your mind, Nat?” You ask with a chuckle.

“I want to place a little wager. Blindfolded. One shot. Closest to the bullseye. Loser has to do what the winner wants” she explains with a little smirk on her lips.

“You’re on,” you replied with your own smirk.

You grabbed a blindfold and gently put it over Natasha’s eyes. “Don’t get used to blindfolding me” she purrs in your ear.

“If I win, you might have to,” you retort with a little wink and a kiss to her cheek.

Natasha aims and fires. The bullet careens and hits one inch off of the bullseye.

Natasha pulls off the blindfold and smirks, “beat that, malysh”

Natasha playfully wraps the blindfold around your eyes. Her fingers brush your face, soft yet also a little playful too.

“I’m gonna enjoy my prize” she whispers in your ear.

“So am I” you retort. You fire your one shot. It’s a dead center hit. Natasha simply stares in shock.

“I win” you smile at your girlfriend. She looks at you, a strange mix of pride and defeat.

“Alright, what do you want this loser to do for you?” Natasha asks with her usual level of sassiness and playfulness.

You give it some playful thought before wrapping your arms around her waist and pulling her close. She lets out a little gasp.

“I want you,” you whisper, “to love me for all my life. And I promise I’ll love you for the same amount”

Natasha blushes and giggles, “funny. that was gonna be my request”

The two of you share a laugh before sharing a kiss, Natasha’s wolf tail wagging happily.

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[the-shotce-newsletter]

If the 141 were in Mass Effect, you know everyone single one of them would be an N7. In the Systems Alliance for Earth in Mass Effect that’s the most elite, top tier, badass rank you can get. Ghost having a pet- *cough* trained varren was @starlightvld ‘s idea. Boo has adopted Soap until Shepard’ been set loose (though you know Price would totally break them out). Instead of calling them muppets, Price calls them all pyjaks (space monkey) because he was a krogan in another life.

As I doodled and tried to figure out their classes, I had this idea of Price starting a task force of N7s to help Shepard in the war against the reapers.

[anakliro]

Decided to draw a comparison chart for my Shep throughout the trilogy. I really like her appearance in ME1. She seemed relatively young and green at the start, and the only things that would tell of the real state of woman would be the N7 armor and facial scars left from Akuze.

Pre-ME2 and ME2 is where her appearance gets a twist. I see the commander always gravitating towards bolder hair colors. The choice was always red/bright red, though. She kept this one red shade since she was 14, and just before ME2 she went full-on red. That sure enhanced her appearance in the second game. She kept this color ever since and started applying heavier makeup. Shep’s a marine, but since there aren’t regs against most forms of makeup, she went for it. From time to time Shepard likes feeling just extra beautiful, for the fun of it.

However, Shepard’s scars got worse since the Lazarus project as the ME2 events progressed. She has her Renegade traits, but she’s morally way more of a Paragon. So the proper integration of implants wasn’t there not because of aggressive behavior, but due to internalized stress. Especially with the commander’s tendency to bottle things up. Shepard’s however, handled things well. She was trained for enduring at times insane amounts of stress, after all. But still, there was a prominent bodily reaction to what she was constantly living through. Miranda and Dr. Chakwas were keeping an eye on the commander, though. Shepard’s tough alright, but she’s still human. Makes you wonder what’s really going on in her head.

The two helped the commander out, still. The implants were adjusted to Shepard’s body more precisely, there were regular mental exams, and the scars finally started healing properly. By the start of ME3 Shepard maintained her appearance, but now she doesn’t impose worry about her well-being onto her friends. Now she looks just… gracefully intimidating. And overall, better and healthier. Despite the circumstances, half a year on Earth did her good.

[persephoneggsy]

so i did this a while back, finally remembered it, and now i'm posting it

Mass Effect x Dragon Age AU

I did one of these already, sort of, for ME: Andromeda, but this one is set in the Milky Way.

Elaborations below:

Merrill is a quarian who was exiled from the Migrant Fleet. She's looking for a way not to destroy the geth, but to bring them back under quarian control, thinking they're too valuable a resource to just get rid of. Unfortunately, this made many quarians view her as dangerous, and she was exiled for the crime of experimental geth research. Making Merrill a quarian was the first choice I did for this AU, I think it fits really well.

Aveline is an asari. I'd considered krogan or turian, or simply keeping her human, but in the end I went with asari mostly because Aveline always struck me as condescending in the same way many asari are, lol. She's a commando who later moved to the Citadel to join C-SEC.

Isabela is a turian. She's a barefaced turian, meaning she has no association to a colony. Instead of following the typical turian tradition of proudly serving in the Hierarchy's military, Isabela instead ran off to become a space pirate, specializing in smuggling. She frequents the bars around Omega and has earned herself a fearsome reputation among the mercenaries.

Bethany remains a human; she grew up on a colony world with her siblings, and had a relatively peaceful childhood, despite the Alliance constantly badgering her parents to send her and her older sister to their biotic training program.

Marian, also a human, eventually ran away from home to become a mercenary. She resented her father for forbidding her and her siblings from joining the Alliance - not because she was particularly patriotic, but she felt like her father's grudge against the Alliance prevented her and her siblings from receiving the best training possible. Her powerful biotics made her both an asset and a target, and she soon caught the eye of a certain Council Spectre...

Fenris is a drell. He was raised under the Compact, an agreement between the drell and the hanar, and his purpose was to become a bodyguard... And then his training group was attacked by batarian slavers and he was taken captive. For many years, Fenris suffered under the batarians' rule, until he finally managed to escape. Unwilling to return home, he instead roams the galaxy, taking out as many batarian slaving operations as he can.

Anders is a human who escaped from a biotic testing facility run by Cerberus. Though this left him with a grudge against Cerberus, he also hates the Alliance, whom he sees as no better and will also use biotic children as weapons. He dreams of establishing a safe haven for biotics, and is willing to go to increasingly drastic measures to see that dream become a reality.

Varric is a volus. Unlike his business-minded brother, Varric does not spend his days negotiating trade agreements or doing finance consultations. Spending his days at the Afterlife bar on Omega, he's an information broker, and a pretty damn good one at that. With his specially crafted weapon Bianca, he's not too bad in a fight, either.

Carver, much like his older sister, left home to seek out his own path, and ended up joining the Alliance against his parents' wishes. He thrived in the military, quickly climbing the ranks due to his strength and competency. He's being primed for N7 training under the wathcful eye of Spectre Sebastian Vael.

Sebastian is a human, and a Council Spectre (I'm imagining this AU as a sort of nebulous period where humanity isn't as looked down upon as they were at the start of ME1, and there are a fair number of human Spectres running around). A wild child in his youth, his parents sent him to the Alliance to straighten him out, and to their relief, it worked like a charm. He specializes in covert missions and favors sniper rifles and tech powers.

[queen-of-reptiles]

𝚆𝙷𝙰𝚃 𝙻𝙾𝙾𝙺𝚂 𝙶𝙾𝙾𝙳?

description: in which charli meets her future girlfriend in a coffee shop in london problem however - she’s bethany england’s cousin

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charli grant x female reader

disclaimer: this is all fiction! Do not take any of this seriously.

warnings: language, cuteness

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y/n hummed as she flipped another chair over, the morning sun slowly pushing through London, Bulls Cross road was just starting to get busy as people rushed toward the centre of London for work.

y/n flipped the sign at the door, smiling at Daisy the two workers letting out a joint sigh as they waited for the usual morning rush the coffee shop always had.

Since y/n could remember, her parents had wanted to own a coffee shop, and when y/n's father passed away when she was 18, her mum decided to do it.

The woman baked the best sweet treats and savoury paninis which people adored, she and her five kitchen staff worked out back - switching shifts and y/n with her rotated seven out front worked serving the customers.

y/n enjoyed the ability to bond with people over drinks, and the fact she and her mother mainly employed college/university kids who really enjoyed working and did so with a smile.

The bell echoed and the three shared a look before bursting into it, rushing and bustling as they worked swiftly for the next two hours, battling the morning rush, until the clock finally hit 9am.

"Oh my god!" Daisy groaned, the two slumping onto the counter in relief that the cafe was finally empty. The bell went once more and y/n sighed.

"Slacking on the job?" A voice asked, an amused tone shining through.

"Beth!" y/n grinned, rushing over to her cousin who scooped her up in a tight hug.

"Hey mini!" Bethany cheered. "Here for my morning dose of caffeine!" She adds and y/n nods as Daisy starts making Bethany's usual coffee order.

"How are you?" y/n asked her cousin as she moves back behind the counter.

"Good, we have a new signing starting today, so I'm excited." Bethany nods and y/n smiles.

"Yeah, Charlie Grant right? The Australian?" y/n asks and Bethany nods.

"You do pay attention, you do care!" Bethany says, grinning at the fact her cousin, who didn't really like football knew who their new signing was.

"Meh, a little bit." y/n laughs, holding up her pointer finger and her thumb to make a small space between them.

The two cousin's share a laugh before Daisy hands Bethany her coffe, the woman thanking her as Daisy shrugs it off, miming to y/n she was going to go outside for a minute and have a vape which y/n allows with a nod and a smile.

"I will see you tonight yeah, for dinner?" Bethany asks y/n who nods happily.

"Yeah of course." y/n smiles and Bethany grins, leaning over to press a kiss to her younger cousin's cheek.

"See you tonight! Love you." Bethany calls.

"Love you too!" y/n calls out, before the door shuts and the cafe is quiet once more.

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Only twenty minutes after Bethany had got her coffee the door opened again and a blonde wondered in, eyes wide as she looked around at the menu, mouth every so often moving along with the words of the items on the menu.

Daisy had been sent to get some school work done in the staff area out the back, y/n telling her to come back just before quarter to eleven, which was when their lunch rush would start until 2 - Leonard would also be in by then and then once 3 hit Daisy would go home.

"Hiya, can I help?" y/n asked, a smile on her face as the girl looked at her and her cheeks reddened.

"Oh, hi. Um, what's good in here?" The woman asked and y/n smiled at her.

"Depends, what do you like the look of?" y/n asked, turning to look at the menu which was big enough to have some variety on but not stupidly big.

"I like the look of you." The girl said, seemingly without thinking and y/n's head snapped to her, the girl covered her mouth in embarrassment and y/n giggled.

"Thank you, however I am not on the menu." y/n laughed and the girl giggled slightly. "I'm y/n." She added, holding out her hand.

"Charli." The girl introduced, shaking y/n's hand.

"I'm guessing from the accent, you're not for around here?" y/n asks.

"No, I'm from the motherland of Australia." Charli smiles and y/n chuckles.

"Well Charli, welcome to London! Now what can I get for ya?" y/n asked.

Once Charlie had ordered her drink, y/n got on with making it quick and putting it in a to go cup. She then handed it to the woman opposite, ignoring the way their finger bushed as Charli took it.

"Can I get your number, maybe you could show me around London, y'know?" Charli asks and y/n smiles.

"Tell you what, come back tomorrow morning, and I'll give you my number." y/n nods and Charli grins brightly.

"Okay, I'll see you tomorrow chick!" Charli before she leaves the cafe and y/n smiles.

"Wasn't that Bethany's new signing?" Daisy asks, y/n jumping in shock having not heard her appear in the back doorway.

"Maybe." y/n chuckled, Daisy rolling her eyes playfully. "What?" y/n asks. "She's really really hot." She adds and Daisy chuckles, grabbing a diet coke at the fridge and going back to studying.

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y/n huffed as she pushed through the restaurant door, moving toward the loud noise of what she was sure were the Tottenham players.

She lid off her coat, her relaxed yet classy dress being on display as she moved toward the table, Becky being the first one to notice her and get up.

"y/n!" Becky cheered, pulling the girl in for a hug.

"Hi Becks!" y/n smiles hugging her as several of the team also raised to their feet. After doing her rounds and saying hi to everyone, y/n noticed Bethany and Charli walking back from the bar, clearly having ordered some non-alcoholic drinks for everyone.

"There she is!" Bethany cheers, moving over to y/n and pulling her in for a tight hug. y/n looked over Bethany's shoulder, winking cheekily at Charli who was watching her with wide shocked eyes.

"Hi Beth, you okay?" y/n asks pulling away, her cousin nodded as she dragged Charli over.

"Charli, this is my cousin and the best coffee maker in town, y/n." Bethany smiles.

"Hi." y/n smiles offering her hand.

"Hey." Charli nods, shaking her hand as Bethany pulls y/n down to sit, Charli the other side.

"I ordered you your usual?" Bethany asks her cousin and y/n nods thanking her with a kiss on your cheek. Bethany then gets into a conversation with Marta, so y/n turns to Charli.

"So, Bethany is your cousin?" Charli asks. "My captain?" She asks again and y/n chuckles.

"Still want my number?" y/n asks hopefully.

"You are really fit." Charli sighs and y/n chuckles, the two sharing a laugh. "I guess you'll just have to see if I come in tomorrow." Charli hums.

"You better." y/n warns and Charli just giggles, before the two turn to separate people to talk.

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The next morning, y/n went through the rush and the watched the door impatiently, hoping to see a familiar blonde walk through the door.

At 9.05am y/n sighed and assumed Charli had gone straight to training so started making herself a hot chocolate, and one for one of the newbies that was currently studying out back.

"Can I get some service?" A voice asks and y/n jumps, turning to see Charli waiting with a cheeky grin. y/n furrows her brows wondering how she didn't here the bell of the door.

"You came." y/n said with a small smile.

"Well you see, there's a really good offer on the table of this beautiful chicks number." Charli sighs and y/n chuckles.

"Oh yeah, want me to go get her?" y/n asks and Charli nods.

"Would ya? She's stunning and may be related to the Tottenham women captain." Charli nods.

y/n chuckles before spinning on the spot and mockingly gasping at Charli, as if she didn't know she was there, at this Charli bursts into laughter.

"Charli, lovely to see you." y/n smiles and Charli smiles softly back.

"So..." Charli says, resting against the counter.

"You looking for this?" y/n asks, holding up a napkin with her number scrawled across.

"Yes I am indeed." Charli nods, leaning over and snatching it from y/n's hand before she could blink. The blonde had the number in her phone and ringing quickly.

y/n's phone vibrated on the side and Charli nodded, happy to know that the number was correct and y/n now had her number. y/n chuckled slightly as she grabbed her phone and added Charli as a contact.

"I have to go." Charli says softly. "But do you think we could meet up, outside of Spurs dinners and coffee shop counters?" Charli asks and y/n smiles softly, texting across her answer.

to charli: tomorrow here, 7pm.

Charlie looks up back at y/n, a bright smile on her face when she realises they are going on a date and she nods her head.

"Okay, I'll see you tomorrow." Charli nods before leaning over the counter and pecking y/n's cheek. "Bye!" Charli calls before rushing out.

y/n bit her lip, smiling softly before running a hand over her cheek, she then sighs and opens her phone quickly texting Bethany, who replies far quicker than expected.

to bethyyyy <3: if I asked to date one of your team-mates, what would you say? x

from bethyyyy <3: this abt Charli?

to bethyyyy <3: wtf - what the actual fuck - how did...

from bethyyyy <3: please a lesbian always knows

to bethyyyy <3: hahahahahahahah

from bethyyyy <3: go for it btw! xx

to bethyyyy <3: love you x

from bethyyyy<3: love you too xx

y/n smiled as she looked up from her phone, before grinning at the ceiling and fist bumping herself - all she had to do was take Charli to a good first date. And she had just the place.

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y/n chuckled as her phone continued to go off, neither her or Charli bothered as they continued to skate around the empty roller rink, everyone having gone home.

y/n held her hand out for Charli, the blonde grasping it as they rolled over the wood, singing along to the music as they did so, Charli pulled y/n slightly, arms wrapping around her waist as she pulled the girl into her chest.

y/n breathed in shock, arms wrapping around Charli's shoulders as the blonde skates them both, y/n not attempting to skate backwards, just letting Charli bring her along.

"I really enjoyed tonight." Charli whispered quietly, pushing a strand of hair away from y/n's eyes.

"Does that mean you want another one?" y/n asks hopefully, Charli smiling as she skates them toward the exit.

"I'd love to." Charli nods, as she holds y/n's hands, letting her get from the rink.

"Yeah?" y/n asks, smiling as Charli nods.

"Yeah." Charli smiles, the two taking their skates off and thanking the workers before sliding their trainers back on and walking back outside.

"Come on, there is one more thing to do." y/n smiles, dragging Charli toward her car where the two get in, turning the heat on to keep them warm as y/n drives to a spot just outside the woods, the Tottenham training centre the other side of them.

"Have you brought me here to kill me?" Charli asks as they get out, coats zipped up.

"Shut up." y/n laughs.

"No, cause I warn ya, I'm scrappy." Charli says and y/n laughs more.

"Oh shush." y/n hums climbing onto the roof of her Volvo. "Come on." She adds as she lays back, Charli joining her with a furrowed brow.

"What are ya doing chick?" Charli asks her.

"Lie down and look up Charl." y/n says, Charli doing as she was told, a gasp falling from her lips. "Out here, the light pollution isn't as bad, so you can actually see all the stars." y/n smiles at her.

"It's beautiful." Charli says, y/n humming in agreement as she watches the scene above her. "Thank you for tonight, it's been fantastic." Charli admits softly.

"I think the company's been the best thing." y/n says, turning her head to face Charli, the blonde doing the same.

"You know, I would agree." Charli smiles softly, her hand reaching out to find y/n's, the two linking their fingers as they turn back to the stars.

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okay there will deffo be a part two to this but once I have fought my way through requests!

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Queenie! x

[average-mako-enjoyer]

One of my moots just asked me how I envision the Shepard twins dynamic, and it's pretty much this:

What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the N7, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Batarian slavers and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I'm the top sniper in the entire Systems Alliance.

You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before in this galaxy, mark my fucking words.

I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the Spectre Unit and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of this planet, you little shit. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me? Think again, fucker.

You know what? I am going to contact my friend the Shadow Broker, so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it.

Also, this is my brother, and he will fuck you up.

Hi. I will fuck you up.

[mtreebeardiles]

Every so often I’ll see interpretations of Liara’s N7 armor display as creepy/obsessive behaviour — and that’s a fair interpretation! But it got me thinking about my own interpretation and, well

It kinda makes sense, doesn’t it?

Whether you romance her or not, she still has that armor display. The archaeologist. Displaying the armor of someone Important™️, someone whose most recent importance was downplayed by the Alliance — support for Shepard’s Reaper theory was waning, the Alliance sent them off to more remote spots, Alchera happened…

Liara is first and foremost a student of history, and an Asari one at that. She’s trained to see those patterns of history, and knows a legend when she sees one — beyond whatever else Shepard may have been known for before ME1. And in the aftermath of Alchera, I’m sure she got her first real experience with how humans, and the Alliance in particular, will try to bury or gloss over inconvenient truths — if they can be bothered to acknowledge those truths in the first place

They didn’t memorialize Alchera until Shepard was back, two years later. They didn’t want to keep a spotlight on Shepard, on why they were even out there. But Shepard didn’t stay buried, and, well, maybe other ghosts wouldn’t either

All this to say I personally see Liara’s display as her own way of honoring Shepard as a historical symbol, as someone Historically Important™️, and part of that history is a part the Alliance wanted to forget, was happy to forget until they couldn’t anymore

But Liara wasn’t going to forget, and she’d make sure galactic history broadly wouldn’t, either. And in ME3, she takes that conviction one step further, seeding Shepard’s story, the story of the Reapers, a throughout the galaxy

That just reads as more narratively consistent to me, anyway 🤷‍♂️

[the-fallen-blue]

Replaying ME3 and holy shit Vega's whole thing makes even less sense than I remember.

"Join the N7 program" there's no goddamn n7 program that isn't a thing. If you are N you are spec force. If you are N7, you have the highest possible spec force scores. You could agree to Spec Force training, and thus potentially an "N Code program" but it would still not have the 7 tacked on.

"My squad was patrolling when the Collectors attacked" the Collectors were operating strictly in the Terminus! There are no Alliance patrols in the Terminus, that is the whole point of living in the Terminus systems, to get away from the Council and Alliance. They were pissed off on Horizon having literally one soldier helping them build AA turrets. There would not have been a patrol!

"... but we were betrayed by a Cerberus operative working with the Collectors" no. Wrong. Incorrect. Cerberus has been a nest of shitty evil human-killing dumbfuckery since ME1 but they did not become indoctrinated until between 2 and 3. In 2 they were very solidly anti-Collector, and the Collectors had no means of indoctrination of their own.

"... so I had to destroy the Collector ship, killing all the civilians and most of my squad" what! How. Shepard barely managed to drive one off with state-of-the-art AA towers and got shot down in a state-of-the-art ship trying to make the kill on that already wounded enemy with a Thanix cannon. The fuck did James do, point his Avenger at the sky and shoot?

Like the first time around I hated this guy so much from all the sexual harassment that nothing he actually said really particularly registered but now that I'm listening, wow. Whoever wrote his dialog did about negative forty percent research on previous lore, somehow.

[mourn-and-watch]

i wish me3 had loyalty missions it would be so sooo good. assisting some shadow broker agents with liara. joining kaidan/ashley on one of their first spectre assignments to reassure them. helping garrus to evacuate his family from palaven. sticking around with tali on rannoch to make sure quarians and the geth are doing fine. handing a serious job to james and guiding him through it as a part of his n7 training. going on a task with edi to help her adjust to working with other people as a person and not as a vi. visiting javik's squad's resting place with him. doing little favors for your friends in the middle of a war because life itself hasn't ended yet and you want to make it a little easier for them while you have some time left

[heroofshield]

Rating: PG

Warnings: none this chapter

Summary: N7 graduation brings surprises & Diana Allers gets nosy

@anderfels

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Diana Allers needed another big news story.

Since the war had ended, and with it her access to the Normandy and its crew, BattleSpace ratings had steadily declined and she needed something else to bring people back. “That and no one really wants to hear about rebuilding efforts again. Everyone wants to move on.” she thought while idly going over the footage from the medal ceremony. “But I should get a decent bump with Vega making N7. Him and Alenko always drew numbers, which is why I featured them so much.”

Bored, but wanting to finish scrubbing through the footage, she fast forwarded to when she was talking to Vega, Allers stopped at the part where she was asking about his personal life.

“Since you’ve been back on Earth, is there anyone special in your life?”

Allers made a face at her fake tone, she hadn’t even wanted to ask the question but her producers made her- saying that speculation on his personal life always tracked well. There had been rumors on the Normandy during the war that he’d been involved with someone, but she could never get anything solid to ask Vega about. Then he was spotted in Australia a few times while he was in N school but again, she couldn’t come up with anything solid to really run with. She was about to fast forward again when she paused, looking at how uneasy Vega looked.

“-haven’t had much time for personal relationships while focusing on N-school.” James vaguely answered, shifting slightly as he continued, “But there are a few people outside of the Normandy crew that I’ve kept in touch with and hopefully, I’ll be able to see them more now that I’ve completed N training.”

“Interesting.” Allers thought while jotting down the time code.

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