#oriana Lawson

[hyperfixation-loto]

dumb shit i make at 5am instead of sleeping because my mass effect/jackanda brain rot runs too deep

[illusivesoul]

Miranda or Jack? 👀

Henry: "Alright, take her. But I want out alive. Deal?" Miranda: "No deal"

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Make Me Choose

Anon asked: Miranda or Jack

[autodiscothings]

I missed my gal, and then I remembered- I can draw her! Anytime I want. 💜

[edains]

[drelldreams]

Expose your fictional crushes

@radicalboob Thank you for the tag!

I should probably note, they aren’t all crushes in the romantic sense, but I do love them all. The middle pic in the third row is supposed to be Liselle - I used a photo of an asari NPC that gives me Liselle vibes because there are no canon images of what Liselle looks like.

I am tagging @sillyliterature @mintysdoodle @uponthenormandy @dreaminginstasis @spectralhero @gaysjureido @spacebunshep @danifart @kirschewine @sugarandstories and anyone who wishes to participate

[vulpixelates]

The Prodigal, pt. 2

Bonus: proud homo watching her friend grow

[hardcore-like-eezo]

Priority -- Horizon

"No deal."

[stumblingsbalderdash]

Zvezda Lawson: 

I have offically recreated Zvezda to look mre like Miranda’s cloned sister.  Her looks fit her lore better now and she’s still small physical difference from Miranda. Now Oriana and Miri have another sister and a larger family. 

[orangeflavoryawp]

Rocks and shoals??? My beloved???? Super happy to see it on your list!! 💕💕

I know! Isn't it crazy?! Believe me, if there's one WIP I will finish even if it takes years, even if it kills me, it's "Rocks and Shoals". Kolyat and Oriana, my little shits, I love them so much. I actually have about 4.5k words already written for the next chapter, but I'm not finished with it just yet.

For those unaware, "Rocks and Shoals" is my Kolyat Krios/Oriana Lawson post-war fic in the Mass Effect fandom. Lots of wading through PTSD. Lots of grief and healing and clashing personalities. A bit of salty teens. A bit of found family. Very slow burn. They gotta get right with themselves before they can get right with each other, basically. I adore writing this piece.

Honestly, my biggest issue with it is that I wrote all the posted chapters in past tense way back then, and now I write everything in present tense, so the tonal shift might be jarring for some readers. But eh. I don't have the energy right now to go back and change the tense in the last nine chapters, and if I consciously try to write in past tense now, after not doing so for so long, I'll keep tripping myself up and never get into the flow of it. So I'm just going to write it as I feel and put an author's note about it in the chapter, lol.

And since you made me so insanely happy by asking about "Rocks and Shoals", I'm going to give you a little snippet. <3 So this is directly after Kolyat beat the shit out of that guy and Oriana had her little flashback/breakdown and Kolyat kind of lost it, you know, emotionally.

* * *

“You’re lucky the guy’s not comatose after what you did to him,” she snaps. 

Kolyat grabs her wrist, stopping her.  “Yeah, I get it, Lawson.  You can stop with the sanctimonious lecture now.” 

She purses her lips, frustration marring her features.  She drags her hand from his hold.  “Do you, though?” 

He gives her an impatient look. 

“Do you get it?  Really?” 

Kolyat rolls his eyes.  “What are you going on about now?” 

“You could have seriously hurt the guy!” she shrieks, hands thrown up in the air.  “Hell, you could have been seriously hurt.” 

“And what was I supposed to do?” Kolyat growls, his hands curling along the tabletop beneath him.  “Let him rob us?  Hurt you?  Or worse?” 

“We could have settled it without violence.” 

Kolyat scoffs.  “Yeah, sure.  Because the blade he pulled was clearly not an indication of his propensity to violence.” 

Oriana throws the cotton swab in her hand down onto the table, her chest rising in her vexation.  “And now you’re suspended for it.” 

“Don’t particularly care, Lawson.”  He rubs at his temple, the one not especially bruised.  His head is throbbing and she’s not making it any better. 

“You should,” she bites out. 

Kolyat slaps his hands along his thighs in surrender.  “You’re right.  I should.  Can we go now?”  He moves to stand fully. 

She pushes him back down with a hand on his shoulder.  “You’re still bleeding.” 

Kolyat gives her a baleful look.  “I’m fine.” 

“You’re not,” she says, a sharp breath sucked between her teeth, and then she glances to the floor, her brows furrowing, her jaw grinding.  “You’re not fine,” she croaks out. 

The break in her voice throws him, and he has to clamp his mouth shut, watching her. 

She peers up at him with a heated gaze, eyes wet with unshed tears.  “So stop saying that you are,” she bites out, her anger bleeding into her voice, her exhale of frustration sharp and ragged. 

Kolyat stares at her. 

“It’d be okay if you did, though.  It’d be okay to just... kind of break a little.” 

He thinks maybe he did. 

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You can read it here if you want to scream with me about Koliana: Rocks and Shoals. Please be kind. I'm a way better writer now, lol.

So glad you asked about this, anon! You have my forever love for that one. <3

Play the WIP title game with me!

[ganurath]

Imagining Mia and Riley Hurst as Miranda and Oriana Lawson.

[cr-noble-writes]

No Friend Like A Sister

Fandom: Mass Effect Pairing: Miranda & Oriana Lawson (Gen) Tags: angst, whump, knife to throat, hostage situation, self-sacrifice

Notes: Written for @febuwhump 2023′s day 4 prompt: knife to the throat

Read It Here

[hyperfixation-loto]

I know Miranda loves her sister but I think she's so emotionally and affectionally constipated she's incapable of understanding what a hug is

grew up in a loving family oriana vs genetically-grown lab rat turned terrorist miranda

[explosionshark]

The first time Miranda mentions kids, it’s so off-hand, so absent that Jack’s surprised she still remembers it, years later.

It had been a long night. Both of them worn thin by the strain of the war effort: by the looming knowledge that whatever world-saving scheme Shepard has been working on is almost finished, that they’d soon be recalled to Earth for one last stand against the Reapers, that this night could easily end up being the last they’ll ever be able to share together. Technically, that’s been true of their entire relationship, but it had been getting progressively harder to ignore. An urgency had set in, by that point, that hadn’t quite dissipated until months after the end of the war.

Miranda had been lying on her stomach, datapad in hand, composing a reply to the latest message received from her sister, with Jack draped across her back. Jack’s clinginess, and Miranda’s indulgence, were strange, new, guilty things. It was embarrassing to be desperate, to want something so badly, so plainly, to let it be known. But there was so little left to lose, they allowed themselves the luxury of it, stretched their patience with each other, dared to ask for more.

“It’s still surreal,” Miranda had murmured and Jack, nearly dozing, might not have heard her at all if her body wasn’t so dialed in to Miranda’s. When Jack hummed curiously, Miranda had spoken up a little louder, still staring fixedly down at the datapad. “Oriana. Seeing her, talking to her, touching her.”

They’d talked, a few times, by that point. Another one of those facts of Jack and Miranda’s relationship that had been enabled, fast-tracked, by their life-or-death circumstances. The exchanges had been cordial, if awkward. Jack and Oriana had both been curious about each other, both unsure of what they would mean to each other if they lived long enough to share parts of their lives.

Jack had only known the very basics of their history: that Oriana, like Miranda, had been a genetically altered clone of Henry Lawson. That Miranda had kidnapped her sister and fled from Lawson, had ended up approaching Cerberus for protection. The sick irony of the whole thing isn’t lost on Jack, but she tries to push down the still-simmering rage it causes, to stay in the moment, to take the opportunity to learn more.

“How old was she?” Jack asks. Miranda breathes out through her nose, taps the side of the datapad with her thumb. “When you saw her last, I mean? Like, before.”

“Only a baby,” Miranda says, voice soft, far away. “About seven months. He’d been keeping her a secret. Probably so he could — well, let’s not.”

Jack can’t be sure what Miranda was going to say, the reasons she suspects her father had been hiding an infant clone from her, but she knows this: Miranda was not his first attempt at a perfect daughter. And she knows this: Miranda and Oriana have no surviving sisters.

The rage flicks in Jack’s chest again. She imagines Henry Lawson’s skull exploding into chunks like a ripe melon. Remembers the flare of the blast when she and Shepard had blown Pragia to hell. She chews her lip and waits for Miranda to continue.

“Anyway, I… found out. It was the first time I’d ever held a baby. I had only ever been around children my age or older, to challenge me, develop my social skills. I couldn’t believe how small she was.” There’s a tone in Miranda’s voice, hushed, like she’s sharing a secret that Jack will someday be able to recognize as reverence. “I knew we had to get away. It was the most terrifying thing I’d ever done.”

“Running?” Jack asks, when Miranda pauses.

“Yes, that. But also just taking care of her. I was so scared every time she cried and I couldn’t figure out why, so exhilarated when I was able to comfort her. When it came time to give her up I was… relieved, but also devastated. I wanted more time with her. I was convinced that, with practice, I could get it right. I could be really, really good at raising her. I wanted to be able to try.”

“What stopped you?”

“From trying?”

“Yeah.”

“I was sixteen. I had commitments, I knew that Cerberus would help me if I could be useful, but I couldn’t offer them much with an infant to take care of. Besides, they offered me a family for her - people who actually knew what to do, who could keep her safe, away from danger, give her a life where she’d never have to burn everything down and run. Or so I thought,” Miranda pauses again, smiling bitterly and Jack drops an absent kiss to her bare shoulder. “Besides, I thought I’d get another chance, someday.”

The memory has stuck with Jack all of these years because of that admission and the way Miranda had reacted.

The implication was obvious, but the past tense was troubling. The way Miranda stiffened immediately once the words fell from her lips was the most alarming thing of all.

“Hey,” Jack had tried to pitch her voice, low, comforting. “What do—”

But Miranda rolled her over before she could finish talking. Distantly, Jack registered the datapad clattering to the floor, but the insistent press of Miranda's body over Jack's, the soft bite of Miranda's nails against Jack's scalp as Miranda dragged her up into a kiss eclipsed the whole world.

[dragonflight203]

Mass Effect 3 replay, Horizon:

-Sadly, Horizon probably has been safe from the Reapers until now.

TIM is indoctrinated. They could safely assume he would only act in their interests, so they had no reason to target Horizon. It could wait until the rest of the galaxy was subdued.

It probably would have remained ignored if the breakthrough in overriding Reaper indoctrination hadn’t occurred.

-It sure is convenient that the Reapers attacked Shepard right after Traynor identified it as where Kai Leng fled to.

Neither Cerberus nor the Reapers should have known Shepard was coming, so this is a coincidence.

I think I would have preferred if Sanctuary was still operating per normal. How would Shepard investigate? Would the refugees turn on them? It could have been similar to Noveria.

But ME3 is primarily about shooting, so that was not on the table.

-Of course the Sanctuary broadcasts aren’t subtitled. Why am I even disappointed at this point?

-Miranda knows communications are being blocked. Why did she leave behind a message that Sanctuary is a Cerberus base inside Sanctuary? Who did she expect to find it?

And more pertinently, why didn’t she inform anyone before she went to Sanctuary? The Alliance, or at least Shepard?

Even if she wasn’t certain until she was at Sanctuary, just a heads up that something was fishy about it would have been good to know.

I suppose she was concerned about Oriana, but she could have told Shepard something along the lines that she was checking out Sanctuary and if she doesn’t report back in 24 hours to go after her.

Miranda’s too damn smart for this.

-What about the water draining system looks like Reaper technology? I’m not seeing it.

I suppose there are hoses, but the point is to drain water. The lights aren’t even blue.

-Liara: This looks more like a factory than a refugee camp.

Ha. Ha. Ha. Liara, that’s going to hurt in a few minutes.

-Javik when you switch on the console power and first learn what Cerberus has been using Horizon for: Yes... this process is known to me. They do not kill what can be useful. I’m sorry, Commander.

Shit. He saw this in his cycle, didn’t he?

He probably suspected from the moment they arrived.

-Cerberus isn’t using Dragon’s Teeth to create the husks.

I suppose pods are preferable because they contain the husk once its been created.

-Henry Lawson’s logs says the purpose of the husk experiments were too learn how Reapers communicate.

Did he mean with each other? Or with their troops?

-Javik: This is what happens when you allow machines to think for you. You become slaves.

Javik, how is the log of Henry Lawson describing that adrenaline is better than red sand to break will allowing machines to think for us?

-Javik is not nearly outraged enough about the refugees being used as test subjects. He seems more resigned than anything.

Javik, I assumed you had seen this type of facility before when you investigated to shut it down. Did the Protheans run them?

-Miranda’s log says that the point of the search was to learn how indoctrination works.

-A later console says they learned how to control Reaper troops, and planned to expand it to learning how to control the Reapers.

Yeah, not surprising the Reapers attacked.

What is surprising is that TIM was able to think clearly enough to pursue this plan. You’d think the indoctrination would have stopped him.

I’m half-wondering if the Reapers were confident that whatever TIM learned wouldn’t work; maybe they have multiple means to control troops and only let TIM learn one of them.

-And once again, I bitch about the timeline: Saren spent how long investigating indoctrination and made no progress?

Yet TIM’s learned how to override the indoctrination of Reaper troops in what, less than six months?

I’ll assume TIM got a hold of Saren’s research and has been building upon it. He also has had more subjects for testing, so that must help.

-Why is there a gun in a pod???

-Even at the end, Henry Lawson is obsessed with Oriana. He didn’t even raise this one.

And he’s surprised she tried to shoot him? How delusional is he?

-Let’s pour one out for Oriana. Torn from her family, probably trapped at Sanctuary since the start of the war, held captive by a man she doesn’t know who’s obsessed with her. Poor girl must be deeply traumatized by this point.

-If you go neutral with Henry Lawson and don’t take the renegade interrupt, Miranda dies.

This is very similar to the final confrontation with TIM, so kudos to Bioware on the mirroring.

-Shepard: We need to end Cerberus and focus on the Reapers.

I’ve been in favor of that since Mars, but good to see Shepard is finally catching up.

-I wish whether Miranda lives or dies made more of a difference. Either way, you still find Cerberus HQ.

It’d be a nice touch if it impacted the narrative at all. Even something as small as whether or not TIM expected you to come.

Normandy

-I’m still pissed at Bioware for killing Kal’Reegar off in an email. He deserved better than that.

He could easily have made an appearance in the Rannoch arc.

-Joker, Cerberus has already turned a colony into husks. They fed Alliance marines to thresher maws and experimented on the survivor. How can Horizon shock you?

It’s like ME2 and ME3 really, really want to pretend that nothing you learned about Cerberus in ME1 occurred.

-Edi’s confused about behavior of prisoners at a Reaper containment camp. They did not place their survival above all else; some protected each other and worked against the Reapers.

I’m baffled how an AI with access to the internet who has been flying Shepard around two games is confused by the concept altruism. She took them through the Omega-4 relay on a suicide mission to protect human colonies! After she was unshackled!

And how many books, movies, plays, etc. are based around these behaviors?

This feels out of place and frankly like an insult to Edi’s character up to this point.

-If you go renegade, Edi says indoctrination should have prevented the prisoners from rebelling. Shepard says they may have understood how indoctrination works and made a decision.

I don’t. The point of indoctrination is that it’s nigh impossible to resist. Saren and Fai Dan put bullets in their skulls to stop themselves. TIM will shortly have the opportunity to join them. Benezia locked part of herself away and was still overcome.

Unless Shepard meant to imply that prisoners that felt themselves being indoctrinated killed themselves?

If so, dark as hell. And good.

-Depending on your decisions, this can be the second time you tell Edi welcome to the crew.

Does the scene play differently if you welcomed her earlier?

-If you go paragon, you ask Edi if submission is preferable to extinction.

Shepard quotes Saren. Nice touch.

-Shepard, if you go paragon It sounds like you’ve found a little humanity, Edi. Is it worth defending?

Nitpicky on part, but in a galaxy full of multiple sapient species I wish Shepard had picked a different word than humanity.

-And Kaidan is craving TIM’s blood.

Understandable, but highly unusual. Kaidan is not normally the type to celebrate violence.

-Javik and the memory shard is so damn painful.

Paragon Shepard makes a mistake when they have Javik touch it: It reopens old wounds that had healed. It’s no wonder Javik becomes suicidal afterwards.

Every player should see the scene at least once; it’s critical to understanding Javik. But he’s not touching it again on one of my playthroughs.

-Javik’s story about his old crew is awful.

If Shepard had to do the same, I’m not sure they’d handle it better than Javik has. Shepard’s strength has always been their crew – who are they without them?

-Javik: War is an atrocity committed in the name of survival.

Good line.

-If you go renegade, Shepard doesn’t push Javik for more information about hid old crew.

Surprising amount of emotional sensitivity for renegade. They recognize it’s a sensitive subject and leave it be.

-The memory shard does explain why Javik speaks like he has first hand experience about so many subjects that he probably does not.

He may have seen them in the shard and so it feels like he has the experience.

-Javik: Subjugating the Reapers will not bring victory. Only their extinction will.

And Bioware is surprised that so many players reject Control as a valid ending?

The entire game argues against it!

-Tali, I don’t see the “emergency induction port” you’re referencing…

Bioware didn’t animate the straw.

-Tali: When do we get to stop reacting to our parents and start living for ourselves?

Tali, that’s a choice you have to make for yourself. But I’d say you’re overdue for it. Your father never deserved that devotion in the first place.

-Cortez: With you to the end, Shepard.

While I’m grateful for it, that came out of nowhere. No lines before or after. Is everything okay, Cortez?

Silversun

-Miranda, just refeI haven’t killed any fish this playthrough! The clone had no basis to blow up the sushi place!

-Miranda, did you just refer to the clone as it?

That’s just rude.

-Why do I need to return to the Normandy to trigger Miranda’s second meetup?

I can receive messages at my apartment. Let me get it there and save me some loading screens.

-Miranda and Shepard having a night out on the town is surprisingly cute. Space divas, indeed.

[edains]

[drelldreams]

remember that miranda lawson who was raised by an ice cold father, who was brought up with no friends, who never had any role model to develop empathy, chose to rescue her sister when she escaped when she could‘ve just left her there which would have made the whole escape far less complicated