#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]

[masseffectdiary]

Miranda and Oriana Lawson. The reunion.

[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

[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.

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“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.

[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. 

[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

[drelldreams]

someone write this please i love this SO much omgggggg

fugitive miranda on the run with oriana, posing as a teen mom, working low jobs????

then both of them getting recruited by aria?

SIGN ME UP

I’m doing Miranda’s personal quest atm. 

And I can’t get out of my head the idea of an au where Miranda does the emotional thing rather than the rational thing.

Where she looks at her little baby sister she’s holding in her arms and decides she can’t let this little girl be raised by someone else. 

She poses as a teen mom, moves from place to place. To colonies that aren’t human but that have a sizable human minority because they’ll take pity. They’ll know it must be /so hard/ to be a single mother so far away from her family on earth, especially one so young. She knows how to charm. How to manipulate.

For awhile she works as a miner on some planet outside council space. 

For awhile as a cook on some private vessel. 

Taking low paying, or ‘shameful’ jobs because her father would expect her to be the head of a fortune 500 one of these days. Because he’d hear about Miranda Lawson, the best employee on Noveria, but he wouldn’t hear about Star, the best dancer in The Tar Pits.

They move a lot, but as long as Oriana is safe, and in school, and doing well, Miranda doesn’t care.

When Ori is twelve, they move to Omega. Miri gets a job as a dancer. 

But when a bunch of mercs who think they’re tough enough to fuck with Aria attack the bar one night, she shows she’s got other skills. Kills them with her biotics without even batting an eyelash. 

And Aria takes an interest. In Miri, in Oriana. Takes a liking even. And she makes sure Miri knows how /rarely/ that happens. 

They stay on Omega probably longer than they should. A year at first. Then two. If Aria knows who Miri is, she doesn’t say. But she does /show./ 

Letters about mercs flying near Omega, who’s messages she’s intercepted, transcribed on a data pad and slid under Miri’s door. 

Lets Miri and Ori borrow her quarters for the night, the one place on Omega where no one can go, when mercs come in looking for the two of them. She even handles them nicely, lying to them and saying Miranda left months ago, and there was no little girl traveling with her. 

And that’s when Miri takes a shine to Aria. Thinks of her as a friend. Something more than just another alien to put up with.

And Aria thinks of Miranda and Oriana as something more than just an employee, a confident.

They protect Oriana together. 

And Miranda becomes the first person Aria lets break the one rule on Omega.

[edains]

[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

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[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