#ryder twins

[anakliro]

The Ryder twins, as I write them, got exposed to Element Zero in utero. They got way luckier than their mom, and now they are both able to use biotics, but the development of their abilities went in different directions.

It felt like Anatole was born to become a powerful biotic specialist, to wield this kind of power. He feels it almost intuitively; he's so in tune with biotics that it seems that Element Zero is buzzing, blooming under his hands, fluid, potent, and powerful, like a tsunami. Even in the eyes of a non-human, his biotics are impressive. He packs quite a punch and generally deals a whole lot more damage than, say, his sister, especially if it's slow-paced.

Naïse, on the other hand, as a jack of all trades, also does well in biotics (but not as well as Anatole), but hers are in the same line as her other skills, like tech and combat development profiles.

If Anatole makes eezo ring, boil, and as if revel in its own freedom, under Naïse's guidance, it swoops in, hits you under the gut, and twists from a tight spindle into those quicksand-like, destructive pinpoint strikes, into arrows, waves, and walls.

[vaguely-concerned]

so sad that we didn't get a follow up game for andromeda if for no other reason then because I never got to play out the full arc of my ryder looking hauntedly at himself in the mirror realizing he very much is his father's son in more ways than he's strictly comfortable with

(by default sara always seems to me to be the twin who's the most obviously like alec -- with small variances based on how you play her if she's the PC twin, she's always presented as more driven, competetive and academically minded than scott, who's framed in the family dynamic more as the underachiever/slacker fuckup twin. as an example, see: the conversation you have with alec about the sibling who's in coma at the beginning of the game. when you're scott they bond over joking that sara would be so pissed to be out of commission because she's been planning to be the first to scale every mountain, and when you're sara it's that scott never liked to get up in the morning anyway, how typical of him. (even in jest I feel like this indicates a slightly unpleasant dynamic where one of the few reliable tactics that work for sara to get connection with her dad is for both of them to turn on scott to mock him. which like. very real type of interpersonal dynamic that exists, and one of the character aspects I like the most in andromeda for all that it's uncomfortable, it feels quite subtle and well observed.) you can make sara a bit more neurotic/nervous and awkward and/or charmingly dorky when playing as her and you can make scott a bit more serious, but these aspects of the characters hold true no matter what. which for the record I absolutely love! it's the thing the hawke family also provides in da2, being able to see the dynamics that lead to your character being the way they are alllll the way back and building on it.

hOWEVER with my scott. this apparent disconnect between himself and his dad in terms of character traits (and the lack of communication in that relationship that stood in the way of letting him see that his father was a lot of other things behind the fragile hard outer shell of him than he wanted to show) means that as time goes on scott is fucking blindsided by all the common traits that start popping up under pressure. which you can actually start to introduce in the game itself, too -- if you choose mostly the logical and casual options, it's almost freaky how much ryder starts to sound like a younger and more irreverent version of their dad. (the most interesting version of liam's loyalty quest for me is actually the one where you go full professional and chew him out afterwards, and as liam storms off you can practically SEE ryder arrive at the thought 'oh my god I have become my father' in real time fhdsakj. in general some of the most interesting moments in me:a to me happen when you manage to break away from video game people pleaser mode.)

especially the things alec was willing to do to not lose his wife, to not be alone, he'd rather she be alive and pissed with him than gone forever because that's how desperately he needed her to exist... I think one day scott will look up and go '...oh fuck' at realizing the lengths he would go for someone he loves, and that he has the means to do it too and would make his father's (very bad to be clear) choice all over again if push came to shove. keeping horrible secrets is just the family tradition what does it matter if the weight of them grows heavier and heavier to bear over the years these are family heirlooms you know. I mean, my guy romanced reyes, so you already know he's got something deeply deeply wrong with him lol but this horrors of love side of him only adds to it. scott ryder got his fundamental lack of inner peace from his father and his social skills and abysmal taste in men from his mother

[luckyspacerabbit]

No one puts on a show at the Vortex quite like Kosta and the pathfinder <3

[ssv-raven]

Really love my Ryders

[masseffectdiary]

Happy Holidays from the Ryders twins, the Tempest crew and me! Let the love for Mass Effect never fade!

(I used a base for this)

[vorchagirl]

This new Reyes x Sage Ryder fic is eating my brain alive, but I've planned it all out now and I'm super happy with it. It should stay below 10 chapters, aaand hopefully it'll be a good mix of action, horror, drama, and some romance.

I really like that I'm writing something with a Ryder who isn't the Pathfinder, and that I get to explore a very twisted sibling relationship between Sage and her brother - I'm still deciding whether his name will be Sebastian or Seth.

I do know that the twins won't look or act anything alike. Sage looks like her mother and is petite, pale, with white blonde hair and pale lavender eyes, and she is fairly quiet by fun-loving. Her brother looks like Alec and is tall, with dark blue eyes, tanned skin and black hair, and is very intense and over emotional. He and Sage have an identical tattoo - Azalea flowers. She got it first and he copied her.

Character art is by Beemot and AlexCogginArt.

[aesthetic-queen-of-trash]

I love how the Ryder twins got the "fuck it we ball" mentally.

[themoralsupport]

Mass Effect Andromeda fanart! Featuring my Ryder twins, Jet and Jackie, on their last day in the Milky Way.

Been a while since I’ve drawn either of them, so might as well go overboard and make three whole panels with the both of them <3

[clairedelune-13]

Head Writer:: Alright, for this new ME game, we need Ryder to be different from Shepard.

Someone: Let’s give them Daddy Issues.

Head Writer: … Anything else?

Someone: … Mommy issues?

[nesonkin]

totally self-indulgent Ryder twins headcanon: at least one of the Ryder twins is an Asimov fan

[wetsocksinbed]

the true mass effect experience is spending ages making a personalised character just to run into a random npc that looks almost identical to them

[anakliro]

2174

[pansy-picnics]

“it takes a village to raise a child.”

every time someone calls them new dream kids i will make sure a civilian mysteriously goes missing from a disney park

[cherubbies]

[frances-baby-houseman]

keanu + winona

[sp1d3yp4rk]

rip the solo siblings you would’ve loved being edited to sympathy is a knife featuring ariana grande by charli xcx