#turian kid

[polina-savitskaya]

Turian kid concept for 3D modeling / part 1 Music: AES Dana feat. Miktek

[milkywayes]

GARRUS VAKARIAN: DATABASE IMAGE ACCESS. > PT. 1 : 2160, 2166, 2170. > all files backdated according to user preferences: (terran_coordinated.calendar).

[tarysande]

Gentle reminder that your friendly neighborhood turian can curl up in a tiny ball when necessary. They don't have to stand around looking suave and menacing allllll the time.

[uglynicc]

Making my gaming dreams of romancing Lorik Qui'in a (sorta) reality

[hq92]

I haven't dipped my toes into writing Shakarian fanfic (yet), and while my heart wants to imagine fluffy happy scenarios, my brain instead keeps saying:

Imagine a team of youngsters who have to take down the galaxy's new Big Bad™, but they're just so young and don't have their shit together and keep getting their asses handed to them. But then their adventures cause them to cross paths with an elderly turian. He's old, he's cranky, but damn if he isn’t a hell of a shot and full of bad ass war stories from back when the Reapers threatened everything.

...He also has this horribly sad and lonely look whenever he thinks they aren’t looking, and keeps saying cryptic stuff about, "Waiting years to go up to that bar and get a drink with her."

"Hey man, if it's a bar you want to go to, we can just go and hit one up whenever-"

"No. It's not time yet."

[saltissalty]

Finally completed my first full run of mass effect today. Yes I cried extremely hard. Here’s some guys that are in my head that I drew

[ferniliciousness]

Ok so, I'm reading Garrus' Mass Effect Homeworld comic and like can I just pause and say. HIS LITTLE BACKPACK IN THIS SCENE IS SO DAMN CUTE!!!! LIKE I KNOW HES A TEENAGER AND THIS IS AN EMOTIONAL SCENE BUT! TURIAN BACKPACK!!!!

[mahiiimahiiii]

Geriatric, naked, and slightly soft and round femshep.

That's it. Send post.

[lassieposting]

ME3LE: a summary

[corpocyborg]

So... Shepard was a little kid when the first contact war was going on, right? Imagine little edgelord renegade Shepard getting pissed off about something and getting all mad at the world and starting to rant about wishing turians would come abduct her and take her to a better world. Imagine Shepard’s boyfriend Garrus hearing this story 30 years later and never letting Shepard live it down.

[j-exclamationmark-l]

Okay. You sold me.

I was thinking Mass Effect was a good game. Just good. Then I walk into a scientist's lab, look at a skeleton hanging from the ceiling, and Shepherd says "Loch Ness Monster." The computer robot lady says, "No, it's a plesiosaur. The Loch Ness Monster doesn't exist." And Shepherd just goes "Loch Ness Monster :)"

Great game 10/10 all other games take note

[crqstalite]

an extra hc: being left on medical leave means mateo has plenty of time to get up to trouble on meridian and the nexus — and he finds that time wandering around the evergrowing nursery, plus helping with waking the younger travelers. with his more hands on and adventurous personality, the kids usually adore him.

talis has babies named after her for her efforts, but she’ll never be as charismatic as a recovering mateo playing hide and seek with kids newly woken from the cryo bay.

[timetravellingkitty]

I'll just get straight to the point.

SIRAJ NEEDS TO GET TO 40K CAD BY THE END OF THIS WEEK

If you don’t know already, Siraj ( @siraj2024 ) is a devoted father to his three children and a writer and journalist from Gaza. He did a bachelor's degree and completed his master's in journalism and media just an year before the genocide began. He even wanted to get a doctorate! But his dreams were shattered when when the genocide started in October 2023.

In November 2023, the IOF destroyed his beautiful home which took ten years of love and labour. Ever since October 7th, he has been displaced seven times. Do you know what that has done to his three beautiful boys? In his words:

“My children have lost their childhoods among these makeshift shelters. They don’t know how to play or learn. Instead, they help with hard tasks like fetching drinking water from long distances, cleaning around the tent, and much more. They deserve better.”

One of his boys contracted a serious infection from the unhygienic conditions of the tent his family lives in. This is not how his children should be living! They should be in school, they should be playing, AND THEY SHOULD BE SAFE.

Forgive me for invoking her but within 24 hours of her candidacy Kamala Harris’ campaign raised a record breaking 81 million USD with the help of small-dollar donations. Clearly even the smallest amount goes a long way! If you can give your money to a candidate enabling a genocide, you can give your money to people escaping genocide

Please do not forget his family.

He is currently at $31,759 CAD / 40,000

He needs to get $8,241 to reach his goal.

Help him reach his weekly goal of 40k by Sunday.

He is #219 on this spreadsheet of vetted fundraisers by el-shab-hussein and nabulsi so please don't hesitate to donate anything you can spare. Don't let Siraj and his kids be forgotten. Again, if you guys can donate to this coconut of a vice president you can donate to him

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[wingsy-keeper-of-songs]

I have finished the Mass Effect Trilogy.

I am varying levels of Not Fine and I have drowned myself in Shakarian fic to fix the amount of Ow My Heart I am currently feeling. Goddamn, what a game series.

Oh, and the Catalyst can go to AI hell forever. That little Darwinist Walmart-brand Alexa motherfucker. Try to make me think you're the pinnacle of evolution and shit. Don't even try it with me, you little shit. I had Harbinger bitching at me for over 40 hours I am not even in the vicinity of letting you or your death machines live.

[shepgarrus]

Also consider how deadly seriously he’d take naming each kid <3 (I’ve never played the sims but if you can’t name them he’d still insist on names in his head)

STOP RIGHT NOW AND THINK ABOUT THIS-

Imagine Garrus playing THE SIMS game. 💀 Imagine how chaotic and stressed he'd be, when a glitch happens or when disasters strikes every 5 seconds. Like I can picture him being wholesome and cute at first like: "Shepard, look I made you! Okay now I am going to, attempt to make myself, as a human..handsome of course, but not as handsome as the real thing." And then after a little bit, he finds out they can woohoo, and next thing you know there's like 10 kids 💀 and then a fire happens and he calls the firefighters and the firefighters play his piano instead of putting the fire out and he's like panicking- bsuskaodjs

[tarysande]

There are a couple more Garrus-Vakarian-related hills I'm willing to die on.

Maybe this particular bit of fanon has faded over the years, but there used to be a lot of insistence that Garrus is young and somehow inexperienced when he meets Shepard. Canon doesn't really support this. Turians start their mandatory service at 15. Garrus has at least a decade of experience. Even if he's 2-4 of years younger than Shepard (according to Patrick Weekes), he's got at least as much field experience as she does by dint of the difference in turian and human "enlistment" ages.

Garrus is really damn good at his job at C-Sec. You don't give the Case of Investigating the Rogue Spectre to a greenhorn. You give it to your best, most tenacious agent. Pallin may not always approve of Garrus's actions, but that doesn't actually stop him from putting Garrus on the tough case. Also, we don't know much about how C-Sec works but we do know a bit about how the turian hierarchy works, and we know C-Sec was essentially a turian initiative. That means it's a meritocracy where failure reflects on the superior, not the one who failed. So, in roughly a decade (Shepard's 29 in ME1; I always think of Garrus as about 27), Garrus has not only done shipboard military service, but he's also risen to be one of C-Sec's top investigators; Pallin wouldn't risk having Garrus's "failure" reflect poorly on HIM otherwise. I'd say that actually makes Garrus as remarkable in civilian law enforcement terms as Shepard is considered to be within the ranks of the Alliance military.

Of course Garrus was scouted by the Spectre program. And honestly, if his dad hadn't stepped in, I think Garrus would have become a Spectre, no problem. Especially for a turian, he's cut from precisely the cloth the Spectres would be looking for: extremely skilled, extremely capable, and--most importantly--he's a turian not just able but willing to work outside the chains of command that turians are taught from birth to revere and be loyal to above all else. This is the reason Pallin is leery about Spectres: he's a good turian. Good turians follow straight lines; they don't carve out their own paths.

Garrus's dad's not dumb, and he's not cruel, and he, too, rose to the top of the C-Sec hierarchy. He took one look at his kid, I think, and said, "I love my child, but I'd say it's a 50-50 chance he ends up a shooting-first-asking-questions-later Spectre like Saren Arterius, and I don't want to see that happen." Yeah, he uses his parental influence to try and jam square-peg-Garrus into round-hole-C-Sec and Garrus resents him for it, but there's no way he did it just to stop his son from getting his way or because he doesn't like Spectres. I expect Vakarian Sr. had to clean up more post-Spectre-interference messes than we can possibly imagine. But we also know he and Alec Ryder were pals later.

So the importance of what Garrus learns from a Paragon Spectre Shepard is this: You can't just do what you want and claim the ends always justify the means. That's what Saren does. Over and over again. Garrus's code and his idealism and his sense of justice and his ability to work alone should make him a great Spectre, actually, but he needs Paragon Spectre Shepard's actions to show him the lesson he tells her he's learned during ME1: "If the people I'm sworn to protect can't trust me... well, then I don't deserve to be the one protecting them." (And the seed of Archangel was planted.) I think for the first time he realizes that even though he believes his sense of justice to be correct, it doesn't matter for shit if he can't show others why that's so. And that's where the trust comes in. (Also, ow, the extra level of importance this gives their exchange where she tells him she trusts him and he tells her she's about the only friend he has left is... a lot. Cool, cool. I'm totally fine. Nothing to see here.)

When Shepard asks him what happened on Omega, he replies, "My feelings got in the way of my better judgement." Something tells me that this never happens to "good" turians, which just makes the line so much more devastating. And although the lesson some might take away from this is "feelings bad; no feelings ever," the "grey" that Garrus has to learn to deal with is precisely the grey of recognizing feelings, validating them even, but not acting on them until they've been examined. (Which is why my Shepard stands between him and Sidonis; she doesn't give a shit about Sidonis. But Garrus has refused to process his own feelings of failure and self-loathing, so they have to take the therapy session to the Citadel and deal with it there.)

Ahh yes. The mountain range of character analysis.