#dalatrass linron

[rawliverandcigarettes]

I reread parts of The Empire of Preys today (being stressed out about how to make progress because I need to make some structural changes due to a great decision I took but that also messes up with some stuff that's already in there), and YEAH yeah, I mean it's a first draft and has first draft bloating and awkwardness and convoluted writing, but I still think it's really gooddd, I just...

I am really happy with the Vibes. Halfway Home had "two cockroaches having an existential crisis while drowning in warm beer behind a stripclub" energy, with a low-buzz of constant stress and misery and painful, non-productive bursts of rage (and that's fine that's what this story wanted to be and I let it be exactly that), but The Empire of Preys is so... almost preppy at times? Like the energy is really sunny and summery and bright and proactive, and even the darker parts come from a place of involvement and electric mental gymnastics; everyone knows at least a good chunk of what's going on, and every character gets to have fun being smart and ambitious and a little ruthless/unhinged. Also, given we're on Sur'kesh quite often, the aesthetic borders on solarpunk at time: everything is green and full of water and bugs and flowers and it's a welcome change from Omega let me tell you --even Illium feels somewhat neater than the Citadel as a location (on the surface of course) because there is, like, a sky.

I don't know it's just such a fun project. I was so correct to make a prequel that feels so much more saturated and complex and politically savvy (annnd it also puts everything that happens next in an even bleaker light also, just by sheer contrast and because of how tragic it is that it had to end up that way). Also the thematic explorations are really neat, even if they are far from their final form yet: I am soooo happy about the exploration of the crossroad of ultraliberalism, post-imperialims and gender from kind of higher up in the social ladder than we ever get to see in Halfway Home. Why do I love writing about money this much??? I don't know, nobody unpacks that please and thank youuuu

The Empire of Preys just ... *feels* salarian, in a really exciting way. I'm so happy about this since it's exactly what I always wanted to capture about why this fictional alien culture enthralls me that much! So it feels great to just, soak in that world and spend time there.

Again I'm sorry it's a lot of me throwing myself a lot of flowers and that might feel weird (also there *are* flaws, I see them, I'll address them in time I hope --and also it will just be a demanding story that won't be for everyone because of this, it will ask for a lot of brainpower to get through just because it's about a fictional political and economical system that interconnects and everyone operates at a certain degree of mastery over it --except for Rhanda, BLESS Rhanda for being the ultimate himbo of the team and asking all the dumb questions and being the Voice of the People in the middle of all the rich and/or vaguely aristocratic pricks), BUT. Every time I return to this project after a break, I'm so happy to see that no, it is really good!!!! It might really be a banger!!!!

#personal #writing #fanfiction #halfway home #the empire of preys #rhanda #nagatha #jurlan #auren #dalatrass linron #I'll just finish my current WIP (shouldn't take long) and then I'll power through the end of draft 1 #less than 50k words missing #(discounting the changes I have to make) #(but these allow the story to have a genuine leftist arc being developed as an actionable political solution) #(so I think it's good and worth it) #(it's hard not to endlessly dunk on leftism as a leftist so I'm glad I tried to go beyond this instinct) #(while not being preachy and ignore the flaws of the system or make promises that don't hold up under scrutiny) #(let's see how that actually goes in practice!!!)

[kaidanalenkosprmanager]

THE BEST OF THE NORMANDY SUMMIT

Featuring: Cmdr. Sophie Shepard, Primarch Adrien Victus, Dalatrass Linron, and Urdnot Wrex With: Comm. Specialist Samantha Traynor Commander, you need to keep Cerberus at bay- I can't overstate what a victory a treaty between the Turians and the Krogan would be for the Alliance. We need all the help we can get... Mass Effect 3: Legendary Edition (2021)

#mira makes gifs ✨ #sophie shepard #urdnot wrex #samantha traynor #mass effect #mass effect 3 #me3 #mass effect legendary edition #dailygaming #finally got around to gif'ing the sur'kesh footage and i ended up splitting it in half bc the summit just had too many good wrex moments #by best of: the normandy summit i really just mean best of: wrex bc this is literally just every wrex moment from the summit LMAO #i was gonna stuff this in with the priority sur'kesh set but literally when i had like 10 gifs of just the summit i was like #sur'kesh is getting the mars split bc wrex has too many good moments to just start cutting half of them out tbh #also victus in his fancy primarch robes with THAT VOICE??? i'm not down bad for most turians but DAMN victus #maybe we talk about how fucking real he was for hearing wrex say that the krogan were the ones who spilled their blood to stop the rachni #and immediately looked at the dalatrass and said that wrex was fucking right #and then said that the dalatrass was helping wrex or she'd never see another friendly turian again?? like he's a fucking ICON for that tbh #and soph in the dress blues????? HOT HOT HOT HOT HOT HOT HOT (mass effect women in uniforms and armor 😍) #her angy face coming back at the dalatrass to defend wrex is everything to me #and wrex's expressions during the summit are so fucking good #there's so much raw emotion on his face that you can see and you can tell how like angry and frustrated he is with the dalatrass and victus #and how much he's holding back!! especially when linron insults him!! when she basically calls his people useless!! #like there's just a thousand+ years of pent up krogan rage about the genophage just boiling behind wrex's eyes #and he somehow manages to keep somewhat cool during the summit? like obvi wrex isn't a thousand+ years old but he's his people's rep #he's such a fucking interesting character especially during this scene when you think about a thousand+ years of the genophage #bc you get to watch him balance keeping his cool in a political situation he's a leader in #vs. remembering he's a krogan in the presence of the leadership of the people who literally created a sterility plague for his people?? #and the raw emotions of that for him??? #wrex my love you deserve the world for dealing with the summit in the cool-headed way that you did bc it was 100% bullshit for you #canon soph would have thrown the dalatrass off the normandy so fucking fast for insulting wrex and his people and you cannot change my mind

[everyonebl00ms]

You can’t trick me, I know it’s you Dalatrass Linron

#if there are any krogan looking at my blog pls just keep scrolling #dalatrass Linron doesn’t know what she’s talking abt #mass effect #my post

[blackjackkent]

A couple important notes apropos of nothing in particular:

The VA for Fll'Yissetat sounded familiar, and sure enough, she is none other than Grey Delisle! One of the quintessential "holy shit it's her AGAIN" of the voice acting world; apparently she also voiced Nalia and Viconia earlier in this game along with some other NPCs. (We in the Bioware fandom sphere also know her as Nassana Dantius, Kahlee Sanders, Councilor Esheel, Dalatrass Linron, Velanna, and the female Bounty Hunter char from SWTOR, among others; she's also been in about three billion other things.)

When those random adventurers gave us the eyestalk, they also, for reasons I don't even pretend to understand, gave us this:

#bjk plays baldur's gate 2 #caden of candlekeep

[skeletonsgeorg]

for the shepard asks: 8, 27, 40 and 47! 👀

EEEEEEEE THANK YOU!!!!!!!!! I'm at 2/10 playthroughs so I'll answer these for the two Shepards I've played through the trilogy with so far!! I'll get a better read on the other 8 as I go along ^^

8. What is their reaction to the Alchera mission? And after?

Shirley: Shirley took the entire mission as a bitter reminder of her failure as a commanding officer. Finding the remains of her fallen crew poured kerosene on her fire for revenge against the Collectors. After getting back on the Normandy, she went straight to her room and destroyed her medal of honor for her actions on Torfan, then ordered Joker to take her someplace she could kill something.

Cian: Alchera was definitely Cian's "loyalty" mission. From the moment Cerberus brought him back, Cian never quite felt... real? Present? Until he found closure for the SR-1 and his crew. The entire time he was on the ground on Alchera, sifting through the wreckage of his ship, finding the remains of his crew, he cried. At one point he just sank to his knees in the snow in front of the CIC and wept. Afterwards, back on the SR-2, he sought out Garrus and asked if he could just... exist with him for a while.

27. Do they have any pet peeves?

Shirley: blind optimists, people commenting on her appearance, people asking her about her time in Cerberus, squeaky shoes, pyjaks, the Council

Cian: overly negative people, xenophobes, black and white morality, Dalatrass Linron, literally anyone breathing a word against AIs

40. Does your Shepard actually like to collect model ships? If not, what do they display?

Shirley: She thinks that the display case and fish tank in her quarters are a gross and laughable waste of space. ...She only keeps fish for Liara.

Cian: Cian is a soft nerd and so he loves to buy every model ship he can find, carefully assemble them in his free time, and proudly display them. (He also loves all his fish and his space hamster, Pulsar)

47. Does Shepard practice any kind of self-care?

Shirley: Does charge+nova count as self-care?

Cian: Cian makes sure to keep himself clean and well rested. This gets hard during the Reaper war... he grows to dread sleeping, and the only thing that can coax him to get any rest at all is Kaidan holding him. Sometimes that doesn't mean sleep, and it just means cuddling with his eyes closed.

#shirley shepard #cian shepard #commander shepard #mass effect

[sisyphus-prime]

Mass effect

Was it my mass reblogging that inspired it

blorbo: mordin or wrex... maybe even drack.. I love the krogan :^)

scrunkly: hehhehhehhheh grunt. Love the two year old super soldier

scrimblo bimblo: bakara. Like she's not ever unliked but I love her she's great

glup shitto: don't totally have one but I think the rachni as a species is as close as I'm gonna get

poor little meow meow: ...I like Ashley even if she's a bit of a dick about aliens in game 1

horse plinko: javick. Get fucked old man

eeby deeby: :^) dalatrass linron

#'the only way to keep their... urges in check.' go fuck yourself lady

[luimnigh]

My god do I wish there was an option to tell Dalatrass Linron to go fuck herself. 

Between her attempts to bribe Shepard into continuing a genocide and the massively condescending email she sends Shepard afterwards, she might genuinely be my least favourite character in the series. 

Like, Councillor Valern is also a dick about curing the genophage, but he’s like “You saved my life once so I’m just gonna accept this and move on”. 

While Linron tries to shame Shepard about Mordin’s death when she told them to kill him. 

#mass effect #dalatrass linron #luimnigh plays mass effect

[inquartata30]

Salarian Assistance Paralyzed

“Salarian fleets on hold. Narra bloodline threatens rebellion if ships defend non-salarian space. Linron refuses to enact martial law.” —Alliance News Network

Dalatrass Linron

#mass effect #dalatrass linron #screenshots #4k

[hustlemeanokay]

Three vs. One . On Board the Normandy . Mass Effect 3

CDR Marian Shepard . Urdnot Wrex

Primarch Victus . Dalatrass Linron

+ Bonus:

Get in loser, we're curing the genophage.

#mass effect 3 #mass effect 3 spoilers #mass effect legendary edition #commander shepard #urdnot wrex #primarch victus #dalatrass linron #three vs one #commander marian shepard #on board the normandy #marian shepard #my screencaps

[rawliverandcigarettes]

Hello, this is the first week without a Halfway Home update, and since I couldn't get myself to finish the super big thing about my feelings regarding release, please have this very first official artwork (tm) for The Empire of Preys instead.

#the empire of preys #halfway home #my art #shitpost #rhanda #auren caepta #dalatrass linron #jurlan #nagatha #I don't think I could have done a better job at introducing the Vibes #all 5 of them are PoV characters #I should do proper portraits and introductions eventually haha #I mean at least one of them is still kind of a spoiler?? #but oh well halfway home is all out now so welp #teop is for the girlbosses!!!! and auren!!!! #auren really has wet cat energy here as he should

[kaidanalenkosprmanager]

THE BEST OF PRIORITY: TUCHANKA (PART 1)

Featuring: Cmdr. Sophie Shepard, Urdnot Wrex, and Urdnot Bakara With: Dr. Mordin Solus, Primarch Adrien Victus, Dalatrass Linron, Urdnot Wreav, and Comm. Specialist Samantha Traynor This will be the defining moment of Krogan history... Mass Effect 3: Legendary Edition (2021)

#mira makes gifs ✨ #sophie shepard #urdnot wrex #mordin solus #mass effect #mass effect 3 #me3 #mass effect legendary edition #dailygaming #tuchanka is here baby!! she’s another two parter bc she was a chonky one for good cutscenes #i was gonna enjoy some ME3 last night bc i have to redo the coup for reasons™️ but scottina released reegar returns #AND THATS MY FAVORITE QUARIAN ON THE CITADEL (plus everything scott makes is stonks!!) #so we restored the ME3 install and divvied up the tuchanka footage into gifs instead while textures reinstalled lmao #but onto the gifset commentary as per my usual tag ranting: i adore tuchanka!! it’s one of my favorites for priority missions!! #wrex and bakara have some absolutely FLAME dialogue throughout the mission (especially bakara’s speech) #i usually pick a quote i like from the mission to subquote the post with and i wanted to use bakara’s but i decided it made a better gif! #also wrex head butting wreav is hot as fuck thanks for that one wrex you kinda ate on that #the first set is kinda boring compared to the second set but i love that the dalatrass comes in #and tries to make a shady little underhanded deal with shep!!! like that’s one of the more interesting ME3 plot points imo #i myself would never side with her bc i love wrex too much and disagree with genophage politics too much #but for her to come in with a shady little deal and be like ‘you should sabotage the cure and we’ll help you instead’? #i gotta respect her shady motives even if i hate her tbh lol #i will say i wish companions had a bit more dialogue in the cutscenes in the front end (and the back end too) #priority tuchanka feels a little? light? on the commentary from EDI and james #they both deserved so much more dialogue during the mission bc this is SUCH A BIG ONE??? this is such a huge deal??? #i wish they had more to say here!!! bc i feel like they would both have so many thoughts on everything going on!!! ESPECIALLY kalros?? #and wreav?? the city of the ancients?? like there's so many concepts that get the BAREST of touches and i wish they were touched on more!! #bc the city of the ancients is the best part of the mission imo.. like it's gorgeous and i wish we saw just a touch more of it!! #like c'mon i KNOW the companions would have SOOOO much to say in the bigger conversations!!!

[masseffectcaps]

#mass effect #mass effect 3 #urdnot wrex #commander shepard #dalatrass linron #adrien victus #priority: sur'kesh

[theoriginalladya]

Destiny’s Fate (update) (main story)

Chapter:  What I Need

word count: approximately 2700 words

Excerpt:

“Commander, the salarian dalatrass and the krogan leader both request permission to come aboard.”

Jane stood in front of the mirror in her bathroom as she placed the final pins in her hair to keep it out of her face.  Popping her head first to the right and then to the left to ease the tension that just wouldn’t go away, she tapped her comm and replied, “Please inform Primarch Victus, Traynor, then have Vega and Cortez escort the dalatrass and Wrex to the conference room.  I’ll be down in a moment.”

“Should that be an armed escort, commander?”

Jane fought against a smirk as best she could, but she caught the twitch of her lips in the reflection in front of her.  Traynor had just the right amount of sass to get away with it in moments like this.  Then again, she wasn’t wrong, either, and that was the more sobering thought.  “On second thought, have Cortez escort the dalatrass up.  Vega can wait with Wrex for the second run.  I’ll grab one of the maintenance ducts to get down.”

“Understood, commander.”

Jane exited her room, finding the access point to her right just outside her door.  As she descended the ladder, she pressed her comm again.  “Kaidan?”

His response was immediate.  “I’m here.”

“Cortez is escorting the dalatrass to the conference room and Victus should be there momentarily.”

“And Wrex?”

“Vega will bring him up after.”  She reached the bottom of the ladder and hunched over, making her way through the access tube.  “I’m on my way now.  Could you meet them at the conference room?”

A soft chuckle filtered across the connection.  Just a hint before he cleared his throat.  “Just in case?”

Jane couldn’t fault him there.  They both knew Wrex well.  “Just in case.”

“Don’t worry, commander, I’m on my way.”

#Destiny's Fate #ladya writes #ShepShep #Mass Effect Fanfiction #when the muses attack #Jane Shepard #Kaidan Alenko #Urdnot Wrex #Primarch Victus #Dalatrass Linron #Samantha Traynor #Hannah Shepard #chapter update

[cerberusdailynews]

[SUR'KESH] Arrest Warrant Issued For Terrorist

via Pranas Courier Talat Megapolis Police Service and the Salarian Union Interstellar Criminal Police Organization, in cooperation with the Special Tasks Group, have issued an arrest warrant for a citizen who attempted to detonate a bomb within Sur’Kesh’s capital city. Ja��to Tegu Sumaru Mopelias Linron Tep is hereby wanted for an act of attempted terrorism against the Salarian Union. He is believed to be armed and dangerous, and has possibly changed his appearance and identity to elude the authorities. A reward of one million (1 000 000) credits has been issued for any information that aids in his apprehension. [This is Tep Linron’s last known appearance.] Authorities strongly believe that Tep Linron was acting on behalf of the Salarian Democratic Union when attempting the aborted act of terror. Numerous communiques from the terrorist organization were intercepted, threatening Talat megapolis with an attack identical to the projected outcome of the foiled attempt. Dalatrass Linron has also condemned severely the revelation of her cousin being a Salarian Democratic Union accomplice. “To be targeted with such hatred by someone of our own clutches shocks me to my core being. Doubly so to learn that the brand of hatred that the terrorists cultivate has managed to overcome our familial bonds. What cause of equality would have Tep’s bomb served, if it meant to kill me, my sisters, aunts and uncles alongside millions of others? The so-called democratic union...we saw a glimpse of their desired future at Entish years ago. It nearly happened again. SDU’s true cause is destroying the Salarian Union in conflagration of familicide.”

#cdn #cerberus daily news #mass effect #mass effect news #mass effect rp #sur'kesh #salarian #salarian union #terrorism #entish #linron #linron clan #dalatrass linron #sdu #salarian democratic union #politics

[keepshepardsafe]

Dalatrass Linron: I won’t forget this Commander! A bully has few friends when they need them most.

Commander Shepard: this is so sad EDI play despacito

#what i thought about all day at work #despacito #mass effect #commander shepard #edi #dalatrass linron

[justshepardthings]

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JST:  flipping off the dalatrass by curing the genophage.

because what the fuck do i look like to u

#mass effect 3 #dalatrass linron #commander shepard #justshepardthings #paragon