#mass effect blogging

[n04s]

they should've never added the synthesis option, not only does it trivialize the control option and in general is kind of an annoyingly undeserved "golden ending", but it also creates deep implications that make it so they could never create another mass effect game set in the same galaxy

#mass effect blogging #it just feels really cheap honestly. too magically good tbh with no effort involved at all

[martii-art]

✨best boy in the universe✨ Over ten years in Mass Effect brain rot, and it's only my first Garrus Vakarian fanart. SHAME.

#garrus vakarian #mass effect garrus #mass effect #I created an art blog! #my main blog was too messy #better keep my art in one place

[sky-scribbles]

Shepard holds a funeral for her clone.

The paperwork is almost harder than the ceremony. Turns out it’s tricky to register the death of someone whose birth - creation? Decanting-from-vat? - was never recorded to begin with. Then there’s some kind of question about whether the clone needs to be retroactively registered as a Council space citizen to have her death put on the official record, and if so, whether she counts as a member of the Systems Alliance or as an ‘undocumented alien’. Which is pretty fucking ironic, considering how utterly she’d have loathed having the word alien attached to her.

And once Shepard’s ground her teeth through a dozen calls and bludgeoned through the first layer of formwork - a death certificate still needs a name.

‘I have to put something,’ she says. She’s aware that her voice is ragged, and that Kaidan is watching her as he brews her fourth coffee of the evening with concern heavy on his face. She must look barely alive, up near midnight in a kitchen that was Anderson’s and still feels nothing like hers, hair falling forward, eyes shadowed grey. Datapads and empty mugs strewn around her. Fine. She’s felt barely alive ever since she woke up in a Cerberus lab.

‘You could choose one for her,’ Kaidan says gently. A lot of people speak to her gently, these days.

‘She’d hate that. A name makes you individual. She didn’t want to be an individual; she wanted to be me.’

The cofee machine whirrs softly, sounding louder than it is in the open space of the apartment. It still doesn’t feel right, all this space for one person. Someone could drown in this much space.

‘She didn’t want to be you, though. Not really.’ Kaidan pours out the coffee, his eyes only leaving her face for a moment. ‘What she wanted was to be the symbol. The face on the vids.’

He carries the mug over and sets it down beside her hand. Shepard grips it tight. The unfinished form blinks up at her from the datapad screen, and she looks away.

‘I’m not asking this because I don’t support you doing it, or to judge you for it, or anything,’ Kaidan says, after a moment. ‘I just want to understand. Can you tell me why this is so important to you? I mean - I get that you were trying to save her, and she... she let go. But...’

He hesitates, and in his silence Shepard hears, she tried to kill you. She tried to take you away from me, and everyone who cares about you, for a second time - because she was jealous.

Shepard sips her coffee. It hasn’t had time to cool down, and her lips smart. She ignores it. She thinks.

‘What you said about... being the symbol,’ she says at last. ‘I get why she wanted it, or thought she did. I understand feeling that Commander Shepard is someone bigger than you are.’

Kaidan breathes out slowly, and takes a seat beside her.

‘I get feeling that you’re so small, so nothing, next to everyone’s idea of what Commander Shepard is. And when I fall short -’ She sees him prepare to protest, and cuts across him. ‘I do, I do all the time - I feel like it’d be easier if I were the symbol. Not...’ She waves a hand, indicating all the sleep-starved mess of her. ‘This. I don’t even know when what would Shepard do and what will I do stopped feeling like the same question.’

She lets her hand fall back onto the table. Kaidan takes it and holds it tight.

‘And I think of her, the clone, waking up in some Cerberus med bay. Confused. And Brooks - Brooks was there, feeding her things to believe, manipulating her, turning her into the symbol she wanted. And I get it.’ Shepard bites her burned lip. ‘Because I woke up in a Cerberus lab. And I was scared. And they used me, and I let them.’

What she does not add is, and sometimes I don’t feel any more real than her. I don’t have any way to prove that I’m the woman who died in the wreckage of her broken ship. They wiped away that woman’s scars. There could be all kinds of tech in my head, feeding me a lie, telling me I’m real.

She swallows. Her throat feels raw. ‘And now the clone’s dead, and no one cares. We’re planning a fucking party. If I don’t push for a funeral, she’ll just go unregistered and undocumented and everyone will keep joking about how crazy this whole mess has been, how I fell through a fish tank and a mad clone tried to steal my life, and it’d be like she never existed at all. I don’t have to fill in these forms. I could take the easy road and let her be a ghost. But I can’t do that, Kaidan. I can’t.’

He looks at her, his eyes steady and patient and full of worry. Then he slips an arm over her shoulder and pulls her in, and Shepard leans into him, needing the surety of his touch, his warmth. Anything that tells her she’s something more than a force piloting a set of N7 armour.

Kaidan presses a slow kiss to the top of her head. He holds her until she stops feeling ready to howl. Then he sits with her and helps her fill in the forms, helps her choose a name for the clone, one that fits. When morning comes, he calls C-Sec and stays on the line until they agree to release the body to the Normandy, into the custody of the only person who could be considered the dead woman’s relative. 

He doesn’t ask Shepard any more questions as to why she needs this done.

In the end, they bury her in space, as Shepard would a crewmate. And no one has stories to tell of what she meant to them. They have nothing to say about the achievements of her angry little life. But they wear their dress blues, and speak softly, and they turn the lights down low.

Shepard doesn’t know if this is what her clone would have wanted. Maybe she never learned to want anything for herself at all. It doesn’t matter. A funeral doesn’t help her clone; it helps her.

They lift the casket into the airlock. EDI opens the outer door. And the casket leaps away into space in a blur of silver-grey, like the body within is hungry for the stars.

#anyway the clone is a walking tragedy and ill never be normal about it #yes this is still a cr blog. but im doing a mass effect replay and i have feelings #mass effect #femshep #shepard #kaidan alenko #shenko #sky's writing #oc: sita shepard

[biowho]

You throw away Shepard’s hamster? You put hamster in bin like paper?? Oh! Oh! Jail for clone! Jail for clone for one thousand years!!

#here’s a gem from my old blog #mass effect #mass effect citadel #mass effect memes #commander shepard

[chaifootsteps]

I love her.

#Gooseworx #Mass effect #actual blog post

[felassan]

Rated F for.. "Fuck"?

[source, two, three, four]

#dragon age #bioware #mass effect #lul #video games #skskshksh #(pls note if you're a minor under 18 please don't follow this blog ^^ thankyou)

[mistresshecates]

Kaidan + Iconic Lines (pt. 3)

#mass effect #kaidan alenko #masseffectedit #gamingedit #dailygaming #userkarlo #userladybeniko #userlockescoles #userbamf #underbetelgeuse #userliliana #josephseedsrosary #lgbtvideogames #gifs* #* #continuation from my old blog

[edains]

Mass Effect LE1: Cyrus "Ashley Williams Simp" Shepard

Children of Rannoch

LE1 Diversification Project

N7 Ashley & Kaidan Armor (textures only)

New Armors for Femshep LE1 (personal mod for Ashley)

New Broshep Armors (LE1)

Morning's Hairstyles for Maleshep LE1

#mass effect #ashley williams #cyrus shepard #shepley #mass effect mods #masseffectedit #gamingedit #dailygaming #edain's edits #hello welcome to my blog we are ashley stans first and ppl second here #wow 3 in 1 day! i'm motivated today! #i changed his armor colors and tali so they could match #b/c i felt bad she was left out #now they're all matching in a way <3

[mydoodlesdump]

Wip...

Man. This is taking forever.... Isn't it???

#mass effect #wip #final one will be posted on mass effect side blogs

[theviridianbunny]

💫 Looking for new mutuals and blogs to follow 💫

Hi im bunny - as written above , I'm looking for new blogs to follow -! I'm a girlie with many interests / hobbies such as gaming [cp2077 - CRPGS and Bioware RPGS], warhammer 40k , making art and taking virtual photography .

OCs and world building is something that's very close to my heart . My main ocs are cp2077 focused , but some of them bleed through into other universes and bits of personal world building. Always love to learn about other people's OCs and world building as well -!!!

When I'm not yelling about my bloros online - I like to go out hunting for quirky things in charity shops or get tea and be cosy with a book or re watching the matrix or the shape of water for the 20 millionth time. I am currently slowly working my way through the x files. !!

Please leave a like, and I'll check out your blog , reblogs are appreciated - ♡

#blog promo #cp2077 #cyberpunk 2077 #dragon age #warhammer 40k #mass effect #artists on tumblr #virtual photography #the x files #bunny screams into the void #I have no idea if this is the right way to go in regards to making new Internet friends or finding new blogs

[nebularobo]

Commission for Dar'nara

Commissions open!

#mass effect #warhammer 40k #adeptus mechanicus #scifi #art #my art #art blog #commissioned

[thatwildwolfwrites]

one of my favourite passages from Edge of Yesterday [AO3]

#mass effect #shakarian #garrus vakarian #garrus #mass effect fanfic #edge of yesterday tag #am i still plugging this fic months after finishing it? #yes i am #it's my blog and i make the rules

[biowho]

Bioware Blorbo Beat Down

>>> ITS OVER <<<

ZEVRAN WON

We’re doing 70 npc’s from Mass Effect and Dragon Age and buckle up because first they’re going against each other! Check back in with my pinned post (this one) for updated links or go through the tag ‘bioware blorbo beat down’ on my blog to get to each poll faster

The winners of each round are polled against each other randomly but within their respective games!

[I recommend blocking the tag mentioned above to keep it outa explore pages/main tags if you don’t want to see any of it]

MASS EFFECT - WINNER!

Garrus Vakarian

DRAGON AGE - WINNER!

Zevran Arainai

MASS EFFECT - ROUND FIVE Garrus Vakarian VS Tali’zorah vas Normandy

DRAGON AGE - ROUND FIVE

Zevran Arainai VS Fenris

MASS EFFECT - ROUND FOUR

Karin Chakwas VS Tali’zorah vas Normandy

Garrus Vakarian VS Jack

DRAGON AGE - ROUND FOUR

Fenris VS Merrill

Alistair Theirin VS Zevran Arainai

MASS EFFECT - ROUND THREE

Jack VS Miranda Lawson

Steve Cortez VS Karin Chakwas

Tali’zorah vas Normandy VS Urdnot Wrex

Mordin Solus VS EDI VS Garrus Vakarian

DRAGON AGE - ROUND THREE

Varric Tethras VS Fenris

Zevran Arainai VS Isabela

Alistair Theirin VS Dorian Pavus

Sera VS Merrill VS Krem

MASS EFFECT - ROUND TWO

Suvi Anwar VS Karin Chakwas

Steve Cortez VS Kenneth Donelly

Urdnot Wrex VS Thane Krios

Legion VS Mordin Solus

Jack VS Liara T’soni

Garrus VS Joker

Javik VS EDI

Urdnot Grunt VS Tali’zorah vas Normandy 

Miranda Lawson VS James Vega

DRAGON AGE - ROUND TWO

Dog (dao) VS Isabela

Fenris VS Josephine Montilyet 

Merril VS Vivienne de Fer

Nathaniel Howe VS Krem

Anders VS Alistair Theirin

Sera VS Sten

Dorian Pavus VS Wynne

Zevren Arainai VS Morrigan

Shale VS Varric Tethras

  MASS EFFECT - ROUND ONE

Ashley Williams VS James Vega

Jacob Taylor VS Miranda Lawson

Samantha Traynor VS Tali’zorah vas Normandy

Urdnot Grunt VS Morinth

EDI VS Kaidan Alanko

Cora Harper VS Javik

Nakmor Drack VS Joker

Garrus Vakarian VS Kasumi Goto

Jaal Ama Darav VS Liara T’soni

Jack VS Liam Kosta

Mordin Solus VS Samara

Peebee VS Legion

Thane Krios VS Zaeed Massani

Vetra Nyx VS Urdnot Wrex

Suvi Anwar VS Gabby Daniels

Steve Cortez VS Kallo Jath

Kenneth Donnelly VS Gil Brodie

Karin Chakwas VS Lexi T’Perro

DRAGON AGE - ROUND ONE

Cassandra Pentaghast VS Shale

Varric Tethras VS Sigrun

Morrigan VS Bethany Hawke

Zevran Arainai VS Cole

Dorian Pavus VS Velanna

Solas VS Wynne

Tallis VS Sten

Oghren VS Sera

Alistair Theirin Vs Cullen Rutherford

The Iron Bull VS Isabela

Anders VS Blackwall

Krem VS Scout Harding

Nathaniel Howe VS Sebastian Vael

Carver Hawke VS Vivienne de Fer

Lelianna VS Merrill

Josephine Montilyet VS Aveline Vallen

Fenris VS Loghain

Dog VS Dog

#mass effect #bioware #dragon age #give me a sec for the first links #i wont make a side blog just for this #if im going to suffer so are you #polls

[iron-bullogna]

if you're into durgetash can y'all like this so I can check out your blog I need new blood

#shut up kit #bg3 #durgetash #enver gortash #i have returned to tumblr recently after many many years away #and i need some other new blogs to follow #i also like dragon age and mass effect #along with fallout #plan on writing again soooon

[baldurians]

EVA RYDER

#mass effect #mass effect andromeda #mea #oc: eva ryder #ryder #meedit #meedits #raquelstuff #these are old #yeah i'm still posting old gifs since i deleted my old blog

[istanbulite]

10 Fandoms 10 Characters 10 Tags

tagged by @velnat004 thank you I missed being tagged to stuff т  ̫ т♡

you know...I won't name them.you know them I know them.everyone and their mother knows them (..Or not...I'll tag them)

Varied? XD okay... tagging @ice-6caydesqueen @kinokochouchou @tolltale @aylaaescar @volchitsa-of-winterfell @wifestre @pixilicious @vihola @baepsrae @iorwethh @milkdrawsthings @kimmkitsuragi ✧*｡ ofc u don't have to do it if u don't wanna

#xx #and if u saw this n wanna do it do it !“! #honestly i forget to tag a lot of blogs... #dragon age #doctor who #killing eve #mass effect #legend of drizzt #swtor #game of thrones #demonheart #kotor 2 #black lagoon