#yes it is shakarian

[ricedbanana-art]

Sorry Thane

#mass effect #fan comic #fan art #mass effect comic #mass effect fanart #meme #dont mind me im still looking for my style #yes bioware we wanted to fuck the spiky aliens #thane krios #garrus vakarian #commander shepard #femshep #shakarian #my art

[thefloatingstone]

Draw Garrus consistently between panels Difficulty: Impossible

Good Lord I am putting WAY too much effort into these by now. I need to cut that out and go back to half-assing them because this is ridiculous.

I am going to be fucking insufferable when I get to the 2nd game 👀💦

#Mass Effect #Mass Effect 1 #Commander Shepard #Garrus Vakarian #Shakarian #It's comin' yall #I need a better art tag #Mass Effect comics #Artists on Tumblr #Don't come for me I have no idea how to hold guns (or draw guns) #Also yes I play Pistols mostly unless the sniper rifle is more appropriate #it's a pain in the first game but it's so worth it for 2 and 3

[dispatchwithlove]

The evolution of our dear Garrus Vakarian.

ME1: (shocked pikachu face) Take Shepard in a fight? The impertinence! She’s a decorated war hero and our commander.

ME2: (in a sexy drawl) Take Shepard? No way, with her biotics and training… oh you mean sex? (shocked pikachu face) Oh, I, um…. why, did she say something?

ME3: (most interesting man in the world pose) Yeah, I can take Shepard…out for the best night of dancing she’s ever had. (accidental uwu face) Because I love my honey and I don’t care who knows!

#god i fucking love this dork #yes i’m playing mass effect again #the arc 👌 #mass effect #garrus vakarian #shakarian #shepard x garrus #garrus x shepard #commander shepard

[wendeeesaucy]

Kasumi’s thoughts on the Shakarian romance

#i always loved this dialogue #it implies that the crew prob knew of their chemistry long before they themselves knew #mutual denial but everyone knew it was actually mutual pining ;)))) #they wanted to see them happy together #besides it tracts with me always taking him on every mission so yes it was very obvious about shepard playing favorites #shakarian #selene shepard #femshep #commander shepard #garrus #garrus vakarian #mass effect garrus #mass effect #mass effect 2 #mele #mass effect legendary edition #femshep x garrus #shepard x garrus #garrus x shepard #garrus x femshep

[swimmingtrunks]

First off, hi. Iove you and your art!

For the asks and you shall receive sketches can you do either Shepard having a hyper spurt and beating Garrus with a pillow or

Shepard first calling him Garebear and his reaction. 🥺💙

Thanks! Much love!

At first this seemed super OOC for my Shep, so this scenario came to mind, BUT THEN.

Yeah, Drunk!Shep would do this.

#mass effect #fanart #garrus vakarian #custom femshep #sketch request #ask and ye shall maybe receive #AAYSMR #shakarian

[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

[danknirnroot]

Garrus is that dad who literally never holds his kids like a normal person and it's funny to everyone BUT Shepard.

#shakarian #garrus vakarian #commander shepard #mass effect #no I do not know how to draw turian children #yes that's why the turian baby is in a onesie #Garrus is a fun dad who adores his kids #my art tag

[skiitter]

"I love you, Garrus Vakarian."

It echoed like a gunshot in her head. The words were honeyed oil, viscous, insistent, easy. She'd said it because, high above the Presidium with the galaxy burning and the scent of ozone in the air, it was the only thing left to say. She loved him. It was a fact, a veritable force of nature; relentless and seemingly without end. The soft, vulnerable, beating center of her was wholly removed from the cavity of her chest and placed with ironclad trust into the palm of his three-fingered hand.

And Garrus Vakarian, sole anchor of her heart and absolute arbiter of her desires, did not say it back.

At first, she assumed it was a cultural miscommunication. Lord knows they'd had their fair share of those in the time they had spent together. Shepard didn't even think to question it, attributing his lack of reciprocation to the failures of their translators.

And then he said he loved Tali's omni-tool mod, and Liara's quick thinking, and Joker's sharp tongue, and the forceful way Javik demanded success. Without provocation, without restraint, the declaration so banal it was unnoticeable to anyone else. Suddenly, Shepard realized that Garrus knew exactly what it meant to love something. He understood with blatant clarity the human definition of the act and had chosen not to say it back.

Immediately, she wanted to ask him, to find out the objective truth of the matter. Only, between the war and the reapers and the waves of violent destruction, Shepard lacked the energy and conviction to do it. So instead, every bit the mechanical soldier she'd trained to be, Jane Shepard ate her feelings whole and let them fester with rot in total silence.

It worked surprisingly well, at least for a time. Despite the way it poisoned the well of her thoughts, it was still easy to speak to him. Garrus was her best friend, the person she relied upon most. He had her six, her back, and her best interests in mind. So what if he didn't say "I love you" back? She was a big girl. She was Commander fucking Shepard. The feather soft touch of his hand at her spine was enough.

And it was, all the way up until it wasn't.

An endless wave of Cerberus agents had them pinned against a crumbling wall, somewhere in the heart of a human colony. She is out of ammo, save for the last two rounds in her SMG and the situation is bleak no matter how you looked at it. All in all, a familiar if unwelcomed scenario.

"Not a great situation here, Shepard," Garrus said.

"Is it ever?"

His laugh strikes at the small, vulnerable points in her armor. Ever the marksman. "No, I guess not." The flanking engineer drops when Garrus shoots him between the eyes. "You never take me anywhere nice. And here I was, thinking you loved me."

Shepard pops around the corner to lob a stream of biotic energy at the approaching centurion. "Maybe I just got tired of waiting to hear it back."

Garrus frowns but the firefight overtakes them, and Shepard let's the topic drop.

He waits until they're safely back aboard the Normandy to respond. Guns clunk heavily into their containers as she offloads the small armory she carries around. Vega is chatting with Cortez nearby, arguing over the value of titanium vs. steel bullet casings. Shepard focuses on their conversation to shake the weight of Garrus' eyes on her.

Unfortunately for her, the two men leave before she can finish unloading her weaponry and the moment the elevator door slides shut, he attacks.

With a speed wholly incompatible with the bulk of his body, Garrus crowds her into the wall. "What was that back there?" he asks.

"What was what?" Shepard plays coy because the opportunity never presents itself and she's otherwise too direct not to seize the twisted reprieve. "Just the usual gunfight between us and the enemy, Garrus."

He growls, subvocals a low reminder of the predator he's descended from. "We both know that's not what I'm talking about."

She stares up at him, defiant in the face of his demand. "Well I can't imagine--"

"Did I miscommunicate something here, Shepard? Have I not made myself clear?"

Heat, drawn from a myriad of sources, burns her face. "You've made yourself perfectly clear, Garrus."

His hands clutch at the cloth of her uniform, threatening to pull her apart at the seams. "Then what's wrong? Because something is wrong. I know you, Shepard. I know you better than I know myself and something is bothering you. Something I did."

"You didn't do anything," she snaps. "That's the whole fucking problem." Feelings and the blatant declaration of them have never been her strong suit and in the face of discomfort, Shepard grows indignant. "You played it too easy, Vakarian, just like you always do."

He recoils like a poorly maintained pistol. "What the hell does that mean?"

"It means--" she shouts, only to lower her tone when a passing officer glances their way. "It means that I don't like being toyed with. I made my--my feelings known. And enough time has past that I was hoping you'd finally do the same." Shepard pulls away. "I guess you have."

When she goes to leave, though, he holds tight, pressing her into the wall. "What feelings? What are you even talking about?"

"I love you, okay? And I know you know what it fucking means, Garrus. You seem to have no problem throwing the word around otherwise." The foolishness is too much, and her indignation dies an ugly death. "I just thought you'd have said it back by now."

The gauntlet of understanding plays out on his features. "Shepard, do you think--"

"Keep your pity, Garrus, I'm a big girl. I'll get over it. The war will make sure of that."

He tries once more to speak, assuredly to apologize for her gross display of misconstrued affection, but Shepard cannot bear the rejection and she wrests free from his grasp to disappear gracelessly into her cabin.

Not even a full minute passes before he chases after her.

The fish all seem to look expectantly at her when she stalks into the room and she punches the 'feed' button almost hard enough to break it. Shitty, autotuned dance music plays mutely in the background.

Shepard takes one full step towards the inviting expanse of her bed when Garrus marches in.

"Garrus, I said--"

"I love you. Is that what this is about? Spirits, Shepard, how was I supposed to know you cared about that? Of course I love you! I'd burn this entire stupid galaxy down for you. I'd happily march into certain annihilation at your side, just as I have time and again." His mandibles flare with emotion. "I never said it back because I thought it was obvious. Apparent, even. I love you so much you stubborn, difficult, foolish woman."

She doesn't quite know what to say first and so she settles for a scowl. "I don't need some hallmark card of devotions, Garrus. It was just--in the moment you didn't say it back and--well--I mean you say you love your stupid rifle! What was I supposed to think?"

He closes the gap between them, satiating the mutual need to touch. "That I'm actually not the cool, suave, sophisticated badass that I pretend to be and telling the woman of my dreams--who happens to be the savior of all sapient life in the galaxy--that I love her is just a wee bit intimidating?"

"But I said it first!"

"And I was too tongue tied to say it back." His forehead is cool against her own. "I'm sorry. I know--I know how hard it is, being vulnerable. And the fact that you thought, even for a second, let alone two standard weeks, that I didn't love you back is a crime I cannot bear to commit again."

"Garrus--"

He presses his cheek to hers, flaring the plates of his mouth in his own interpretation of a kiss. "Shut up. I love you. I'll say it everyday. All the time. To anyone who will listen. I love you."

#Shakarian #Skitterfics #My cat won't stop sleeping on my keyboard and so I wrote this in lieu of playing ME3LE #Why yes I did just complete the shooting comp with Garrus why do you ask #Garrus Vakarian #Femshep #mass effect legendary edition

[spectre-shitposts]

Shepard: I told Garrus that his neck flushes when he lies.

Vega: Aww, why'd you do that? That was the easiest poker tell ever.

Shepard: Watch.

Shepard, calling out: Hey Vakarian! Which do you love more, your rifle or me?

Garrus: *ducks his chin* My Widow, obviously.

#She's beautiful #The gun #right? #Yes #obviously #mass effect #shitposts #Shepard #garrus vakarian #shakarian #Garrus' long standing relationships with his guns #james vega #poker night on the normandy #conversations on the normandy

[dovahbeeotch]

SHADOW BROKER: INTERCEPTED pt2

Subject(s): Tali’Zorah vas Normandy, Garrus Vakarian, Jane Shepard, Jeff Moreau

Location(s): Normandy SR2, Omega Nebula

Mode(s): text, group communication, screen captures

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20:15- [Tali has added Jane Shepard, Garrus Vakarian and Jeff Moreau to a chat]

20:15- [Tali named the chat Saren Hate Club]

20:16- [Jeff Moreau changed their name to Joker]

20:16- [Jane Shepard changed their name to Shepard]

20:17- [Garrus Vakarian changed Shepard’s name to Jane]

20:18- JANE: fuck off

20:18- GARRUS VAKARIAN: are we not on a first name basis, Jane?

20:18- [Jane changed Garrus Vakarian’s name to Assangel]

20:18- TALI: why do we put up with him

20:18- JOKER: he’s a diversity hire

20:18- JANE: his Cerberus dossier called him a ‘tactical genius’. shoulda guessed he was a smartass

20:18- ASSANGEL: words hurt

20:19- TALI: Gabby and Ken are driving me crazy they need to just KISS ALREADY

20:19- ASSANGEL: do quarians kiss the same as humans and asari?

20:19- JANE: yup

20:19- ASSANGEL: personal experience, Jane?

20:19- JANE: i use this crazy thing called the extranet, you should try it some time

20:19- JOKER: are you two gonna kiss?

20:19- JANE: in his dreams

20:20- ASSANGEL: you know… the other day Shepard told me about this extremely enlightening human game

20:20- JANE: no garrus

20:20- ASSANGEL: they call it ‘fuck, marry, kill’

20:20- TALI: humans are quite simple creatures aren’t they?

20:20- ASSANGEL: indeed

20:21- JANE: alright, i see how things are

20:21- JOKER: Aria, Sparatus and Udina

20:21- JANE: nope

20:21- ASSANGEL: fuck Aria, marry Sparatus and kill Udina

20:21- TALI: switch Aria and Sparatus

20:22- JANE: Sparatus is such an uptight asshole (like most turians). could never marry that guy

20:22- ASSANGEL: well… i hope so. if you know what i mean

20:22- JOKER: nice

20:22- JANE: hah ur gay

20:22- ASSANGEL: is anyone on this ship straight?

20:22- TALI: Zaeed maybe

20:23- JOKER: you really think that guy remembers all his sexual encounters?

20:23- TALI: maybe Grunt?

20:23- ASSANGEL: ive never heard of a gay krogan

20:23- JANE: you ever asked one?

20:23- ASSANGEL: Shepard, i didn’t even know krogan were capable of higher thought processes until I met Wrex

20:23- JANE: god you’re the worst

20:23- TALI: xenophobe

20:23- JOKER: i would actually argue that he’s a xenophile

20:23- JANE: why’s that?

20:23- ASSANGEL: please don’t

20:23- JOKER: big guy asked me for human/turian porn recs

20:23- TALI: HE WHAT

20:23- JANE: BUSTED

20:25- [Assangel changed their name to Garrus]

20:25- GARRUS: you’re terribly mistaken

20:25- JANE: joker, thank you. i owe you one. think t’soni would want this info?

20:25- TALI: already sent it

20:25- JANE: i think this is the best day of my life

#mass effect #shakarian #am i cringe? #yes #do i care #no #tali'zorah #jeff joker moreau #garrus vakarian

[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.

#and yes i know turians were a dangerous enemy at the time but have you ever met a little kid with edgelord tendencies #they would totally still make that joke #shakarian #mass effect #garrus vakarian #renegade shepard #commander shepard #garrus bursts down shepard's apartment door at 2am and wakes her up #she's like wtf what's wrong #he's like i'm here to abduct you #she's like stfu and get in bed

[garrus-appreciation]

What do you guys think Garrus thinks about when he stands around near the Shepard VI thing?

#is he just like hmm wtf or ah yes my gf #mass effect #garrus vakarian #shakarian #mass effect 3 #commander shepard #femshep #my shepard #mine

[dispatchwithlove]

I dragged this fic out of the trash bin and now I’m wondering what I should do with it, so I thought I’d share the intro. It’s called Invisible String and I wrote it three years ago. I want to shine it up till it’s real pretty and post it again.

She waits for him. At a beat-up table in a dim room, wearing a black hood, low, hugging her brow because it covers the scars cracking across her forehead and casts a shadow over the unsettling orange glow in her eyes. It doesn’t do much for the smoldering scars on her cheeks, though, bright crevasses telling anyone who lays eyes on her: I’m not normal. Or okay.

The hood is a desperate attempt to hide that from at least a few people. But there isn’t much she can do about her voice — weak and smokier than seems normal. Stuck on a hollowed-rock space station, the only way she knows that the day is more than half over is her dry throat and fried vocal muscles.

Shepard’s not sure what’s normal. Cerberus brought her back to life, but she woke up too early. The scars littering her entire body didn’t have time to heal, vocal cords were unused, yet inexplicably strained. And she has no memory of who she was. They told her everything would go back to normal eventually. Her scars would heal, her vocal cords would heal. Her brand new body would feel less like a glued-together shell and more like home. Her memory would return, either gradually, or something would kick it into action.

While they’re waiting patiently, Shepard wants to find that something that’ll kick her memory into action. Battle felt natural, but didn’t make her remember who she is. A chance encounter with a lost friend named Tali didn’t bring it back. The items sitting in her cabin, taken from her Citadel apartment after she died, are foreign and unappreciated.

Nothing is normal. Nothing is real. To make matters worse, despite feeling suspended two years behind everyone else and strung out, she’s recruiting a vigilante on the bad side of Omega’s gangs. All of them. Quite the accomplishment.

Someone from his crew escorted her to the room she now sits in, empty of anything but a table and two chairs. At least the lack of light helps to obscure the marks across her face that reveal she was recently nothing more than meat and tubes, which is fantastic, because nothing says ‘come sail around space with me’ like a fucked-up face.

Archangel takes his time, leaving her not only alone, but feeling alone, which leaves her with plenty of time to question not only who she is, but what she’s doing here. Maybe that’s his intent.

The steady, soft footsteps that echo up the hall stand in stark contrast to the tall, broad shouldered turian that enters the room. Vibrant blue markings strike his cheeks and mandibles. His face is out of place on Omega, the look of a privileged kid that would fit in better at museum galas than corpse-littered alleys.

He seeks the chair opposite hers taking long, confident strides. Unlike his pretty-boy face, the menace in his body language certainly fits in with Omega. He’s a self-appointed savior who helps the weak by inflicting calculated pain on those who exploit Omega’s abused and forgotten. He does good; the chatter she overheard in the markets proved that the locals think his actions are brave, and he’s the closest thing to philanthropy this shitpit station can hope for.

But his tactics show he takes a little too much pleasure in the pain he causes. The locals revered him, but with shuddering admiration and sickened fear they advised each other not to cross him. Can she trust a man like that?

He takes the chair, turns it with a twist of his wrist, and straddles it, folding his forearms along the back railing. Cool, blue eyes travel across her face, the lengths of her body, assessing the weapons she has strapped to her back. Something about the way he looks at her makes her think she’s received his approval, and something about him makes her want that approval. She doesn’t remember much about herself, but she knows approval has never been anything she sought — from anyone — before this moment.

#poking this fic with a stick #asking it to tell me what it wants to be #shakarian #garrus vakarian #archangel #yes i wrote this bc archangel is sexy #shepard x garrus #garrus x shepard #commander shepard #shakarian fic

[dreamingofspring]

It doesn't throw me out of the scene or anything but it does make me laugh when two people in a life or death situation in a fantasy or sci fi universe especially, use boyfriend/girlfriend instead of like. Partner or lover, idk it just makes me giggle in both a "oh that feels kind of juvenile almost" way and "hearing that makes ME feel like a giddy school girl" way

#yes this is about shakarian #'forgive the insubordination but your ✨boyfriend✨ has an order for you' #literally why does he deliver it like that it makes me giggle every time #you're LITERALLY discussing dying on this mission and adopting kids if you survive #and then you say boyfriend in that particular cadence im losing it #christina.txt #gonna write a fucking like. edelbert fic and have hubert say that exact line and I'll giggle the entire time

[swimmingtrunks]

Random ask! What were the first impressions Castis and Solana had when Garrus introduced your Shepard to them? Did they approve? Had he told them about her previously so they were 'prepared' to meet her? More importantly, how did *she* feel?

okay so I spent WAY too long looking for the last time I answered a very similar question, which was... 7 years ago?! It hasn't changed too much, but this is coming at it from a little different angle.

The Vakarians wouldn't meet my Shep until at least a few years after the Reaper war. Garrus probably would've told Castis first, but in the context of them growing closer and being more open with each other, and Shepard being systems away and comatose when Garrus left her. Solana would only hear about it after Garrus and Shep have reunited and decided to take some indeterminate off in order to travel.

This doesn't change: Commander Shepard is a figure of merit and self sacrifice, and that probably makes for easy approval from a pair of turians. The things that Castis would have bristled at circa ME1 are sort of made irrelevant due to growth from both parties. Shepard's gotten less rash with other people's lives, and Castis has become more understanding.

The fact that Garrus is planning to skip town with her sours them a little-- more Solana than Castis. When they meet her and she's just sort of quiet and dull, Solana kind of writes her off, but Castis does some gentle digging until he cracks her shell a little.

Shepard would not admit it to a single soul but the whole thing for her was probably scarier than most of her reaper encounters.

#ask and ye shall maybe receive #stellar jane shepard #headcanon #shakarian #aaysmr

[dirtybiowareconfessions]

Confession I just want Shepard to fuck Garrus. I don't want him to fuck her for the record, I want her to fuck him. Hard and fast. I think they both deserve it.

#Garrus Vakarian #Commander Shepard #f!shepard #Mass Effect #mass effect 2 #mass effect 3 #BioWare #dirty confession #dirty confessions #shakarian #amazon position? yes please!