Aislinn Trista wrote...
Kaidan and FemShep - Missing You
Finally done! Hope you guys enjoy it.For all the Kaidan and Female Shepard fans!
Giggles_Manically wrote...
Turns out he beat ME2 only once, with a default Male Shep.
He does not matter.
Modifié par Vralenalien, 26 octobre 2010 - 07:01 .
I'm flattered, then! Hahaha. Yeah, I love her nose. So much. It's so out of place on her face/with her rather >Sable Phoenix wrote...
Dat nose!
... I never use "dat" anything. But she's fantastic.
-esque expressions. She's so very renegadey and then she goes profile. D'awww cute little upturned nose. It's hilarious to watch.
Calla S wrote...
Modifié par Iwakura-Lain, 26 octobre 2010 - 08:19 .
Vralenalien wrote...
@Iwakura
Kira's background was amazing to read. Being emotional sob I am that was really something to read.
And I wasn't kidding when I said that, at times, I really feel like I am Kira. Perhaps I'm a bit little less dramatic than that in real life, but essentially I am her. And everything truly happened the way I described it. Some might say it's crazy not to romance Liara in LoSTB (simply because I bought the DLC); but for me, and my Kira, we simply didn't understand the situation with Liara; so there was no way I could proceed with it. And I felt genuinely devastasted when I realized it wouldn't go anywhere. 
Doesn't mean I can't go back, though, and get it right this time; but only because I now understand the situation much better. In a way RPG-ing thru all of this helps me too, if that makes any sense at all.
Modifié par Iwakura-Lain, 26 octobre 2010 - 08:17 .
“Shepard was a star,” he said, grinding the words out between his fangs. “And we were the planets she gathered around herself.”
“You said you wanted to bring her back exactly the same,” Garrus found himself saying, his voice low. “You failed."
"I... We did not!" Miranda's instantaneous reply threw itself between them, a sentry in full combat armor. "Every scan and test we've run shows she is physically and mentally the same woman. What we accomplished was a miracle!"
A half-bark of mirthless laughter leapt from his mouth in response to her defensiveness.
He doubted Miranda knew enough about turians to catch the full implication of his tone, but he heard a small intake of breath from her nonetheless. No insects fluttered through his chest this time; the loss had started gnawing on his heart again. “Now if you don’t mind,” he said, tapping up a schematic of the half-completed Thanix installation and lacing his voice with as much scorn as he could muster through the weariness, “I’m in the middle of some calibrations.”
Modifié par Iwakura-Lain, 26 octobre 2010 - 08:51 .
Iwakura-Lain wrote...
You're a damn fine writer, Sable! I could stand to hear a little more!
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Sable Phoenix wrote...
This is a scene that's been banging to get out of my head for days and days now. I don't remember how the description of Shepard and the difference between ME1 and ME2 came to me, but it's such a perfect representation of Jessica I had to write it down.
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Garrus crossed his arms wearily over his chestplate and studied Miranda, equal measures annoyed and amused at her question. “That’s because you don’t know her."
Miranda lifted her chin, a belligerent and aggressive mannerism for turians, but he had spent enough time among humans to recognize hauteur or disdain, or more likely, both. Regardless of species, the gesture clamped his mandibles tight against aggravation that leapt inside him like a varren.
“There is nothing about Jessica Shepard I don’t know,” Miranda said, her half-hooded eyes somehow carrying a chill that rivaled vacuum. “Every military and medical record, every media appearance and extranet article…”
“Is crap,” Garrus snapped, cutting her off and straightening. “You know about her. You don’t know her.” He stared down at Miranda, his mandibles flaring as he struggled for the way to describe Shepard that would make Miranda understand exactly what kind of crime she and Cerberus had committed. But he was no poet, and for several long seconds he simply locked his gaze with Miranda’s, rifling through his memories of Shepard as she used to be, searching vainly for the words that would encapsulate the most complex alien he had ever met. For a moment the memories would not come, and that old familiar ache of loss settled its wings over his shoulders and sank its teeth into his heart once again. Then abruptly the pictures were flashing behind his eyes: Shepard looking regally over their little assembly in the debriefing room after a mission; Shepard with her head close to Pressley's as they went over duty rosters; Shepard sharing that tiny grin with Chief Williams as she walked away from one of their private talks; Shepard on her back under the Mako beside him, handing him tools as they soothed the scrapes of the latest mission.
Bright; bright and distant. Whether in the light places or the dark places of the galaxy, Shepard had blazed like a remote beacon, like...
“Shepard was a star,” he said, grinding the words out between his fangs. “And we were the planets she gathered around herself. The Normandy was her own little solar system. We could never touch her… well most of us couldn’t, except...” He almost said Ashley's name, brought up short on Liara’s, although he could not -- or did not want to -- say why. Then he pushed on before Miranda could narrow her expression into suspicion. “But we were never getting away from her, either. And that was fine, because she gave us light and direction and… and warmth.” He stumbled lamely over the surprisingly intimate words, at a loss for any other way to describe how Shepard had held them all in place, how she had bent the universe around her into making sense... how she had cared. Then abrupt anger slammed into the back of his throat and he shoved himself away from the railing, striding forward to loom over Miranda, forcing her back a step as her eyes widened.
“Cerberus snuffed her,” he growled. Shepard was colder now, darker, somehow even more remote than before. “Now she’s… she’s a brown dwarf. She’s just this rogue giant diving through a system straight towards the sun, with nothing…" he gestured vaguely to the side, fumbling for the words, “nothing about it, nothing bright or warm, just capturing all the smaller bodies it passes like detritus. Pulling us all helplessly along with her to join in the destruction at the end of it.” He snapped his mandibles shut and took a deep breath, closing his eyes briefly before looking back down at Miranda in time to see her throat contract in a nervous swallow. Satisfaction fluttered briefly through his chest like an insect before he squashed it as unworthy. He turned away from her, walking back to his console and jabbing a talon at the orange-lit panel. It activated with an indignant beep.
“You said you wanted to bring her back exactly the same,” Garrus found himself saying, his voice low. “You failed."
"I... We did not!" Miranda's indignant reply threw itself between them, a sentry in full combat armor. "Every scan and test we've run shows she is physically and mentally the same woman. What we accomplished was a miracle!"
A half-bark of mirthless laughter leapt from his mouth in response to her defensiveness. "There's more to life than being alive. You brought her back, but you’ve taken everything else from her, and now she’s less than she was.” He let his voice drop further, into a rumbling register that would have told any turian exactly how precarious their situation had become. “I’ll never forgive you for that.”
He doubted Miranda knew enough about turians to catch the full implication of his tone, but he heard a small intake of breath from her nonetheless. No insects fluttered through his chest this time; the loss had started gnawing on his heart again. “Now if you don’t mind,” he said, tapping up a schematic of the half-completed Thanix installation and lacing his voice with as much scorn as he could muster through the weariness, “I’m in the middle of some calibrations.”
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I ended up amazed that this scene turned more into one about Garrus than about Shepard per se.
Christmas Ape wrote...
While I personally disagree with your assessment of ME2 Shepard, that's neither here nor there, and I am entirely in agreement as to the quality of the writing.
rynluna wrote...
Bravo, Sable! Bravo!
You wrote Garrus
and Miranda spot-on. I could totally see this happening in the actual
game. The writers need to do something like this. They need to put the
focus back on Shepard like you did. I hope that her squadmates would be
concerned about her now, after everything she has been through and done
for them.
Modifié par Sable Phoenix, 26 octobre 2010 - 12:23 .
Ahhhh, well then. It's such a common sentiment on the forums I felt compelled to specify. Criticism withdrawn. :innocent:Sable Phoenix wrote...
It only applies to my Shepard, though.Christmas Ape wrote...
While I personally disagree with your assessment of ME2 Shepard, that's neither here nor there, and I am entirely in agreement as to the quality of the writing.
And thank you!
... that's beautiful... and sad...Iwakura-Lain wrote...
/Kira and Liara
I know what you mean. My sheps never romanced Kaidan, but I'm starting to get it. Great work, Aislinn.Iwakura-Lain wrote...
Aislinn Trista wrote...
Kaidan and FemShep - Missing You
Finally done! Hope you guys enjoy it.
Wow, that was a beautiful fanvid.
Nice!ELE08 wrote...
Femshep rules all.
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<3
Sable Phoenix wrote...
This is a scene that's been banging to get out of my head for days and days now. I don't remember how the description of Shepard and the difference between ME1 and ME2 came to me, but it's such a perfect representation of Jessica I had to write it down.
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I ended up amazed that this scene turned more into one about Garrus than about Shepard per se.
Modifié par jwalker, 26 octobre 2010 - 01:18 .
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Aislinn Trista wrote...
Kaidan and FemShep - Missing You[/b]
Finally done! Hope you guys enjoy it.
avalon30 wrote...
Aislinn Trista wrote...
Kaidan and FemShep - Missing You[/b]
Finally done! Hope you guys enjoy it.
Really nice, Aislinn. Great song choice and excellent timing. Your Shep is a cute little badass, too. TBH, I didn't know there was a "Jem" other than the Jem & the Holograms cartoon band from the 80s that I absolutely adored as a kid, LOL :happy:
Calla S wrote...
@ELE: Good lord, could Teagan be any prettier? Her eyes are just. wow. I know it's been said a lot, but they're just so gorgeous. Hypnotizing, even.
*snip awesome femshep*
Sable Phoenix wrote...
This is a scene that's been banging to get out of my head for days and days now.
*snip*
Chignon wrote...
jwalker wrote...
Everything looks... red... Where's that ?
Valagil wrote...
When I saw that the song was by "Jem" my1st thought that was also of the 80s cartoon.
Modifié par Aislinn Trista, 26 octobre 2010 - 03:55 .
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Chignon wrote...
**absolutely awesome picture was snipped* *
On Alchera:
Aislinn Trista wrote...
Hehehe, yeah. This Jem is a very talented Welsh singer. Her album "Finally Woken" is one of my favorites.
ELE08 wrote...
Quoting for awesome. This is a beautiful shot. You have a talent for capturing emotion.
Brodyaha wrote...
*mouth gapes in awe.*
You have awesome picture abilities!
Valagil wrote...
@Chignon
You have a knack for capturing some of the most beaufiful screenies. She looks lost in quiet contemplation. Truely remarkable.
Modifié par Aislinn Trista, 26 octobre 2010 - 04:40 .
Christmas Ape wrote...
While I personally disagree with your assessment of ME2 Shepard, that's neither here nor there, and I am entirely in agreement as to the quality of the writing.
And Bioware did as good as nothing with it (they only started to redress that matter somewhat in LoTSB). Sable's great story touches upon the whole morality of what Miranda and Cerberus have been doing; you know, only thinking whether they could resurrect her, and never wondering whether they should. And what they took from her in the process.
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