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[Sable Rhapsody]

Karrie788 wrote...

Meh, he brags about his accomplishments several times in the game, and not just to girls. Just sitting there casually in the lounge. Being all suave and badass.

See, that's the thing, he wouldn't be able to brag to FemShep since she was there for all those things.  It's ok, though, she knows he's good at...other things 

And yeah, Timeless to Me is full of epic win.  And sexy.  Mostly sexy.

Modifié par Sable Rhapsody, 19 mars 2012 - 12:03 .

[Karrie788]

I'm too lazy to go through the previous pages and I'm desperately in need of either hugs or epic win fanfics. Can you give me a link please?

Also, have you guys been following the Marauder Shields meme? It makes me giggle like an idiot every time it's referenced.

Modifié par Karrie788, 19 mars 2012 - 12:06 .

[Sable Rhapsody]

Karrie788 wrote...

I'm too lazy to go through the previous pages and I'm desperately in need of either hugs or epic win fanfics. Can you give me a link please?

Have a hug.  And here's the link: www.fanfiction.net/s/6485449/1/

Also, Marauder Shields is full of win.

[Karrie788]

Sable Rhapsody wrote...

Karrie788 wrote...

I'm too lazy to go through the previous pages and I'm desperately in need of either hugs or epic win fanfics. Can you give me a link please?

Have a hug.  And here's the link: www.fanfiction.net/s/6485449/1/

Also, Marauder Shields is full of win.

Thank you. <3

*upon reading* Oh my. You guys weren't kidding.

[Sable Rhapsody]

Karrie788 wrote...

Thank you. <3

*upon reading* Oh my. You guys weren't kidding.

Nope.  Like I said, one of my favorites.  There's also plenty of good Garrus/FemShep stuff on the kink meme if you're willing to trawl its depraved depths.  I can't link the meme to the forums, but if you google Mass Effect kink meme, it'll take you right there.

[Hadeedak]

So I figured I might as well... Uh. Chose control. I'm not sure if this is depressing or happy, and it sure isn't cleaned up near as much as it could be.




Years since she vanished. It wasn’t hard, as far as that goes. Hackett heard the last from her, and then the Catalyst fired and the reapers just left. Who it was hard on was her friends as they limped back into Sol. It was hard to rebuild, working from the ground up. And it was damn hard to work without the relays. FTL research was in vogue again, every second it shaved off transit time precious.

EDI and the geth obsessed over it and quantum entanglement. They linked, they processed, they studied. When they weren’t dealing with the problems faced by organics. First problem was doubling the production of the liveships. From there, it became a problem of establishing supply lines, medical care, all the minor emergencies of everyday living magnified by distance.

The Citadel remained in the sky, a hulking ghost hovering over Earth. The Normandy’s heroic drunken crawl back to Earth had made a parade and some news, but that was over a year ago. Rumors surfaced -- the Citadel looked just like it had before the Reapers, as though it was a new Titanic, orbiting with solemn corpse-grace. It turned its arms to the sun, and it hummed with empty, derelict activity, following a routine with no one to appreciate its splendor.

Garrus watched it, frequently, as he dealt with survivors and cleanup, wounds and triage, brutal calculus and burials on ground sick with too many corpses. Somewhere up there, the bravest, toughest, meanest woman he’d ever known had died. She’d died alone, as far as he knew. He didn’t know how, or where, or even when exactly. She’d promised him she’d try to come back, and all she’d left was a spare shotgun and a garbled last message to Hackett. He cleaned the gun, now and again, just in case.

It wasn’t hard to remember her. She’d gone into most things fists and face first, gun blazing. She’d been a spectre first and last, always on the Council’s leash on one way or another. That’s what she aspired to. It was probably what she’d died doing. The last anyone had heard from her was “What do you need me to do?” And then she’d gone.

There was talk of going up to the Citadel. Seeing what was left. It’d been avoided since just after the end of the war. No life signs, beyond the omnipresent keepers. Spirits knew there was enough to scavenge and salvage on the ground. He thought about making the long flight home to Palaven now and again. It wouldn’t be a bad trip, especially if he went in cryo, but somehow he wasn’t ready to leave. He talked with home, and for now, that’d do. Slow travel, instant communication. It made for an interesting galaxy. And he’d been learning to use a hammer.

Time wore on. People returned to the Citadel. It had been cleaned from top to bottom, as perfect as it’d ever been. Ads were still playing. Kasumi and Kolyat told him the only odd thing was the station’s VI network had a tendency to hiccup around them, playing strange advertisements or taking them to the wrong floor. Thane’s boy had grown up, a lot. In some ways, he was much like his father -- thoughtful, quiet, and kind in a hard-edged way Garrus found easy to appreciate. Kolyat said the advertisements frequently referred to him as “Thane’ or “Krios”. It seemed to trouble him. Kasumi mentioned they played the segment when she’d first introduced herself to Shepard more often then not. The whole thing.

EDI was fascinated. She frequently hooked herself up to the station VI network. She didn’t say much about what she’d found. The turian found himself looking towards the Citadel more and more. He wasn’t sure he could face it. A lot of places on the Citadel were tied with memories -- not just Shepard, but all the people who were long since gone or changed. It felt like he was the only one who’d stayed. Even Tali’d grown distant, busy with her duties as Admiral. The flotilla has split, and most of the quarians, including Tali, were making the long trek back to Rannoch. Years of travel waited for them. It didn’t sound like she regretted it.

He was used to being alone, watching the sky. Sometimes Jack stopped by. She didn’t have much to say, but that was all right. He didn’t have much talking to do. And one day, Garrus finally went up to the Citadel. It hadn’t changed, except that it was much emptier than he remembered. Even the ads seemed to date back to before the reapers hit. It was a time capsule, and that made it one hell of a punch in the gut.

The geth and rachni seemed the most visible occupants in the almost empty city. Moving everywhere, testing, disassembling. He knew they were taking bits apart, finding out what’d actually happened. He wondered absently where Shepard had finally fell, what’d taken her down or if she’d just bled out, alone. That wound, he’d picked over until it scarred.

He walked through the streets, half caught up in the past. The whole damn place was like walking in a ghost. His instincts nagged at him steadily. Eventually, he figured out what was bothering him. It was a keeper, of all things, following him. Once he noticed that, he noticed other things. The advertisement holos went silent. There was a sense of something watching. And the keeper kept getting closer.

He kept going until he found a good view, overlooking the Wards. The keeper approached, then stopped next to him. It looked out over the view, too. One ad flashed on behind him. Something about the Archangel vid series. Total crap, but it’d amused him. Pity he’d never seen it. The panel next to him activated. Avina. She flickered, the old VI twitching and jumping.

The voice activated. Same old soothing, mechanical voice that the Citadel‘s tour guide had annoyed generations of visitors with. The words made him stare, though. “Hell, Garrus, you were always ugly.” A long pause. “Of course, so was I, even before I got spaced.” He stood up, mandibles spreading. It repeated, twice more, then Avina shut down. He looked back at the keeper.

After a moment, Garrus chuckled.  “Another damned mystery.” Felt good to laugh. Spirits knew he didn’t do it enough these days.

[Karrie788]

Hadeedak wrote...

So I figured I might as well... Uh. Chose control. I'm not sure if this is depressing or happy, and it sure isn't cleaned up near as much as it could be.

Completely disagree with your ending decision, but they all suck anyway.

And this was lovely. Bittersweet. As in, actually bittersweet. I admit I teared up. Good job.

[Hadeedak]

Karrie788 wrote...

Hadeedak wrote...

So I figured I might as well... Uh. Chose control. I'm not sure if this is depressing or happy, and it sure isn't cleaned up near as much as it could be.

Completely disagree with your ending decision, but they all suck anyway.

And this was lovely. Bittersweet. As in, actually bittersweet. I admit I teared up. Good job.

It was basically "AMIGAWD THIS IS A TERRIBLE MISTAKE BUT I AM NOT KILLING MY GETH AND SYTHESIS SOUNDS CRAZY."

At about 3am. I regret nothing! Esperanza goes down in flames to save a lot of robots. And possibly sells out. And good. I don't do much fanfiction, so it's always a bit scary to put it up at all.

[Karrie788]

Hadeedak wrote...

Karrie788 wrote...

Hadeedak wrote...

So I figured I might as well... Uh. Chose control. I'm not sure if this is depressing or happy, and it sure isn't cleaned up near as much as it could be.

Completely disagree with your ending decision, but they all suck anyway.

And this was lovely. Bittersweet. As in, actually bittersweet. I admit I teared up. Good job.

It was basically "AMIGAWD THIS IS A TERRIBLE MISTAKE BUT I AM NOT KILLING MY GETH AND SYTHESIS SOUNDS CRAZY."

At about 3am. I regret nothing! Esperanza goes down in flames to save a lot of robots. And possibly sells out. And good. I don't do much fanfiction, so it's always a bit scary to put it up at all.

Right! Esperanza Shepard, queen of the Reapers. I remember.

I can't go with Control because it doesn't prevent the cycle from happening again. And Synthesis is just... evil. Besides, both of these options basically have Shepard obeying a Reaper. Does not compute.
Destroy broke my heart, though. I loved EDI and I've been supporting the Geth since ME1.
It doesn't help that I'm roleplaying a Shepard whose favorite movie of all times is Blade Runner.

I envy people who can write fanfiction. I'm much more comfortable with my OCs.

[Ilysail]

Speaking of marauder shields...

For those of you who haven't seen the newest entry his true identity is revealed!
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[Sable Rhapsody]

Hadeedak wrote...

It was basically "AMIGAWD THIS IS A TERRIBLE MISTAKE BUT I AM NOT KILLING MY GETH AND SYTHESIS SOUNDS CRAZY."

At about 3am. I regret nothing! Esperanza goes down in flames to save a lot of robots. And possibly sells out. And good. I don't do much fanfiction, so it's always a bit scary to put it up at all.

I picked destroy because I was just so hell-pissed.  I felt incredibly bad for the geth and EDI, but I wanted to stick it to that stupid star kid.  And I've also yet to decide what my headcanon is other than that Shep & Garrus live or die together.

[Twilight_Princess]

So after watching the human romances...anyone wish garrus and femshep actually had some kind of "sex scene"? It seemed they had a scene missing between the kiss and the waking up moment compared to the others.It's the only thing I thought was lacking other than that EVERYTHING else was perfect.

[Ilysail]

When shep woke up in her underwear.... i let out a little "aww" that garrus wasnt half naked next to her

Just kinda figured he got cold....
I would have kept him warm

*i also chose control the first time around, but only because i misunderstood and thought casper said only synthesis destroyed the mass relays...

Modifié par Szaiu, 19 mars 2012 - 01:29 .

[Exile Isan]

Hyrule_Gal wrote...

So after watching the human romances...anyone wish garrus and femshep actually had some kind of "sex scene"? It seemed they had a scene missing between the kiss and the waking up moment compared to the others.It's the only thing I thought was lacking other than that EVERYTHING else was perfect.

Naw, not really. I mean I would like to see a Turian naked, you know for science, but I'm cool with the whole thing the way it is. Garrus and Shep's conversation afterward totally makes up for it.

I was curious though as to how my fellow Shekarians roleplay your Shep falling in love with Garrus? Does she love him from the get go? Is it something she notices over time? Or does it hit her one day like a mass accelorator round?

Modifié par Exile Isan, 19 mars 2012 - 01:33 .

[Immortal fish]

Hadeedak wrote...

Karrie788 wrote...

Hadeedak wrote...

So I figured I might as well... Uh. Chose control. I'm not sure if this is depressing or happy, and it sure isn't cleaned up near as much as it could be.

Completely disagree with your ending decision, but they all suck anyway.

And this was lovely. Bittersweet. As in, actually bittersweet. I admit I teared up. Good job.

It was basically "AMIGAWD THIS IS A TERRIBLE MISTAKE BUT I AM NOT KILLING MY GETH AND SYTHESIS SOUNDS CRAZY."

At about 3am. I regret nothing! Esperanza goes down in flames to save a lot of robots. And possibly sells out. And good. I don't do much fanfiction, so it's always a bit scary to put it up at all.

Heh, you're one of the few people to make the same choice as me it seems. It felt plain-wrong for my mostly paragon sole survivor to make the same choice as T.I.M would make, but when the alternatives are slaughtering the geth and edi or rewriting all life in the galaxy ? No contest.
normally i'd think star-kid was probably lying that Shepard can control them, but if Shepard's going to be forced to take what he says and the choices he gives as the utter truth i might as well believe that is true too.
Yeah it means she breaks her promise to Garrus... but it at least leaves some bittersweet
"Shepard being some strange ghost/AI thingy watching over everyone" plot bunnies. Which is better than nothing.
Unless i just ignore the ending.... At least until we hopefully get some DLC.

[Karrie788]

Dear God I love the Marauder Shields more and more each second XD

Hyrule_Gal wrote...

So after watching the human romances...anyone wish garrus and femshep actually had some kind of "sex scene"? It seemed they had a scene missing between the kiss and the waking up moment compared to the others.It's the only thing I thought was lacking other than that EVERYTHING else was perfect.

No.

It was sweet. It felt like they were an established couple. It's not just hot, steamy sex at this point (... although... I'm sure they're having a grrreat deal of fun together), they genuinely love and trust each other. The look he gives her, the fact that he's working on her datapad when she wakes up, the fact that he constantly comforts her... completely makes up for the lack of "sex scene".
Plus I can understand it would imply animation problems.

Kaidan felt more like a sex scene. Garrus felt like a love scene.

[Baka-no-Neko]

Popping in before bed to say hello =D And running off with the sexy fanfic link, -waddles off, cackling-

[DineBoo]

I understood they had limitations and can't show everything, but I would have extended the scene just a little bit more. Femshep climbing on top of Garrus would have been nice.

It's sort of maddening that I'm itching to write a story but I don't know how stuff works as it relates to Garrus and femShep. By the way, was their first time together ever referenced? Was it a good time or was it "I'm glad Shep has her own room isolated from every one else" time?

I think it's implied they have done it more than once too.

[Exile Isan]

Karrie788 wrote...
Kaidan felt more like a sex scene. Garrus felt like a love scene.

That's it exactly! I felt that in the Kaidan scene Shep felt disconnected from Kaidan like she didn't really want to be there and was going through the motions. With the Garrus scene she seems like she truly wants his company, that she's happy to see him, and after her nightmare wakes her up and he comes and sits on the bed he seems truly concerned with her nightmares, with her problems. Maybe I'm just misremember the scene with Kaidan, as I only saw it once, but it seemed like Kaidan was only there for smexy time and nothing else. Didn't really care about Shep's nightmare, etc. Which really does Kaidan's character a disservice if you think about it.

[outmane]

Ive never bbeen a big fan of the 'last minute sex scene' anyway. And the rest I can pretty much imagine. Once the relationship is well established and the quirks of the characters are set, I prefer to let the rest of the romance to the imagination. Like they did with Garrus romance.

[Karrie788]

Exile Isan wrote...
I was curious though as to how my fellow Shekarians roleplay your Shep falling in love with Garrus? Does she love him from the get go? Is it something she notices over time? Or does it hit her one day like a mass accelorator round?

I'm gonna enjoy answering that question. <3 Hope you can handle me rambling.

I went for a rather generic scenario, actually. She didn't like him upon meeting him. Simply put, she didn't trust him at all. In my headcanon, the first time she met a turian, she got punched. She's not used to working with aliens, and she only agrees to bring Tali, Garrus, Wrex and Liara aboard since she's so desperate for help (plus Udina made her). She's like Pressly, basically, in ME1.
But time goes by and she comes to value her companions' skills, and starts to enjoy their company more and more, even if she does her best to appear cold and unfriendly. After Virmire, she loses Kaidan (who she was romancing) and it hits her once again that what she has today may be gone tomorrow (Colonist + Sole Survivor background). So she sits her alien friends down and apologizes to every one of them. Garrus in particular, since she treated him badly and he remained polite the entire time. She says that she knows she can trust him with her life. She even gets very protective of him. I don't know exactly if she starts having romantic feelings for him at that point, but she certainly feels affection towards him.

Then comes ME2, and she's completely lost. She lost her crew, her life, her ship, and has to work for an organization she hates. Obviously seeing Garrus returning in her life brings her a lot of comfort; but then he's hit by the rocket, and she freaks out completely. I think it's between that moment and his loyalty mission that she aknowledges her feelings for him - despite trying to hook up with Jacob to blow off some steam. Originally, she wasn't planning on acting on her feelings, because ya know, interspecies awkwardness, and he must think I'm unattractive anyway, blah blah blah.
She gets the Reach and Flexibility talk and leaves in a hurry. Later on she gets drunk with the good Doctor Chakwas, and while still intoxicated, runs to Garrus and suggests they work off stress together.
After a spectacular hangover she thinks about it for a moment and ends up saying "hey, he said yes. Might as well go for it. It could be the best thing that ever happened to me."

... there you go. Sorry about the wall of text.

Modifié par Karrie788, 19 mars 2012 - 01:55 .

[Adventuress]

Sable Rhapsody wrote...
*wails*
Lovely writing, btw.  I'm ok with the dying together bittersweet ending, but god, it's so unfair.  They had so little time 

Thank you for the compliment.  Isn't it though? I suppose unfair always creeps in on the sacrifice territory in some manner.

Mara Shep wrote...
I come back to the warm embrace of the Garrus fanclub...to this. Beautiful but

Tell me they can sped to the sick bay, and then they wake up in beds next to each other, and reach out across the gap and hold hands...right?

Oh, I totally pulled a Bioware. You can fill in the ending however you want with your own interpretations.

And on top of that I just had a thought.

What if, for some random reason (space magic?) Shepard became blind (and no treatment was avaliable) after her last "big fight" to save the galaxy?

If she lived through it, the last visual thing she would ever see would be her home in ashes. . .

Erm. Anyway, my favorite multiplayer character is a Turian Sentinel who mainly uses a sniper rifle 'cause it reminds me of someone.

[outmane]

Exile Isan wrote...

I was curious though as to how my fellow Shekarians roleplay your Shep falling in love with Garrus? Does she love him from the get go? Is it something she notices over time? Or does it hit her one day like a mass accelorator round?

I personally di the friend to lover arc over the threee games to I pretty much stuck with it in my canon. My FemShep was into Kaidan during ME1 but she always enjoyed working with Garrus. She immmediatly saw him as highly effective and his snark did wonder during the grim times whereas Kaidan kept getting bogged down by formalities. My FemShep will already take her time before making decisions, she doesnt need someoen to tell her 'we should think about it more' but some one to push her to action. But she didnt know that a t the time.

Then came ME2 and the mandatory 'youre working with Cerberus'. That did not sit well with my solesurvivor Shep. She quickly realizes Garrus is the only one who has her back. Of course asking him out took some guts. So she was happy he wanted to take some time to figure things out. But not that long !

So... thats how it played out for my Shep.

[Periph]

Immortal fish wrote...

Hadeedak wrote...

It was basically "AMIGAWD THIS IS A TERRIBLE MISTAKE BUT I AM NOT KILLING MY GETH AND SYTHESIS SOUNDS CRAZY."

At about 3am. I regret nothing! Esperanza goes down in flames to save a lot of robots. And possibly sells out. And good. I don't do much fanfiction, so it's always a bit scary to put it up at all.

Heh, you're one of the few people to make the same choice as me it seems. It felt plain-wrong for my mostly paragon sole survivor to make the same choice as T.I.M would make, but when the alternatives are slaughtering the geth and edi or rewriting all life in the galaxy ? No contest.
normally i'd think star-kid was probably lying that Shepard can control them, but if Shepard's going to be forced to take what he says and the choices he gives as the utter truth i might as well believe that is true too.
Yeah it means she breaks her promise to Garrus... but it at least leaves some bittersweet
"Shepard being some strange ghost/AI thingy watching over everyone" plot bunnies. Which is better than nothing.
Unless i just ignore the ending.... At least until we hopefully get some DLC.

Ditto. As Garrus pointed out, my Robin Shepard's specialty was ending conflicts by yelling. If one option requires killing people she's fought for over the course of the past two games and one involves telling the Reapers they'll do things her way, the choice is obvious. It's a terrible idea and a gamble, but those seem to work for her.

I misread it the options at first, too. I thought only Destroy would destroy the mass relays, and I didn't get the Synthesis option. It did make a point of saying that even Shepard was partly synthetic, though, and I couldn't help remembering that Garrus is too after the gunship incident. I thought that option might kill both of them along with the geth and EDI, which was another reason to take Control.

Modifié par Periph, 19 mars 2012 - 02:25 .

[Exile Isan]

Karrie788 wrote...
*snip*
... there you go. Sorry about the wall of text.

Not a problem. That's the kind of post I was looking for, and since you shared yours with me I will share mine with you.

My character Sara is one I created for the sole purpose of romancing Garrus with a character that had not romanced anyone in ME1 (all my Shep's had romanced Kaidan at that point), but she took on a life of her own and ended up being my favorite Shep. Anyway Sara is a Colonist/Ruthless background, a biotic, and is mostly Paragade. Sara regretted the lives lost at Torfan and given the opportunity she again it would have gone a lot different. She got her men killed out of revenge. Revenge for what happened on Mindoir. And none of it mattered. Not personally anyway. Her parents were still dead, and now she had guilt about those lost soldiers (not so much the batarians she killed). So she swore she would never put the mission above innocent lives or those under her command again if it could be avoided. And she sees Garrus making the same mistakes she did, the same kind of mistakes that earned her the name the Butcher of Torfan. But Sara and Garrus did hit it off really well in the friendship department right away mainly because their skills compliment each other very well so Sara took him with her a lot. Sara loosed Garrus up and showed him that if you are going to be protecting the innocent then you should care about the innocent you're protecting and Garrus gave Sara someone to trust watching her back and who could take Sara's biting tongue (Sara is quite frankly a snot with an attitude slightly based on my sister, lol). Oddly enough Sara felt more comfortable with the aliens on her crew than she did with the humans and at the end of ME1 Garrus and Tali where Sara's best buds.

Then ME2 happens and she's stuck on ship backed by an organization who xenaphobia is well known and she feels completely disconnected with her current squadmates (Jacob, Miranda, Zaeed). Then she finds Garrus and the utter joy she feels at finding her best friend again is extremely strong and confusing to her until Garrus took that rocket to the face and then her total elation at finding Garrus again makes more sense. What she assumed was just joy at finding her best friend was nothing of the sort it was because she's in love with him.

She then spends a miserable day while Garrus hangs between life and death. He lives of course and she's left with the thought of "What the hell do I do about this now?" And spend a good portion of the rest of the Suicide Mission prep going from "I'll tell him" to "I won't", Would he even find me attractive that way?, etc. Until she walks among the wreckage of the Normandy SR1 and decides that she died once and she doesn't want to do it again with any regrets and that she would regret not telling Garrus how she feels about him. So when the 'reach and flexibility' comes up she sees it as her chance to at least tell Garrus the she finds him attractive. And the rest is galactic history.

Anyway, there's my own "wall of text".

Modifié par Exile Isan, 19 mars 2012 - 02:55 .