#mshep/tali

[guchaigue]

The ever wonderful @andersleyn7 gave me the highest honor of illustrating Anders Shepard and Tali’s wedding at Rannoch🫡💖

details and inspirations under the cut 👇

[edenprime]

Shepard's defense of Tali during her trial:

[copiasthighhighs]

honestly just mass effect art dumping…. ily ashkii shepard + my drell and turian oc’s…

[ferindencadash]

And now for a little shameless self-promotion!!

@spectre-requisitions-exchange 2024 has officially ended and the authors have been revealed! Which means I can talk about all the stuff I wrote! (I may have gone a little overboard...)

In addition to my first assignment, I picked up a pinch hit. And then I was feeling so inspired I wrote another two treats! I have been on a writing bender and it feels good! Not gonna lie, I'm pretty proud of myself. 😌

So my fics this year were:

T-rated (my first non-explicit fic!! 😅) FemShep/Ashley pairing. For @biotickaidan

Set in ME3, Ash has a crisis of fate after her near-death experience and talks things through with Shepard. A romance is rekindled.

People have been SO NICE about this fic?? I have never had so many comments before, it's honestly blowing my mind. Y'all are so sweet. 🥹

E-rated Jack/Kasumi (t4t!!) for @krahka

Be gay, do crime! Set pre-ME2, Jack and Kasumi accidentally end up committing the same crime. Hijinks ensue™️ and things get a little sexy.

This was ridiculously fun to write and very challenging. I watched a ton of heist movies to prepare for this one! 😂

E-rated MShep/James Vega for @ginbiscuit

Set between ME2 and 3, while James is guarding Shep in lock up. Shep is bored and entertains himself by being an incorrigible flirt. James tries to behave. You can guess how well that goes.

I think this is actually my favourite fic I have ever written?? I really think it's quite good. I fell in love with those two idiots while they fell in love with each other. Ethan Shepard may just have some future adventures, cause goddamnit HE IS CUTE. And I'm proud of my baseball metaphor (gods I hope someone notices 😭).

Please read this one? For me? 🥺

And finally! M-rated Tali & Jack for @beltsquid

Set during ME2. Tali is having a bad day. Jack is having a bad day and is making it everyone else's problem. Together they clean out the Normandy's bar and an unexpected friendship(?) develops.

I literally just finished this one a few hours ago. 😅My first gen fic! The prompt was fantastic and super inspiring. These two are so great together and I had so much fun exploring their relationship.

There were even more fantastic prompts I really wanted to write, but time is short! So I'll save them for next year. ;)

Now that I am finally done writing, I am going to delve into the rest of the fics available in the collection! There are SO MANY I'm excited to check out! So definitely look out for a recommendation list in the next few days. Or just go poke around the collection yourself!!

[0ccuria]

Mass Effect VA's at SacAnime in Janurary I'm gonna aim to get my omniblade signed y'all

[that0nebird]

Tamarack would be a tali/liara romancer if she played mass effect

[mushstump]

My MShep is a infiltrator, better at investigation under cover missions, sometimes he wishes he didn't had the whole Normandy to command bc he prefers go alone in some missions

Also, he is the bi awakening for Garrus lol. Tali, Garrus and Hector (his name) are in a poli relationship and Hector love language is gifts and service

[bloomfish]

fallout tv series has taken me completely by surprise like i had no idea this was happening at all. i mean i'd kill/murder/die for it to be based in new vegas but it looks like it might be okay, it's a good choice to have an independent story rather than adapting one of the games directly

[nebuvoid]

so I finished the trilogy as default femshep because to me she's just another character. a damn good one at that. altering her looks didn't feel right.

now since andromeda sucks balls I decided to replay and do some different choices. and some are mshep dependent, so yknow. however I can't stand looking at his stupid egghead so I tried my hardest to make him look as cunty as possible. ME1's options are very limited but boy he makes that mustache work

his name is Bork Shepard

[klaviergavinwiki]

had to hold my game files down and beat the hell out of them to get my mods to work but i finally accomplished the impossible task of making a half handsome mshep

[thefloatingstone]

Firstly, found the full image which is important because it includes Vega

secondly thank you to everyone who pointed out the reverse art

Apparently Cards Against Humanity had a Mass Effect themed set come out in 2017 and this was their official fucking art for it

[edenprime]

okay wait i'm making the mass effect humans on the sims and i just realized why Kaidan's flirting in ME1 made me so uncomfortable. Poor guy looks EXACTLY like my dad if he had been a beefy soldier.

[unfair-water-plane]

So one thing that has always made me chuckle in ME2 is the fact that Kal’Reegar is a marine in a Quarian suit. And he fits in with Shepard easily, the same attitude and headspace and cadence (for mShep at least). And I’m sitting here at work and the thought just hit me.

What if that’s because he is a marine in a Quarian suit?

Hear me out. Kal is older than Tali, or at least gives off those vibes, and so he would have been on his pilgrimage a while ago. Like maybe right after first contact. And here are these brand new people who came out of nowhere and had apparently enough fire power and attitude to give the Turians a very brief pause. The whole galaxy wants to know more. And humanity has no idea who is out there, but surely they can’t all be like the creepy bird people?

Cue one very curious Quarian in Shanxi, just as curious an out humanity as humanity is about everything. Meeting with early alliance brass, giving them information common palace to any kid with an extranet feed but wholly new to humanity. He explains that the Quarian don’t have ground forces because they don’t have a ground, and is honest about the geth, and is like ‘so how did you make the Turian Hierarchy freak out?’

And somehow ends up observing basic training, and falls in love with it. To the point where he actively asks to go through marine boot camp in Hanshan, and is just earnest and endearing enough to be allowed. So he goes through it, puts in the work and the blood and sweat and tears and makes the kinds of friends that you sort of have on the Flotilla, but everyone also knows you are all going to separate ships eventually and getting attached is hard.

But the humans will pack bond with a robot vacuum without issue, and when they meet a Quarian who wants to learn and thinks it’s amazing that they stood up to the biggest military in the galaxy running on old fashioned rocketry and spite? The marines adopt him as one of their own. They are brothers, something most single child Quarians have no experience with, and Kal gives it back in spades. He talks like them, fights like them, jokes and learns and is like them.

And when it is over and they graduate, it’s hard to turn down the offer to stay. But humanity respects the loyalty to his people that takes him back to the fleet, and it almost brings him to tears when his graduating class passes a cap for his passage back to the fleet in more comfort than sitting on a box in a volus cargo ship.

It actually brings him to tears when his drill instructor informs him that while it might not be in great shape, Arcturus has authorized them to gift Kal’Reegar with a battered but space worthy corsair and an official greeting from the Systems Alliance to the Migrant Fleet.

The SSV Jarhead is perhaps the best gift anyone is his age range can give to a future captain, though his practical military experience is a gift to the whole fleet. It catapults him through the Quarian military, from for soldier to instructor to commander, and somewhere he hopes that his brothers and sisters are as proud of them as he is of every transmission that makes it back to him.

On Haestrom, that training keeps him alive long enough to watch his squad die, and that cuts like nothing else. But he can’t stop, because the principle is still depending on him, and until his suit gives out he has to fight to her.

But then the voice cuts through the chatter of his own mind, and he *knows it*. Knows the cadence and the phrasing, knows how a human mouth forms the phrases that he has spent years trying to teach. Commander Shepard might not be a marine, but they are a human combat specialist and the fraternity is there.

Maybe it’s just three more people who are going to die for this fools errand, but somehow Kal doesn’t think so. There are two bone deep beliefs that he will carry it’s him to either the home world or the afterlife, and it has always felt appropriate to him that they rhyme. That they sound similar, when he breathes them into the air.

Keelah Salai. Semper Fi.

[omegastation]

Just saw a post that had a list of unromanceable characters that OP wished they could romance, and I did one like this before, but right now, it goes for the trilogy:

Garrus, Thane and James for MShep

Miranda, Ashley, Jack and Tali for FShep

Joker and Zaeed for All Sheps

For Andromeda:

Cora for SisRyder

Liam, Kallo, Orev the sniper on Voeld, Evan Bell-Scott and Dutch for BroRyder

Kandros and Sloane for All Ryder

The main ones for me in the trilogy are Garrus & Joker for MShep and Miranda for FShep. ​

For MEA, I could have added more. I find that Ryder has quite intimate and deep conversations with side characters and I'm always left like... What was that???? But Orev and Sloane would be the priority for sure.

[ciri-is-sapphic-72]

playing me3 femshep talimance and i just got the scene post-Horizon with Tali and the ‘energency induction port’ and Tali’s lines are unedited from the mshep version so she goes “i’m drinking with my boyfriend” and now i’m imagining tali calling femshep her boyfriend

[valentineveils]

just learnt abt bioware cutting out a lot of the same sex [like mshep being able to romance thane and fshep being able to romance jack/miranda/tali] mass effect stuff cus of fox news . WOW