#trans Shepard

[te-aorangi]

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Mass Effect Trilogy Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Kaidan Alenko/Male Shepard Characters: Kaidan Alenko, Male Shepard (Mass Effect), Ashley Williams (Mass Effect) Additional Tags: Vanguard (Mass Effect), Spacer (Mass Effect), Trans Male Shepard (Mass Effect), half Asian main characters, sparring as a metaphor for flirting, Rivals to Friends to Lovers Series: Part 1 of Jack Shepard Summary:

Kaidan's new CO is a dick and gets on his nerves. So why does Kaidan feel inextricably drawn to him?

A series of vignettes set throughout the trilogy.

[aceouttatime]

7 and 10 for the shep game? :-)

Thanks for the ask Mars! <33

7. How approachable are they?

-> Pre-Lazarus? He's got a very severe case of resting bitch face, though not much more so than your average traumatized serviceman. I'm tempted to say not very approachable on that front.

He's decent at sussing out people's intentions, but generally gives them the benefit of the doubt, so once he's actually talking with you, he's less 'unknowably annoyed and terrifying.' I've mentioned before that his eyes are unnerving. Both how he's constantly shifting his gaze, like he's checking corners where there are none (whoops, paranoia), and the way that just-too-bright green bores into a guy when he's look at 'em. As far as body language goes, he's partial to leaning against walls and railings like he's cool (back issues) and doing the old 'crossing your arms and jutting a hip' type deal (also back issues).

Post-Lazarus? Downright unsettling, uncanny valley, kind of unapproachable. Even if you didn't know who he was or that he was supposedly missing in action for about two years, he has a presence about him that's not quite right. The angles of his face are too sharp, like the features were meticulously pieced together and ripping along the red-scarred, patch-worked seams of his body. When he moves, he moves like he is overly aware of his body, or like his body isn't in sync with his brain. He seems sensitive to even the lightest touch or sounds outside the range of what his hearing should be. It's most noticeable when he uses his biotics--he hadn't had them before Cerberus' intervention. He's the juxtaposition between a fawn finding its footing for the first time and an old god as assured and aware as the earth beneath its hooves.

'They came back wrong' is my favorite way I've heard Shepard(s) in general described, and that absolutely applies to Sylvan. This post sums up my thoughts so well.

10. How do they handle a teammate being badly injured during a mission?

-> A stranger would be different. Even a squadmate he has been able to stop himself from becoming emotionally vulnerable to, no matter how much he values them, would be different. But if someone close to his heart is injured in a life-threatening way, it impairs his judgement, and he'll take more fire than he should because of it. It can leave other forces vulnerable, and it's not yet been enough to entirely compromise a mission, but enough that his actions don't align with how he acts under other sorts of heavy pressures he's forced under.

It is a weakness that has been exploited, and it is one that has been attempted to be beaten out of him. It's the major one that almost made Nihlus keep hold of his recommendation of Shepard for the Spectres. He had planned to force Shepard to compensate for his deficiency.

Shep's had good conversations with Anderson about it, as the captain has faced similar lapses in judgement. It's a sensitive subject for Anderson too because of his past with Saren and the major difference between their modes of working being their regard for collateral. "That's our humanity, Shepard. You can't change it, I can't change it, shouldn't, really, if we don't want to lose it. It's almost selfish, that we're these vehicles of our own morality; Spectres are not. It's a numbers game for them. For you, now."

It's part of why he keeps up so many walls, and it's a byproduct of Akuze and Virmire and all of the other losses he's faced, but above all, Mindoir.

He's proficient in battlefield first aid, and he will laser-focus on that task if he's in that more panicked mindset. He's followed squadmates into the medbay more times than he should.

[ramblinganthropologist]

Just so we all know, Alistair's packer has a name.

Mr. P.E.N.I.S.

He didn't name it, Bo did. It stands for Mr. Pelvic Eviscerating Non Insertion Substitute.

He loses it due to dying so he has to get a new one. Bo names that Turian P.E.N.I.S for obvious reasons. She's more optimistic than he is by far.

But hey, he's happy to have one again.

[bossvamp]

the trump administration is already slowly taking away our rights, no longer legally recognizing us and only seeing two genders in america — male and female — and passports no longer taking new gender maker changes or x gender markers. this is just the start of it most likely

they've erased mentions of LGBTQ on government websites and removed pages related to honoring nex benedict and matthew shepard, like they never existed. we know they existed though and we need to keep both nex benedict and matthew shepard's names alive and remember what horrible violence and hate crime took them away from us.

this is not to scare anyone. this is to inform the masses on what our government is doing. censorship is actively happening around us. do you know the world is protesting for us? no? the united states have already started their censorship, their propaganda for this administration. do not let them censor us and hide us from the truth. speak up, learn, adapt, and inform others.

[waambles]

He likes head scritches, leather, and nasty t4t s-

[teturelira]

My fshep blue wife is better than urs

[your-unfriendlyghost]

Okay pony gaslighting curly into thinking soda was always a girl is so funny, especially since Tim doesn’t fall for it

Curly goes home and yaps to Tim abt it and Tim just sighs

”Yeah I swear Sodapop’s fine as hell man. You think I can steal her from Randle?”

Tim stares at Curly flatly. “Sure. Shoot your shot,” he grunts.

“I never told ya this cos she was so butch back in the day, but I’ve had a thing for her for years. I knew she’d end up hot,” Curly boasts, popping the collar of his leather jacket.

Tim nods. “You’re a clever guy,” he says sarcastically.

“I know, I’ve got a real sense for these things,” Curly says smugly.

[a-drewid]

MTF!pony would still body curly shepard any day of the week

(Ignore the fact it says ftm in the drawing I fucked it)

[agavegator]

I'm proud for what I am The guardian of the dead Appointed by the gods To be their final judge

[creepyscritches]

Accusing a post of "us defaultism" when the whole post is about a term originating from a US legal defense argument for justifiable murder of gay and trans individuals ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ okay kid

[ksfoxwald]

Miranda: We recreated your body exactly as it was before! Shepard: Thanks :) I hate it :)

Shepard coming out as trans post ME1 and harassing Miranda to do their gender confirmation surgery because she already reconstructed them once, it can't be that hard to do it again, doesn't this body come with a warranty?

[te-aorangi]

Chapters: 2/? Fandom: Mass Effect Trilogy Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Kaidan Alenko/Male Shepard Characters: Kaidan Alenko, Male Shepard (Mass Effect), Ashley Williams (Mass Effect) Additional Tags: Vanguard (Mass Effect), Spacer (Mass Effect), Trans Male Shepard (Mass Effect), half Asian main characters, sparring as a metaphor for flirting, Rivals to Friends to Lovers, the inherently sexual noises people make while getting physio lol Series: Part 1 of Jack Shepard Summary:

The fallout of Noveria. Shepard and Kaidan get a little closer. 

[aceouttatime]

Picking random numbers out of a hat for Shepard asks:

Give me 4, 17, 27, and 34! I have no idea what these numbers correspond to! It'll be a fun little surprise for me.

thanks for the ask daisy <333

4. Shepard wakes up in an alternate universe. What tips them off?

-> Completely depends on what alternate universe we're talking about, but generally, probably the lack of impending doom. Now I'm tempted to rotate around the idea of a no-reapers au and how that would go with him...

17. Have they done any interviews? How did the first one go? And the most recent?

-> As far as job interviews, no. Sylvan was born on Mindoir with a fairly typical colonist background prior to the slaver raid when he was 16. His family owned a ranch, so he has a long history of hard labor growing up. He got picked up by the Alliance after and was practically inducted in; since then, he's worked his way through the ranks.

He only really got political/news interviews after his survival on Akuze, and even then, thankfully, there were few. Official Alliance channels and media people broadcasted the award ceremony, and his very first interview was the night of. The reporter and outlet had strong ties to Terra Firma, and made a strong attempt to pry into Shepard's past on Mindoir rather than focus on the politics behind the attack on Akuze. Now, Sylvan's plenty polite when he wants to be, his parents raised him right and good.

But they also didn't raise a damned doormat.

To say the interview went poorly would be. Accurate. He uh. Walked out about halfway through because it's difficult to interview a war survivor facing you dead in the eye and saying nothing. Also doesn't help that he has the most unnerving damned eyes, even before Lazarus. A little too green. A little too wide when he's staring, like he's looking right through you.

His track record's been similar since. He's got a simple policy of 'respect for respect' when it comes to dealing with the media, and he will gentle parent the hell out of a leading question. 'Now, you didn't mean to ask me that question like that. Let's try it again.' Generally, the only people that get away with talking down to him are the Council, and even then, not for very long.

27. The last time they were rude to someone:

-> Today. It was Garrus in the airlock. He probably poked fun at how Shepard broke a couple fingers biotic-charging a krogan because he didn't wait for his shotgun to cool down. In other news, Shepard also punched a turian today (it did not fix his broken fingers).

It's okay, he knows he loves him. This is how men flirt(?)

34. What was Jack’s first impression of shepard? And now?

-> Jack's first impression of Shepard? Easy. She thought he was a pussy because of how he handled Kuril, and reckless for how he handled the aftermath. The recklessness she respected. Miranda viewed it as a stupid risk, which only further cemented that. After her acquisition mission on Purgatory, he was straight up with her and gave her full access to the files she wanted. At that point, she was convinced he had some underlying motive, was trying to get in her head, get her to lower her defenses. That continued for a long time, not helped by his tendency to try to get to know his crew. He would ask questions, she would push back, and he would nod or call her out on it, either way seemingly satisfied by her non-answer, which infuriated the hell out her. It got her to open up more, just trying to figure him out.

Something shifted when he agreed to take her to Pragia. He brought along Garrus, and by that point, Jack had been on enough missions with the two of them to understand how they operated--the banter, the old in-jokes between them, the quick-action tactical commentary as they watched one another's backs. But, while Garrus responded occasionally to her commentary and narration walking through the old facility, clearly sympathetic to her situation and comfortable enough letting her express her anger, Shepard was content to stay mostly silent.

And he told her, it was more a suggestion than anything else, when she finally had a gun on Aresh, "Let him go down with the ship. You don't have to choose for him."

When she activated the detonator on the shuttle, that was when it clicked. There was no motive. He wanted to see what she'd do. Not because he saw her as an object or as an asset or a liability, but because she was a person on his ship, and he'd be damned if he didn't give her the closure she asked for before plotting a course to hell. He didn't think he knew better for her--he wanted to give her options he never had.

She looked further into his past. She asked him about Mindoir. She asked him about Akuze. By the time they met each other while she was teaching at Grissom, she asked him about Garrus and told him, "If you two haven't fucked each other already, then I owe Cerberus' favorite sex symbol more credits than these kids' parents pay me a year. Put his spiky ass in a wedding dress and get it over with already."

[wild-fae-trickster]

How I thought "Death of a Unicorn" was going to end (Spoilers, duh)

Shepard snorts The Shredded Unicorn Horn and goes "I know what to do."

Shepard: So, uh, The Legends thing, it says that a Maiden needs to Woo the Unicorn and Pacify it, right?

Ridley: Not exactly, but yeah?

Shepard: Well I realized some shit while I snorted that horn-

Ridley: You what?!

Shepard: Besides the point, but uh, I think I'm supposed to be that maiden.

Ridley: What?

Shepard: Yeah, no, uh, sorry for being a douche, that was just Gender Dysphoria and False Masculinity, but that's besides the point because I'm gonna save us all!

Ridley: I will be honest, I did not expect that.

[jenthebug]

I saw my son perform in this semester’s high school play: The Laramie Project- Ten Years Later.

He was wonderful. One of the best. Each actor had a handful of parts, and he seemed to bring each persona to life.

But. It was HEAVY SHIT. Obviously. It dealt with Matthew Shepard’s murder, and public opinion ten years after the murder. A large number of people seem to think it was a robbery, or a drug deal gone bad, despite mountains of evidence to the contrary.

It is very hard to believe that “something like that could happen here.” So a significant portion of Laramie just…doesn’t.

I’m drinking some tension tamer tea and watching the end of a CU basketball game (we’re ahead of USC, barely) because I need to fill my head with something other than someone like my son getting brutally murdered.

SportsCenter is next. I’m glad.

[farsight-the-char]

I don't think romancing Liara as Femship was the main thing to break my egg.

but looking back, I was perhaps a bit to giddy about "being gay" with Liara.