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It's been a hot minute since I thought about ME: Andromeda. So I had to go into simp mode and without tooting my own horn, pull out one of the best drawings I ever did.

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lovebirds <3

happy pride month to them 🥺

bonus timelapse, plus watch me struggle find colors for Alena her new outfit lol...

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knowing that blood colour wouldn’t be the major determinant of scar tissue colour, i'm currently writing up a post predicting turian scar colour and its biological basis.

initially, i hypothesised that turian scars are pink or brown, due to collagen and myoglobin (myoglobin is wrong btw), and the lack of melanin in garrus’ case (hypopigmentation->pink) or excessive melanin for hyperpigmented scars (->brown). but the further i go down this rabbit hole…holy hell. im practically living on google scholar now.

based on my research so far, it is deduced that turian scars would neither be pink nor blue. they'd lean more towards pale violet or greyish for hypopigmented scars, and slowly getting darker, closer to the original skin tone, as the scars mature.

for hyperpigmentation it’s getting complicated bc melanin is made from l-tyrosine, which means turians would use d-tyrosine instead. as a result, the metabolic pathway for melanin synthesis could be wildly different due to enzyme specificity.

i’m still in theoretical territory, but even if we can create a synthetic alternate metabolic pathway, idk if it is possible to create melanin from d-tyrosine or not. even if so, would its properties (including colour) even be the same as in humans, being made from d-tyrosine?

fresh wound (after cleaning the blood), however, would make sense being blue, just not bright blue, but off-white with a subtle blue undertone. (<- can u even notice i changed the text colour to the colour i'm describing?)

(this also means the blue scar mod only makes sense for a fresh wound that is still bleeding. it's still very cool to look at. i'm just mildly bothered, not because of the mod altering anything, but that people are saying turian scars should be blue because their blood is blue, which is not a scientifically correct argument itself. like human scars aren't bright red like our blood either. they're pink or brown)

still doing more research but the post im writing up is already pretty long lmao. and bioware could just say it’s due to a fictional pigment called xyzoid which is pink then all my research would be in vain <3

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Yeah, I’d watch Muppets Lord of the Rings

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Today's warmup was a random Femshep :3

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Commission for LightLaurein on Twitter ✦

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old man

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Good naps will have you sleeping in poses usually reserved for dead insects

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Mass Effect | Shepard Another N7 Day out! Another ME3 painting I’ve done. Let’s celebrate Mass Effect with an old style portrait of Shepard with his regal companion haha. This was commissioned by a dear friend for a proud owner of a cat named Shepard :P

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