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[nirelaz]

Inktober Day 18: Saddle

It's hour 75 of the best day of Grunt's life and he's still going strong.

(I have read probably three Mass Effect fanfics and one of them was about Grunt getting his very own Kakliosaur. *Chef's kiss*.)

[tigereyes45]

Chapter 4 is finally out! Living on a small ship can lead to many frustrations.

The crowd behind his back was in an uproar. Their voices all thundering together sheerly from the number of them all. The human government was still attempting to keep them all out of the military base where the funeral was being held. Grunt sits in his seat. Squirming, as he tries to wake up. Shepard was alive, and on the ship with him. This wasn't real. The thousands of voices from outside, behind him disagree. Their chants mingle, and intertwine to become an undecipherable mass in his ears. Still if he listens close he can make out their words, almost as if through the trembles under his feet. Hero! Monster! Villain! Savior! All of them fit her, and completely miss the mark too.

"It's time for us to go up." Garrus whispers, offering Grunt his hand. He's already at his feet, ready to say goodbye. Garrus Vakarian is able to move, is ready to go on, and Grunt can't shake the fog from his head. She's not dead. Shepard didn't die. Not here on Earth. He knows that's where this place is, despite never seeing outside of it. Every instinct in his body, knows.

"You can do this kid." Wrex says encouragingly beside him. Somehow the three of them are in the front row. Not Anderson, who has yet to leave Shepard's casket. Not Hackett who outranks everybody but Wrex.

No it's he, Garrus, Wrex, Tali, Joker, and Liara in the front. That makes no sense to him. Why would it be them? Why does he have to go up first?

Garrus' talons rest easy on Grunt's shoulders. "We don't have to be up there for long," he crouches down to kneel before him. Grunt always thought he would laugh at the sight of a kneeling turian, but there's no humor to be found in this situation. "but we have to say goodbye."

No! He doesn't want to. Shepard's alive. She's awake and on the ship with him. With Orrin. The shaking grows as Grunt finally shakes off Garrus' claw. He stands abruptly. "Let's get this done with." Strong words, but his chest has never felt more likely to collapse in.

"Good on you kid." Wrex's compliment was so sincere, that Grunt nearly cried from how hollow it makes him feel.

Garrus stays by his side, practically guiding him to the coffin. Grunt keeps his blue eyes squarely on the ground. Chanting with his whole soul, denying the truth in front of him. "It's alright." Garrus whispers once they make it to the front. He wraps another arm around Grunt's back to rest a hand on his far shoulder. His cold talons, somehow warming the taller krogan. "We'll all remember who she really was?" But who was she? How could he ever know? Clenching his fist, the tears he had been fighting back finally spill out of his numb eyes.

Garrus pulls him closer, and now he can't rebuild the dam that broke within. His eyes catch a glimpse at Shepard, so still in the still comfort of her grave. Shepard's alive. She's on the ship. No matter how many times he reminds himself, the tears don't stop. Garrus' hold feels so real in the moment.

It doesn't matter what people think of her, Shepard can't be dead.

"I've got you."

[thehypertuna]

My last timelapse for now is for the family portrait of Grunt and his two human moms! It was fun to do a cel-shade illustration this time around. Would love to experiment more with this style with future art :-). Shoutout to SlashBib and FamilyJules for their awesome music featured in the vid!

[thatwildwolfart]

grunt does some mental math

[the-8-of-spades]

Pt. 2 of Mass Effect things that are so fucking funny, imagine you're a Krogan chillin on Tuchanka feelin' good about yourself when a sentient bag of water walks in with the Krogan equivalent of a living Barbie doll, high fives the president, bitch slaps a foreign dignitary, kills a demigod, and then leaves without any further explanation

[kibagib]

Updated ME icons

And once again, happy N7Day!

FINISHED VERSION HERE

[angstyastro]

13 tickets for Barbie pls

Late for pride month but have my gay war criminals

The lighting is based on pride flags for each chara!

[supertaliart]

So I’m binge-playing Mass Effect for the first time.

I think Grunt would love Blåhaj

[primarch-victus]

replaying mass effect 3, more specifically citadel dlc atm, so here's what it's inspired ✨️ - part one

(part two)

[candaceaprillee]

Happy N7 Day!!

Have a WIP that I probably will never finish but it makes for a fun coloring page. 😛

[bargu]

"But take heart. Look around you. You’re not in this fight alone.” – Commander Shepard Been doing this piece quite some time now 'cause wanted to fit all my peeps in one picture. I just love Mass Effect. Selene Shepard & art © me Mass Effect by Bioware, do not copy

[kassyeh]

I would love to see Grunt wearing a t-shirt with this phrase on it

[lilmissnatcat24]

for no other reason than i worked at an ice cream shop for eight years, here's what ice cream the mass effect characters would eat

shepard: neapolitan, strawberry for their paragon side, chocolate for their renegade, vanilla to balance

garrus: moose tracks, but will pick it apart just for the peanut butter cups and give shepard the leftovers

tali: literally any booze flavored ice cream

liara: mint chocolate chip because she secretly kind've fucks with the taste of toothpaste but will never admit it out loud

kaidan: butter pecan. it's not everyone's favorite, but it's his, and he's totally cool with it

ashley: whatever the 2183 equivalent to the tonight dough. cookie dough chunks, brownie chunks, butterscotch, chocolate chips, malt chunks, everything

wrex: this man is old as balls!!!!!! rum raisin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

joker: lemon sherbet. you cannot tell me that man is not lactose intolerant

miranda: cherries garcia, little bit sweet, little bit tart

jack: the most sickening sweet shit you can think of. cotton candy with marshmallow superman with a side of sugar

jacob: some sort of dark chocolate peanut butter ice cream that sounds good in theory but in reality you can only take like 3 bites of before you get a tummy ache

zaeed: banana splits that he likes to mash together with a spoon and eat like some deconstructed milkshake

kasumi: the weird avant gard shit you see in hipster vegan shops, like some bacon sweet potato rosebud ice cream

mordin: coffee ice cream, because he likes the taste of coffee but if he were to actually drink it he would spontaneously combust

grunt: those froyo shops that were everywhere in 2014 where you could make a bowl with like 5% froyo and 95% other toppings and it cost 14 dollars

thane: doesn't like ice cream because it reminds him of how he abandoned his child and how his wife is dead and he could never go back to the life he left behind, the life of stability, because his body is engineered for a deadly purpose and he can never atone for his sins rocky road

samara: this woman is old as balls!!!!!!!!!!!!! pistachio!!!!!!!!!!!

legion: tried vanilla ice cream. too sticky, got stuck in his wiring.

james: one of those brownie sundaes that weighs approximately 5 pounds and is majority whipped cream

steve: chocolate chip. classy, just like him ;)

traynor: something smooth and rich and velvety and inexplicably sexy, like raspberry chocolate chunk

edi: takes the idea of ice cream a little too literally and just has a bowl of heavy cream with ice cubes. is confused why everyone is disgusted.

javik: ice cream is for primitives (peaches and cream)

[thatwildwolfart]

this started as a vague "tali with blåhaj......" thought and now it's out of control help

[dadanime]