#is that a fuckin tag

[ebwardelric]

I'll write it into a full fic in time but the idea of colonist, sole survivor garrusmanced Shepard surviving the events of me3 just to learn that Garrus succumbed to his injuries

She lost everyone on Mindoir, parents, aunts, friends, first love -the boy she'd marry-, and woke in a strange, unknown, sterile place, completely alone. The last of her bloodline

and rebuilt herself

Then loses everyone to the thresher maws on Akuze - including that fling-, waking again in a hospital ward with that familiar, overwhelming, clean stench. Chemicals and starchy sheets. Being told once again that she was the only one left of her new family. It's a curse. Mopping herself up from an externally bleeding wound.

She rebuilds,

finds family and kinship aboard the Normandy, they don't stay after Saren but they do keep in touch. She arranges to see Garrus. They're going to do good now... Then she suffocates in space. Finally it was her time to leave people she loved behind. Finally, finally, finally.

Then wakes, only loosely stitched together skin that isn't her own, with scars now repaired, what was left of her past. alone and being forced into action, to being told that her family had fallen apart, scattered without her, some presumed dead.

Told to rebuilt. Instructed to find new lives she'll inevitably lose through something she feels is some kind of cursed incompetence. Why is it always she who survives?

Rebuilding. Again. Her friends are alive. Not all of them well. Man did Garrus take it badly. A vigilante? Was he seeking his death too? Doesn't matter. We're all alive. They get closer. They bond. She's forgotten how it felt to be held like a woman and not as a soldier.

Maybe she loses key team during the suicide mission, maybe she didn't have time to order the the Normandy upgrades to ensure it was capable of doing what it needed to, maybe she skipped a few emails

Or maybe she ensures it doesn't happen. She saves the staff; because she isn't losing anyone else. Who knows.

And then me3. No Shepard without Vakarian. Legion gives his life. Her past team don't all join for this final battle. It hurts. Her family are too large now. Uncontrollable. more people to keep safe. But Garrus is here, has been from the start.

She sends him away to keep him safe. no no no. All people do is die when they're around her. Away is better. Aboard the Normandy.

But a message gets through from the Normandy. It's God knows where, but slowly comms come through.

She does it all. Against all odds. Lays down to die,

awakens, again. No one she knows around. Sterile. Sickly. Broken. Alone. The sandpaper sheets under her is what she knows best in this time.

It's true. Her curse continues. She adds his name to the memorial that sits heavy in her chest

Her family check in on her.

Garrus died hours after she saved the galaxy. She doesn't believe it at first. Can't. No.

She... Rebuilds? How much more can she take? Can she be ripped to shreds and tapestry herself back together again? Can she? Could you? Is there enough space in one body for this much grief?

[whaile]

late summer / early fall thoughts

[oddthesungod]

calling 911 on sam riegel for emotional damage 😭😭😭😭

[atla-suki]

ARE YOU KIDDING ME THIS IS THE CUTEST SHIT EVER

[rattanwhip]

Snuppy

[fanficmemes]

“I’ll block you immediately if I see that you enjoy immoral content” girl on the immoral content website??

[spicyraeman]

drops this and leaves

[cynicallyneutral]

had to be done 🤷

[leo-bandito]

something something gman tommy something something gordon in stasis. you know how it is.

[skeletood]

[kelokez]

the light of my life. the sunshine of my lifetime.

[trustyalt]

stupid dog

[deep-space-lines]

okay but like. I just had the weirdest thought about that ‘don’t look I’m naked’ comic. Which is that that’s essentially the same thing Adam and Eve did after they ate the fruit of knowledge of good&evil. So I feel like the theological implications of that could kneecap Gabe if he doesn’t think V1 is a being with free will.

yeah ok. i dunno man. is this anything

((side note. this isn’t necessarily meant to be in-character or story-accurate or take place at any particular point in time, just a way to explore some Thoughts. i was also imagining more that V1’s words aren't actually spoken, more like Gabriel’s more articulate interpretation of whatever garbled mechanical noise V1 is using to communicate. I think an angel could do that.))

and then they fucked nasty the end

[flamingomalls]

death

[draw-the-squad-like-this]

Draw your OC like this

[bastardlybonkers]

blond