#me2 blogging

[edains]

Reaffirming their love • Charlie & Miranda

Morning's accessories for Shepard

Morning's summer outfits for Femshep

Morning's Hairstyles for Femshep

More Gay Romances

Project Variety

[socialprawn]

sobs

[fukiana]

i may have made a mistake playing through halo master chief collection and mass effect legendary edition back to back. this is a dire comparison, gamers.

[mercy-misrule]

Playing me2 now, finished up me1. Me2 my absolute beloved.

Kara 'Candycane' Shepard, adept, and now ex of Liara

Ready to be remade into a cyborg by Australian space Murdoch princess and then tear down Cerberus from the inside

God I love mass effect 2

[emmavakarian-theirin]

Mass Effect (2007)

[akuzeisms]

kat has new banners and I am the big proud of how good they look--

[misseffect]

ok the me/f1 concept is. so good. have 2 ask do you have any thoughts on characters not central to the fic? where do the rest of the normandy gang fit im obsessed

anon!!!!!! i love you for this!!!! thank you for asking 💕💕💕 i have Many Thoughts. here is a summary (in tiny text because I can't do read-mores on mobile)

Wrex - could've been World Champ material if he hadn't gotten too big for single-seater cars by the time he was 14. He's in some kind of leadership role at Aralakh (the krogan team). Maybe chief strategist.

Tali - engineer at Normandy; fresh out of uni and quickly makes Adams' second in command. Becomes irate if asked how old she is and regularly threatens to commit acts of violence against Garrus with a wheel gun.

Liara - racing with Sovereign as of Delta canon (because of the Benezia / Saren link) but idk what I'm going to do with her after that.

Kaidan - racing with Alliance, the Normandy B Team (I'm imagining a Red Bull / AlphaTauri setup). He and Shepard dated for a while when they were in Formula 4 together and he maybe subs into Normandy for a bit during Year Five for plot reasons.

Vega - Anderson's PT and later Garrus's when he joins Normandy. I've written him and Ash as An Item before but honestly I like ace!Vega for this fic.

Thane - retired driver. He and Shepard dated for 6mo or so during her first year on the F1 grid, until she got cold feet about being a step-parent to an 18yr old lmao

Zaeed - retired driver. Got his face busted in a crash with Vido in the 80s and now uses his celeb status to blag entry into fancy F1 parties with open bars. He's got uuuuuhhhh a bit of a role to play at the end of Year One 😏😏

Grunt - driver for Aralakh. Behaves exactly how you'd expect Grunt to behave if given a 200mph chunk of carbon fibre. The rest of the grid give him a VERY wide berth off the start line.

Jack - undecided but I'd really like to find a way for her to steal a car from Cerberus. Maybe she's a disillusioned, mistreated drop-out from their young driver program.

Miranda - Cerberus driver. As per canon, she's with them mostly because they're about the only pie her father can't get his fingers into. Also looks phenomenal in a race suit, obviously.

Jacob - Cerberus driver no.2. No real plans for him beyond the fact of his existence.

Kasumi - Normandy's "requisitions" person. Need a hire car? Need an outfit for a black tie gala? Need dubiously-obtained rumours about a rival team's wind tunnel data? Kasumi's your gal.

Mordin - I feel like he'd be fun as a commentator but idk if he'd get much use that way

Cortez - Normandy's other race engineer (Anderson's and then subsequently Garrus's). Shepard keeps Joker throughout because no one else can put up with either of them for long enough

Kelly - Normandy's PR / media person. Shepard spends a lot of time trying to give her the slip.

Traynor - Normandy's chief strategist. A new hire during Year One or Two.

Chakwas - Normandy's team doctor, obviously.

Legion, EDI, Samara and Javik - no plans currently, but something might come up as I go.

I think that's everyone???

[adollt]

spoilers

like 5 more missions till me2 is ogre. Jacob Loyalty > Lair of the Shadow Broker > IFF mission to do > bring Legion to Tali's loyalty mission > do Legions Loyalty mission > last level starts

still got Jacobs loyalty mission, cant believe I left that shit for last lol. I was also thinknig about how I wasnt gonna let it be near the end either cause I dont really wanna remember it. the 2 other DLC missions so far are actually fucking insane as I never had them as a kid. imma be honest wasnt really down with the "Autistic" brother used as a FUCKING WARHAMMER AI typa shit, it was weird to thing about him being Autistic and his thing was "controlling the reapers by immitating them" and then he rasps and blows mouth bubbles at them then does a really complex math ... thing I forgot as that was his tick. I also dont like that half the time its literally screaming nonsense at you so its just loud unhinged noise, eventually I drowned it out. it was actually awful. and at one point I realized "Im drowning out this dudes voice" cause of how much it was playing and how awful the noise was.

the other dlc was fucking, INSANE the one with Kasumi and the Batarian home GALAXY. where if you dont do the mission the reapers invade and kill everyone in me2. so you have too go and launch A FUCKING PLANET. not like me1 where the stupid batarians were launching a comet. at the god damn mass effect to stop the "alpha relay" and a kid who didnt have the dlcs I was like "what the fuck is going on SHEPARD ARE WE JUST GONNA BLOW THIS SHIT UP" and we did, we fucking blew up the batarian homeworlds or some shit and moved on with our day. stupid batarians

[seithr]

nightly reminder! Liara T'soni my beloved

[solheimisms]

TAG DUMP

[spxctrixmru]

Mentions of his Dying Mother are in this, viewer discretion advised.

If there’s any turian that wants time to himself after going on a mission that very well could’ve killed them all, it’s only been a day since it had all happened. Many of them very littered with wounds, there were so many close calls, but they were all willing to die if it meant stopping the collectors. Of course Garrus of all people, despite being scot-free in terms of injuries, his mental state from everything he’d seen there had taken quite the toll. Surely he’d be back on his feet, but combined with the fact he’s felt so shitty with how he mistreated Sidonis for all these months, and hiding away the guilt and his own wrong doings, the turian hides himself away in his old Citadel apartment away from the rest of the crew.

Moving himself away from everyone else probably wasn’t the best of ideas, but for the time being, they just need a day or two..or more away from everyone. There was a lot of celebrating when they all left through their exhaustion and medbay visits, but Garrus had mostly shut down following everything they had to go through. Even though there’s so much more they have yet to face. It’s...scary. Despite everything they’ve succeeded in, they’re terrified.

Terrified over the future, his past--his mistakes. All Vakarian can do is just sit there in his own thoughts for the amount of time that he needs to, and then move on, to continue trucking forward into the unknown. Until then? His subvocals cry, and soft trills emit from his throat. This is the first time he let his guard down since the whole time he saw Sidonis, how terrified they were of Garrus--and how surprised they were to see Garrus be the one apologizing for everything. He just hopes that someday he can just find Sidonis again, and.. let them know he’s alive.

A small huff as he pushes himself onto the stiff bed, it’s all been kept tidy by someone. He can only debate who exactly it would be, but, Garrus, in an exhausted state, isn’t even able to slide off his armor, not that they want people to see what sort of hell he’s put his own body through these last couple of months, that would be if anyone even visited him in the first place. Everyone’s out doing their own thing to take their mind off of the hellscape they’d all put themselves through for the sake of this galaxy..

The Turian pushes himself up against the wall while sitting on his bed, ruffing the pillows, trying to get comfortable as he sets his omni-tool down, immediately calling his family on said omni-tool. He doesn’t expect his suffering mother to pick up, all the money he made went towards his mother, so when his father, Castis picks up, Garrus isn’t really surprised all too much.

[ “ / Spirits, Garrus, why haven’t you called at all?! / “ ]

It’s all Garrus can make out from his father’s voice as they start the call honestly pretty spaced out. There’s a big chance that he didn’t hear everything, almost certainly haven’t. Garrus lets out a long, low sigh, Castis almost feels their exhaustion, it’s intoxicating, in a bad way, of course. The older turian looks at their disgruntled, tired son through the omni-tool.

“ Is she doing better? I..Is the treatment helping? I had..Mordin send over some stuff that could help her--”

[ “ / She’s... / “ ]

The fact that Castis isn’t answering right away, the fact that they’re unable to give him an answer? That’s terrifying. He’s terrified. His expression grows worrisome. For a moment, they stop caring about all of their mental wounds from the suicide mission to fully focus on his father, who’s unable to comfortably give him an answer on how his mother is doing with Corpalis Syndrome. A few moments of silence pass between the two of them.

“ Not good, then. The usual answer would’ve been acceptable, Castis. “

[ “ / I understand, Garrus. You’ve been putting everything you own into helping her. / “ ]

“ Why... Why did it have to be her? “

It’s been causing him so much torment for all the money and treatment in the galaxy to still be not enough for his illed mother. It wracks at his heart even more than his current feelings of anguish and sorrow. His own mistakes wracked up on top of how his mother is doing. He’s been barely able to survive himself because most if not all of the credits he’s gained has gone towards his mother’s treatment.

Castis can tell Garrus is freaking out about all of this. Why though he’s not too sure, he’s been busy working with Ryder and push the Andromeda Initiative forward. If Garrus’ rambles and work alongside Shepard is anything to go off of, these Reapers are very much real, and they’re very much coming, they have to leave and it’s going to have to be very soon if his son’s warnings are anything to go off of.

“ I can continue to se--- “ [ “ / That won’t be needed, anymore, Garrus. / “ ]

His father intercepting his needs to transfer more credits to his mother’s treatment sends a frigid spike of air down his spine, his subvocals scream discomfort, nigh close to losing his sanity over just wanting his mother to be alright. Why can’t this go right? It all feels so hopeless. Before Garrus even wants to reply, they end the call, leaving his father hanging, a shaky breath followed by sobs is not surprising for the turian.

To be completely overwhelmed by emotions from everything that’s happened this past month alone has been enough to drive anyone mad. His subvocals try, he could cry a waterfall if Turians could cry tears like other races could. In the lightest of terms, Garrus is at his utmost limits and the lack of shit he feels he can do is pushing him over those unspoken limits. As the minutes pass, Garrus feels utterly lifeless in the wake of the idea that his mother isn’t worth putting more funds into. His father was more stubborn than he was..

Knowing that his father was putting in the towel for trying to save her, it hurt him more than anything else. Sure, Corpalis Syndrome had no cure, but.. he had to continue trying to save her, he had to keep on pushing...but.. Garrus wasn’t sure there was anything left for him to do. It felt so fucking hopeless, spirits forbid he wanted to see his mother healthy and happy, but no. A stupid fucking illness had to take all of that away from her, had to take away so many happy memories and the treatment had run Garrus dry for well over three years now.

Combine that with his crumbled mental state, and you get a turian breaking through the seems. He’d think about heading to a bar but knowing him--it’s not a good idea. You’ll get drunk and cause a ruckus as you usually do when you’re depressed and fucking tired, Garrus. So he just sits there in his empty, somehow tidied up apartment and cries. Unable to think of anything else to deal with everything flooding and fogging up his mind at the current moment.

It just hurts.

[furyisms]

TAG DUMP

[onedismay]

Mass Effect Tag Game

Stole this thing from @messydiabolical. :)c Anyone is welcome to steal it from me as well!

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I am a fan since: Forgot what year it was but I remember ME2 had already been out for a while before I bought ME1. But I caught up quickly and got to experience the release of the Arrival DLC in real time. :D

Favourite game of the series?: It's hard to pick between 1 and 2, but I'll say 2 because the concept of loyalty missions is MY JAM. Also ME2 is my favorite graphics-wise, it's got that high contrast I love so much. (hate the simplified skill trees though)

MShep or FShep?: Most of my Sheps are fSheps because the character creator for mSheps isn't versatile enough for me. :( Where's the long hair! Let me look impractical!

Earthborn, Colonist or Spacer?: I might slightly prefer Earthborn. I enjoy playing characters who've had a rough start in life and made some bad decisions, but grew up to become decent people anyway.

Biotics or Tech: Can't pick, I like variety!

Paragon or Renegade: peace for everybody in the galaxy :') But I reeeaally love the Renegade eyes so I do have some mean Sheps as well.

Favourite Class: I used to main the Infiltrator class but in my most recent run I really enjoyed the Adept. Hard to pick a favorite but I do know my favorite class is NOT the Sentinel, it always feels clunky to me somehow.

Favourite Companion: Tali or Javik. Kaidan and Thane are nearby too. Tali's character development feels very natural and wonderful to me on every playthrough and I always love to see it. Javik is a fave because he's haunted and completely alone and that combo always hooks me like, I MUST see to it that this sad man has at least one nice thing in his life.

Least favourite Companion: It's the writers' fault but Liara. It gets really old when the same companion treats you like her love interest in all 3 games no matter what. I haaaate forced hugs in roleplaying games, don't put me through that, it'll ruin the character for me.

My squad selection: In my most recent playthrough it was unsurprisingly Javik and Tali. But I also ran with Vega quite often in the early game and I kinda missed him in the end game, haha.

Favourite In-game romance: Kaidan, especially with mShep because I really enjoy a slow burn of several years. 🔥

Other pairings I like: I am motioning at my blog and presenting to you Tazzik and the Shadow Broker...... no i don't have anything else to offer at this time

Favourite NPC: I like all these shady-ass salarians like Anoleis and Jaroth and Maelon and Linron (yes) (no i'm not defending her, i just find mean characters interesting sometimes) and Chorban and probably others. Valern isn't all that shady but still a fave. Charn! And Balak, I always look forward to finding out how my Shepard reacts to him. Zaal'Koris vas Qwib-Qwib I always loved you and I knew you were the best admiral before ME3 ever happened

Favourite Antagonist: the Shadow Broker, I was so into the mystery in ME1 and man I was not disappointed when we got the reveal. I would have loved to learn more about his early life.

Favourite Mission: ME2's Suicide Mission because I lovvve how it's a culmination of all your previous actions. It felt really scary and chaotic on my first playthrough and like anything could happen. Now I know all the mechanics so nothing surprises me, but I still look forward to seeing every little detail play out.

Favourite Loyalty Mission: Tali. Also Mordin. And Samara, ugghhh I love Omega and I love playing bait uwu

Favourite DLC: Hmmm I love about half of LotSB very much but I might like Bring Down the Sky more as a whole? The mood is great, it's not super long, and nothing about it annoys me. :D I've only played the Leviathan DLC once so far so I'm not confident enough to call it a fave yet but I liked it a lot, too.

Control, Synthesis or Destroy: I just wanted an ending where we finally talk the Reapers down and they go "yeah u right actually, let's not fight anymore. :( handshake?". All this star child borderline magic stuff is kinda goofy to me. I've picked Destroy almost every time tho.

Favourite Weapon: Recently enjoyed the Blood Pack Executioner... Historically I've probably used the Widow the most. Also I LOVE the way the Revenant looks but I can't stand using it myself lmao. My hand hurts just thinking about it.

Favourite Place: nnnoooo there's so many good places. I adore the Shadow Broker's ship, first of all. Such a cool concept. Noveria for the snow and miserable people. Feels like home. I loved visiting the Migrant Fleet! But my absolute favorite place is probably Omega because it's so rough yet there's still a weird sense of community.

A quote I like: The first that came to mind is "I have a home." Idk, I don't really remember quotes unless they're repeated over and over and by that point I start hating them.

[nicnevans]

12 and 21 for hater asks please!!

:> okay. i think both of these might end up being xiv-related (on my not-xiv blog, the scandal)

12. the unpopular character that you actually like and why more people should like them

Fordola. Fordola rem Lupis. I love her. Yes, she did war crimes, but listen. She's like 19, she was raised in a society that was crushing her and her people, she thought it was the only way to survive. And her experiences hardened her so terribly. And yet! When given the opportunity to be good! and to do good! she chose to do good! sure okay it took her a sec to come around to it, she's been beaten down and made cynical by the life she's lived but she is far from irredeemable, and once she begins to see that actually having a little hope isn't always naive denial of reality she tries. Also, Lae'zel and Wyll for BG3. I think these are less "unpopular" and more just... chronically neglected by the fandom right now dfjghf. Like, Lae'zel has so much depth to her, and she's ridiculously patient with Tav and whatever bullshit they drag her off to do for the entirety of act 1. Wyll is the quintessential Hero Who Works Too Hard And Is Too Hard On Himself, a trope people usually go absolutely nuts over, and I'm honestly baffled that more people aren't head over heels blorboing him.

21. part of canon you think is overhyped

Honestly most of Endwalker. And frankly, also SHB to a degree too. SHB is incredible and my fav expac but it's not better than HW was. A thing can be incredible and overhyped at the same time. Endwalker is... fine? Its pacing is a little weird to me, and I think the entire Elpis section should've been in the patches. ALSO. A wild mass effect opinion has appeared. I think the entire Garrus romance is overrated and overhyped, it does not shake me to my core and I don't understand why so many folks act like it's the romance for a mass effect run. Honestly, chatting him up in ME2 gave me "workplace harassment" vibes lmao. He's a great character but I think he needs a bestie, and he works best in the role of a bestie, and I just think there are other romances in the series that make for a better narrative arc.

[ “choose violence” asks ]

[omegastation]

Hi.

So… I’ve been away, I know. I even missed N7 day :’(

To be quite honest, I needed to get to a better place mentally. I was also trying to move out. It was urgent back then, now it’s all done. I’m living in a new apartment, which is 100% better for my mental health. It has more space and I feel like I can breath there.

Work is still stressful but I’m learning to manage my energy. I’ve been reading a lot (my goal was to read 25 books this year and that’s already done), knitting (I’ve finished a pair of socks for my mother using the magic loop technique, so I genuinely improved from knitting scarfs with holes in them) and writing (my scifi short stories collection is done).

I’ve also grieved and reached the acceptance stage. I’m doing the best that I can. I’ve learned that’s enough. And I’ve been very lucky, to have such a supportive family, wonderful friends, great colleagues too. People have been good to me, and I hope I’ve been good to them also.

Regarding Mass Effect and this blog: I stopped playing ME, tbh. Months went by and I could not go back at all… But lately I’ve been playing it again. I’m still in my first MEL playthrough (ME2, I’m doing Miranda’s loyalty mission rn). I don’t know if you remember my problem with my screen and nausea? It’s sadly still there but it’s a bit better, I can play longer without immediately feeling sick.

I’m going to take my time and I won’t feel too guilty because that playthrough is still on-going. I don’t need to rush and finish it right away. I’m just happy to be in that universe again. I have a lot of posts to make about it too!

And speaking of rushing, back when I stopped updating, I think I was too focused on adding things to the queue so the blog would always have content, and not on actually reading and enjoying the posts about the lore, which was my reason to start a ME blog in the first place. It’s like I never had time to really just sit and enjoy the posts and discuss them. I want to take the time now, so we’ll see how it will work from now on.

This is quite long, so I’ll stop there.

I missed you all and hope you’re okay. This world can be so scary, and terrible things keep happening all the time. I can only hope you are safe, wherever you are.

[sorcerous-caress]

have you started ME2 yet?👀👀👀 personally its my favorite in the series it has the most storylines :))

YOU'RE GETTING ME EXCITED FOR IT aodhoqjkqjd <3333

No, I'm doing ng+ because I ruined my Kaidan romance, and since I was planning on importing my Shepherd, I am doing a redo. This time, I won't recurti Liara until the end.

Insanity difficulty bloated their hp too much for my liking so I lowered the difficulty to hardcore instead. Bringing Ashley with me everywhere so I can spend time with her before the final goodbye </3

Her banter with Wrex is fucking hilarious my god.

This time around I don't have to worry about armour or weapons which is nice. Colossus X and specter gear is doing wonders ngl.

I'm trying to speed run it, surprisingly I'm doing quests differently? I never thought the quests endings in this game could vary based on whichever person in the quest handed it to you first.

Imma do all side missions -> story missions -> game end.

And now I have all the charm points for my Shepherd to pass these difficult checks let's fucking go.

Also, I made another blog for Mass Effect writing and posts! It's @sol-consort if you feel like checking it out. I'd love to talk about the game more there. Hehe sol because that's the solar system and consort because of that one consort quest in ME1.