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Reason to Live

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My old Shakarian fic was feeling a bit outdated, a bit juvenile, especially considering I never actually bothered to title it… So after playing the trilogy again earlier this year, I felt the urge to write a new one. I don’t feel it quite gets across how fascinating turians are, how the whole idea of ‘alien’ is alluring (Mass Effect does not really do a great job of expressing alien cultures in a culturally alien way, though I will grant that’s not the point of a swashbuckling space adventure), but it certainly feels a bit more in-character than the old one to me.

It doesn’t have every bit of detail in, as it’s only really supposed to replace the whole “reach and flexibility” conversation and still leave space for the “interspecies awkwardness thing” conversations that come after.

 

Reason to Live

Shepard took a moment to sigh to herself before she reached out and tapped on the Normandy’s main battery door. It had been an intense day, and she still wasn’t sure if she’d given him enough time to sort through it all. Continue reading →

MEA: Harumi Ryder chibi

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I drew a chibi of my MEA Pathfinder, Harumi Ryder! En’t she cute <3 She’s wielding the Isharay Sniper Rifle and wearing the Pathfinder Vigilant Armour set. I was too lazy to load the game so this is from pictures on the internet, which means it’s not entirely accurate in places.

On her right cheek is a burn scar, covered with a blue tattoo. Continue reading →

A Girl and Her AI part 3

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Oops I might have written an outline for Andromeda 2 and 3 in here? It just kind of happened?

I may expand parts of this, it’s still technically a first draft. I feel a lot of it is too general and doesn’t show how SAM’s evolved since the beginning.

For all the people looking for SAM’s conversation about Death and the self, here it is:

“The self is forged by experiences. Death is the only experiences that ends the self before it’s understood. So, is death completion? Or an expression cut short before it reaches its full solution, giving a different answer? I can see why it fascinates you.”

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It had been three years since their arrival in Heleus and the Initiative was going strong. Harumi had seen wonderful things, done unbelievable things. Continue reading →

A Girl and Her AI part 2

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The final fight is very long and full of nonsense. I know because I played through it again to grab dialogue. : P

Harumi’s fight song!! I particularly love the first verse. I haven’t played any Persona (though I probably should? I hear great things about it) but this cover makes me cheer viscerally for the protagonist (especially when that protagonist is Harumi :3 )

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“Hey SAM, wanna watch a movie?” She pushed her rolly chair away from her terminal, turned to the little hologram projection. “I’ve been a good Pathfinder. I’m done my emails, got some time before bed.” Which he already knew. Continue reading →

A Girl and Her AI part 1

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I just keep writing more and more SAM stuff. I need to replay this game.

The snow can stop, already.

The first time she met SAM, he was only a little more than a hyper-competent VI. “Hey, Dad? Dad? You in here?” She was back on her first leave; she’d already seen Mom upstairs in the kitchen, fiddling with the new coffee-maker. Continue reading →

A Shakarian Moment

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Was going through some old stories on my computer (in preparation to writing new stories, yayyyy : P ) and found this. May as well post it…

For the record, my favourite Mass Effect pairing is Shoker, but I also wanted to fix the Shakarian romance starter, because it always bugged me. (Here’s another person’s interpretation – which is also great. (Danger Shepard is awesome, lol)) And Garrus is soooooooooo dreamy……… lol. (Also I had a terrible time naming my femShep.)

 

Garrus was unusually quiet and fidgety when she came down to the main battery to visit, after they returned from Miranda’s “little” excursion to run interference for her sister’s escape.

After a few minutes of failed mission talk, failed small talk, she fixed the gunnery officer with a curious but quelling look. “What’s the matter, Garrus?”

“Hmm?”

Stars, she loved those subharmonics. Not that she was going to tell him, that, though. Making a move on a subordinate, even – especially – one she trusted as much as Garrus, could be fatal. To the success of the mission, no less. Continue reading →