Mass Effect - Blog Posts

I think about this random guard a lot. I hope he got his donut.

Have you ever faced an asari commando unit before? Few humans have. I'll make this simple: either you pay me, or I'll flay you alive with my mind!

A random Salarian, its been a while since i drew something 🥲

Everyone : Im so annoyed Lucanis and Neve are always flirting during their banter and there's just one big romance scene at the end.

Me:...

ROMANCED ZEVRAN IN DAO WHO FLIRTS WITH EVERYONE (i love him for that tho)

ROMANCED FENRIS IN DA2 WHO FLIRTS WITH ISABELA AND SLEEP WITH HER IF YOU DONT ROMANCE EITHER OF THEM (and ghost me for 3 years but we dont talk about that...)

ROMANCED GARRUS IN ME2 WHO HAD ONE SCENE AT THE END WHERE WE TOUCH FOURHEADS (BUT HAD SOME SCENES IN ME3 THANK GOD)(And him and Tali)

Still...wouldnt romance anyone else because they are the most devoted and would kill everyone for you. 😌🥰

(Cullen broke the pattern with his amazing romance full of scenes 💖)

HAPPY N7 DAY! 🥳🥳 My big Mass Effect project is finally done! Ive been working on source filmmaker for months trying to relearn how it works, finding the models and environements etc... I hope you like my little party animation made all by myself and especially drunk Tali 😆

HAPPY N7 DAY!! 🥰🥳

Here's a quick drawing that I made to celebrate this wonderful day!

Full youtube link : https://youtu.be/pj7U1Wa9v8A

Animated version of the "Explosive Glass" moment at the party that I made 💞😄

Shepard and Garrus~ edit 

I love them so much :’o

I try to remember all words for the moment I will see this scene in the game 😂👌

whatta dork tbh

To be given the possibility to experience some games for the first time again. I remember staying up until 4 in the morning with Mass Effect and listening to the credits song after finishing the first game... 😭

if i ever lose my memory give me a controller, pop mass effect in, and turn off the lights so i can experience the trilogy for the first time again

Me looking over my ocs where my new clash with my old story wise.

Me: Sacrfices must me made

Also me: maybe I could just write them all togther in one big happy family

Also me: but they would hate each other... hmmmm...

Im about to go in public wearing a fallout shirt and a mass effect jacket.

Ughhhhh 😩😩💋

i'll let ya get back to work.

Been thinking a lot about Mass Effect again, and I always liked the idea that Jack only killed so many people because she was always in hostile environments filled with dangerous people, so when she’s put in a position that brings out her more protective side, she is utterly shocked, disgusted, and horrified by the realization that she is a GOOD PERSON

concept: Mass effect renegade face cracks but for red hawke (bonus points for blood magic)

good morning mshenko enjoyers

Dan sighs, putting a hand to her face. She doesn't miss that she's keeping her fingers grouped—the index and the middle, the ring and the pinky.

its an honest job making the prothean cipher affect shepard more but its a living! minific the excerpt is from below the cut

Dan doesn't understand herself, sometimes. It's a terrifying feeling, because she's used to understanding herself and her motivations—she has a theory about herself that she won't share—but she's at a loss here. The Captain's quarters of the Normandy let her sit and consider this wrongness as they make their way to Noveria, at the very least.

Feros was… Difficult. Dan would have preferred to have washed her hands of every colonist there if it meant solving the problem faster, but that's not how it worked. She had to fight tooth and nail to knock them unconscious and make sure everyone survived. It meant more time with the spores everywhere, more time with the growing headache, more time with that damn plant.

She doesn't think it's the plant's fault for her wrongness, either. She wasn't in the colony long enough to be effected like that salarian, and Chakwas cleared everyone that was outside for no ill effects. And yet, Dan sits, staring at her hands.

How many fingers does she have? Five fingers, which she knows to be the correct amount a human should have, but it feels unwieldy in a way it never has before. She has to remember that she can move each finger independently.

Dan sighs, putting a hand to her face. She doesn't miss that she's keeping her fingers grouped—the index and the middle, the ring and the pinky. She wonders, then, if this feeling of what she can only describe as some sudden onset of body dysmorphia against the shape of a human was caused by whatever that asari had beamed into her brain.

So, protheans had three fingers, incredible. Humans have five.

Dan forces her fingers apart, curling each one individually. Five, she repeats internally. Five.

i know the end, phoebe bridgers // the course of empire - destruction, thomas cole // the second coming, w.b. yeats // the last day of pompeii, karl bryullov // heretic pride, the mountain goats // the seventh plague of egypt, john martin // all eyes on me, bo burnham // the destruction of sodom and gomorrah, john martin // that funny feeling, bo burnham

akuze’s revenge

i think we forget that like……kaidan alenko killed a man when he was 17 years old out out of pure anger and we forget this bc he is the Bisexual Steak Man

put those big brown eyes away dude now is NOT the time

some kind of a moodboard

Find somewhere nice, wait out the end of the universe?  

The three genders

I like to headcanon that my Shepard Amara, who's so used to cramped military quarters, was utterly appalled at how much open space in Anderson's apartment was going unused by a single occupant. So she's invited several crewmates to stay with her during shore leave beyond the party and several took her up on the offer like James who laid claim to the bedroom below for the gym equipment and Tali who claimed the one above since Quarians rarely get any private spaces. It's not uncommon for Amara to wake in the morning and walk past someone passed out on her couch or to head downstairs and see another eating breakfast. She's thinking about converting the art gallery and upstairs living room into more bedrooms. It works out for everyone since living space is becoming more and more difficult due to refugees and the apartment is far superior to the standardized accommodations.

I see this confusion time and time again, despite explanations that personality matters a great deal to many players and not just looks. Garrus was written as a character first, not tailored to what people think women want. And this isn't a knock on the other romances either. People loved them because of their personality just as much too. The point being is that our reasons, despite the tendency for "critics" cheapening our love for this character as some shallow freak fetish, are just as based on the bonds developed over time.

It's funny; Garrus' romance is a pretty good summation of what demisexuality is. He wasn't physically attracted to Shepard by his own admission, but his respect and admiration makes him able and willing to explore a romantic side of it with her until he does develop a physical attraction to her in ME3. In fact, you literally can't romance him if you deliberately kept him off the team in ME1. No history, no bond, no romance.

He's brash, but respectful. He's reckless but wants to do good. He's stubborn but listens if Shepard disagrees. He has strong opinions and isn't afraid to voice them, but that's never harmed the friendship he can have with Shepard.

He's one of the first teammates there for Shepard she can trust when she had woken up alone and struggling in an organization she does not trust.

It's a little disappointing that we have to repeatedly say, the personality matters in our attraction to a character. Especially if we're particularly struggling to feel sexual attraction at a glance.

Do you think Mass Effect's character writers deserves more recognition for how they managed to turn an entire generation of people sexually and/or romantically and/or aesthetically attracted to someone who is essentially a featherless spacebird?

No because they did it entirely by accident, tried to placate the confusing requests by female fans to make him romanceable but because that was not something they planned for they were still writing him primarily removed from being a romance partner and were more focused on writing him as the "best friend" character to MShep (not realising this is EXACTLY why the female players (as well as gay players) liked him) and by Mass Effect 3 they just threw up their hands and went "WELL HELL! YOU GUYS LIKE HIM SO MUCH YOU GET ALL THE ROMANCE THEN!!!"

Garrus' writing as a romance was a perfect storm of factors, many completely out of the writers' control that even they themselves completely missed until their players POINTED IT OUT TO THEM. Garrus is lightning in a bottle of unplanned factors, incredible voice performance, the writers willing to comply to player feedback, and the symbiotic relationship Bioware had with their fans and players.

Garrus is an incredibly well written character in his own right, that's WHY he's such a good romance option and the best one Bioware has ever had. But a part of this was luck, chance, and willingness to adapt his character to what a subsection of fans wanted.

Proof further by every single romance Bioware has since written with the INTENT of making them exactly what their female players want, never hit the same way Garrus did. And speaking personally, none of their other romance characters in any of their games scratches the same itch.

Also "Featherless Spacebird" means nothing to me because my "sexual attraction" level is lower than 0. It's not DESPITE him looking like that. It's BECAUSE he looks like that. Not because I find him physically attractive, but because he does not resemble something I am supposed to be physically attracted to in any way shape or form.

I like the way Garrus looks because he's Garrus. And because I like Garrus it means I like the way the turians look.

The caveat of "essentially being a featherless space bird" implies that "haha isn't it CRAZY gamers would be attracted to THAT???"

no.

His personality, voice, performance, and writing is wonderful. Why WOULDN'T players be attracted to that?