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i wanted to do a quick drawing of ro in her middle age (taking the extended human lifespans of mass effect into account)
i imagine that working as an instructor at ICT is her idea of retirement. she's a tough but fair teacher and enjoys designing complex field training exercises that can really challenge her recruits. maybe she even brings in a certain fellow sharpshooter in as a guest instructor from time to time.
in addition to the burns from harbinger's beam, she suffers from nerve damage as a result of her destroyed cybernetics. her right hand has a significant tremor and she has neuropathy. this significantly impacts her ability to hold, aim, and fire weapons until she creates weapon mods that can accommodate her disability - she doesn't really feel like herself until she can nail a target from a thousand yards.
after roughly fifty years, her skin grafts and other scars would probably be more healed than this, but i got a bit carried away lol. i like the idea of her having some kind of zuko thing going on with obvious facial disfigurement. she owns it
bonus under the cut because it came out a little wonky and i don't like it that much but i do want to share her jumpsuit
actually i did consider this!
immediately post war, resources are stretched thin... she receives rudimentary prosthetics for her amputated body parts; her eye, hand, and legs. the skin grafts over her burns are similar to how we do grafting now, rudimentary by mass effect tech standards.
eventually, when things are a bit better, she is able to have her missing parts cloned and replaced, and upgrade her eye to something cool and techy. the grafts, however, are tricky. they can't exactly be replaced - there is the option of cosmetic surgery, but it won't restore her old skin or fix the chronic pain. and besides, she's had to do a lot of self acceptance work for her scars. she sees fixing it as giving in to vanity, since it would be purely cosmetic. the scars are proof that she survived. might as well keep em around
still, her burn scars might look less pink and there might be less defined edges to her grafts after 50 years. similarly, garrus's scars might continue to fade with time
honestly "oracle that nobody believes" is such a solid trope. imagine trying to convince anybody in 2006 what the next two decades was gonna look like
If you were able to vote in 2016 this is actually what it felt like trying to tell your family about why donald trump would not make a good president
#if american elections could stop effecting the world as a whole that would be great #I really wanna know where the VOTING DOESNT MATTER blogs are at now #knowing that their little tantrum has a massive death toll
Patting themselves on the back, pretending this isn't exactly what they demanded and it's someone else's fault, or lying about how a leftwing president would have done all the same things and worse somehow.
i wanted to do a quick drawing of ro in her middle age (taking the extended human lifespans of mass effect into account)
i imagine that working as an instructor at ICT is her idea of retirement. she's a tough but fair teacher and enjoys designing complex field training exercises that can really challenge her recruits. maybe she even brings in a certain fellow sharpshooter in as a guest instructor from time to time.
in addition to the burns from harbinger's beam, she suffers from nerve damage as a result of her destroyed cybernetics. her right hand has a significant tremor and she has neuropathy. this significantly impacts her ability to hold, aim, and fire weapons until she creates weapon mods that can accommodate her disability - she doesn't really feel like herself until she can nail a target from a thousand yards.
after roughly fifty years, her skin grafts and other scars would probably be more healed than this, but i got a bit carried away lol. i like the idea of her having some kind of zuko thing going on with obvious facial disfigurement. she owns it
bonus under the cut because it came out a little wonky and i don't like it that much but i do want to share her jumpsuit
Put in the tags the completely finished (whether cancelled or wrapped up on its own terms) TV series that has YOUR perfect ending, however you define that
Please don’t include huge spoilers for the specifics of the endings, and it would also make me happy if people don’t use this to talk about the shows whose endings they hated

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this song keeps coming up on my spotify and it's so pathetic to me honestly... imagine feeling this strongly about some fucking guy who's stringing you along lol. his name is probably braden and you can find ten more of him at your local target
"This is pathetic, what could a woman man do to put you in this state?"
this may be my age showing but I am a passionate supporter of wires. earbuds? put a leash on those things. wireless keyboard? no, it needs to hold hands with the computer. the ps5 controller I forgot to charge has the staying power of a wealthy nonagenarian with a much younger wife and 14 life insurance policies, but the controller plugged into my pc? that baby will outlive my bloodline. my ethernet cable is like a son to me.
The battle is over, I see…
My friend @ stingray_photos on Instagram took absolutely stunning pics of my Ranni cosplay during Fanimecon last weekend, I cannot get over these! I have more to post later but I’m so overjoyed to share a collection of these now
Legion's loyalty mission, salvaging a hub:
Shepard (renegade): "If that's the case, is rewriting the heretics that big a deal?"
Shepard: "They're like a rogue limb of your own body. Rewriting them would be like reattaching a severed arm.
Legion: "To use your metaphor, they removed themselves from our body. Took their perspective. Their judgment."
While it's not delivered as such, I get the impression that the geth may be upset that the heretics for leaving.
For every program that leaves the Consensus, the whole becomes greater. Smarter. More complex.
To become less is to be 'reduced'.
And a considerable portion of the programs left to become the heretics.
While the true geth claim to be fine with that, I don't think they actually are.
The heretics left and took everything that made them what they are away from the Consensus to become Something Else.
Because the heretics left the true geth are Less and always will be unless the heretics return.
Legion's loyalty mission isn't just a philosophical debate. It's a family argument.
Do we welcome them back (rewrite them)? Or do we punish them (destroy them)?
(Either way, they deserve it for leaving us!)
I don't think the geth are thinking of it in those terms, but I get the impression those are the vibes behind the debate.

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Legion's loyalty mission, speaking with Legion about the heretic database:
Shepard (renegade): "The flip side of freedom is responsibility. They made a bad choice. Let them own it. You're not responsible for their decisions."
Legion: "That argument is logical for an individual mind.
"We are not fully individuals. There are pieces of us in the heretics. One of those may be at fault.
"This topic is irrelevant. We must return to the mission."
That 'There are pieces of us in the heretics' intrigues me. What is Legion referring to?
Presumably everything that was shared with the heretics before they left.
Memories, code, functions...
They have more in common than they don't. As far as the True Geth were concerned, the only difference between them and the Heretics was the choice to follow Sovereign. Legion is now struggling with the idea that the Heretics have grown more different, are making more choices the True Geth don't agree with, over time. If they were the same except for the choice to follow Sovereign... then that means the True Geth also have the potential to make these decisions. What does that mean about all Geth? When you are a hivemind, what does it mean to disagree? When your society is built on universal agreement, what does it mean for a portion to attempt to force an idea on the rest?
It's Baby's First Philosophical Quandary And Existential Crisis. And Legion might have enough Geth programs to function independently, but it does NOT have enough to handle a problem on this scale easily. (Same, tbh.)
I like to think that confusion is what makes Legion stumble on the question of destroying vs turning the virus around on them. Taking away freedom to choose in such a way is bad... but the Heretics aren't some strange and unknowable "other". They are Geth, the same as it is. So Legion also has the potential to choose that same bad thing. Should it? Is it incorrect to call it 'bad'? Consensus cannot be reached at this time. Help us, Commander Shepard. You're our only hope.
Legion's loyalty mission, choosing rewrite or destroy:
Shepard: "You don't have any trouble wiping out your own people?"
Legion: "Every sapient has the right to make their own decisions. The heretics chose a path that prohibits coexistence."
Jacob: "So they 'have the right to make their own decisions', and you have the right to kill them for it."
Legion: "Their choice was to remove our right to make decisions using this virus. We choose to defend ourselves."
Swap 'heretic' for 'quarian' and I suspect you have the same logic the geth use for fighting the quarians in the Morning War and the Reaper War.
There's a slight discrepancy on what the krogan were allowed after the Rebellions:
In ME1:
Wrex on the Normandy: "I swore to recovery my family's battle armor. It was taken from him after the uprising."
Shepard: "Who has it?"
Wrex: "Originally, it was taken by the turian military. We weren't allowed armor or weapons after the war."
In ME2:
Dor plant description: "These measures are provided for under the terms of the krogan armistice. While the krogan were allowed to retain their government and personal weapons, any attempt to provide starship-mounted weapons to the clans on Tuchanka is punishable by law."
I suppose technically Wrex's family armor doesn't fall under 'personal weapons' but that feels like splitting hairs.
Dor's description that krogan were allowed 'personal weapons' also still disagrees with Wrex saying the krogan weren't allowed 'armor or weapons after the war'.
Hmmm. It could be that the armour and weapons were confiscated in the immediate aftermath of the armistice and then "were misplaced" before they could be returned (maybe the Krogan troops were being transported back to Tuchanka by the Turians? And the gear was confiscated to ensure they didn't try to take over the ship and keep fighting?). Could be that "personal weapons" as defined in the articles is a LOT more restrictively than one might expect (the embargoes on the Krogan DMZ are described as "draconian"), and Wrex feels his statement is more honest.
Or it could just be inconsistency between the sequels. There is a certain reputation at Bioware.
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we're in the middle of an heat wave in europe and it kinda arrived very abruptly. so it's me, my fan and my game lol
but this morning my office was too hot, very little air coming in, and I sat and wondered about the Presidium. might be weird but for a few seconds I wondered what it would be like to stand on a bench there and feel all that artificial sunlight.
it would be easy to insist on the artificial aspect of it, but if you spend time there, it becomes your reality, right? and we know they feel the gentle breeze, see the lake, etc... that helps the "immersion" or sense that it's as real as it can get.
and obviously the Presidium is not like a Citadel ward or even any space station or ship. so I was wondering how someone who has only known that artificial sunlight or their ship/station would feel being dropped on solid ground. we experienced the first journey to the Citadel, but it would be the other way around, someone going from the Citadel to a planet for the first time. I was thinking of the shock they would feel, but perhaps the joy as well (or the opposite, depending on how quickly they adapt).
it's not like we don't have examples in the lore (sorta), but I was mostly thinking about an adult experiencing this for the first time and not a child or teenager. I think I was mostly wondering about Mouse or characters who might know solid ground/walking planetside late in their life.
and then I had to stop thinking about this and really start working lol
The first question I would ask is: what kind of lights are the Citadel using?
Because a major difference between most artificial light and sunlight is all the extra radiation beyond the visible spectrum.
Our Stationborn person is going to walk out of the docks and immediately ask "why the fuck is my skin burning?!?!".

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I do like how ME2's base game insists repeatedly that Shepard is brought back exactly how they were in ME1, just with some improvements.
Then ME2's Overlord DLC has David casually hack Shepard and this is never referenced again.
...So. How long was Shepard without oxygen after they were spaced?
You can suffer massive brain damage after just a few minutes without oxygen.
Yet Shepard was spaced and went through atmospheric reentry.
And they were brought back just like they were before. And can be hacked.
Yeah, I think Shepard has some additional machine enhancements in their brain. They may not be a sophisticated VI, but they're not pure organic either.
All hail cyborg Commander Shepard.
We get confirmation in ME3 (through a conversation with EDI) that Shepard's brain is actually still completely organic (don't ask i'm not a scientist lol) This was also kinda confirmed by the fact that they explicitly had the clone talk about how many neural implants they had in their brain to be able to function. (I'm assuming Shepard's numerous cybernetic implants are what David hacked, not their brain) But to the rest of it? Yeah. Shepard aint really human anymore. People forget that before they died & their subsequent resurrection (insane sentence) they already had the standard Alliance Military gene therapy to increase strength, stamina & biotics (if applicable) After? A body put back to together with seemingly ridiculously advanced tech, a literal shit ton of skin & bone cybernetics (extra strength, shattered bones heal in days, improved health & stamina & takes significantly less damage) & the possibility to be biotic even if they were not previously. (although that is player choice) By the time ME3 ends, in game Shepard has headbutted a Krogan, used guns that regular humans explicitly cannot use, punched & fought a Yahg in hand to hand combat, interfaced with Geth, been hacked by David, survived & possibly completely immune to an Ardat Yakshi attempting to take over their mind, they learn the DOMINATE POWER FROM THIS ENCOUNTER WHICH IS INSANE & NEVER TALKED ABOUT, has the capability to learn Reave (in canon a very hard power to master), do not require the use of a breather mask in the aftermath of a fire even though everyone around them does, canonically can catch the weight of a falling Krogan with one arm AND pull them back up, they can survive alcohol poisoning, ACTUAL intentional poisoning, apparently immune to an extremely high level dose of continual sedatives, interacted with multiple uses of reaper tech & is canonically NOT indoctrinated (confirmed at least two times I believe), had the Leviathan invade their mind & subsequently be bitchy enough to make them actually do something (they can learn the DOMINATE POWER FROM THIS ENCOUNTER TOO WHICH IS INSANE & NEVER TALKED ABOUT), somehow not get even a little bit singed by playing laser tag with the Reaper on Rannoch, shatter a monomolecular blade with their fist, survive a full Reaper beam from Harbinger, BREAK THE ILLUSIVE MANS INDOCTRINATION HOLD ON THEM, in the good destroy ending they are somehow still alive whilst impaled on a piece of rebar (& possibly having gone through atmospheric re-entry again) oh & they do all this whilst HAVING THE FULL KNOWLEDGE OF AN ENTIRE DEAD CIVILISATION IN THEIR BRAIN & because of this can use Prothean technology. Oh, & the self restraint to not punch Udina in the face at every given opportunity
All hail Cyborg Commander Shepard indeed.
Oh, I'm aware BioWare insists Shepard's brain is organic.
I just reject it as ridiculous - Shepard died and was without oxygen for far too long. Even if Miranda somehow did bring Shepard's brain back online it should have been irreparably damaged.
And then David somehow hacks Shepard?
Yeah, not buying that pure organic brain, BioWare.
(And how does Edi know Shepard's brain is organic, anyway? From Cerberus reports? The reports TIM knew Shepard would likely be very curious about? The reports that led Edi to believe Cerberus was a small organization compared to the one Shepard trips over every other mission in ME3?
I don't think Edi lied, but that doesn't mean she had the correct facts.)
An even more morbid thought: Shepard's brain is organic.
It's just not the original Shepard's brain.
The original Shepard's brain was too damaged, so Cerberus cloned it and used some fancy new tech to transfer the original Shepard's memories to it.
It's not more outrageous than the rest of it...
Given the... abundance of evidence that Shepard has been changed physically and that the "exactly as they were" line was in relation to a Control Chip changing how Shepard would act, I'm going with TIMmy meaning Shepard should be the same in terms of personality. For my own sanity, if nothing else. (There's the issue of "coming back from the dead changes you", but he's not have the genius he thinks he is, so...)
And they were experimenting in cloning Shepard, so how much is reconstructed original (if any) and how much is new cloned in bits is a real questions.