for what it's worth

ugly baby smoker ….

BABY NEED SMOKO

My brain: Commander Shepard probably has different names across different alien cultures and societies because even if people know what their name sounds like originally, not all species have the biological configuration (i.e. teeth, lips) to make the sh and p sounds and names are often adapted across languages anyway. Some of their names might preserve a phoneme or two and tweak the rest to fit the sounds a species favors (clicks? trills? something else?); other names give up on the original sound altogether and instead come up with a word in the target language that can be interpreted as “a shepherd,” names that mean “guide” or “watcher” or “usher.” Names that get made up when an alien says, in their own language, “Commander Term-for-human-that-herds-animals” and then whatever that sounds like gets contracted into a shorter, more manageable name. Maybe sometimes Commander Shepard hears folks greet them and the translator says Shepard, but what they hear is something entirely different: an echo of their influence crossing cultural boundaries, a galaxy-wide awareness of the role they have to play.

Like, this is galaxy-condemning levels of risk. Saren wins because Shepard got fucking eviscerated into irradiated ash, potentially the whole Normandy too unless they back off into a decent safe margin. Whichever squadmates Shepard takes have absolutely zero chance of survival if things go south. Shepard can even openly state that they don't have anyone on-board trained in bomb disposal, and, yeah, Shepard can do bomb disposal but on a potentially malfunctioning 30-year-old nuke? They're heading in there with some rough odds...

MASS EFFECT 1: LEGENDARY EDITION (2021) ↳ trebin (antaeus system, hades gamma)

-moving on-

Rayingri

might fuck around and do a third version tee-hee

shep hairstyle timeline reference be upon ye !

The line between brilliance and unhinged is this 🤏 thin