eva stratt makes me so fucking unwell because. imagine months of making hard call after hard call because you gotta, because someone's gotta, and this time it has to be you. and she keeps strong despite it, she keeps going. then the fucking pit in her stomach she must have felt, when she realized that Grace was her only option left. the horror of that realization. having to steel herself for the task. only to have him beg and plead and cry. her friend. how did she not throw up. how did she manage it. eva stratt the woman ever, how many people out there would have the sheer force of will, to be able to pull the trigger on their friend to save all humanity. and she didn't even know if it would work. she didn't know. for years. she didn't know if murdering her friend was worth the gamble. she just had to believe in him. fucking hell.

I love chain lightening what a classic spell. fuck you and you and you and you and you and

Still not over the fact that they gave Shepard the title of Spectre in the first game and then in the second immediately kill them off and bring them back making them the literal embodiment of that word. They are a walking, talking, visable, touchable ghost that haunts their own previous life. Absolutely based decision thank you Mass Effect 2.

HIGHLY recommend having a Shepard with a face scar in ME1 because it disappears in ME2 with the whole Lazarus thing and that comes with an extra layer of subtle horror. You’ve been dead for two years. Cerberus took possession of your body, resurrected you, and implanted you with metal enhancements, and on top of it all you’re now missing a major facial feature. A part of who you were. Makes me want to eat rocks

maybe the irreversible damage were the trans kids you made suicidal along the way

Kasumi's mission is so funny to me because Shepard goes undercover, except their face has been plastered on alliance recruitment posters, and colonial seals, and god knows what else the last two years. Their voice echos across the citadel singing endorsements for every shop. They can get interviewed by a popular reporter. Universe's most recognizable human. Master thief kasumi goto decided to have them go undercover.

Daily reminder: Transphobia actively contributes to sexism. If you don’t fit the beauty standard and are seen as masculine in any way shape or form, you are seen as transgender and as a “problem”

I think it's incredibly important here to not overlook the fact that she is a Black woman. Transphobia, racism, and sexism overlap significantly because of the incredibly eurocentric beauty standards women are judged on.

It's so weird to me when people are like 'but that will cost the government money!' So what? They're the government, they're supposed to be spending money. What, you want them to take your tax dollars and then do nothing with it? Lock it all up in a big government vault and just look at it? Why are you so scared of giving a third grader lunch or a homeless person a house.

varric’s relationship to rook is so funny bc with hawke he’s like, the world has done ENOUGH to you, you’ve been dragged into enough fights, i will risk my life lying to the most powerful in the land to keep you out of further trouble. and with the inquisitor he starts out by telling them they should think about running bc he knows how these stories end, and finally in trespasser he’s trying to set them up a place in kirkwall for when everything crashes and burns. and then you get to rook and he’s like, well random talented stranger, this might as well all be your problem