History Buff/Miniature Enthusiast,He/Him mid 20's

Bonus:

I reminded her that ‘her community’ is still the same one where I was called a fag and told I should kill myself everyday in school in front of teachers who never did anything. That it’s the same place my friends and I were threatened with sexual assault for being openly queer.

And that Florida is a big state and it’s still the same state where I carried a knife in my pocket when I was alone at night. It’s still the same state where I had to pull that knife on more than one occasion. Where a friend had a gun put to their head. Where I learned that it pays to be the dog that bites. That it pays to know how to throw a punch.

She said with so much confidence ‘We don’t see those things happen anymore. I thought things were better.’

I try to be understanding with her but the way my voice broke on ‘you’re straight where would you have experienced queer discrimination?’ caused dead air long enough I thought she hung up on me.

I love my Shepard, Lucia, to death and have gotten some art of her made over the past year. Check it out.

Yay Lucy ask!

As a child, Lucy's father Manny would read to her and her younger brother Henry every night before bed on Mindior. The old classics like Treasure Island or 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea. She grew up enjoying literature classes in school. Until she was 16 her favorite genre would have been adventure, always fondly recalling her father's vivid descriptions of those old Earth classics.

Fast forward to her time in the Navy and she has very little time to read anything but reports, maybe the occasional magazine or paperback during her few off hours (synthetic paper made older style books popular in the colonies where energy was at a premium) . However reading for pleasure just brings back bad memories of Mindior.

Upon her posting to SSV Hampton Roads in 2178 she runs into my OC, Paul Luckner. One of whose quirks is his religious study of the Alliance's Navy War Journal, a monthly E magazine with articles written by current or retired Spacers about the military and galaxy. Paul submits an article nearly every three months and she'd laugh at his dejection over repeated rejections if he wasn't such a nice guy.

Lucy actually finds that she enjoys the journal. Between nonfiction articles about the latest gear or tactics and pieces on historical parallels to current issues, there is a lot of practical material inside it for a marine lieutenant and is quickly a subscriber.

She eventually dies toe her way back to the books of her childhood, upon taking command of the SR-2 she finds a space near her bed for a small bookshelf, and EDI is able to print on demand a few of her childhood classics, comfort and escapism for a woman in need of both.

I didn't recognize her the first time I saw her.

What happened to my no nonsense soldier from ME1?

Heels. Hair in her face. A uniform designed to look like a skirt. (Does it limit her movement?)

This is not Ashley 'letting her hair down'. This is Ashley trying to get herself killed while looking fashionable.

Liara: "It's been exciting. The old Broker ship? Impressive, but it was never meant to be space-worthy.

"Which meant the Illusive Man eventually tracked me down on Hagalaz."

"Eventually"... but Liara got to the Broker ship via the Normandy, which was full of Cerberus tracking device and spyware.

I suppose we need to presume that in canon Lair of the Shadow Broker occurs post Collector Base and Edi somehow blocked all of the Cerberus devices.

Except you tell the Virmire Survivor you cut contact with Cerberus after the Collector Base, and Lair of the Shadow Broker only occurs because of a lead Cerberus gives you.

Shepard: "Let me be clear. I've had no contact with Cerberus since I destroyed the Collector Base."