It turned my whole world around.

Designated Spider Killers:

Ashley and Kaidan are both the safest bet when it comes to asking for help with the spiders. sometimes there’s mild complaint (especially with shepard, who never calls them at convenient times) but they’ll always come to the rescue

EDI never wanted to kill the spiders (she can classify which ones are venomous and which are not, and the non-threatening ones are good for the ship’s small ecosystem in a myriad of ways) but Joker can’t handle them being around so she obliges him

Zaeed won’t stop what he’s doing to go kill the spiders, but if he’s already in the room he squishes them with only minor amounts of grumbling

Wrex & Grunt are overkill. call in the the krogan if you want not only the spider wrecked, but also all of your belongings in a ten foot radius. There’s a dent in the wall of the mess hall where grunt got too excited one time

Jack will kill the spider for you, but she gets to make fun of you for it while she does so, as payment

Spiders can’t do calculus and so Mordin has no problems catching them and using them for science

Samara kills the spider and then gives you a small lecture about moral codes in relation to how lesser organic creatures are treated

Can’t and Won’t:

Miranda tries to stay collected and can handle being near the spiders but as soon as it comes to squishing them she’s out

Tali'zorah is on the table screaming. she won’t get down. the spider’s been dead for ten minutes but unless you can show her the body she’s not moving

Garrus gets anxious and starts to ramble. whoever he’s with has to keep from laughing at his plight as they take care of the spider for him

Both Kasumi and Jacob are too sweet to want the spiders dead. Jacob wishes there was another way to get rid of the tiny monsters, but where are they going to put it? out the airlock? Kasumi sends them Mordin’s way at first, until she realizes that they’ll only live a little bit longer with him

Joker makes increasingly flimsy excuses as to why he can’t kill the spider right now, until EDI comes and deals with it

Liara is curious about the spiders and asks someone to explain them to her, but after their novelty has worn off she gets very tired of cleaning all the cobwebs off her equipment

Vega is on the table with Tali

Goes out of their way to save the spiders:

Thane has been asked to kill so many things, but now he’s working towards a better way of life. please. let him rest.

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One of the many things a soldier is taught after having to go through mandatory counseling is how to deal with nightmares, and how not to deal with them. Everyone is different, and not everything works for everyone, so it’s up to each one to come up with their own method to cope. As Shepard was just getting over the shaking, skin sticky with a cold sweat and knuckles aching from how hard she clenched them, she went through her own methods. She started with push ups, sit ups, burpees and spider crawls. She did it until she could only feel the ache in her muscles, and then she took a very brief, cold shower to try and shock herself away from her visions. Normally, that would solve the issue, but as she stepped out and re-clothed herself she still felt quite uneasy, the entire room closing in around her. So, she went with her next best option, and left. 

The specialist nodded, trying to muster up politeness. Exhaustion on top of humiliation made it difficult to want to talk with anyone right now, but...well, if she had to meet someone in the mess right now, Shepard was probably the best choice. Being one of the only people who didn’t sleep in the crew quarters meant she was also one of the only people not privy to Samantha’s rather undignified wakeup a few minutes ago, courtesy of bad memories that wound their way into dreams.

Well, unless EDI told her. But even if she had, the commander would understand, wouldn’t she? It was no secret that Shepard wasn’t a big fan of sleep. Although...well, she didn’t wake half the crew screaming nonsensically about things that had happened months ago. Sam frowned into her cup. Better not to think about that now, or she’d wind herself in circles.

Somehow this felt more unreal than ever, seeing these pictures, like all her history with war and violence and anger was crashing in on her and spitting her out the other side, bewildered and a little lost. It wasn’t a bad feeling by any stretch of the imagination…but it was certainly bizarre.

But she didn’t say so. Since the end of the war, Jenna’s smiles had been few and far between. She couldn’t cut this one short by stopping the happy moment in its tracks. And so the younger woman allowed herself to relax, setting her worries aside just for now, while they opened card after card.

“We’ll sort it out together. Just like everything else.”

      But we’re at the end of the line now. There’s NOWHERE left to run.

The younger woman examined her datapad, studying it for longer than was strictly necessary before she moved a piece. While she wasn’t about to throw the game, nor did she want to seem as though she was showing off.