Hi I'm Deb. I've had this Mass Effect blog for more than 12 years because I'm in love with that universe and the characters
This is a trilogy and MEA appreciation blog! I also enjoy the extended canon (comics, books, etc.)
I own Mass Effect Lore. I'm working on the website but you can find this MEL folder with multiple versions of the codex, transcripts and other lore-related things I might come up with. Working on transcripts is my thing really, I'm always doing that
I will probably never change my username and icon but I don't really know why I picked omegastation, it's not my favorite location. If it was, my username would probably be tuchanka. However, Miranda is my favorite
I post critical things sometimes (tw critical as a tag) but never hate/bashing about characters, ships, MEA, etc. I also dislike and avoid comparisons
I'm a multishipper blog but I try to tag everything. I think some people follow me because they see I post Shakarian and unfollow later, so you know, be aware that I can ship Shepard and Garrus with other people, though MShep/Garrus is my fav ship
MShep is my main Shepard even if I do play FShep (currently in my second FShep playthrough). I don't think one Shepard is more canon than the other, but I am mindful of the fact that FShep is not treated the same as MShep by the wider world.
The krogan are my favorite, always <3
If you leave a nasty comment, I won't reply. I'll block you. No energy to spend on you.
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So For Trilogy Appreciation Week, I published the transcript for Kasumi's loyalty mission and I wanted to summarize what I think is interesting to learn in this mission and the codex entries for it.
The villains of the galaxy gather together for Hock’s party. Kasumi calls them "the worst liars, cheaters, and mass murderers you'll ever want to meet." And they gossip together.
Peruggia is the security password chosen for the vault, which according to Kasumi, is the name of the man who stole the Mona Lisa. So we also learn that the Mona Lisa was stolen!
We learn from a datapad in Hock’s apartment that there are at least 4800 galactic languages. That to me is probably one of the most interesting part of the mission. What it implies about languages, species, evolution... It's a lot. If anyone who is into languages wants to comment on it, please do!
The graybox technology can have a decryption key that is a memory, an emotion, even a smell, meaning permutations could be “infinite”. Here's the codex entry. Other than interesting ideas about how it came to be (slowing the progression of Alzheimer's disease), we also learn that one of Keiji's aliases was probably Abraham Rumoi.
The vault and its content give us some lore informations:
Egyptian statues can be sold even outside of the Alliance as “Asari go nuts for this sort of thing”.
Turian art is rare outside of Palaven, which is why the sculpture they find is, according to Kasumi, one of the most valuable pieces in the vault.
A model of a turian ship called the Kara is found in the vault, to Kasumi it’s like a “Turian Titanic” so we can guess that even at this point in time the Titanic still has a myth-like quality to it, and that other species also experienced horrifying wreckages with loss of life. The Kara might have been THE turian luxury spaceship. I also wonder about the name Kara. I'm no expert (at all!) but I do see that it's the feminine form of karus in latin, meaning expensive, beloved, dear, precious... So that might work for what it's supposed to be.
They are stone tablets that look like the writing is from the trade language, but according to Kasumi this looks like quarian script and is very old. How old, I do wonder.
Michelangelo’s David seems to be inside the vault but how we can know it is the real one is beyond me.
Kasumi is upset that Hock has "Lady Liberty" in his vault and the codex tells us so many things about its past that it's hard to explain here. It's worth reading.
There's one piece just called "Rachni Queen" and I always wondered if it was a statue, a real frozen queen, something made of a specific material? I don't know!!! I'm not a scientist!!! I'm not trying to make a pun here but it bugs me that I don't know.
And there's a statue of a creature that isn't exactly like the yahg but sorta looks like it? In my original post with the art pieces I wondered if it was DA inspired. I still don't know.
And statues of krogan. One that seems to follow Kasumi with its eyes.
And there's Bekenstein itself with its codex entry:
There's apparently a popular song that says: "If you can make it on the Bek, you got 'em by the neck."
Charming!
So For Trilogy Appreciation Week, I published the transcript for Kasumi's loyalty mission and I wanted to summarize what I think is interesting to learn in this mission and the codex entries for it.
The villains of the galaxy gather together for Hock’s party. Kasumi calls them "the worst liars, cheaters, and mass murderers you'll ever want to meet." And they gossip together.
Peruggia is the security password chosen for the vault, which according to Kasumi, is the name of the man who stole the Mona Lisa. So we also learn that the Mona Lisa was stolen!
We learn from a datapad in Hock’s apartment that there are at least 4800 galactic languages. That to me is probably one of the most interesting part of the mission. What it implies about languages, species, evolution... It's a lot. If anyone who is into languages wants to comment on it, please do!
The graybox technology can have a decryption key that is a memory, an emotion, even a smell, meaning permutations could be “infinite”. Here's the codex entry. Other than interesting ideas about how it came to be (slowing the progression of Alzheimer's disease), we also learn that one of Keiji's aliases was probably Abraham Rumoi.
The vault and its content give us some lore informations:
Egyptian statues can be sold even outside of the Alliance as “Asari go nuts for this sort of thing”.
Turian art is rare outside of Palaven, which is why the sculpture they find is, according to Kasumi, one of the most valuable pieces in the vault.
A model of a turian ship called the Kara is found in the vault, to Kasumi it’s like a “Turian Titanic” so we can guess that even at this point in time the Titanic still has a myth-like quality to it, and that other species also experienced horrifying wreckages with loss of life. The Kara might have been THE turian luxury spaceship. I also wonder about the name Kara. I'm no expert (at all!) but I do see that it's the feminine form of karus in latin, meaning expensive, beloved, dear, precious... So that might work for what it's supposed to be.
They are stone tablets that look like the writing is from the trade language, but according to Kasumi this looks like quarian script and is very old. How old, I do wonder.
Michelangelo’s David seems to be inside the vault but how we can know it is the real one is beyond me.
Kasumi is upset that Hock has "Lady Liberty" in his vault and the codex tells us so many things about its past that it's hard to explain here. It's worth reading.
There's one piece just called "Rachni Queen" and I always wondered if it was a statue, a real frozen queen, something made of a specific material? I don't know!!! I'm not a scientist!!! I'm not trying to make a pun here but it bugs me that I don't know.
And there's a statue of a creature that isn't exactly like the yahg but sorta looks like it? In my original post with the art pieces I wondered if it was DA inspired. I still don't know.
And statues of krogan. One that seems to follow Kasumi with its eyes.
And there's Bekenstein itself with its codex entry:
There's apparently a popular song that says: "If you can make it on the Bek, you got 'em by the neck."
Charming!
I started filing my ME oc's in 2022(!!!) so these have been gathering dust since then, forever WIP... there's a lot of 'em. Why not post.
I kinda treat them as recruitable squadmates/NPC quest-givers in-game. Most of them are based on multiplayer characters and have been around since 2016-2018
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So For Trilogy Appreciation Week, I published the transcript for Kasumi's loyalty mission and I wanted to summarize what I think is interesting to learn in this mission and the codex entries for it.
The villains of the galaxy gather together for Hock’s party. Kasumi calls them "the worst liars, cheaters, and mass murderers you'll ever want to meet." And they gossip together.
Peruggia is the security password chosen for the vault, which according to Kasumi, is the name of the man who stole the Mona Lisa. So we also learn that the Mona Lisa was stolen!
We learn from a datapad in Hock’s apartment that there are at least 4800 galactic languages. That to me is probably one of the most interesting part of the mission. What it implies about languages, species, evolution... It's a lot. If anyone who is into languages wants to comment on it, please do!
The graybox technology can have a decryption key that is a memory, an emotion, even a smell, meaning permutations could be “infinite”. Here's the codex entry. Other than interesting ideas about how it came to be (slowing the progression of Alzheimer's disease), we also learn that one of Keiji's aliases was probably Abraham Rumoi.
The vault and its content give us some lore informations:
Egyptian statues can be sold even outside of the Alliance as “Asari go nuts for this sort of thing”.
Turian art is rare outside of Palaven, which is why the sculpture they find is, according to Kasumi, one of the most valuable pieces in the vault.
A model of a turian ship called the Kara is found in the vault, to Kasumi it’s like a “Turian Titanic” so we can guess that even at this point in time the Titanic still has a myth-like quality to it, and that other species also experienced horrifying wreckages with loss of life. The Kara might have been THE turian luxury spaceship. I also wonder about the name Kara. I'm no expert (at all!) but I do see that it's the feminine form of karus in latin, meaning expensive, beloved, dear, precious... So that might work for what it's supposed to be.
They are stone tablets that look like the writing is from the trade language, but according to Kasumi this looks like quarian script and is very old. How old, I do wonder.
Michelangelo’s David seems to be inside the vault but how we can know it is the real one is beyond me.
Kasumi is upset that Hock has "Lady Liberty" in his vault and the codex tells us so many things about its past that it's hard to explain here. It's worth reading.
There's one piece just called "Rachni Queen" and I always wondered if it was a statue, a real frozen queen, something made of a specific material? I don't know!!! I'm not a scientist!!! I'm not trying to make a pun here but it bugs me that I don't know.
And there's a statue of a creature that isn't exactly like the yahg but sorta looks like it? In my original post with the art pieces I wondered if it was DA inspired. I still don't know.
And statues of krogan. One that seems to follow Kasumi with its eyes.
And there's Bekenstein itself with its codex entry:
There's apparently a popular song that says: "If you can make it on the Bek, you got 'em by the neck."
Charming!
Day 1: Background | Shepard's sanity is put to the test. Psych evals are no fun. ( fic is meant to be so you can insert your personal shepard or headcanons, and is left as vague as possible to insert your own background and lore. a fun little experiment! )
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A few years after the end of the Reaper War, the Normandy was sent on a Victory Tour to celebrate the galaxy's success. With only a few weeks to go until the crew headed out, Shepard was missing something important, and Kaidan made sure he got it.
Mshenko - Mild hurt/comfort - 2180 words
When the Council requested that the Normandy and its crew complete a Victory Tour a few years after the Reaper War, Kaidan knew what it meant.
He'd seen the footage of the Destiny Ascension's cruise after the Battle of the Citadel. He'd seen the Council in their finery, waving to the crowds as if they'd been the ones to defeat Sovereign.
For the Normandy, that much would be different; they had been the ones to stop the threat, unlike the Council.
The rest, though, would be similar enough. It'd be a couple of months of visiting other planets, shaking hands, kissing the new Krogan babies, and attending whatever events the various races decided to hold. It'd be meeting dignitaries and world leaders and accepting the sort of praise Kaidan had known Shepard deserved since before he was even a Spectre.
And that was all fine. None of it was what had caught Kaidan's attention. Not really.
What had been was the fact that all of it would require dress blues, their medals pinned to their chests. Which meant Shepard needed his, the majority of which he'd left on the Normandy before London and which hadn't been moved since, waiting patiently for him to need them again.
The majority, except for the one that mattered the most.
Because that one was his Star of Terra, which had been lost in the first Normandy's crash. After that, he'd been resurrected by Cerberus, which got in the way of any replacement he might've been offered, and when he did finally return to the Alliance, it was as a prisoner. Then, the Reapers had arrived, Earth was in trouble, the entire galaxy had been threatened, and—
There just hadn't been a good time to handle it.
It wasn't like he'd have given it much thought, either. The Star was an honor, but Amadeus had been too busy with everything else to think about it. A medal wouldn't stop the Collectors or Cerberus or the Reapers. It wouldn't save the galaxy.
But now, in the peace that came after, when things were really beginning to be rebuilt and everyone could turn their attention towards more than just survival, stuff like that could matter again.
It could, even if Amadeus didn't even seem to consider it.
They were only a few weeks out from when the Normandy would leave, and he hadn't said a word about it. Certainly hadn't done anything to fix the fact that it was gone, left abandoned in the endless snow on Alchera.
Kaidan, though, hadn't been able to get it off his mind. He might not have been there on Elysium or in the aftermath, but he knew how important it had been. He knew that, after everything Amadeus had done throughout the Reaper War, he deserved that medal more than ever.
But he also knew that Amadeus would hate the idea of being awarded it again in some big ceremony. The first time he'd been given it, Admiral Anderson had been the one to pin it to his chest, and that wasn't something Amadeus would want to relive or a memory he'd want replaced. Not since London and the Citadel.
Instead, Kaidan had done what he could on his own, reaching out through the proper channels to handle it without dragging Amadeus into anything he didn't want to face.
After the last few years, he deserved to have something that wasn't on his shoulders, for once.
Which had led Kaidan to now, arriving back at their apartment in Vancouver with a sleek black box in hand, having made a quick stop by the Alliance's newly rebuilt base.
It hadn't been the easiest thing in the world to get, but apparently, being the second human Spectre and part of the crew that had saved the known galaxy had its perks, especially when he invoked Shepard's name.
Really, they ought to be glad he was a man of integrity. Otherwise, it could be pretty tempting to try to see how far that new influence could go.
As it was, he was more than happy enough with this, inhaling as he shifted the box in his hands, glancing around the first floor of the apartment, then heading upstairs when he didn't spot Amadeus anywhere.
It wasn't much of a surprise to find him in their room. It was Amadeus' favorite spot, sunny and warm with balcony doors that could be thrown open wide. Their bed was piled high with enough pillows and blankets to brace every aching knee or old shoulder injury they could ever have, comfortable for late afternoon naps, something Amadeus had come to love in the last few years. Not constantly being pressured to go, go, go every minute of every day by the impending threat of galactic destruction had left a lot more room for appreciating lazy days.
But he wasn't in bed, which Kaidan had to admit he wouldn't have guessed. Instead of a sleep-messy head of sandy hair and soft, slow eyes that peered up at him from a cozy sprawl, Kaidan found Amadeus sitting out on the balcony with a datapad in hand.
The half-hearted frown on his face was enough to keep Kaidan from feeling too bad for interrupting. That was half of his job as Amadeus' partner; stopping him from getting too absorbed in work and reminding him that the real world existed.
He was halfway across the room when it worked, Amadeus glancing up distractedly, then doing a quick double-take when he actually registered Kaidan's presence.
"Kaidan," he said, setting the data pad aside as he stood, voice softening. "You're back early."
Technically, he'd be right, if Kaidan had actually had any work to do that day. His usual class with his biotic students had been cancelled for him, he hadn't gotten anything from the Council Spectre-wise, and nothing else had popped up, so he'd ended up with an unscheduled day off. If anything, he was home late.
But he hadn't exactly…told Amadeus that. He hadn't wanted to have to come up with an excuse for why he was leaving, hadn't wanted to lie to his face, even if it was for a surprise.
"Class got cancelled."
Still didn't want to.
"Really? I thought you were working with new students today," Amadeus said.
"I was, but I don't mind. Rescheduling gave me time to pick up a little something for you."
With a look down at the box in Kaidan's hands, Amadeus moved closer and knocked his knuckles against it.
"You got me a gift, Kaidan? Last time I checked, our anniversary isn't anytime soon."
"Like I need an excuse. Besides, I thought you might need it," Kaidan said, his lips twitching up as he glanced up at Amadeus with what he hoped wasn't a completely sappy expression. "Can't have you looking anything but your best for the Victory Tour, am I right, Commander?"
With a raise of his eyebrow, Amadeus lifted the lid on the box, folding it up and out of the way.
Kaidan saw the second he understood what it was. It flickered across his face, surprise that quickly changed into something else, something almost unreadable.
After so long, though, Kaidan was more than familiar enough with Amadeus' microexpressions to tell them apart. He knew what it looked like when he was stuck between feelings, not sure what his own reaction was.
"The Star of Terra," he said quietly.
"Yeah. A new one, specially made on Hackett's order," Kaidan said. He let the box shift completely into Amadeus' hands. "We're gonna be all dressed up on the tour, so it'd look a bit, uh. A bit strange if you didn't have the most famous medal you've ever gotten."
That should've gotten a chuckle out of him, one of those ones he let out whenever Kaidan said something dry. Instead, Amadeus barely even seemed to be breathing.
There was a half-second where Kaidan questioned himself. Where his stomach twisted and his chest squeezed, and he wondered if maybe he should've thought about it some more before doing it.
But this was Shepard he was talking about. They'd known each other better than anyone since the SR-1. Kaidan was the leading expert in all things Amadeus.
He knew this was difficult, but he also knew that Amadeus would want it on the tour. If nothing else, having people question why he didn't have it, reminding him of the crash and his death, would be worse than getting it back could ever be.
So he forced down the wave of instinctive dread and shifted closer.
"Dae?" He murmured, hand settling on the base of Amadeus' spine.
"Sorry." Amadeus' response was quiet and slow. "Just…thinking."
He turned, sitting down on the bed and pulling the Star from its velvet, setting the box aside.
"Thinking about anything in particular?" Kaidan asked.
"It's been a long time. A lot has changed." He shrugged. "I always thought Elysium would be the worst thing I'd live through, but I had no idea, did I?"
With a soft chuckle, mostly just out of relief that it was that and not anything worse, Kaidan sank down, joining him on the edge of the bed and reaching out. Amadeus let go of the Star with one hand to slip it into Kaidan's, instead. Their fingers intertwined with an ease that came from practice.
"Well, no, but I, uh…I don't really think that's on you. Nobody could've guessed what was gonna happen."
"No, I guess not." A smile tugged at the edge of Amadeus' lips. It settled something in Kaidan's chest.
"Hell, I lived through it, and I still feel like it was some crazy dream sometimes. If you tried to tell me about all this back then, I'd have never believed it. Not in a million years."
"Some people didn't even believe what I did on Elysium."
"That's because it sounded completely impossible. One soldier holding off an attack like that? C'mon. I thought it was at least an exaggeration, right until they put you up on a stage all by yourself and gave you a Star."
He expected another laugh, some dismissive shrug, maybe. Instead, Amadeus glanced over.
"You watched the ceremony?" He asked.
"I don't know if there's an Alliance soldier alive who didn't, Dae," Kaidan said, and he was the one huffing a laugh then. "You, ha—you were a bit of a legend, baby."
"But you watched it."
"Of course I did."
Smoothing his thumb over the Star, Amadeus shook his head. "You saw me seven years before we ever met."
With an amused shrug, Kaidan turned their hands over and kissed Amadeus' knuckles.
"Never really thought about it like that before." He admitted. "Guess the universe really wanted us to know each other."
Amadeus' expression flickered.
For a second, he just stared, the afternoon sun painting his dark eyes a golden color, a deep orange topaz, more beautiful than any gems. His shoulders twitched, the skin beside his eyes crinkling.
Then he shifted closer.
"I love you." He murmured, leaning forward to press his forehead to Kaidan's, tightening his grip on Kaidan's hand. "So, so much."
Kaidan couldn't keep his smile out of his voice, brushing their lips together for the briefest moment. "I love you too, Shepard."
He felt the way Amadeus inhaled more than anything. Soft and quiet, almost hesitant, something he didn't normally see in his strong-willed partner.
"Would you—for the tour. The Star. Will you help me pin it on?" he asked, voice dipping. "Haven't worn it since the ceremony. Since Anderson."
The way his voice wobbled on Anderson's name wasn't as bad as Kaidan had heard it before, on the late nights when he woke up to Amadeus' biotics going wild, desperate gasps cutting through the silence, memories of a gun in his hand and a monster in his head flooding Amadeus' dreams. It still made Kaidan's chest squeeze, anyway.
"Anything. You know that," Kaidan said.
With another brush of their lips, Amadeus pulled back, looking down at the Star in his hand.
The way that he tucked it back into its velvet pillow was almost reverent. Careful in a way Kaidan knew had nothing to do with the Star itself and everything to do with the people who had given it to him.
Amadeus had never been the sort of person who viewed the Star as something he was owed or his actions on Elysium as particularly heroic. To him, it was just what had to happen.
But that was what made Shepard so incredible, wasn't it? The fact that it wasn't even a choice. That he just did what he thought he was right, even when it put him in harm's way.
Even now, after everything, Amadeus' humanity was still so bright. A dazzling blaze that even the Reapers hadn't been able to dim.
Kaidan inhaled, shifting closer and wrapping his arms around Amadeus' waist, tucking his face into his shoulder.
The Alliance had had no idea how right they had been when they called him a hero for Elysium. Nobody had.
After this tour, maybe more people would understand it. Maybe they'd see a fraction of the incredible person Kaidan was lucky enough to call his.
For now, though, he was more than happy to have Amadeus to himself, pulling him away from his work and old memories and what tomorrow would bring, all in favor of the two of them falling into bed, Amadeus letting himself relax into Kaidan's arms.
A mixture of strangeness, intimidation, and...admittedly, a pretty face that would turn heads, if someone can look past the blood attached to her history.
for Trilogy Appreciation Week, I want to talk about THIS MOMENT:
Because more than 12 years ago I realized with quite a lot of emotions that this big krogan was:
my son
my precious son
my precious son who was alive
my precious son who was alive and NEVER ALLOWED to scare me like that again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The relief I felt was overwhelming, I still remember it like it was yesterday. In that moment I truly realized how much I loved Grunt and never took him for granted after that.
The way Shepard holds Grunt right after is also quite powerful <3
Commander. Shepard. Hero of the Citadel. Survivor of Akuze, survivor of Mindoir. Beacon of hope.
She bore a lot of names, none of them one she chose.
The universe has a way of being funny about that, and it's not like she was bothered enough by the name her parents gave her to bother changing it. Carrine was not a name used by many people, not anymore, and she only needed one hand to count them.
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every time I host a fandom week something happens.
one time i was heartbroken because i had a fight with someone i love, another time it was the most hellish week at work and i came home every night feeling drained, etc. it happened so often that it's now a pattern in my head so when i picked the dates for this appreciation week, i thought 'it's almost like me scheduling my problems.'
anyway. everything ends well (i swear!) but last night i put my dinner in the oven without noticing there was some fat residue left at the bottom of the oven and while i was typing a post for the appreciation week there was suddenly this smell. so i went to open the oven and smoke came out of it, and not like a small amount. a lot. the smoke went to my eyes and the fire alarm went off, it was so freaking loud
my neighbor upstairs came to see if i was okay and i was actually not okay at all, i was panicking because of the smoke and because i already have trouble with noise of any kind. in the end we opened all the windows and my landlord who lives next door and who i get along well helped me to stop the alarm. they were both very kind and told me it was okay because i kept apologizing and i was shaking. they also helped me to reopen the oven because i was so scared.
the smell was terrible all evening and i kept coughing but it's fine now, it's gone and i'm okay. really okay i mean. grateful nothing worse happened because for a few minutes, i thought i was going to burn the entire house :/
hopefully the worst came on Monday and everything else is fine. i'm also grateful i get to enjoy everything posted during the week because I leave on holiday next Thursday and my last days at work are quite hard so this is nice to have fandom content to get lost into, you know? it's nice to have my games that i love so much
