An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Mass Effect Trilogy
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Female Shepard/Garrus Vakarian
Characters: Female Shepard (Mass Effect), Garrus Vakarian
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - No Reapers (Mass Effect), Garrus was not recruited in Mass Effect 1, Post-Mass Effect 1, POV Garrus Vakarian, They get to meet at the bar, Spectre Shepard (Mass Effect), C-sec officer Garrus Vakarian, Awkward Garrus Vakarian, slight miscommunication, But Garrus locks in, translator hijinks, The Citadel (Mass Effect), Fluff
Summary:
At the same time, she mouths something from her spot down the bar. Fuck. Because for all of the efforts made so that different species could understand each other, it was all completely useless when no sounds were made. All Garrus understands is the moving of lips, which might just be her telling him to not make a scene so she can arrest him or something.
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In a world without Reapers, Shepard and Garrus meet at the bar. The one issue? Garrus doesn't exactly understand English.
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I wonder how Robert Robertson III’s mother felt about him becoming mecha man so young. To watch him grow up so fast. To be an outsider in this family, where father and son are tied by destiny and responsibility, and all she can do is love them and wish for their safety. I wonder if she ever argued with her husband about the fate of their son. I wonder if she just wanted these self-annihilating men to be happy and how she felt when she realized they never would be.
I wonder if his father wanted him to become the hero, or if he fought villains with the hope that his son would live in a world where he didn’t need to be a savior. His father died in the suit, I wonder if he knew that he would, too. I want to know his reaction to his own father’s death. I wonder what drove him to become mecha man. Was it his own drive and desire to be good or did he feel obliged to fill his father’s shoes because the city needed a hero? Did he know that him taking up the mantle would inspire his son to do the same?
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As time passed after the ending of arcane I've come to realise that labelling Caitlyn Kiramman as a "dictator" is plain wrong and it heavily mischaracterizes her as a person who was so clearly manipulated by a woman in power.
Arcane writers have done everything they can to explain to the fandom that the gas was mostly used on chembarons and their goons. Obviously other people were caught in the crossfire and got poisoned from the gray, but this is nowhere near what the nazis were doing. And it is also NOT a valid reason to call her "KKKiramman"
Yes, she created checkpoints. Yes, she wanted Singed to be put in a dungeon. But - let's be real right now - she didn't do that out of her hatred for the poor people of Zaun. She did it because she wanted to avenge Jinx. All of her actions are caused by her grief, hate, guilt and loneliness.
You can argue that if she wasn't a fascist then she wouldn't do any of it and would've given up her power. But this actively ignores the grief she's going through. And also completely ignores the definition of fascism. What was she supposed to do? Just give up all of her assets and power when she was at her lowest? Beg on her knees for forgiveness? Just forget that her mother died a horrific death and forgive Jinx for everything?
Caitlyn actively despised how she was seen. Here's some quotes from S2:
When talking to maddie she said that she never thought this operation would go for so long. She didn't seem happy or malevolent about it - which would be true if she hated zaunites so much as you guys are painting her.
When Ambessa came to her Caitlyn accused Rictus of inciting violence against zaunites (after she became "the fascist dictator")
In the same dialogue said that there needs to be a reason to arrest someone.
Again, in the same dialogue - "Why is peace always the justification for violence?".
Actively acknowledged that she was manipulated and used as a pawn by Ambessa when she was talking to Vi.
No, her throwing that wooden boat is not abuse. I genuinely don't know HOW this is a real argument.
6. "Hating you...I've hated myself"
7. "No amount of good deeds can undo our crimes!" is the biggest one. She didn't say this about Jinx - she said it about herself.
I could go on and on listing you quotes from S2 but to be frank - this is not how character development works. You don't just say a bunch of words and magically become "better". You change how you act. And you don't magically become "worse" when you say something heinous.
Most of you have the ability to see nuance in Jinx's character. Why isn't the same for Cait? Is it because you just agree with her? Is it because you divide "good" and "bad" people by whether or not they agree with you?
What about Cait giving up her seat at the council for Sevika? What about her fighting her mentor just for the freedom of the people she supposedly hates? What about her asking zaunites to fight alongside her? What about her ratting out everything about Ambessa's defense in viktor's village AS SOON as she gets support from Vi and Jinx?
Obviously in real world it would seem that I argue for the "both sides" bullshit. I am not. And I really don't want you to think that I'm acting as superior because I'm able to see nuance in Caitlyn's arc. I want to show you that it is REALLY REALLY important not to dehumanize your enemies. Because
when you dehumanize nazis YOU BECOME ONE!
You NEED to be able to see them as humans so that you can see yourself in them and correct that. So that you see your friends and family in them. Because so many people realize they were living with racists/homophobes/transphobes/antisemites/bigots in general for their whole life only when the elections come. I want that to stop. And you can begin to do that by watching arcane one more time and not basing your opinion on something as fragile and unstable as a public opinion.
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Something interesting about the Cait/Vi dynamic is the fact that, when they meet, Vi is essentially just some random criminal to Cait and Cait is just another enforcer to Vi. It isn’t until they go to each other’s home turf that they realize, “Oh, this is SOMEBODY.” It’s like heirs from neighboring kingdoms meeting without realizing who the other is.
You get Caitlyn slowly realizing that the Undercity is far more interested in Vi being back than her investigation, and Vi realizing that Cait is not just any Piltie, but, in some ways, the ultimate Piltie. Like, I kind of wish they had a similar shot to VI’s awe at Cait’s ceiling with Cait looking up at the giant portrait of Vi at the Firelights’ base right after she had assumed she was the reason they had been taken.
Obviously, it helps to have them get to know each other as people first, but I wonder how it would change their relationship if they knew who each other was from the start.
Caitlyn's life is truly insane cause girly was basically a traffic cop who accidentally found out the Sheriff (her boss!) is corrupt and working with a drug lord, then she gets blown up by said drug lord's daughter, gets fired from her traffic cop job for being nosy, then decided to do some vigilante justice by forging a government official's signature to break her future wife out of prison. She then runs around the Undercity chasing after said future wife (who might have a death wish) gets kidnapped, her boss tries to shoot her, then she gets blown up AGAIN, gets broken up with without even being together (yet), gets kidnapped AGAIN, decides not to kill her not gf/future wife's sister (who kidnapped her), then watches said sister kill her mother, then gets promoted from fired traffic cop to SWAT team, not gf becomes her actual gf, gets blown up again again, breaks up with her gf, and then gets promoted to commander of a sovereign nation by a warmongering foreign power.
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