Somewhere around 30 give or take a few years.
Mainly here to have zero chill about Mass Effect/Shakarian.
But will also be sharing my other thoughts and nonsense.
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Shepard is so funny because she's the only being in the entire galaxy that the Reapers are scared of (aside from like, the Leviathans and maybe that one thrasher maw) and it's genuinely just her and her continously shifting band of freaks against the greatest threat ever observed. And she wins.
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The thing about Garrus that he doesn’t seem to understand, despite how much he insists otherwise, is that Castis knows his son. His mother used to tell him they were so similar, in between updates on the kids’ schooling and how the garden he left was doing its utmost to fight her. He knows his son, primarily as the boy he once left, who was always so curious, so inquisitive, eyes bright.
Who grew into this man who stands before him, grief in his eyes and exhaustion in every line of his body. He doesn’t know what he has endured, only snippets of stories shared of this spectre, this famed, dead, disgraced Commander. Most of what Garrus tells him of her doesn’t fully match what they say; he makes her sound like a person, so… human.
When he comes to him, half of his face missing and a hollowness in his voice that makes him feel as if someone has taken a white hot blade to his keel, he sits on the same spot on the couch that he did when he was six, when he was twelve, and looks at him with the same reservation he did before he left for the Citadel. He has not stood in his family home since, and Castis thinks of the old visor he gifted him, the one he disassembled and then pieced back together; the one he wears now, a last gift from his mother.
He can feel his son studying him, gauging his reactions, every bit the detective he was and the one he left behind.
He tells him this tale that sounds so far fetched, and he may skirt the truth but his son has never been one to outright lie. He was never any good at it, either, despite all of the times he tried to take the fall for Solana, nor has his imagination always been so wild. Reapers, he says; Collectors, he calls them, and he does not know the exact whereabouts of his son for the past few years, and as sure as Garrus is about this oncoming threat, Castis is sure he will never know the finer details.
So like father, like son, he gets to work. The advisory board has mixed reactions at best, but even so, Palaven is as prepared as it’ll ever be. Garrus fits this new role well, as much as doesn’t want it; such a responsibility works for him, and his son is a strong leader. Still, his attention wavers in quieter moments. He watches him turn down a proposal by a woman who would be a good match for him and says he’s… seeing someone. Though curious, Castis does not ask and decides his son will come to him. At times he checks his omni-tool as if awaiting something.
They receive word that Earth has been hit, the Reapers are real and well and truly coming, if not already here. He catches a discordant note in his subvocals from Garrus, wound in grief and sorrow and familiar, and it takes a moment before he realizes it’s the same sound he made when he lost his wife.
He doesn’t know how to comfort him, for this woman he knows of but does not know. Humans like to offer platitudes, and her potential second death is still too raw to address.
“Make it mean something,” he says as Garrus stifles the sound. His mandible—the scarred one, the sight of which had nearly taken out his knees at their first reunion—twitches in apprehension. Garrus throws himself into his work, and, as they’ve both always thrived with a task, Castis gets to it as well. Crowd control is unforgiving work, and he remembers the last moment he speaks to his son, the last time he sees him, spine straight and rigid determination, and he thinks of that little boy he raised and the man he grew into, how he clasped his wrist and willed him to return.
When they learn the Primarch is dead and a new one has taken his place, that Corinthus has met Shepard on Menae, he is not a devout man, but thank the spirits for that.
He does not know her, no, but she brings his son back to him.