Squiggly Squid

no i'm joking

but having done the first part of the mission with tarquin victus, i always wonder why things happen as they do. garrus warns us that it's bad to promote family without merits, so we already arrive with a biased view of the turian. but we don't know if he's entirely without merits... and it's not like he was promoted general, he's heading a platoon to deal with a bomb in a part of tuchanka so full of reaper enemies that i'm not looking at the guy and thinking "what a nepo baby, he's so lucky"

and the tactics he used that caused his men to get angry? same ones as his dad. we know this. he did exactly what his father would have done, only luck was not on his side. i'd say not knowing more about the terrain is the biggest failure of this mission and that should have been information given to the platoon before they're dropped there. because otherwise this would have been a good strategy, strategy that would have saved lives

turian code is not "forgiving" as garrus says but abandoning their mission at this point feels like normal survival skill to me. because even shepard is talking about their "sacrifice" as if it's a done deal, like everyone in the platoon will die no matter what. and we know shepard & co don't always assume everyone will get killed even if there's already a bad history with a bomb. still, code or not, honor or not, i would hesitate to go on if i was just a "sacrifice"

I played through ME1 and I'm at the beginning of ME2 and Garrus is horrifically charming no wonder the ONLY thing I knew about this game going in is that everyone romances him

now that you're glorious death, now that you're faithless flesh.

Title: Stretches for Mental Reach and Emotional Flexibility

Rating: E

Word Count: 7,267

Summary:

Jane and Garrus agreed to have sex. That's all it is, right? Well, they're not really sure. If only one of them could draw up the courage to ask. But maybe it's better this way. Less likely to interrupt the crew without any feelings. After all, it's not like the crew has been betting on when they'll get together, right? . . . Right?

Everyone go read @garfbin's contribution to the Shakarian MiniBang 2026 on Ao3!

Stretches for Mental Reach and Emotional Flexibility - Garfbin - Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types [Archive of Our Own]

Read [Red Vs. Blue] by @speshulduck to understand