#character junk

oh gosh I didn’t even reblog it NOW I GOTTA GO FIND IT..

7 - An Angry Text (Cihro to Yvir)

Hey, I’m on to you! I know you said something to Vee today. They’ve had this awful base track on ever since you left and has been speaking (?) to me exclusively in this horrible auto-tuned voice. I’m not letting you out of my sight next time you’re on my ship.

18 - A Drunk Text (Cihro to Yvir)

you’re smart!! some human said something that didn’t translate and i need your hgelp figuring it out

“cool as a cucumper” 

a) what’s a cucumper

vedden? oh, he’s my oldest mass effect oc, actually. he started as the turian sentinel in multiplayer and then I decided to flesh him out. this was like..2012? you can check out his tag here and there’s art of him on my art blog as well but…

Rocket is overworked and overtired but try to holds a much more optimistic approach

not a bad thing but it can be a problem if it borders impossibility

uhmmm this would depend on the situation but generally speaking most of my guys have combat experience and would retaliate or defend in some way

cihro - arc grenade & shoot em. that, or escape

vedden - overload or biotics, try to subdue or kill

mulciber - either mows em down with an assault rifle or cloaks and attacks

aulus - takes cover & would try to subdue + arrest

let’s see..

it’ll be hard toinclude races I’m not as familiar with (batarian, elcor, hanar) but I’ll do mybest. I’m also gunna shove this under a cut cuz it got unexpectedly long

oh my god I don’t know if this one is harder or easier toanswer because I don’t feel like my characters fall into a strict good guy/badguy column, but I guess if you change their cores then you’d get something likethis:

Cihro is already super morally ambiguous given that hefucking kills people for a living, but at his heart he’d really just like tomake friends, maintain those relationships, and make sure he doesn’t lose allof his “humanity” so to speak.  If you were to push him to full bad then maybewhat he desires isn’t friendship so much as people who’s trust he gains andthen manipulates because if none of his friendships have worked out in the pastthen the only solution is to make sure he’s always in control in some twistedway. He’d use them as stepping stones to get ahead in life and not really showany remorse about losing their friendship because he never really consideredthem that to begin with. He’d be ready to give them the cold shoulder at amoment’s notice and feel cheated if they don’t give him what he wants.

I don’t think he’d dress any differently given that he livesin his suit and it’s optimized for his job and he already has a black and greycolour scheme going on. Maybe instead of going magenta with his visor/accentshe’d stick with the red he used for when he fought in the rings.

I think I touched on Vedden being ‘evil’ in the lastquestion and that is definitely not a good thing because he’s very determinedand willing to do whatever it takes to get the job done. No mercy!!

Mulciber..is already a massive asshole. Like, he’s not evil,but he doesn’t have a lot of good traits either. He’s just indifferent, so Ithink that means he could be pulled in any direction with the right kind ofinfluence. He could end up working as some kind of living weapon for anorganization or, from when he’s young, refuse to let his family’s distance makehim bitter and embrace the positive side of life. He could pursue the ArmigerLegion with a sense of purpose or do something else entirely, like charity orsocial work to help make other people’s lives better. He’d make an effort totalk to his many siblings and see if he can make them some sort of actual cohesivefamily unit rather than divided into little groups.

Mulciber already wears a lot of warm colours so that mightnot change. What might change is his sense of style, he may wear moreprofessional clothes or have a greater variety of things to wear than just acouple outfits

Uhh..Aulus? I guess counts as a main now? I still think he’dbe with C-Sec, but I can see him abusing his power and being extremelyprejudiced & racist. He’d be impatient and want things done his way, noexceptions, and cross a lot of boundaries. That might eventually cause him tobreak off from the force and become a mercenary. I can see him being with theBlue Suns in this scenario. Alternatively, he makes it as a Spectre before he’sreally corrupt and although he’s doing “good” work he’ll achieve itusing underhanded methods that gets people hurt along the way.

I feel bad cuz I don’t think a lot of my characters’wardrobes would change because they all have some kind of black + __ colourscheme going on

this is really trickyto answer. I’ll do my best to answer this coherently and stick to twocharacters instead of thinking about every possibility otherwise I’m gunna havea novel of a post 

although it looks like this got pretty lengthy anyway 

I think two charactersI could switch who lead very different lives would be Cihro and Vedden. Cihrolives a largely normal life up until his early twenties when he decides to liveaway from the Fleet and pursue assassination as a career and Vedden is part ofthe military his entire life in some manner - he does drop out of the cabalfor a couple years but he goes back

Vedden would probablybe much more affected by this kind of change. he would be a totally differentkind of assassin with different preferred methods of killing, especially if hestill has his biotics, which could be the catalyst to him becoming an assassinif he wants to reject the cabal. honestly, he’d probably make it better as abounty hunter because he doesn’t have the same patience Cihro has, but he doeshave the tech skills Cihro lacks to hack shit and engineer his own tacticalgear

His personality isalready really uptight, so becoming a killer would probably make him cold,ruthless, and make it all that much harder to see his soft side. I think a partof him would still deeply care about his younger brothers, but if it was hischoice to have training he probably wouldn’t see them all that often. I thinkhe’d still visit them, but it’d be kind of tense and he’d be awkward because he’dhave to remember how to be an older version of himself or something he’s not.He puts his all into everything he does, so living that kind of isolated lifestylewould be very bad for him

I think he’d be prettyscary, tbh, because where Cihro is friendly outside the job and tries to keephis social life and work life separate entities, Vedden being an assassin wouldconsume him and bleed into every aspect of his life. He’d hang out withshady people and just. not be a nice guy

And now for Cihro. Beingin the military means returning from his Pilgrimage and joining the Fleet,which means he’s following in his mother’s footsteps, which works since he’salready ruled out botany or any kind of science anyway

And like..honestly, Ithink this would have a really positive effect on him? Living outside the Fleetwas his choice so it’s also good for him, but being on his own and having tosupport himself all the time made him forget how to rely on other people. He’svery extroverted so having any sort of community will bolster his energy levelsand make him productive, happy, and better at communicating his feelings

He would actually attendhis father’s funeral because he’d be there, have closure, and become closer tohis mother from it

Like jeez if Icontinue on this path he could even find himself a husband and settle down. Ithink the only major difference this would have on his personality is he mightbe a little more hardened, a little more serious, but honestly he’d still mostly be himself

Lmao so I think fromthis post we can deduce that becoming an assassin isn’t a good thing for anyof my characters but some will handle it better than others