#genginger

Chicory is part of Weaver Shepard's floralegia series. I wrote a 'first impressions of Garrus' ficlet and then realized I 1: wanted to do the rest of the ME1 crew, and 2: needed to figure out a flower title to fit the series theme. And chicory is a great combination of pretty & useful & all of it's edible but the inherent classism involved in a lot of people's opinions of chicory coffee (I want some now too tho) and is sometimes considered a weed & etc. so it seemed like a good fit for the complex assessment(s) Weaver is trying to make of people who don't, in general, make good first impressions on her as being viable marines for a high pressure mission 😂

Links to my Ko-fi, prints, Instagram, and other sources can be found in the Linktree in my bio.

I don't have much, just a lot of yelling back and forth between @alittlestarling and myself.

I'll double check on my end just to be sure, of course. Thanks for letting me know!

"$!{name}?" Clementine's voice wavers, raw and mercilessly tender, and it forces you to lift your gaze and look at them, and you wonder how much of your face they can see, inside your hood, with the fire hot on your back.

Just in case, I've added a downloadable .rar archive to the page. If you download and unzip that and run the index.html file, you can play it locally on your computer.

Who's gonna hold you down When you shake? Who's gonna come around When you break? You can't go on thinking Nothing's wrong, oh oh Who's gonna drive you home