When do you think/headcanon Garrus and Shepard realized their feelings for the other became romantic?
I donât think thereâs a singular moment you can point to, for either of them.Â
Garrus had admired Shepard during the hunt for Saren. Heâd seen her as a role model, a worthy mentor, one of the most impressive individuals heâs ever met. And those feelings, as positive and as strong as they might have been, are always foremost about yourself and what the concept of them means to you, not really about a reciprocal relationship. Affection and admiration from a polite distance.Â
Itâs different when they meet again. Theyâre both barely alive, and she greets him like an old friend, and then he thinks maybe they had been friends after all â something rattles in him at the thought, something about the chain of command, about respect and battlefield chemistry, about the way heâd let her change his mind like heâd never let anyone before or since â but they certainly hadnât had the type of friendship that sheâs acting out now. They hadnât been close.Â
In the moment, during the reunion itself â her arms flying wide in the biggest display of emotion sheâs ever seen her make â it doesnât feel wrong. Heâs tired, heâs grieving, he doesnât have the energy to think it through. She was dead, and now sheâs not. He talks to her like he would a long lost comrade, not a superior â he hasnât had a superior in a while â and she doesnât seem to mind it at all.Â
Itâs after that that he starts to wonder. Her jokes, her grins, her open concern. Itâs different from how she used to act, the distance between them disappearing in an instant, like they were something else than what he remembers, back before she died. But itâs nice. He doesnât mind it. It comes easily to both of them, and he wonât turn his nose up at a friend when he needs one most, even when he doesnât deserve it.
He decides to just keep it up.
Though heâs not always in the mood for talking, not always able to accept her company when he canât even accept his own, he tries because he can tell she needs it too. They start acting like friends and then suddenly thereâs no difference to actually being friends and from there it grows organically until he finds he canât conceptualize his existence as separate from hers, and itâs become the most important relationship in his life.
But he doesnât think about what that means. Heâs never had a relationship like this, especially not with an alien. He doesnât know whatâs possible between them, whatâs expected. He doesnât waste time thinking about what they could be, only what they already are. He follows her lead as he has since the moment she barreled into his Omega stronghold as a changed but alive woman.
Heâs shocked when she propositions him, but once again: it doesnât feel wrong. Suddenly, this too is possible. Risky, terrifying, but possible. And it doesnât take long from there, this moment that prompts him to think about what exactly they are and what exactly they are doing, to realize that he is already in far deeper than he ever planned to be.Â
He knows he has feelings for her before he ever makes it up to her cabin, but he might never know how long heâs had those feelings.Â
And as for Shepard â sheâs always liked him, always found him charming, and seeing him again so unexpectedly when sheâs got no one and nothing, not even herself â theyâre suddenly in a position where heâs the closest confidante she has. She doesnât need a subordinate, she needs a friend. Itâs not a conscious decision to just abandon all decorum and treat him like theyâve always been friends first, coworkers second. Itâs easy to do away with all of that and jump to the next stage because thatâs what she needs them to be, and she doesnât have the emotional bandwidth and the patience to get there at a slower pace. Â
And then they are friends, but that doesnât stop the urge to get closer, and she realizes sheâs set something in motion that she wouldâve never, in her right mind, intended. It doesnât help that he lets her. Heâs the steadfast presence that she needed to see her through this Cerberus nightmare, but she knows now the kind of man heâs become in her absence, and she is drawn to that man not out of emotional necessity but genuine intrigue, and she knows thatâs too much. Too much for either of them to deal with, in their dire situation.
In truth, she thinks maybe if they just work it out in bed, if heâs amenable to that, she can finally get her head on straight and focus wholly on the mission.Â
And if he rejects her, then that would also do the job.
But then heâs saying yes, and heâs fretting, and heâs pacing, and heâs saying âThis is about us,â and she has to wonder how long theyâve been an âusâ to him â several steps farther than sheâs ever let herself think about them â and god damn it, if she pulls the panic cord and rejects him now, thereâs a chance sheâll break his heart on top of her own.Â
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âGive it back!â Four yells, and Legend simply holds the bag of rupees up further from his reach.
âNo! I won fair and square,â the Veteran retorts. In a fit of stunted rage, Four does the only thing he can think to do, which is reach out and pinch Legendâs sides as hard as he can.
His anger is overshadowed by surprise as Legend reactsâby letting out a sharp squeak, wrenching himself away from the offending fingers. Four raises his eyebrows, evil intentions welling up in him as he makes a realization.
*does research for fic* huh...artemis doesnât sound so bad...reads about how she transformed Callisto into a bear and exiled her to the wild after Zeus...pulled a Zeus and used Artemisâ form to impregnate her.Â
Welp, at least itâd make sense for Artemis to do what I am planning for her to do, right, @donaldtheduckdad?
Greek gods were too human. Greek gods are basically humans if they had...you know...god like powers.Â
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milkywrites replied to your post âim 2 sad to send sad thingsâ
i started typing one out 4 woojin but then i was like "no :("
our whole friendship as writing partners was built upon angst and youâre betraying it rn icb this...and u called me weak when i didnt want the dday event in rescue squad bc too much sadness but youâre doing this????