#queenwitcher

how did u get contract offers? :0 have u been submitting a portfolio or resume ?

i thought u were drunk but this is?? a+??

HOW did u do the scales??

Painted them by hand! and then doubled the layer, inverted the color to white, and set both to overlay! And i moved the white layer a little bit upwards, to create the illusion of light

“…put it back on me,” Kaidan said. 

Thane gazed at him intently. “Are you certain this is what you want?” 

“Don’t make me beg, Krios.” 

ooh no this is a good question :D

Imani admires her a lot tbh. The story of how she met Thane was by itself enough--the fact that she, as a civilian, was willing to put herself in harm’s way to save a total stranger because of the strength of her moral convictions was something Imani found remarkable. But the way Thane talked about her too, there was a lot to admire. She related to their situation too, tbh, and empathized. In the past, Imani ruined more than one of her own relationships with a civilian because of her demanding job.

She never felt any sort of jealousy or resentment over Irikah. The way she looks at it, that bond Thane had with Irikah, and the life that they shared together, is part of what made him the man that she loves. Maybe part of it too is that she realizes he probably sees a great deal of Irikah in her, too. On a they’re both devout, strongwilled women with a passion for justice, there’s the way Imani literally stepped between Sidonus and Garrus’ sniper rifle (I even wrote a drabble about this over a graphic), and just on a superficial level they both have “sunset-colored eyes” despite being different species.

That’s not to say Imani never had issues about it, I mean she’s only human and has moments of doubt and weakness just like anyone else. The flipside of those similarities is that there was the occasional insecurity that Thane was attracted to Imani solely because she reminded him of Irikah, as it were, and there was the fear that she couldn’t live up to the eidetic memories he still had of her. Imani also admittedly worried sometimes that because she was human, she’d never be able to give Thane a biological child if he wanted another one (she had similar worries about Garrus, tbf). But she worked through it by talking a lot with Thane and reminding herself that it’s not a competition. The thing is, despite her occasional insecurities, Imani never believed that her relationship with Thane was somehow diminished by his past with Irikah, or that it didn’t mean as much to him because it was (eventually) a second marriage. Imani’s never viewed love as a zero sum game with winners and losers, or believed in that One True Love stuff.

Kolyat was much more of an issue tbh, because things were definitely awkward for him re: Imani at least in the beginning, once the kid knew that dad was serious about the new girlfriend. Her role in stopping him from assassinating that politician got them off on a bad foot, then he had that typical sort of teenage resentment when a parent starts dating again, and it got worse when Thane married her and Garrus and all of a sudden they were raising children together. He was still bitter about Thane being an absentee parent, vanishing from his life to seek revenge, etc. and to watch Thane being the dad to Hanali in particular that he never was for him was...yeah. But that got worked out after a lot of talking and spending time together and getting to know each other. It helped a lot that Imani knew that she couldn’t replace Irikah and she didn’t want to, even if that were possible, and she made that very clear to him. Once Kolyat realized that, and that she wasn’t trying to erase his mother, he relaxed and was more receptive to her.

OooOOHHH I SEE SOMETHING ABOUT THANE SMUT I MUST KEEP SCROLLING

what have i unleashed

leaveharmony replied to your post: “me: this makes no sense. he has a migraine. they’re on imani’s...”:

Somewhere Zev is giving you a double thumbs up though