While replaying Mass Effect, I realized the SR-1 had no bathrooms anywhere in-game. Or crew quarters, or a kitchen.
I promptly got a bee in my bonnet and traced all the maps of the SR-1 from ingame screenshots and overlaid them onto a Normandy SR-1 silhouette, only to discover THE PIECES DONâT FIT.
So I âfixedâ it. Disclaimer: I tried to take into account things like the shipâs depth and necessary wiring, but I am not an engineer, just an angy nerd.
Please feel free to use/refer to this. Iâd love credit if you repost it or share it with people elsewhere, as I spent far too much of my life hurting my wrist by doing this.
p.s. in the âfixedâ version of the crew quarters, the beds are the pull-out wall beds.
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i updated this yesterday and forgot to post about it. top tier me
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melodies of the war-born (~112k words)
story summary:
Sakura wonders, sometimes, who she would be if things were different.
Perhaps, had she not run into that infuriating boy in the cemetery, she would be a civilian now. Perhaps, were she able to ignore an insult, she would not have pushed herself so far or so hard. But war carves hard lines in every soul, and peace tastes strange to a child raised in strife.
Same age AU where Sakuraâs born into Kakashiâs generation. Things change just as much as they stay the same.
chapter 6 here (~19k words)
chapter summary/triggers:
Life happens, and for once it doesn't hurt.
Possible triggers: Anko and Kurenai being playfully rude to each other, people being dismissive of their own health, accidental streaking, kids being mean to Naruto, Hiruzen being himself. untagged ShiSaku and IruKaka. theyâre not endpair and i donât wanna get anyone too excited
yes hello Sirius for the directors commentary >:DD
from chapter five of melodies of the war-born (always wondered why Shisui of all Uchiha (i was VVVV excited to see him bc i LOVE HIM) and just your overall thoughts while writing these goofs :D)
âGood afternoon, Sakura-san!â Shisui says, his eyes smiling just as much as his mouth. âIsnât it a lovely day outside? Why, itâs almost as pretty as you are!â
She chokes a little and then laughs, looking away to hide the way her cheeks flush. Over the last few weeks, sheâs run into him in the streets more than once, often enough to know he flirts like he breathes: constantly. It reminds her of Genma, but something about Shisuiâs flirting feels a little more honest than Genmaâs does. âGood afternoon, Shisui-san,â she replies after a minute. âI hope youâre well.â
âBetter now that Iâm with you,â he says, joining in her aimless wandering down the sidewalk. âI donât suppose youâd care for some donburi or udon?â She opens her mouth to answer, and her stomach answers for her with a thunderous growl. Shisui laughs, and she flushes with embarrassment. âThat sounds like a yes to me!â
Sakura flushes darker. âI⌠my rent is due tomorrow, Shisui-san, Iâm afraid I shouldnât be going anywhere for lunch.â She swallows, trying to calculate what she can spare, and offers meekly, âIf youâd like, I could make ââ
âSakura-san, Iâm an idiot, but Iâm not a rude idiot,â Shisui chides her, voice surprisingly foreboding for someone so genial. âI asked you. That means itâs my treat.â
âBut ââ she starts. Then she spies the bright specks in the corners of her eyes, the ones she knows precede the migraines she gets if she doesnât eat soon, and she gives in. ââŚonly if I get to treat you to something sometime.â
âItâs a deal!â he says, grinning down at her. âGot any preferences? Given how often you take Naruto-kun into Ichiraku, I didnât think I should put ramen on the table, butâŚâ
She wrinkles her nose at him. âNo. No ramen,â she answers. âDo you like chicken katsudon? Umeharaâs stand isnât far, and her chickenâs the best.â
(this ask is a reference to This Post, and here's a link to chapter five of melodies of the war-born; I'm tagging Shisui/Sakura because it's a tangential ship in melodies that's being discussed here, but the fic itself is Kakashi/Sakura)
Gonna put this behind a cut because it's gonna be long.
Honestly, my initial plans were completely different from how it ended up turning out... which is why I rarely outline things. They never stay the same. Initially, Shisui or Genma was going to play Kenta's role, and Kenta was going to play Shisui's role. The more I read and poked around, though, I became more and more certain that would be a disservice to both Genma and Shisui. Hence Kenta's existence.
I went with Shisui for the romance because I'd already tormented Genma in an earlier chapter, and I also.... well, I liked the path forward that a ShiSaku romance laid out, as well as a lot of the parallels between Shisui and Sakura. They're both emotional, they're talented, they care more than they should, and they (at least to me) have very staunch ideals about What's Right. Shisui's a lot more loyal to Konoha-as-a-concept, and consequently the Hokage, than my melodies!Sakura is, and I thought that'd be some really interesting conflict to explore.
For this scene in particular, it's something that I had planned by the time I finished the last scene in chapter four. It's really important to me that I write main characters (which Sakura definitely is in melodies) being wrong, and mistaken, and having conflicts that aren't just Me Right You Wrong Me Good You Bad. In chapter three and four, Shisui flirts with Sakura, and she gets an impression of him as a womanizing jerk. When Kenta hits on her, and she finds out why, her impression of Shisui changes to a womanizing jerk who doesn't care about anything, because he 'lets' Kenta do this weird rivalry thing and harass women.
Then she confronts the Hokage about Itachi in chapter four, and later, Shisui thanks her for standing up for Itachi and reveals why he's so grateful for it. I'm putting that section here, for reference:
âBelieve it or not, they called me a genius once.â
âThey still do,â she interjects.
He smiles a little and keeps talking. âAs far as those things go, I got pretty lucky. Once I got old enough to figure things out, all I had to do was be an idiot. Then â poof! No more high expectations!â Shisui swallows. She slows her steps as she figures out where heâs going. âItachi⌠he doesnât have that option. Heâs from the head family. Heâs going to be heir. If he tries to do what I did, theyâll just make Sasuke heir. Itachi cares about his brother too much for that.â
He glances at her, like heâs checking to see if she follows his train of thought, and she nods. âItachiâs never had the chance to be a kid. I donât think I ever saw him touch a toy. Fugaku-sama pushes him so hardâŚâ Sakura stops and nods upwards, to her balcony, and he follows her up. He keeps talking, following her into her apartment. âSo⌠thatâs why Iâm saying thanks. Everyone else just looks at Itachi and sees the Uchiha genius. I donât even know if Mikoto-sama fought against Itachi being ANBU. Theyâre just proud.â
That changes her impression of him to 'womanizer, not necessarily a jerk, cares about family'. It puts her perception of him off-center and takes it from "this is the truth" to "this might be true", and primes her for the events of chapter five, which further change that perception.
This scene is an intersection of events and consequences that make Sakura do things she wouldn't normally do. She's short on money because of her demotion, so she's being a lot more frugal than normal. She's shopping alone because she's prideful and doesn't want Kurenai to see her being "poor", which allows Shisui to accost her alone.
She's run into Shisui enough to know he just flirts as a way of life, so she's revised her opinion of him to 'sassy, family-loving idiot'. That being said, she's also noticed he's not much for lying, and he always gives her genuine compliments. When compliments are both genuine and unexpected, it's much harder not to accept them and enjoy them.
She hasn't eaten enough for the day, so she's both hungry and embarrassed enough to accept his invitation for food, which sets her a little farther off balance -- inviting him into her home again would've set her off balance in a different way, because it'd feel more like she had the 'power' there...
Which means it wouldn't have affected her quite the same way if she'd felt like it was her bequeathing knowledge rather than sharing it, once Shisui asks for resources to help Itachi. It makes her feel more like a friend and less like an authority.
Farther on, he accosts her again, and asks questions that are both insightful and challenging -- something most people don't manage. Her perception of him changes again, and again, until she realizes near the end of the chapter that he's just as multi-faceted as her, and he seems to like her, and that they just click in a way she's not used to.
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I made a ridiculously goofy uquiz to test the system. Which means Iâm going to tag people to take it. Feel free to tag other people in it, too, although theyâre going to be very confused, or to take it even if not tagged!
anyway to distract from my sad screams here, have a WIP shot of a picture Iâm likely never going to finish. itâs meant to be Sakura in chapter 4 of rs&ls, when sheâs looking at All The Flowers. the dress is a Siu special thatâs based on absolutely nothing real. at all.
