100% Krogan

72% margin of error Mass Effect blog

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Intro time baby

Ask box is OPEN

Main blog is @junewashere

My name is June

I go by Any Pronouns

Find me on ao3 @copiousPolyphaga

posts may be inconsistent

72% chance I’m not actually krogan

Currently finished all of mass effect and mourning

I pretty much plan on rambling about my playthrough of the mass effect series and sharing my thoughts! Questions and comments are always welcome

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funny hc that most antivan crows actually never know what’s actually a crow. It came to me after I did lucanis’ quest to find his badass grandma and saw a giant crow statue…that didn’t look like a crow to me.

now i’m imagining that every house has an obligatory “crow” statue that’s not actually a crow. each sculpter was killed whenever it was pointed out to the talon that their big quartz, obsidian, or wtv material, statue was in fact a jackdaw or a black bird.

[kaiserouo]

i like upgrade

also you can't just put this in front of my face and expect me not to go fucking berserk. wdym they gave them abs. what the fuck

also i almost never watched ben 10 despite being gen z so i had to read through upgrade's way-longer-and-detailed-than-i-expected wiki page don't expect me to draw more of that

[volchonika]

we still doin sonas?

[astraryy]

Happy N7◢ day !!

It's far from perfect bc it was very rushed, but this year the focus is on the future of mass effect!! I'm excited and curious to discover even a crumb of the plot line hehehe

Liara has the outfit from 2020 teaser, and the geth is clothed like in the 2023 poster (and a matching hood obv). No I'm not obsessed what are you talking about

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Happy pride month pt 2

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my brother keeps comparing jane shepard to haley williams but specifically when she was in paramore. Like okay yes but it’s absurd that you know paramore

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Shepard and Liara (and Lord Huron) WIP

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Legion - ME2

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drawings in order: @theviridianbunny @capnmarvl @liskade @garfbin @atanertheartist @ale-tie @tempestrune @gravitonspike

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What be some of your Shiara headcanons?

this has been in my inbox since FOREVER and i feel so bad because whenever i try to write them down i forget all of them

so here's a few random silly ones, if i get any good ideas you'll probably see them in the form of drawings/posts at some point

• liara has cold ass feet and pushes them against shepard in bed to annoy her

• shepard fiddles with liara's crests to annoy her

• liara doesn't know shepard's red hair is not natural until she walks in on her, entire bathroom covered in her cheap red hair dye, the walls, the sink, running down her arms - liara thinks it's blood at first - imagine the rest

• humans are considered one of the least attractive aliens amongst asari because of how similar they look to them and shepard only learns about this after years of being with liara, but liara loves her pinkish brown hairy wife

• liara forgets to "look happy" sometimes and will look kinda sad/in her head until someone goes up to her like "are you okay..?" and she's like "😐... of course! i'm having so much fun! 😀" - npc who doesn't emote unless prompted syndrome (literally me)

• shepard treats glyph as if he's alexa or siri and liara tells her it's not what glyph is for but glyph listens to her anyway

• shepard has no idea how long asari pregnancies last and when she hears liara talk to one of her friends and say "you're 2 years pregnant and glowing!" she gets a little caught off guard

• liara really doesn't understand the concept of bikini tops

• shepard made liara try chocolate once and liara absolutely hated it, then later wrote an entry in her diary "today i learned humans eat emulsified solid blocks of fermented and dried Theobroma cacao fruit with an alarmingly high sugar and theobromine content. it is some sort of legalised drug. i suppose krogan cuisine really isn't all that bad."

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i’ve been writing so much about my shiara fan kids without actually writing anything. anyway about Liara’s age and having kids…

I think it’s around 350 that’s asari typically settle down and have children? Now I can’t remember if it’s because of biological reasons or social. If it’s biological then is there specific reasons that asari don’t have children? Maybe it’s related to the gene copying? Does it need a delicacy and precision that comes with age? If it’s done incorrectly does that cause complications with the birth?

If it’s social then I’m assuming it’s do with asari’s matriarchy years being the most socially active along with socially respected. I imagine an asari is pretty taxing those first few decades so it’s almost seen as a waste to be pregnant during your matriarch years. So…i guess they go get the baby outta the way for hot girl matriarchy!

(which added im imagining what it was like for Benezia to be pregnant during her years as a matriarch. I see it’s a common headcanon that she became a matriarch much younger than others so maybe it was much more dismissible?)

I would believe it’s a healthy mix of the too. Have kids too young and you risk not only your health but your child’s. have them late and face social scrutiny and possibly lose out on precious decades as a matriarch! Either way i think liara is damn aware of the risks that comes with having a child young, let alone multiple. She’s mature, weathered by the war, and intelligent. There’s no way in hell she hasn’t thought of every possible thing that might go wrong. But I think the fear losing Shepard again, not only to age but in the slow rebuilding after the war. Liara is all the things I listed and plenty more, but she’s also impulsive, passionate, and hard headed. “Asari don’t get much from their dad’s” my ass.

Part of the life Liara wants with Shepard is the little blue kids. It’s lazy mornings where death isn’t at their doorstep. It’s no longer being plauged with heavy weight of the galaxy anymore. Truthfully, she doesn’t have much time for that. So ykw, yes she has those damn blue babies at 100 something. She wants to live her life with shepard, no matter what.

and i’m glad i held off on posting this because god the new gear store stuff is just SICKENING. let them have the blue babies bioware

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Humans copying behavior would trip aliens out so bad. Like we react to animals turning their head at the 45 degree angle and go “does it make more sense at a 45 degree angle?” and then copy them. Then imagine an alien seeing us do that and going “does it make more sense at a 45 degree angle?”

And then we start copying them and they’re either terrified or amused by it.

I mean on a surface level for other races it may not pop out. hey the human is being less confusing/their body language is so much more readable now! and then some of the more paranoid would go “they’re trying to lower our defenses by duplicating our intimate subtle languages…and then kill us all!!”

Asari express many emotions simply through subtle energy shifts. Younger asari are noted for having shit lying skills due to their lack of control over biotic energy. Their intricacies lie within their energy, but that doesn’t mean they don’t have body language. The pursing of lips, while not exclusive to asari, is noted to communicate intense frustrations or discomfort. Humans eagerly picked up on the habit, often mimicking the asari to convey their own feelings of discontent. Popular consensus in asari spaces on the extranet was that it was adorable.

Krogan use their teeth as a threat. It’s common for krogan to ‘smile’ at each other as an act of intimidation, thought biting isn’t usually the most practical form of combat for them. You tend to lose a lot of teeth that way. Then humans came along all toothy and having the general label as the biggest bullies next to turians! A lot of hostility brewed between the two species and eventually it became common knowledge that “when a human bares it teeth at you that’s not an invite to fight,” and “don’t smile at krogan, it usually ends up with a cracked rib.” Now it seems a lot of bar fights between krogans and humans are initiated with ‘smiles’ and done so purposefully.

I think more of the paranoia comes from turians and salarians. They both have the tendency to over analyze things…well in the case of the turians I would too if we just went to war with these flesh bags. I think a few human related conspiracies become popular because of this behavior we display.

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Shepard taking their LI on a mission and before they exit the shuttle they clank their helmets/breathers together.

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Do salarians live long enough to get dementia? Or because of how important their brain is to thrive a lot of their genetics and biology goes great lengths to protect it from any form of decay or harm. I’m sure dementia isn’t a strictly human thing. If anything I think it’s just as common amongst quarians, turians, batarians, and volus.

But like…most of the time quarians who are in the late stages of dementia or probably humanely euthanized. Turians rarely get to that stage due to war, battles, and petty arguments. Batarians typically do not get to live taht long and if they do it’s not unusual for them to be socially shunned. And for volus…yeah i think it’s a pretty normal part of their life actually.

To salarians though, where memory is picture perfect, their brain process things so quickly, and their society revolves around the use of your brain, imagine how terrifying that must sound. You start to forget people you’ve met. You act extremely erratically and begin to lose yourself. Your processing becomes slower and suddenly you’re useless to your people. In the salarian life span, the signs of dementia are fast and deadly. They come at a young age. It doesn’t matter what or who you were before it, now you’re seen as not only a genetic anomaly but someone not worth keeping.

Interestingly I think the response to dementia is much more grim. Their mourning you before you’re even dead, and for a time you know that.

I think it’d be cool to see salarians depicting dementia more of how we depict zombies.

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but if we were gonna lean into the goofy side of mass effect we should have had a thing in the citadel dlc where all translators get disconnected for comedy reasons. all the humans suddenly have much more pronounced accents or even flat out other languages. kaidan speaks tagalog just to annoy others who havent bothered to learn anything other than english in the 22nd century. tali can actually speak other alien languages because quarians rarely have fully properly translated VIs courtesy of the galaxy sucking. krogans sound twice as intimidating and wrex enjoys it. turians sound like somewhere between a cat and a bird clicking and squawking and everyone laughs about it. asari inexplicably sound a thousand times more beautiful but also none of them can speak a single word in another language except liara t'soni nerd extraordinaire but she's only fluent in mandarin considering it's the most populous language on earth. the whole incident lasts five minutes but it's enough to be the sole conversation topic during the party afterwards

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imagining all of the me2 crew having to go to Shepard for money if they don’t have it. I honestly assume most of them don’t.

Kasumi and Zaeed and employed by Ceberus but are only payed at the end of the job, so they have to rely on their own money to get by.

Grunt doesn’t have a bank account, Jack’s is probably frozen like…permanently until authorization, Samara only spends it on basic needs, and Garrus straight up doesn’t have a job.

Miranda, Jacob, Joker, and suprisingly Mordin are being payed by ceberus regularly. Legion does not need money, Thane has a sizable bank account, and Tali tends to get a decent amount of chits for all the information she sends to the fleet(just enough for medical expenses and needs)

So generally Shepard’s crew ask for a lot of favors which involve a lot of shopping trips. Shepard leaves a notepad on the fridge for her crew to write down different things they possibly want or need. Shepard tends to use her Ceberus funds on a lot of stupid things so she’s more than happy to ball out on her crews whims.

Everytime the Illusive man reads a receipt of expenses from the normandy he smokes an extra pack. Hes seen more limited edition fleet and flotilla merch and accurate shark figurines than he’d like.

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Yk?