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Emrys is what happens when a guy doesn't realise he's been living in survival mode for three decades and just thinks he's "doing what he has to". On one hand, he looks cool doing it and it does make him a scarily good soldier. On the other, he's like three breakdowns deep by the middle of ME3...

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Been working on custom modding Emrys to match how I draw him and I'm glad to report I've slapped both the tramp stamp and jockstrap on him, which is very funny to me but really only useful for this scene... Going to make up for it by experimenting with covering mshenko in body hair and cleaning up those damn hands if I can </3

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Mshenko Ship Polls

Polls for fans of Mass Effect's MShenko! Please feel free to elaborate in the replies or reblogs as much or as little as you'd like. If a poll reminds you of something you've created for your Mshenko (art, fanfic, gifs, photos you've taken in-game, etc,) please feel free to link or include it!

Do your Shepard and Kaidan have a favorite type of date night?

Standard dinner date

Task date (E.g. grocery shopping)

Work date (E.g. Citadel DLC Casino Mission)

Activity dates (E.g. Armax Arsenal Arena)

Stay-home dates

They're not the traditional "date" types

Other / Multiple

Voting ended onMay 31

[loyseeng]

I just can't stop laughing at Kaidan's eye roll every time Shepard comes for a talk

[p1ssfag]

I hate this fuckass game. I hate Kaidan's sad eyebrows. I hate having to order him away AGAIN. I hate that they had so little time before this. I hate the hand he holds out to Shepard, even as Shepard walks away. I hate the hopeless way it goes limp as Kaidan accepts this is really goodbye and yet again he can't drag Shepard back, he can't hold onto him, because the universe has placed an unfathomable burden on Shepard and Shepard alone, and he knows that no matter how utterly, how painfully, how entirely, he loves Shepard, nothing will ever take that burden away. I hate that he knew all that already, and still decided loving Shepard was worth suffering for.

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tidied up maid kaidan from last week🧹🧹

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quick af cause im sick af... kaidan for maid day

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Okay well my last post was meant to be a joke but it actually kinda worked well together so.

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Just redid the 183 pull-ups scene so you know what I can do now.........

[blueeemoth]

[stonelions]

You know when you’re out running and there’s that one intrepid guy in the little shorts just tearing past everybody else and putting all the other runners to shame? 

Yeah Kaidan would be that guy. 

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The fact that Kaidan has the opportunity to shoot Brooks after you reclaim the Normandy in the Citadel DLC is so interesting to me, and I think for Emrys it's actually a really huge deal for them. (Obviously, from a gameplay perspective, all squadmates can shoot her, so of course Kaidan would be included, etc. etc..)

There's a point way back in Saren's base where it really hits home for Emrys that Kaidan has become a significant part of his moral compass--even before they're anything more than friends. When they come across the docile indoctrinated salarians, Emrys opts to execute them out of mercy. It seems a more honourable death to be looked in the eyes by the person pulling the trigger than being eviscerated in a jail cell by a bomb they didn't even know was coming. There's not really any chance for them, not really a life left to live. Perhaps if the circumstances were different, but they're not. It's not strictly a necessary action though, so he bloodies his own hands--doesn't ask of his squad to do the same. Regardless, Kaidan makes it clear that he's not a fan of Shepard's decision to kill them.

Not long after, they encounter Rana Thanoptis--and under any other circumstance, Emrys would have shot her without second thought. He has a few reasons--vague sentiments of preventing her from causing future harm, knowing what corporate scientists are like--but if he's honest, they're flimsy justifications. Yet, that isn't what first makes him hesitate: it's the feeling of being on thin ice with Kaidan. Having just killed the salarians, killing Rana feels like a decision that would genuinely harm Kaidan's perception of him--especially without a damn good justification.

It feels frivolous on the surface, to spare someone because the guy he's flirting with would look at him differently, but it's more than that. He's a better man with Kaidan, instinctively slows down his decisions and truly rationalises them, purely for having Kaidan's morals as an anchor, as a point of reference to judge his own against.

And then, three years later, Kaidan shoots Brooks.

And he didn't have to. Not really. Realistically, she wasn't going to get very far anyway. It's justifiable from a purely pragmatic perspective, sure, but not particularly ironclad. A sort of grey area that ME1 Kaidan would have taken the more compassionate side for--or at least aimed for her leg, perhaps. But here, he just pulls the trigger and watches her drop. And for once, it's not Emrys moving more towards Kaidan's morals, it's Kaidan moving towards Emrys'.

Which isn't to say Kaidan becomes more 'renegade', more ruthless, because that isn't what this is. They're not one good and one bad. Instead, Kaidan's comfortable in allowing himself to set lines when it comes to protecting the people he loves that are no longer last resorts. He's allowing himself to have more control over a situation by pulling the point of action away from 'necessary' into something more grey, something where things could still go either way. He's opting to make the hard decisions before the action becomes obvious and inevitable, and even without the pressure of needing imminent action, when the conditions are right to him, he will make the choice to kill. But more personally, he's showing that his love for Shepard has just as much influence over how he sits with his morals, as Emrys' love for Kaidan has over his. Emrys never doubted that, Kaidan never makes him feel anything less than incredibly important to him, but there's something about seeing it in action knowing it didn't come from a conversation about integrity and hard decisions, but simply from loving someone so deeply. And, hell, maybe it's also the pride in seeing Kaidan do something unapologetically brash that he would've done. It's damn hot to watch, if nothing else.

[annakie]

I have updated the Maximizing Kaidan's Banter in ME3 post with a link to a reddit thread where a user posted a matrix of Kaidan's banter priority vs the other companions!

*edit* Oh hey, @p1ssfag is the user and it was posted here on tumblr, here, too!

I also did some mod list updating on it about a month ago, too!

[p1ssfag]

Kaidan dialogue priority (Citadel DLC Archives mission)

I posted this over on Reddit with more context but, just incase anyone finds it useful, I wanted to pop it here too since I couldn't find any posts about it myself. TLDR: For the widest variety of Kaidan dialogue, do two runs: one with Garrus, one with Tali (if Tali isn't available, take EDI). Kaidan keeps the most dialogue lines overall with Garrus or Liara. Wrex steals his "Big place" comment. (Give me a shout if you notice any errors / inconsistencies, I put this together from my experience with the loadouts, but bugs and stuff can happen!)

[cryptid-jack]

Saw an art meme going around of everyone drawing their faves like this on bsky and had to join in with Kaidan XD

(pose from marinachoyy on insta)

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Shepard's grand plan of sewing his name onto his clothes in obvious places knowing Kaidan's going to borrow them.

i just wanted an excuse to draw kaidan's body hair icl

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going on missions as mshep with james and kaidan, otherwise known as the 'buncha men grunting and groaning' squad.

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a guy makes ONE post about grunting and groaning..........