Sun Shep/Garrus 8 10 and 11
8. How does one comfort the other when the other is in distress/having a panic attack/crying
With Shepard, her panic attacks range from shutting down and dissociating to avoid the pain, to all-out sobbing (which is rare and means she’s reached her absolute limit–Sun’s a soldier. She doesn’t cry unless it really hurts.).
When they were first getting to know each other, Garrus picked up quick on the dissociating kind of anxiety that she gets, especially when it came to dealing with thresher maws, so sometimes he’d sit a little closer to her after the mission, subvocals purring at a comforting frequency he wasn’t sure she could hear all that well. (Wrex gave him Looks sometimes but he always just ignored them.)
After they get together for real, he’s a very tactile kind of comforter because he knows that helps. Shepard gets lost in memories, especially during the war, so he does what he can to help ground her back in the moment. Lots of touching and forehead nuzzles.
With Garrus, his freak outs are either sulkier or louder–he can get worked up enough that he wants to kill something, but that’s only very rarely. Sun always comes to him when he’s pouting, wrapping her arms around him and just holding him until he sighs and turns around to hug her back, and then they just stay like that for a while.
Really, all he needs to know is that she’s there, and he’s already feeling better, if he’s being honest. She’s everything, unhealthy as it might be.
10. Which one stares at the other’s booty like “damn” and how does the other react when catching them
Garrus rarely notices, though.
He actually does the most staring, because damn her armor fits well–he’s been looking since the SR-1, to be honest. She also rarely ever catches him, and usually just writes it off as nothing.
11. When they live together what kinda place do they live in? What does their home look like?
They live in a little place by the sea on Palaven. It’s got plenty of windows (tinted to protect Sun’s delicate human skin) and the back door opens right onto the beach. Their bedroom has a glass wall (with curtains of course) that opens onto the sand as well. The walls are warm colors–reds and cream whites. It’s got a very comfortable, lived-in feel to it to any visitors. There’s a family shrine in an indent in the hallway wall, with pictures of Sun’s parents and Garrus’s mother and various other things for other fallen loved ones (a piece of Shepard’s old armor for Legion, seashells for Mordin).