#axel shepard

[ghostxofxartemis]

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Mass Effect Trilogy Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Kaidan Alenko/Male Shepard Characters: Kaidan Alenko, Male Shepard (Mass Effect), Axel Shepard (OC) Additional Tags: Sick Partner, taking care of partner Series: Part 8 of Kinktober/Flufftober 2021, Part 8 of Axel Shepard Summary:

A melodramatic Axel gets taken care by his loving partner.

Big thank you to @bardofheartdive for betaing for me!

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“Kai…”

The sound of coughing drifts into the kitchen as Kaidan stirs the pot of soup;  his mother’s homemade recipe. Minestrone, one of his favourites while growing up.

“Yeah?”

“I’m fucking dying…”

Kaidan bites down on his lower lip to keep himself from laughing as he continues to mix the soup. He knows Axel is writhing on the couch, making things look much worse than they actually are.

Kaidan witnessed the man eat bullets as he charged into no man’s land, dislocate his shoulder and still fight like nobody’s business, get ribs broken from being rammed by a krogan, and not once did he ever complain. In fact, the one time Axel sat on the gurney in the med-bay back on the SR-1, laughing about his broken ribs, had Kaidan a little concerned the man wasn’t right in the head, albeit being his roommate on Acturus station for years and being friends with him.

He watched on as Axel made jokes, trying to distract Ashley from her injuries as Dr. Chawkas patched her up, and Kaidan understood then why everyone thought so highly of him; he always put the needs of others before his. Kaidan admires that, loves that about him. Just remembering it makes Kaidan’s cheeks warm.

Yet somehow, a cold has him begging for his life and Kaidan can’t help but find this hilarious.

“Kaidan, did you hear me? I’m dying!” Discontent groans and moans are overly exaggerated by the man lying on the couch.

Kaidan stifles his laughter by biting on his knuckles. “You’re fine.” He calls out to the living room.

“Kaidan, that's heartless. I’m going to be dead tomorrow and you’re going to feel bad.”  Axel’s voice is barely hoarse.

[ghostxofxartemis]

Thermal scope for everybody?

Oof, Everyone? All right... here goes! From this ask here.

John: is a street kid, he knows to trust his gut. If someone feels off he'll keep a close eye on that person and look for their ulterior motives. He'll keep that person close but he's always watching them, waiting for them to make a wrong move, then watch out. He's been stabbed in the back way too many often that he really knows when his hair is standing up on his arms that he needs to watch out. He believes action speaks louder than words, so he wont take words at face value until he sees what your actions are. Are the actions contradicting the words? Or are the actions truly what the person says the are? He'll always be watching their movement. He didn't trust Miranda at first, but as he got to know the person under the serious demeanor he realized a lot of was just a face put on to hide her insecurities and she's truly a softy under that hard shell of hers.

Alex: tends to be an analyzer. Part of it is because the way John taught her things. He'd always tell her, "don't take things at face value." "Don't believe everything you hear/see." "Things aren't always what they seem." etc. So she'll study you, intensively. If you prove your worth though, she'll take you under her way and be your staunch protector.

Leah: will stare you down, head to toe. And it's very intimidating and she loves watching people squirm underneath her, if they don't squirm, then she knows she has to be watchful over them, cause they're dangerous. She generally just has a lot of trust issues, especially when it comes with dealing with other species.

Axel: he's never really been one to read people. It took him forever to see that Kaidan was interested in him, he just couldn't see it, to some extent the lost of Ash also really effected him that he was pretty unreceptive to others. But he also doesn't take things to face value.

Reagan: skeptical of everyone until she gets to know them, then she's super tight with you and your best friend. But she also purposely makes it hard for others to get close to her because (also being a street kid) she needs to study you extensively before she lets you in. She'll study your words, your actions, and if the intend is always good, she'll slowly let you in but she won't necessarily give information out about herself.

[ghostxofxartemis]

Prothean Relic for the Mass Effect OC meme please? For any/all of your OCs!

Thank you for asking!! From this asks here.

Prothean relic - How does the character feel towards other species? Do they believe that their own species is exceptional in some way?

John: Hadn't been around a lot of other species until he joined the Alliance. He knew of them, of course, he had extensively studied the first contact war before joining the Alliance, but he hadn't seen any until he left the Sol System. John actually chose to work with the turian during ICT, their military tactics intrigued him a lot and their cultures, and he respects the turian highly because their military is the strongest. When he learned Nihlus had brought forth his name as a Spectre candidate he felt truly honored because he knows the turians are really hard to impress.

He considers Wrex and Garrus his brothers and no one can convince him otherwise.

John truly believes in respecting the other species, because they make great allies and they truly would make formidable enemies he wouldn't want to face on the other side of the battlefield. Among the other species, he truly feels like humans have a lot to learn.

Leah: is skeptical of other species and this really just has to do with the raid on Mindoir. Because it wasn't just Batarians that burned the colony and murdered her family but there were other alien species and being she was only sixteen when this happened, she doesn't know better and a feeling that can't be changed. She's more trusting of the asari because none were at Mindoir, but it still took her some time to warm up to Liara, in fact she was rude to Liara for a while until she was certain that Liara wasn't going to betray them because of her mother Benezia.

Axel: grew up in space, he would see his parents work with the other species on missions from time to time and for him whether your white, green, yellow, blue, or jelly, it doesn't matter as long as you respect one another.

Reagan: Is indifferent. As long as you don't get on her bad side, she'll respect you, if get on her bad side she'll come after you. Krogan's tend to her respect her because of that. Grunt definitely call her battlemaster as long as she lives and her and Wrex are tight because they both love battle.

Alex: Grow up around the other species her whole life since she grew up mostly on the Citadel and on the Normandy. Garrus would come and go on the Normandy all the time. She loved learning anything engineer related from Tali. Liara stuck around for years on the Normandy working as the Shadow Broker until she could find a good place to conduct her business. Uncle Wrex gave the most thrilling war stories. So for her, doesn't matter if you're blood related, anyone can be family, and a lot can be learned from the other species since they've been around a lot longer.

She also trained with the Asari during ICT. She chose them because of their exceptional and natural biotic abilities and wanted to learn how to be a Vanguard the Asari way.

[ghostxofxartemis]

Hello, dear! You've been visited by the random character question fairy! :D ~☆

Has your character ever hurt or been hurt by a friend? What were the repercussions from this incident? Did the friendship survive?

Thank you for asking random OC Fairy!

Axel Shepard was engaged to a woman who left him once she found out he had been invited to ICT, N7 School, for she was not found of special forces individuals. When she left he was devastated. This caused him to rebound and bring many different partners home almost every other night to fill a hole.

Their friendship did not survive and unfortunately she did in the war before they had a chance to reconcile. 

Thank you for stopping by little fairy!

[rogue-healer]

OC ethnicities (WIP thingy)

I guess while I’m rambling, might as well mention some other characters.

- Sergio Ryder is Filipino, and looks more like it than his sister. The two have matching tattoos, and though Alec objected, Ellen persuaded him to “let the kids live their lives”. The two frequently hang out together and just as frequently get into arguments that leave both on non-talking terms for a few days, during which each twin would love to talk to the other but then remembers they’re supposed to be angry. (Ellen fixes this easily by taking both out for lunch.)

- Simo Ryder is part Serb, part Bulgarian and uncannily resembles his father, right down to the personality, which certainly didn’t do anything to foster much familial warmth between the two. He’s extremely protective of his older sister, perhaps even moreso than Sara is of her “baby brother”. Sara tends to give Simo a good bit of personal space, however, since she knows her autistic brother can be non-verbal at times, and prefers to initiate conversations himself.

- Aren Shepard is some sort of mix that I haven’t figured out yet. He’ll probably be my canon Shep if more Shepard-related stuff happens. His light blue eyes and relatively fair skin (nowhere near as pale as Axel though) are going to be hard to fit into a non-white ethnicity.

- Axel Shep is German, maybe plus some Scandinavian. He’s incredibly pale and burns easily, but also has jet black hair.

- Lux Shep is (probably) African American or Creole. Haven’t figured out her speech patterns yet. She’s a bookworm who still uses printed books.

- Ren Shep’s half Japanese and a quarter Chinese, I think. Haven’t quite gotten her background down.