#calhoun shepard

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This is the last set for tonight. This was all Kasumi’s loyalty mission. And trust me I hated the dress part, so did Calhoun.

1) Calhoun was really conflicted on this...it seemed...odd to bring a gold statue of Saren into the party. It also crossed her mind that really, it was just history repeating itself. Saren was trying to break into the Citadel and unleash the Reapers...while clearly not on the same scale, Kasumi figured a “Trojan Horse” was a good idea. 

2) Calhoun Shepard hates dresses and this one felt terrible. She was all too eager to pull on her armor ASAP.

3) The scene placement in this was just so good. *chef kiss*

4) “A tank! Let’s use it!”

5) “So the tank didn’t work out. SO I decided to make a wall explode.”

6/7) When you need a giant ship brought down, bring your biotic aunt with you!

8) Calhoun ultimately let Kasumi keep her greybox. It wasn’t her place to tell the woman yes or no. 

9) I was wandering through the Shadow Broker ship and once again...Calhoun’s lack of vision has struck again. “Nice picture!” “Shepard that is the wall you’re staring at.”

10) SHE HAS A PICTURE OF LIARA ON HER DESK!

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We’re back! 

1) Awkward Calhoun unsure how to comfort grieving husband. 

2) Calhoun was relieved to see Anderson alive, after having to make the painful choice to leave him, she was glad to have him bug her in the comm room. 

3) When you gotta get shit done you bring the 50,000 year old Prothean and your buddy Garrus! To...go rescue a station full of biotic children!

4) I was so excited to see Jack here at the academy and I’m sure Calhoun made an attempt to hug Jack and got decked (again) for it. 

5) Calhoun is just grumbling to herself; “I’m just trying to save the galaxy and I’m the one that gets stuck holding open the damn door.”

5.a) I was EXTREMELY happy to see David Archer here! I legit screamed with excitement when I heard his little square root equation and I know Calhoun was relieved as fuck to see that he was healthy and thriving. I’m just sad I couldn’t get a screenshot. 

6) Calhoun’s “I need help with family matters” senses are tingling again. 

7) And they continue yet again.

8) I had taken this picture because I love Joker, and I felt Calhoun was just venting...AND THEN I SAW HIS EYES.

9) Calhoun brings her Prothean obsessed girlfriend to talk with Javik. 

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I made a meme in a time of screenshot drought for the like 4 people that actually bother looking at my terribly timed screenshots haha.

Calhoun loves explosives almost as much as she loves headbutts.

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It has been a hot minute since I’ve uploaded Calhoun adventures! I think mostly what takes me forever is getting the desire to edit my screenshots since my computer takes a screenshot for both of my monitors lol. 

1) I had to go AFK during this scene with Vega so when I came back I was like “woah why am I bleeding?” Anyway I took it as Calhoun letting Vega get in a few good punches before she just decks him into the ground.

2) Calhoun “Smooth af” Shepard, flirting with Liara. Again. I swear. Does Calhoun do nothing else?

3/4/5) Calhoun and Garrus reconnecting again. As much as Calhoun loves Wrex - Garrus was another person she loved being around. Even if they did have different approaches to how to get things done.

6) Calhoun accidently triggered “Edi you’re a real person!” dialog and thus here we are haha.

7) I died when they all landed awkwardly on the ground xD

8/9/10) How am I gonna tell the world I revived ANOTHER previously extinct alien species? Surely they won’t be...too mad right?

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We’re back with more Calhoun adventures! :D This time we had to rescue our girlfriend again haha.

1) Calhoun is disgusted. It seems that she has to wrangle in control over her own crew again. She was rather surprised by Kaiden’s continued doubt of her cutting ties with Cerberus. Which is understandable, but Calhoun felt she made it explicitly clear she had only used them (just as they used her).

2/3) Calhoun shares a moment with her girlfriend, and makes a cheesy one-liner after this.

4) The game really doesn’t give you a chance to “react” to this - but Calhoun was mortified. I imagine that she immedately went back to her cabin on the Normandy and just...intnernally freaked out.

5) Yup this does seem like Calhoun’s handiwork. There’s no adventure with Calhoun unless there’s an explosion!

6) Despite their differences, Calhoun really can’t bring herself to hate Kaiden. I’m sure she was rather upset seeing him get tossed around like a rag doll.

7) Calhoun never knows what to think of Hackett. She prefers Anderson over Hackett.

8) Now this whole scene has me...questioning several things. I hate the human centric story you face with - but as my friend explained, we are humans and naturally we’d be more upset at our own home being attacked. Still in the game, humanity is not the only race under attack. Yet you are trying to pull valuable resources from the Council races (and others) to go and fight for Earth. It just doesn’t make sense. (And Calhoun is literally just gesturing violently to the side wanting to say: “I fucking told you guys this three years ago wtih Saren!”

9) This was honestly trippy and horrifying. This weird nightmare garden world. While I’m glad to see BioWare putting effort into Shepard’s “I’m fine” attitude, I wouldn’t be upset seeing more stressors for Calhoun. Like this woman is literally the only one that can save anyone and she’s stressed af. Not to mention having to deal with issues she caused from the other two games. 

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Seems like we’ll be finishing up ME2 tomorrow or so. Very excited - I have never touched ME3 so I’m stoked to start it up.

1) When your good Quarian friend needs some help to back her up in trial, and clear her name, who better to bring than Shepard AND Legion! :D (my friend convinced me to bring Legion along for Tali’s trial and I was not disappointed). 

2) Morrigan...is that you? I was so shocked to hear Loghain and Morrigan’s voices when I stumbled onto this flotilla. Ironic that their characters aren’t that horribly different than they are in Dragon Age.

3/4) Calhoun fights dearly for her crew. She was really thrown for a loop when she heard about the “council” lying to Tali about her father and why they really wanted her back. It also hit Calhoun hard when she heard that Tali was ALREADY exiled by the time they stepped foot onto the flotila. At that rate, any respect Calhoun had for the Quarians were shot out an airlock.

5) Tali is where she belongs. On the Normandy. Welcome Tali'Zorah vas Normandy. 

6) Calhoun is actually REALLY tired of dealing with everyone’s shit. She knows that the mission coming up has everyone on edge but she’s really just like; “Guys I know you two have some genocide issues to work through but we gotta get the job done.” She’ll be happy when all of this Collector shit is done.

7) We brought Legion for Tali’s mission, so we brought Tali for Legion’s mission! :D What could go wrong?!

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2 of 3 - with Thane’s loyalty mission and part of Liara’s “loyalty” mission.

1) My friend really liked Thane’s “cool man” sunglasses. 

2) The Arthur Angry fist. I was trying to net Paragon points with Calhoun but holy shit was it tempting to just mash that Renegade button. Bioware REALLY wanted you to press it. I got 3 different prompts for it.

3) Calhoun confused...or intimidating.

4) Epic Entrance with the two questionable moral aunts.

5) Calhoun finally gets to catch some shut eye. Sure she may have fallen out a window...but it’s fine really.

6) That moment when you realize that Calhoun Shepard is driving the car chasing you.

7) Honestly this was another moment that I really felt like Calhoun sorta had to step back and appraise. She loves Liara and she wants to help - but she also is aware that maybe she’s too helpful? Liara was trying to fend for herself for two years and seemed to be doing a good job. Then Calhoun shows back up and sorta throws a wrench into everything. For Calhoun time passed in the blink of an eye - she didn’t have to mourn anyone.

8) I honestly love all these overused “Wild West” pistol draws and group gunshots haha.

9) When you bring your Geth son on a field trip with you and your girlfriend to beat up some guy.

10) Shepard please...you do not have to manspread. Honestly. Liara is your girlfriend and the only other person in that shuttle is a Geth AI. Relax there is no one to assert dominace over.

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Time for more Calhoun fun! This time its the Samara and Garrus loyalty missions. (Along with Legion...) 

1) “Don’t you worry Samara, we’ll go find your daughter.”

2/3/4) Calhoun MAY have underestimated Samara’s warning about Mornith. 

5) Calhoun “Alien Fucker” Shepard IS VERY CONFLICTED 

6) I can’t remember where this shot was from but...

7/8) Calhoun could care less about Sidonis, honestly. She just wants to beat the shit out of Harkin. 

9) “Shepard-Commander.” “Legion.”