#desabrudas

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right i spent far too much time on this incredibly dumb meme on wednesday night not to show the rest of you. today on memes desolas arterius makes

(based on this)

"mean to him" here means "makes him eat real meals" and "tells him to stop arguing with his brother at 3am and get some sleep"

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Words: 5,775 Fandom: Mass Effect (Comics), Mass Effect - All Media Types Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Abrudas/Desolas Arterius Characters: Abrudas (Mass Effect), Desolas Arterius, Original Turian Character(s) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - No Reapers (Mass Effect), Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Alien Biology, Alien Culture, Family Fluff, Past Violence Summary: Fifteen years after Shanxi, Imperial NewsNet manages to land an exclusive interview with Desolas Arterius, now retired from command and living peacefully on Palaven in contented obscurity. After the article goes live, Valis finds him reading it - and the comments section, where the extranet is naturally being the extranet.

morning lads, just for fun and to give myself some sort of writing challenge i’m trying to do 4 desabrudas one-shots this month, first up is.... okay listen the prompt concept was silly i swear this was supposed to be silly

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Valis: you can't finger gun away from your depression

Desolas: watch me

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desolas: my love language is words of affirmation

valis: so you have a praise kink

desolas: listen-

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Valis: do you think before you speak?

Desolas: i have never thought about anything ever

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do uhhh numbers ending in 3 for kryterius (so 3, 13, 23, etc) and numbers ending in 6 for desabrudas

jazz hands 3 n 6 r my fav #s so Nice

for kryterius:

3. Who hogs the cover/ Who loves to cuddle? saren is 110% the one who hogs the blankets even when they have like 20 bc i figure biotics get colder easier than most ppl do which results in blanket hoarding. n tbh theyre both serial cuddlers nihlus will come home from a mission and just plop on saren for cuddles and attention while saren warms his hands and feets on nihlus13. Who is considered the scaredy cat? mmm they kinda both r in their own ways, saren is easily startled by loud and sudden noises which has resulted in a toaster being biotically flung one time while nihlus Hates Hates the dark with a special kind of passion so they kinda tease each other over their things23. Who asks who out on the first date? nnnihlus he shows up at sarens house like hey do u wanna get food?? n also smooch a lil?? or a lot??33. Who would wear “not guilty” t-shirt/ Who would wear “sin” t-shirt? nihlud wears the not guilty shirt while saren has like 50 sin shirts of different styles43. Who wins the stuffed animals at the carnival for the other one? mmm nihlus n saren both kinda do nihlus handles the louder games when he sees a stuffed animal saren needs while saren does the quieter games

and now for desabrudas aka rarepair Hell tm

6. Who would have really deep emotional thoughts at the middle of the night/ Who would have them in the middle of the day? des is more prone to deep emotional thoughts late at night which usually results in sappy kisses and telling valis how pretty she is even if he has to wake her up at like 3 am while valis gets them more during the day cue fluffy texts and smooches when they see each other16. Who is scared of thunderstorms? neither of them is exactly scared tbh but they do get that initial holy shit what the fuck was that and use it as an excuse to cuddle under the blankets 26. Who likes to eat healthy/ Who loves junk food? tbh they try to eat healthy valis especially is the one who attempts to write a healthy grocery list but gives up halfway thru cuz des has a Massive sugar tooth and valis has a p big one as well36. Who is the social media addict? mm tbh i dont think either of them are addicted too bad?? they kind of are when any of their kids have to leave mostly to make sure theyre not missing Anything at all esp if they're in another solar system or w/ever46. Who has the longer food order? desssss desolas does valis makes a metric fuckton tm of jokes about whether or not des is secretly a biotic simply due to how much he can put away in one sitting

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Look i cant write canon characters well but i Tried + they need more fluff so shrug emoji as a nihlus tho can confirm i was an ass 2 saren height difference kisses For a Turian Saren was rather small, topping out at six feet exactly which left him at a slight disadvantage when interacting with species that were naturally very tall. So it ended up that half the time he was practically climbing onto the nearest chair to be able to stare someone in the eyes to be able to properly yell at them or in the current case; having to deal with Nihlus laughing at him while he stands on tip toes trying to kiss his mate. He grumbles while trying to pull Nihlus down to his level by his cowl. "Nihlus. Nihlus this is not amusing I am not even that short in comparison to you come down here I am trying to kiss you." Eventually, Saren's not sure if he actually manages to tug him down or Nihlus simply bends to meet him, he manages to kiss Nihlus and mostly gently nip at him for being so rude. "Insufferable absolutely insufferable, remind me why I'm with you again?" Saren can feel the laughing subvocals before Nihlus responds in between kissing him firmly, arms wrapping around his smaller frame. "Mmm because I'm great in bed? And you'd have no one to use as a foot rest if I wasn't here." "Point taken." He smiles into the kiss as he answers the subvocals back with his own teasing ones. "Although have you seen me Nihlus I could have anyone I wanted. Anyone." Saren nips him once more before breaking apart the kiss as Nihlus looks mock offended. "Oh I see how it is, I feel so unloved Saren, you absolutely wound me." He can only manage to look mock offended and hurt for a couple seconds before dissolving into laughter, Saren joining in a moment later. "Love you Nihlus." "Love you back Saren." Top of the head kisses After a week in the hospital Lieutenant Valis Abrudas realized she was bored beyond belief, by week two she realized that hospitals are the worst place to be in. By week three she was considering staging an uprising and sneaking out while all the doctors were distracted. Or sneaking out as well as she could with a messed up, well, everything. At week three and half when she was seriously considering staging a revolution the person she was hoping would arrive finally, finally showed up. General Desolas Arterius came in looking properly repentant with flowers and were those-, "Did you actually pick up the episodes of my shows I missed while I was out? Alright you might be forgiven just for that." Valis quirked her mandibles in a smile as Desolas laughed and leaned down to give her a kiss on the top of the head before setting the flowers and discs on the side table. "Wellll I figured you'd be annoyed at me for not being here since everything was falling apart so I supposed I could suffer through those awful awful soaps with you." His words were accompanied by teasing subvocals as he lay part on part off the hospital bed next to her, giving her another more proper kiss this time. "Mhm you better watch em with me, do you know how boring these hospitals stays are? I was about this close to having a revolution." She smiled and kissed him back firmly, arms wrapping around his cowl to pull him closer. "Pff it'd be some revolution all right with you hardly able to get out of bed and and everyone else being sick or infirm." "Oh now you're definitely watching these with me." Valis mock glared and swatted at his arm before curling into him, resting her head under his chin. "You get to be my eyes for this Des that's your punishment for being a shit." She could see his badly hidden smile as he laughed and mock saluted her. "Yes ma'am."

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still think it's very sexy and also funny of me that in broken mirror we predominantly hear about desolas and abrudas's ptsd and how they shouldn't let them find out about cerberus coming back from saren, and it seems to mostly be "they've been through enough i don't want to retraumatize them i can handle it myself"

and then we get to weight of memory, wherein it becomes abundantly clear that while yes both of them were traumatized by what happened and don't like revisiting shanxi, the actual reason they didn't need to find out is that valis abrudas is still Really Mad about what jack harper and his cronies did to her husband and is going to Personally put them in the ground about it with her bare hands and unholy rage, and des doesn't want her to go to maitrum over him (she is 110% willing to go to maitrum over him)