#el shepard

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my face whenever something bad happens in mass effect:

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The amazing @rennart drew Elentari Shepard for N7 Day!! I legit freaked out a busload of people with my unholy screech of surprise and delight after work yesterday, but I don’t care because look at this amazingness! 

Also, go check out her stuff. I’ve already followed and am falling in love.

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

James himself was finally making a dent in his own reading too, not that it stopped Shepard from constantly sending him her finished books. Honestly, how did her head not explode from all the reading and just retaining all the info? And how did she keep finding the time to keep asking him questions, like the scenario game was fun. Theoretical situation, figure out the best plan and execution. James could see it for what it was: tactical development. And coming from an N7, he knew this was as good as gold.

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

And for some reason, the Admirals wanted a final statement from her. The why of it totally escaped her, but here she was. To be honest, Shao had mentioned this possibility, had told her to prepare something. It was practically burned into her brain. But it didn’t feel like nearly enough. In all likelihood, this was probably going to be her final official statement on record. And honestly, she didn’t want to join the ranks of N7 dishonourable discharges. The small company was questionable at best.

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

And watching as Moreau limped up to swear the oath, James didn’t really know what to think. Moreau’s reputation definitely proceeded him. Mouthy, ballsy and loyal to a fault to his ship and Commander. Not to mention Moreau’s infamous stunt that made him pilot of the Normandy and entered into boot camp legend. It wasn’t every pilot who could hijack a ship, run an obstacle course under fire and smash the previous record and then have an Alliance captain and turian general demanding he fly the ship.

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

A momentary flicker had him pulling up the background functions. Sure enough, there was Shepard, trying to hack through the back quietly. James knew he was never fast enough to outhack someone, but his omni-tool came with some VI functionality. It had taken so much muffled swearing and a lot of Shepard hacking in, but James thought he maybe had it this time with his idea.

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Then suddenly, the conversation shifted from wartime preparations to political blowback and how to best deal with the fall out. Shit, they were talking about things way above his paygrade. This was literally things of galactic importance.

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Just wrote the last line of Prepare The Iron Helm of War.

Translations and then up it goes.