#eva core

[but-a-humble-goon]

In hindsight it's odd to me how little a part of the story EVA is. ME3 casually throws out there that Cerberus just has another EDI running around in a very... interestingly designed robot body doing their dirty work and she's in one mission, has one line of dialogue and about 30 seconds of screentime and then immediately dies. Somehow feels like this should be a bigger deal.

[jnhdchuliamgvnov]

when not well-rested

[illusivesoul]

Eva Core

[novashelby]

Mr. and Mrs. Nelson

Jack doesn't need a muscle man.

He has Eva.

For @evita-shelby and her OC, Eva

based on a silly conversation we had.

[maskydoolovesmasseffect]

Had a wild idea years ago to make a mini-comic about what Kaidan dreamed after getting nearly killed on Mars. Didn't go anywhere, but I still like the art I made for it so here it is.

[dirtybiowareconfessions]

Confession: IF EDI has a butthole then Eva Core definitely liked it up the butt

[dr-ladybird]

Brilliant AU! Read it!

Just found an unbelievably clever Mass Effect AU, written by someone who was particularly unimpressed with the random “synthetic and organic life can never exist in peace!!” Catalyst thing.

Basic concept:

Several decades pre-game, some horrific plague starts wiping out humanity. It’s contagious enough that it’s killing off the healthcare staff first. So humans hurriedly invent AI health staff - and to help them communicate with patients, the AI staff look and act exactly like humans until you notice they don’t eat or breathe...

AIs do their absolute best to save humanity, but it fails and the plague completely wipes out humans, leaving the robots as the only sapient beings on the planet.

Robots go “wait, what the hell do we do now?”, manage to get rid of the plague “now it’s lost its host,” decide to make more robots and build their own society, and start exploring space, where they find the Mars Archives and successfully convince galactic society that they’re not horrible monsters...

Fic goes along approximately similar lines to the game, but usually makes more logical sense, and the author got annoyed with the third game and went “no, I’m not letting any of the good guys die! None of them!”. Features Paragon Shepard as a first-generation AI who was originally programmed as a search-and-rescue paramedic. I think that’s the best blatantly-non-canon Shepard backstory I’ve seen yet. 

(She genuinely doesn’t have a given name. She was programmed without one, and - unlike Chakwas and Traynor, who are just as old - she never bothered naming herself. How’s that for an excuse?)

Kai Leng is genuinely intimidating! Eva Core makes a great OC!

Not really a romance fic, but has some nice Shep/Liara, Garrus/Tali and Joker/EDI content. And the explicit sex scenes have thought through their sci-fi implications - proper use of nerve-stim programs, Liara being briefly startled that Shepard tastes like plastic, one bit where Joker has to physically detach himself from his chair before getting started...

I want to play that game!

https://archiveofourown.org/series/161561

[thexgrayxlady]

So like, rather than being deleted, EDI traps the Eva Core AI into like the Normandy’s roomba or some shit. And she keeps trying to carry out her duty to infiltrate Cerberus’ enemies, but she’s like a roomba. She keeps performing incredibly ineffectual sabotage like not dusting the lower decks or leaving crumbs on the floor or polishing the floor too well so that someone slips. She keeps trying to kill the Virmire survivor, but it’s like bumping them in the ankle when they’re close to a railing.