I didn’t expect or want this either, it just sort of happened.
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I didn’t expect or want this either, it just sort of happened.
Cadenza
Chapter 1: Chuilein
Summary: Mindoir, a quiet agricultural community and humanity's footstep into the Attican Traverse. For Lachlan Shepard, it represents home, the closeness of family and friends, a place he can be himself and grow into the person he is to become. For Kaidan Alenko, it represents a place in which he can retreat from the memories of his past, a place to recover, perhaps start over anew.
Cadenza: A moment in a musical piece where an instrumentalist or singer is given the opportunity to play a solo freely and with artistic license to go outside of a rigid tempo or rhythm. In this instance, the canon-divergence that leads to these two meeting prior to the Normandy.
Characters: Lachlan Shepard, Iain Shepard, Fiona Shepard
Tags: Colonist background, Mindoir, Pre-Mass Effect 1, canon-divergent
Excerpt:
Mindoir, 2168
Fiona Shepard is not a woman to be trifled with, especially by her sons, so when Lachlan and Iain come racing into the house after school, throwing bags and coats willy-nilly and tear up the stairs to their rooms, not just breaking but shattering an otherwise calm and peaceful afternoon at the Shepard homestead on Mindoir, she’s had enough and isn’t afraid to tell them so.
“Lachlan MacRae! Iain Sinclair! Get yourselves back down here and clean up the mess you just made!” she calls up the stairs. Her voice, strong and vibrant, rings through the house, loud and clear and with definitive authority.
Fifteen-year-old Lachlan slinks out of his bedroom, ginger hair tousled into his eyes. Twelve-year-old tow-headed Iain stands wide-eyed in his doorway staring over at his brother. “Lach … she …!”
Lachlan huffs softly. “Aye, she did,” he agrees. “And the longer we stay up here, the more we’ll suffer for it later.” He winces at the thought and immediately heads back to the stairs, albeit in a less raucous manner than his ascent.
Iain follows behind him even more gingerly. “She’s pissed!”
Lachlan gives his brother a sharp look, hissing over his shoulder, “No kidding!”
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Spurred on by @ghostxofxartemis ask about Lachlan Shepard earlier today, I decided to start posting some of his background. Cadenza is his background story, pieces of his life prior to enlisting in the Alliance in 2172, and starts on Mindoir. This is part of the The Music Lives On series.
Battle couple
fiona shepard for inktober day 28~
You make me feel human
Drawn 8/16/2016.
Big ole Mass Effect dump! I also really dig Shoker haha. Hopeless. I also enjoyed making sure Shep appeared different in each game.
Drawn January 2016.
Bioware seriously cursed my house, I always want the NPCs I can’t have lol.
(Yeah I played the extremely problematic DLC, that doesn’t and shouldn’t count.)
Drawn February 2015.
Shepard passing the torch on to Ryder. UwU
Drawn 3/17/2017.