#john shephard

[tafferling]

Hiraeth: Eyes Up, Guardian

Chapter 12: Kinderguardian Pickup

In which Nicole keeps fretting over a set of green eyes, Ghost outs himself as needing a little coaching on matters of privacy, and John gets his first shot at picking up a Kinderguardian.

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I am joined by @maverick-werewolf​ and Nicole gets to meet her fantastic John. Click here if you want to know more about him.

“John Shephard,” the man with wolves howling at each other on his breastplate introduced himself.

“Nicole Brennan,” she replied in an instant, more on instinct than anything. But it took her a moment to notice how he’d extended his hand and how it hovered there, leisurely. Patiently waiting for her to shake it. A moment which she spent choking down the flutter of dusty, dry moth wings.

She didn’t. Couldn’t.

All she could do was stand there, her eyes locked on him and a noose snaring her chest together tight. It wasn’t even that he looked threatening, the rifle on the strap and armour notwithstanding. The opposite, really. He held his head slightly cocked, curiously so, and yet all she wanted to do was turn around and be elsewhere again. Not in front of him, surrounded by dead things.

A recurring thing, that.

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Oh, and here’s John, The Young Wolf. Drawn by @saph-y​ who you should totally check out and support cause omg.

[the-wandering-whumper]

Could you possibly do Tortured For Information with Rodney McKay? (I'm sorry if you only do Shep from SG:A)

Here it is, my love!  And only 11 months late!  This is a little bit different from what I normally write.  And I hope you don’t mind that I whumped both of our boys in this.  Or that its got some McShep. I really hope you enjoy it.

Stages

Fandom: Stargate AtlantisSpace Filled: Tortured for InformationCharacter: Rodney McKay (with some ShepWhump in there, too)Word Count: 8,843Summary: John and Rodney tag along for a seemingly innocuous visit to an uninhabited planet. But things are amiss and it will take everything John and Rodney have to leave that planet alive.

[bogboof]

I’ll never be over how Commander Shepard fucking head butted a krogan

[maverick-werewolf]

Custom LEGO - Major John Shephard + his "sparklebox"

Hey look, I made another one of these!

This custom figure is made using custom-designed (by yours truly, with help from my brother) and printed stickers, and a few third-party pieces (vest and gun).

I made this a long time ago but I kept consistently forgetting to post it for ages and ages, so here it is: John Shephard in minifig form, as well as his sparklebox...

I have way too much fun building these sparkleboxes (I think LEGO calls them play cubes or something?). I love them because they're a great way to break down a character and characterize them in two small spaces. I like to go for duality, since a lot of my characters (mostly Tom and John, though) are very heavily based around duality - and the blurred lines in-between.

Every piece in both sides of the box are there for a reason.

Enjoy!

[maverick-werewolf]

John: 48, 1, 5, 7, 8, 13, 18, 24. 🦋

Oh boy; John! :D

As seen here mid mutations. Poor guy. Art by @saph-y

48. How festive are they on holidays?

Pretty festive. Any good excuse to have some fun. At least, he is for the sake of others - alone, he isn’t really feeling it. How festive he is generally depends on bouncing off the people he’s close to - like, you know, the fact that Henry isn’t festive at all. So he has to compensate to cheer him up.

Halloween and Christmas, though, come on. There’s candy. If nothing else, he’s in it for that.

Remember he has a sweet tooth.

1. How do they respond to having a song stuck in their head? Does that happen to them often?

Fairly often. John loves music. How does he respond? Maybe he’ll try to learn it, if he doesn’t know it already, but only in private. He’s too quiet to do anything like hum it to himself.

5. Do they have any unappealing habits (ex: picking their nose, hawking loogies)?

Does an oral fixation count - gum, suckers, a stick of grass, whatever he can find? Does licking his lips a lot count? Otherwise, not in particular, really.

7. How do they cope with losing an argument?

Depends on the argument and to whom he lost. Generally, he takes it fairly well, as long as things work out in the end. He tries not to hold too many grudges.

Other times, however, he doesn’t cope well at all in that he simply won’t let himself lose. If it’s an argument over, for instance, a way to handle something? He’ll break the chain of command in two and go do the thing his own way, anyway. That’s the biggest reason his superiors consider him a liability.

8. How do they cope with losing a friend?

Quietly. Privately. It isn’t something he’s going to talk about, open up about, or volunteer in any way. He’ll probably close inward upon himself - and probably go fight someone or something, most likely blaming himself in some way all the while. It’d be pretty self-destructive.

13. Are they easily insulted?

No. That’s an easy no. Most insults roll off him like water off a duck’s back. Most. Depends on the how and why of the insults, but he always tries to stay very professional most of the time, and certainly something like name-calling isn’t going to really affect him at all.

Somebody insults someone he cares about, though, and he’s going to hold grudges.

18. Do they daydream? Of what?

He does daydream. Mostly of fast things and driving them. Explosions, sometimes. Or maybe even hanging out on a beach and surfing.

24. What words make them cringe?

Almost anything to do with bugs, really.

He hates bugs.

Cannot stand them.

Not because a little beetle or fly or any kind of arachnid is going to actually bother him, but because he hates giant space bugs... especially since he turns into one.

[maverick-werewolf]

✿. John. You still owe me an answer to that question on Discord :P

Oh yes, I do owe you that, don’t I? :3 For now a sex headcanon for here-

Well, you know, John is a leader. So he’s used to leading and, generally, prefers it that way. Is that due in part to trust issues? Maybe. Very possibly. Probably, in fact. Could him not leading for a while be a good thing for him? Also very possible.

Talk about requiring very, very serious trust, though.

[maverick-werewolf]

A dribble of drabbles

Oh look, a little handful of drabbles (100-word-only pieces of writing) from an event I participated in, set in a variety of stories and settings.

So have a little bit of writing:

1. Prompt: Uncharted Fandom: Uncharted (video game trilogy)

Ring? Check. Journal? Check. Map? Not check. “So you’re telling me none of these work,” Elena said, dumping an armful of maps onto the table under Nate’s nose. He paused and cocked his head at them, readjusting his wrist cuff. Then he said, “Nope.” Elena looked baffled. “The oceans don’t change, Nate.” He grinned. Slid an arm around her shoulders and pulled her close, then shrugged his other shoulder. “These did.” She scoffed, fought a smile, and slid a finger through that blank ring around his neck. “So more uncharted territory.” He planted a lopsided kiss on her temple. “Always.”

2. Prompt: Road trip Setting: Nova Refuge (original sci-fi)

Yeah, it had treads. No, it wasn’t very fast. And yeah, it was loud in here. Like taking a road trip in a tank. “I hate small spaces.” “Do we even know where we’re going?” John held the controls with one hand, the other supporting his head. “Are we there yet?” “Dad, I have to pee.” Too bad the comm was still open. ”What the hell are you all doing?” chimed the voice of, you know, their superior officer. Back on the ship. Because his squad were the most disciplined ever. “Absolutely none of you get ice cream,” John said.

3. Prompt: Map Setting: Nova Refuge (original sci-fi)

“Is that a paper map?” Darrow stood near his shoulder, barely able to stare over it at the, yes, paper map John held up in front of his face. He threw Darrow a look. “So?” “What are you, a Neanderthal?” “I like paper.” “That doesn’t surprise me, it’s absolutely primitive.” “What do you like?” Darrow shut his mouth at that and looked thoughtful briefly. Then he whipped out his datapad and started clicking through it. “You have to check your notes to answer that?” “I’m trying to find my map, Shephard.” John smirked and folded his map. “Follow the Neanderthal.”

4. Prompt: Rest/making camp Setting: Wulfgard (original mythic fantasy)

Every single camp was the same, really. Sadja cooked, Caiden… kind of watched and stole pieces of things he shouldn’t have eaten yet or maybe at all, Kye sat up in a tree, Surandil read, Fintan started snoring early, and Magnhild whittled wood. And Tom paced. “Y’know we got this down to such a routine,” he said aloud, turning everybody’s heads, “but I’m always bored.” “Don’t have any books?” Caiden said. “What about your journal?” Magnhild put in. “Perhaps you could hunt,” Surandil said. Everybody gave him a collective look. Surandil slowly shut his tome. “That was ill thought out.”

[anarchycox]

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

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Mass Effect Trilogy Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Male Shepard/James Vega Characters: James Vega, Male Shepard (Mass Effect), Garrus Vakarian, Grunt (Mass Effect), Jeff "Joker" Moreau, Mordin Solus, Steve Cortez, Liara T'Soni, Tali'Zorah nar Rayya, Legion (Mass Effect) Additional Tags: Get together fic, Clueless Character, James Vega POV, Fluff, Some feels, everyone knows but the main character, Falling In Love, Banter, care taking, sometimes a family is two space marines and their tank bred murder baby, garrus and shephard are bros, Confusion, Happy Ending, pure sap at the end, blasto movies Summary:

James Vega is confused. Lots of things confuse him - the council, people not joining the fight, how Turian legs actually work. But in this particular case he is very confused by why every time he meets an old friend or crew mate of Shephard they all just look at him and laugh. It has to be a weird sort of hazing thing. But whatever, as long as he gets to spend time with the Commander he can put up with the weird.

But it just keeps getting weirder, and everyone knows something he doesn't.

He'll figure it out though. With a nudge or two.