#kara shepard

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Rules: Using this picrew, design yourself and your OCs! Or just your OCs if that’s what you’re comfy with - it’s up to you!! :D ✨

@zet-sway did this with her Shepard so I decided to slap Alida and Kara up there as well! Tagging @wingsy-keeper-of-songs & @drelldreams

My portrait is least accurate bc they didn’t have a proper hair length/style/color for me.

[kirschewine]

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

Chapters: 1/1 Wordcount: 3.7k Rating: E Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Attempted R*pe/Non-Con, Blood and Gore, Dead Dove: Do Not Eat, Nightmares, Vomiting, Child Abuse Characters: FemShep, Custom Femshep, David Anderson, Minor OC Genre: Character Study, Horror (?)

Summary: Kara Shepard is good for two things: living and killing. She's been doing both for a long, long time.

Part 1 of The Bane of the Wood

Excerpt: 

Kara wakes up to a scream stuck in her throat and the burn of bile coming up hot on its heels. 

The rush from her bed to the private bathroom attached to the captain's quarters is fumbling and she nearly trips with the sheet tangled around her feet. As it is, she doesn’t make it all the way to the toilet before the bile has come up. It’s hot and sour, and the act takes longer than it should. She vomits in waves into the bowl, until she’s heaving up nothing but excess saliva.

When it eventually stops, she slumps against the bathroom wall, head hanging between her knees. The nausea is still rolling through her gut, but there’s nothing left to bring up.

She knows how this goes. Has been here, sitting clammy and sickly pale on a bathroom floor too many times before. She’ll need a shower, she reeks of sweat and vomit, but first she needs to clean up the mess.

They say your first kill stays with you.

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[kirschewine]

Three tiny thumbnail sketches of moments in Kara’s life. Each is about 1 inch x 2 inches. I’ve always liked working on the micro scale, but it gets difficult when it comes to adding color and keeping things legible.

First is when she got the scar across her left cheek and ear, at 16. Killed a man she caught assaulting one of the younger street kids by bludgeoning him to death with a chunk of concrete, not before taking a knife slash to the face though. Joined the Alliance after she was found not guilty as the killing was in self-defense.

Second is on Akuze, sheltering behind the remains of her squad’s APC. Concussed, with a broken arm and severe acid burns across her back.

And the last is the alternate beginning to her and Thane’s relationship. Kara is not a soft or emotional person, so the actual in game romance does not work for her at all. I’m keeping some phrases but that’s about the only thing that’s staying.

[kirschewine]

Quick sketch of one of my Shepard’s: Kara. Earthborn, Sole Survivor, renegade leaning.

The majority of her back is covered by a thick, glossy scar, where her undersuit was melted into her skin on Akuze. Miranda wanted to rebuild her without her scars, but TIM insisted the major ones be kept— a necessary reminder of Kara’s past. Something he wagered is essential to who she is.

[kirschewine]

Smile much, Shepard?

These are very fitting for this Shepard but it wasn’t until I was moving these over to my phone that I realized almost all of the shots I snagged were of her stankface.

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Nobody’s happy on Noveria, Shepard least of all

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Noveria | Peak 15