Look, Grunt is Shepard's child and you can pry that particular headcanon from my cold dead hands but I love the idea of Grunt only knowing post-spaced Shepard in the sense that she, Manon, is very distant and unattached. She's commanding, her presence alone is enough to straighten their backs, but she's not overly involved.
At first.
She doesn't ask a whole bunch of them, it takes a while for her to relax even a little bit. He never even sees it, just hears things whispered along the walls.
Until Tuchunka. She brings the Turian with her because of course she does, like he needs to see this, and glares at anyone who talks shit under their breath, anyone who says a damn thing about either of them. Which is not surprising but it is strange considering. It's only when she embraces the leader, Urdnot Wrex, that he realises he has no fucking idea who Shepard is.
Not until she swears against the others that she, that they, are willing kill for and alongside him. Until she slams her head against the others - the same way Clan Leader Wrex did (and isn't that funny) and growls. Until she marches them both out of there, towards the rite - muttering the whole time. He sees the smirk on the older Krogans face and the glance the two, Garrus and Wrex, share.
He doesn't realise it, but he's been claimed. He's one of hers.
