#mass effect post

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more memes from gf

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nobody told me how to readmore gl yall

cant stop thinking abt samshep/liara/aria bc gf and i have been obsessing for two days and also im writing fic

aria not knowing liara is the shadow broker so shes creeping on liara and sam thru that bc shes had a fucking. gay ass crush on sam since they kissed. and feron is handling all of it and is like, im not going to tell liara bc i feel like. i shouldnt. so liara doesnt know and aria doesnt know and OF COURSE samantha “dumb of ass” shepard doesnt know shit

and for some reason the Instant she finds out liara is preggers shes Obsessed (its bc shes in her matron phase) and she just shows up at their goddamn house trying to tell liara what to do like demanding sam cook foods with protein and riboflavin or whatever and sam is like i was doing that anyway and liara is like go away get out of my life

except aria Keeps coming over and eventually liara not only expects but is waiting for it. and sam is just super chill. and aria’s crush on sam Intensifies and liara starts to develop a crush on aria and they all just. pine painfully except sam who is at peace w that aspect of her life (not any of the others) and throughout liara’s pregnancy aria is just There and rude and annoying and sams like lemme deal w this when liara is fed up and takes aria drinking and ofc aria is COMPLETELY oblivious to her feelings for liara and is fixated on her horniness for sam so it just tortures her and sam (see prev samshep posts) is so outgoing and gets too close all the time and aria is fucking dying

and liara is just pining secretly and she feels like she cant even tell sam bc she doesnt want to fuck up her drinking buddy shit (for some reason she still doesnt realize how chill and also attracted to aria sam truly is)

and aria just becomes a bigger and bigger part of their lives and eventually theres just this mutual confession of feelings but theyre all still hesitant and confused but eventually they get over it

and when liara is giving birth aria forces her way into the hospital room w a pistol and gf has some thing she talked abt like aria melded w liara to calm down her biotics and liara accidentally makes her experience birth and aria is like cool never again

and they name the baby benezia (benny) and aethyta is crying and aria is obviously NOT crying shut up and sam is just like hashtag blessed and they raise this baby for a while just trio parenting and aria just. has no idea whats going on anymore

and then shes doing some sexy with liara and they meld and NEITHER OF THEM KNOWS they secretly want more babies and liara gets preggy again by accident. and theyre so freaked out and sam is literally like i love kids cool beans

so they have this other kid which aria edgily names yakshi and like, sam is the only healthy one at this point bc liara is mad abt aria Doing That and aria feels guilty and scared and all that. and it takes a real ass confrontation before they get over it

and then they get over it and happy family where children are bought custom armor at 4 and sam and aria have obnoxious nerf wars that liara somehow wins randomly and benny is SO like liara and wants to go to school and Study Things and bizarrely yakshi is SO like sam and theres just. love and aria occasionally getting blasted bc what has she become

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did i ever show yall i actually got this commission

@destinysquared bless you

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“what if aria t’loak had a foot fetish. what if aria liked sucking toes” my girlfriend is officially banned from the mass effect fandom

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played lotsb w gf the other day and we had been talking abt accidental asari babies conceived by mutual subconscious desire and during the end romance scene she turned to me and was like “hey what if liara accidentally got pregnant right here” and i CANNOT stop thinking about pregnant liara in me3. chakwas with 14Gb of asari literature on neonatal care and postpartum care and pediatrics and she’s lecturing liara for running around mars like eight months pregnant and liara gives birth on the normandy and everyone is crying including joker like what a chaotic good au concept

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made gf really mad proposing a (sam)shep/liara/aria au and i think its bc she likes it

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mass effect fandom be like

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it’s jacob meta time because i remembered this week is his week and i just WISH people would give his character more credit instead of ignoring him

i’ve talked about this before but people joke about how he doesn’t change like the other squadmates under shepard’s influence, he’s boring, whatever. but he has a great, really subtle character arc that comes together in me3 (in admittedly the worst possible way if you romanced him). he matures and mellows out a lot from the start of me2. when you meet him he’s a disillusioned ex-soldier who thinks joining an extremist group is the best course of action for humanity. he’s not like the other squadmates where he joins just for shepard or even like miranda who’s dependent on cerberus to basically survive. he’s an otherwise normal guy who is so frustrated with the system that he genuinely thinks that these terrorists have the right idea. he’s the exact kind of person cerberus looks for and deliberately recruits. he’s got a history as basically a privateer, so they know he’s a bit of a loose cannon and not good with authority, but they also know the military training and respect will kick in as soon as he meets shepard. he wasn’t just picked at random; he was singled out because his situation made him the perfect person to manipulate. and he’s got no idea. he’s vulnerable, he’s naive, and he’s uninformed when he first meets shepard. he’s a sucker.

but the more shepard gains his loyalty, the more he realizes what’s going on. part of it is because that’s what shepard does, the same way they separate miranda from cerberus when she’s even more embedded. part of it is seeing his father again and having a contrast to look at and want to be different from. he had the childish dream of his father dying as a far off hero, and instead he found a despicable man corrupted by power - and he realized exactly who he didn’t want to be. he had always wanted to be an honorable man and he finally saw that he wanted to be a good father too, and that he had to let go of those old dreams and face reality. that disillusionment feeds his disillusionment with cerberus and his realization that he‘s reached a dangerous extreme just like his father did.

me3 should have been completely different if shep romanced him because we see in jacob that he’s extremely loyal, that he’s honest and open to a fault, and that he admires shepard a LOT. it doesn’t add up at least for me that he would develop another relationship when he was already committed to shepard, especially in secret.

if shep didn’t romance him, it’s perfectly in character. he’s a passionate person who needs a purpose, he needs to feel like he belongs and he’s heading in the right direction. it makes perfect sense that he would throw himself into rescue operations and into fighting the organization he feels awful about being complicit in. it makes sense that he would fall in love so easily and completely. the baby was probably an accident but he would be so happy at the thought of being a father, and so earnest about naming the baby after shepard. the decisions he made were rash but coming out of a huge life upheaval and then getting separated from the crew he’d been living with for months makes it no surprise that he wanted close relationships again not just with brynn but with the other scientists as well. finding someone he actually knew after being pulled away from everyone was probably a huge relief and they would have clung to each other happily in the middle of the crisis.

basically jacob matures into a father and a rescuer and a loving partner and someone who has found his place in a healthy environment, but he’s still passionate and a little reckless and loyal to the people he claims as his. people don’t give him enough credit for how he grows and they don’t give him enough credit for his complexity as a character. anyway that’s my two credits ✌🏼