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Garrus Vakarian
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Garrus Vakarian
Hackett: holy shit, she did it.
Me:
Why y'all acting brand new?? I legit keep doing "it" since the last 3 years 🙈
Because I'm seeing a lot of old Mass Effect and DA posts on my dash
I figured I'd introduce you guys to the Shepard(s) I see as my canons and favorites! I have a few Sheps, as do most people I'm sure, but this is just for the ones I see as my main, my canons, the one(s) I'd bring into an ME 4 if possible. (Five? Andromeda was technical four but it was also technically another chapter so...) We'll do one per post just to keep it digestable.
We'll start with:
Trystan "Bishop" Shepard (call her Bishop or lose your limbs) : My canon femShep. Renegon, alcoholic, earthborn, war hero, complete slut. (Affectionate. )
Mass Effect says you can only technically romance one person but in my canon she is loyal and dedicated to Jack and Thane and has frequently banged basically the entire crew. It's part of how she shows her affection.
In the confines of what the game actually lets me do, she has a fling with Kelly and romanced Thane in ME2, then wound up with Samantha in 3 after he passed.
A tall, burley woman with features too sharp and too severe to be called traditionally 'pretty', but strikingly intense- Bishop is known for her foul mouth and her love of a good fight. Maybe that's why she trained as a vanguard.
She has no tolerance for your bullcrap and no patience for stupidity. Ferociously loyal and dedicated friend, partner, and commander, who thinks of her crew as family mostly due to her lack of one as a child. This is both a benefit and a flaw; she will stand by and protect her crew to the bitter end, but also tends to have a blind spot for bad behavior and mistakes from them, and this intense protectiveness is a glaring weak point.
Protective and giving, anyone who knows her knows she loves the hell out of her people....however bad she may be at showing you that. Because she is. The more she yells and snaps at you, the more she loves you. She's bad at words, bad at affection, and tends to trip over herself and mess up even when she's trying to do or say something to help. She's grown up with very little affection or love, and while she has managed to overcome the instinctive thought that she has to keep herself isolated and cold to keep herself safe, she's very bad at showing it.
Bishop wants the best for everyone around her and will one hundred percent throw herself into the fire to make sure they get it. That said...remember who's in charge. She's open to debate and discussion, but at the end of the day, what she says goes. Like it or not.
The fastest way to get her to not do something is to tell her she's going to do it- or vice versa. She has lost the loyalty of some people (Zaeed, specifically) who made the mistake of demanding she do something and threatening her over it.
All that said, she's actually fairly laid-back and unflappable; she takes hits at her own expense good naturedly and has a sarcastic and childish sense of humor and a playful streak. She loves a good party, loves a good prank, and loves a good brawl. It's her preferred way of resolving tension; she thinks the Turian way of dealing with conflict and stress on a ship is the best way.
Born in Vancouver, she grew up in the system and on the streets; she never knew her father, and her mother was a drug-addicted alcoholic who came in and out of her life. She, unfortunately, inherited the alcoholism part of that parental bloodline. She struggles with it, though Thane and her relationship with him helped; along with helping some of her other less flattering qualities. He slowed her brain down, made it calm and quiet...let her lean on someone rather then being leaned on. Let her look at her problems in a more objective, quiet headspace. His death should have rocked her to her core, but she knew, quietly, that she would see him again. Beyond the ocean. He was waiting for her there.
In the meantime, he would not want her to be alone. It took some time, but she found companionship in Traynor after his passing. Traynor did not give her the rockbed that Thane was, but gave her someone to be strong for, to fight for, to protect.
Also, she was fucking adorable.
Despite being pragmatic and often looking for the easiest solution to problems, she is also much kinder then she wants to be. As such, she saved the Rachni and talked Wrex down rather then just blowing him away then and there.
Her feelings on the genophage are strongly mixed; she very much understands and appreciates the idea and thought and reasons behind it's initial implementation, but she considers it a failed experiment and does not think the Krogan deserve to go extinct over it. While she stayed firmly neutral on the subject, even when dealing with Maelon, when push shoved her loyalty to and trust in her friends and family won out over her reservations, and she cured the genophage at the cost of Mordin's life.
It's that kindness that kept her from destroying the Reapers; instead, she became a part of them, as a part of a things.
In a silly little headcanon, my partner and I imagine that Synthesis Shep managed to return a part of herself to her body, leading to all kinds of shenanigans I may fanfic about later.
Made a second version, I wanted Garrus to look at the camera. Make your own wallpaper here.
Look everyone is bitching about the mako getting an update but like honestly fuck em, the mako is shit and I hate it thank you bioware for attempting to fix it
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