19 for the kiss promp... you know who I will ask 🙈🙈🙈🙈🤣🤣🤣😘
Kisses meant to distract the other person from whatever they were intently doing.
(I absolutely know who you want.)
(Of course I'm gonna give it to you. 😘)
They were in that awful in-between state: traveling somewhere and with nothing to do while they went from a to b. Shepard sat on the couch in the Captain's Quarters, feet crossed on the table, and counted the lines in the ceiling for the fiftieth time.
She was bored.
Vitorius wasn't.
Her eyes landed on him again on the other side of the couch. Legs crossed, datapad on his thigh, taloned finger swiping, mandibles flexing slowly--it was clear he was reading something interesting.
Something more interesting than her. At least right now.
She had to do something about that.
She stood and sauntered behind him. Her fingers slid across his neck, the touch so light a small pull punch through him as he shivered on his exhale. Smiling, she wrapped her arms around his neck and bent down.
"Hey," she purred. "Whatcha doing?"
"Reading a tactical report," he said.
She glanced down at the screen and blinked. "...It's fifty-two years old."
"Yes."
So he was reading his war nerd stuff again. She didn't mind--she never did; it really was interesting--but when she was bored and he could help her not be that anymore, it wasn't as interesting as he wanted to pretend it was.
"Aw, work, work..." Shepard crooned. "Is that all you ever do?"
Vitorius' mandible flicked against her cheek. "You know it's not."
"Just not right now?"
"Exactly. Not right now."
Wanted to play, did he?
Game on.
Her lips pressed against his mandible in a smooch. While he didn't react outwardly, his subharmonics hummed in a note that sounded happy and affectionate.
He also blinked a few times, his eyes trailing just enough up to tell her he had to reread something.
It was too easy.
Shepard slid her hand across his throat, fingers tracing where skin met plate. The vibrations from his chest reverberated through her fingers. Another kiss to his mandible, then a kiss on his neck. A slow exhale left Vitorius' nose.
He hadn't scrolled since she started her little campaign.
Excellent.
"Anything interesting?" she murmured against his neck.
"Hm?"
"In the report."
"...Yes."
"What?"
"...Military things."
She smiled. "Military things?"
"Tactical military things."
"Right."
A long, wet, and torturously slow swipe of her tongue came next, starting from the base of his neck and ending right below his plated jawline. His subharmonics changed in an instant, dipping into a lower, growlier texture. She did it once more, ending the lick with her teeth raking over his hide, and he tossed the datapad on the table.
"Mika."
"Vito?"
Vitorius finally turned his head toward Shepard, a mandible flicking in amusement. "Spirits help me. You're impossible."
Does Circe read for fun? And if so, what’s her favorite genre?
Hi maniac! Thank you for the question, which just so happens to cross my two favorite things.
I like to think Circe read a lot as a child. It's kind of a family thing, between her mother and her grandfather, and they own a small collection of old hardcovers that have been in the family a long time. They're about the only things she manages to save from their home on Mindoir. There's a scene in my fic where we see her unpacking these and temporarily adding them onto the end of Alenko's collection at their orchard home (much much larger collection, that family has money 😅).
She pretty much stops reading once she enters the Alliance, though she picks up the occasional thriller or mystery from time to time. She starts reading again more intensely after the war, because there's not much to fill her time as she's forced on sick leave. She turns it into a 'productive' exercise, to see how many new things she can learn, though we see that she's still reading mostly mystery novels. (At one point, Tali makes fun of her for trying out the word bricolage because it sounds very un-Shepard like lol).
Take 2 cx
Here's Eleanore Rita Shepard, my custom Shep. She's a paragon vanguard who can't aim for shit and is so, so very tired of holding her tongue.
Specifically, it's a doodle of her during ME3.
Elcor! Wanted to draw one in armor because it looks cool lol. The pose idea is based on the concept art of the elcor :D
The human there is an oc! She is a Shepard replacement in a rp/d&d thing I'm doing with my fiance, ill tag her as Shepard cuz she's basically renegade Shep :3