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oookay, anon. You want 35 bits of headcanon about my OCs? You got 35 bits of headcanon about my OCs. But behind a jump, because 35 bits of headcanon about my OCs is a lot of bits of headcanon about my OCs.
(also behind a jump because I’m gonna talk about sex baby let’s talk about you and me sorry there was a loooooooot of caffeine today)
I’m gonna assume that the “v” at the end was a result of CTRL+Ving your way across my inbox and not that you want 35 bits of headcanon about Vanessa Shepard. She’s in here, though.
Susan sings 90s girl power pop in the shower, but only when she knows she’s completely alone.
Vanessa’s entire N6 mission was done with “One Way Or Another” on repeat.
Olivia and Liara pretended to be together on the SR-1 so Kaidan would stop flirting with Liv; she couldn’t figure out how to politely - yet clearly - tell him that she wasn’t interested and it was just easier to pretend to shack up with her best friend. This was not the first time they faked dating to get someone to back off.
James and Sam have made a pact to never tell Yael that there was, in fact, a control chip in the clone’s brain.
Ellara’s not sure that she’s the Herald of Andraste (and isn’t sure she cares); but it’s only after Josephine mentions that maybe people need to believe that she believes she’s the Herald that she stops admitting her confusion to total strangers.
Garrus ultimately wins the headshot competition with Olivia.
Hannah and Zaeed never get married, and they’re together until the end.
Leah survives the events of the Refusal ending, and wakes up several weeks later on Omega; Aria sent people in to snag Leah’s body before Cerberus or the Alliance or anyone else could get hold of it again - in an extremely rare moment of brutal emotional honesty, Leah said she’d rather die for good than be shoved into the role of Galactic Savior again. She lives out the rest of her life on Omega with Aria. Interestingly, though the Reapers do ultimately take over the galaxy and destroy life as we know it, they leave the Sahrabarik system alone until she dies.
Ruth went through N school with Anderson. They don’t talk about N5 or N7. Ever.
Ellara very much enjoys poking at Solas and intentionally irritating him. Kaelis Lavellan (Dany’s Inquisitor and El’s best friend, who romanced Solas; we’re working out the details of how this fits together) finds it hilarious.
Liselle/Abby resides inside Olivia’s canon, and Abby - alongside James - is one of the N school instructors for Olivia’s daughter, Nora.
Liv finally tells Garrus about her dyslexia shortly after Sur’Kesh, when he walks into their quarters and narrowly misses being nailed in the head by a thrown datapad. He starts reading classified reports aloud to her after that.
The logo for Hannah’s Lost Sheep Bakery is two sheep - a bigger one and a smaller one - in a field underneath The Oracle, which is Mindoir’s most prominent constellation (similar in obviousness to Orion or Cassiopeia).
Liara and Garrus are the only ones besides Chakwas who know about Susan’s anxiety issues, and they’re really the only ones who know how to talk her through an anxiety attack until her meds start to work. At least until she panics after the rachni mission (she’d thought she’d gotten Grunt killed and it all catches up with her in the shuttle), which she brought James and Liara for. Liara gets her through it, but it’s a little hard to hide what’s happening from James…which turns out to be a good thing a few missions later when Garrus is busy debriefing the Primarch and James has to be the one to remind Susan to hit the button on her armor and breathe. Despite being a little wigged that his CO can panic that spectacularly after a (technically) successful mission, James turns out to be astonishingly good at the calm-breathe-with-me-you’re-okay thing.
Vanessa attended the Alliance Engineering Academy in Tokyo. She spent a semester abroad in Paris at ParisTech. She’s conversationally fluent in Japanese, and her French is (and always has been) awful.
Shoshana’s the louder, brasher of the twins, but they were the Hero of Elysium and Yael was the Butcher of Torfan for a reason. Sho never could’ve made the decision that Yael did on Torfan.
Speaking of Elysium, Shoshana got through that with the help of red sand. No one knows. Not even Yael.
Olivia’s never had any sort of sexual experience with a human besides kissing a few boys on Mindoir.
Vanessa’s omnitool’s autocorrect is irrevocably fucked. She’s given up correcting herself or trying to fix it and has just rolled with it. (NOT AT ALL INSPIRED BY REALITY NOT IN THE LEAST).
Ellara hides sometimes at Skyhold, up in her quarters. Once she’s finally alone it’s hard to give up the solitude, especially if it means possibly passing by people who’ve waited all day for her audience and not gotten it. Since Thedas appears to lack cell phones, there’s some distinct difficulty in discreetly communicating with Bull that she would like him to come up. Her solution to this, naturally, is to tie a note to a rock and toss it out the window when she sees him. She’s only hit him with the rock twice.
Olivia stashes notebooks everywhere. She spends an hour on Alchera chipping away ice on the Mako to get in and take the notebook she’d stuck in its glove compartment.
Susan is lactose intolerant. Lemon sorbet is her favorite frozen treat.
Olivia is wildly allergic to seafood, and in her canon it’s not a sushi place but a steakhouse that Joker/Brooks invites her to. She still falls through the fish tank in the floor. Because of course a steakhouse has a gigantic fish tank floor why the heck not.
Zaeed takes Hannah into an Armax match. He’s been teaching her how to shoot, but Reapers and Cerberus don’t stand still with nice bullseye targets; the only way she’s going to know how she reacts in any sort of actual Need To Use This Pistol situation is to practice. It’s after hours, with no audience, on bronze, and she does pretty well once she gets past the holy shit, this creepy stuff is what my daughter’s fighting every day? Can I get a refund on the universe please? thing.
Yael and Shoshana leave little presents for their squad in their lockers each night of Hanukah.OKAY HERE’S A SPACE BECAUSE THE LAST 10 ARE ALL ABOUT SEX because I’ve not talked about any of my OC’s sex lives and there’s so much of it in my Evernote, I feel like it’s going to waste just sitting there.
Liv and Garrus started out as a friends-with-benefits thing (and started pretty much immediately after dealing with Sidonis; none of this wait-til-the-last-minute nonsense). Liv knew that any extranet research Garrus found would likely be porn of things she doesn’t enjoy, and so brought up that the whole interspecies thing meant they should probably sit down and have a talk about what they both wanted, and what actually makes them feel good. So they had a few drinks, talked, (watched some human/turian porn, man I’m glad “The Internet Is For Porn” came up when I wrote the 10-song meme), they got a bit horny…and the night ended with Olivia naked on her bed masturbating for Garrus, giving him a very explicit demonstration. He did the same thing for her pretty much immediately afterward (once he picked his jaw up off the floor because spirits fuck, human women are amazing).
Olivia comes basically at the drop of a hat. It’s not a whole lot of effort to get her to her first orgasm of the night (or morning, afternoon, whatever; time of day’s meaningless in space), though it’s a bit more work to build her back up for more. It took Garrus a little while to figure out signs and sounds, and how to not overstimulate her too fast, but he’s learned now, and quite smug about how many times he can get his girlfriend off in a night. He’s also extremely proud of himself that sometimes he can make her squirt; she doesn’t even comment on the self-satisfied grin on his face, because how that man can make her feel is unbelievable.
Liv and Garrus rarely have penetrative sex. Their height differences make most positions really awkward at best, or downright uncomfortable at worst (the best one is him fucking her from behind, but then they can’t look at each other and that kinda bums them out). But that’s okay, because unless Liv’s in the right headspace for it, PIV sex does weird - bad weird - things to her emotional state that she doesn’t really understand.
The Vanessa/Ashley/Tali trio is very, very good at using technology to their advantage. They prefer to get Tali out of her suit, but that takes time and planning, and running decontamination protocol on the locker room off the cargo bay really defeats the point of a quickie. EDI has been sworn to absolute secrecy how the three of them managed to record the pattern, speed, friction, and intensity of Vanessa and Ashley going down on each other. V and Tali then spent a few weeks figuring out how to program that into Tali’s NerveStimPro package. They voided the warranty, but it was absolutely worth it.
At one point, the vibrating strap-on that Shoshana was using on Ashley broke. In the middle of sex. It just stopped working, more than a new set of batteries and a good whack would fix. Ashley’s never seen anything quite so hilarious as Commander Shoshana Shepard, completely naked, writing a very irritated email to Tevura Pleasures because that was under warranty and they really ought to send a replacement and hell if they aren’t stressed enough without sex toys breaking all over the place ruining the mood. Except Sho sent the email from their actual Commander Shepard Alliance Business email. Being very discreet in all matters, Tevura simply sent a free goodie box - of the really good expensive stuff - to the Normandy, being careful to use inconspicuous packaging and direct it specifically to Shoshana Shepard. The box also included a handwritten apology from the owner, which also thanked Shoshana for all their hard work with this reaper business, and several bottles of rare, expensive asari liquor.
Neither Aria nor Leah have any sense of modesty about their bodies, or sex. Bray’s not even fazed by it if he walks in on them anymore, not since the biotic dildo.
Sex with Thane remains some of the best sex Yael has ever had. For one thing, the man knows what he’s doing with every part of his body. For another, one of the side effects of drell skin toxin is increased touch awareness. She felt every touch - every lick, every kiss, every thrust - about ten times more with him than she would with anyone else.
Ellara and Bull don’t have PIV (or PIA, for that matter) sex. Ever. He’s proportional, she’s proportional, things aren’t gonna fit no matter how much prep work they do. There’s still plenty of fun things to do, and they find them all.
(I’ve not gotten to any of the actual romance scenes yet, but I’ve spoiled myself for them all via YouTube, so). Bull’s into the S&M stuff and Ellara’s like “okay I’ll give that a shot, sure,” but they absolutely had a chat about limits before they started. Communication about sex is a Thing for me, so everyone does it. For the record, Ellara’s rules are “don’t hurt me, and no blindfolds.”
I’m leaving the final one here on its own without context, because reasons. Of fic. That’s not been written yet. “Be still, Cadash.”
I HOPE THIS IS SATISFACTORY, ANON.