#zk shepard

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if you look closely you can see how much I fucked up the legs

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apparently my brain hates it when i sleep like a normal goddamn person, so it’s decided that i can Not do that

anyway this is what i do when i can’t sleep (when it’s not bc i’m sick with worry)

@ krita users drawing renegade sheps: the glow tool is your buddy

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I just saw that "meet ugly vs. meet cute" post and now is a fantastic time to say that Kaidan and ZK actually met when they were teenagers it was when Kaidan tried to do the whole "runaway" thing

he managed to get to San Antonio

he tried to pick a girl's pocket when he passed her on the street

that girl was ZK

she roundhouse kicked him in the face and broke his nose

while he was sprawled on the ground bleeding she kinda leaned over him and put her foot on his chest

and said "hell, you're damn cute with your face busted. Stupid. but cute"

and she plucked her wallet out of his hand and sauntered off

they would later coincidentally get drunk in the same alley before Kaidan went back home

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BJ Hunnicut 🤝 ZK Shepard

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Old WIP i found. Probably never going to go anywhere else with it, so it’s posted.

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a couple of angry teenagers fuckin up downtown san antonio

(WIP)

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Sun, dark nebula, and dwarf star for any or all of your Shepards?

HELL YEAH THANKS FOR ASKING I'M SO PUMPED I'M DOING ALL OF EM

Sun- Was there a person in your Shepard's life that changed their view on life/the world?

For ZK, there were two people that completely turned her worldview around. When she was 15 it was her first girlfriend Veela, who showed her that life is worth living if you make it worth living. Grab it by the throat and make life rue the day it decided to try to beat you down. If you own it, it is yours. Later it was Kaidan, who took what Veela taught her and added to it- life doesn't always have to be a battle. Sometimes it's coffee and sweet kisses and just letting life happen. Fight for your right to live, never back down, but don't forget that there's also peace and little spots of happiness.

For Marcin, it was his sister Fare, but not until they reunited after Virmire. For the most part he tried to forge his own views from his own experience. But when Fare showed back up, angry and bitter and scarred from who knows what, but still caring and trusting, he started to let other people's experiences count. Before he had mostly stayed out of it, but he started to take an interest in how others saw the world. Eventually it made him more empathetic- he was a good person before, but not very good with emotions.

For Fare, it was Thane. He helped her let go of the past, and a great deal of the hatred she held on to. His entire philosophy hit her right at her core, and she started adopting bits and pieces of it until he died. There was a hell of a change in her character.

Dark Nebula- is there something they'd change about their past?

ZK: Ashelin. She had picked up a little girl out of the gutter, named Ashelin Rodriquez. She was 8 when ZK left, and ZK had to leave her behind. Not a day goes by that she doesn't wish she could have brought Ash with her, maybe given her a chance away from the Reds.

Marcin: Right after Mindoir, Marcin got into some pretty deep shit. Joined a gang, used what he learned from his family's tech expertise to steal a whole lot of creds. As a group, they were getting out of control, heading into tainted eezo trafficking and piracy. Anderson was the one who eventually caught them, and he took Marcin(the youngest, barely 18) aside and gave him the berating of his life. Told him he had too much talent to waste like that, and stuck him in the Alliance instead of sending him with the rest of the gang. If he could, Marcin would go back and try to steer the gang back from the brink. He never quite forgave himself for letting them get that far gone(even tho it wasn't his fault)

Fare: Fare was taken by Batarian slavers in the attack on Mindoir. As an undocumented and unimplanted human biotic, she would fetch an insane price for illegal research labs. Eventually she broke out, killing everyone involved in the process. The only thing she regrets about that is that she had to kill the guards; most of them were there because they were desperate. who knows how many families she took livelihood from- if she could, she'd go back and leave the guards alive.

Dwarf Star- when was your Shepard's first kiss?

ZK: She was 13. The circumstances were really...really shitty, so she doesn't count it. The one she counts was when she was 15. Veela had pulled her out of an alley where she had alcohol poisoning, and saved her life. ZK tried to thank her, was really bad at it, and Veela kissed her.

Marcin: actually Marcin didn't have his first kiss until after he finished basic. He was 22, there was a big celebratory party, and this marine dude he was in training with that had a crush on him got really drunk and they kissed. (Marcin will try to tell you it was cute & innocent. it was not. there was tongue and they passed out together on a couch)

Fare: Fare's not much of one for dating, but she did have an NB partner when she was 16, before the attack. They were her first kiss.

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all of my Shepards' responses to the "wait weren't you dead" thing were "yeah. and?"