Zaeed and Garrus rigging your apartment with booby traps was one of the highlights of the party section of the Citadel DLC, that and Tali rolling around on the bathroom floor drunk, Kasumi popping in and out of conversations with her cloaking ability, and Grunt in general. XD Had me in stitches.
Love this DLC to pieces and HIGHLY recommend it. It’s hilarious, charming, things that made Lair of the Shadow Broker DLC such a huge success. Whole thing had me grinning like an idiot from all the fanservice. Beautiful ending to such a great series.
Title: Cathedral
Characters: Shepard/Vakarian
Wordcount: 1600
Summary: It’s the waiting that kills you.
Notes: Yeah so I guess if you ever wanted to see a xenophobic Shepard get it on with Garrus, this story’s for you. Um. Sorry.
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Title: Crucible 04 - Wine
Characters: Shepard/Garrus, Tali, Liara
Wordcount: 7900
Summary: Shepard burns.
Notes: Hey so I guess it’s time to update or something! Many thanks to the indomitable Odyle, who put this chapter in order. There’s a lot of mood whiplash here, since it goes from the high of ‘Lair of the Shadow Broker’ to the low of ‘The Arrival’ and also because my writing, she is not so consistent. Coming up next: turians. Lots of turians.
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Another slow day, since half the stuff we need is waiting on e-mail. On-and-off rain plus too-warm building equals vicarious naptime.
(i guess feel free to snip my commentary if you like, but this turian right here…)
here’s the thing i love about the scars joke, and how much garrus grows between the two games when it comes to his relationship with shepard…it’s not just a simple thing to reassure himself that shepard might still care for him. i mean it IS that, and it’s superbly cute and well done on all fronts (not the least of which is Keener’s amazing delivery).
hey, there’s this guy you wanted, once upon a time in an impossible mission far far away. do i still look like that guy to you, now that the smoke has cleared?
like, the way it goes is that garrus doesn’t know this, this romance, this crazy love (and yes i figure he nails that part pretty quickly), is even a possibility until shepard sort of bulldozes her way into his blind spot. and i think, even more than shepard, garrus is able to see their battlefield for what it truly is this time. endgame. full stop.
and he knows who he is and what he wants out of what’s sure to be the short remainder of his life. trouble is…he’s NOT the guy standing in front of the aquarium any more. he’s just a whole damn lot MORE now. so is shepard, even in their brief time apart.
so it’s a legitimate concern right here, in the stupid main battery with a big gun that’s maybe more metaphor than he’d like to admit…how you’re never done working on a thing you care about. when lives are at stake. when it’s yours tangled with someone else’s.
garrus isn’t sure if scars, squirmy little metaphors in their own right, are what drove them together…but he knows they’re due for more. bigger and badder. and that’s fine. he wouldn’t be the soldier we love without that grit. it’d just be a helluva lot better with shepard to land hard against at the end of the line.
and this is him asking (a skill that’s as hard won as any, in romance or in life) as plainly as a bad turian knows how : live or die, bruised and broken, i’m all in…are you with me?
A very merry Shakarian Christmas for spectre-. This is of course for the holiday cheer exchange thingamajig. She mentioned she’d been on an angsty kick with them lately, so I figured something a little light might be in order. Hopefully this tickles her fancy!
