Obsessed with this kind of dynamic in wlws

Going so soon, Doctor?

Howdy space gays.

Hello, I'm back with my BS <3

This is what happened in the Citadel DLC right?

...or Illium.

Yes I know I'm several weeks late hush

they do try to be festive

Yk what's fucking great about Mass Effect? In my two playthroughs so far (both femshep, one with a Traynor romance and one with a Liara romance), Shepard wants a normal family life. With Liara, it's lots of "little blue" kids, and with Traynor it's a house, white picket fence, two kids, and a dog. I feel like 99% of the time when a badass female lead wants children it takes away from their badassery or their independence, it's a way to tie them down and make them seem more domestic. Somehow (I credit Jennifer Hale's incredible voice acting), instead it feels more like Shepard wants to be normal. She spends three games getting thrown into insane situations that she didn't ask for, losing friends, literally dying, having an entire galactic war on her shoulders, going into a mission expecting to die TWICE, and all that on top of whatever trauma her background leaves her with. Bonus points if you do colonist + sole survivor, because that woman must be so far beyond PTSD. But even after all the shit she's gone through, at the end of the trilogy she can say with absolute certainty that she wants to experience a normal life- something she's never gotten before, no matter your background. The best part is she doesn't mention retiring, there's no reason she can't keep her rank and have kids at the same time, she was raised by active-duty officers in one background so it's definitely a possibility. This isn't the "female lead wins by giving up her powers and becoming a mother" trope, it's proof that she's still a normal human despite everything. That's also why I prefer Traynor's romance to Liara, Shepard opens up to her more and seems more human. The mix of flirtyness and honest vulnerability is incredibly normal, through all the galaxy's insanity.

In general, Shepard's trauma is often mentioned in passing but never really shown. No matter the background or choices you make, they've been through hell to begin with and go through it a dozen more times throughout the trilogy. Everyone around them is like "oh wow that must've been tough" but Shepard usually just brushes it off, or gives a line or two about how much they miss whoever it was that died. She definitely had a lot more nightmares than the game let on.

I've walked through a destroyed city once, and it's haunted me daily for five years. I can't imagine being in multiple cities, on multiple worlds, as they're being destroyed, and knowing stopping it is your job, not to mention losing a shit ton of friends + family, your unit, or just the occasional comrade (background depending)

14 feb art with the best space wives❤️💙

14 feb art with the best space wives❤️💙

Cerberus doxxing Liara after me2 is so fucking funny to me. Like imagine you're a covert agent in the most secretive and powerful spy ring in the galaxy and learning that your boss is a teenage exchange student whose best friend is a federal agent turned conspiracy theorist prepper.

when we're up in a spaceship, that's when I feel the greatest

Also I need people to appreciate how both Kaidan and Liara go from

“I’ll have them home by 10, sir”

To “Your kid calls me daddy too”

Late to N7Day but all i could manage was this messy Shiara sketch cuz wooorrkkk but i def wanna draw them more when i have the time i miss them bad

i relate to liara t’soni not just as an academic and an awkward nerd, but also as somebody who’d let commander shepard do absolutely whatever she wanted to me

Aeki Shepard and Liara sketches (I will always headcanon them having a happy ending after all the stuff they went through)

Earth 💫

Happy N7 Day to you all 🥳🪐✨⭐️💫

because someone asked ever so nicely (and im free at the moment) here's shiara in that barbie meme

me playing ME trilogy for the first time and this little nerdy asari has appeared-