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The email came like a blow to the sternum, among all the others it shouldn’t knock the wind out of her but it does. She’d liked Kal Reegar, he was a soldier’s sort of soldier. But mostly, he’d had that dry spark of humor that she was learning to look for in a friend.
And he’d been devoted to Tali, in a steady -correct- sort of way that she recognized.
Aedan closed the screen and jogged to the elevator. “Adams, is Tali on shift?”
“No, ma’am. She took the night, had an upgrade she wanted to fiddle with while we were on minimal staff.”
The lounge was full of streaking starlight and she’d have said it was empty except for the slender blue container of turian brandy standing on the bar. And the small, huddled figure under the bar almost camouflaged in her purples and charcoals.
“Stupid Marines. All of you. Running into stupid amounts of idiotic heroics for people who will for...forget you in hours.”
“Adrenaline junkies.” Aedan dropped down next to her and tapped her boot against Tali’s spur. “Shouldn’t count on us for smarts.”
“A relay tower...why was he even on Palaven, Shepard? I thought that’s why you got the krogan- he didn’t have to...”
“He didn’t have to, but he could. And since he could, he had to.”
Tali’s facemask turned towards her, just enough that Aedan could see the gleam of her eyes. “Stupid logic.”
“Yeah.”
“We...we needed him. It was selfish of him to leave...to...it was. Rannoch needs him...I...”
The slim, armored frame collapsed against her just as she braced against the wall to hold them both up. Watching the stars bleed around them while Tali cried.
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Chapter two is live!
Rating: General Audiences
Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Category: Gen
Fandom: Mass Effect Trilogy
Relationships: Kal’Reegar & Female Shepard (Mass Effect) - Kal’Reegar & Tali’Zorah nar Rayya
Characters: Female Shepard (Mass Effect) - Kal’Reegar - Tali’Zorah nar Rayya - Garrus Vakarian - Zaeed Massani - Karin Chakwas - Jeff “Joker” Moreau
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence - Dialogue Heavy - Not Medically Accurate - but it’s not that big a deal - Kal POV - Pre-Relationship
Language: English
Words: 3126
Chapter Summary: “Tali?” “Yes?” “Tell me everything about the Reapers.” Kal wakes up and makes some decisions.
#my writing#mass effect#me2#kal reegar/shepard#kal reegar#commander shepard#mass effect fanfic#the kal project#dossier tali and kal
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I don't enjoy alien romance books because Mass Effect has ruined my brain. If it's just a man with a Photoshop filter, that's too bland. If it's a 10-foot giant spider with 8 swords for legs, it's too intense.
Like it has to be in that technical sweet spot where it looks weird but recognizable, and most importantly, can use a humanoid rig so the universal animations work and cut down on development time <3
Basically if an alien boyfriend in an alien romance doesn't look like this then I don't want him
#'that last one is just a guy with a mask' that's kal reegar you ignorant fuck#he's alive and also my boyfriend#show some fucking respect!!!#mass effect
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Mass Effect Holiday Cheer gift for @jadesabre301! I saw you liked quarians, Tali, and Reegar and decided to make this. Happy Holidays!
Title: We're Only Stardust Among Comets
Summary:
Kal'Reegar knows loss. Every marine during wartime does. But he also knows what it means to live. To heal.
He hopes that Tali'Zorah came do the same.
Words: 1676
Rating: T
Relationship: Kal'Reegar & Tali'Zorah vas Neema
Additional Tags: Implied/Referenced Character Death, Grief/Mourning, Friendship, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Quarians
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“Vot.”
Tali’Zorah vas Neema dropped the geth memory core she’d salvaged, hands shaking. The hunk of tech landed with a loud clatter against the ground, drawing the gaze of some of the scientists on the opposite side of the room. She glanced over her shoulder briefly, noting the wariness of the others.
From his place a few feet away, Kal’Reegar recognized the telltale signs of distress: the tremors in her shoulders, the quick movements of her hands, the stiffness of her posture. She wasn’t panicking yet, but it didn’t appear far off.
“Are you alright, ma’am?”
Her purple faceplate turned in his direction, eyes glowing warily beneath. “I’m fine.” She paused, realizing how harsh her voice sounded, even through the modulator. A quiet sigh followed. “Thank you for the concern, Kal. I just… need a moment.”
She turned to pick up the memory core, inspecting it for damage before she returned it to the workbench. Hushed speech from the scientists interrupted the silence, the words nothing more than white noise as Kal’Reegar studied Tali’Zorah. She had changed since her time with that human Spectre… since Shepard.
Tali had acquired slightly more human mannerisms than he was accustomed to, not that it was a problem in most situations. In fact, some of her newer ideas had opened the quarians to a different way of thinking, of approaching issues that couldn’t be solved in the traditional ways. For someone who wasn’t a marine, her skills with a gun had vastly improved. She used her drone in fights and it somehow worked, distracting her enemies at the perfect moment.
But she drew suspicion from some of the others on the Fleet. They didn’t like integrating another species' ideas or tech. It made them paranoid, distrustful of her and whatever she brought back after the Battle on the Citadel.
Kal’Reegar wasn’t interested in the tech. Not that surprised anyone. He was a grunt, used to doing the dirty work others wouldn’t. No, he wanted to learn more about this human captain Tali’Zorah served with.
The one she had lost only a few weeks ago.
“You seem distracted, ma’am.” He managed to say without sounding like a total bosh’tet. Kal’Reegar was a marine, a fighter for a race of people that were lost to the stars, who didn’t have a planet to call home. Not for hundreds of years, at least. The geth had seen to that.
But he had an important job here with the scientists, and in particular, with Tali’Zorah. He traveled with them on research missions, protected them from the geth, or anything else that might try to harm them. Sure, it wasn’t fighting a war on their homeworld, but it made a difference. Their research helped further the lives of the quarian people, and by extension the Fleet. Then one day in the distant future, if he survived this war, he could retire, kick up his feet and appreciate the work he put in.
Tali laid her hands on the table, fingers spread against the metal as she tried to focus. “It’s… nothing. You wouldn’t understand.”
News of Shepard’s death had reached the Fleet at a slower pace than if she’d been on the Citadel, but everyone knew what had happened to Tali’s former captain, her former friend. She never spoke much of the humans once she’d returned. She was absorbed in her work like usual. But the news had been such a shock to her system that she’d fallen ill for days after hearing it.
Reegar didn’t know if she’d talked to anyone about it, her father or perhaps Raan. Even if she did, it likely wouldn’t do much for her grief. Losing someone who fought beside you, that you bled with and befriended in the fires of combat, that was a bond that no one could touch.
He approached cautiously, taking care to make sure she saw him coming. Standing beside the table, he stood with his hands behind his back, watching her out of the corner of his eyes.
“Ma’am, you would be surprised what a dumb marine like me can understand.”
She snorted, another human reaction he noted, and faced him. “Is that so? Keelah, you’re annoying.”
“Been called worse.”
A real laugh left her mouth and it drew the stares of the other scientists briefly. Kal pretended to not notice, waiting for the moment to pass before speaking again.
“Losing a friend isn’t easy. I’ve lost plenty in this short life and it never gets easier.” He let the words hang between them, letting the weight of them settle.
Tali made a small sound, something close to a strangled cry if he had to describe it. The turmoil in her soul wouldn’t ease for weeks, months, maybe even years. Reegar didn’t know how close she was to Shepard, but from her reaction, it seemed like one of the closest friendships a quarian could have to another being. His heart ached for her. No one should suffer a loss like that alone.
“How-” She paused, voice wavering as she tried to push down the wave of intense grief she felt. “How do you heal? Move on from something like that? I don’t remember much about when my mother left us, but it didn’t feel like this.”
“Grief feels different when you’re young. The finality of it doesn’t weigh as heavy as it does now.” He resisted the urge to reach out to comfort her as her shoulders shook. “You fought beside Shepard, knew her as intimately as our kind can. Your friendship will live on in you and the things you do.”
“That’s so… poetic.” She sighed, brushing a hand against her faceplate, almost as if she could wipe the tears away.
“I don���t know anything about poetry, ma’am.” He replied, keeping his tone as light as possible. “Like I said, I’m only a marine.”
“A marine with a love for poetry.” Tali teased back, tears still coating her voice, but she didn’t sound as broken.
Silence descended a moment later, but the melancholy seemed to have lifted. Kal’Reegar watched her again, detecting the subtle shift of her shoulders, the way her hands slid away from the memory core, holding them at ease in front of her.
“May I ask you about her?” He tried hard to keep the excitement ( maybe even longing?) out of his voice. “About Shepard?”
A warrior like Captain Shepard was a curiosity that the quarians didn’t see much of, especially when most were either stuck on the Migrant Fleet or off fighting geth. While Shepard might’ve been human, it didn’t take away from her enigma, her infamy. In fact, it made her more captivating. Especially to someone like Kal’Reegar.
Tali tilted her head slightly, in confusion or contemplation, he wasn’t sure but it was endearing. He was positive that she was grinning at him, all too aware of how interested he was. “I would be happy to. Talking about her… it might help.”
When she began to speak, she practically glowed with the affection she felt for Shepard. To Tali’Zorah, the human Spectre was a friend first, a hero second. She was a person with feelings, who made mistakes, who had love for the galaxy and every person she came into contact with. She was kind. She was strong.
It did little for his hero worship.
“There was this one time, keelah, she challenged Wrex to a fist fight.”
“That’s the krogan?” He asked for clarification, her old friends' names swirling into a blur in his mind.
“Yes. Wrex laughed at Shepard, told her she was a whelp for even thinking she could face a true krogan.” Tali paused to catch her breath before forging on. “When he turned to leave, she punched him in the face! With her biotics, of course, because she would’ve broken her hand otherwise, but it was… oh! What was the human word for it?” She spoke a few words in quick succession before exclaiming. “Oh yes! Insane. It was insane!”
She dissolved into a fight of giggles.
Reegar couldn’t imagine this small human he’d seen vids of punching a full sized krogan, but then again, she had done the impossible only a few months before. She had destroyed a supposed Reaper, stopped a geth invasion, and gotten humanity a seat on the Council.
The Admirals could take a hint or two from Shepard’s actions.
An old quarian saying popped into his mind as he watched Tali try to control her laughter. Something his mother used to tell him when he mourned another soul lost to the geth, a reminder that death wasn’t the end, but a beginning. They would all make their way back to the cosmos, to rest among the blanket of starlight and live forever as stardust.
“We’re only stardust among comets.”
Tali finally returned her gaze to him, laughter dying on her lips. “We are galaxies, united in our infinite sorrow.”
“We are solar flashes, beauty brief yet bright.”
“Esu se’lai, dear friend. We will meet amongst the stars once more.”
Tali relaxed, moving to lean against the workbench, her eyes still on him. The silence stretched on, but she didn’t shed any more tears. “Thank you for this. You didn’t need to help me, but you did. I… appreciate it.”
“Whatever you need, ma’am.”
Tali shook her head, crossing the small distance between them to lay a hand on his arm. She glanced up at him, forcing him to meet her eyes. “Please, call me Tali’Zorah.”
“Of course, Tali’Zorah. Ma’am.”
She tittered, squeezing his arm gently, a sincere and friendly gesture… something else to thank Shepard for, he supposed. “I’m glad you’re here, Kal.”
Reegar smiled beneath his mask, not knowing how to explain the feeling growing in his chest. Pride at helping her? Perhaps he was getting sentimental in his later years. A sentimental marine with a knack for poetry… His friends on the Fleet would tease him endlessly if they found out.
Somehow that didn’t make him upset.
“Me too, ma’am. I wouldn’t be anywhere else.”
#my writing#jadesabre301#mass effect#mass effect holiday cheer#holiday harbinger#masseffectholidaycheer#mass effect fanfic#quarians#tali'zorah vas normandy#kal'reegar#friendship#grief#mourning#implied/referenced character death
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ngl I’m liking kal reegar/tali 🧍♀️
#it’s the way his voice gets soft when he calls her ma’am#so noticeable when he’s talking to shep then he goes ‘ma’am’ to tali after#also the bit where she was like just call her tali and he’s like I’ll work on that and I’m like helloooo???????????#is there something there?? 😭
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hoo boy I haven't been tagged by one of these things in so long haha. I never tag anyone because I don't want to bug ppl but if you wanna do it I definitely tagged you. ;)
First 10 songs on my Spotify On Repeat playlist:
I Saw Fire - TARO
wasn't trying to love you - Like Saturn
Dark Room - Foreign Figures. Jonny T
Not Today - Unlike Pluto
More Than I Remember You - Unlike Pluto
Julia Fox. - EMM
Fragile Skin of Me - Unlike Pluto
FOLLOW ME - GEN.KLOUD
Speak in Tongues - machineheart
Hell Replied - Grey
yes nearly half of this list is by the same group/artist. don't judge me. ; ___ ;
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LAST SONG: unamerican beauty - HXVRMXN Remix
CURRENTLY WATCHING: uhhh nothing? in terms of a series anyway. I've been into documentaries lately I guess haha. last I watched was Hell Camp: Teen Nightmare. before that was the Rael series, before that was Escaping Twin Flames, etc.
THREE SHIPS: hmmm yeah I'm not into a lot of well known ships. mostly I just ship my OCs with friends' OCs haha. uhh as far as fandom, right now I'm back into Fallout so Gage/Sole Survivor (mine is usually male). uhhh Tali & Kal/Reegar is an underrated one that I adore. also idk why but like... maybe I was talking about it recently or maybe because I've been into the 40s/50s aesthetic hard again but Carol and Therese will forever live in my head rent free. ; u ; ❤
FAVORITE COLOR: cyan I guess? it's hard because I rarely like a single color by itself, I usually prefer color schemes.
CURRENTLY CONSUMING: uhhh still haven't finished the iced coffee I started 4 hours ago... whoops...
FIRST SHIP: that was... so long ago... rip. I think maybe Chris x Wesker??
PLACE OF BIRTH: California
CURRENT LOCATION: still California...
RELATIONSHIP STATUS: hahaha oh cute meme turned sad when I face that I am still alone. rip. (((;
LAST MOVIE: Godzilla: King of the Monsters lolol. sometimes you just have to watch a big monster fuck shit up idk.
CURRENTLY WORKING ON: trying to make $$ from commissions/designs because times are TOUGH and I am unemployed big sigh.
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My vision of quarians
Tali'Zorah/Kal'Reegar
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“You’ve got a Geth right behind you!”
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The starboard cargo hold was, for the first time since his arrival, relatively quiet. Zaeed had gone off to do Keelah knew what, and that left Kal to spend some time cleaning one of his shotguns, as well as a couple that he'd seen passing through the armory that needed it.
He certainly didn't trust that Cerberus goon to do it, and the team always needed weapons that were going to work well.
He didn't actually much care for the quiet, though. At least when Zaeed was in here, the old mercenary would talk, give him tips and pointers. He didn't much trust enough people aboard the Normandy to go looking for company, though... which didn't stop him from turning his head when the door slid open.
Upon spotting one of the few non-Cerberus aligned humans in Ashley, he sat down the parts he was working with to turn and offer a salute, shoulders back.
"Sorry, ma'am, didn't realize you'd planned to swing down here. Anything I can help with?"
@virmireisms gets a starter
#﹝ in character ﹞ ⌖ rather go out in a blaze of glory#﹝ me2 au ﹞ ⌖ i just get excitable as to choice; like to have my options open#// kal ''oh shit how do you socialize I'm not even good at this at HOME'' reegar
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#not to be controversial or live dangerously but#unromanced garry should've ended up with dr michel if anyone.#i will stand by that txlibrxtions will never make sense#also it makes me cringe just bc she's such a megafan of fleet and flotilla i'm sorry i know i'm mean#also kal reegar is right there but then they had to kill him didn't they lmao
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You’re pissing on everything I fought for, everything Tali fought for.
So if you exile her, you might as well do the same to me.
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Rating: General Audiences
Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Category: Gen
Fandom: Mass Effect Trilogy
Relationships: Kal'Reegar & Female Shepard (Mass Effect) - Kal'Reegar & Tali'Zorah nar Rayya
Characters: Female Shepard (Mass Effect) - Kal'Reegar - Tali'Zorah nar Rayya - Garrus Vakarian - Zaeed Massani - Karin Chakwas - Jeff "Joker" Moreau
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence - Dialogue Heavy - Not Medically Accurate - but its not that big a deal - Kal POV - Pre-Relationship
Language: English
Words: 1929
Summary: "He wasn’t surprised that he thought he was hearing ghosts in a dead colony; he was surprised they turned out to be real."
Shepard goes to Haestrom but picks up two Quarians instead of one.
#mass effect#my writing#commander shepard#kal reegar/shepard#female commander shepard#Kal’Reegar#me2#mass effect fanfic#kal squadmate romance
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The heat on Rannoch was more than she expected, how she wished she could get rid of the suit clinging to her. Soon, soon they won’t need them, soon they’ll be how they were before the exile.
The house she dreamed of had finally started to be constructed and with Kal helping her out it would be done in no time. Speaking of which... They haven’t had a break in a while. Maybe he’d go with her somewhere? Like out to eat or-
oh, Keelah, that sounded like a date. But just as friends. Right.
“ Hey, Kal, how about we take a break? Maybe... Get something to eat? Umh if you want to, that is- “
Keelah strike her down now, this is embarrassing.
@citadl for Kal mwah
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Pepsi: check
Mega stuff oreos: check
Kleenex for the tears: check
Ok, I'm ready for Priority Earth
#mass effect 3#mass effect trilogy#femshep#gonna kill them reapers#its the end#im having emotions#shenko#saved all my crew that can be saved#i miss legion#he was a good geth#im pretending kal reegar is still alive#i just love him so much#also while im lusting send in admiral hackett
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finally finished star control origins after like, what, a year? i mean, i still have dlc to do, but the main quest is done. i still think it’s really good, i love how the game progresses and how creative the aliens are. but once a certain event happens, the game rushes to the end. it’s like, ten hours build-up and thirty minutes execution. it’s a really weird feeling. but the ending is basically a bunch of sentient viruses telling you how good a job you did, so that’s cool. and the boss rush is very intense and exciting. and there’s a final battle where all your friends come to help you, which is so fun and heartwarming.
all in all, i originaly went into this game expecting nothing. got a whole lot of content, great writing, cool alien designs, and a replacement for mass effect.
definitely would recommend. especially if 1.) you’re looking for space games and 2.) you’re looking for a mass effect like experience (as previously mentioned).
also, i will mention, the phamyst are still my style, but adam baldwin’s character even more so. by the way, adam baldwin has a bit part as a battle-scarred sarcastic mercenary. he has, like, one scene but hot damn is it a scene.
#sci plays vidyagaems#i couldnt figure out where in the world i'd heard adam's voice before#since i didnt watch firefly i couldnt ha e heard him there#then i learned hes kal reegar from mass effect 2 and i love him even more now
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I love playing Mass Effect 3 because it’s like 75% me crying emotionally because We cured the genophage!! it’s a new start for the Krogan! Oh my god the Quarian homeworld! I wish Legion hadn’t had to sacrifice himself but now things are good with the Quarians and Geth! Oh my god I’m going to DESTROY the Illusive Douchebag >:( !
and then like 25% of me going nope, that didn’t happen! This is not cannon! Kal Reegar lives and he and Tali fall in love and that weeb sword loser doesn’t kill Thane Shepard kicks his ass! Also fuck the starchild the catalyst kills the Reapers and ONLY the Reapers and maybe severely injurs EDI and the Geth and all the stuff with Reaper code but they survive too and Shepard gets to live also and they live HAPPILY EVER AFTER WITH A GAGGLE OF CHILDREN WITH WHOEVER THEY ROMANCED THE END IT’S CANNON WHETHER THE GAME LIKES IT OR NOT!!!!
#mass effect#mass effect 3#mass effect 3 spoilers#I guess. The game's like 8ish years old lmfao#I actually narratively like Mordin and Legion's sacrifices. Makes me sad but they're good endings for both of them#also I physically cannot force myself to do anything but cure the genophage and make peace between the quarians and geth#no matter how renegade. I owe it to my pretend friends and also my IRL morals just won't allow it even if it's just a game
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