i like the balance between shepard, kristen + liara. i was asking @tornsavior her renegade vs. paragon scale just to make sure i was reading everything right, which is probably why this whole entire poly ship is working out SO WELL. kristen’s far more renegade than liara + kristen, but if we’re tbh, it’s actually shepard that’s the most paragon. liara’s being watched by asari high command because they’re slightly worried that she may go off the deep end ... that means they’re kind of afraid of her power. i love that so much. but liara, even angry, is extremely level-headed. her kindness is absolutely never her weakness. but if you’re her enemy, there may be zero mercy. whereas kristen, while she thinks about civilians, probably would crash her way through innocent lives to end cerberus or the reapers. shepard would never. liara, as shadowbroker, may deploy her shadowbroker agents - one of which is kristen - to specifically do dirty work. kristen’s personality resembles jack’s in angery, kristen is just a lot more suave and less open about her anger.
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@tornsavior : 15. for one muse to fall asleep in the hospital bed with the other / For Liara & Kristen post war <3
— nonverbal starters !! / definitely accepting .
𝚃𝙷𝙴𝚁𝙴'𝚂 𝚂𝙾 𝙼𝚄𝙲𝙷 𝙶𝙾𝙸𝙽𝙶 𝙾𝙽 𝙰𝙻𝙻 𝙾𝙵 𝙰 𝚂𝚄𝙳𝙳𝙴𝙽 𝙸𝙽 𝙺𝚁𝙸𝚂𝚃𝙴𝙽'𝚂 𝙱𝚁𝙰𝙸𝙽 𝚃𝙷𝙰𝚃 𝚂𝙷𝙴 𝙷𝙰𝚂 𝙽𝙾 𝚁𝙾𝙾𝙼 𝙵𝙾𝚁 𝙷𝙴𝚁𝚂𝙴𝙻𝙵. The fight between her & Liara when Liara caught on that she wasn’t acting herself. It’s no mystery that Liara was going light, which gave Kristen the upper hand in a battle of biotics. To say that Kristen feels guilty is an understatement. All of that, on top of the fact that Kristen’s emotions were being controlled - which feels gross. It feels invasive. It’s a man prompting you to hate the blue alien you wanted to LOVE since the first moment you ever laid eyes on Liara. Kristen’s mind is screaming.
Green eyes suddenly open - which was a mistake, even the dim light of the hospital room blinded her. An instant headache. What she wasn’t expecting was the back of the same blue alien’s head. Right there. Just sleeping lightly in front of Kristen. As if Liara would even be MAD let alone walk away from Kristen for being manipulated. Kristen’s traumatized, broken mind just couldn’t fathom that. Her whole entire body is sore. An explosion like that really should have killed her. She can still feel where it felt like all the rubble had been crushing her. Then again, she had her own emotions back right in the end. He died first. She put up a biotic barrier.
Simple as that, really. Also, just in case:
“ Shepard, ” Kristen breathes out, voice incredibly hoarse & cracked. She can’t really lift her head to peer over Liara, but she sees the top of blonde hair laying on the bed. Liara twitches herself. “ The bastard’s dead. I killed him, right? ”
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@isabellashepard asked : “ So food for thought and thinking about how Kristen was raised by the Krogan on Lethe. When the mission comes to have Mordin cure the Genophage, that Kristen’s there because it would help the clan on Lethe and she wants to see them also have something better from this war. Shepard bringing Kristen cause she knows how much the clan means to Kristen. Shepard also offering for Kristen to make sure the clan can get to Tuchanka to be cured. Just some feels for you. :3 ”
— this is random + appreciated .
KRISTEN DURUS IS THE EMBODIMENT OF A MOVIE ASSASSIN, ALWAYS SO PUT TOGETHER, DIVINE BEAUTY. it would be a crying shame away from her aesthetic if she ever looked dirty, broken down or war-torn. maybe, above all else, that’s because she IS. war-torn, scarred, broken down. it’s no secret she helps shepard quite frequently ... just in a spy way, the information, the behind the scenes, taking down cerberus + gaining reaper intel where it’s least likely: anywhere but the front lines. she’s walking into so many bars, happily talked the ear off, flirting her way into dominance of any cerberus agent.
just to end them. it’s her trademark, aside from being lethe’s top security personnel. the angry little human teenager they couldn’t just toss out. “prove yourself, little one.” the soft words of rutilak lethe, the female krogan leader. they seemed like harsh words, but the softness in them only rendered a krogan tradition. kristen easily proved herself - then she belonged. as important as every member of the clan could be. all krogan who were tired of traditions anyway, she certainly left because she was tired of being nothing but a breeder. each lethe krogan had their reason.
WHAT IS IT LITTLE ONE - rutilak asks over the comm, kristen switches to holo, the environment coming to life in rutilak’s office. kristen certainly isn’t little anymore, but it’s rutilak’s endearment for a human who had become much like a daughter, loyal & ruthless for lethe. especially for an ex-shaman of a krogan who can’t have children, who was seen as a war prize if she could. between wrex, eve, rutilak & more like them - they’re tired. the krogan rebellions will be a piece of history that shall never repeat. they’ll stay as history is.
so, it’s all really something else that kristen is standing on tuchanka in alliance armor, face dirty, nose bleeding from the fight she just endured. the cure falling around them. there’s just this long pause between rutilak & herself, rutilak just asks softly, as if she already knows what’s going on. “ the genophage is cured, ” kristen says, then she hangs up. which seems cold but neither rutilak or kristen were strong with words of affirmation + kristen already knows rutilak was about to the same to give herself a moment for tears, or for happiness.
after all, kristen standing there in armor, dirty, traveling with shepard really says it all. she doesn’t have to vocalize that she cares about lethe or the casino, it’s in everything that just happened. at least shepard got to witness cerberus’ training first hand, phantom class. kristen was absolutely brutal on the battlefield when she had to be. at close range, at least. kristen turns, holo off, marching to move back to the trucks & past shepard. kristen raises a finger, “ don’t say a word, be your selfless self some other time. i’m tired. ” kristen just says simply, that finger moving to point at liara when she realized the asari was walking near too.
“ you too, ” kristen adds. “ call me when you do something about your salarian doctor friend. then we can talk. ” & maybe that was kristen’s way of saying: i understand what happened. i get it.
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@tornsavior asked : “ “you’re not a monster.” For Kristen ”
— you’re not a monster + accepting.
LAUGHTER ALMOST FALLS FROM KRISTEN’S LIPS. IT WOULD HAVE BEEN MANIC. THERE IS NOTHING FUNNY HERE. kristen durus looks so strange in a warzone. pieces of the building that has crumbled around them. the night sky of the planet showing through a large, glass window. cracked or broken in so many places. kristen durus is MADE OF WAR. she’s just found a way to look so lavish that when she’s home, she looks millions of years away.
kristen’s neon green eyes seem to be the brightest thing in this room right now. even more bright than the biotic blue glow lightly coating her whole entire body. notably around her hand. where it’s still wrapped around the lieutenant’s throat. nothing in this moment irritates her more than knowing cerberus leader aiden kane wasn’t controlling this man. this human was just WORKING for kane + cerberus. just because. green eyes don’t move from his face once. that’s what he was hoping for. to get something out of her. anything. he thought it would be MORE than possible with humanity’s real savior in the room. he knew shepard would make an appearance, that’s why he said those words: you’re just a monster.
it only almost worked. kristen still didn’t bat an eyelash.
he grimaced when kristen’s hand tightened around his throat. “ no, shepard. i am a monster. i’m exactly what they made me. a killer. and i just can not wait until kane finds out you’re fucking dead. ” it was so deadpan. LOOK WHAT YOU MADE ME DO. that’s the emotion echoing in the air, this cerberus goon’s brown eyes shaking with realization while kristen’s neon eyes don’t move from his own. the silence lingering in the wide open room is stifling until kristen’s other hand reaches up to pull out the sword sheathed across her back. cerberus quality. she’s wearing a cerberus uniform. that was just to throw cerberus off though. that phantom black - maybe that’s what making her eyes stand out so much.
& with enough force to shatter the glass behind his head, kristen shoves the blade through the man’s heart. a human weakness. his shields were down long ago. somehow he still thought he was going to win that battle. kristen steps back with the sword. turns. his body slumps to the ground. lifeless.
“ i’m just not an asshole to you. ” kristen simply says when she walks by shepard.
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