Turians start their compulsory military service at fifteen, and they're not allowed to leave military service until they're thirty*
That means that, aside from a minority of early bloomers, they spend the horniest, most hormonal period of their lives in the army. All of them. No exceptions.
So like. There is no way Shepard is the first time Garrus has crushed on a superior officer. Having the hots for your CO and having your Yearning™ subvocals accidentally announce it to your entire unit is practically a rite of passage in Awkward Turian Puberty. It's expected, and forgivable...for a teenager who can't keep his dick behind his plates for longer than five minutes, because he's realising for the very first time that Girls Exist.
Anyway. Garrus who's absolutely dying of cringe for like the whole of ME1 and most of ME2 because he's the wrong side of 25 and still getting inappropriate crushes on authority figures and she's human and they have so many weird little fingers, like fucked-up pyjaks, what is wrong with him? And it's getting a bit ridiculous now anyway like this is the kind of lesson he should've learned when he was nineteen and hit on his pretty, older squad leader and she laughed in his face, but apparently not - and it's so juvenile and even without Wrex around to laugh at him he's - wait hold on Shepard what do you mean blow off steam?
Oh. Oh. Well, alright then. He could be convinced, definitely
* Garrus straight up deserted to go play Batman, y'all
been playing a lot of mass effect recently and constantly amazed at shepard’s ability to keep her bearing. these guys just say whatever and she just has to stand there.
anyway i saw this post tagged as mass effect elevator dialogue and had to draw it
I romanced Garrus in my first playthrough and now in my second playthrough, I noticed that there's just something funnily romantic about the scenery between their first meeting. LIKE-
These are their POV's when they first saw each other:
The way Shepard's red complements with the cherry blossoms and Garrus infront a fountain, sparking that adventure that Shepard is looking for at the start of her story - there's just something poetic about it. 🤣🤣
and I love it even more because there's some genuine irony, that the ME developers never expected Garrus to be so popular and the end product of it all turned out to be more like a romance story between them by the fans. 🤣 I love them both sm!! Their 🔴🔵 chemistry is just so perfect. 🙏
My perfect man? Garrus Vakarian from Mass Effect. Will I elaborate? No. If you know, you know, and if you know, you will understand completely. I rest my case
Concept: Shepard in her cabin, drinking whiskey and flirting with Garrus on the comms while she answers her emails and he calibrates the guns down in the battery, both of them blissfully unaware that her omnitool currently has bluetooth auto-pair turned on and their ✨flirty banter✨ is currently being broadcast shipwide through the normandy's internal PA system
ME2 really gives the vibe that Garrus is out here just. chugging energy drinks and thinkin’ bout Vengeance and Sniping and maybe flexibility without a single moment of rest. No time for sleep, Shepard, it can wait a minute, he’s gotta calibrate-
(cue “CALIBRATE THIS” and him promptly getting hogtied and forced into bed)