#mshepard

[unfair-water-plane]

I’m very new to talking about things online, but just wanted to share a headcanon.

After the events of ME:3, humanity has to start rebuilding. Arcturus is gone, very likely much of earth’s governance is gone or indoctrinated beyond the ability to lead. They are going to need new faces in high places, and whose is chock full of people who have shown their mettle? The Alliance. It’s natural that leaders will rise from military places, and that can be dangerous. It’s so easy to go martial law when everyone is…well, martial.

But you know who probably be okay with leaving the alliance? Who has the moral fiber to stand not just for earth but as a leader for the whole galaxy? Who has not just the trust of the Spectres but has earned their way among them, and who they know will not treat them like cannon fodder in the rebuilding of everything?

That’s right, introducing humanity’s new councilor:

Kaidan Alenko.

The way I see it (and your mileage may vary, I’m basing this on my own experience and service), if I had busted my way all the way to N7, was an operational commander and had a frigate no one had the balls to take from me I would be in no hurry to just end that rise. I have a headcanon that N7 is hell in career growth since they don’t drop a bundle on training and then promote you out of the field, so Shepard’s probably primed for a life of spec ops service with Commander, or maybe Major eventually, as his high water mark.

Now add in the fact that your husband (because you know the minute Shepard managed to open even one eye Kaidan was welding a ring on that finger) is going to be humanity’s councilor. He’s going to need someone in his corner who is unquestioningly loyal, fiercely protective, and has once a month spa dates with the Shadow Broker.

But I think Kaidan is like be so good at that role. He’s a natural peace maker, has spent a lifetime developing control over himself and his action. The first time one of the other councilors starts to just pass down uncollaborative mandates Kaidan drags them all aside for six hours of methodical debate and a galactic sized MCPP. By the end of the first month he’s completely eliminated standing on the platforms and holding condescending debate in front of applicants. Round table discussions with home planets, involved parties and unbiased observers becomes the norm. There will never be another ‘cruel and unfortunate truth’ moment with Councilor Alenko demanding the mindset of respect through service.

(And in the background, completely uninvolved in the discussion but never too far away during the emotional debates, Reaper Killer and Galactic hero Commander Shepard alternates between staring at humanity’s councilor like he hung the stars and seeing how quickly he can intimidate an end of a meeting at the first sign of a migraine).

Anyway, that’s just my two cents. Wanted to get it out of my head.

#mshenko #mshepard #kaidan alenko #mass effect #citadel headcanons #galactic politics #fuck the council though

[monowires]

i never take him out of this armor.

—- mod: samara’s armor for shepard

#mass effect #commander shepard #male shepard #mshepard #mshep #male shep #john shepard #commander john shepard #my screenshots #mass effect mods #if op of this mod sees this: i’m living my best gay life with this mod

[namelesslegion]

#mass effect #miranda lawson #mshepard #commander shepard

[dorklyelectric]

*insert joke about Arrival*

#mass effect #mshepard #kaidan alenko #john shepard #sheploo #based off that one scene from the punisher #between david and frank #their working relationship was so chaotic i loved it

[sloanesmortuary]

trans shep w...jack is covering his top surgery scars with a very sick and painful tattoo

jack and zaeed were zeke’s bestfriends in me2! so happy I finally got to draw out this idea 💜

commission info here!

#ezekiel shepard #commander shepard #mshep #jack mass effect #subject zero #zaeed massani #kasumi goto #mass effect #mass effect 2 #me2 #illustration #my art #mshepard

[pastelroyce]

Pov you're Commander Shepard and the LT you totally don't have the hots for walks past you

#mass effect #male shepard #mshep #mshepard #royce shepard #got this on console and tbh i think ive peaked

[benjis-house-boat]

Ah Yes, I do love it when my Gays threaten each other

#The scene in Nimona felt familiar #ballister x ambrosius #nimona film #mass effect trilogy #shepard #kaidan alenko #mshenko #spoliers #ballister boldheart #ambrosius goldenloin #mshepard

[milkibana]

autism edition

#supposedly daily barnes doodle #milk skribs #boykisser barnes week: the squeakquel #boykisser barnes week #barney calhoun #mshepard

[alongtidesoflight]

I was only mostly dead. Try finding that on government paperwork. | Cerberus Version [x]

#mass effect #mshep #mshepard #art #digitarl art #me1 #me2 #me3 #mele #mass effect series #oc: helios #myart #there's a cerberus version too but i don't know if i'll upload it by itself rather than #just edit this post maybe and reblog that later #all i did was change up three text layers and some colors yknow doesn't really deserve #a post of its own

[luckyclovercoin]

we finally made it here friends!!!!!

#the gay pining is alive and well #finally. they will get to kiss #it was a long journey but we finally did it #lmao i didna speedrun of me1 & me2 to get here sjsjsjsks #mass effect trilogy #mass effect #mass effect 3 #commander shepard #mshep #mshepard #kaidan alenko #kaidan x shepard

[monowires]

if you're playing mshep & going for endgame shenko, the mass effect trilogy is like one really massive, angsty, painfully slow burn

#mshenko #shenko #mshepard #m!shepard #male shepard #male shep #mshep #kaidan alenko #m!shenko #mass effect

[dorklyelectric]

They eep

#mass effect #mshepard #kaidan alenko #mshenko #john shepard #sheploo #EEPY

[sloanesmortuary]

★ Ezekiel Shepard ★

been keeping these pictures of my canon Shepard in my gallery for a bit bc i wanted to post them all with some more additional refs at once but that'll probably take forever so i'll just throw out what I've done now to le tumblr. pretty proud with the portraits :3

he has gone too far off how he actually looks like in game but idgaf hes hotter in my head and i can draw so

anyways might infodump abt him later bc he's been on the mind lately :3c

#commander shepard #shepard #mass effect #mass effect trilogy #ezekiel shepard #mshepard #mshep #my art #reference sheet

[a-boros-named-seamus]

As the Citadel fell around him, Shepard thought about the Normandy. About every member of his crew. About Kaidan.

🎵 “It started out as a feeling,”

He remembered meeting the man, just before Eden Prime. Fighting aside him and Ash, with him on that last desperate sprint to the Conduit.

🎵 “Just because everything's changing, doesn't mean it's never been this way before.”

And then there was Alchera. Promising Kaidan he would be fine just as soon as he got joker to a pod. Struggling to breathe as his suit vented into the void.

🎵 “Now we're back to the beginning,”

And then there was Horizon. That terrible day. Kaidan looking at him like a traitor, a puppet dancing to the Illusive Man's tune, had broken something in his heart that he hadn't known was there. He thought of Kaidan when he destroyed the Collector Base

🎵 “But just because they can't feel it too, doesn't mean that you have to forget.”

Mars had been... hard. He had desperately wanted Kaidan to trust him again, had tried so hard to convince him, but there was little time for talking, and he wasn't comfortable baring his heart in front of Liara and her obvious, unwelcomed, crush on him.

Nevertheless the pain in his heart drove him to try. And it had been working, step by step.

🎵 “Pick a star on the dark horizon and follow the light.”

And then Eva Core had tried to collapse Kaidan's skull. He'd barely been able to tear him away from Kaidan's bedside, let alone sleep. And when he had slept, his dreams had been full of the words of the dead. The Vista of the Citadel's wards arcing out if the Widow Nebula had been as beautiful as ever, but it had been hard to think about anything but the paramedics EDI had called to meet them in the docking bay. Watching them take Kaidan away had filled him with a profound sense of dread.

🎵 “It's just a feeling and no one knows yet,”

"Maybe some things get better with age"

"Or maybe you have"

Kaidan chuckled. "Are you flirting with me, Commander? Wait, wait! Don't tell me. Let me live in the illusion"

Shepard's heart had skipped a beat there. He'd been going out on a limb and kaidan had been happy. Had encouraged him.

There was still an ache deep within his heart, but it was closing.

🎵 “You'll come back when it's over,”

Kaidan lowering his gun there on that Citadel had healed that secret hurt that he'd been nursing since Horizon. Their conversations on Mars and in Huerta had helped, but this one absolute moment of trust closed it forever, leaving naught but a memory.

🎵 “And then that word grew louder and louder 'til it was a battle cry,”

That date, that 'sanity check' at Apollo's Cafe. It had been... oh god it had been perfect. They'd both danced around the subject, just a bit, but in the end they'd come together and stuck that way.

And later, at the car lot, when he'd been running from CAT-6 and relying on his barriers and wits. He'd walked through a door to find Kaidan standing there in his armor and toying with mercs, and his relief, adrenaline, fear, and love had all mixed together to make that tableau the single hottest thing he had ever seen.

🎵 “All you can do is try to know who your friends are as you head off to the war,”

His thoughts went to that last party on the Citadel. All of his living crewmates had been there sharing moments both raucous and quiet. It had done his soul good. The cracks that had started with abandoning Ashley had finally begun to close. His favorite part had been the morning after. He'd woken up next to Kaidan and gone on to find his crew enjoying the morning quiet.

🎵 “Let your memories grow stronger and stronger ‘til they're before your eyes,”

The last memory was that of Kaidan coming up to his quarters just before the assault on Cerberus. Good drinks, a good talk, and even better sex. It had been the perfect night, even as death's specter loomed.

And then, he returned to present.

🎵 “Which then grew into a hope, which then turned into a quiet thought, which then turned into a quiet word,”

Just breathe. He repeated it to himself over and over, his cybernetics straining to keep him alive beneath the rubble. He could see teams searching the wreckage, but couldnt call out, because he had to focus on breathing.

He'd managed to tap into every eezo nodule in his body, pushing his biotincs to their limit on order to break his fall and keep himself from being utterly crushed, and it had still been just barely enough. But there was hope for him yet

As he started to slip away, he heard rescuers drawing close.

"Call the Normandy. We found him alive"

🎵 “No need to say goodbye,”

He awoke to several familiar sensations. The rubbing of soft sheets. The scent of flowers. Warm sunlight on his skin. A monitor beeping in time with his heart.

"Shepard?"

Kaidan was there next to him, holding some sort of report and looking dreadful. He also looked beautiful. Like the dawn after a long, cold night.

They spent a few quiet moments of relief together until EDI, who had of course hacked the hospital to keep an eye on his heart monitor, ushered everyone in. Or, well. All of them that could fit in a private hospital room.

The rains had passed, a beautiful new day had dawned, and they were all here to see it.

#mass effect #mass effect 2 #mass effect 3 #kaidan alenko #commander shepard #mshenko #mshep #mshepard #m!shenko #hurt/comfort #songfic #the call regina spektor #slight canon divergence #i wrote half of this at 1 am and half of it just now and it came out decently solid. #my writing #seamus writes

[agent371]

#Me on my way to see my husband #why can't joker be a romancable character :( #joker mass effect #mass effect #jeff joker moreau #jeff moreau #commander shepard #mshepard

[baggesa]

#mass effect #mass effect 2 #miranda lowson #miranda #mass effect miranda #shepard #mshepard #broshep #chris shepard #mass effect romance