#taniria

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@sparatus' girlies, Galenia and Taniria Arterius--Leni's visiting her big sis on the Citadel after getting her tattoos! Thank you again for letting me draw these two, and you really do bless us with your worldbuilding for the Arterius clan <3

And, yes, I may or may not have taken inspiration from Saren's concept artwork (specifically the black robes he's wearing in the one piece) for Leni's outfit. Currently a puddle because she really is a baby goth who looks up to her uncle, isn't she?

Commission type: Two-Character, Bust, Colored Sketch; $70 USD Interested in a comm? Check my availability, style, and pricing HERE!

#taniria #galenia #arterius #turian #exponential differentiation #exdiff #mass effect #oc #mass effect oc #acecomm #acedraws #digital art #fanart #art #commission #commissions

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every time i remember taniria is officially the youngest recurring character in exdiff it hits me like a fucking truck. she just turned 18 like, 2 weeks ago when itlog starts. she's younger than jenkins. everyone else is very thoroughly An Adult but tanni's only just barely legally considered Not Baby. desolas come get your daughter--

#exdiff #taniria arterius #TOO YOUNG FOR HEARTBREAK NO NO IM SORRY SWEET BABY #every time she's upset in bm it hurts me

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“Everyone expects me to be this big military prodigy, ’cause of my family, but like, it’s just not for me, y’know?”

taniria arterius, eldest daughter of general desolas arterius and colonel valis abrudas + niece of saren arterius, from my no-reapers au fic broken mirror [link]. slightly redid her tattoos since i last drew her (four years ago...), she now has full arterius tattoos instead of modified arterius with elements of abrudas.

i know it’s not lesbian day anymore, but..... happy lesbian day, tanni’s a lesbian

(preemptive note: don’t be weird. she’s 17. yes that’s legally an adult for turians but she’s still like, a baby adult. barely an adult. if you have to say “well in HER species’ terms-” then it’s not good.)

#mass effect #Mass Effect OC #Turians #turian oc #canon relative #desabrudas #arterius family #taniria arterius #drawing #digital #me realizing i havent drawn taniria in four years like ive abandoned my girl #councilor's notes

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mood boards for aediteia epirian and taniria arterius!! via soft things an pastel for teia and a kinda bubble gum punk pop vibe for tanni!! @thecouncilwasright hope this captured their vibes i can change things if necessary or make more :0

#the camera is bc she's a reporter so!!! #also i hope u don't mind me using ur art aa #they're both good pics #also turian teenage Avril Lavigne is my new favorite phrase tbh #aediteia epirian #tanira arterius #mood boards #friend ocs

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WIP game

tagged by @teamdilf - thanks j!!

Rules: make a new post and share 1-2 sentences from your most recent unposted WIP(s) with zero context – Let your followers guess!

"I will admit my brother has offered his three-year-old daughter to help sell your cover, multiple times, which I assume means Taniria is refusing to watch anything but Star Pups all day again, but I declined."

tagging @korblez @writernopal @daisywalletchains

#councilor's notes #tag game #star pups is space paw patrol. desolas is in hell.

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WIP Game - Desolas fucks up on purpose pretty please?

wip game

THREE PEOPLE ASKED FOR THIS ONE IM WHEEZING local menace is just so so appealing while setting shit on fire gonna tag @teamdilf and @korblez while im here

okay so for some additional comedy i mean context, there's this post, which led to this exchange:

and lo, a crackfic was born

basically! valis's family does not like des. des does not like valis's family. valis has been keeping low contact with them, no visits, for years. unfortunately, they now have two chicks, 5yo taniria and almost-1yo desivius, and valis's parents' desire to hold grandbabies finally outweighed their desire to never see desolas in person ever. so they pester valis into agreeing to a visit, and getting des to bring food.

problem: desolas is king shitbird.

he's sabotaging that shit on purpose.

valis is kept entirely in the dark, for plausible deniability (and also because sivvi still needs his food regurgitated for him and des isn't entirely confident his affront to the spirits is safe for regurgitating parents), but baby tanni is recruited to """help""", and she is SO good at helping daddy :) saren and the feral coyotes he found in the trash are on a mission but love chaos and are happy to also provide dipshit ideas.

have a snip:

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When she made it into the kitchen, Des was carrying Taniria on his hip, bouncing to the beat as he serenaded her with… Galactic Cannibals, she was pretty sure, it sounded like one of Saren’s playlists. Tan was only four and didn’t really understand the lyrics, but her muxaup was singing and dancing with her, and she liked music that made her move as much as any turian, so she was having a blast just clinging to Des’s arm and giggling. She noticed Valis first, turning her head at the sound of the cane and squeaking an excited, “Phatzhi!” as she stretched out an arm to invite her to the little party.

Unbidden, Valis’s mandibles lifted, just a few degrees, just in time for Desolas to glance over his shoulder. “Oh, hey,” he purred, lifting his own mandibles in that easy grin of his. “I found one last package of ground cornin in the freezer, so we’re making… Iunno, it’s pasta with meat and cheese, nothing fancy. I see you survived your call with the demon.”

And just like that, her faint smile fell into a grimace as she slowly paced forward to pull out a chair at the table and slump into it. Des’s grin slowly fell, too, and he clicked his mandibles against his face and reached over to turn off the music. “Uh-oh, Phatzhi’s makin’ a face,” he told Taniria. “You better go work your magic, little bird.”

Tan chirped, and when Des set her down, she came hopping right over to Valis’s chair, eyes big and curious. While Valis shifted to let her daughter climb up into her lap, Des whirred. “Alright, what did she say? You look like you found a whole hive of something venomous under the bed.”

Valis scowled and pulled her mandibles in against her face. “Apparently, we're invited to Solstice," she huffed. “So my mother can meet the kids.”

Desolas blinked slowly, moving his mandibles in and out while he thought. “Hold on," he said finally, “they invited us last year, but you didn't tell me ‘til after Siv was born, ‘cause you said fuck off, on account of. Y’know.” He gestured vaguely to her belly. “No travel while pregnant and about to pop."

“And not likin’ my husband," she grumbled. “Tan, what's the rule about words Muxaup says?"

"Not ‘til my mubbles get long,” Tan replied promptly, tapping the backs of her stubby little mandibles.

Valis chuffed and ruffed a hand over her daughter’s scalp, trying not to get distracted by her heart fluttering over how small she was. "Smart lass,” she purred, and Tan giggled and pressed into the touch.

Des purred briefly, then puffed and went back to the meat. “And, you only let it slip last year because you were blitzed on painkillers and forgot you weren't gonna tell me. And yet now this year, you're telling me three weeks in advance." He tapped the grease off the spatula, then turned fully to fold his arms and face her. “You accepted, didn't you."

#ierian's writing

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Give me: dadsolas and Jack Harper Must Die 👀

YESSSSSSS

wip title game

dadsolas

dadsolas is just kinda the placeholder title in gdocs for a little piece i'm drabbling out, it's sort of a soft quiet meditative piece with desolas hanging out on the porch swing at his and valis's new house in otoris shortly after they've moved in (so around 2172; by the time of exdiff in 2183+ they're pretty well settled into it) at sunset with his (at the time) youngest child, baby galenia, sleeping on his belly. i say "meditative" cause it's mostly des just lying quietly and observing the world around him and thinking about what brought him there and how things have changed from How They Used To Be before they moved and the chaos of shanxi and its immediate aftermath. i'm kinda using it as stress relief, work's stressful don't panic just sit here on the porch with big brother contemplating life and cooing over the baby it's all gonna be okay

quick snippet, for funsies:

The new house out on the prairie took some getting used to. It was bigger than their flat in Cipritine, big and sprawling and all one floor to hug the ground tight and keep itself safe from the wind's foul tempers. Desolas couldn't hear what everyone else was doing anymore, not unless they were all close together. He couldn't fall asleep to the drone of traffic outside, or wake up to the upstairs neighbors doing their morning PT. When he looked out the kitchen window, all he saw was a sea of plant life stretching from the edge of the garden to the line of trees a good two-minute sprint away. They'd had to finally break down and get an SUV to get around instead of walking everywhere. If they needed to get to base, it was a hefty drive away, and he'd told his superiors they were better off sending a hover for him. It was too spacious, too isolated, too quiet.

The sunset was nice, though, he supposed. And the porch swing. Val had been right about the porch swing.

The kids liked having a backyard, too, and he did like seeing them chase each other around and investigate all the plants and local animals that lived in or wandered across their new stomping grounds. The last owners had been an older couple who kept to their garden and didn't do much else, and Valis was happy with keeping it that way, and the local conservation laws were pretty stern anyway, so they had all kinds of things roaming around that he'd only gotten to see in pictures when he was Taniria's age. It was good for their lungs, Valis had reminded him, and their growing bodies. Turian kids needed to run and leap and play-hunt at their leisure, and it was better for them to do it in their natural environment.

He inhaled, long and slow, letting the warm summer dusk fill his lungs with evening blooms and nocturnal prey. No eezo-burn of skycars, no mingling gunsmoke-blood of strangers he couldn't see. Fresh air wasn't so bad, really. Maybe he'd missed that, in all the years since he'd been away from home Ifura remote bases.

Jack Harper Must Die

jhmd is the final major story installment of my big no-reapers au exponential differentiation! without spoiling too much, because the twist in the itlog climax is very sexy of me and i have to keep some secrets, two years have passed since the end of in the land of giants, and the galaxy is on the brink of war. the hegemony and the alliance are at each other's throats, the galaxy is reeling from [REDACTED], interspecies cooperation is at an all-time low, and in the middle of it all is cerberus, stirring shit up and causing problems on purpose. the illusive man, now the sole leader of the organization after the deaths of ben hislop in 2183 and eva core in 2184, has thrown off the mask of benevolence and slammed the pedal to the metal on the bus to crazytown. matteo shepard has spent the time chasing leads and solving problems around the galaxy as a full spectre in their own right (with the help of jack nought and a couple other friends they pick up as they go, of course).

and just as tensions are spiking ever-higher, with word of human colonies rallying to cerberus's banner and fighting back against their alliance governance (and whispers of the alliance turning to outside sources for help suppressing them, including the much-feared turian hastatim, only further fanning the flames), the leader of charon squad, cerberus's elite squad of human experiments that attacked eden prime in 2183 and [REDACTED] in 2184, is ready to talk - but only to shepard. but when shepard arrives to hear what viktoriya has to say, they learn she's disappeared instead, taking their best possible lead for finding jack harper once and for all with her.

so off they go to finish things, one way or another. their team is splintered and needs to be reunited: garrus is a stay-at-home dad to twins with ambassador rennis and reluctant to leave, saren is retired, nihlus is in a remote outpost in terminus caring for his injured mother, morinth is... somewhere, and so on and so forth. following a hunch from their last interaction with viktoriya, shepard seeks the arterius brothers out on palaven, only to find desolas has been deployed on a top-secret mission and promoted valis to brigadier general in his wake to prevent her from following. so they follow the trail: find desolas to find viktoriya to find harper. along the way, they make new friends (like rising star james vega) and recruit old (avitus wasn't going to let his best friends have all the fun without him), and puzzle out exactly what harper's grand master plan is - and learn hidden secrets about the history of the galaxy they never anticipated.

the whole thing is building towards the grand dramatic final confrontation between harper and desolas, finally resolving their conflict from shanxi one way or another. neither is the same man they were 29 years ago, but in different ways: desolas has calmed and settled with time and distance (and lots of therapy), where harper has grown bitter and hateful. desolas made the choice and active effort to move on and be the better man valis wanted him to be, while harper has let himself dwell on the past and obsess over it. the last of the secrets around what happened at shanxi come out whether they like it or not; it's a clash of titans, and when the dust clears, the face of the galaxy will be changed forever.

#press conference #commander-krios

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how long's it been since i drew taniria

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great news! i have remembered that i, as the author, decide when characters do or do not appear and so i can in fact have another taniria appearance at the next citadel interlude in bm

#councilor's notes #'well taniria will already be gone for solstice so no tanni next citadel visit :(' #but actually............. i can have little a baby appearance. as a treat #won't be long cause she has to go home!! it's the holiday!! she's been voluntold to go collect grandma and travel with her!! gotta go bye!!

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june 2017 (left) vs april 2021 (right) [link]

i just want us to take a minute and appreciate the nearly four-year difference between these pieces of taniria. the anatomy. the sense of motion. the presence of legs. i do improve sometimes actually

#councilor's notes #ierian's art #ierian's ocs #taniria arterius

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taniria struggles with the clash between who she wants to be and who everyone expects her to be as the daughter of two famous war heroes a lot but honestly that’s like, a side note to her character arc, the actual base starting point is that while she doesn’t know specifically what her parents have been through she does see and understand how it affected them and she doesn’t want them to worry about her, she’s just as protective of them as they are of her, so she plays the ditz and keeps how much she actually knows about the world around her on the dl so nobody worries her

#councilor's notes #her parents and cool uncles saren and nihlus all Know she knows more than she lets on #but as far as they can tell it hasn't affected her so they reluctantly let her keep her secret #while also trying to assure her it's not her job to take care of them because it isn't!! she's their baby not their shrink!! #but that's why saren trusts her with stuff cause he knows she can keep a secret and is smarter than she seems #ierian's ocs #taniria arterius

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sometimes i just like to go back thru my tag for tanni and appreciate her. remember how she’s only been in like 3 of 30+ chapters and stole the show in every single one of them. i swear i was trying to write an annoying teenager how did this happen

#councilor's notes #taniria arterius #tho really. a teenager character who's annoying to the main cast but endearing to the reader was kinda the balance i was trying to strike #so apparently i did that good

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🖊🖊🖊🖊🖊🖊🖊 for an oc of ur choice 👀

Send me a 🖊 and I’ll talk about my OCs!

i had to stop doing these for a hot minute cause tumblr mobile eating my whole entire previous ask answer pissed me off too much. anyway i’m back also zi i would kill for you

one oc per emoji, strap the FUCK in kids we’re doing the 6 shepards i’ve done actual development for and converted into non-shepard ocs so i could jam them all into one canon like a madman, plus that one cute golden retriever puppy in a turian suit who’s been in like 3 chapters out of 30+ so far yet is everyone’s favorite somehow

i swear i tried to keep all of these to one paragraph but i like!! to talk!! about my characters!!

matteo shepard is amab nonbinary, he or they pronouns, and is the canon shepard for my no-reapers au. they’re technically a colonist shep, but also super not cause i customized their backstory, my city now. they were born and raised on terra nova with their older brother leonardo and younger brother pietro. when they were twelve, their mom mysteriously vanished without a trace, leaving the family devastated and confused. matt’s dad did his best to raise the kids by himself, but never gave up hope mom would turn up some day, even when the cops concluded she was probably dead.

matt themself joined the alliance after college with a vague idea of maybe being able to find their mom in their travels, but eventually hung up that idea, deciding it was probably unrealistic. they managed to save two others of their squad on akuze, jai landry-torres and roman klein, but privately don’t think they did anything special, and don’t understand why everyone thinks they did. according to matt, they were just lucky, and they panicked, and they blame themself for not being able to save more of the squad.

niazmina khulozai is an earthborn software engineer from afghanistan, who went to stanford and only joined up with the alliance because it was her best opportunity for working on starships. she personally thinks very poorly of the alliance itself, but keeps her mouth shut so she doesn’t get in too much trouble. she’s muslim, and has seemingly no fewer than 3 hijabs for any given occasion. she also has a variety of sunglasses customized and programmed to function exactly the same as the visors you can find in the games, because she hates the hassle of trying to get her hijab to lie the way she wants it to over the visors and it’s much easier (and, in her opinion, more fashionable) to just slide on some cool shades. she’s bi and poly, has a girlfriend katya and boyfriend orion, and they’re all one big happy healthy polypile.

feliks haugen is also earthborn, and is mostly notable for the fact that he somehow just, seems to keep collecting cats. each installment of matteo’s adventures he appears in, he somehow has another cat. he lives on arcturus station when he’s not on the normandy, and there’s quite a few stray animals hanging around, which he feeds, and sometimes the cats just. decide to come in. the big three are jonesy the ginger tabby, who likes to steal oatmeal out of feliks’s bowl and thinks he will someday catch a mouse on the normandy; kitty the caliby (calico, but the patches are tabby instead of solid color, with a lot of white), who is a Shoulder Cat™ and very small; and blackfoot, a seal point tom who mostly hangs out on top of the fridge scowling at everyone and is mostly just an expy of my favorite warrior cat because i can. feliks has hypersomnia, and does his best to keep a normal sleep schedule, but that’s a lot harder than it sounds on the normandy.

zofia wen qian malinowski is the lone spacer, nonbinary, and afro-chinese polish. she’s an adept, and is very good at what she does. as a result of all the eezo exposure, because it’s radioactive, she had quite a few issues at birth, including a hole in her heart and some lung problems that were corrected with surgery. one of the things that wasn’t corrected was her right hand being deformed, with just a nub for a hand with 4 smaller nubs that should have been fingers. she’s perfectly capable of using it as well as her other hand, but she has a prosthetic hand she can control with the nubs for when she needs it. it’s very convincing, and sometimes she likes to just. take it off, to see people’s reactions. she has two pet rats, each of which is named one syllable of the mandarin word for “rat,” as an in-joke with herself because everyone thinks it’s super deep and philosophical when she really just named them “rat: parts 1 and 2,” and that is very funny to her.

gavrail nikolayevhich stoykanov is the butcher of torfan, but it’s not recommended to say so to his face. he’s still very sore about how the alliance threw him to the wolves after torfan, and would rather nobody speak of it in his presence, ever. he had a rough childhood, being jerked around by both sides of his family and only having three people in the whole giant group who really seemed to care about how he felt about the matter and how all the drama was affecting him (his mom, his twin brother dragomir, and his grandmother on dad’s side), so the alliance treating him like collateral the same way his family did really didn’t endear them to him.

he took the matter to udina, who was rightfully horrified and sought help from the big guns (aka sparatus, who as a Good Turian™ was also angered over the alliance’s dishonorable conduct) to go over the brass’s heads and get some laws in place to make sure it wouldn’t happen to anybody else. after that, gav fucked off to omega to be hurt and angry and sad in peace. his therapist before he left recommended he get a pet to help him, so he adopted a dog from a rescue, a cream standard poodle named foxtrot who had been abandoned by her owners when she wasn’t a tiny adorable puppy anymore. he felt a kindred spirit kinda thing for her. by 2186, she’s been officially trained and registered as a therapy dog, and he affectionately calls her his “war poodle.” he has a big crush on kaidan, but is too socially awkward to say anything, but then cortez comes on board and they bond over similar experiences with loss and trauma and the alliance not getting them therapy, and they get together so it works out.

michaela schulz is a jewish trans woman, and the hero of elysium (or whatever the war hero title is, they give shepard so many monikers that all sound the same i can’t keep them all straight...). she started her transition after the blitz, so sometimes there’s confusion from reporters, but by the time of me1 most of them get informed before they talk to her so they don’t ask any rude questions. she has a wirehaired fox terrier named skippy, who she adopted so she could have a jogging partner, and he likes to curl up in her lap while she’s doing computer work after he’s gotten his fill of exercise for the day. she gets with kaidan (after skippy gives his approval, of course), and they adopt a few kids together.

taniria arterius is the 17yo (in 2183) daughter of desolas arterius and valis abrudas, special no-reapers au exclusive oc. she’s cute and energetic, but she knows more about her family’s situation (her parents both suffering severe ptsd and her dad fighting alcoholism, to summarize) than she lets on. while her family themselves never pressure her, and in fact encourage her to be whoever she wants to be, she does get a lot of pressure from the rest of society to live up to her parents’ and uncle’s legacies, and it makes her very anxious. she just wants to be a singer and make people smile. she’s very curious and likes to be helpful, even if there’s not a lot she can do. also she’s a lesbian

#ierian's ocs #taniria arterius #michaela shepard #gavrail shepard #matteo shepard #zofia shepard #feliks shepard #niazmina shepard #jacknought #press conference

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full-size, un-slightly-cropped halloween icon over on my main blog @sparatus!! my sweet baby girl!! my precious darling daughter!!! my tanni babie!!!!

#mass effect #Mass Effect OC #turians #taniria arterius #turian oc #drawing #digital

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Also. I've only known Taniria for two days and if anything happens to her I'm killing everyone in this room and then myself. (I would make the meme and submit it if I had a computer)

dw i gotchu

(this ask is ok to rb)

#the one constant of all the various 'what i like abt bm' reactions i get is 'wow i love taniria' #and that pleases me greatly #broken mirror #bm anon #Anonymous #press conference

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idk why i didn’t realize this sooner but if, as bioware says, turians value their history so much that each unit has a historian for chronicling their exploits, then bards and skalds are definitely, 100%, absolutely a Big Thing in turian culture and possibly even an option in the military, singing ballads and composing epics and so on and so forth about great heroes of the past and their (exaggeratedly, because it makes a better story) mighty deeds

#councilor's notes #mass effect #turians #ok to rb #this realization brought to you by the related revelation that taniria is a bard #turian tag