More Mass Effect art plus a little meta

[alias_sqbr]

No spoilers and I think they both turned out quite pretty.


ME2: A sea of stars by ~sqbr on deviantART


Mass Effect: Commander Shepard by ~sqbr on deviantART

I can't believe how quickly ME2 got me to go from "Wait, is that a lizard guy as a romance option in that vid? Ew" to finding that he is in fact a remarkably charming lizard guy. Even Cam's character fell for him :D I do feel a bit sorry for the human male love interest Jacob, who seems to be almost universally disdained (on the one hand, I think there are some legit issues with the way he was written, on the other hand he's hardly the first black canon love interest to be ignored for less likely men)

My new ME1 character is a lot of fun to play. I take back what I said about there only being two options (good=paragon and bad=renegade), while my first character did fit neatly into the pro-establishment/rule following/compassionate/polite/hardworking/pro-alien paragon mould, this new renegade-ish character only fits the renegade alternatives some of the time eg he's not a bigoted sociopath, just really cynical and blunt and a little bit of a jerk.

Comments

[willow]

I will read the rest of your post in a minute. But I needed to say - to my brain? Your Commdr Sheppard looks like Alistair & Zev had a redheaded baby.

It sends me into a nice fit of giggles.

[alias_sqbr]

Heehee.

And hey, noone knows who his parents are, you never know! (Ok probably not)

[willow]

It's the future, right? A Cmmdr Alistair (with possible royal blood in his family tree) could totally have had a child in a medical womb with a Lt. Cmmdr Zev. :)

[whatistigerbalm]

I know nothing of the game but I like the latter dude's grr face and the warm fuzzies I get from the top pic.

(Fic? Wtf, self?)

[alias_sqbr]

Thankyou! It's nice to know the character's emotions get across even without the context. (Though the top pic is rather more sad if you do know the context. But in a "life may suck but at least we have each other" way)