Kasumi's Line About People Wanting Shepard And Garrus To Be Together Is So Cute Because I Just Know That

Kasumi's line about people wanting Shepard and Garrus to be together is so cute because I just know that the people on the normandy were shipping them so hard and they knew before Shepard and Garrus even really comprehended their own feeling as romantic

I wanna nerd out a bit about the new operator (3-headed Ghost) because I just bought him and I can't stop looking at him.

While he is a bizarre combination of limbs from the TF141 members, he's listed as a member of KorTac, a private military contractor in the game known for having the bad guys, including Makarov, Graves, and some Konni soldiers. As of now, all the information of the operator appears as [REDACTED].

The masks he wears are arranged in chronological order following the events of the campaign, starting from the one on the right side, worn by Simon during Grave's betrayal. The mask in the middle is from the cinematic where Simon and Johnny meet up with Rodolfo again to rescue Alejandro, and the mask on the left side is from another cinematic, where Ghost's team eventually defeats Shadow Company.

He has five arms, two of which belong to Simon and are located on the right side of his body. On the left side of his body, two of the three arms are mutated together, and one of the arms belongs to Soap -easily recognizable by his SAS tattoo-, grasping Price's arm, while Gaz's arm is on the back.

Some of the accessories he wears include Gaz's cap,

Price's scarf,

and Farah's headband.

While he is listed as a KorTac operator, still attached to it can be seen a United Kingdom Special Forces patch on Ghost's arm.

Another curious fact is that the solitary arms on the back (belonging to Simon and Gaz) and Simon's head do not stop twitching, to the point it looks rather painful, as the head twitches force his entire body to move as well.

When you're in the selection screen, the Alone operator examines his mutated arm for a few seconds before moving on.

I like the idea that Garrus starts really falling in love with Shepard in those post-ME2 ending scenes where you can call up your love interest to your cabin. He starts to understand that it is more than just the respect for a superior and a friend, more than just a simple crush. He feels himself falling for her while he holds her in bed or when she's talking his ear off as she sits on his lap on the couch. And he's enjoying her company so much, and he finds himself hoping that he'll get to stay up there for longer each time. And he always loves the nights where he wakes up in her bed and she's curled up in his chest and she hasn't asked him to leave. He likes to bury his head in her neck and let her talk, the vibrations of her voice so calming against his face. He asks her to practice this thing she calls kissing so that he can be better at it for her.

And to Shepard it isn't just a fun lay either. She's not calling him up just to sleep with him each time. She cares about him, she's actually always cared about him, but she's not very vocal about her feelings unless she's asked directly and that makes him slightly still hesitant to call it love. But in her mind she wants nothing more than to spend all her time with him. In her mind, reading over datapads together in bed and discussing their thoughts is romantic. In her mind, asking him to take a shower with her so they don't waste water is her way of saying she likes him. So I like to think that she's much quicker at accepting it.

And in the time he ruminates his feelings about her, she's already decided that he's the one for her.

I've been thinking about that last conversation with Garrus before the final push in ME3 a lot lately.

I hadn't noticed it at first because the whole conversation makes me so sad to think about, but recently I realized that if not for the apocalyptic dread, Garrus being the one to suggest retirement would actually be comical. since day one he's been a workaholic, going from the calibrating the Mako to calibrating the guns in the battery the second he's recruited. even in the Citadel DLC, drunk off his ass, he somehow finds a way to work. he couldn't retire; he'd absolutely die of boredom. and honestly? I don't know if Shepard would be able to retire all that easily either. pair that with his follow up comment of turian-human babies, and I realize that this whole conversation isn’t so much of a promise for the future as it is him throwing out his final hail mary. he's listing things that sound more improbable than defeating the reapers to get her back on track and believe in winning this war. maybe it could be "I want a life with you even though I don't think we're going to get one," but that isn't what he's trying to do.

because you see the destruction. to get TO Garrus, you had to walk past a radio reporting 100% casualties in one sector. you know it's bleak, Shepard knows, Garrus knows. it's clear neither of them think they're getting out of there. hell, the whole reason he tries to cheer her up is because he's the one who brought up last chances. so he does what he's been doing all game and throws his final attempt at cheer at her with all he's got. it's his final push.

IF YOU MENTION HOW LOW QUALITY THE BACKGROUND IS UR LESBIPHOBIC

the idea of garrus looking up and researching human behaviors is just so funny to me because you know that he's reading that wikipedia page back to front. He's taking notes, he's reading multiple articles, he's clicking on those sources. He takes it so seriously and yet when he finally meets Shepard again in ME3 he's like "i've been reading up human culture but also if you don't want me that way anymore it's totally fine." sir we know that you would not be fine if shepard called it off there