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[just finished playing the Leviathan DLC, which has yet more interesting flavor text for planets! And... other things. Spoilers in comments, perhaps?]

Sure, it 'sucks' to be a vorcha. You can argue back and forth about what species is best in what ways, and I've seen you do it. ...By the way, you tend to be wrong. Obviously it's best to be a turian. But I'll let that slide.

Vorcha. Right. Oh, don't act surprised, you saw a bit of that thing with Gavorn, the Codex entry, the Urdnot scout comparing them to varren in that refreshingly blunt krogan fashion... This isn't actually worse.

I'd advise you to let it go. That soft heart won't do you any good here.

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[Heh. Soft heart.]

Your Commander says hello.

[Mostly because Mun is too lazy to switch journals.]

[Bleeding empathy whenever it's poked. Good thing she's never been through anything terrible, huh.]

Does she? Or is this one a he, that's going to be tripping me up for a while, I expect.

[The problem with Yukuhashi is that he has no choice but to have a soft heart. When you feel a person's emotions as intensely as they do, true feelings soften your heart no matter what you try.]

A she, yes. She seems happy to see you.

[I guess there's always the option of becoming a sadist, and-]

[wait am I writing the bracket-text in Garrus's voice? Crap. um...
Saren was obviously framed. There, I think that took care of it. Character voices stay out of these brackets.]

Well. Ahem. She's... probably not the same Shepard I knew, but I... guess I'm glad. And this isn't awkward at... -What do humans say? 'Give her my regards'? Maybe just in that one vid.

[Luminescent green patterns flicker briefly across him.]

[It's hilarious when that happens!]

No, she isn't yours. Mun-chan's own game isn't actually finished -- she hasn't had the heart to complete your third game, so yours is a bit before that ending.

[Also, turian or not, you still give electrical impulses to do brain stuff. Turian emotions feel weird, though.]

Right. Mind, my mundane likes the end, and I... really don't want to get into it. This whole thing is awkward enough without being a a mouthpiece.

[He's partially human and partly synthetic now, so they're probably even weirder.]

Guess a soft heart doesn't trump that here. Or maybe she's just way too sympathetic to things other people dislike. That'd explain this thing with the vorcha.

I believe Mun-chan likes the ending in a "bad ending" sort of way, she just wishes there was an ending to fix everything. But we both know that sort of thing doesn't happen.

[Way weirder. You emotions, man, what the fuck.]

...That may not be an entirely bad way to think.

There's some creepily twisted thinking here about how the Thorian is 'more benign' than Reapers, too. Maybe it's true, but that doesn't make it right.

What's right and wrong... it's a little hard to tell sometimes, I think.

The world was a lot easier in black and white. Though I suppose you pick at any of that long enough, and it's shades of gray again.

So the question becomes: which gray is the right shade?

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Or, maybe if there even is a right one. Perspective's always part of it. But you always have to choose. Not doing anything might just be a lot darker.

...That's certainly true.

Maybe the only right shade is the one you pick without any regrets.

If it exists.

...I think I'm starting to get lost in this metaphor. I'm more partial to these things than most turians, but negotiating them isn't exactly in the training manual.

Then let me put it a bit clearer.

If you can look back on your choices without regretting that you made them, then you've found what's "right." That's what I think.

Sometimes the universe doesn't give you an option without regrets. But I think it bothers humans more. They tend to want to save everyone.

Mun-chan seems to feel the same. It's... an interesting feeling.

I'm assuming yours is human.

Mundanes are just unsettling, if you think about them. So we have these humans, mostly young and bored...

And they decide where we go and how often we stay aware in this place.

It's an interesting abnormality all its own, but Mun-chan and I have an understanding.

Yeah. There are a few 'arrangements' here, too. Favorites. I guess that kind of thing's inevitable.

Then again, it did you some good.

[awk.ward. What's the protocol here... Well, try to play it off as usual.]

I suppose it did, but I'd hate to see 'bad'. It probably involves the giant spiders again.

Shepard.

[She senses that tone, and she's 200% done with that line of conversation.]

Garrus.

[Where to even go from here?]

I guess 'how've you been' is a little self-explanatory.

I've been quite a lot worse, but... yeah. [Green luminescent patterns flicker across him.]

Look, this is... if there are vids that cover this, I think I missed them. You?

At this point, you know more than I do.

There's not exactly much material. [Ever notice that turians are conspicuously absent from that Fornax magazine?]

Hmm, I don't know... Being a turian doesn't seem all that great to me.

C'mon, Tali. Quarians modulate your voices so you almost have our famous 'flanging effect'. There's got to be a reason.

Hey, that wasn't intentional. It's just a side effect of the helmet.

Besides, we're better looking.

When humans put their heads in helmets, all they do to their voices is make them even flatter. Same with every other race I know. Except quarians.

I don't know, I've only ever met one who was really striking. Even if she could get smug about it.

Oh, please. Our helmets are different. But you can keep telling yourself that, if it makes you feel better.

Is that so? I don't know anyone like that.

Uh huh. Funny, I was about to say the same thing.

Yeah, we met years back, when I was young and not much to look at, and she was also young and spent a lot of time on elevators.

Suuuuure you were.

Stuck on an elevator with you? That poor girl. I hope she had a shotgun handy.

I'd like to think she was just a little awestruck, but I was just an ex-C-Sec officer back then anyway. But oh yes, there was a shotgun. And a drone, later. Noisy thing.

Awestruck. [She repeats the word dryly. Oh, Garrus.] Who's the smug one, again?

C'mon, not even a little?

Hey, you said it yourself - you were just an ex-C-Sec officer back then. Not very impressive.

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How do humans put it... "Let me dream"?

...so, does that mean I'm more impressive now?

You can dream all you want, Vakarian, but it'll never come true.

...I never said that. [huff] Maybe a little.

[His mandibles flare a bit.]

Well if it means anything, you're maybe a little impressive too.

Um. Thanks. [There's a long pause. Is it hot in here? Tali thinks it might be pretty hot in here.] I guess you've gotten better over the years.

Yeah. [Fidget.]

I mean, I got these scars that make me look so much more distinguished, you rearranged your... helmet... cover thing...

Speaking of which...of course it'd take a war with these reapers that I find myself working together with the things I've been paid to kill for the longest time. Awkward doesn't even describe it.

[You get a look. Garrus having been on Omega for however long, he knows more about this than his mun.]

I'm sure. Well, you wouldn't be the only one.

Figures you'd make it off Omega.

Apparently so. This mun here likes her endings happy, I guess. [As happy as ME3 gets.]

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