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My Shepard from Mass Effect 2, learning turian military techniques and strategies with the sniper rifle from Garrus Vakarian.

Jane 'Foucault' Shepard is Renegade with some paragon choices. She's distant and typically a hard ass. There are few people who actually consider her a friend -- and only one person whose 'affections' she's acknowledged (To be fair, he had to trick her into admitting it).

There's a reason she's distant. You'd be too if you were betrayed by your family, your gangs, your friends, your allies, and everyone else under the moon. Sometimes its easier to piss people off than get close and lose them.

Garrus and Shepard have a relationship that is more along the lines of Fran & Balthier / Batou & Motoko. It could be interpreted as sexual, or not. Neither label it, they are what they are: loyal to one another. However, there are tense moments. Since both characters have been thrown together in an end of the world sort of way, Shepard has adopted Garrus' facial tattoos. One big fuck you to Cerberus, the Alliance, and everyone else. One important visible sign of friendship, constantly reminding Garrus he still has someone who cares.

They are kindred spirits.

Foucault is named after the philosopher, Michel Foucault, and her character highly draws from his beliefs.

Mmm. Philosophy and turians.
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TreeWyrm's avatar
Hello, and deepest apologies.

It looks like I commented on this previously, but I'm not sure if that was before or after I ended up sole admin of a page that, as happens, has had this piece by you in its archives. It is here: www.facebook.com/FemShep/photo…

When I took over, I put all artwork that didn't cite artists/link to their originals into a folder named 'Missing Links' and vowed to go through them one by one. It was a very slow process until someone told me about Google Image search, but also since sometimes it would take me hours to try to track down a piece unsuccessfully, I didn't set aside the time unless I knew I could finish looking for a piece. Life often got in the way and... well... now I'm here, very late.

If you want me to delete this image from our albums, I'll have no problem. I can find no proof that anyone asked you for permission to post so I'll totally understand.

In the meantime, I've updated the caption to include reference to you as artist, mention of your Shepard, and a link to your original here on DA. Once again, I'm REALLY sorry about this.

It might have been the first admin at the time who uploaded. I sincerely hope it wasn't me. When I took over I wanted to make sure I always gave artists due credit. From there though, I realised it was also just better practice to *ask* first, too. So that's how I've done things since, as you'll see from all the other folders the page has.