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24Crows

@kai-the-spiral.bsky.social

"How large is your artistic range?"

Me: " Yes "

( #MassEffect edition )

2D cel shaded drawing of Garrus Vakarian and an androgynous-looking female Commander Shepard sitting and chatting at a bar. We see them from the front, both casually leaning on the bar-top, hints of tropical foliage and the glint of the ocean behind them. Shepard has a bourbon on the rocks at her elbow, while Garrus has a tall blue cocktail with TWO tiny umbrellas in it. (Mass Effect)

Digital portrait of a female Commander Shepard, from the shoulders up. She is square to the viewer, at a slight downward angle. She is wearing a bulky, heavy set of armor and a blue Kuwashii visor over her right eye. The colors are predominantly cool and blue, with the exception of a bit of magenta bounce light on the right side of her face. (Mass Effect)

Three panel vertical comic strip with very simplified black lineart. Panel 1 shows an easel with a sign on it that reads, "TODAY: Turian Life Drawing." There's a little cartoon of a turian face with little sparkles underneath. Panel 2 shows a turian (implicitly Garrus) in silhouette in the foreground, in a reclined pose, maybe a little bit sexy. There are art students arranged in the midground with their easels as Liara and Commander Shepard enter through the rear door, sketchbooks in hand. Panel 3 shows the two of them in close-up, eyes locked forward on the model. Liara simply says, "...Nope" while Shepard wordlessly tosses her sketchbook over her shoulder. (Mass Effect)

October 22, 2025 at 5:29 PM Everybody can reply

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Tammi, yeah, that one. 2.1

@tammi.bsky.social

Got the band back together.

Alien Moon Cat Garrus Vakarian, Tammi Shepherd, and Smashley Williams. The original Normandy crew.

October 22, 2025 at 4:07 PM Everybody can reply

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WittyWesker

@wittywesker.bsky.social

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness?

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.

Master Hamato "Splinter" Yoshi, simply known as Master Splinter, from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012)

Garrus Vakarian, ex Citadel Security officer, from Mass Effect.

October 22, 2025 at 7:30 AM Everybody can reply

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FemShep4Life

@oneshotn7.bsky.social

Charlie, spreading the good word of Vakarian everywhere they travel.

October 21, 2025 at 6:26 PM Everybody can reply

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Nikki Jeske 🌿✨

@coyotewitch.bsky.social

Stop scrolling and post two characters that bring you happiness.

(Xena & Gabi is my other choice, but no one can top my OTP Shepard & Garrus.)

Female Commander Shepard and Garrus Vakarian standing side by side.

October 21, 2025 at 2:23 PM Everybody can reply

Jen

@loopdilou.bsky.social

Stop scrolling and post two characters that bring you happiness.

Commander Shepard in a blue gown and Garrus Vakarian in a black and white suit in a dance fanart in the style of JC Leyendecker by Stephanie Kao. https://www.zetallis.com/

October 21, 2025 at 2:15 PM Everybody can reply

Sonica Kuroi Tenshi

@sonicakuroi.bsky.social

Garrus Vakarian uwu

October 20, 2025 at 8:00 PM Everybody can reply

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Rattos a.k.a. Certified Jinbe Lover

@thenocturnalrodent.bsky.social

(Comm I got from the awesome @rubydragon03.bsky.social !!)

What if Saren wasn't evil and he and Garrus were both fat and Garrus enjoyed being big and Saren was a big old grump? I think this is a better AU. 😌

Garrus Vakarian and Saren Arterius from Mass Effect both fat. Garrus seems to be enjoying being so heavy and large and having a turian compatriot who is just as big. Saren is grumpy because he doesn't care for Garrus and he's also just a big grump in general.

October 20, 2025 at 6:52 PM Everybody can reply

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24Crows

@kai-the-spiral.bsky.social

I didn't get on the Hades 2 art train, but back when the original came out I *did* do a style experiment in the context of "what if Mass Effect admitted it was a dating sim." 🤔

#MassEffect #art

A cel-shaded Garrus Vakarian appears on the left of the screen in blue power armor, the background a blurred in-game shot of the Main Battery in Mass Effect 2. A name plate reads, "GARRUS VAKARIAN: Dispenser of justice in an unjust galaxy." The text box below contains the dialogue from the game's initial romance prompt: "Actually, she and I were the two best hand to hand combatants on the ship. I had reach, she had flexibility. It was brutal. After 9 rounds, the judges declared it a draw. A lot of unhappy bettors in the other room. We, uh, ended up having a tiebreaker in her quarters. I had reach, she had flexibility. More than one way to work off stress, I guess."

A cel-shaded Commander Shepard appears on the right of the screen in her N7 hoodie, the background a blurred in-game shot of the Main Battery in Mass Effect 2. She has close-trimmed black hair with a geometric pattern shaved into the side above her ear. A name plate reads, "ISKANDER SHEPARD: First human SPECTRE, hero of the Citadel." The text box below contains the dialogue from the game's initial romance prompt: "It sounds like you're carrying some tension. Maybe I could help you get rid of it."

October 19, 2025 at 7:41 PM Everybody can reply

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astrid 🎀

@liatrelle.etheirys.social

garrus vakarian is the closest thing i will ever get to a dragon bf in video games and i am so thankful bioware was bold enough to make him romanceable in ME2 and ME3

October 19, 2025 at 1:17 AM Everybody can reply

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Citadel NewsNet

@citadelnewsnet.bsky.social

This is your show, Garrus Vakarian. But I want to bludgeon pretty hard as much as you do.

October 18, 2025 at 11:15 PM Everybody can reply

🎃Boo-rendan Agnew🏳️‍🌈

@blcagnew.bsky.social

"There's no Shepard without Vakarian." ❤️‍🔥

✨Stephanie Drew✨ @drpaint-png.bsky.social · 6d

I miss them #masseffect #art

October 17, 2025 at 8:37 PM Everybody can reply

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ana germ

@anagerm.bsky.social

wrex and his best friend, garrus body pillow

an orange cat son a blue and white striped blanket, with a garrus vakarian body pillow behind him

October 17, 2025 at 5:39 PM Everybody can reply

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russell adler’s dissertation project

@vaqueerios.bsky.social

join the alienfuckers 🌀

Garrus Vakarian from Mass effect 1. He wears a grey and blue space armor with lots of longitudinal beveling. He’s a fairly humanoid alien, sort of reptilian and birdlike with a beige grey face including maxilla and mandible plates and a crest where long pointed plates run from his forehead atop his head upward and toward the back of his head. He has a blue steel stare and an inhumanly narrow waist.

October 17, 2025 at 5:33 PM Everybody can reply

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RIP Rantanplan

@riprantanplan.bsky.social

As is Garrus Vakarian by the way

October 17, 2025 at 8:38 AM Everybody can reply

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Saga Ward

@sagaward.bsky.social

I did not spend the last 20 years thirsting after halo's arbiter ("Were it so easy," you know what else is easy? I SAID, Y--) and then Garrus Vakarian to NOT get horny for these bugs.

October 17, 2025 at 4:10 AM Everybody can reply

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John Carpenter’s S. Suzuki

@aflockbetweenpastures.com

He got me

He guessed that I was thinking of Garrus Vakarian.

October 16, 2025 at 3:43 PM Everybody can reply

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🍉Reborn Ruffian🌟

@reburnruffian12.bsky.social

Yep. In the words of Garrus Vakarian: “Yell loud enough, and eventually someone will come over to see what all the fuss is about.”

October 16, 2025 at 2:18 PM Everybody can reply

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Shaya Fury

@shayafury.bsky.social

Day 14 - Dance

/FemShep and Garrus/
"There is no Shepard without Vakarian"
I really do love how this one turned out in the end.

I hope you like it!
#masseffecfanarttober25 #art #inkart #fanart #masseffect

October 16, 2025 at 6:07 AM Everybody can reply

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𝕻𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖎𝖒𝖎𝖓𝖆 🌑🩸🌸

@porrimina.bsky.social

Me every time I remember or come across Garrus Vakarian stuff:

Heart eyes motherf*cker
*it’s a drawing of a little person looking down at their phone and eyes turning into hearts + raining down hearts as they stare at it*

Garrus Vakarian from video game Mass Effect: a dragon looking type of alien guy with grayish skin + blue markings on his face.

October 15, 2025 at 7:45 AM Everybody can reply

historicalsquid 🧛‍♀️🦑

@historysquid.bsky.social

Okay okay I know I am…YEARS late. But you telling me one of my lesbian awakenings, Natalie Dormer, was in Mass Effect Andromeda.
1-that I didn’t clock it and
2-I found out because a Garrus Vakarian cosplay streamer?!?

a cartoon of a woman asking how the hell did that happen on netflix

ALT: a cartoon of a woman asking how the hell did that happen on netflix

media.tenor.com

October 15, 2025 at 1:54 AM Everybody can reply

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Majespecter Rat - Sterling! 🐀✨

@scruffyratboy.bsky.social

I always see those "sona-coded character" memes floating around, and I thiiiink I've landed on four "Sterling-coded" characters?

.... Friends of mine who know me better than I know myself, feel free to weigh in.