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Somewhere in the galaxy the Lawson sisters are having a good time, doing Hot Girl Shit 🥂
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Little Ship Manifesto for Garrus/Miranda
(I began to write this yesterday, without reading @pohutukaryl’s manifesto first. If it seems like it has the same structure, it’s probably because we both had the old LJ comm ship-manifesto in mind.)
Garrus and Miranda don’t have a lot of interactions, that’s true, but I take them with me all the time in ME2 so I’m used to see them together. The idea of pairing them came because I enjoyed them both and thought: “What if?” I mean, they look good and kinda badass together, right? … Okay, this is a case of pairing my favs, sorry!
But I promise I have good reasons too. They’re behind the cut.
I don’t remember Miranda doing anything noticeably xenophobic in canon! Have I missed anything? IIRC even the original amoral mad scientist version was quite “pro-human, not anti-alien,” and running with Cerberus because they protected her from Henry and gave her a good research budget. She presumably has some vague anti-alien tendencies somewhere, given that she starts out firmly on TIM’s side and not overtly disagreeing with him on aliens, but it’s not strong enough to come up in game.
I suspect she’d be a bit shocked to find herself attracted to a non humanoid alien… hmmm interesting.
Maybe xenophobic is the wrong word? I don’t think I ever saw Miranda treat the SR-2 aliens with prejudice either, but I also got the impression that she didn’t interact with the crew much, unless someone gets in her face like Jack.
Like you said she’s too supportive of TIM and Cerberus’ causes to not have some bias. Might be unexamined bias? Especially if the SR-2 crew is her first time actually working with aliens, instead of thwarting alien plans against humanity or using that one alien to obtain Shepard’s body. Getting attracted to one of those aliens would definitely be shocking.
I’m not sure where I’m going with this anymore, especially wrt to the ship (sorry OP). Would be interesting to see Miranda work through some of those biases within the relationship though, because they wouldn’t all have gone poof immediately just because Miranda stopped being loyal to TIM.
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Little Ship Manifesto for Garrus/Miranda
(I began to write this yesterday, without reading @pohutukaryl’s manifesto first. If it seems like it has the same structure, it’s probably because we both had the old LJ comm ship-manifesto in mind.)
Garrus and Miranda don’t have a lot of interactions, that’s true, but I take them with me all the time in ME2 so I’m used to see them together. The idea of pairing them came because I enjoyed them both and thought: “What if?” I mean, they look good and kinda badass together, right? … Okay, this is a case of pairing my favs, sorry!
But I promise I have good reasons too. They’re behind the cut.
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miranda and oriana having sister bonding time
miranda teaching oriana how to shoot a gun
oriana cooking for miranda, pushing her to help sauté the onions and garlic
the two of them having sparring matches, miranda going easy on her sister until oriana calls her on it (i’m not a kid, miri, you don’t have to let me win)
oriana braiding her sister’s hair and the two of them watching bad rom-coms, miranda realizing halfway through that her face hurts from smiling, and that she hasn’t laughed like this as long as she can remember
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Okay I totes lied this is the last one tonight.
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Anonymous asked:
Random prompt: The first thing Oriana did after the war
Oriana couldn’t sleep—not after the message that she had received that afternoon.
I can’t tell you much right now, but I want you to know: if I have done nothing more than to help you live in freedom and safety, even for a little while… my life will have been worth something. I love you, and I will always be your sister.
Oriana sighed. Miranda rarely did anything without reason, but what were her reasons for sending a message like that? Was she in even more danger than usual?
For what felt like the hundredth time that night, Oriana switched on her terminal and navigated to the Alliance News Network—and her train of thought was shattered by what she saw.
Image after image of the Reapers, and all of them were crumbling—over cities, into oceans, under skies full of smoke. Other images flashed by: an asari commando clapping her hands, a salarian gunning down a husk, a pair of krogan huddled close to each other behind a pile of rubble.
Oriana gathered her breath from somewhere in her chest. “Mom?” she called in a voice that didn’t sound like her own. “Mom!”
As her family members awoke and clustered around the terminal, chattering in disbelief, she felt as though part of her heart had chipped away and floated off. There was someplace else where she needed to be—where, in some ways, she already was. With the lightness and certainty of a sleepwalker, she rose, went to her room, and began to pack her suitcase.
A moment later, she heard the familiar shuffling footsteps of her mother. “Oriana? What are you doing?”
“I’m going to find Miranda.”
“What?” Her mother knelt beside her. “Do you even know where she is? Will it be safe? She always has someone on her tail.”
“That someone is me, now.” Oriana folded a shirt with a decisive, slicing movement. “Maybe she wants to be found. Maybe she doesn’t. But if anyone is a match for her, I think I am.”
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Anonymous asked:
This may come off as a rude question but why do so many lesbians love Miranda Lawson? I mean it doesnt bother me one bit I just find it interesting lesbians L-O-V-E that character to pieces all over tumblr. Is it just because she's hot or is it a mix of her hotness and confidence?
It’s probably because they collectively went to that meeting by the lake, swore that they would all L-O-V-E the great Miranda Lawson, and after dancing naked around a fire (you know, as all lesbians do), they went back their separate way to spread their thoughts all over Tumblr. True story. I wasn’t there myself because I’m a bisexual, but the lesbians told me.
(Okay but seriously: why do you assume “many lesbians” love her? I mean, I have no doubt a lot of lesbians might love Miranda, but it’s a strange thing to state as a fact. Do you think all women who post about loving Miranda are all lesbians? And why is it only a choice between “hot” or “hot and confident”? There are so many interesting things to like about Miranda, her level of hotness and confidence aren’t the only options. I mean, I could start an essay about why I l-o-v-e Miranda, but it would be 100 pages long.)
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normal people go to movies so they tried. don’t ask them what movie it was though, i don’t think they were paying attention. A for effort though!
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I’m doing Miranda’s personal quest atm.
And I can’t get out of my head the idea of an au where Miranda does the emotional thing rather than the rational thing.
Where she looks at her little baby sister she’s holding in her arms and decides she can’t let this little girl be raised by someone else.
She poses as a teen mom, moves from place to place. To colonies that aren’t human but that have a sizable human minority because they’ll take pity. They’ll know it must be /so hard/ to be a single mother so far away from her family on earth, especially one so young. She knows how to charm. How to manipulate.
For awhile she works as a miner on some planet outside council space.
For awhile as a cook on some private vessel.
Taking low paying, or ‘shameful’ jobs because her father would expect her to be the head of a fortune 500 one of these days. Because he’d hear about Miranda Lawson, the best employee on Noveria, but he wouldn’t hear about Star, the best dancer in The Tar Pits.
They move a lot, but as long as Oriana is safe, and in school, and doing well, Miranda doesn’t care.
When Ori is twelve, they move to Omega. Miri gets a job as a dancer.
But when a bunch of mercs who think they’re tough enough to fuck with Aria attack the bar one night, she shows she’s got other skills. Kills them with her biotics without even batting an eyelash.
And Aria takes an interest. In Miri, in Oriana. Takes a liking even. And she makes sure Miri knows how /rarely/ that happens.
They stay on Omega probably longer than they should. A year at first. Then two. If Aria knows who Miri is, she doesn’t say. But she does /show./
Letters about mercs flying near Omega, who’s messages she’s intercepted, transcribed on a data pad and slid under Miri’s door.
Lets Miri and Ori borrow her quarters for the night, the one place on Omega where no one can go, when mercs come in looking for the two of them. She even handles them nicely, lying to them and saying Miranda left months ago, and there was no little girl traveling with her.
And that’s when Miri takes a shine to Aria. Thinks of her as a friend. Something more than just another alien to put up with.
And Aria thinks of Miranda and Oriana as something more than just an employee, a confident.
They protect Oriana together.
And Miranda becomes the first person Aria lets break the one rule on Omega.