SAREN’s silhouette loomed tall over WILLIAMS , his snout rising , FLARING , as he struggled to suffocate it : that innate wrench in his gut as she moved , blinked , did ANYTHING. he soothed his ire , if only to remain unassuming to passersby .❛SUPPOSEDLY IT’S RAVAGING THE OFFICES OF YOUR SUPERIORS . your commander has caused quite the disturbance , WILLIAMS . ❜ his SCALED QUILLS jittered subtly , angrily , though their effect was settled by his straining on them .❛GUNNERY CHIEF , ❜ he groaned , swathed in excesses of exaggeration , ❛IS THAT SO ? and after having lost your peers so senselessly on EDEN PRIME. i’m sure they would have been very proud to have had their GUNNERY CHIEF survive , WILLIAMS .❜
hot dullness swelled in the SPECTRE’s temple , reminding him of his TRANSCENDENTAL PLIGHT — the one that had been so magnanimously imposed upon him by . . . [ REDACTED ] . the turian’s grip on the datapad tightened , his bony brow descending into a furrow . (INFORMATION . COLLECT IT , MY VASSAL ) .of course.SAREN grinned uglily .❛ i wouldn’t want to IMPOSE , GUNNERY CHIEF , but how goes your COMMANDER ? i hear her experience on EDEN PRIME was quite traumatic.❜
& 𝚂𝙷𝙴 𝙵𝙻𝙸𝙽𝙲𝙷𝙴𝚂 , in the balling of fists & the curl of lips . in the split second of lost composure , she casts her gaze toward the ground — her guilt is palpable , a ravaging creature holding her by the throat , eating her alive in dreams , snapping at her heels , & —- you , you , you . you brought the geth there . even without the testimony of the dock worker , she can see it , pulsing beneath his visage — a rot , marrow - deep , green & rancid : he doesn’t sit right in the air , oppressive / almost violent . & she , she could not save them , but he brought the geth there . he must have . but in the openness of the citadel , she keeps her pistol at her hip – &what would you do , anyway , williams ? try to kill a spectre , the spectre , here before all these eyes , all these innocents ? there’s no proof , not in the council’s view . she must trust in shepard , & thus she tucks her rage into the breastbone , revenge a dog on a chain . for now .
❝ good . there better be a fire . the commander wants to see justice done — for all the human lives lost at eden prime . this place is the kinda bureaucratic nightmare where nothing happens unless you make it happen .
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a threat , half - cocked in the strain of her politeness . she cannot address the lives lost beyond that , forcing herself to be unshattered again , the girl sewing back the torn skin , steeling her spine . & umber snaps to a violent blue , dogged , fierce .
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pretty sure she’s pissed . what’d they tell you about what happened ?❞& she’s desperate for it , for him to implicate himself . it is barely chained , this dog , this rage , it flares up her throat , into the jagged shape of her words , her arched brow . against her side , her fists tighten , the bone groaning . eyes dart down to the datapad clenched in his hand for a moment , back again , & she shifts forward minutely .
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y’know , you seem to be pretty up to date on what happened . ❞
implications , smacking against her gums . she crosses her arms .
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the ambush [ … ] who could have guessed that , huh ? everything need - to - know , so that kinda attack on a human colony in the middle of nowhere ? hm —- got any theories on that one , spectre?❞
a writing blog for ashley williams from the mass effect trilogy.
about the writer. jude, 19. she/they. i’ve been writing ashley since … 2016 - ish, and I’m excited to write her again.
001. highly selective + private, but I am willing to plot with non-mutuals if approached.
002. this account will remain extremely plot driven. I prefer at least some sort of pre-established dynamic before threading, so I can have a basic idea of how our characters will interact, though it’s not necessary. 003. multiverse + ship, but selective about shipping.
004. semi-active at the moment.
005. potentially triggering content may be present, such as violence, death, and exploration of traumatic experiences. it will all be tagged to the best of my ability, but if you need someone specific tagged, let me know. tagged as [trigger] / 006. I’m open to any kind of threads (one-liner, para, multi-para, etc.) 007. blog is currently a wip! thank you for your patience.
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ashley’s so … physical, in my head. there’s a lot of playful touching. shoulder-bumps, playful punching to the sides and arms, knocking her hips into someone’s side, wrapping her arm around someone’s shoulder, or yanking them into her side. depending on the person, I think casual touch comes so easily to her, and she tends to just be very … touchy. lots of hugging, getting into close contact, loves play-fighting and (playfully!) knocking people around / getting knocked around.