Calibration 9 [Accidental Video | Fountain Shard]

[officer_garrus]

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[OOC: You all get a video because typing the whole thing out would take too long and I'm lazy. Part of the Fountain Shard Plot. Changed the lie from the original post, because this was easier and saved the trouble of finding another video. More details in the plot post for Garrus. CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR MASS EFFECT 1.]

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time to break garrus

[doctor-tangent.livejournal.com]

Wait. Why is Saren Arterius referring to that woman as "Shepard"?

poor Garrus

[officer-garrus.livejournal.com]

Mordin, that's Shepard. Don't you recognize her?

Poor crew of the Normandy

[doctor-tangent.livejournal.com]

What are you talking about? Shepard's male. Unless my understanding of human anatomy and my regular medical tests have suddenly been proven false... Fairly sure that Shepard isn't a woman.

[officer-garrus.livejournal.com]

Mordin, is this a joke? Shepard's not a man. I think I of all turians would know whether Shepard was male or female.

[doctor-tangent.livejournal.com]

[have the equivalence of an eyebrow raise from Mordin]

No joke. Don't joke with medical matters. Or about matters relating Shepard and the mission. Very certain that Shepard has and always been a man.

[officer-garrus.livejournal.com]

[Confused turian is confused.]

Mordin, I know Shepard is a woman because... we're lovers. You even sent us medical tips on interspecies relations.

[doctor-tangent.livejournal.com]

Never sent him ones on Human-Turian relations. Know that for a fact. Thought I needed to send him ones on Human-Quarian relations but turned out there was no relationship there. Er... Shouldn't have said that. Breaking doctor-client privilege. Still. Shepard isn't female. Unless he's suddenly develop a case of being a hermaphrodite.

[officer-garrus.livejournal.com]

She's not, trust me. She does have a birthmark on her right thigh, but that's about it.

[doctor-tangent.livejournal.com]

Do I need to show proof that Shepard's a he? Have medical scans proving he's a he.

[officer-garrus.livejournal.com]

I have a picture of her with me to prove she's female.

[doctor-tangent.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Is possible that this is side effect of the City. People can come from different times and places. Why not different realities? Both have Shepards... who just have a difference between who has an extra X versus a Y.

[officer-garrus.livejournal.com]

Different realities... With different Shepards... [He puts a hand to his forehead.] I think I need to sit down.

[doctor-tangent.livejournal.com]

Understand. Is the only conclusion I can find to fit our differing views that makes sense... as much as this place makes sense that is.

[officer-garrus.livejournal.com]

Please tell me in your universe you're not actually a psychopath who's going to dissect me in my sleep. [Somehow he still has some snark in him.]

[doctor-tangent.livejournal.com]

Nope. Still don't experiment on species capable of calculus. Don't tell me you went pacifist on us...

[officer-garrus.livejournal.com]

And miss opportunities to blow the bad guys away, I don't think so.

[doctor-tangent.livejournal.com]

Have copies of research data with me. Can modify your weapons to peak efficiency... if my other self hasn't done so already. To make sure you can blow everything away. We got out of the Collector's Base. Pity if you didn't survive after that mission.

[officer-garrus.livejournal.com]

You gave a few upgrades, but you're welcome to look them over. [He's still trying to wrap his head around the idea that this is the same Mordin he knows, just from a different dimension.]

Oh, I survived alright. It'll take more than a few bugs and a Reaper larve to bring me down.

[doctor-tangent.livejournal.com]

Be happy to. Random connected question. All my weapons feel off ever since my arrival here. Haven't had a chance to tune them up. Did this happen to you as well?

I still remember the whole Archangel debacle. That gunship did a pretty good job of knocking you down.

[officer-garrus.livejournal.com]

Now that you mention it, yeah, it did.

[Lightly scratches the bandage on his face.] My face still tingles whenever I think about that.

[doctor-tangent.livejournal.com]

Strange... Nothing should offset our weapons like that. Unless it's another one of those strange phenomena of this City.

It happens. Sometimes feel the ache of my missing horn when thinking about my work with the genophage.

[officer-garrus.livejournal.com]

Well, there was this one time when they worked properly. About a month ago, some of us were kidnapped and forced to participate in a survival game, and my weapons worked perfectly fine there. After it was over, though, they went right back to the way they were.

[doctor-tangent.livejournal.com]

Strange... Will keep that in mind. Will send you my diagnostic data after I tune my weapons, in case you wish to use that when you tune your weapons. Hopefully we can fix them back up.

[officer-garrus.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Mordin.

[doctor-tangent.livejournal.com]

No problem. Am happy to help.

[hatedbyfanboys.livejournal.com]

[Raiden just... blinks. He has no idea what any of that means]

[officer-garrus.livejournal.com]

Oh, Raiden. This... is a very long story.

Well, um, now you know what my Commander looks like.

lol Jennifer Hale

[hatedbyfanboys.livejournal.com]

Her voice kind of sounds familiar...

and Quinton Flynn

[officer-garrus.livejournal.com]

Oh? ...She doesn't have a counterpart in your world, does she?

[Now that he thinks about it, Raiden does sound pretty similar to a drell he and the team encountered once.]

fffff

[hatedbyfanboys.livejournal.com]

Mn.. maybe if her voice was a little higher...

[officer-garrus.livejournal.com]

Hm, interesting. Wonder what Mordin would make of this.

[hatedbyfanboys.livejournal.com]

Who?

[officer-garrus.livejournal.com]

Oh, he's a friend from home who just arrived here.

[hatedbyfanboys.livejournal.com]

Oh. Is he an alien too?

[officer-garrus.livejournal.com]

Yeah, he's a salarian. He's also a scientist and the team medic.

[hatedbyfanboys.livejournal.com]

That's pretty cool...

[officer-garrus.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Shepard always did have a thing for multispecies teams. She's definatly not a xenophobe.

[hatedbyfanboys.livejournal.com]

You guys are in space and stuff, right? I imagine it'd be hard to be a xenophobe with that kind of life...

[officer-garrus.livejournal.com]

You'd be surprised how often that can come up, actually. Some people just don't want to share space with others, I guess, and there has been tension between the different races in the past.

[hatedbyfanboys.livejournal.com]

Really? That's too bad...

[officer-garrus.livejournal.com]

I know, but trust me, a lot of us wish that wasn't true.