Author: Arin Blackwood

w4rgoddess:

kopiboys:

i don’t know how many people know this but clearly not everyone reads up on easter eggs like it’s a goddamn profession so

the citadel council in mass effect is shaped like a reaper (or like a leviathan)

and the citadel is located in the serpent nebula which looks like this

And what really overcooks my pasta? The Reapers probably didn’t do the station design. The keepers are the ones who constantly build and improve the station. I’m sure somebody’s tried to improve that chamber before – it’s obviously a good spot for Important Meetings, but all those little side-cubbies are a security risk. Too easy for assassins to hide out in, no clear sight-lines for firing, etc.  But we know why no new designs ever took.  One of the randos on the Citadel in the first game complains that the keepers won’t let the newcomers put in new bulkheads without “fixing” them to comply with whatever the keepers’ design is.

The keepers. Who were probably an intelligent, independent species before the Reapers fucked with them. Who, with the help of a handful of dying Prothean scientists, were the linchpin of this cycle’s resistance, because they stopped responding to the Reapers’ signal. Did the Protheans really do that? Or did they just give the keepers an excuse?

The keepers were trying to warn us all along.