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( PLAYER INFORMATION )
- ★ NAME: Kalan
- ★ AGE: 23
- ★ TIMEZONE: MST (GMT -7)
- ★ CONTACT: roflskate @ plurk
- ★ LATEST AC: N/A

( CHARACTER INFORMATION )
- ★ NAME: Garrus Vakarian
- ★ AGE: Unknown, but stated to be a few years younger than the protagonist, Commander Shepard. As Shepard is around 31-32 in Mass Effect 3, I'm putting Garrus' age at 29.
- ★ CANON POINT: Mass Effect, Post-Priority: Eden Prime (the mission was undertaken immediately post-Priority: Palaven)
- ★ CANON INFORMATION: here. Furthermore, Here are a few of the main choices made by Commander Shepard in Garrus' game:

Mass Effect 1

↪ Wrex surviving Virmire
↪ Kaidan surviving Virmire
↪ Saving the Citadel Council
↪ Saving the Rachni Queen
↪ Bring Down the Sky Competed - Hostages saved, Balak at large
↪ Anderson is selected for councillor

↪ Garrus is encouraged to place more value in regulations.

Mass Effect 2

↪ Everyone (including the crew) survived the suicide mission)
↪ Destroyed the Collector Base
↪ Destroyed Geth Heretics
↪ Tali spared from exile
↪ Arrival, Overlord, & Lair of the Shadow Broker completed

↪ Shepard did not allow Garrus to shoot Sidonis

↪ Shepard romanced Garrus

As Garrus is taken from the third mission chronologically in Mass Effect 3, other than the recruitment of Javik, no major decisions (including the status of the romance, which Shepard can call off immediately after reuniting with no hard feelings) have been made.

- ★ PERSONALITY:

Note: Bolded information is a result of player choices that impact Garrus' personality.

Garrus Vakarian is a self-described "bad turian". While he mentions that most of his people are satisfied with (and expected to) follow orders regardless of their personal feelings about them, Garrus has never been content to stay silent. This is best evidenced the very first time that Shepard (the player character) meets him, where he argues with the C-Sec Executor over being taken off an investigation into the illegal dealings of a Spectre (and fellow turian) named Saren Arterius. His sometimes argumentative and hot-headed nature (particularly in regards to rules and regulations he disagrees with) is also emphasized in Mass Effect Homeworlds, where he gets into an argument with his father over how the handling of justice within C-Sec. While this lessens over the course of the games, Garrus' stubborn nature still remains under the surface (such as when he takes Shepard to the top of the Citadel for a friendly day out and/or date, telling them that he's gotten to the point where he just doesn't care about the regulations forbidding him from being there).

Garrus is also an individual with a very strong sense of justice, no matter the cost. It is this sense that first leads him to Shepard's crew, feeling that he can get more accomplished working with someone who is "above the law". And, despite Shepard convincing him that there are some values to certain regulations, it is this same sense of justice that leads him to Omega after their apparent death to take down criminals. Garrus also has a very black-and-white worldview when it comes to justice, and during his time on Omega, he was fond of dealing out karmic punishments to fit the crime (such as when he killed a drug dealer with the very drug he was selling). Still, this is not to say he isn't always without conflict. This comes to the forefront during his personal mission in Mass Effect 2, where he decides to get revenge on Sidonis, the man who betrayed his entire squad. When Shepard blocks his shot, he first tells them to move out of the way, but as he listens to both Shepard and Sidonis, he decides to spare him, later confessing to Shepard that he has no idea if he made the right decision. Regardless of his methods, Garrus is still a man who strives to do the "right" thing, no matter the cost.

When it comes to how he interacts with others, one of Garrus' preferred methods of communication (particularly in later games as his character receives more focus) is sarcasm. In the first game, he will casually remark to Shepard "why do people always assume we enjoy putting ourselves in harm's way" when given a dangerous task to accomplish. His sarcasm and teasing nature is also evidenced in the second game, when he teases Tali about the conversations that the used to have on the elevators (though it is cut short when Tali offhandedly mentions her shotgun). Even in more dire situations, as a coping mechanism, he will occasionally inject some dry humour as well. However, unlike some of the other characters, he never goes too far with this, and knows when it's appropriate to be serious.

It is also important to note that romance-wise, he is completely clueless and awkward. He never realizes a doctor's crush on him despite being teased about it by at least one crew member. When Shepard tries to get him a date, he first seems more interested in talking firearms (declaring that what he really needs is a silencer for his sniper rifle), and then uses some truly horrible pick-up lines on the woman ("do you come here often? I imagine anyone who does is probably an alcoholic"), the situation only salvaged by the interference of his friend. And, if a female Shepard chooses to pursue a relationship with him, he becomes increasingly awkward and begins rambling about the ways it could go wrong, showcasing a level of vulnerability, as he counts her among one of his only friends left in the galaxy.

Despite not having many close friends, Garrus is intensely loyal to the ones that he has. While many of the crew members from the first game have massive reservations about working with the human supremacist terrorist organization Cerberus, Garrus agrees to come along with Shepard, no questions asked. This continues throughout the game, where if present, he defends Shepard from a former crew member that claims they betrayed everything they stood for. Finally, in the third game, despite being one of the highest ranking members of the turian military, Garrus leaves active combat to again serve with Shepard aboard the Normandy. Each of these events demonstrate that Garrus is one of Shepard's closest, and most loyal friends.

Throughout the series, Garrus also grows into a formidable leader in his own right (though is still somewhat overshadowed by the protagonist, Commander Shepard). This is first evidenced on Omega, where he led a team of mercenaries against the station's crime, and continues on to the suicide mission, where he is one of the three "right" choices to lead various fire teams. In Mass Effect 3, he is a top advisor to the Primarch (ruler) of Palaven, and is saluted by turian generals. During one scene, he has a candid conversation with Shepard about the pressures of leadership and the "ruthless calculus of war".

Ultimately, Garrus calls himself a "bad turian". And while that may be true in some cases, throughout the series, he proves to be a pretty good man.

- ★ COURT ALLIANCE: Seelie. Although Garrus plays fast and loose with the rules at times, his primary goals have always been devoted to quelling injustice and helping the helpless.

- ★ ABILITIES:

Garrus is a perfectly normal turian, who relies primarily on his knowledge of engineering and combat for his abilities Physiologically, humans and turians are on similar ground (though turians are based on a different set of amino acids and as such, generally cannot consume human food*). However, their semi-metallic carapace allows them to withstand greater levels of radiation than humans.

- ★ INVENTORY: Garrus will be carrying the following when he arrives (which... sadly won't be working very well for him):
↪ modified turian kuwashii visor
↪ omni-tool
↪ turian armour
↪ phaeston assault rifle
↪ kyrasae sniper rifle

( SAMPLES )

- ★ NETWORK SAMPLE:

[ Garrus turns on the feed (okay maybe it was technically "magic", but could you really fault a guy for trying to attach logic to a completely illogical situation?), mandibles flaring ever so slightly. ]

So, I'm going to ask you a question, and I want a serious answer.

[ a pause, as he reaches over and holds up a... bun. ]

Now, where I come from, humans and turians can't exactly eat the same food at the risk of suffering from a severe case of "possible death". But, the fact is that I'm starting to get kinda hungry, and it's not like these guys are "human" in the traditional sense, right?

[ Despite... really looking a lot like humans to him. But hey, what can you do? ]

And that brings me to the question. Do I chance "possible death" with the food, or do I surrender myself to "inevitable death" by not eating anything at all?

I probably should've thought this through.

[ Honestly, he's more than a little worried about the whole situation, but sarcasm has always gotten him through tight spots in the past.

Why shouldn't it get him through this (whatever this might be)? ]

- ★ LOG SAMPLE:

The turian military had never prepared him for this. Sure, they'd probably mentioned it at some point or another, but the truth of the matter was, you really never could be prepared for it until it actually happened to you. Garrus sighed as he looked down at the current bane of his existence. Paperwork. While it was an archaic term, it still evoked the image of piles upon of bureaucracy to cut through before he could actually get to the real point of things. Right now, the datapad sitting in front of him was an immovable object, containing at least twenty forms to fill out in order to make an arrest.

He couldn't help but think to himself that whoever invented this damn system is probably a sadist. A sadist, or someone who has absolutely no idea how the real world worked. He continued to look at the datapad, and he could almost feel it taunting him. Daring him to actually do something worthwhile. But what could he do when all this damn red tape was holding him back?

Wait a minute...

His mandibles flared as he felt himself filled with renewed purpose. If it was tape that was holding him back, then all he really needed to do was cut through it. With a flourish, he turned his omni-tool on, and set to work, making a few "minor" adjustments to the forms. No one was likely to notice if one or two forms were lost in processing, right? And anyways, what did filling out the right forms really matter, so long as they caught the culprit that they were looking for? Some might call what he was doing "unconventional". Some might say that it was completely against every regulation C-Sec stood for.

But Garrus Vakarian would be damned if he was just going to let a criminal walk free because of damn paperwork. Some rules were meant to be broken.