Hello! I've read dozens if not hundreds of Mass Effect fanfictions over the months since I was first introduced into this amazing series, and I thought I would try to dispel some stories I have floating about in my little brain. Enjoy!
This first bit is sort of a prologue/teaser for my first official fanfiction. R&R please! I need feedback!
Woebegone
Chapter 1
Eternal...
Infinite...
Immortal...
The woman I was used these words, but only now do I truly understand them.
…..And only now do I understand the full extent of her sacrifice.
To be Eternal is to be forgotten.
To be Infinite, abandoned.
To be Immortal...alone.
Through death I was created; my past self forever immortalized as an avatar of justice and freedom. Now I exist, to watch, to guard, to protect those I care for, but can never again meet. I can only watch, waiting for when I might be able to show my affection through the guise of cold metal and firefights. I serve to defend those whom cannot defend themselves. I keep order, only arriving when needed, never when summoned. To many I will be seen as a pest, to others, a saving grace. It matters not. My fate was sealed the moment I took control of those wishing to control me.
The Reapers do not take new leadership well. Millions of voices barrage my mind, each entity screaming and wailing its dissent of my control over their being. They shout curses and taunts, hoping to break me so that they may reign over me, but it will not be so. I know my place, and they theirs. Their efforts to bring headaches falls on numb nerves.
My transition was not painless. Never have I felt more pain than the moments where every atom of my being was being burned away, ripped apart so that I may exist unending. Some would say I have transcended the organic being, and in a way, they would be correct. I am neither organic, nor synthetic. I have no physical being, so instead I exist as a virus resonating through the minds of the Reapers. Through them, I have learned of countless civilizations, and as a result, witnessed the destruction of each and every one.
I am the result of a decision that changed an entire galaxy.
I am the guardian of civilization as we know it.
I took control.