Rating: G
Disclaimer: Nobody's mine
Prompt: Parental issues
By choosing the Synthesis, Shepard became a Reaper. Synthanic is a mix between synthetic and organic.
Moebius Stripe
The Shepard human is the first organic in its core. The first one to meet its expectations. It rectifies itself: the Shepard isn't just human. He's the embodiment of this cycle sentients' will. He's precious. He's worthy of choosing. As the Catalyst graces him with the honor of taking a holographic humanoid form, the one it knows the Shepard sees in his dreams. It also feels Harbinger's wrath. The Shepard achieved to stir emotions within its first born. He will make a strong child, without doubts, the most powerful of all.
But, as the human merges with them, giving them a little of his humanity, the Catalyst knows the future will be difficult. Although they have a path to trace to guide the new synthanic beings, his oldest and youngest children won't cooperate, refusing to work together. The sooner hates the later with a passion. The later abhors the sooner with the legion of voices and races which served for his birth.
And for the first time in his whole existence, the Catalyst feels annoyed as it has to separate these two before they kill each other. Again. It's just like a never-ending cycle, the two sides of a Moebius stripe. It just hopes the others won't be inspired by their incessant struggles. It has enough of two unwilling children, it doesn't need more.