Apologize to Joker 50%
Although Fluttershy contemplated calling Shepard, she ultimately decided against it as there was a good chance the commander would be busy tracking Liara’s mother. So, with that option not available, she chose to head up to the cockpit to see a certain pilot whose ship she had slightly damaged. To be honest she hadn’t really spoken to the flight lieutenant yet and other than the few jokes she had heard him make, didn’t know anything about the human.
The CIC seemed to be as busy as ever as Fluttershy trotted through it, none of the working officers really batting an eye at her as she passed. In the cockpit, Joker was sitting in the pilot’s chair tapping buttons on the holographic displays. Fluttershy opened her mouth to announce her presence to the man but before she could say anything the chair was already turning around.
“Finally come to apologize?” He said, his tone of voice clearly betraying that he was not amused at the pegasus’s presence. Fluttershy realized that since Joker had access to every system in the Normandy he had probably seen her coming from a mile away.
“Yes,” Fluttershy answered, Joker mockingly acting as if he were thinking.
“Accepted, now get out of my cockpit,” He said with a sneer, Fluttershy flinched back but didn’t turn away from the pilot.
“Why?” Fluttershy questioned. “You’re clearly angry at me.”
“Because you don’t have a clue of the kind of things a cripple has to do to get respect for anything!” He shouted, Fluttershy looked him over but didn’t see anything that would indicate the pilot was crippled. Sure he wasn’t as impressively built as Shepard but nothing truly seemed wrong with the pilot, although maybe a part of his body was dysfunctional?
“Uhm, crippled?” she questioned, Joker groaned in frustration.
“For fuck sake… I have something called Vrolik syndrome, it makes my bones so brittle that if I put too much force on them then SNAP!” Fluttershy flinched back. ”They break like a twig. But that’s not the worst of it, even though I’m the best damned pilot this side of Arcturus station every time you achieve something some asshole comes forward and says you were given it because of your condition because-”
“-you would be too weak to do it yourself,” Fluttershy finished for the pilot, “They write you off as someone who’s too fragile to do anything and leeches off the sympathy of others without having to work for your achievements.”
“Yeah,” Joker said stunned. “How did you know?”
“Story of my life,” Fluttershy sadly replied. “There are a few ponies that know I’m not as fragile as I look, but even so, they still act if I’m about to shatter. Yes, I might be really shy but I stand up for what I believe when it counts.”
“You don’t seem so shy now,” Joker noted.
“Liara… ‘helped’ me get to the bottom of why I’m so shy. I’ve been dealing with it for the first time in my life,” Fluttershy told Joker. After having the old memory resurface and standing up for herself, she didn’t feel as burdened by it anymore.
“Guess that’s nice.” Joker stated, “But that brings me back as to why I’m so angry. You damaged my baby, the only ship with a crew that values me for my skill as a pilot and doesn’t write it off as charity. Look I really don’t want to be angry at you and I know you usually don’t act as stupid as you did because I’ve seen you over the security cams. How about we start over, you don’t damage my ship and I won’t hold your mistake against you.” He offered, holding out his hand, Fluttershy smiled and shook it. “Well, I’ve got to get back to work here. Shepard’s apparently going to need the MAKO soon and I still need to get it cleared and out of the Normandy.”
“No problem, I’ll see you around,” Fluttershy said. Joker turned his chair back around to face his consoles in the cockpit. With the conversation over, Fluttershy turned around and made her way back through the CIC and into the crew section of the ship. Without anything she could really do and almost everyone interesting she could talk to off the ship Fluttershy decided to go back down to Tali. The quarian had been about to teach her about cover before her screw up after all.
As she reached engineering she didn’t find Tali standing at her usual spot at the console close to the drive core. As Fluttershy also hadn’t seen the quarian in the crew section of the ship she made the educated guess that she was probably in the workshop. Since Fluttershy didn’t have access to the workshop in particular she walked up to the wall and knocked on it.
“Tali? Are you in there?” she asked, hoping that the wall was thin enough to allow sound through in the first place. To the pegasus’ relief the wall slid open, revealing Tali tinkering with her disassembled shotgun.
“Hi Fluttershy, what do you need?” Tali asked while she continued inspecting a part of the shotgun for any flaws.
“Well are you still up to teach me about cover usage?” Fluttershy asked, Tali stopped to look at the pegasus.
“I guess I could do that,” She said, putting down the shotgun part and starting to quickly reassemble the device. “But we could also try to work out how you could effectively use those omni-blades on your wings or I could teach you how to use your omni-tool in an offensive or defensive manner,” Tali told Fluttershy, the pegasus thinking for a moment.
I guess figuring out a way of using the omni blades would be useful or how to use my omni-tool to maybe hack? Though I’d still have to learn about cover at some point.
1. Learn to use cover
2. Practice with omni-blades
3. Learn how to use [Tech]
Cover! It's rule zero of being in a gunfight!
Also nice exchange with Joker.
in mass one she unlocks the Medicine as a sentinel i think would be good for her to have as a "doctor" plus in mass effect 2 the sentinel build with max out tech shields makes cover useless(until the last mission) she need tech shields
plus in a galaxy where you are on your own knowing about tech could be very useful
(gets captured by people looking to find out how she ticks or for a pet hacks door walks out)
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I thought rule zero of being in a gunfight was "bring a gun". :)
Hm. I would adore for Fluttershy to learn how to wield Wingblades or to be Tali's apprentice, but cover would probably be best. I do wonder however if there'll be a segment about helping Joker with his condition sometime later, though it'd probably have to be after they find Equestria. There might be magic that'd help, or Zecora could brew a potion. Fallout: Equestria stories featuring augmentations usually have two trees for it, one for cybernetics and one for Zebra alchemy. Humans could place metal along his bones for a lot of money, but FoE Zebras have potions that strengthen the body, including making bones more durable.
All this tech Shy is surrounded by, would be nice to get a quick guide from nursery school level etc.
Love the fic so far, though something has been bugging me the last few chapters. This might just be me but does the pacing seem a bit slow to anyone else? I know this is a CYOA, but maybe we could have a little less frequency in choice votes and more in plot development is in order?
For one thing, choice prompts around every corner in an RPG works wonders, but implementing that in a written formant and a required voting session for every chapter update when each is only average at a thousand words seems like things are bogged down. I was thinking maybe set a vote session for slightly more significant events and do so once every two or three chapters so you can focus on building around said choices.
For another, some of these choices seem a bit unnecessary. For example, why make a choice on who to apologize to when we know Fluttershy is going to apologize to all of them eventually? There's also the training. Even if the rest of the crew may specialize in each area, all of them know a little bit of everything. Flutteshy's newness to this universe means she will likely have to train at least a little in each area (how to use an omnitool, understanding basic combat tactics, etc.) so all we are voting on is which order as with the apology. Aside from specialist training of course. In fact, training in all of these could probably be covered in a summary of a few paragraphs and the narration could move on to more character defining moments and/or choices.
I realize this might sound a bit nitpicky, but I've been enjoying the fic so far. This is just meant as a bit of feedback. Also, I realize I may be missing other factors and some of this may be more my own impatience so feel free to ignore or address as you see fit. I'll still be eagerly looking forward to what comes next.
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Yeah, I'm probably going to be putting to the vote to see if I can skip votes so every now and then. There's only so much I can let Shy do on the Normandy and I'm running out of stuff to do. As for the pacing, It should speed up now and with Virmire coming up Fluttershy might see action for the first time.
Alright I caught up to the story so my votes will actually mean something. If I could dictate how her training goes, I'd cover cover first, then the omni wing blades second so she doesn't accidentally stab herself, and after that she could probably safely branch out/specialize any way she feels fit. We already know that she has a lot of power to work will when it comes to her biotics, but I wonder even with a good amount of training if she would be able to stand up to Jack.
Alright while it is good that Fluttershy now knows how her Stare works, I'm concerned about how Cerberus will react to it once ME2 comes around. While her ability is indoctrination I wonder if it can be utilized for the purpose of counter-indoctrination. The fact that Shepard is about to go down with there being no chance for Fluttershy to come, this little theory will take a little bit longer to test out. Maybe with a known rouge Specter.
In regards to Flutter's romance situation, so far I'm enjoying what you've written. It's adorable how she's been teased so far and I await more. One thing that will probably help out their relationship in the long run is the fact that both of them are Dextro will make the relationship flow more smoothly.
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I honestly don't remember that tidbit. Where in the games was it mentioned?
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It was a comic, it's never mentioned in game
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No, it’s “don’t get shot”.
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Nah, rule zero of being in a gun fight is: don't be in a gun fight.
Tali tech advice is unique. Unique is something you don't get ever day...
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Joker and Fluttershy have a lot in common:
- Flying
- Being seen as inferior
- Likeable in general
Yep a hole in the head ruines everones day...
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One pone Infiltration squad...
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That not a rule rather than a general common known thing. But what should be a rule is, 'bring enough ammo to finish it'.
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Or fill out the brittel bones with a substitute organic something?
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Hacking door 101. We know from Shepard campaign that this is a basic thing...
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Maybe, but since many options get discarded it rather runs to fast...
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You have a mass of back log about options you discarded by voting. So mutch to learn, so few time...
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Codex entrys?
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Really? Nice to learn...
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If you are a Civilian, otherwise: Bring better guns...
Joker is definitely one of my favorite Mass Effect characters. Though the playthroughs I've watched never brought up the Vrolik Syndrome.
Always add special abilities ♤♡◇♧