Reasons why Shavik and not T'Sovik is my OTP:

Please read it fully before complaining about my little bad chatter about Liara. I really like Liara as she is, please don't get me wrong, but just read :)

Please excuse me for possible grammar mistakes, English is not my native language.

× Shep understands the prothean language: She is the only one who can talk with Javik in his peoples tongue. When Javik touches Shepard, he reads her nervous system and actually speaks with her in English.

× When Shep and Liara discover Javik's stasis pod, Shep is quite interested in the protheans and asks Liara to tell her more about them. But Liara says actually that Shep knows probably as much about protheans as she does, due to the beacon and the cipher. Shep knows even more than Liara, like the prothean language.

× Shep is a strong woman and a soldier like Javik, and Javik says that they have things in common, war is their sculptor. That Shep died and was resurrected, as Javik was in stasis and again awoken to fight the reapers.

× Shepard helps Javik develop his character, she helps him fulfill the only purpose of his life at that point, and that is vengeance for his people. He even appoints her as the avatar of victory, which was probably a huge honor for him and the people of his cycle.

× In the first scene on the Normandy, Liara asks Javik about the sensory ability of the beacons, Javik touches and reads Shepard, and not and never Liara.

× As for Liara, I don't want to sound like an a** or ignorant, but, I think the only reason why Liara and Javik could possibly be a couple is that she studied the protheans and that's it. But character-wise they don't match at all. Liara acts naive, childish and whiny. Don't get me wrong, I like her and consider her the best female friend of my Shepard, hell she even was the one that rescued Shepard after her death and that was a brave action. But Liara needs a sensible person, and Javik is the complete opposite of that (despite his sensory ability lol). Javik on the other hand needs a strong woman who understands him and can shoulder the big weight of his fate and the probably bad dreams that come with it, without breaking from it.

× Liara only sees in him a living exemplar of the species she's obsessed with and places him on a pedestal, while completely ignoring his personality, or rather wail about it, that she rather would have wished him to be a scholar, while Shepard sees him as an individual being and just likes him for who he is.

× Everyone misunderstands Javik's grief and bitterness as grumpiness and arrogance, except for Shepard, bc they talk objectively about everything without primitive and childish emotions.

× We often see in the game that Liara and Javik are bickering, even at the fandom in the fanart. And the fandom finds it charming. Well as for me, I hate such childish and naive behavior, I do not find something like that charming or cute or whatever, it annoys me. It's something kids in ground school do.

× Javik calls Liara "asari" every time until the end, only until Shepard intervenes after Thessia, bc Javik respects none of these primitives except for Shepard, bc she is a strong leader and his commander. But Javik does call Shepard by her name at least 3 times in the game (two times on the mission with the Aralakh Company, and in the last mission in the Leviathan DLC).

× Javik sleeps with Shepard. The devs could really have made a blossoming relationship with Javik and Liara in the Citadel DLC, like they had it done with GarrusxTali or the fling with JamesxAshley but they didn't.

But please consider this as my personal opinion and tinkering, I don't want to offend anyone and their ship. It's just my hc.

I have nothing against a little Shep-sandwich tho

You might as well reblog and add more reasons to it, but no primitive bickering please ;D