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Thirty years since first contact. Thirty years of war between the turians and the humans. Shanxi, a human fringe colony in the Traverse, has been the epicenter of the fighting. And humans are in the eleventh hour, about to lose not only their colonies, but their way of life. The only hope they have left is a Prothean beacon found hidden beneath labs-- a beacon which could, if given to the salarians, turn the tide of the war. The problem is: the turians want it just as badly.
Commander Roni Shepard wears her uniform more comfortably than her own skin. But a traumatic injury from the batarians, a client race to the Hierarchy, has left her unsure of everything she used to be secure in.
Lieutenant-Commander Garrus Vakarian thinks outside of the box, much to the chagrin of his commanding officers, his father, and the very establishment he fights for. When he uncovers a dark secret embedded deep within his own military, he holds on to the hope that others can put a stop to it, even if it destroys everything.
When both of them are tasked with securing the Prothean beacon, their lives will intertwine, and everything they thought they knew flies out the window when a mysterious ship also comes to collect.
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12 Mar 2026
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composed of nows by lilmissnatcat24
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
14 Jul 2025
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After Shepard destroyed the Crucible, the energy expelled from the blast has changed her. She's immortal, she cannot age-- and what's more, she seemed to consume the blast, which threatens to hurt everyone around her. She left Garrus in the middle of the night in an attempt to save him, and never looked back.
Nineteen year later, and Garrus is a shell of what he once was. He drinks too much, he has too many ex-wives, and not a single turian in their right state of mind would pay him any respect. What was supposed to be a routine mission to a fringe colony turned into something even he didn't know how to describe when he picks up an SOS signal from a shuttle. What he wasn't suspected was it to be Shepard, and what was even more-- he didn't expect a blast to come out of her body that killed half his crew.
As the blast knocked them off course, Shepard and Garrus must find a way to cohabitate after nineteen years of scorn. If Shepard is just going to leave again, then Garrus wants no part in it. And if Garrus had moved on a long time ago, Shepard sees no reason for civility.
But what either of them did not anticipate was that maybe, in nineteen years, maybe neither of them changed all that much to begin with.
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15 Jul 2025
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An honest, long-form exploration of the events during and immediately after the end of Mass Effect 3, examining the consequences of Indoctrination, the control ending, and what it means to be Human.
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- Part 15 of The Master and His Emissary
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11 Jul 2025
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In order to secure the support of the turian Fleet, Shepard's sent to Palaven's moon Menae in order to find Primarch Fedorian. It's difficult to focus on the mission when the whole world is burning and she has no idea if Garrus is still alive or how she's supposed to do any of this, and it feels like she's right on the edge of falling apart... It all comes together to break her on that battle-scorched moon, when she sees something she had been praying she never would.
TL:DR: During Priority: Palaven, Shepard sees a painfully familiar-looking Marauder.
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10 Jul 2025
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Throughout the years, Garrus finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time, injured for whatever reason. After all, in his line of work, you have to expect the usual minor (or sometimes major) flesh wound. At least he has one constant in Shepard, always there to tell him to patch it up.
(Four times Garrus is injured in front of Shepard, and one time the roles are reversed. A relationship progression shown through injuries.)
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- 9,453
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09 Jul 2025
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The war is over and Shepard's still alive.
Except she doesn't really understand what war everyone is talking about, or who half of these people are... The last thing she does remember is the Normandy blowing up over Alchera. Which apparently was a few years ago, and things had changed a lot during that time. She doesn't even know which bothers her more: that everyone wants her to be someone she's not, or that Garrus has been strangely distant ever since she woke up...TL;DR: Shepard survives the Crucible but loses all her memories since Cerberus rebuilt her. Shakarian angst and regular angst, all mixed up together into a nice hurt/comfort cocktail. Despite the scary tags this has a happy ending.
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19 Aug 2024
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Rewrite of Playing the Long Game
After the death of his mother, Garrus moves to the Citadel with his dad. Shepard is a scruffy duct rat who saves him from bullies.
Garrus never stood a chance.
Childhood friends AU. Covers pre-canon until post-game.
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- Part 1 of Playing the Long Game
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12 Jun 2024
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A series of stories centred mainly around EDI, her struggles as a synthetic life-form, and her relationship with Jeff.
Chapter 1 - Old and "not canon." Kept for posterity. Deals with gender, anti-synthetic discrimination, and the romantic relationship between EDI and Joker. Post-ME3. Not beta read.
Chapter 2-6 - EDI/Joker Post-ME3. Deals with gender, anti-synthetic discrimination, death, loss, and politics. Mostly not beta read.
Chapter 7-9 - Pre-ME2 during EDI's development. Big OC focus. 7 out of 9 characters are OCs. Deals with slavery, AI science and ethics, religion, philosophy, cybernetics, torture, power dynamics. Various fucked up Cerberus stuff happens. Beta read.
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- Part 1 of "Woman of a Second Nature" Continuity
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15 May 2024
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A Hybrid Heart by Ominous_Questgiver
Fandoms: Mass Effect: Andromeda, Mass Effect - All Media Types
15 Jun 2024
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Airidh Ryder isn’t worth saving. So why does everyone keep trying to save her?
Airidh steals herself to show that she wasn't a mistake, that the sacrifices of those around her were not for nothing.
Along the way Airidh must deal with her repressed trauma that has started creeping into her nights and the new darkness that clings to her waking moments.
Please read the tags! I’m not kidding with them!
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04 May 2024
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Shepard’s in lock-up, the Reapers are coming, and Garrus isn’t going to sit idly by while the galaxy is lost. Garnering turian support means returning to Palaven, but returning to Palaven will involve answering questions—and facing stark realities—he’s been avoiding for years.
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- Part 10 of Grace Shepard
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- 4/4
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13 Apr 2024
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The world ends. Life goes on.
Shepard and Garrus pick up—and occasionally fight through—the pieces.
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- Part 6 of How to Hold a Hammer
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12 Apr 2024
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Shepard and Garrus both fight in the First Contact War, but fate brings them together on the icy moon of Saturn: Enceladus. Garrus gravely injured and all alone is saved by Shepard who just lost her whole squad and is stuck on a research station until communications come back.
Little comic companion pieces I did while writing my work in progress fic, Children of Earth and Sky.
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09 Apr 2024
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Her own personal Noverian peak. That’s what it was supposed to be. Nothing but the discovery: no distractions, no comfort, no windows looking out—no familiar faces. But it's starting to look like her winning streak might have ended in that pile of Citadel rubble, if it ever extended that far to begin with.
In which Shepard doesn’t want to be found, and Garrus, of course, has other ideas.
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One polished pauldron bobs. “How does the Earth idiom go? No use beating a dead—” A long-suffering sigh. “What was it again?”“A dead horse. And yet, you’re here. Beating it.”
Pot, kettle. She wishes he’d just fucking say it.
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04 Apr 2024
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Palaven Rising by girafficparka
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
04 Oct 2025
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She's the Alliance's most famous soldier - forced into early retirement to be the 'token human' in enemy territory in a desperate bid to maintain intergalactic peace.
He's a loud-mouthed sharp-shooter who can't quite find his place among his people - and after meeting her, he's not sure he wants to.
Shakarian AU because...why not?
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11 Feb 2024
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Unidentified activity at the edge of the Sol system sends Commander Shepard and her ship through a supposedly dormant mass relay. Stranded on the other side, the lives of her crew rest in her hands; a single decision can bring salvation—or death.
When Lieutenant Garrus Vakarian is ordered to investigate the crash site of an unknown craft, he becomes part of Shepard’s fate, and she becomes part of his. They believe they've made first contact, but a truth their peoples have hidden threatens to rock everything they know—and what they mean to each other.
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03 Feb 2024
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When they had jokingly stumbled their way into Shepard suggesting sex, Garrus had been rendered incoherent. He’d agreed too readily to be anything less than eager and was embarrassed he was nearly reduced to a fledgling recruit in front of his commander. It had barely even crossed his mind that maybe it would make the coming weeks awkward or tense.
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OR: The in-between moments leading up to Garrus and Shepard's first time together.
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25 Nov 2023
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iPartners Connections by Ponypaintings
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
18 Feb 2024
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iPartners Connections launches a new online dating app. The app allows matches between members of the armed forces across all 23 systems. Profiles are anonymous and it’s statistically impossible to match with someone you know!
Mistaken online identities live alongside inter-species mutual pining.
Chapters alternate between online and in-person
Updates weekly
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23 Nov 2023
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A hundred years, a hundred worlds, a hundred stories. The seventy-first starts off poorly (though not nearly as poorly as some) and honesty, like violence, can be brutal.
Taako is fed up. Magnus feels guilty. Lup lashes out. Merle saves the day.
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10 Sep 2017
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15 Aug 2017
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100 drabbles in 20 weeks on Griff Ryder and the people surrounding him.
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18 Jul 2017