abel_runners
Fandoms
- Mass Effect Trilogy (6)
- Mass Effect - All Media Types (5)
- Zombies Run! (4)
- The Walk (Game) (1)
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Tunnel Vision by abel_runners
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
10 May 2023
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The way Ada Shepard sees it, she should’ve died a long time ago. Instead, they’re asking her to spearhead the Reaper war. She knows that all she'll do is fuck this up, but walking away isn't an option, either. She staggers forward. With her friends at her side, one thought dominates what's left of her mind: kill the Reapers or die trying. For them.
An exploration of my Shepard as she struggles through ME3.
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- Part 5 of Living With It
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When Ada Shepard wakes up in a burning Cerberus lab, she's sure she’s in hell. Her body isn’t hers. Her crew's missing, or buried under snow. She's forced onto a ship that's all wrong with people that make her sick. And they want her to be fine. Functional. The same shiny Commander Shepard from the vids two years ago. Well, she isn't. That Shepard died the second the Normandy went down, and she isn’t coming back.
Or: how my Shepard gets through the nightmare that is ME2.
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- Part 4 of Living With It
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This is what Ada Shepard has worked herself to the bone for: a mission that'll make a difference, a state-of-the-art ship, and a crew of her own. She's at her highest height yet, and hell knows she cannot screw this up. But her heart. It never got the memo that things are complicated now, and that it has to show some damn restraint. Too soft. That's what they always said she was.
My Shepard's journey through ME1, and all the ways she fails miserably at not getting too endeared towards her crew.
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- Part 2 of Living With It
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Crushed Stars by abel_runners
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
09 Nov 2020
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Ada Shepard had a happy childhood. Born in a small mountain town in Arizona; raised in the stunning expanse of space by wonderful parents. She was a bubbly kid, and she was loved, and the divorce didn't affect her at all. That's what she keeps telling herself. All the binge-drinking on the weekends, the misplaced ache in her chest, the slipping grades? Stupid teenage shit. That's it. That has to be it. Right?
Snippets of my Shepard's life and relationships pre-trilogy as she tries to find her place in a complicated, uncertain galaxy.
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- Part 1 of Living With It
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The New Horrible Normal by abel_runners
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
24 Feb 2020
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When Ada Shepard dies, Kaidan is plunged into the dark. Into a new, horrible kind of normal. Words stop making sense. The sound of choked, strangled breathing dogs him around the house. Sickening nausea hits him every time he smells apple soap.
Getting through this feels like way too tall an order. He has no other choice.
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- Part 3 of Living With It
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Living With It by abel_runners
Fandom Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect Trilogy
10 May 2023
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All Ada Shepard knows is how to run: she runs from her wounded family in the stars, her gut instinct that she's unlovable, and the intolerable landscape of emotions. Kaidan Alenko doesn't run, but ever since Brain Camp, he can't let his guard down—it's just too unsafe. This series is focused on chronicling their journeys, and how they slowly, painfully, learn to live with themselves.
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A series focused on my Runner Five's emotional state after the events of season three and its Moonchild arc.
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