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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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An Unwritten Galaxy by AsterHowl
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
03 Oct 2025
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Liara never becomes an information broker. Tali never returns to the Flotilla. Garrus never leaves C-Sec. Wrex never returns to Tuchanka. Joker never leaves the Alliance. Ashley never recovers from survivor's guilt.
Jack never escapes Cerberus. Miranda never escapes her father. Jacob never leaves the Corsairs. Mordin never works on the modified genophage. Samara never settles down. Thane never abandons his son. Zaeed never stands up to Vido Santiago. Kasumi never crosses Donovan Hock. Grunt never receives the mental imprint. Legion is never assigned to find Shepard.
The galaxy is a cold, cruel place. Much more than Commander Shepard ever knew.
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With the Devil on Your Back by TotallyTotoro
Fandoms: Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect Trilogy
01 Oct 2025
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The second installment in Compromise Who I Am, a Mass Effect trilogy novelization. This piece covers the events of Mass Effect 2, as seen through Shepard's eyes.
This series will include a slow-burn romance with Garrus and features a darker, more complex Shepard. Some dialogue is lifted directly from the game and expanded upon, but this story will mostly be filling in the gaps and exploring a struggling Shepard who finds herself now carrying the weight of an entire universe's future on her shoulders.
Tagged side characters are prominently featured and explored. Specific content warnings are listed within chapters.
Comprise Who I Am is a series about pain and healing. It is a story about learning to trust, falling in love with your best friend, and about handling the worst parts of yourself together. Reading the first installment of this series is not required, but is encouraged.
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- Part 2 of Compromise Who I Am
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Part three of the Chance Effect series (more summary details to come)
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- Part 3 of Chance Effect
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Goose Bumps 2.0 by LarasLandlockedBlues
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
30 Sep 2025
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Rewrite of the existing and finished Goose Bumps, Part 1 of this series.
Fiona Shepard woke up on a Cerberus operating table, apparently after being dead for two years. She wants nothing more than to see a familiar face, someone who will have her back as she works with her former enemies and tries to save the galaxy. Again.
And then after one trip to Omega, she's reunited with her best friend in the galaxy.
But he looks at her differently, now - and she can't seem to shake this new feeling. Especially once she realizes it's not really a new feeling.
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- Part 3 of Stress Relief
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Mass Effect: Book II - The Cerberus Chronicles by JShepLord
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy
29 Sep 2025
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After waking up in a Cerberus space station, Shepard demands answers and finds out that she had died two years prior with the destruction of the Normandy. With two years of her absence, how will the galaxy react to her returning, and how will she react to what the galaxy has become?
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- Part 3 of Mass Effect Chronicles
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The Beginning of the End by bi0_h4zarD
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
26 Sep 2025
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Basically this is just the story of the Mass effect trilogy told with some canon divergence, but not tons. Follow Commander Callisto Shepard through this story of tragedy, love, and all thats in between.
This is book 1, which tells the story of Mass Effect 1.
Welcome to The Beginning of the End.
Everything belongs to bioware!
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- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 9,766
- Chapters:
- 1/?
- Hits:
- 16
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Fall Again For Us by sewerpigeon
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
23 Sep 2025
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They had something once. Something real. But a lot changes about your life when you come back from death, and a lot changes about love when you’re not sure just who it is that’s standing in front of you. Wren Shepard and Kaidan Alenko went through hell together facing Saren and Sovereign, but then they turned around and put each other through hell on Horizon. But now that the Reaper threat has made its way to Earth, they’re back in each other’s orbit, and they realize some things don’t change at all. His heart still stutters when she walks into the room. Her eyes never stray from him for long. Will this war allow them to remember who they really are, to remember what they are together, or will one of them end up being lost before either of them is found?
Part One of This War is Our Dawning takes place during the events of Mass Effect 3 with occasional references to ME1 and ME2.
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- Part 1 of This War is Our Dawning
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Commander Shepard and the Normandy have to save the galaxy. (Again.) With said galaxy trying to stand against her, because of course no one would believe the mountains of evidence she's compiled, it's time to cash in a lot of favors and goodwill to ensure she can mount a war effort before the Reapers arrive.
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- Part 13 of in which shakarios happens
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Garrus and Shepard get married.
Yes the title is inspired by "Archangel and the red devil."
Some characters not mentioned in tags- most of the me3 squad.
devil is supposed to be the opposite of what Stefani is...shes very paragon. And an adept.
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Vendetta by SomethingProfound
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
22 Sep 2025
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Total war demands victory at any cost.
After the destruction of the Bahak System, Emilia Shepard returns home just in time for the Reaper invasion. The galaxy finds itself in a race against time: win the war before there's no one left to fight.
ME3, canon-divergent with a focus on milscifi and off-screen moments, multiple POVs, paragade Shepard.
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- Part 9 of A Sea of Stars
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Oath of loyalty by etherealend
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
18 Sep 2025
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Loyalty: a notion that had always gravitated around Garrus’ life.
“I am loyal to him, as he is loyal to me. And isn’t this the greatest form of love?” Her mother, as the good turian she was, used to say with regard to Castis.
Loyalty. During childhood, boot camp, military service. Loyalty: a virtue every turian was supposed to possess from birth, to the Hierarchy, first and foremost.
Garrus had always, secretly, disagreed. It was something to be earned.
And with her, such had been.
Commander Shepard had secured his deepest loyalty, and only when he saw her for the last time, before the Normandy SR-1 was taken down, did he understand how right his mother was. -
For The One Who Knows My Name by notTrickstery
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
10 Sep 2025
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Rayne Shepard dreamed of leaving Earth for good. As a kid, she thought she could be a hero amongst the stars. In some ways, the little kid was right, but being a hero wasn't all sunshine and roses. Sometimes it meant living with things too heavy to carry alone.
Liara T'Soni had a peaceful life doing exactly what she wanted to do as a young asari maiden. As fate would have it, her luck changed completely when the geth attacked, and she was rescued by a young Alliance commander and her crew.
(Formerly "Every Day After." See notes.)
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Commander Alison Jane (AJ) Shepard has lived through more than most: the batarian raid on Mindoir, the slaughter on Akuze, and the ruthless campaign at Torfan. Now, as the galaxy teeters on the edge of annihilation, she faces not only the Reapers but the weight of her past and the choices that threaten to unmake her. This story is a novelization of Mass Effect, following Shepard’s journey through familiar missions, dialogue, and relationships as seen in the game.
As the weight of her decisions threatens to crush her, Shepard is forced to confront the pieces of herself she thought she’d buried. When she finds a shy, innocent, asari maiden trapped in a stasis bubble surrounded by prothean ruins, she finds herself opening up to someone. Balancing the tension of galactic war with fleeting moments of tenderness, Shepard must navigate the fine line between duty and desire, her past and her future. Along the way, old wounds resurface, friendships deepen, and love grows in the unlikeliest of places. But even in the darkest moments, there’s room for humor, hope, and the stubborn defiance that makes Shepard who she is. It is a story of survival, healing, and the relationships that keep us fighting—against all odds.
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Heart in Hand by tilmourning
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
02 Sep 2025
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❝ The heart is all fire. ❞
For a girl who has never set foot off Earth, let alone left the Sol system, Davina Gam-Lisby is more than just out of her element.
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Entre Placas e Pele by junisoo
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
29 Aug 2025
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June Shepard e Garrus Vakarian, o início, meio e talvez sem um fim. Vamos ver como a proposta indecente de Shepard mudou o rumo das coisas.
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He Wouldn't Hurt Her (Much) by Distressed_Authoress
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
10 Jul 2025
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“I'm not sure if I find him scary or sexy.”
“A lot of women like bad boys.”
“A lot of women... like you?”A human commander brought back from the dead. A drell assassin who considers himself dead. When the two cross paths, things change between them, feelings get complicated and become powerful. Tensions start to rise and half truths are told. No tactic he knows is off the table for her heart.
A plan set, a target to capture, a lover to claim. That is his goal before the end of this mission. And he will do anything to succeed.
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This is a (some could say partially, others could say fully) darker interpretation of the canon romance, though it does stick to canon, many scenes are expanded upon (a few are rewritten either because they don't seem right in canon, or I needed to find a way to fit them) and new ones are made to fully make this story. Characterization of Thane on the other hand, that's ambiguous if you want to consider it canon compliant. Personally I do.
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- Part 1 of An Ardent Assassin's Alarming Attraction
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After the final Battle... how does Garrus handle the loss, how does the world handle the loss?
My first Fanfic! Feedback is appreciated, I will add chapters as I can. ^.^
I do not own any characters; I just use them for my imagination!
I am currently in process of updating old chapters and writing up the new ones. I will post when a chapter has been updated.
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Commander Leonie Shepard was sent to recover a Prothean artifact on Eden Prime. Instead of a beacon, she finds something... different. Something that threatens to redefine her whole being.
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What if Commander Shepard touched the memory shard?
***SOMEWHAT RESURRECTED***
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She is Commander Shepard, and this is her favorite coffee shop on the Citadel. One day while on shore leave, Shepard has a fateful encounter with a drell, one Tannor Nuara. They keep bumping into each other, and eventually form a friendship. This friendship, in turn, becomes something more. Are they destined to be together, or will fate keep them apart in the war to come?
Follows the events of the Mass Effect series. As the story progresses, we take a look at the trauma Shepard has accumulated and her reactions to it, as well as her coping skills (or lack thereof).
Rated E for eventual smut. Contains game dialogue. I own nothing from BioWare.
Smut chapters marked with *, because sometimes you just want some spice, and I respect that. Live your dream.