Beyond First Contact: Humans and Turians
This collection explores the attitudes and complex relationships between humans and turians in the Mass Effect universe. The collection is intended to highlight original characters and minor characters who are underdeveloped in the Mass Effect series.
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Note: Work displayed on the collection's first page are organized at random. Please see full list for chronological work.
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Everyday life on Omega isn't the easiest, but it can be good... until the plague hits.
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He couldn't stop the war, he couldn't save Palaven, but this - stopping a single human girl's life from falling completely apart - that he could do. It almost felt like enough.
(A Teen Refugee/Turian Officer ambient conversation story)
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Two Kinds the Same by bayzee
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
11 Jan 2021
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The year is 2182. In an attempt to expand its influence and take its fair share in galactic politics the Systems Alliance houses a training course as part of the Citadel's Interspecies Exchange Programme. But the weeks of the programme hold more than what the young turian soldier expected, when she finds unforeseen rejoice in the company of a not so much of the same kind of human.
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Shepard is tired of fighting, the war had taken its toll on everyone. Not able to find peace on the Citadel she looks for a new home, somewhere that she can live free of strife, a place she can just stop and catch her breath.
Lucus was one of the small number of turians that joined with the Alliance and asari to protect the world of Cyone during the Reaper war. It was well protected and they swore that they would keep it safe from the Reapers so there was at least one place the fighters could refuel. When the war ended he stayed, after all there was nothing to go back too once the Reapers destroyed his home colony.
The new human female that just settled into the adjacent lot was intriguing. She was usually sitting outside of her tiny dwelling drawing. Just who was this woman? She would shy away from answering questions about her past, then again most people that survived the war and left their homeworlds were trying to put their past behind them.
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Sarah was lonely. Trapped in a loveless, abusive relationship. One day she finally had enough and broke free and ran. Now on her own on the Citadel she thought she had no one to turn to when threats started arriving from her ex. She was given a choice to run again or finally learn to protect herself.
Julian was at the simulation range for target practice and saw the human female several lanes over struggling to learn to use the weapon the human instructor was pushing off on her. He also noticed the way she constantly flinched when the male pressed in too close, so he took it upon himself to step in and help her.
This story takes place in an alternate universe setting, no Reapers. The characters we knew as the crew of the Normandy are just ordinary people in this story. Hope someone likes it.
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All Is Fair In Love and War by discoeffect
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
01 Dec 2018
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Alliance Engineer Laurel Westfahl makes a catastrophic mistake that costs her squadmates, her career and nearly her life. 10 years after the First Contact War, 2167, by chance she meets one of her old turian captors.
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Life goes on, even at the end of the galaxy. On the Citadel, C-Sec fights to keep order while refugees fight to keep hope. One turian finds his world complicated by a human girl with hope in her eyes.
None of the officers commented on it. They all had things they didn’t talk about, like the way Jorva always took patrol in the commons to watch over a grieving asari. How Amanda took every request from the nurses, no matter how small. How all of them found small rays of light to wield against the darkness.
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- Part 1 of Kid and her turian
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Bookmarked by haurasha
27 Aug 2015
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Set during ME3, this story is about the turian officer who frequently checks on the human refugee at the Citadel docks.
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This is an old fill for the Kink-meme. The prompter asked for a child/father fic and this was the pair I chose out of the list.
Vylan Odexus, C-Sec Officer, adopts a human orphan: 13 year old Kori Jones.
Bookmarked by haurasha
06 Aug 2015
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The caring turian from the Citadel's docks decides to become the formal guardian of the orphaned human girl in Mass Effect 3. Sweet story and plenty of familiar cameos from his social support network!
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Hannah Shepard and Turian Councilor Sparatus have a history that stretches back decades into the First Contact War. Behind Commander Shepard's life and trials, her mother follows her own path into fate and love and the strains of both.
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- Part 1 of Hannah And Sparatus
Bookmarked by haurasha
07 Sep 2015
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Incredible exploration of Sparatus and Hannah Shepard's relationship from enemies to friends to lovers during a lost captor/captive situation during the First Contact War. Bonus: reading about how Sparatus' experiences with and feelings for Hannah have influenced his treatment of Hannah's daughter, Commander Jane Shepard.
For example, he may be the only turian who has ever mocked Commander Shepard using "air quotes," something that her mother had always done to her.
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A romance between a Turian and a Human.
Nellwyn Greene is a newly retired alliance biotic on the Citadel who has a thing for men with green eyes. On a night out she meets a Turian who captures her attention with his emerald green eyes and soot black plating. How do you find someone again in a place like the Citadel?
Lazzus Tarrian is probably the most unsocial Turian on the Citadel, spending most of his time working on star ships but one night he meets a woman he regrets not taking the chance to get to know. Badly scarred and more than a little scared Lazz allows her to wrap herself around his heart.
After meeting again in an unlikely place they take a chance at inter-species romance and confront all the traditional hurdles of relationships. From insecurities, hesitant dates, meeting friends and family to finding themselves in love, together they learn that most things cross species just fine.
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Bookmarked by haurasha
25 Aug 2015
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Human female new to the Citadel encounters a turian who intrigues her, but he is surprised and uncomfortable with her attention due to his, according to alien standards, "flaws."