A Wound Shaped Like Fate
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The Body’s Treason by TraumaAndTaverns
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
10 Jul 2026
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Humanity lost the war.
Years later, Commander Garrus Vakarian follows a trail of stolen Hierarchy fuel to an abandoned mining world, expecting thieves, resistance, and another clean order written over an ugly truth.
Instead, he finds starving human survivors.
And her.
An uncollared human biotic with green eyes, shaking hands, and enough power to bring the mine down around them.
She is human.
She is a prisoner.
She is the enemy.And when another turian puts hands on her, Garrus discovers that his body has already chosen treason.
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- Part 1 of A Wound Shaped Like Fate
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The Mark and the Answer by TraumaAndTaverns
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
12 Jul 2026
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Garrus leaves the estate on a mission that forces distance between them just when distance has become dangerous in a new way.
Shepard remains behind with Solana, Vyris, and the unbearable aftermath of what she chose at dinner. The house is still a prison, the inhibitor is still around her throat, and the war is still waiting beyond the sea — but the lines inside the estate have begun to change. Solana becomes something dangerously close to a friend. Vyris becomes an unwanted guard with a debt to answer for. And Shepard begins to understand that the thing between her and Garrus is not only desire, not only captivity, and not only hatred.While Garrus follows the trail of off-register human prisoners, the truth of the bond draws closer to the surface.
And when Shepard finally learns what the mark means, choice will become more dangerous than instinct ever was.
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- Part 2 of A Wound Shaped Like Fate
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The Law of What Remains by TraumaAndTaverns
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
21 Jul 2026
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The secret is no longer inside the estate.
After Shepard is taken and the footage spreads far beyond Palaven, House Vakarian falls from power in a single night. Garrus is stripped of rank, Castis is forced into the center of a political crisis he can no longer control, and Solana must hold together what remains while the Hierarchy, the Council, and human resistance cells all begin to claim their own version of the truth.
But survival is only the beginning.
Because even after the immediate danger passes, the damage remains: in the screens that cannot be unseen, in the old laws dragged into public light, in the humans who see Shepard as proof of every cruelty they endured, and in the turians who would rather destroy her than admit what her existence means.
Shepard wakes into a galaxy that has already decided what she is: captive, scandal, victim, traitor, symbol.
Garrus is left with the law, the mark, and the consequences of loving her where everyone can see.
And when the disaster becomes aftermath, one impossible question threatens to fracture everything.
What remains of a bond when the whole galaxy tries to name it for them?
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- Part 3 of A Wound Shaped Like Fate