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First To Come Last by Castelau for korble, NoisyNoiverns
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
14 Feb 2023
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A lot of things can change in fifty years, but this time, the change is all for the better.
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- Part 3 of Trashbag's No-Reapers AU
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Playing by the Rules by 2bfrank (sylvanrogue), sylvanrogue
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
17 Jan 2023
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Commander Tessa Shepard has been struggling to balance her position as humanity's first Spectre with her ties to the Alliance military. How is she supposed to represent humanity when the Council doesn't trust her to operate freely? Her newest mission to take down a Blue Suns base could be just the opportunity she needs to take some initiative and prove she's ready for more freedom.
Former C-Sec officer and Spectre dropout Garrus Vakarian dropped everything to follow Tessa Shepard across the galaxy. It's exactly the opportunity he was hoping for to do some good without red tape holding him back, but it's not quite what he was expecting; for a Spectre, Shepard has a lot of rules. They may not see eye-to-eye on everything, but maybe they can both afford to bend a little.
Part of an AU with no Reapers.
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- Part 2 of Spectre Authority
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I can feel your heart against my heart by calypsid
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
15 Jan 2023
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Shepard has to go home for Christmas. Problem is, her father's going to be there – her racist, argumentative asshole of a father. So is it her fault if she brings along a present for herself? And if her present is seven feet tall with a sense of humor that won't quit, maybe Shepard's going to get more than snow out of this Christmas trip...
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- Part 1 of this is serious love
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you ask how my day was [Podfic] by blackglass for Corina (CorinaLannister)
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
11 Jan 2023
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A podfic of you ask how my day was by calypsid.
"This is a dance he's been perfecting since he was barely old enough to hold a gun. Garrus breathes. His finger starts to tighten on the trigger.
Loc's head explodes.
That wasn't him."
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A Little Too Much Like Me by Castelau
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect: Andromeda
11 Jan 2023
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Someone has the excellent idea that the way to ease tensions between C-Sec and the Spectres is to make them cooperate on a team-building retreat. It goes exactly as well as expected.
Caught in the middle of it all, poor Garrus is forced to team up with his least favourite person in the world, his father's boyfriend.
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- Part 1 of Trashbag's No-Reapers AU
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Desperate Times & Disproportionately Desperate Measures by antelopunny
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy
27 Dec 2022
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When Shepard accidentally walks into a turian maid cafe to go on a date with Thane, the man behind the counter introduces himself as Garrus Vakarian before asking them for help. Saren Arterius, ex-Spectre now-professor at the University of Serrice, has been engaging in unscrupulous academic corruption, taking bribes and docking points off students he doesn't like. Shepard, also a professor and unable to stop herself from doing a good deed, throws herself right into the thick of it, vowing to stop Saren from sullying the academic integrity of Serrice.
It goes about as well as you'd expect. Which means to say, at some point, they end up in a firefight for their lives. That's just the Shepard Special.
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She gives a shake of her head. What the hell is she doing? She’s supposed to be on a job. This turian should already be dead. Tch. Good thing he’s still sleeping. That means she still has some time.
She rolls the other way and reaches to the floor. Feels around for the knife she brings along specifically for turian targets. She briefly panics when she can’t seem to find it, but then her fingers brush the serrated edges. She sits up a bit more when—
“Leaving so soon?” She freezes at the sound of his gravelly voice, followed by the feel of his arm wrapping around her waist. “I don’t think you’re done yet,” he goes on. He gently tugs her so that she falls onto her back, and he positions himself above her. She’s met with those piercing blue eyes and some treacherous part of her thinks she wants to drown in them. “Am I right?” he then asks.
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AKA, au where shep is sent to assassinate archangel but everything about her plan backfires when the station goes into a lockdown and they end up being stuck together for an undisclosed amount of time
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The Turian General, in the Parliament Building, with Knowledge of a Secret Turian Bomb by Missjlh
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect: Andromeda
02 Dec 2022
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General Victus receives an order from the new primarch: assassinate Urdnot Wrex using a bomb the turians planted on Tuchanka a thousand years ago. He refuses, and she orders his death.
Wrex, irritated that Adrien has missed his turn at Words with Friends, revives the Monster Mash, picks up an old friend and a new one, and then they head to Palaven to rescue Adrien.
Which leads to a question: does anyone know how to disarm a bomb? And does anyone know how to find a hidden bomb?
The sequel to The Admiral’s Body in the Presidium Gardens with the Poisoned Syringe.
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- Part 62 of No Shepard without Vakarian
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Shepard and Garrus, in the Milky Way, with a Bitter Rival Named Saren by Missjlh
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
28 Nov 2022
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Shepard and Garrus meet during a cross-species training program and survive a difficult mission together that has them parting as friends.
Years later, now a Spectre, Shepard has to balance a bitter rivalry with Saren Arterius, and the fact that she’s secretly in love with Garrus, who is now her Executive Officer.
A prequel to The Admiral’s Body in the Presidium Gardens with the Poisoned Syringe.
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- Part 63 of No Shepard without Vakarian
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Garrus Vakarian never believed in bonding, despite the fact that he’s seen friends and family swear by the bond. All of them Turians bonding with other Turians. Simple. Easy. Biological.. But Garrus hasn’t ever felt that spark - not until a certain human female appears on the Citadel one day to marry a Turian Spectre.
Garrus Vakarian is not that man.
But he feels magnetised towards her instantly - in ways he can’t begin to explain - and he doesn't know what the hell to do about it.
How can Garrus convince Commander Shepherd that they’re bond mates if he isn’t even sure what that means?
How do you tell someone that they were always meant to be yours?
A new inter-galactic war looms on the horizon if Shepard refuses Nihlus’s hand. What will she choose: duty or love?
FemShep x Garrus Vakarian AU. HEA guaranteed. Non-Reaper AU.
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"...A story has been making its rounds through the Terminus Systems about a figure referred to as Archangel,” he goes on. “Few of the stories match up, and there are far too many unknowns. Too many variables. That’s where you come in.”
“T’soni should know better than to ask this of me.” She folds her arms across her chest. “I don’t chase fairytales or fables.”
“Yes, she had a feeling you’d feel this way and put up a fight over the mission. She doesn’t trust anyone else to take it seriously, though. Plus, Aria respects you.”
Can’t deny that. “What does she even want to know?”
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AKA, a universe where shep works for the shadow broker and is assigned a mission to look into who archangel is and discovers far more than she ever could've imagined (or dreamed of) both about archangel and herself
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Common Tongue by EvenIfYouLoseYourMind
Fandoms: Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect Trilogy
26 Sep 2022
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Commander Felix Cato, a decorated Veteran of the Relay 314 Incident, has a chance encounter with Theodosia Knight at Purgatory. The woman is young and enticing in a way that he is not supposed to find humans. Yet her fearless attraction brings him home with her where a night of interspecies sex could lead to unexpected feelings and blurred boundaries.
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- Part 1 of Mass Effect OCs
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The first contact war was followed by years of hot and cold warfare between humans and turians. Several attempts by the council to force a permanent truce has failed. Now both the Hierarchy and the Alliance has agreed to an armistice which has lasted for 6 years. Gagarin Station (Jump Zero)has been established as a place of reconciliation, where turian recruits and human biotics train side by side as supposed allies. However, old grudges die hard and for some of the students it's hard to let go of the past.
Will friendship outlast the end of childhood? When team Four is spread across space, divided by duty, will something remain of Jump Zero’s lessons, or will the new emerging enemy strain every relationship past its breaking point?
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The Admiral’s Body in the Presidium Gardens with the Poisoned Syringe by Missjlh
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
23 Aug 2022
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Castis Vakarian receives a tip regarding the murder of an Alliance admiral. At first, the case seems open and shut, until General Victus intervenes in defence of his crew member and a krogan merc by the name of Urdnot Wrex decides he knows best.
Forced to work together to solve the case, the three of them travel the galaxy in their very own Mystery Machine, while attempting to get along just long enough to bring the admiral’s murderer to justice.
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- Part 61 of No Shepard without Vakarian
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Garrus isn't sure what makes him look up. Something in the air, perhaps. A sense of potential, like lighting making up its mind whether it should strike. Impending doom.
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- Part 2 of mr and mrs shepard
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you ask how my day was by calypsid
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
17 Aug 2022
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This is a dance he's been perfecting since he was barely old enough to hold a gun. Garrus breathes. His finger starts to tighten on the trigger.
Loc's head explodes.
That wasn't him.
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- Part 1 of mr and mrs shepard
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A Spectre Cursed and Dreaming by 2bfrank (sylvanrogue), sylvanrogue
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
21 Jul 2022
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After a raid on a batarian terrorist’s hideout, Spectre Tessa Shepard receives an ominous message promising her eternal slumber. She figures it's just another unfounded death threat from a batarian with a grudge; nothing serious to worry about. But when she and her partner, Garrus Vakarian, attend a charity ball on the Citadel, Shepard and dozens of other high-profile human guests are exposed to a toxin that induces a deep sleep, baffling doctors and scientists.
It's up to Garrus to save his princess from the curse… and true love's kiss probably isn't going to cut it.
A Sleeping Beauty retelling written for the fairy tale themed MEBB2022. Part of an established no-Reaper AU, but can be read as a standalone.
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- Part 4 of Spectre Authority
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She remembers flashes of bright lights. Voices fading in and out. Panicked voices. Frustrated voices. Concerned voices. She remembers…insistent beeping. Machines. She remembers being hooked up to terminals monitoring her vitals. She remembers finally putting faces to voices. She remembers waking up. Breathing. Coming back to life.
Worst of all, she remembers the moments right before she died. That asphyxiating feeling that had overwhelmed her senses. The panic before she convinced herself that nothing she tried would make a difference. Nothing she tried would save her. She remembers accepting that this would be the end.
It hadn’t been the end. Instead, Shepard became an unnatural experiment for Cerberus, the rogue black ops group. She became Project Lazarus.
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AKA, shepard is brought back by cerberus and her first mission is to track down omega's infamous archangel. of course, nothing ever goes as planned. nor can anything ever be simple.
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Things Left Unsaid by 2bfrank (sylvanrogue), sylvanrogue
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
06 Jun 2022
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Spectre Nihlus Kryik made the mistake of shooting someone who was unarmed in front of an asari Justicar, and now she's been hunting him for days. His strength is failing, and he's injured and exhausted. But if he's going to die like this, there's one important call he has to make first. Some things can't be left unsaid.
Part of an established no-Reaper AU, but can be read as a standalone.
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- Part 3 of Spectre Authority
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Take a Bow by TheNovelNightingale
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
01 Jun 2022
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Turians have a simple concept: you can do whatever you want as long as it doesn't interfere with your duties. Simple enough. But does that include musicals? Because when one Turian auditions for humanity’s greatest entertainment called Broadway, he might have bitten off more than he could chew with balancing duty, and love.