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Shepard & Kaidens experience healing together after the destruction of the Citadel. Multiple POV into the mind of a renegade Shepard and a desperate Kaiden who is grateful not to loose his love once again.
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The Bells I Hear by Bobthemagiccow
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
03 Oct 2025
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The Reapers have been destroyed, but to the survivors, the victory tastes like ashes. The Normandy wrecks on an uncharted planet, and a grieving crew must pull together to find a way home without its commander. At Sol, the shattered remains of the victorious allied forces struggle to survive, coexist, and reconnect to the rest of the galaxy. The greatest threat to peace comes not from without, but within. A heavy story of grief, perseverance, love, leadership, and hope in the face of devastation.
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These Scars Run Deep by CellPhish
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
06 Sep 2025
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When the fate of existence falls, unwillingly, on your shoulders, you either bear the weight or get crushed underneath it.
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The excitement after defeating the reapers had come and gone, as fast as a humming bird. Shepard would tell Garrus that a humming bird was her favorite earth animal, though he had nothing to compare it to. Metallic, Grey Palaven, where even the animals were covered in plates and spikes.
Shepard was in a far worse state, half her body burned, mostly her arms, with tiny little cuts and pieces of metal inside. The scouts that Garrus had been ordered to take and find Shepard the second he had medigel smeared on his own injuries. [He actually begged to go out and find her. A turian begging to find a human. Spirits. He was over the moons for her.]
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The starchild is full of shit and the creators CONFIRMED garrus would dig FemShep out.
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Until the last heartbeat by Splullaby
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
25 Aug 2025
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2 Years after the war, Camille Shepard and Liara live peacefully their love. But in the shadows, an obsessed enemy plots revenge and begins a hunt to trap Shepard. Her lover Liara and the Normandy's Crew are always there to have her back, but... will they succeed to protect their Commander against this elusive enemy
Between unseen threats, secrets, and burning love, Shepard must protect her love, and her futur peace… at any cost.(TW : Obsessed behavior, rape/non con in later chapter, dom Liara, explicits content.)
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an indentation in the shape of you by interventionsandlullabies
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
26 Aug 2025
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“Oh no,” Garrus said. “I know that face. That’s your problem solving face. That’s your I think I can fit through this air vent and drop down behind their reinforcements face.”
“What if we do it first?”
He stared at her. “Shepard. I fear the consequences of the next four words immensely. What do you mean?”
A smile lifted the corner of her mouth. “What if we find you a mate before your dad gets here?”
“Spirits,” he said, the word half curse, half exhalation. “That’s what I was afraid you were going to say.”
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They survived the end of the world. They've had a few (relatively) normal years with no catastrophies. But with Garrus’ dad breathing down his neck about finally settling down, they've only got 48 hours to produce a suitable partner.
Garrus has just the girl in mind. If only she wasn't the one trying to set him up.
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Twelve years ago, Commander Shepard disappeared during the reaper invasion. She entered the Crucible and decided the fate of the entire galaxy–by sacrificing herself. She killed the reapers, heretic geth, and disabled half the Mass Effect relays on her way out.
Twelve years ago, Garrus Vakarian told her to come back alive. Now, after retiring early back on Palaven, the galaxy continues to feel emptier and emptier without her. With a glass of turian Horosk in one hand and Black Widow in the other, he's blurring the lines between reality and wishful thinking. That is, until Liara, Kaidan, and Tali show up at his front door with a lead on Shepard.
Wishful thinking or not, he'll fight through hell to save her, or he'll meet her at the bar in heaven trying.
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When Shepard wakes after the Crucible's blast, she’s a shadow of the Commander who saved the galaxy. Her body is broken. Her past is blurred. The people who love her most are strangers to her heart.
But Garrus and Kaidan have never been the type to give up, and neither have the Normandy crew that once followed her through hell and back. As the galaxy rebuilds, so too does something softer: trust, belonging, and the quiet possibility of love reborn.
“Lazarus ReRising” is about more than Shepard’s survival; it’s about what she chooses to do with the life she never expected to have.
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You've Lost Your Appetite (For Sacrifice) by CorralingDreams
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy
27 Jul 2025
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Five times Vakarian lives on without his Shepard, and one time he no longer has to pretend he's alive.
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composed of nows by lilmissnatcat24
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
14 Jul 2025
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After Shepard destroyed the Crucible, the energy expelled from the blast has changed her. She's immortal, she cannot age-- and what's more, she seemed to consume the blast, which threatens to hurt everyone around her. She left Garrus in the middle of the night in an attempt to save him, and never looked back.
Nineteen year later, and Garrus is a shell of what he once was. He drinks too much, he has too many ex-wives, and not a single turian in their right state of mind would pay him any respect. What was supposed to be a routine mission to a fringe colony turned into something even he didn't know how to describe when he picks up an SOS signal from a shuttle. What he wasn't suspected was it to be Shepard, and what was even more-- he didn't expect a blast to come out of her body that killed half his crew.
As the blast knocked them off course, Shepard and Garrus must find a way to cohabitate after nineteen years of scorn. If Shepard is just going to leave again, then Garrus wants no part in it. And if Garrus had moved on a long time ago, Shepard sees no reason for civility.
But what either of them did not anticipate was that maybe, in nineteen years, maybe neither of them changed all that much to begin with.
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I guess, I guess, I guess this is the end. by Rai_Rowan_Mei
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy
11 Jul 2025
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Garrus is inconsolable after Shepard’s death. He can’t even write a eulogy for her. Shepard was wrong for putting him in charge of her funeral.
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- 1/1
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Keeping a Galaxy Right by Normalguy
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
10 Jul 2025
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This is Part 2 of my story Putting a Galaxy Right Again. Six months have passed and with relays coming back online, Councilor Shepard and his intrepid crew must take stock of the galaxy.
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- Part 2 of Putting a Galaxy Right Again
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The Arcane Effect by Browncoat_Firefly
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021), Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
04 Jul 2025
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Magic meets science. Evolution runs wild. And Shepard? She just wanted a quiet life with Liara and the kids.
Nearly 20 years after the Reaper War, the Citadel has made first contact with Runeterra—a world where Hextech is fuelling rapid advancement…and something far more insidious. A dangerous figure has emerged, pushing biomechanical transformation as the next step in human evolution, threatening not just Runeterra, but the galaxy beyond.
Jane Shepard—galactic war hero, Citadel Councillor, and mum of two energetic asari twins—is sent to investigate. Her welcome committee? A no-nonsense sheriff named Caitlyn, a Zaunite rebel named Vi (who’s definitely not over said sheriff), and a city on the brink.
Old sparks fly. New dangers rise. Runeterra is about to change the galaxy—and Shepard’s not letting it happen without a fight, even if she’s sleep-deprived and covered in glitter.
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She whispered: live. It was death. by ciarnys
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
10 Jun 2025
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Four years after the Reaper War, and the galaxy is slowly, but finally, healing her wounds. Most of the debris is cleared out, and the mass relays are repaired, facilitating travel around the galaxy once more. Garrus Vakarian has become a Spectre, and while he still thinks that Commander Shepard is alive out there, somewhere, it’s getting harder to believe with each passing year.
But the galaxy seems to love to make fun of him in thirds: on his third visit to Earth, he discovers Shepard’s third life. As part of a newly-founded arms manufacturing company, suspected of having ties to a major Earth crime syndicate.
He’s never been good with gray.
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Four years after firing off the Crucible, Shepard is right back where she started: one of the gangs of her youth. She’s never liked feeling alone and powerless, and when she woke up after a months-long coma in those exact circumstances, well, she went right back to the one thing that’d keep her safe. Except it’s become the biggest crime syndicate in the United Northern American States after the war. And now she wants out. But when it comes to Shepard, it seems like the universe loves to make things harder than necessary.
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Diablo, Kaidan, and James have been living quiet and happy lives on their little island, a retirement present that was given to Diablo when she left the Alliance shortly after the end of the Reaper War. But sometimes the quiet is just the beginning of something worse.
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Diablo wakes up after being in a coma since the Citadel's explosion.
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- Part 6 of Diablo Shepard Stories
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- 1,768
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Comfort can be found in the arms of a lover
Several weeks after the Citadel exploded and the defeat of the Reapers, Commander Diablo Shepard has been found, but her lovers, Major Kaidan Alenko and Lieutenant James Vega are having a difficult time coping. Naturally, they turn to each other to help each other cope.
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- Part 5 of Diablo Shepard Stories
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Mass Effect AU. The Reaper War is ongoing, the Milky Way’s resistance led by a different squad fulfilling the original trilogy’s story. Shepard and co (mostly) have different walks of life, but are still bound by threads of fate.
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Sets years after the end of the Reaper War, Citadel Space and the Milky Way Galaxy are still reeling from the devastation. However, a new arrival from beyond the galaxy arrives, bringing a small group of aliens fleeing their own war and must make new lives for themselves:
A father struggles to bring his violent daughter to heel to appease their hosts.
A servant overwhelmed by the new opportunities for herself and her young daughter.
A royal forced to adjusted to life without her luxuries while her lover strives to make a name for himself.
*You may see some familiar faces from my other fanworks, also borrowing an OC from @squeakymoth
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Shepard's thoughts as she reaches the Crucible.
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