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Describing you by Sparklesandbobs
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
09 Mar 2022
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Set in the First Contact War, you have been kidnapped and have been brought to the Citadel, where you will need to meet crucial allies in order to bring peace to this war. Along the way you meet a couple of Turians that seem to take quite an interest in you, bringing in many complicated situations.
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Union of Blood and Steel by atomicsub
Fandoms: Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect
15 Feb 2022
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It's the 24th Century, and the future of humanity gleams brightly. The Union of Human Socialist Republics has struck into the galaxy, missing the prothean ruins on Mars, and eagerly pursuing a future that sees them in the stars, But finding a long lost artifact near the outer colonies quickly brings that dream down and shattered in a hail of violence, as enemies not faced for centuries rear their heads, and humanity must defend it's utopian dream of the future.
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- Part 1 of Alternative First Contact
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Mass Effect: Fragile Bonds by The_Realest_Capta1n
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
31 Dec 2021
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Its been three years after humanity's brief conflict with the turians. The governments from both parties are ready to move on, but its people aren't.
One of those is a young, disgruntled, hot-headed veteran by the name of Walter Reilly, who is forced to serve alongside the same species that killed his friends and disfigured his face. Even with the warm welcome from the once hostile race, and a female turian keen on being his best friend, Walter has trouble putting the past to rest, which is exactly what some people want.Will he learn to adapt and coexist with his former enemies? Or will he finally turn into the wrathful monster everyone already thinks he is?
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First Contact War AU. Humans manage to capture a few turians, but quickly discover that the alien species is almost entirely non-verbal and surprisingly passive in captivity. Among others, Project Archangel is launched in Nevada in order to study and attempt to train a captured alien. The woman in charge of the op? Jane Shepard, interplanetary warfare veteran.
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Shepard and Garrus are enjoying their break on the Citadel, when Garrus' father and Shepard's mother meet by chance. When a shocking truth is revealed, will Shepard and Garrus be able to get past it?
“It… it was war,” Castis said softly, so softly Shepard almost couldn’t make out what he had said.
“What about the war?” Garrus asked.
Shepard had a cold feeling run down her spine, right through her limbs and the top of her head. Like she was going to be sick. “The First Contact War?” she said, just as softly.
Castis nodded ever so slightly.
“Tell me you’re not saying what I think you’re saying,” she pleaded.
Garrus’ head swiveled between the two of them. “What am I missing here?”
“Tell me. You’re not saying. What I think you’re saying,” she repeated again, slowly and deliberately, her voice raising in volume.
Castis opened his eyes slowly and looked into Sheaprd’s. “I… wish I could,” he said sadly.
Taking several steps backwards, she looked at Castis with pure disgust.
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Fictober 2021 Drabbles by projectseraphim
Fandoms: Mass Effect: Andromeda, Mass Effect Trilogy
31 Oct 2021
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A collection of Mass Effect drabbles for this year's Fictober. Tags are updated as we go! Most chapters are G or T rated. The E rated chapter is marked.
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- Part 1 of Prompts, AUs, and Sillies
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Something Like a Death Wish by bigalaskanmoose
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
19 Oct 2021
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“Will you stop trying to fight me?” Vakarian purred against her face. “You aren’t doing too good of a job.”
Or: Shepard needs to retrieve a Prothean artifact and Garrus stands in her way.
The First Contact War AU. No spoilers for the trilogy.
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Having no Eezo in Sol, Humanity failed to conquer FTL technology resulting in them being confined to Sol, but this simply allowed them to focus on other technologies. What happens when the Citadel Council stumble across them in the year 3517AD? The Council wants Humanities technology, and Humanity wants out of Sol, but can a deal be struck?
Heavy focus on First Contact aspects. Competent Council. Level headed Turians. Hanar Pirates. Geth. Heretics. Reaper with a plan. Batarians. AI. Things don't always go to plan.
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Scars from the Past by scatteredfireflies
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
17 Oct 2021
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After what feels like an eternity of death and anguish, a routine stop at the Citadel puts Shepard in the uncomfortable position of taking a break - and breaking it off with an old friend - while wrestling with the weight of becoming a galactic symbol for prosperity. Meanwhile, Garrus Vakarian seeks information on his family. However, his dive into their whereabouts has led him into political blackmail with the Hierarchy, who seek to reunify the restless turian masses evicted from their homeworld through the elimination of their scapegoat: Garrus's human Commander. Against their will, the two find themselves together at the brink of reigniting an old interspecies war - one that puts the entire galaxy in jeopardy, and challenges the unfamiliar feelings developing between them.
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Far From Home by Mariah Shepard (Vesania94)
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
15 Oct 2021
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It was the year 2157, and humanity had touched the stars at last. Gazing up into the dark abyss, it was hard to believe there may be life on other planets. Intelligent life, capable of building great cities and spaces. Those that knew her, knew that Amelia Karsten-Shepard was one such idealist.
When humanity does make contact with another species, the incident is bloody and brutal, and Amelia is ripped from her familiar normal into an alien cell as a prisoner of war, faced with an enemy that looks, thinks, and feels nothing like her.
Tags will be updated as necessary, we're flying by the seat of our pants
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Some Things Are Meant To Be by Knight_of_darkness
Fandoms: Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect Trilogy
22 Sep 2021
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She laughed, even as Liara gave her a petulant look. Yet despite that the asari took another bite and after swallowing, poked her purple tongue out at Shepard who only grinned, playfully attempting to grasp it.
Liara quickly moved away, grinning cheekily and taking another bite.
“Hey, I thought the other one was your favorite!” Shepard reached for another bite, protesting when Liara playfully blocked the attempt with her own cutlery, laughing.
“But we should enjoy everything life offers,” Liara hummed, voice deepening, “shouldn’t we?”
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Liara and Shepard have to make a stop on Omega and add to their crew.Series
- Part 2 of First Contact War AU
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Truth Universally by quelquefois (jenaicompris)
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
06 Sep 2021
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As far as she knows, she has broken no laws - so why won't Vakarian or his partner leave her alone?
(TW: eating disorder, binge-eating, anxiety disorder)
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Look into my eyes by Knight_of_darkness
Fandoms: Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect Trilogy
04 Sep 2021
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Whirling around to face Liara, she laughed. “Marry me.” Her pain was completely forgotten, utterly thrilled by the devastation their combined biotics had caused.
Liara closed the distance between them, obviously not comprehending her words, cupping her cheeks tenderly as she once more frowned, biting her lower lip while she examined Shepard. Not reassured by the lopsided grin or her thumbs up.
“It is ill-advised to combine biotics in battle, the resulting detonation is often very unstable and erratic.”
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Liara's excavation is put on hold when an alien ship crash lands and with it a certain human.Series
- Part 1 of First Contact War AU
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Commander Shepard has stopped the reaper threat, but she isn't out of the woods yet. As she lies in a coma, Garrus keeps her company by telling her an interesting story that has suddenly begun trickling down the turian hierarchy.
The humans and the turians haven't always seen eye to eye. In fact, humanity's first contact with these aliens resulted in an all-out war. Many know the story, but few know what happened to make the Council intervene despite the incident being in the Terminus Systems, outside Citadel space. So why did the Council really get involved? And why has their reasoning been so highly classified for nearly thirty years? Garrus now knows the answer, and he also knows that he and Shepard are not the first high-profile human/turian relationship. -
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Hannah Pierce fought in the First Contact War, where she meet a charming engineer by the name of Christopher Shepard. They not only survived together but befriended one of the enemy, a turian by the name of Rayne Patrona, immediately after the conflict was brought to an end. How will these friendships and families develop, as the lingering hostility of both species continues to burn, and they refuse to put aside their relationships just for the sake of hatred?
Join me in this AU storyline where the children of these two well known names grow up together, are torn apart, and brought together again in a repeating cycle that will either give them the strength to save the galaxy, or leave it in shambles.
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Raelynn Romance Drabbles by Frostbite711
Fandoms: Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect Trilogy
31 Jul 2021
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Just some random drabbles I've created and compiled for what could be considered a Raelynn Romance. Keep in mind though that I'm basing this around an AU in which Nihlus would be alive.
You are free to imagine the unnamed male character as anyone you please as I avoided using a name for the purposes of keeping her romance ambiguous for the readers to interpret it how they want.
If you enjoyed Raelynn from my "Unlikely, Unforseen, Romance", you might like these as these drabbles delve into her backstory and how she'd be for a romance.
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- Part 2 of The Raelynn Chronicles
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An idealistic war medic and battle-worn soldier, thrust together by chance, struggle to end a pointless galactic dispute.
The story begins near the end of the war on Shanxi. No canon-divergence in terms of the timeline. MUCH canon-divergence in terms of our besties and where they are within the timeline.
This was meant to be one of those classic wartime romance fics (about a medic rescuing an enemy soldier and slowly falling in love) but has evolved to something more? (Someone, anyone, please write this.) There's still plenty of romance here, though!
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- English
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- 1,403
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- 1/?
- Kudos:
- 4
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Desolas couldn't take away his eyes of her,her tawny opharian clothes as she bends down a little.
Waist.
Damn it
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First Contact Protocol by Otempora
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
31 May 2021
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During a top secret mission near the turian border, Shepard crash-lands on a hostile alien world. She manages to take the turian that shot her down prisoner.
Problem: she has to keep them both alive during a two-week trek across said hostile alien world.
Another problem: she's beginning to like her prisoner.
Yet another problem: she's beginning to REALLY like her prisoner.
Shepard's never met a problem she couldn't solve before, but this one might just kill her.
First Contact War AU. Enemies to friends to lovers, angst and humor, non-explicit sex but still kind of dirty.
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Son of Palaven, Daughter of Earth by miceenscene for Kelenloth, itsnatunusual, Chemicallywrit
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
23 Jan 2021
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Commander Shepard was there the day Earth lost the First Contact War. Major Garrus Vakarian personally watched Humanity surrender to the Turians. But they never could have dreamed the roles they would have in the oncoming fight.
Yeah, it's an arranged marriage AU. Cuz I'm Shakarian trash. So. Enjoy.
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- Part 5 of Shakarian - A Descent into Madness
- Part 1 of The SoPDoE Verse