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Mass Effect by laurawho7
Fandom: Mass Effect, Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect Trilogy
06 Oct 2025
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🔹 Mass Effect: The Shepard Files – A Deep-Dive Retelling 🔹
Commander Shepard’s story wasn’t just about war—it was about love, sacrifice, and the choices that shaped the galaxy.
This series expands on the events of Mass Effect, filling in the missing moments, deepening character relationships, and exploring the weight of Shepard’s journey. From the Normandy’s first mission to the final battle, witness the choices, battles, and connections that made Shepard a legend.
💙 Featuring:
✔ Expanded Normandy interactions & squad moments
✔ A slow-burn, in-depth Shepard x Liara romance
✔ Political & military realism woven into the story
✔ Canon-divergent elements that enhance the narrativeFor those who wanted more from the trilogy—this is Mass Effect the way it should have been. 🚀
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Блуждающие в пустоте / Left Adrift by Kayoni, KisMoss for Kayoni
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
20 Nov 2024
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Джейн Шепард и её верный друг Гаррус Вакариан оказались в западне на поверхности неизведанной планеты. Внезапный поворот судьбы помешал им достичь точки эвакуации — турианец подвергся воздействию загадочной пыльцы, которая вынудила их ступить на путь романтических отношений.
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Commander Shepard, The Greatest to Ever Live by Samael61
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
23 Nov 2025
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Commander Shepard, the singular greatest soldier the alliance and the humanity as a whole ever had and ever will.
One man army whose mere name envokes fear in the hearts of the enemies of the Systems Alliance.
A force of nature protecting the humanity against the galaxy.
Or: A crack fic where Commander Shepard is greater than ever.
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Ten billion people over here die, so twenty billion over there can live.
After the war, there are pieces to pick up, and lives to rebuild. And even with the Reapers gone, nothing is easy.
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- Part 17 of Grace Shepard
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- English
- Words:
- 190,073
- Chapters:
- 65/?
- Comments:
- 1,365
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- 1,700
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The Terran Calamity by F15E_Strike_Eagle
Fandoms: Mass Effect - All Media Types, Halo (Video Games) & Related Fandoms
22 Oct 2025
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After another First Contact gone awry, the UTF and UTSC is unwillingly introduced to another portion of the galaxy under the rule of the Citadel Council. Tensions between the 2 factions are high, but diplomacy keeps cooler heads. However it is clear that 26 years later that ice is melting. Fast. But one question remains... Who will crack first?
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One minute, you're doing your nth run of the Mass Effect trilogy in your pajamas, the next ... You're waking up in that same universe, which wasn't on your bucket list.
What was fiction five minutes ago is now terrifyingly real. You’re expected to function as Earthborn Commander Shepard, morally gray and questionable coping skills.
Your only consistent backup? A chow-chow-shaped mech dog named Sebastian who silently judges your every questionable life choice.
Knowing what’s coming doesn’t make it easier. The choices still hurt. People still die. And the weight of saving the galaxy hits different when you’re the one holding the gun.
You’re holding it together with duct tape, caffeine, and pure spite.
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Last updated on my birthday!!
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The Bridge Between by Stanic
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
24 Nov 2025
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The red wave of the Crucible changed everything. It destroyed the Reapers, disabled the mass relays, and apparently claimed the life of Commander Shepard. But nothing in this new galaxy is quite what it seems. As humanity tears itself apart and new threats gain power in the shadows of conflict, an impossible discovery will reunite the legendary crew of the Normandy for a mission beyond hope itself.
A post-ME3 psychological thriller exploring identity beyond sacrifice, featuring established Shepard/Garrus relationship.
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- Part 1 of The Bridge Between
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Forever is the Sweetest Con by HuffPuffPuff
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types, Female Shepard/Garrus Vakarian - Fandom, Garrus Vakarian - Fandom, Alternate Universe - Fandom, Alternate Universe - Fake Relationship - Fandom, Enemies to Friends to Lovers - Fandom, Mass Effect - Various Authors, David Anderson - Fandom, Turian - Fandom, Female Shepard & Garrus Vakarian - Fandom, shakarian - Fandom, Mass Effect, Mass Effect Legendary Edition
16 Apr 2022
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This is a Shakarian AU fic where Fem Shep and Garrus are asked to go undercover as fake fiancée's to find dirt on a high-rolling crime syndicate.
After being made the first Human Spectre, Commander Shepard is asked to take on a new kind of mission, one that involves going undercover to infiltrate the high-rolling society of a slave-trading crime syndicate. The one hitch in the plan? She has to do it all with her new fake fiancée, a Turian she just met named Garrus. Can Shepard navigate the unexpectedly challenging world of rich criminals and seduce Donovan Hock into spilling his secrets while keeping things strictly "business" with her new turian fiancée? Or will those blue eyes and that sexy voice make her wonder if forever really is the sweetest con?
All OC characters are property of Bioware, and all others are my own creation. I do not give permission for this work to be copied or duplicated.
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- English
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- 131,567
- Chapters:
- 40/40
- Comments:
- 492
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This Side of Yesterday by RavenSinead
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect - Various Authors, Mass Effect (Comics)
14 Aug 2021
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It's the smaller stories, Doctor...the ones so often unrecorded, that are the most important. The deeds of heroes are nothing without the remembrance of private moments, what shaped them. I would not have mine go untold. And I can think of none better to share them with...than you. -
A retelling of ME1 through the eyes of Liara T'Soni only, as wrapped in a story set centuries after the Reaper War's beginning.Series
- Part 1 of This Side of Everything
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- English
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- 212,791
- Chapters:
- 136/136
- Comments:
- 183
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- 420
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A Mass Effect 'First Contact' AU set in or about 2157. Shepard and Garrus meet under extremely different and trying circumstances. Thematically inspired in part by The Shape of Water (2017).
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- English
- Words:
- 109,287
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- 31/31
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- 153
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- 691
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Some fight for loved ones. Some fight for personal gain. Some fight for what they believe in, and others fight for survival. Some, they simply fight for a better tomorrow.
A re-telling of the Mass Effect franchise, as I believe it should have been told. Featured a Male Shepard/Tali'Zorah romance. This saga spans the entire trilogy and beyond in five installments: Enigma, Prophecy, Requiem, Holocaust and Ultimatum.
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Mass Effect: Shattered Cycle by Nax2056
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
21 Dec 2022
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Commander Jane Shepard has one goal in mind, stop the Reapers. When the Alliance comes knocking to take her to trial, she has one simple thing to say.
“No.”
Now she’s rogue with the crew she trusts, trying to do one thing and rally the galaxy.
Shatter the cycle.
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They’re inching towards the final battle and Shepard and Garrus are making arrangements in the likely event they do not survive. Even if they can’t save themselves, they may be able to save Garrus’ family…
Then, seriously wounded during the battle, they’re separated by light years, unsure if the other has survived. They fight to survive, not knowing whether their partner lives or is waiting for them at the bar.
A story spanning from the final weeks before London to the first years after the end of the war.
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- Part 19 of No Shepard without Vakarian
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- English
- Words:
- 254,226
- Chapters:
- 71/71
- Comments:
- 599
- Kudos:
- 515
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- 63
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- 33,159
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The Reapers are defeated, and the galactic community is barely holding together after the presumed death of Commander Shepard and the disappearance of the Normandy. The return of both – with unexpected complications – prompts a whole lot of questions… and very few answers.
Update: Now includes podfic!
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- Part 1 of Every One That Asketh
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 737,831
- Chapters:
- 183/?
- Comments:
- 2,529
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- 1,389
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- 98,196
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interesting, read later
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No Shepard without Vakarian by Missjlh
Fandom: CBC News, Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect: Andromeda
14 Sep 2024
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- 148
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- 274,302
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Putting a Galaxy Right Again by Normalguy
Fandom: Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect Trilogy
23 Nov 2025
- Words:
- 281,288
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- 3
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Insatiable Curiosity: Mass Effect 3 by DeMusica
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
25 Mar 2024
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Garrus and Shepard have spent six months apart and now the Reapers have finally invaded. Together again, they gather a team and struggle to unite the galactic races in a desperate attempt to save the galaxy. Friendships will be made and lost, and loyalties will be tested as Rory and Garrus fight for their friends, for their people, and for their relationship. But Garrus’ personal fears grow as he is forced to watch the terrible toll the pressure of the war is taking on his mate. Surely she won't be called on to make the ultimate sacrifice, will she? Focuses on personal relationships and events between the missions. Garrus POV. *COMPLETE*
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- Part 3 of Insatiable Curiosity
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 270,839
- Chapters:
- 72/72
- Comments:
- 962
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- 576
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- 66
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- 32,655
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Garrus snipes Kaidan
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Insatiable Curiosity: Mass Effect 2 by DeMusica
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
24 Nov 2022
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Archangel has lost everything. When an old friend comes storming back into his life and asks for his help, he doesn’t hesitate. But two years is a long time, and both of them have changed significantly. Garrus and Shepard are forced to renegotiate their relationship as they race to stop the Collectors from kidnapping more human colonists. Working together, they assemble a new squad, but can their new allies be trusted? What is the Illusive Man’s endgame? And is a suicide mission really the best time to cross the line from friendship to more? Focuses on personal relationships and events between the missions. Garrus POV. *COMPLETE*
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- Part 2 of Insatiable Curiosity
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 138,690
- Chapters:
- 52/52
- Comments:
- 553
- Kudos:
- 578
- Bookmarks:
- 70
- Hits:
- 24,638