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The Reaper war is over, but Admiral Hackett's most crucial mission remains: find Commander Shepard's body. When two soldiers discover her alive in the ruins of London, the mission shifts from recovery to survival. With catastrophic injuries that should have killed her six times over, Shepard faces her hardest fight yet, and this time, the battlefield is her own body and mind.
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The Bridge Between by Stanic
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
08 Dec 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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Finding the Stars with You by Hufflepuff_Geek
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
05 Dec 2025
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Two years after the war, Commander Vesta Shepard awakens from a coma with no memory of the Reapers, the Normandy, or the crew who once followed her. Struggling with amnesia and the weight of a galaxy still in recovery, she must rediscover who she is—while facing the love she’s forgotten, and the legend everyone expects her to be.
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- Part 3 of Stars With You
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Unchained Souls and Broken Memories by Squidley
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
02 Dec 2025
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Giana Shepard died that day on the Citadel. She was at peace with it. Until the universe decided it wasn’t done with her.
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Casualties and Causalities by Squidley
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
02 Dec 2025
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Jane & January grew up in a career military family. Jane fulfilled her family's expectations of what it means to be a Shepard; strong, straightforward, a leader. January on the other hand was too nerdy, meek, and overall uninterested in heroics to embody the family legacy. Happy to support her sister from the sidelines, January was there through the attack on Eden Prime, Saren’s treachery, Jane’s resurrection, and the final fight with the reapers. That is, until her sister didn’t need anyone anymore. Her final death saw to that.
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Duck, Rattle, and Roll by Squidley
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
02 Dec 2025
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Shepard defeated the reapers, escaped Cerberus confinement, and reunited with her crew. Now retired from the Alliance and working on Palaven she has to navigate what it means to be her favorite turian's fiancé and planning a future. The question always on her mind is - will she survive long enough to see it?
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- Part 3 of Aurelia Shepard Endures
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Shepard reflects on a couple she did not quite anticipate.
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- Part 6 of Mass Effect Ships Week 2025
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The Weight of Survival by Plumppig
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
25 Nov 2025
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The Weight of Survival begins in the aftermath of the Reaper War, when the Normandy crash-lands following the detonation of the Crucible. Commander Jane Shepard, gravely wounded and presumed dead, disappears in the chaos. What follows is a sweeping, character-driven narrative of grief, survival, and the fragile hope of rebuilding, not only for Shepard, but for her crew, her family, and the galaxy itself.
At its heart, the story explores Shepard’s struggle to reclaim her identity after immense sacrifice, while grappling with her pregnancy—made possible through Leviathan-altered biology and the crushing symbolic weight placed on her by allies and leaders alike.
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to find peace in the embrace of a goddess by qilinggs
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
20 Nov 2025
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As an asari matriarch who had sworn herself to the Code of the Justicars centuries ago, Ganyu did not think she cared for romance anymore. It isn’t until she meets a human named Keqing that she realizes that perhaps the life of a justicar need not be so lonely after all, even if it’s for a fleeting moment.
Ganqing Week 2025 | Prompt: Crossover
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- Part 15 of effeuiller la marguerite (Ganqing Week 2025)
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Mass Effect: Absolution by A_Cosmic_Elf
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
16 Nov 2025
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Faith is the last of her kind, adopted and raised by human parents without knowledge of her past.
Sebastian and Tegan are old, retired Alliance soldiers who just want to protect their daughter and live out their lives together in peace—until The Collectors attack their home colony.
Emrys is an ancient turian AI inhabiting the relay network. Rogue, and on the run for over a thousand years, at the helm of a colossal relay-powered dreadnaught, the Absolution.
Together they fight to keep the Reapers out of the network, uncovering secrets of the past that could help turn the tide of this war.
This is a canon-compliant companion fic, a wip and a labour of love.
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Mass Effect: Convergence by Moose_Mann, ThaliaofCarim
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect: Andromeda
15 Nov 2025
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A year after the Archon’s death at the hands of Pathfinder Ryder in 2819, the Kett Empire began sending more forces towards the Heleus Cluster. They especially took a deep interest in the Milky Way species that came aboard the Andromeda Initiative.
As the black hole at the center of the Heleus Cluster started behaving erratically from contact with the Scourge, the Nexus started picking up transmissions from hundreds of years prior over in the Milky Way. This new discovery meant a possible link between the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies via this black hole, a time travel phenomenon thought impossible.
With the intrepid crew of the Tempest planning their route through the black hole, the state of the Milky Way on the other side is that of reconstruction from the Reaper War having ended months prior. The Crucible having destroyed the Reapers yet preserving synthetic life had made Commander Shepard a legend to most.
This is where the road for Commander Shepard and Pathfinder Ryder converges…
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The reapers are encroaching, and the war gets more volatile each day. Never having planned on being a soldier, Shepard finds herself wanting more from her life while she still has the chance. Perhaps against better judgment, she embraces love in search of the life she always wanted back on Mindoir.
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EDI and Jeff both confront their internalised biases regarding synthetics.
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Oath of loyalty by etherealend
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
07 Nov 2025
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Loyalty: a notion that had always gravitated around Garrus’ life.
“I am loyal to him, as he is loyal to me. And isn’t this the greatest form of love?” Her mother, as the good turian she was, used to say with regard to Castis.
Loyalty. During childhood, boot camp, military service. Loyalty: a virtue every turian was supposed to possess from birth, to the Hierarchy, first and foremost.
Garrus had always, secretly, disagreed. It was something to be earned.
And with her, such had been.
Commander Shepard had secured his deepest loyalty, and only when he saw her for the last time, before the Normandy SR-1 was taken down, did he understand how right his mother was. -
Turian Heat by ParaTiTodo
Fandoms: Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect (Comics)
06 Nov 2025
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Garrus and his first (only) Human romantic partner who he swears will be the one he leaves it all to.
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The Art of Adjustment by GemTheGinger for SpaceVixen
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
03 Nov 2025
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At the end of Shepard's first day out of the hospital, Garrus wants to give her something familiar.
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In the aftermath of a galactic conflict, Ashton finds himself in a London hospital, physically healing but emotionally shattered. Haunted by the loss of Anderson and the echoes of war, Ashton struggles to compose a song in Anderson's honor. Amidst his grief, a miraculous revelation emerges: EDI, the synthetic intelligence thought destroyed by the Destroy pulse, has survived in a fragmented form.
Guided by Anderson's hidden contingency protocol, Ashton embarks on a journey of resurrection and remembrance. With the help of friends and allies, he uses music and memory to reconstruct EDI, transforming her from mere code into a living, evolving being. As they navigate themes of identity, belonging, and defiance, Ashton and EDI redefine their existence and legacy in a galaxy eager to erase synthetic life.
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Commander Shepard is well acquainted with death. Her life is full of death. But for Shepard, living is harder. What happens when the fight is over?This story will crisscross the Milky Way, taking place in the 10 years after the Reaper War. Set against the backdrop of a galaxy in upheaval, Taproot is an exploration of duty, change, love, and most of all, finding home.
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- Part 1 of Taproot
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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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The Normandy SR-2 has landed on Earth. The universe is in shambles. So is her crew. Shepard isn't doing much better. But everyone is looking to her - to the Great Commander Shepard, twice dead, twice resurrected, Destroyer of the Reapers and almost the entire universe - to save them, one last time.
That is, if she can convince herself to stay alive long enough to.Series
- Part 2 of Last Exit