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Practice Makes Perfect by MyFuzzyScarf
Fandom: Mass Effect, Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect Trilogy
14 Aug 2024
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Great Aratoht, lots of angst
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A Shakarian romance that goes above & beyond (or at least before & after) what we were given in the games. Some canon, some AU - the characters don't always follow the arc they were given. This is my take on my favorite romance. Enjoy!
This story continues in my other works!
**MATURE CONTENT WARNING** Check the tags. Graphic sex, graphic violence, character death.
Title inspired the theme and was inspired by the song from The Greatest Showman.
**I own nothing!**
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- Part 1 of Rewrite the Stars
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- English
- Words:
- 191,340
- Chapters:
- 20/20
- Comments:
- 360
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Jane Eyre eat your heart out
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Garrus is betrayed. Ten men are dead on Omega. The gangs are already rebounding. Archangel is an unmitigated failure. After everything, there's no reason Garrus should be alive, but sometimes, people get what they don't deserve. "Just like old times," Garrus says, but it's not. It never will be again. An ME2 novelization.
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- English
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- 453,936
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- 64/64
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Commander Shepard has a secret, one that haunts her day in and day out. She has fought these battles countless times. She has knowledge she shouldn't have. She will fight for the best outcome to come to pass, but can she save herself? She knows what she has to do to break the loop, it's the only option left. Will she be strong enough to do so? Who gave her the right to play god?
A ME2 into ME3 time loop story
Updates Tuesdays and Fridays
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- Part 1 of Fated for Control
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After the Storm by MyFuzzyScarf
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
14 Aug 2024
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Garrus and Shepard never talked about what would happen between them if they survived the Collector Base. And yet here they find themselves, alive and rather unsure of how to proceed.
Against the backdrop of the DLC content of Mass Effect 2, Garrus Vakarian and Andrea Shepard attempt to plan for a future they never thought they'd see, even while haunted by the pasts they'd tried to leave behind.
So much stands in the way: rank, duty, family, and more than a few scars. What chance does this casual cross-species liaison have in the face of such opposition?
(This is a sequel to "Practice," but can be read as a stand-alone.)
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- Part 4 of Practice Makes Perfect
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One of the best Shakarian’s I’ve read to date. The characterizations are spot on. The smut is perfection
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why was that ending note one of the sweetest things I've ever read T_T
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Discontinued (for now) by Nothing_You_Can_Prove
Fandom: Life is Strange (Video Game), Mass Effect, RWBY
18 Jan 2018
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Stories that I may return to one day but no promises.
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Discontinued (for now) Series by Nothing_You_Can_Prove
15 works
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Commander Eden Shepard has been fighting the same fight for a while now. Too long, even. Time skips forward at random intervals, leaving her with more questions than answers. With her memories in a mess, she relies on Garrus to keep her grounded. Battling for the right to control her own life, Shepard races against time and the darkness raging inside her to find a way to stop the Reapers. Will she be able to save the galaxy, and herself, before it's too late?
Lots of fluff, angst, and sex. And plot.
Story is mostly canon-compliant, except for when it's not. Most of it takes place between missions. Enough steamy, explicit scenes to indulge your Shakarian pleasures.
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An Unwritten Galaxy by AsterHowl
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
18 Oct 2025
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Liara never becomes an information broker. Tali never returns to the Flotilla. Garrus never leaves C-Sec. Wrex never returns to Tuchanka. Joker never leaves the Alliance. Ashley never recovers from survivor's guilt.
Jack never escapes Cerberus. Miranda never escapes her father. Jacob never leaves the Corsairs. Mordin never works on the modified genophage. Samara never settles down. Thane never abandons his son. Zaeed never stands up to Vido Santiago. Kasumi never crosses Donovan Hock. Grunt never receives the mental imprint. Legion is never assigned to find Shepard.
The galaxy is a cold, cruel place. Much more than Commander Shepard ever knew.
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Awesome fic
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at the end of the day by KmacKatie (kmackatie)
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
10 Oct 2025
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E. Shepard: EDI, create new message.
EDI: Commander Shepard, new message created. Who are you sending it to?
E. Shepard: Kaidan—Commander Alenko, Alliance Military.
EDI: Recipient added. Awaiting recording.
E.Shepard: Start message.
Kaidan, I—
I’m alive. It’s… complicated.
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A series of messages, log recordings, and personal musings fitting into and around the ME2 canon.
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- Part 1 of Commander Evy Shepard
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Zero Parallax by Sky1anders
Fandoms: Mass Effect - All Media Types, Halo (Video Games) & Related Fandoms, Destiny (Video Games)
29 Oct 2025
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The Covenant War, Citadel Galactic Museum of War
In 2169, the Citadel Council turned its attention to the galaxy’s Frontiers—and found a world on fire. Harvest, a small human colony, was gone. Its cities were ash. Its people were dead. The attackers called themselves the Covenant. Their message was simple: humanity was a sin to be purged.At first, the Council regarded the war as distant, a frontier dispute of little consequence. Yet reports of new species, shattered colonies, and desperate resistance could not be ignored. The Frontiers were not just human. They were home to Maians, Nulls and others—diverse peoples who now fought and died together.
It is said the Council acted. Turian warships deployed. Asari commandos landed. Salarian operatives struck Covenant supply lines. Even the Elcor and Volus are remembered as standing beside Earth’s defenders.
The war did not end there. But something greater began—a united stand across species, governments, and ideals. From fire and ruin, the Citadel embraced the future.
The galaxy, we are told, changed forever.
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- Part 1 of Zero Parallax
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Shepard knows what will end the timeloop that is her personal hell, but is she strong enough to do it?
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Shepard is asked to go to Alchera to recover the tags of her lost crewmates and place a memorial to the Normandy. What she finds there will alter her reality for good.
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- Part 4 of Commander Jenna Shepard
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Little moments spanning over the course of Mass Effect 1 between Joker and his Commander, Jenna Shepard.
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- Part 2 of Commander Jenna Shepard
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Mass Effect: Galactic Turmoil by EndriRigs
Fandoms: Halo (Video Games) & Related Fandoms, Mass Effect Trilogy
02 Sep 2025
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Flesh and Bone (and what are you made of?) by Sandetiger
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
26 Aug 2025
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Still an ongoing WIP. This was supposed to be a very self-indulgent oneshot smut fic, and then it became 3 chapters and 20k words, and then I added more worldbuilding and leadup, and now I'm- idk. Here? This is my first fanfic work in probably 15 years, and Mass Effect has me by the metaphorical balls as a diehard krogan simp. Basic premise is Shepard's life post-destroy ending is one of endless political posturing. Everyone wants a piece of her and it's shredding her already tattered soul. So she ends up seeking advice from an unlikely source, and decides to make a major life change. Spoiler alert: I don't see Wrex and Shepard as star-crossed lovers or anything like that (no love-at-first-sight stuff from me) and their friendship is very important to me; I think you should be friends with the people you love, personally. There will be nsfw stuff but them being friends is The Good Shit. Tuchanka stuff starts at Ch. 6. For those that came for the smut, I'll do you a solid and denote the specific chapters when I get them posted. Don't be afraid to leave comments letting me know what you think. Engagement validates me [insert discord pleading eyes emoji].
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- Part 1 of time is raging; may it rage in vain
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Comparative Anatomy by girafficparka
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect - Various Authors, Garrus - Fandom
08 Sep 2023
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What exactly was the “research” Garrus did to prepare for Shepard…
Mid-Mass Effect 2 fanfiction focusing on Garrus and Female Shepard's relationship and what their squadmates think about the situation. I wrote this to scratch the itch of "no one has any comment on this turian-human situation? Really?"
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- English
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- 33,120
- Chapters:
- 8/8
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- 5
- Comments:
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A wounded soldier -- Lieutenant Commander Shepard -- is found in the Citadels remains after the Reapers were defeated. The Hero of the Citadel, and one who activated the Crucible; she is now the Saviour of the Galaxy. She has gained much, but at what cost?
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Wow, powerful
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For the time being, the galaxy doesn't need her. She's a soldier, not a bureaucrat, she can't help put it back together after destroying the reapers. For the first time in almost four years she's free to do what she wants, as soon as she gets out of the hospital. When she decides that she wants to meet his family Garrus is mortified, but after everything she'd been through one doesn't exactly say no to Commander Shepard. Mass Effect 3 spoilers, as it takes place after the end of the game. Rated mature for later chapters.
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- Part 4 of Jane Shepard
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Finished
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When Turians are worried, they like to nest.
A brief look at Shepard and Garrus' relationship over three games and a breath of fresh air afterwards.
Beta'd by the lovely Mordinette.
Word count: 3,189.
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It's not a secret that Kaidan Alenko, all-around golden boy for the Alliance, struggles with his emotions. Especially when those emotions involve Commander Shepard.
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Shepard sees Kaidan still gets jealous and pokes the bear. Conversations are had, and feelings come up.
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- Part 3 of Make Me Feel Human