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1,000 Years (A Reconciliation Story) by soldiermom1973
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect - Various Authors
24 Sep 2019
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Allie Shepard regretted the day she told Kaidan Alenko 'no' during the sanity check lunch date. In the years since the Reaper War ended, they drifted apart and she lived with that regret, often wondering how things might be if she hadn't told him no. When chance brings them together again, it is too late to start over?
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- Part 1 of 1,000 years (A Reconciliation Story)
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03 Nov 2022
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Mass Effect: The Thanix Canon by oOAchilliaOo
Fandom: Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect Trilogy
07 Nov 2024
- Words:
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- 19
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- 13
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16 May 2022
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Loyalty and Limerence by Serendipity001
Fandoms: Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect Trilogy
31 Dec 2023
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Garrus' thoughts and feelings regarding Commander John Shepard were easy to understand and explain: He respected and admired the human Spectre and would follow him into hell in a heartbeat. His feelings regarding his crewmate and friend, Lieutenant Jane Shepard, however, weren't as clear cut. She'd taken up residence in his head and wouldn't leave.
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- English
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- 446,989
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- 76/76
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27 Apr 2022
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She remembers flashes of bright lights. Voices fading in and out. Panicked voices. Frustrated voices. Concerned voices. She remembers…insistent beeping. Machines. She remembers being hooked up to terminals monitoring her vitals. She remembers finally putting faces to voices. She remembers waking up. Breathing. Coming back to life.
Worst of all, she remembers the moments right before she died. That asphyxiating feeling that had overwhelmed her senses. The panic before she convinced herself that nothing she tried would make a difference. Nothing she tried would save her. She remembers accepting that this would be the end.
It hadn’t been the end. Instead, Shepard became an unnatural experiment for Cerberus, the rogue black ops group. She became Project Lazarus.
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AKA, shepard is brought back by cerberus and her first mission is to track down omega's infamous archangel. of course, nothing ever goes as planned. nor can anything ever be simple.
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24 Apr 2022
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More than two years after falling in love on the Normandy, Shepard and Kaidan are thrown together once again when the Reapers attack Earth. They both still care for each other, but there's stubborn old wounds and trust issues on both sides that are slow to heal. As Shepard tries to come to terms with her death and subsequent resurrection at the hands of Cerberus, Kaidan looks for assurances that Shepard is still the woman he fell in love with.
Set against the backdrop of the Reaper war, Kaidan and Shepard must both learn how to trust each other again as they navigate falling in love for a second time, all while saving the galaxy— also for a second time, because some things never change.
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09 Apr 2022
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Revolver by MyGirlThursday
Fandoms: Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect: Andromeda, Mass Effect Trilogy
25 Mar 2022
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Commander Shepard is about to surrender herself to the Alliance after surviving the Omega 4 relay; she just has one last top-secret mission for Admiral Hackett. She never gets to complete it. Instead, Shepard finds herself in the Andromeda Galaxy, 633 years later. Her friends, Kaidan - all seemingly dead long ago, with the Reapers likely having destroyed the Milky Way. A new ship and a new life-or-death mission stand before her.
Meanwhile, after the Reapers strike Earth, Major Kaidan Alenko is left to lead the Normandy on a desperate chase to stop the inevitable. The war takes its toll on Kaidan and his crew as he feels Shepard’s absence every step of the way.
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06 Apr 2022
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*Re-written/edited* June 9 2022. I went through everything adding more exposition and more detail because I am still actively working on this story.
This story was supposed to be a short one-shot, full of smut and fluff. I was writing to practice for another story I’m working on and somehow it turned into something entirely different. Enjoy.
*Warning*
This story is explicit and graphic in detail. This includes violence, blood and the use of some medical terminology. If you are a person who becomes queasy or nauseous at the idea of blood this, chapter is full of it. You have been warned.It started simply enough. He was purely a platonic distraction. A man who was a good storyteller and he had something she wanted… whiskey. The day’s mission had weighed heavily on her and she didn’t want to think about it anymore. Life aboard a starship had always been hard but somehow recently, it had gotten worse. Ever since Kasumi had moved in to port observation, going to the lounge for a drink was impossible. Unless you wanted to play 20 questions with her for an hour and on that particular night, Shepard wasn’t in the mood.
She headed down to the engineering deck and knocked on the old mercenary’s door…
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05 Apr 2022
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Machines Do Not Think by PossumBones
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
28 Mar 2022
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While consumed with grief and survivor's guilt, Kaidan downloads an app that uses artificial intelligence to construct a chat bot from a loved one's digital footprint. He initially downloaded the program hoping for some sense of closure, but he didn't expect the bot to sound so much like her.
It had barely said more than twenty words to him and all of them were like her enough that it hurt. It felt wrong to talk to this bot, this ghost of Shepard’s memory. It was even more unsettling that the AI was so good at what it was designed for.
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05 Apr 2022
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Sam Shepard and Kaidan Alenko, outside the main Opus!Verse. Here you'll find prompts and one-shots that don't quite belong in their main "canon" story. These are concept art ideas, self-indulgent 'what if this happened' stories and 'how many times in how many different ways can I write their first kiss' stories. :)
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23 Feb 2022
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long live all us crazy soldiers by rusaalka
Fandom: Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect Trilogy
08 Oct 2024
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long live all of us crazy soldiers
who were born under calico skies
may we never be called to handle
all the weapons of war we despisegarrus vakarian / commander shepard
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20 Feb 2022
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Elsbeth Shepard by thistleraven
Fandom: Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect Trilogy
17 Jun 2023
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20 Feb 2022
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1,000 years (A Reconciliation Story) by soldiermom1973
Fandom: Mass Effect (Comics), Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect - Various Authors, Mass Effect Trilogy
20 Aug 2024
- Words:
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- 100
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- 25
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10 Jan 2022
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An angry young man takes his one chance to turn his life around. Now a former criminal may be the only chance the galaxy has left.
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- Part 1 of Safeguarding the Galaxy
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08 Dec 2021
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Mystery Work
Part of Mum's the word
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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03 Oct 2021
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After leaving Horizon, Commander John Shepard has focused on recruiting the rest of his team. But when Miranda finds intel on what turns out to be a rogue Cerberus operation in a secluded part of the Traverse, he ends up with a new teammate he never expected - himself, from another timeline. It turns out Shep is no clone, though; she’s her own woman, and though they share backgrounds as Mindoir survivors and heroes of the Skyllian Blitz, there’s just as much setting them apart as there is that proves they’re both the Commander Shepard. Under the care of the familiar faces of her crew that nonetheless isn’t her crew, she adopts the identity of John’s long-lost sister, and tries to find her place in a galaxy she knows and yet seems like it might forever be foreign.
She’s a force to be reckoned with, and though her own universe has been destroyed by the hubris of the rogue operation, she’s determined to save his own right alongside him - and to reunite him with the man he misses the most from his own original crew... even as she tries not to think about just how close she and this Garrus are becoming - or how close she wants to become.
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24 Sep 2021
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The Place That You Left by savvysav
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
23 Mar 2023
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Shepard had reconciled with death, prepared to give her life to end the Reaper War. She sacrificed her friends, her relationship, and herself to save the galaxy. She never expected to make it out alive.
Five years have passed since the Battle for Earth and Shepard finds herself adrift in a life she never imagined she'd have. When Primarch Victus offers her a job overseeing a new Spectre training program on Palaven, Shepard accepts immediately. What she isn't prepared for is to be working with Garrus Vakarian again.
Now she's trying to pick up the pieces of everything she destroyed in her wake.
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13 Sep 2021
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"I would like to be the air
that inhabits you for a moment
only. I would like to be that unnoticed
& that necessary."
- Margaret Atwood, "Variation on the Word Sleep"The galaxy is forever changed after Commander Jane Shepard destroyed the Reapers. But it isn't just the galaxy that was changed: its inhabitants were too, some for better, others for worse. Most people don't know what happened to the commander, not even her boyfriend, Major Kaidan Alenko. What he does know is this: no matter how far away the two of them are, the two of them will rebuild their lives together.
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06 Jul 2021
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The Reapers have been defeated- taking the Citadel and the Mass Effect relays with them.
As the universe celebrates, Commander Shepard, who somehow survived the explosion, struggles to find her new place in the galaxy.Recovering from wounds and dealing with PTSD, she leans on her lover Kaidan as they learn how to move forward together.
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06 Jul 2021
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Ghost in the Machines by Dulcidyne
Fandoms: Mass Effect, Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
13 Oct 2024
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A woman, not alive and not dead, stands at the end of a road of compromises in an underworld written in the quantum qubits of a machine god’s mind. The stars spin overhead, too large and too close, kaleidoscoping colors she didn’t know existed before. They speak with the voices of aeons. Chaos and order exist in oppositional states, they say. There can be no peace without control.
She's about to prove them wrong. (Post ME-3 Control Ending).
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06 Jul 2021