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The Warrior of Light returns to the First searching for answers and hoping for a distraction. She has no idea she's being watched.
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Bookmarked by Detachedconscious
07 Jun 2025
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Val Shepard is the survivor of Mindoir, Hero of Elysium, first human Spectre, Savior of the Citadel, Destroyer of Bahak, and savior of the galaxy...
... or is she?
Waking up as an ordinary Alliance officer, Shepard tries to make sense of the world around her, where everything seems changed.
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- Part 14 of Val Shepard
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- 29/?
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Bookmarked by Detachedconscious
11 May 2025
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Twelve years after the end of the war, Shepard is living a quiet, retired life, having put her past behind her. An encounter with an old friend makes her reconsider some choices and just might give both of them another chance at happiness. A story about friendship, love, and blending families. FemShep/Garrus, references to past FemShep/Kaidan and Garrus/OC.
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- Part 4 of Chances and Second Chances
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- English
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- 80,188
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- 28/28
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Bookmarked by Detachedconscious
10 May 2025
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Shepard finds herself reliving the last few years, from finding the beacon on Eden Prime to the battle for Earth. Again, and again, and again. How much can she change? How much should she change?
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- English
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- 36,707
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- 23/23
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03 Apr 2025
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17 Jan 2025
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Stories about my Shepard. Not necessary to read in order.
Lydia Shepard | Earthborn | Sole Survivor | Paragade | Profile
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Bookmarked by Detachedconscious
06 Jan 2025
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Post destroy-ending, post-canon or: how to live through the end of the world
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22 Dec 2024
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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).
Bookmarked by Detachedconscious
30 Sep 2024
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Electric Sheep by lilmissnatcat24
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
28 Feb 2026
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Two years after the death of Garrus Vakarian, Delia Shepard finds herself stationed on Horizon when the Collectors attack and kidnap Kaidan Alenko. When a mysterious shadow corporation by the name of Cerberus comes to her rescue, she sees is as not only a way to save Kaidan, but to possibly do some good in the universe. But there's a mysterious turian who follows her at every step, one that may be more than he seems on the surface.
Garrus Vakarian is alive. He's 30% cybernetics, embedded with a control chip and surveillance devices that track his every move, and doesn't care about anything anymore-- but alive. He has one sole mission: to destroy Cerberus from the inside out. But when Shepard happens back into his life, he's forced to make the harrowing decision of whether to complete his mission, or to risk it all for the woman he once thought he couldn't live without.
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- Part 2 of Out of Eden Series
Bookmarked by Detachedconscious
27 Sep 2024
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What do you need me to do?
Survive, he growls, and the end must really be close now, because she swears she hears his voice echo in the space around her.
---Post ME3 Shakarian fix-it. The Normandy is stranded without comms, the Reapers are destroyed, and Shepard is alive but with no way to make contact. Because I just finished LE and I have a lot of Big Feelings to work through.
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- Part 2 of Cosmic Love (Shakarian fics)
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04 Sep 2024
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The Machiavelli Project by lilmissnatcat24
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
18 Jun 2023
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Commander Shepard comes across a mysterious organization, The Oxcart Corporation, when she receives an SOS on an abandoned mine shaft somewhere in Sigurd's Cradle. What she uncovers is more than a dirty business; she finds a project that must be stopped at all costs.
(After the events of ME2, including Arrival DLC).
If you're just here for smut (I'm not judging you at all, we've all been there), just skip to chapter 14.
Bookmarked by Detachedconscious
03 Sep 2024
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With the turian alliance secured, Garrus prepares to leave the Normandy and rejoin Primarch Victus’s complement in the Hierarchy, shipping back to a Palaven set ablaze. Shepard, unraveling at the seams, must make a long-overdue decision.
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- Part 2 of Conquest of Spaces
Bookmarked by Detachedconscious
29 Aug 2024
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New Game by alden
Fandoms: Mass Effect, Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
07 Nov 2023
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She'd woken up in an unrecognizable galaxy, jammed together from spare parts, a Cerberus logo stamped on her ass. She'd been handed a beautiful, expensive, top-of-the-line mockery of her old ship, crewed by beautiful, expensive, top-of-the-line terrorists.
The Alliance wanted her to shut up and go back to being conveniently dead. Kaidan, it seemed, felt the same way. Anderson was the only family she'd ever had, and he wouldn't even answer her emails.
And either Shepard's sanity had splintered under the stress, or she was now some kind of unkillable demigod. Or both.
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- English
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- 122,010
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- 19/?
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Bookmarked by Detachedconscious
25 Aug 2024
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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.
Bookmarked by Detachedconscious
06 Aug 2024
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There was something more important though and her fingers were trembling, when she called up the Normandy’s data. For a second she hesitated, almost embarrassingly anxious, then she swallowed thickly and hailed the ship.
Nothing. Silence answered her and then after a few heart-wrenchingly long seconds the screen flickered red to announce that the attempt to establish a connection had failed. She sunk back into the pillows, staring numbly at the words that were burning themselves into her brain. Of course. What else had she expected? It didn’t mean that the Normandy had been destroyed, she reminded herself, fighting off the fear threatening to take over her mind. Taking a deep breath, she rubbed her suspiciously wet eyes and pulled up a different window to type out a message instead.
Bookmarked by Detachedconscious
06 Aug 2024
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A chance glance at a gun-toting, mask-shedding Josie Packard by a maid at the Great Northern Hotel leads Twin Peaks' police to who just shot Special Agent Dale Cooper. She's quickly arrested and confesses her deed.
Her heartbroken, betrayed now-ex-boyfriend Sheriff Harry Truman has to deal with the messy aftermath of his not-so-secret relationship falling apart while also discovering confusing feelings regarding a certain tall, dark and handsome not-so-stranger recuperating in the local intensive care.
When crazy dreams, odd happenings, revelations about Harry's family and unwanted visitors demonstrate the ever-present evil in Twin Peaks is on the rise, Harry has to make a hard decision. Will he take the easy way out to maintain his reputation and self-image, or will he risk it all to protect Cooper from his troubled past, possible horrific future and many circling enemies?
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- 193,132
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- 34/34
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Bookmarked by Detachedconscious
05 Aug 2024
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Parable by squiggly_squid
Fandom Mass Effect, Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect Trilogy
16 Sep 2018
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What if Commander Shepard and Garrus Vakarian had known each other before Saren attacked Eden Prime? What if they were more than friends?
What if they were married during the hunt for a rogue Spectre and everything that came after? What would become of the galaxy? Would everything stay the same, or would one small alteration cause ripples in the story we all know?
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Bookmarked by Detachedconscious
01 Aug 2024
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After the events of Torfan leave her grounded pending clearance of a mental health evaluation, Commander Jane Shepard is offered a chance to serve as the first human C-Sec Detective. Though many questions are raised regarding the offer, she accepts the opportunity as an alternative to the desk work she's been doing while grounded. Once on the Citadel, she meets the newly minted Detective Vakarian. Working with the impulsive detective proves a challenge Shepard hadn't expected.
Tasked with solving a double homicide, they get swept up in scenarios that challenge them to find common ground. Both are pushed to their limits as the investigation leads them closer to the elusive Dr. Heart. Once Garrus comes to realize his feelings are changing, he learns things about Shepard that make him question whether it's fair to stand in her way. During a pivotal point where one decision sets them on a trajectory that might thrust them apart for good, they find out just how far they are willing to go to come together again.
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- Part 1 of Across the Stars
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- English
- Words:
- 150,483
- Chapters:
- 30/30
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Bookmarked by Detachedconscious
21 Jul 2024
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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
- Language:
- English
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- 163,782
- Chapters:
- 66/66
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Bookmarked by Detachedconscious
19 Jul 2024
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18 Jul 2024