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He Wouldn't Hurt Her (Much) by Distressed_Authoress
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
10 Jul 2025
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“I'm not sure if I find him scary or sexy.”
“A lot of women like bad boys.”
“A lot of women... like you?”A human commander brought back from the dead. A drell assassin who considers himself dead. When the two cross paths, things change between them, feelings get complicated and become powerful. Tensions start to rise and half truths are told. No tactic he knows is off the table for her heart.
A plan set, a target to capture, a lover to claim. That is his goal before the end of this mission. And he will do anything to succeed.
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This is a (some could say partially, others could say fully) darker interpretation of the canon romance, though it does stick to canon, many scenes are expanded upon (a few are rewritten either because they don't seem right in canon, or I needed to find a way to fit them) and new ones are made to fully make this story. Characterization of Thane on the other hand, that's ambiguous if you want to consider it canon compliant. Personally I do.
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- Part 1 of An Ardent Assassin's Alarming Attraction
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Hypothesis by Distressed_Authoress
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
22 Jan 2025
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“I wasn't dreaming. A sight like that isn't a dream, it was a warning.”
In 2183, 35 years after a discovery on Mars that leapt humanity forward, a team of scientists make a trip to Eden Prime to transport a newly discovered intact Prothean beacon. Doctor Cassiopeia Shepard is one of those assigned to help transport this potential scientific breakthrough. But a danger long forgotten by galactic civilization reappears and causes turmoil on the idyllic colony, with a looming greater threat overhead, she takes her life into her own hands, with dire consequences given to her decisions.
Armed with a warning of the future and a threat from the past hunting her, she'll travel through the galaxy to chase down leads alongside Commander Alenko and his team to prevent a galaxy-wide threat that has been rumored to claim species before them. She's on a race against time, she must learn to counter dangers she hasn't planned for and make choices that will stand the test of time.
But with a rogue Spectre hunting her for being one of the witnesses of the truth and being one step ahead of her, will she be able to prevent his plan of destruction from succeeding or will she die trying to prevent a cycle from continuing?
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- Part 1 of The Theorem of Cassiopeia Shepard
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We Get What We Deserve by Distressed_Authoress
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
21 Jan 2025
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Matius is trying to make a quick fortune of extra credits by performing another breaking-in job under his belt. He chooses a human as his next target for his job, ex-military at a young age, single resident, female, it all lines up to seem very simple and easy to perform a quick in and out job that looks highly profitable.
But what happens when he meets the other resident of the apartment she resides in?
Recent series
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The Theorem of Cassiopeia Shepard by Distressed_Authoress
Fandom: Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect Trilogy
22 Jan 2025
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A mysterious vision, a reluctant scientist, and an extreme conspiracy theory, what do the three have in relation with each other?
Proof of a greater danger that exists, turning theory into fact. When Cassiopeia Shepard gets a vision, she must find a way to stop a greater threat, along the way she meets interesting characters from all walks of life, and fights against a gallery of dangerous enemies, and makes discoveries that shake her understanding of everything to her core. All as she continues on her own personal mission to stop a galaxy-wide threat.
Beyond just a theory being proven true, this is the truth of the story, the truth of a theorem of the scientist we follow.
Important Note: This series timeline is longer than canon because the games are vague as hell on how much time has passed and when things start and someone said the entire series is only the span of months and I don't believe that so that's mainly why I'm having the span of the series be longer because it logically makes sense and I will show that in story. This will be majorly evident in Experiment, fair warning.
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An Ardent Assassin's Alarming Attraction by Distressed_Authoress
Fandom: Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect Trilogy
10 Jul 2025
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The WIP series so many people adore, of seeing the Shrios romance through the eyes of the lovely and loyal yandere assassin himself, Thane Krios. It is a darker interpretation than most, but one I personally consider very true to canon.
Currently Writing and Posting:
-- He Wouldn't Hurt Her (Much): The story of a certain drell crossing paths with a human commander and the long slow path of falling in dark, obsessive, possessive love with her, and doing anything to make sure of it.Planning to Write and Post:
-- He Doesn't Change (Yet): The reminiscence of a man who seeks death in the final moments before his life changes in a way he's only experienced once before.
-- He Will (Not) Take Her Slowly: The continuation of his romantic pursuit and the crystallization of his machinations in taking her and keeping her for himself.- Words:
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Taming the Fire by Cat_Shepard for TheSaraBeara
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
04 Sep 2023
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So thanks to @Thesarabeara for the idea!! Go check her stuff out cause she's got the ability to turn you to the dark side!
So the story prompt was "What if Thane and FemShep were both teens and met for the first time on the Citadel when Thane was completing his training as an assassin? Give them a sweet meet cute before they meet years later and she recruits him but she doesn't know he's now Dark Thane and he makes her his."
And seeing as this is for Thesarabeara you bet your ass theres sex scenes involved in chapter 2!!
Strap in and enjoy!
Bookmarked by Distressed_Authoress
23 Oct 2024
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Very sexy fic imo, personally quite inspiring for my own writing for Thane, also low-key got yandere vibes from him (like he has in canon imo, so very well written in making him be him) here tbh. That obsession with Jane's hair and eyes? Omg, totally something that would catch the eye of a yandere with the rarity and beauty of it. Again, lovely how hot and sexy this is.
Personally do recommend to read if you like my content with Thane being Thane over his siha. Hey, it actually helped me get an idea for how he'd be willing to use something he has for his siha.
Tell Cat I said hi and that she's an amazing writer if you check it out.
Yes, I read this so many times and no I will not stop lol.
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"I will deal with him as soon as I'm finished making you forget every second you ever spent by his side." Thane/FShep. Implied past relationship with Kai Leng. Oneshot.
Bookmarked by Distressed_Authoress
11 May 2025
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Absolutely amazing smut, love it so much that he gets so possessive and jealous and absolutely threatens to kill Leng, like how he would if FemShep was ever in a relationship with Leng beforehand.
Again, if you read anything of mine, I do recommend this as a fun little slice of his yandere possessiveness (my interpretation of course), and of course the hot smut lol.
Hate how the ending hit me like a gut punch but of course, I have my own things I place as more canon than canon for Thane's fate.
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Dr. Solus Advises by MrFredCDobbs
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
01 Mar 2023
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The mating urge is powerful among species less-evolved than the salarians and this can lead sapients into... problematic situations. Luckily, Fornax Magazine health and sexuality contributing editor Dr. Mordin Solus is here to help. In every issue of Fornax, the eminent physician and biologist answers your questions about intimate relations, including interspecies ones.
Do you have a question for Dr. Solus? Place a comment with 'Dear Doctor' at the beginning and the good doctor may answer it in a future column!
Bookmarked by Distressed_Authoress
04 Sep 2024
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Lovely fic about our favorite Salarian doctor giving more helpful advice for the panoply of interspecies relationships in Mass Effect. Absolutely humourous, always enjoyable to reread
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Mass Effect: Absolution by A_Cosmic_Elf
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
06 Apr 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.
Bookmarked by Distressed_Authoress
30 Dec 2022
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saving this fic cause I love this