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An Inconvenient Meeting by EratoHayden
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
22 Mar 2026
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A chance encounter on the Citadel following the events of the Skyllian Blitz in 2180, leads Kara Shepard and Garrus Vakarian to meet earlier than the canon Mass Effect timeline. Kara is freshly promoted, completed her N7 training, and ready to take the next step in her five year plan. C-Sec Officer Garrus Vakarian has been upgraded from beat cop to actual crime investigation, and probably on the fast track to making detective whether he wants to or not. The two cannot fight their chemistry.
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19 Mar 2026
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There's a lot of firsts in everyone's life. These are the noteworthy firsts for Garrus regarding Commander Shepard and his experience on the Normandy SR1
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- Part 1 of Find Your Footing
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09 Mar 2026
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An Unavoidable Collision by AuroreRose
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
01 Mar 2026
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Year 2170
“After three days of negotiations, I am pleased to announce the formation of the Human-Turian Alliance.”
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Jane Shepard, Private in the Systems Alliance Navy & Garrus Vakarian, Private in the Turian Hierarchy.They'd met during the negotiations on Palaven, only to be separated days later.
Now they were privates, fresh out of basic training. Every human and turian soldier had received their assignment - Earth or Palaven.
What were the odds they'd cross paths again?
Unavoidable.
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A Prequel AU, following from 2170-2182 & converging on ME1
Part 1 of 4 (170k written & posting 2-4x a month)Bookmarked by Lassora
05 Mar 2026
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A Girl with No Name by EsteemedBastard
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
18 Feb 2026
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Seven months ago the galaxy was united and the crucible was fired. Though unfathomable destruction was left in its wake, the war is over and it’s up to the survivors to rebuild for a better tomorrow. If Shepard knew how to hold a hammer, she would be among them. At least between her physical therapy and Miranda she has finally been cleared for active duty! And there was a leftover Cerberus base not that far away that definitely needs a bomb placed in it. What could go wrong?
Turns out, Cerberus may have... left a trap behind. One that might have messed with Shepard's ability to recall long term memories. Leaving the Normandy crew to care for a temperamental teenager in the body of a super solider. Y-yeah! What could go wrong with that?
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- Part 2 of Cyrus Shepard
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22 Feb 2026
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let this remain by CarnivalsoftheCity
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Inquisition
21 Feb 2026
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His voice was hoarse, vowels stretching in a way that was obviously Ferelden but not noble, though he held himself like one. Shoulders back, jaw set. A proud man, with too much to prove and not much time to do it. A gust of wind swept ash towards them, catching in his hair, and Maeve’s nostrils flared at the sudden and unmistakable scent of lyrium.
Templar.
She raised her chin a fraction, almost defiantly. If only her soft scholar fingers and Chantry veil did not give her away as a Circle mage and nothing more.
(or, the inquisition from the perspective of maeve trevelyan)
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- Part 1 of a lifetime rolls by (maeve trevelyan)
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01 Dec 2025
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The Vakarian Doctrine by BlueClanMarkings for AdmiralVakarian
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy
14 Sep 2025
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When Shepard moves into the Vakarian estate on Palaven with her fiancé, Garrus, she expects a quiet family life, tradition, and the occasional turian dinner etiquette crisis.
She does not expect the subtle glances from her father in-law. Or the tension. Or the heat. Or the way her body betrays her every time Castis Vakarian is near.
Now they're watching a movie. Caught between loyalty and lust, Shepard fights the slow burn...
Until it ignites.Series
- Part 7 of The Turian Daddy Works
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17 Sep 2025
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After the reapers win, Javik and Shepard are stranded on a ruined earth with no one but each other.
“Harbinger said he wanted us to watch, correct?” Javik realizes. “The last prothean and—“
“The last human,” Shepard whispers. “They want us to be the last.”
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09 Sep 2025
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Garrus Vakarian never expected his human commander to start winking at him. Unsure if she’s flirting, mocking, or plotting an assassination, he does the only logical thing: logs onto Read-It, the galaxy’s favorite extranet forum, to ask strangers for advice.
This is a romcom told entirely through forum posts, edits, and comment chaos.
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- Part 10 of The Shakarian Works
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05 Sep 2025
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Fresh off the shocking loss of her whole unit on Akuze, Alliance Marine Lieutenant Jane Shepard stays with her turian best friend on the Citadel, electing for a galactic treatment program instead of one on Earth. Garrus Vakarian, newly employed as a C-Sec patrol officer, is willing to do just about anything to give her a safe space to heal.
He just wasn’t expecting her to fit so comfortably into his life.
Ongoing AU in which Shepard and Garrus meet long before the events of ME1.
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- Part 2 of The Road Less Traveled
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- English
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- 59,350
- Chapters:
- 9/?
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- 1
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- 290
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02 Sep 2025
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Follow Shepard's escape from slavery to her reintegration into Citadel life through the unwitting help of notorious Spectre, Saren Arterius. Will her obsession with the Turian race encourage the ruthless Spectre to let her in or will he continue as a barefaced outcast?
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13 Aug 2025
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08 Aug 2025
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Admiral Steven Hackett needs a date to a wedding. There were very few options for a workaholic. The one that drifted through his mind may very well end his career...by death.
"With a surprised look inside the empty bottle, he realized he’d drank the last drop. That was disappointing. He supposed that was all the liquid courage he was going to get.
Besides, calling Shepard meant she couldn’t punch him, or shoot him, through the omnitool. That’s a win if he did say so himself."
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14 Jul 2025
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I'm Right Beside You by speshulduck
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
30 Aug 2025
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Every Alliance Naval Academy cadet has to apply for summer postings between academic years. The short tours give cadets valuable experience and the chance to see what the Alliance does around the galaxy. Cadet Jane Shepard thought the turian officer training exchange program sounded like a good opportunity for something different, but she had no idea what she was signing up for.
AU in which Shepard and Garrus meet long before the events of ME1.
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- Part 1 of The Road Less Traveled
- Language:
- English
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- 117,712
- Chapters:
- 26/26
- Collections:
- 2
- Comments:
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25 Jun 2025
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please, forget me by tellers
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
18 Apr 2025
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She knows him, but to him she’s just a name.
Or, when Garrus Vakarian forgets Shepard, what’s there left to say?
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19 Apr 2025
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Holding Onto Hell by daisydidntdoit
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
14 Apr 2025
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It was supposed to be simple, just a way to blow off steam, feel human again. After all, he was supposed to be dead too. He didn't ask prying questions, and his motivations were clear.
Simple.
Nothing is ever simple for Jane Shepard, and especially not after her miraculous survival of the activation of the Catalyst. Haunted by memories, and struggling to gain a foothold in a radically altered world, she can't find it in herself to part ways with that goddamn mercenary.
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19 Apr 2025
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When first contact goes awry and begins a war, Shepard finds herself immediately promoted out of training and recruited by Anderson to join the war. Eager to prove herself and maybe not quite as ready as others expected, she doesn't kill the turian sniper she was trying to take out, and instead takes him as prisoner in the hopes of figuring out their secrets. Garrus didn't even want to be here in the first place, stuck in his required time in the military, and when Shepard starts being nicer than half of the turians he's ever met, he's quick to choose his own side of the war that shouldn't really have started in the first place.
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- English
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- 29,430
- Chapters:
- 16/16
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- Comments:
- 9
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- 128
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17 Apr 2025
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Shepard had had a tough life. She found some good friends and has made some annoying enemies. Her life is complicated but enjoyable. Routine mission after mission, working up the N ranks. Her most recent mission to Akuze seems routine, and she even met a cute turian before she shipped out. Looking forward to meeting up with him after her mission, Shepard heads out, not knowing how this one mission will shape her future with the Alliance. Her best friend, Toombs, seems excited to work with her again. “At least the planet has a cool name. Akuze. Definitely sounds like something I could get tattooed on me once we get back. Maybe come up with a cool story about how I won a fight there."
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- 70,357
- Chapters:
- 20/?
- Collections:
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- Comments:
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- 94
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13 Apr 2025
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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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27 Mar 2025
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A Dream Within a Dream by Serendipity001
Fandoms: Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect Trilogy
11 May 2025
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"You’ve seen the tattered edges of the veil they’ve thrown across your eyes. You’ve found the dark corners that they can’t hide. But understand this before you enter: Once you step through these doors, there’s no going back. Once the veil has been ripped down, you can no longer return to hiding behind it.”
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Shepard lives out her life on the Citadel as she struggles to make sense of a warped reality. Her understanding of the nature of the universe is upended by a message from someone named "Archangel" who promises her precious answers, if only she can evade the monster hunting her in the shadows. But how deep does the rabbit hole go?
The Truth can be a dangerous thing.
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(It's the Matrix, but make it Mass Effect)
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19 Mar 2025
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Armistice by elleirabrave
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect - Various Authors
02 Apr 2025
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The Alliance is losing.
For the last three years, humankind has battled ceaselessly against the turians, an alien fleet that launched a brutal war after humanity discovered ancient, forbidden technology. Despite humanity's best efforts, they are perilously close to all-out nuclear annihilation -- or a slow death by starvation as the skies burn and human colonies go dark.
Desperate for survival, the shattered remains of the Alliance's best undertake a mission with impossible odds: plant a bomb on the turian homeworld and end the war once and for all. But when the mission goes catastrophically awry, Shepard finds herself stranded in hell: a planet covered in the wrecks of a thousand starships; a planet that orbits a black hole. A planet hiding a threat far more ancient, and far more dangerous, than the turians.
And she’s not alone.
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21 Feb 2025