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what do soldiers do when the war is over by busy_headbutting_krogans
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy
13 May 2024
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When you can’t remember who you are, what’s there to be afraid of? When you don’t remember having an arm, is it really that big of a deal when you wake up without one? After the destruction of the reapers, Jane Shepard wakes up remembering only her name. She’s told she’s a hero, a savior, a soldier, and now she can finally relax. But she doesn’t feel like she’s earned it.
When the love of your life defeats the reapers, survives, and wakes up against all odds, is it really that big of a deal when she can’t remember who he is? Garrus tries to remain hopeful in the aftermath as the two of them struggle to fall in love, struggle through memories that trap Shepard in the past, and learn to parent all at once.
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31 Dec 2025
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With the mass relays destroyed, it would take a long time for the Normandy to make it home. Meanwhile, a dark truth about dark energy emerges.
An epilogue to the Destroy ending. Content Warning for medical trauma.
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The Weight of Survival by Plumppig
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
25 Nov 2025
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The Weight of Survival begins in the aftermath of the Reaper War, when the Normandy crash-lands following the detonation of the Crucible. Commander Jane Shepard, gravely wounded and presumed dead, disappears in the chaos. What follows is a sweeping, character-driven narrative of grief, survival, and the fragile hope of rebuilding, not only for Shepard, but for her crew, her family, and the galaxy itself.
At its heart, the story explores Shepard’s struggle to reclaim her identity after immense sacrifice, while grappling with her pregnancy—made possible through Leviathan-altered biology and the crushing symbolic weight placed on her by allies and leaders alike.
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In the midst of a war between turians and the humans, Garrus and Shepard are tasked with entering into a political marriage that will fortify peace negotiations. All they have to do is pretend to be star-crossed lovers and keep their heads down outside of publicity interviews. That, and Shepard has to keep Garrus from imploding every time he thinks he's offended her, which is basically every five seconds. Oh, and the smallest amount of treason.
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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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10 Dec 2025