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Under Your Scars by FrostyFelassan, Watcherrr
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
22 Oct 2021
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Commander Shepard is dead. The Alliance made sure of that.
Buried in the rubble of London and branded a traitor after the Reaper War, she survives under a new name. As Urdnot Shane, she rises through the ranks of a post-war faction in a broken world that would rather forget her.
On the other side of the galaxy, Garrus Vakarian is still grieving. When the Normandy returns to Earth, he finds a fractured wasteland and a battlefield where Shepard’s memory is dangerous.
Neither of them knows the other is alive.
Until their factions go to war.
Enemies. Survivors. Lovers. Legends.
They must face each other, reconcile what they've become, and take the fight to the people who tried to erase them.
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24 Mar 2025
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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
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The baron is dead, but the recently-widowed baroness still isn't free from his clutches. Suffocating in her gilded cage, Vistri runs off into the woods alone and happens upon a rakish stranger who might just be the key to her ruin. To shedding respectability and the weight of her late-husband's great name.
Closer now, his scent whispered to her through the forest lush. Sweet herbs and a hint of brandy that grew stronger as he spoke.
“Do you require assistance?” he asked; a tender voice with rabid eyes.
Vistri couldn't know which of the infinite possibilities would occur if she said yes, but nodded anyway.
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He stepped into the light. “It’s not often I’m noticed before I decide to be. You might be more canny than I gave you credit for.”
“So kind of you to admit your low estimations,” she laughed. “You might be more of an ass than I gave you credit for.”
In all his years of servitude, he had only ever been free to pursue and seduce prey that fit his master’s preferences. Not knowing the pleasure of getting lost in a body like hers felt like another way he’d been starved.
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Astarion’s “Nice, simple, plan,” falls apart thanks to quick-witted and full-figured fighter Titania, aka Tav. Moral quandaries are inevitable, but they find common ground in a fondness for lying, violence always being an option, and former bosses from hell— in her case, literally. -
the moon will sing (i loved you like the sun) by ghostproofbaby
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
29 Jan 2025
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P.S. DO NOT FORGET – SAVE ASTARION. NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO, ABOVE ALL ELSE, SAVE ASTARION.
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Aruna wakes up on the beach without a single memory. Not of how she got there, not of who she is – not even her own name can be remembered. All she has is a ring, a pretty stone, a pair of daggers with curious engravings, and a letter instructing her of one crucial mission: save Astarion. Seems simple enough.
Until she meets Astarion, of course.
(NOT dark urge) (cross-posted on tumblr under the username ghost-proofbaby)
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03 Apr 2024