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The battle with Shroud had left Robert battered and bruised, but for the first time, he wasn't recovering in the solitary dark confines of his 'minimalist' apartment. Instead, Mandy’s apartment offered a sanctuary he didn't know he was starving for: warmth, safety, and the only person who saw beneath the Mecha Man suit in the way that she did. A home.
For too long, they had drifted around one another in a gravity well of unspoken tension—partners in the field, pointedly focused, but incapable of slowing the tide that burned between them. But tonight, amidst the glow of the television and a half-finished bottle of wine, that orbit finally decays. A cynical debate over a reality show dating finale turns into a mirror for their own fears and insecurities, and the deflection stops.
Tonight, the superhero masks come off. What starts as tender triage transforms into a collision of raw honesty and undeniable heat. It is an affirmation of a love long overdue—a shift from "partners" to "us," sealed with a quiet question in the dark and the approval of a very sleepy dog.
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Canon-compliant, Post Ep. 8 • Robert/Mandy Centric
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13 Jan 2026
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Mass Effect: Labyrinth by Pigeon_theoneandonly
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
05 Oct 2025
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Nathaly Shepard wasn't prepared to die. But some fates are worse than death. When her greatest enemy claims she's their only hope to defeat an impossible threat to humanity, she has no choice but to fight. But how is she supposed to contend with a foe that rivals even Sovereign's destruction when she's lost two years of her life and everything she held dear?
As she struggles to reconcile working for Cerberus and find her new place in the galaxy, others will try to make her a pawn. Spectres have always risked losing everything, but this time, it might be too much to ask.
Meanwhile, back in the Alliance, Kaidan Alenko uncovers a secret with dire implications for the past and future- one which will inevitably bring him into a confrontation with the woman he's mourned for two years, and threaten to tear them apart forever.
A re-imagined and canon-divergent Mass Effect 2, that keeps to the spirit of the original while exploring the true costs of resurrection, and how Kaidan Alenko became a spectre.
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- Part 5 of Nathaly Shepard
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24 Dec 2025