15 Bookmarks by psykit
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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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15 Dec 2025
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“The first words they say to you are tattooed somewhere on your body.” Shepard explained.
Garrus blinked, his subvocals pitching in disbelief. “That’s… so inefficient.”
“Alright, how do Turians find their soulmates?” She demanded.
“On the civilized side of the galaxy-“ she gave a rather undignified snort, “we find our bondmates through song.”
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The Council has called for a peace summit following the disastrous First Contact War but neither side seems ready to make amends. It's up to Shepard and Garrus to bridge the gap if their fated romance has any hope of blossoming.
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04 Aug 2025
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I'm Right Beside You by speshulduck
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
29 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
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- English
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- 117,712
- Chapters:
- 26/26
- Collections:
- 2
- Comments:
- 488
- Kudos:
- 522
- Bookmarks:
- 116
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- 14,089
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19 Jul 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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02 Jan 2025
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Some turian parents like to have a hand in who their kids end up with. None of them can compete with Castis Vakarian's overbearing nature. Garrus has had enough of his father's constant nagging, but nothing has helped stop him.
Then, Shepard offers a solution that he finds himself wanting her help with.
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- Part 6 of The Shakarian Works
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16 Oct 2024
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Electric Sheep by lilmissnatcat24
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
13 Sep 2025
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Two years after the death of Garrus Vakarian, Delia Shepard finds herself stationed on Horizon when the Collectors attack and kidnap Kaidan Alenko. When a mysterious shadow corporation by the name of Cerberus comes to her rescue, she sees is as not only a way to save Kaidan, but to possibly do some good in the universe. But there's a mysterious turian who follows her at every step, one that may be more than he seems on the surface.
Garrus Vakarian is alive. He's 30% cybernetics, embedded with a control chip and surveillance devices that track his every move, and doesn't care about anything anymore-- but alive. He has one sole mission: to destroy Cerberus from the inside out. But when Shepard happens back into his life, he's forced to make the harrowing decision of whether to complete his mission, or to risk it all for the woman he once thought he couldn't live without.
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- Part 2 of Out of Eden Series
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14 Sep 2024
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Rewrite of Playing the Long Game
After the death of his mother, Garrus moves to the Citadel with his dad. Shepard is a scruffy duct rat who saves him from bullies.
Garrus never stood a chance.
Childhood friends AU. Covers pre-canon until post-game.
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- Part 1 of Playing the Long Game
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14 Sep 2024
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an indentation in the shape of you by interventionsandlullabies
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
26 Aug 2025
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“Oh no,” Garrus said. “I know that face. That’s your problem solving face. That’s your I think I can fit through this air vent and drop down behind their reinforcements face.”
“What if we do it first?”
He stared at her. “Shepard. I fear the consequences of the next four words immensely. What do you mean?”
A smile lifted the corner of her mouth. “What if we find you a mate before your dad gets here?”
“Spirits,” he said, the word half curse, half exhalation. “That’s what I was afraid you were going to say.”
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They survived the end of the world. They've had a few (relatively) normal years with no catastrophies. But with Garrus’ dad breathing down his neck about finally settling down, they've only got 48 hours to produce a suitable partner.
Garrus has just the girl in mind. If only she wasn't the one trying to set him up.
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08 Sep 2024
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Garrus and Shepard fake date. What more description do you want?
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- Part 13 of Shakarian - A Descent into Madness
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- English
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- 45,897
- Chapters:
- 23/?
- Comments:
- 695
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- 1,274
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- 244
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06 Sep 2024
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Normandy Coffee by alta_et_astra
Fandoms: Mass Effect, Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
20 May 2025
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On break from cleaning up the mercenary groups on Omega, Garrus visits his friend James Vega on the Citadel and meets an intriguing human woman in a coffee shop. While doing a standard security job for James as a favor, things go sideways quick and James tasks him with investigating what happened. As soon as the job is done though, he will be heading back to Omega.
Shepard has retired from military life and works as a manager at David Anderson's coffee shop, Normandy Coffee. When Anderson finally decides to retire, Shepard makes the decision to buy the cafe from him. In an effort to raise money to buy the cafe, Shepard accepts a job from James to help Garrus with the investigation.
As they spend more time together they can feel their attraction growing, but while Shepard's roots on the Citadel are only growing stronger, Garrus refuses to see his time on the Citadel as anything other than temporary.
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30 Aug 2024
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everything good in life seems to lead back to you by otherthingsonhold
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
05 Sep 2024
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The first news Garrus asks for when they are once again amongst the stars, is of Shepard. The second of his family. He feels guilty, for his lover’s name to be the first on his tongue before his own blood. But his father and sister have each other, and Shepard, he fears - he knows, has no one.
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30 Aug 2024
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Mystery Work
Part of Indefinite Hiatus
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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23 Aug 2024
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In the frozen tundra of Noveria, Garrus grapples with newfound feelings for his Commander.
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'“Tell me again what you wanted, Lorik?” Shepard asked, turning away from her squadmates to focus her attention on the older Turian.
“I merely want to learn more about human culture. Your culture. It gets very dull on Hanshan. And humans are so very interesting. I haven’t had the pleasure of sitting for a conversation with one in a while. I want to know how you dance. How you fight. How you spar.” Garrus did let out a small growl now, his subvocals deepening in a clear threat. While Qui’in was bigger, Garrus was taller and armed. Armed with a very big fucking gun.'
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18 Aug 2024
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Shepard finds herself reliving the last few years, from finding the beacon on Eden Prime to the battle for Earth. Again, and again, and again. How much can she change? How much should she change?
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 36,707
- Chapters:
- 23/23
- Collections:
- 2
- Comments:
- 654
- Kudos:
- 4,810
- Bookmarks:
- 1,512
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- 79,002
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06 Aug 2024
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Observations Upon Waking by interventionsandlullabies
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
09 Aug 2021
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A collection of moments in which Garrus wakes up and takes in his surroundings. Some better, some worse. Some best.
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30 Jul 2024