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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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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
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Solana Vakarian had always been a little on the small size for her age. The other kids eventually get mean, so her big brother takes things into his own hands when her teacher won’t deal with it. Their father is not pleased.
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The Road Less Traveled by speshulduck
Fandom Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect Trilogy
24 Dec 2025
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Cadet Jane Shepard elects to do an exchange program with the turian officer training program during one of her summer breaks from the Alliance Naval Academy. She's partnered with Officer Candidate Garrus Vakarian, and it does not go well. He's got the prickliest attitude she's ever seen, and he clearly hates her.
Fortunately, the hatred only lasts until they discover that humans and turians can work out their differences in some exceptionally creative ways. They also discover that a turian sniper and a wrecking ball masquerading as a human biotic make one hell of a team on the battlefield.
A mostly canon-compliant AU in which Shepard and Vakarian become fiercely loyal friends long before Saren finds Sovereign and launches Shepard's career as a Spectre.
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The Future Prometheus by themaniacisinthemailbox
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect - Various Authors
12 Mar 2025
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A clone of Commander Shepard wakes up for the first time. She is not aware she is a clone, let alone who Shepard was. It is an odd start to life.
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People in coats come in and out of your room. These people have red and orange skin and big black eyes. You have never seen your own face, but you have seen your arms and legs and know from the color of your skin and more numerous fingers that you are different from them. The people notice your eyes follow them as they move around the room. This interests them. They huddle around you and talk to each other as they shine a flashlight in your eyes. You do not understand what they are saying, but it is clear they are talking about you. Eventually they come to a decision and leave.Series
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07 Feb 2026
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Thirty years since first contact. Thirty years of war between the turians and the humans. Shanxi, a human fringe colony in the Traverse, has been the epicenter of the fighting. And humans are in the eleventh hour, about to lose not only their colonies, but their way of life. The only hope they have left is a Prothean beacon found hidden beneath labs-- a beacon which could, if given to the salarians, turn the tide of the war. The problem is: the turians want it just as badly.
Commander Roni Shepard wears her uniform more comfortably than her own skin. But a traumatic injury from the batarians, a client race to the Hierarchy, has left her unsure of everything she used to be secure in.
Lieutenant-Commander Garrus Vakarian thinks outside of the box, much to the chagrin of his commanding officers, his father, and the very establishment he fights for. When he uncovers a dark secret embedded deep within his own military, he holds on to the hope that others can put a stop to it, even if it destroys everything.
When both of them are tasked with securing the Prothean beacon, their lives will intertwine, and everything they thought they knew flies out the window when a mysterious ship also comes to collect.
Bookmarked by speshulduck
07 Nov 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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12 Oct 2025
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How embarrassing. I've read this like half a dozen times in the last year and I didn't have it bookmarked and hadn't left kudos because I found it before I had an account. Whoops.
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Commander Jane Shepard wakes up in the year 2185 to discover that two years have passed, her ship is destroyed, her crew scattered to the far corners of the galaxy, and she has somehow been captured by Cerberus. After a failed attempt to escape the Human Supremacist terrorist organization, she decides to bide her time until she can plan a better exit strategy. In the meantime, she can investigate the mysterious Collectors and see if there's any merit to Cerberus's theory that they're with the Reapers in some way. While gathering yet another ragtag crew of misfits to save the galaxy, she discovers that one of them is Garrus Vakarian-now better known as Archangel, scourge of Omega's criminal gangs. When he nearly dies during their attempt to escape the siege of his compound, Jane realizes that he's much more than the first friendly face who'll actually stay with her.
Garrus had been staring down his death and coming to terms with the overall uselessness of his life. When Shepard appears back from the dead, the galaxy has color again. He commits to following her anywhere she needs to go, and really starts to appreciate the view of his Commander's six.Series
Bookmarked by speshulduck
28 Jul 2024
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I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love by Hero_Of_Crafts
Fandom Mass Effect Trilogy
01 Feb 2026
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28 Jul 2024