12 Works by starkeeper
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Shepard remembers something good among all the bad, but then she doesn't.
James was fast to say: It’s okay. Don’t worry. It’s fine – but it wasn’t. He had told her too many times, and it upset her. So he stopped and just lay there with her, enduring it, patiently, quietly, arms wrapped around her.Series
- Part 10 of Reda Shepard
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Shepard sees the Kodiak more often than she should, and at irregular times. Steve and James have different opinions about it, or don't they?
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- Part 9 of Reda Shepard
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Fifteen months after surviving the thresher maw massacre on Akuze, Shepard is confronted with ghosts from her past, when a relative of one of her dead former comrades takes a position on the same vessel that she's assigned to. (pre-ME1)
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- Part 4 of Reda Shepard
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They were strangers. Friends. Colleagues. Lovers. Partners. But love was just a word. What united them was so much bigger. (collection of oneshots and shorter multi chapter fics following the same characters, varying ratings&genres, can be read as a whole or just in parts)
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- Part 1 of Meeting Strangers
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A collection of ficlets, prompts and small stuff for Reda Shepard. Will be tagged as added.
Chapter 1: Fifteen months after surviving the thresher maw massacre on Akuze, Shepard is confronted with ghosts from her past. (pre-ME1)
Chapter 2: Shepard subconsciously remembers dying in space. Garrus tries his best to replace some of the memories with better ones. (ME2)
Chapter 3: Shepard doesn't think about retirement, or does she? The crew is in shock. (ME1)Series
- Part 6 of Reda Shepard
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Joker's job includes a lot more than just flying the Normandy.
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Joker could tell the individual walking patterns and steps for literally everyone on this ship apart. Came with too much time alone in the cockpit and always sitting with his back to everybody else. It wasn‘t even something he specifically trained to do. It had always come natural for him. Side effects of sitting around most of his life, thanks to breaking his bones with almost anything normal people would do.
Not that it would make any difference in the end who was approaching him, but it was nice to know. Gave him some fake sense of power about the situation. And he had expected Shepard. She was like some old mechanical clockwork, always functioning, immune to fluctuations in power - she just worked. Even though he would have preferred her to sleep rather than doing her usual check in with him before they headed to a new mission.
Without looking up from the consoles in front of him, without turning his chair around, he greeted her with „You look like shit, Commander.“
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- Part 7 of Reda Shepard
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Shepard didn‘t yell at people, especially not at those she outranked. Until the thresher maw hit them on Antibaar. Until Tali carelessly said area secure, Commander. Because she had never encountered a thresher maw before. Because she did not know that they barely managed to stand the first wave, but were nowhere near surviving this yet. Because she did not know about Akuze.
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- Part 5 of Reda Shepard
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After Akuze, Shepard fights to gain back agency.
(Covers both how Reda Shepard deals with the aftermath of Akuze and how she ended up working with Anderson.)
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- Part 3 of Reda Shepard
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The life of Reda Shepard told in various emails to different people she starts to write after her gang exit 2169 CE.
(pre-game, mid-game, post-game, Earthborn-backround, Sole Survivor, Tenth Streets Reds, romances Kaidan Alenko in ME1 and turns to Garrus Vakarian during ME2/3, more tags as story continues)
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- Part 2 of Reda Shepard
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After priority: Thessia
Thessia fell. Shepard stands her ground, holds up against the Asari councilor, withholds Anderson telling her to shake things off and manages to answer politely when Traynor mentions just another facility attacked by Cerberus.
When Joker tells about his family on Tiptree though, the hairline crack inside her breaks.Series
- Part 8 of Reda Shepard
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Shepard owes to a lot of people, both from her past and from her present. And she is very aware of it.
Pictures from a past when she was all but Shepard, long before she was even given that opportunity.
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- Part 1 of Reda Shepard
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This was what dying felt like. Again. She'd known too many ways of it. And all felt like drowning.