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1. Mechanics by PerfectlyHopeless

   Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types  

   • Explicit
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply
   • F/M
   • Work in Progress

   11 Jul 2024

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Female Shepard/Garrus Vakarian
   • Garrus Vakarian
   • Female Shepard (Mass Effect)
   • Tali'Zorah nar Rayya
   • Solana Vakarian
   • Lantar Sidonis
   • Liara T'Soni
   • Monteague (Mass Effect)
   • Melenis (Mass Effect)
   • Ripper (Mass Effect)
   • Mierin (Mass Effect)
   • Sensat (Mass Effect)
   • Vortash (Mass Effect)
   • Garrus Vakarian's Mother
   • Castis Vakarian
   • Kaidan Alenko
   • Zaeed Massani
   • Thane Krios
   • Original Turian Character(s)
   • Fedorian (Mass Effect)
   • Character Study
   • Tags to be added as I go
   • Mass Effect 1
   • Vignette
   • Rating May Change
   • Minor canon divergence
   • Friends to Lovers
   • Slow Burn-ish
   • Canon-Typical Violence
   • Mass Effect 2
   • mass effect homeworlds
   • Team Archangel
   • Canonical Character Death
   • I'm a slut for dramatic irony
   • Frank discussions of terminal illness
   • Is it getting drinks or is this a date and they don't realize?
   • Grief Trauma
   • Pining
   • Love Confessions
   • Frank conversations about sex
   • First Kiss
   • Alien Biology
   • Masturbation
   • Team Dextro gives me life
   • Family Drama
   • Dysfunctional Relationships
   • Dating
   • Making Out
   • Explicit Consent
   • Mordin's sex talk
   • First Time
   • Smut
   • Interspecies Sex
   • Just this once everybody lives (in ME2 at least)
   • Poker Nights
   • Mass Effect 2: Lair of the Shadow Broker
   • Screw relationship drama in this house we talk it out like healthy adults
   • Mass Effect 2: Arrival
   • Heart-to-Heart
   • Palaven (Mass Effect)
   • Between ME2 & 3
   • A Token Title and Some Token Resources
   • Parent Death
   • Wakes & Funerals

   Summary

   So many things have gone wrong. But then there's her. A good luck charm, if he dared to let himself believe in that sort of thing. Maybe it's worth a shot.

   (another shakarian fic, this time with Garrus as my focal character)

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   156,638

   Chapters:

   62/?

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