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1. The Difference Was You by Belyst

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

   • Not Rated
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • F/F
   • Complete Work

   26 Apr 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Female Shepard/Tali'Zorah nar Rayya
   • Female Shepard (Mass Effect)
   • Tali'Zorah nar Rayya
   • Garrus Vakarian
   • Liara T'Soni
   • Urdnot Wrex
   • Ashley Williams (Mass Effect)
   • Kaidan Alenko
   • Karin Chakwas
   • Slow Burn
   • Friends to Lovers
   • Paragon Shepard (Mass Effect)
   • Renegade Shepard (Mass Effect)
   • Eventual Romance
   • Eventual Smut
   • Maybe - Freeform
   • Fluff and Humor
   • Mild Hurt/Comfort
   • Angst
   • At least in the end
   • Quarians (Mass Effect)
   • No Beta
   • we die like nihlus
   • The only AI here is EDI - Freeform
   • Well she isn't in this story but you know what I mean

   Summary

   “My name's Shepard. I'm looking for evidence to prove Saren's a traitor.”

   It almost sounded too good to be true. Everything up until this point had gone wrong. Tali almost didn’t trust her luck. She had no experience with humans, so she had no idea if she was reading the situation correctly. But something about Shepard that seemed different. Like Tali could trust her.

   A look at ME1 from Tali's perspective.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   24,715

   Chapters:

   6/6

   Comments:

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