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CLANK by StumbledUponByAksident
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
09 Apr 2024
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We all know about savoring the last shot before popping the heatsink (oh god) but isn't it reasonable to assume Shepard and Garrus tried some little things before the big thing?
So this is what this short story is about - their first interspecies awkwardness kiss.Bookmarked by Garfbin
25 May 2026
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First Contact Protocol by Otempora
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
31 May 2021
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During a top secret mission near the turian border, Shepard crash-lands on a hostile alien world. She manages to take the turian that shot her down prisoner.
Problem: she has to keep them both alive during a two-week trek across said hostile alien world.
Another problem: she's beginning to like her prisoner.
Yet another problem: she's beginning to REALLY like her prisoner.
Shepard's never met a problem she couldn't solve before, but this one might just kill her.
First Contact War AU. Enemies to friends to lovers, angst and humor, non-explicit sex but still kind of dirty.
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10 May 2026
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Sunsets on Korlus by dotflac
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
24 Apr 2026
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In the year 2176, two members of different species are sent to the galaxy's junkyard to find and eliminate a warlord-turned-terrorist. Through a series of circumstances, they are made to stick together to accomplish their mission, and they eventually develop feelings for each other during their various escapades on the planet.
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- Part 1 of Charlie and Inara
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09 May 2026
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the house of sorrow by woodland_elf
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game), Dragon Age - All Media Types
20 May 2026
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To become a Crow of House de Riva, first you must suffer. To become its Talon, first you must sacrifice.
In 9:35 Dragon, the young Viago de Riva is assigned a small, orphaned elf as an apprentice. By 9:48, they will together command their entire House. By 9:52, they will be Treviso's last line of defence during the Sixth Blight.
(an exploration of training & life under the Crows, Antiva during the Dragon Age, and alternate universe where my Rook, Brynnor de Riva, doesn't become Rook. The rest of the story falls into very different places after that.)
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29 Apr 2026
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Palaven Rising by girafficparka
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
04 Oct 2025
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She's the Alliance's most famous soldier - forced into early retirement to be the 'token human' in enemy territory in a desperate bid to maintain intergalactic peace.
He's a loud-mouthed sharp-shooter who can't quite find his place among his people - and after meeting her, he's not sure he wants to.
Shakarian AU because...why not?
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29 Apr 2026
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Normandy Coffee by alta_et_astra
Fandoms: Mass Effect, Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
13 Apr 2026
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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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13 Apr 2026
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r/HierarchyPolitics by themaniacisinthemailbox
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect - Various Authors
31 Mar 2026
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A subreddit dedicated to discussing turian politics across the galaxy
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r/HierarchyPolitics: Is Commander Shepard f****** our second-in-command?? mods pls don't delete, i'm not trollingSeries
- Part 3 of Maniac’s Mass Effect Shorts
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31 Mar 2026
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The Reapers have taken Palaven and Sitina Aetrius finds herself as a refugee on the Citadel.
After Cerberus tries to take the station, circumstance takes her to the door of an old friend.
A friend she might have previously fucked over.
A friend she might be a bit in love with.
A friend who might still be a little bit in love with her ex-husband.
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Their dynamic is basically:
Caesus: you’re a horrid bitch
Sitina: fuck you, you fascist pig, I need you to do crimes with me and buy my dinner.
Caesus: I hate you, let’s go
(Thanks Garf!)Anyway, we're kicking off in chapter 17 of "I didn’t want to die alone’ (https://archiveofourown.org/works/76223786/chapters/206302036).
If you've not read that rambling mess, don't worry about it - you should be able to keep up.
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- Sitina was a Cerberus hostage during the Citadel Coup. Her dufus ex and his new girlfriend tried to rescue her. She mostly ended up rescuing them.
- Sitina is a very angry woman. You're going to hear about it.
- Sius is her ex, and Merry is Sius's new partner. They're absolute dorks and they have my whole heart. They do not have Sitina's.Series
- Part 2 of How the weirdos cope with the apocalypse
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14 Mar 2026
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Jawwhn can't remember who he used to be; he has no memories of his former life. But that'll never stop him from dreaming.
When he sees a poster for an upcoming race in his town, he thinks it might be his chance to make those dreams come true.
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Priority: Loved, Needed, Wanted by capnmarvl
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
30 Jan 2026
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The first thought Shepard had after seeing Garrus Vakarian for the first time in 10 years was that he looked like his mother, but stood like his father.
The first thought Garrus had after seeing Shepard for the first time in a decade was that he should have known ‘Commander Shepard - Hope for Humanity’ was in fact Jane Shepard, the same kid, now woman, he had once wished -threatened- to push out an airlock.
An alternate universe where Shepard and Garrus grew up together, drifted apart, and found each other again during a re-telling of Mass Effect 1. The story is interspersed with important moments from Shepard's childhood.
This is a 3-Part Series (completed) and totals about ~100k words.
Part 1: Priority: Old Friends and New covers the events just after Eden Prime to Shepard becoming the First Human Spectre.
Part 2: Priority: Making and Breaking Amends covers Therum, Noveria, Feros, and some adventures in between.
Part 3: Priority: Loved, Needed, Wanted covers Virmire, Ilos, and the Battle for the Citadel.
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- Part 3 of Fostered Rivalry
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30 Jan 2026
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Juxtaposed Amended by squiggly_squid
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect
11 Mar 2026
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What if Commander Shepard and Garrus Vakarian find each other and marry before the events of the games take place? How will it alter their futures, Shepard's decisions, and the battle against the Reapers?
This is a rewrite of my first fanfic, Juxtaposed, and the beginning of an all new Parable story. Expect similarities, but also see how some things change.
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- Part 1 of Parable Amended
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- 252,116
- Chapters:
- 60/60
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15 Jan 2026
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Now as he watched smoke rise in inky, ominous coils from the Presidium for the second time in his life, Garrus couldn’t help but wonder how many more deeply held beliefs of his would be unmoored.
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23 Dec 2025
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A series of one-shots set within the universe of 'Uncle,' 'Dad,' and 'Mom,' featuring life for Garrus Vakarian, Commander Shepard, and the family they hoped to have after the Reaper War.
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- Part 4 of Earth Family Shakarian
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29 Nov 2025
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Commander Shepard is well acquainted with death. Her life is full of death. But for Shepard, living is harder. What happens when the fight is over?
In the ten years after the fall of the Reapers, the civilizations of the Milky Way are rebuilding amongst decimated worlds, splintered governments, and old resentments that never truly died.
Commander Circe Shepard, hailed as the savior of the galaxy, now moves through an uncertain future where peace feels more fragile than war ever did. But while old allies fall into new roles, and fresh conflicts ignite, Shepard is forced to confront the one battle she never prepared for: how to live a life she was meant to lose.
Lyrical and immersive, Taproot is a deeply human story set against the backdrop of a galaxy in upheaval and an intimate exploration of duty, change, love and renewal.
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- Part 1 of Taproot
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28 Nov 2025
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Anthology series of Shepard and Garrus' messages to each other throughout the events of the Reaper War.
[Garrus Vakarian - Draft Date AST: April 15th, 2186]
I’m not getting anything from your end if these are going through. I guess without the voice, my charms have worn off on you, huh, Shepard?
[Garrus Vakarian - Draft Date AST: April 15th, 2186]
That’s when you’re supposed to message back and say what charm? Come on, Shepard, I set you up with an easy one.
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- Part 11 of Olivia Shepard
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27 Nov 2025
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The war is over and Shepard's still alive.
Except she doesn't really understand what war everyone is talking about, or who half of these people are... The last thing she does remember is the Normandy blowing up over Alchera. Which apparently was a few years ago, and things had changed a lot during that time. She doesn't even know which bothers her more: that everyone wants her to be someone she's not, or that Garrus has been strangely distant ever since she woke up...TL;DR: Shepard survives the Crucible but loses all her memories since Cerberus rebuilt her. Shakarian angst and regular angst, all mixed up together into a nice hurt/comfort cocktail. Despite the scary tags this has a happy ending.
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- English
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- 144,771
- Chapters:
- 36/36
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23 Nov 2025
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Jane and Garrus have been partners for three years, and are labeled Homicide's best team, which gets them the worst cases. They'll find that their friendship isn't just laughter and late nights watching vids — it's finding someone who will hold your hand through the darkest of times.
This is the story of two very smart detectives acting foolish as they slowly fall in love.
Art by Blueboxness
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- Part 1 of The Cases of Shepard and Vakarian
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19 Nov 2025
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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.
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10 Nov 2025
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From moment to moment Jane felt their relationship shifting, at one they were best friends and the next something more. It reminded her of those old toys with a bird on one side and its enclosure the other and if you spun it quick enough the two images blurred and merged. As she and Garrus spun on the dance floor, their relationship, in all its aspects, blurred until there was no distinction between the edges of one thing and the other, it was just her and Garrus, together.
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- Part 5 of The Cases of Shepard and Vakarian
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- English
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- 125,866
- Chapters:
- 19/23
- Comments:
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03 Oct 2025
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Lucanis Dellamorte runs a small flower shop off of the main street of Treviso's market district—when he's not working his actual job as one of Antiva's Crow hitmen under the employ of his grandmother.
When a friend sends an ex-Grey Warden to him—a tattoo artist looking to learn the art of flower language—Lucanis begins to find that keeping his two lives separate is much more difficult than he had once led himself to believe.
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02 Oct 2025