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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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- English
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- 11/?
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18 May 2026
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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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- English
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- 117,712
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- 26/26
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18 May 2026
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“Adopted.”
“Indeed.”
“I’ve adopted him?” Shepard repeated, part convinced that everyone else in the room was deluded. “I feel like I’d remember—”
Bakara smiled in such a way that it always reached her eyes. She placed a warm hand on Shepard’s arm and said, “Our family units don’t look the same as humanity’s. It’s easy to misunderstand.”
Shepard felt baffled, and then briefly lightheaded. And then, completely enraged. If Grunt called her for the Rax, that means he knew about this beforehand.
Bakara seemed to understand the microscopic changes in Shepard’s facial expression as they occurred. “It seems the two of you need to have a conversation,” she said gently.Bookmarked by NotReallyExisting
21 Apr 2026
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Orochimaru makes an adjustment in his sales pitch to Sasuke in the Forest of Death and everything changes as a result.
The Leaf is corrupt, Team Seven is disillusioned and Kakashi suddenly has to figure out how to keep three overpowered Genin safe on the run when the whole world wants to take a bite out of them.A couple of steps to the side may take the path an entirely new direction, a few words chosen differently and the story may have an entirely new ending, and a small band of underestimated and untethered ninja who choose each other above anything else may shift the whole world on its axis.
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- 49/?
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16 May 2025
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Sakura is twelve when she queues up in front a desk with a bunch of other equally-terrified looking shinobi. The ages range from younger than her to old enough to be her grandpa.
The man sitting at the desk is stony-faced as he doles out assignments. Sakura obediently shuffles forward when it is her turn, and recites her shinobi identification number in a shaky voice when asked.
When the provost marshal looks at her, looks down at his paper, looks back at her, and grimaces, Sakura knows it’s not going to be good.
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How Sakura survives the war, told in bits and pieces.
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11 May 2025
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To let them fight for her, bleed for her, die for her without knowing that she loves them fiercely would have been terrible indeed. (shepard + companions, a study in platonic "i love you's").
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- 3,013
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08 Feb 2025
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“Garrus,” she tries.
He chirps. A trilling sound. His lips barely move as he does it.
“Oh,” she says, pushing herself up into a sitting position. “Translator must be fucked.”
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07 Feb 2025
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A relationship in eleven conversations, one public speaking engagement, and a hastily thrown together house party because none of us can quite let go. (Liara works a shift in the latest gab fest, posted as Chapter 11)
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07 Feb 2025
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Expectations carry a certain weight.
Finding someone to alleviate the load makes all the difference in the world.
Ita/Saku - NonMass. (Two-shot)
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- Part 2 of Completed - ItaSaku
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02 Feb 2025
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Tsunade turned Sakura down when she went to ask for an apprenticeship, and life only gets harder from there. Sakura struggles to learn how to survive on her own without an instructor. Kakashi gradually comes to fill the role, but it takes time for him to escape the guilt of Sasuke's betrayal.
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- 61,202
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- 20/?
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02 Feb 2025
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"The very first thing Shikamaru noticed when he opened his eyes was “pink”
There was so much pink and Shikamaru hadn’t thought that people COULD come in the color pink but obviously he was wrong because the very cute/round/small
girl in front of him was definitely pink."or
Where Sakura is a little different and Shikamaru is a little more caring and both of them meet and become best friends in their first year of the academy.
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- 9/?
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05 Jan 2025
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an indentation in the shape of you by interventionsandlullabies
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
29 May 2026
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“Oh no,” Garrus said. “I know that face. That’s your problem solving face. That’s your I think I can fit through this air vent and drop down behind their reinforcements face.”
“What if we do it first?”
He stared at her. “Shepard. I fear the consequences of the next four words immensely. What do you mean?”
A smile lifted the corner of her mouth. “What if we find you a mate before your dad gets here?”
“Spirits,” he said, the word half curse, half exhalation. “That’s what I was afraid you were going to say.”
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They survived the end of the world. They've had a few (relatively) normal years with no catastrophies. But with Garrus’ dad breathing down his neck about finally settling down, they've only got 48 hours to produce a suitable partner.
Garrus has just the girl in mind. If only she wasn't the one trying to set him up.
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- 20/22
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13 Dec 2024
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Everyone gets sick sometimes. Even Commander Shepard
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11 Dec 2024
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Observations Upon Waking by interventionsandlullabies
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
09 Aug 2021
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A collection of moments in which Garrus wakes up and takes in his surroundings. Some better, some worse. Some best.
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11 Dec 2024
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An investigation into Garrus Vakarian’s loyalties from the perspective of Senna Caelum, turian cabal agent.
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How a turian top secret intelligence agency missed the galaxy’s biggest open secret.
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16 Oct 2024
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Astarion and Tav have a happy and beautiful life together, filled with more fun and adventure than he could have ever dreamed possible.
Years fly and Tav ages, as mortals are meant to. Astarion stays frozen in time, beautiful and young as always. When the end comes for Tav, Astarion will be beside them and they will face it together.Bookmarked by NotReallyExisting
17 Jul 2024
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Feign death is only supposed to last an hour.
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Tav goes down in a fight.
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- Part 20 of Madly
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- 22,782
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- 5/5
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16 Jul 2024
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Being reborn with her memories intact was pretty great. Being reborn into a world plagued by war was a little less great.
Being reborn literally decades before canon events fucking sucked.
Senju Tsunade wants what she was previously denied: a long, peaceful life, a family that loves her and a job that brings her purpose. Instead she gets life as a career killer, a family destined to die before she reaches adulthood and no job prospects that wouldn't include murder.
Awesome.
This story was tailored to create a believable romance for Orochimaru that neither redeems him nor portrays him as a toxic, possessive, obsessive monster. The first part of the story will focus on Tsunade to show how she becomes the sort of person that could have a relatively healthy relationship with someone like him.
The fic is COMPLETE.
UPDATE July 2025: I'm working on a podfic! You can find it here
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- Part 1 of The Thousand-Armed Goddess of Mercy
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- 149/149
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30 Jun 2024
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Sakura, Ino, and Kakashi get flung to the end of the earth.
They're not alone there.
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- English
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- 35,534
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- 8/?
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19 Apr 2024
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The main question, she thinks, isn’t her chance at survival or whether she’ll stick to the plot. No, it’s whether she should change the flawed system that thrives off war and child soldiers. Arguably, she’s in the best position to fix it. People would certainly be more willing to listen to you if you threaten them with the giant fox demon in your gut. But what would the cost be? Her morals? Her humanity?
The road to hell is paved with good intentions after all.
(In which a human rights lawyer is reincarnated into a world without morality, without logic, and most of all, without laws. Helping the world was easier when people weren’t ninjas.)
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- 15/?
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03 Apr 2024