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It wasn’t perfect, but it was ours. The guns went quiet, the fleets came home, and for the first time in a long time, we thought maybe the galaxy had learned something.
We built a life in the calm that followed.
Mornings filled with laughter instead of alarms. Evenings spent watching the light fade behind Palaven’s hills. We told ourselves the scars were healing, that the nightmares would fade, that the ghosts we buried would stay buried.They didn’t.
This is not the story of the heroes who saved the galaxy.
It is the story of what came after — of the love that endured when everything else burned away, and of the fire that would ignite a new war.Because when the world crumbles, when the heavens fracture and the ashes fall,
all that remains —
all that matters —
is who we hold on to.3rd Book in the After Trilogy.
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- Part 3 of After
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Amidst blood soaked planets and a war torn galaxy, people come together despite all odds. Can two broken hearted biotics heal while all life burns around them? Can two widows find a new love while being haunted? The Normandy crew flying under Commander Shepard will have to do more than fight the oncoming storm if they hope to survive the Reaper War. Can second chances really exist?
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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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Corsairs: Codex by melissalde
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
30 Jan 2026
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Spies, wetwork, espionage; this is no military operation. This is an illustrated character codex for Mass Effect: Corsairs, a character focused prequel series.
Is it really Mass Effect without a Codex? Each chapter has a concept sketch and backstory on different characters for easy browsing.
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Shepard: A Survivor's Saga by twistedwit
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
30 Jan 2026
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Canon-compliant novelization fleshing out the Mass Effect trilogy's relationships and emotional toll. Centered on iconic Lone Survivor/Colonist Engineer Jane Shepard as she appeared in the Legendary Edition. Strong paragon leanings, but with the mouth of a renegade. Includes canon character deaths and detailed alien anatomy. Contains much in-game dialogue courtesy of Bioware.
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While Commander Rynn Shepard deals with the most critical of missions, it falls to the good people over at N7 Spec Ops to hold the line in various smaller, but still important battlefields all over the galaxy. This is the story of one of their squads, codename Haelius, after the last satellite in the turian system of Taetrus to transmit data before being destroyed by the Reapers, providing the Hierarchy with its first advance warning of the coming invasion. Follow the adventures of Evelyn Rodgers, spunky Alliance combat engineer, and her teammates.
This is a novelization of M3 multi-player. I love Garrus, but I had inspiration for a different kind of turian romance, and I didn't want to distort everyone's favorite vigilante, so I just had to make up my own lovable spiky alien and his Alliance woman.
This story is a spin-off of Turians do not lie, and will feature a cameo by everyone's favorite crew.
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- Part 2 of The Butcher Redeemed Extended Universe
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Like Goddamn Butterflies by BGBadWolf
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, X-Men - All Media Types
30 Jan 2026
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PART 3 (and possibly the conclusion) of the Boneyard medic series! (if you haven't read the previous arcs-- this might not make a lot of sense.) The continued story of a mutant displaced from his own dimension and his terrifying adventures with his new family. Will he and Kolyat finally stop dancing around each other and admit their feelings? I'm sure we all hope so.
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- Part 3 of The Boneyard Medic
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Azure Endurance by Infernal_Architect
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Mass Effect Trilogy
30 Jan 2026
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What would happen if a young asari commando crash landed onto the primitive world of Thedas from Dragon Age? Join me as we find out what Corava does after her escape pod lands, how she changes Ferelden in the fifth blight and beyond as she meets, becomes friends with, or becomes enemies with characters from Dragon Age.
Note: this is a relaunch of a story as I could not recover my old account. I am also working on heavily editing the previously released chapters and have so many more drafted.
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The war is over.
The galaxy survives.In the aftermath of the Crucible, the Normandy remains in orbit above a scarred Earth, carrying a crew who doesn’t quite know how to exist without the woman who held them together. Worlds burn quietly. The relays lie dark. Grief settles into the ship like gravity.
As the search for Commander Shepard begins—and fails—again and again, Garrus Vakarian navigates the unbearable space between hope and certainty, memory and absence, love that was never simple and loss that refuses to stay contained.
This is a story about aftermath.
About found family running on autopilot.
About loving someone who saved the universe and still didn’t come home. -
The Space Between Orders by Zerbinetta
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
30 Jan 2026
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First contact was supposed to be historic.
Instead, it was a war.Two years into the conflict between humanity and the Turian Hierarchy, Commander Stella Shepard—callsign Valkyrie—has become one of the Alliance’s most effective weapons: a biotic vanguard who wins battles with precision, restraint, and an inconvenient habit of asking why.
On the other side of the front, Garrus Vakarian—Centurion—is tasked with stopping her. He studies her patterns, counters her moves, and begins to suspect that the war itself is being handled with catastrophic short-sightedness.
Somewhere between enemy fire, illicit communications, and one reckless, impossible meeting on Omega, respect becomes understanding—and understanding becomes something far more dangerous.
When command decides that ending the war requires annihilation, not restraint, both are forced to choose between loyalty and conscience, survival and truth.
This is a story about first contact done wrong, the cost of obedience, and what happens when two people decide the future is worth risking everything for—even each other.
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it’s too warm, she thinks, the wet seeping through her gloves;
too warm, too fast, too much
her tempo rising, heart pounding, too warm too much too much;
her hands press tighter to face, neck, mandible as
she reminds herself: still, breathe.(Shepard, trying to rescue a fallen Archangel.)
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- Part 2 of carried in your chest
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Project Phoenix Lance by German_Bear
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Halo (Video Games) & Related Fandoms
30 Jan 2026
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In 2574, following the creation of the United Sentient Species Federation, humanity discovers even more intelligent life beyond the known galaxy.
After secretly infiltrating the Normandy Project, the Federation intervenes to save Commander John Shepard from death after the Collectors’ devastating attack at the end of Mass Effect 1. Keeping their involvement hidden from Shepard’s friends, they offer him a new alliance, an entire interstellar federation instead of Cerberus.
Now, with the power of countless worlds behind him, Shepard must navigate a galaxy reshaped by cooperation, secrecy, and the weight of his own resurrection.
With a small side of idiots and stupid politics. -
Polaris Act VIII: Crossing the Bridge by melissalde
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
30 Jan 2026
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Nihlus Kryik’s early years as a Spectre are a letdown to the Council until an Eldfell-Ashland heiress lends her support. As Jacqui ushers the turian into the prestigious world of Citadel elites, a bond forms between them. In defiance of advice from Sha'ira, the pair betray each other’s trust.
The night before their final mission, tensions are high among the Project Keiko team as long-overdue conversations are had.
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After being dead for 2 years, Shepard returns thanks to Cerberus and finds herself in the eyes of all of female crew mates and a couple folks not in the crew wanting to see their commander at her weakest.
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Juxtaposed Amended by squiggly_squid
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect
30 Jan 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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The Bridge Between by Stanic
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
30 Jan 2026
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The red wave of the Crucible changed everything. It destroyed the Reapers, disabled the mass relays, and apparently claimed the life of Commander Shepard. But nothing in this new galaxy is quite what it seems. As humanity tears itself apart and new threats gain power in the shadows of conflict, an impossible discovery will reunite the legendary crew of the Normandy for a mission beyond hope itself.
A post-ME3 psychological thriller exploring identity beyond sacrifice, featuring established Shepard/Garrus relationship.
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- Part 1 of The Bridge Between
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Ten years ago, the Reapers were vanquished, the galaxy saved. Statues were raised. Obituaries written. Shepard, having died in the last moments of the war, became a hero, a legend, enshrined in memory.
Only Shepard wasn’t dead. He was hidden. Locked away for all that time.
And now, Shepard has returned, having been freed from his frozen prison.
His pursuit for answers will lead him across a changed galaxy. He knows this wasn’t an accident. Someone had a reason to put him under for those ten years, and they had the power to make the galaxy believe he was never coming back. He will stop at nothing to find the truth and take down those that wronged him and destroy the lies they’ve built. Only then will his vengeance be complete. The galaxy will soon learn how dangerous a dead man can be.
And when the last name is crossed off, he will look to the stars again. Toward the one face that’s haunted his every waking thought and pulled him forward all this time.
A voice. A memory. His lost love.
Tali'Zorah.
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Maw by AnthropicScholar (Edge_2000)
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Command & Conquer (Video Games)
30 Jan 2026
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Akuze. in the middle of nowhere in the Attican Traverse.
170 years before first contact with humanity, a ship of Batarian Slavers pursue escapees to Akuze, and encounter something terrible.
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- Part 4 of Outside Context
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She did what fate asked of her, she went to Earth and surrendered to lockdown. She prepared and sat waiting for that dreadful day and now it's here. The Reapers have arrived. It's up to Commander Shepard to end this cycle once and for all, both of the harvest and her own personal torment, but will she have the strength to do what must be done?
A ME3 Story
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- Part 3 of Fated for Control
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It was just a game. Some harmless fun.
But now James is balls deep in his commander, and he doesn’t know what to do. All he knows is that he can’t get enough, and that there seems to be way more to Jane Shepard than he’s ever realized.
Expect themes of repressed feelings, a lot of character-driven sex, jealousy, tears; the usual BlueClanMarkings experience.