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Despite You Tomorrow Will Be Another Day by Desdemonia, Paragade13 (DemiMuiraquita)
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy
09 Feb 2026
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She shot the energy conduit.
A brilliant burst of light blinded her, and she felt her body burning up in the microseconds it took for the energy wave to hit her. Time seemed to slow to a crawl. She hardly understood what Vendetta meant, 'whence it all began', how it would destroy the Reapers, or if her death would be painful. She hoped not; she thought she deserved a little more than that, after all that she'd sacrificed.
She smiled as it all went dark.
Lieutenant Commander Janine Shepard woke with a start, her lips parched, and her hair matted in sweat. She brought up her omni-tool and displayed the time: 5:27, 17th of March, 2183.
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Ottilia (Otti) Shepard woke up after being dead for two years. She was revived by Cerberus, the Council still doesn't care about her or her cause, and the Illusive Man is a dick. She's plagued with nightmares and flashbacks, often lashing out at herself for things frankly out of her control. She's able to keep this under wraps from her crew. That is, until a turian with an obsession for calibrations decides to check on her after noticing the tendency to go directly to her cabin one too many times.
(In which Shepard is a mess, Garrus panics at the thought of his best friend suffering, and they end up together. Only Shepard is still, in fact, a hot mess.)
I will make a habit of putting content warnings on chapters containing self-harm as well as an indication of which paragraph you can skip to if you don't want to read that. Please take care of yourself while you read if it's a trigger for you. I won't have it mentioned too often, but it will be in there.
One other thing, my writing style has evolved as I’ve written this fic. The first 4 chapters stick very close to cannon which means it starts slow. I apologize for that, but I promise it gets better starting at chapter 4 and only improves from there!
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Finding yourself through the smoke of the battlefield by MadWitchAgnes
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
06 Feb 2026
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This is a what if.
What if John Shepard resurrection went wrong?
What if he was brought back in someone else's body?
What if the road to inner peace is rocky, painful and leaves you scarred?
What if he had siblings?
What if said siblings now hunt him across the galaxy?Shakarian is the end game, but it's not all rainbows and puppies all along.
Cannon is being played loose with. I treat it more like a set of guidelines.
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With the Devil on Your Back by TotallyTotoro
Fandoms: Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect Trilogy
02 Feb 2026
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The second installment in Compromise Who I Am, a Mass Effect trilogy novelization. This piece covers the events of Mass Effect 2, as seen through Shepard's eyes.
This series includes a slow-burn romance with Garrus and an in-depth exploration of Commander Shepard. Some dialogue is lifted directly from the game and expanded upon, but this story will mostly be filling in the gaps and exploring a struggling Shepard who finds herself now carrying the weight of an entire universe's future on her shoulders.
Tagged side characters are prominently featured and explored. Specific content warnings are listed within chapters.
Comprise Who I Am is a series about pain and healing. It is a story about learning to trust, falling in love with your best friend, and about handling the worst parts of yourself together. Reading the first installment of this series is not required, but is encouraged.
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- Part 2 of Compromise Who I Am
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Part three of the Chance Effect series (more summary details to come)
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- Part 3 of Chance Effect
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In Her Element by saintnoir
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - Various Authors, Mass Effect - All Media Types
21 Jan 2026
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Her masters broke her until she was rescued. Her biotics were uncontrollable until her mentor guided her. Her soul was shattered until her first love mended it. Her compass was broken until her new family taught her how to live again.
She was a broken girl from Mindoir.
Until she became the Savior of the Galaxy.
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Are we our memories? by NoPunnyNamesLeft
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
19 Jan 2026
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How does spending two years dead affect your brain?
Will your neurons survive? Will your memories remain intact? Will you remain intact?This is a fanfic of Colonist Sole survivor + Ruthless Shepard thrust back into a galaxy he barely remembers, that seems to barely remember him (that last part is pretty much canon)
This is my first serious foray into writing, so feedback welcome!
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- English
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He Wouldn't Hurt Her (Much) by Distressed_Authoress
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
16 Jan 2026
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“I'm not sure if I find him scary or... sexy.”
“A lot of women like bad boys.”
“A lot of women... like you?”A human commander brought back from the dead. A drell assassin who considers himself dead. When the two cross paths, things change between them, feelings get complicated and become powerful. Tensions start to rise and half truths are told. No tactic he knows is off the table for her heart.
A plan set, a target to capture, a lover to claim. That is his goal before the end of this mission. And he will do anything to succeed.
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This is a (some could say partially, others could say fully) darker interpretation of the canon romance, though it does stick to canon, many scenes are expanded upon (a few are rewritten either because they don't seem right in canon, or I needed to find a way to fit them) and new ones are made to fully make this story. Characterization of Thane on the other hand, that's ambiguous if you want to consider it canon compliant. Personally I do.
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- Part 1 of An Ardent Assassin's Alarming Attraction
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Reap what you sow by wanderingthevoid
Fandoms: Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect Trilogy, Dragon Age - All Media Types
01 Jan 2026
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Asteria Shepard knew how to get the job done, albeit with the occasional explosion. She survived 18 years on the streets of Earth's megacity, a thresher maw, being spaced, the list went on. So when it came down to the wire with what to do with the reapers, she had only one thought: it's finally over. That is, until she wakes up after the battle for Earth in what seems to be the middle ages, surrounded by primatives. This must be what Javik felt, no wonder he was so damn grumpy.
A story of how Shepard went from savior of the Citadel to savior of Thedas.
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Mass Effect: Book II - The Cerberus Chronicles by JShepLord
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy
25 Dec 2025
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After waking up in a Cerberus space station, Shepard demands answers and finds out that she had died two years prior with the destruction of the Normandy. With two years of her absence, how will the galaxy react to her returning, and how will she react to what the galaxy has become?
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- Part 3 of Mass Effect Chronicles
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Commander Laureline Shepard - the lone survivor of the Mindoir raid and the hero of Elysium. A chance encounter with ancient technology leads to the unveiling of secrets that go back millions of years, and the discovery of threat to life across the entire galaxy. With a ragtag team assembled Laureline is selected to face and defeat the source of this threat, while facing her own inner demons.
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An Unwritten Galaxy by AsterHowl
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
21 Nov 2025
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Liara never becomes an information broker. Tali never returns to the Flotilla. Garrus never leaves C-Sec. Wrex never returns to Tuchanka. Joker never leaves the Alliance. Ashley never recovers from survivor's guilt.
Jack never escapes Cerberus. Miranda never escapes her father. Jacob never leaves the Corsairs. Mordin never works on the modified genophage. Samara never settles down. Thane never abandons his son. Zaeed never stands up to Vido Santiago. Kasumi never crosses Donovan Hock. Grunt never receives the mental imprint. Legion is never assigned to find Shepard.
The galaxy is a cold, cruel place. Much more than Commander Shepard ever knew.
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Unfortunately, My Pyjacks And My Circus by A_Dandelions_Spite
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy
15 Nov 2025
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Name(s): Emry Winchester, Sarah Smith, Hecate Orivad
Age: 25 earth years, born April 13th 2158.
Height: 5'6"
Weight: 165lbs
Hair: dark brown
Eyes: hazel
Skin tone: tan
Discernable marks: she has 3 fingers and a thumb on each hand instead of the normal 4, and tattoos and freckles across her body.Emry Winchester loves a good book, video games, drawing, killing shit that needs killed, and her friends. This story follows her as she joins the Normandy, makes friends, has some fun and terrifying times, and deals with grief, loss, and her past.
This is part one of a whole story I've built in my head over the last almost year. It is going to cover the whole mass effect trilogy, and has mentions of Andromeda. There are short term romances, it goes places. I'll try to make sure it stays fun while we go.
I have a Tumblr where I draw art of my OCs and the other characters, it's the same name as here!
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- Part 1 of Of Pyjacks And Krogan
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Oath of loyalty by etherealend
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
07 Nov 2025
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Loyalty: a notion that had always gravitated around Garrus’ life.
“I am loyal to him, as he is loyal to me. And isn’t this the greatest form of love?” Her mother, as the good turian she was, used to say with regard to Castis.
Loyalty. During childhood, boot camp, military service. Loyalty: a virtue every turian was supposed to possess from birth, to the Hierarchy, first and foremost.
Garrus had always, secretly, disagreed. It was something to be earned.
And with her, such had been.
Commander Shepard had secured his deepest loyalty, and only when he saw her for the last time, before the Normandy SR-1 was taken down, did he understand how right his mother was. -
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Commander Shepard and the Normandy have to save the galaxy. (Again.) With said galaxy trying to stand against her, because of course no one would believe the mountains of evidence she's compiled, it's time to cash in a lot of favors and goodwill to ensure she can mount a war effort before the Reapers arrive.
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- Part 13 of in which shakarios happens
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Goose Bumps 2.0 by LarasLandlockedBlues
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
17 Oct 2025
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Rewrite of the existing and finished Goose Bumps, Part 1 of this series.
Fiona Shepard woke up on a Cerberus operating table, apparently after being dead for two years. She wants nothing more than to see a familiar face, someone who will have her back as she works with her former enemies and tries to save the galaxy. Again.
And then after one trip to Omega, she's reunited with her best friend in the galaxy.
But he looks at her differently, now - and she can't seem to shake this new feeling. Especially once she realizes it's not really a new feeling.
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- Part 3 of Stress Relief
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Vendetta by SomethingProfound
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
15 Oct 2025
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Total war demands victory at any cost.
After the destruction of the Bahak System, Emilia Shepard returns home just in time for the Reaper invasion. The galaxy finds itself in a race against time: win the war before there's no one left to fight.
ME3, canon-divergent with a focus on milscifi and off-screen moments, multiple POVs, paragade Shepard.
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- Part 9 of A Sea of Stars
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Alex Shepard, his crew, and the quest to find Saren Arterius
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- Part 6 of Odyssey
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Palaven Rising by girafficparka
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
03 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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Fall Again For Us by sewerpigeon
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
23 Sep 2025
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They had something once. Something real. But a lot changes about your life when you come back from death, and a lot changes about love when you’re not sure just who it is that’s standing in front of you. Wren Shepard and Kaidan Alenko went through hell together facing Saren and Sovereign, but then they turned around and put each other through hell on Horizon. But now that the Reaper threat has made its way to Earth, they’re back in each other’s orbit, and they realize some things don’t change at all. His heart still stutters when she walks into the room. Her eyes never stray from him for long. Will this war allow them to remember who they really are, to remember what they are together, or will one of them end up being lost before either of them is found?
Part One of This War is Our Dawning takes place during the events of Mass Effect 3 with occasional references to ME1 and ME2.
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- Part 1 of This War is Our Dawning