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Spring Break by misseffect for Otempora
Fandoms: Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect Trilogy
15 Sep 2024
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“Hey.” Shepard rolled over to face him. “D’you wanna start a band?”
Garrus didn’t say anything. Or maybe he laughed, he wasn't sure. That was another one of those Shepard questions; the ones where he could feel his life fork like a mountain pass.
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16 Sep 2025
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Swimming In The Deep End by misseffect for Otempora
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
13 Sep 2025
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Shepard had a voice built for arena shows but there was an intimacy to it too, when she slowed things down; an effortless, mellow, jazz-singer quality, coiling the music around her like smoke. Garrus only had to let her pull him in like the drag of a cigarette.
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16 Sep 2025
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Val Shepard is the survivor of Mindoir, Hero of Elysium, first human Spectre, Savior of the Citadel, Destroyer of Bahak, and savior of the galaxy...
... or is she?
Waking up as an ordinary Alliance officer, Shepard tries to make sense of the world around her, where everything seems changed.
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- Part 14 of Val Shepard
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On Pyjaks and Parenthood by literarypeachtea
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
31 May 2023
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With Mom out of town, Castis Vakarian has to take care of his toddler son for a weekend. It should go smoothly . . . right?
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08 Nov 2023
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Maybe one day he’d get used to her just walking around, talking and breathing and just generally being very not dead, but not yet.
Garrus in the wake of Omega as he unravels the mystery of his squad’s betrayal and his own loss and grief, and what it means to be back working with Shepard after he put everything he learned from her into practice to such devastating effect.
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08 Nov 2023
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The Art of Krogan Diplomacy by Beepiary
Fandoms: Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect Trilogy
29 Dec 2022
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During the Citadel DLC party, Shepard walks in on Grunt describing his battles with the reaperfied rachni during the mission on Utukku. Wrex decides to teach Grunt about krogan diplomacy, while Shepard and Garrus sit in on the lesson (and occasionally heckle from the sidelines).
CW: There is a brief mention of child death in the context of the genophage. Nothing gruesome, but be warned.
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08 Nov 2023
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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?This story will crisscross the Milky Way, taking place in the 10 years after the Reaper War. Set against the backdrop of a galaxy in upheaval, Taproot is an exploration of duty, change, love, and most of all, finding home.
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- Part 1 of Taproot
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Nick and Jess and the zombie apocalypse.
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06 May 2023
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Unidentified activity at the edge of the Sol system sends Commander Shepard and her ship through a supposedly dormant mass relay. Stranded on the other side, the lives of her crew rest in her hands; a single decision can bring salvation—or death.
When Lieutenant Garrus Vakarian is ordered to investigate the crash site of an unknown craft, he becomes part of Shepard’s fate, and she becomes part of his. They believe they've made first contact, but a truth their peoples have hidden threatens to rock everything they know—and what they mean to each other.
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search for things you can't see by calypsid
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
30 Aug 2022
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He's elbow-deep in the guts of the navigation computer when the comm makes an urgent, inquisitive noise that makes him jerk and hit his head on the forward readout. He takes a precious second to grumble under his breath before scrambling up to thumb the line open.
"Vakarian!" She's practically crowing. He's only met her once, but she's hard to forget, so he can imagine the scene: Shepard, loose and long-limbed, sprawling sideways over her pilot's chair, her strange, human mouth in a wide, triumphant smile. "Of all the transport lanes in all the universe – "
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- Part 1 of on winds and wild tides
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- English
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- 1,564
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
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27 Dec 2022
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A Little Too Much Like Me by Castelau
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect: Andromeda
11 Jan 2023
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Someone has the excellent idea that the way to ease tensions between C-Sec and the Spectres is to make them cooperate on a team-building retreat. It goes exactly as well as expected.
Caught in the middle of it all, poor Garrus is forced to team up with his least favourite person in the world, his father's boyfriend.
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- Part 1 of Trashbag's No-Reapers AU
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26 Dec 2022
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Tales from the Terminus (AU) by Dulcidyne
Fandom Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect Trilogy
21 May 2023
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After slavers attacked Mindoir and destroyed her life, there was no Alliance cruiser, no clear-eyed marine unlocking the cage. Instead, it was Licinia Incendus , a rogue turian general, and the crew of her stolen military frigate, the Imparateasa, who set Shepard free. Now Shepard captains the very ship that rescued her, operating in the fringe of the galaxy, hunting down slavers, mercs, and worse. But there's a threat coming to the Terminus, out of the Omega-4 relay. Will her budding partnership with Archangel and his crew be enough to face it?
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12 Nov 2022
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Good Old-Fashioned Insubordination by jusbeinkt
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
08 Dec 2022
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Shepard and Garrus discover there's nothing like a little light roleplay to help you forget the galaxy is falling apart around you. A series of erotic vignettes.
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11 Nov 2022
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Shepard struggles to make sense of an inappropriate crush on a certain turian. Set on stamping out the infatuation, she only manages to make her situation worse.
Garrus has long since come to terms with his feelings for the commander. When what he thought to be unobtainable proves otherwise, he knows it’s only a matter of time before he screws up.
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White Collar Crime by orphan_account for skyylark
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age II
30 Sep 2022
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When Bartrand kicks Varric off the board of Tethras Pharmaceuticals, Hawke helps Varric hatch a plot to regain control of his family company – one that includes subterfuge, thievery, and a touch of fake dating.
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Loyalty and Limerence by Serendipity001
Fandoms: Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect Trilogy
31 Dec 2023
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Garrus' thoughts and feelings regarding Commander John Shepard were easy to understand and explain: He respected and admired the human Spectre and would follow him into hell in a heartbeat. His feelings regarding his crewmate and friend, Lieutenant Jane Shepard, however, weren't as clear cut. She'd taken up residence in his head and wouldn't leave.
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Beginning with Adrien Victus's ascent to primarch and his work on the Normandy, a romance blooms with Commander Shepard. Though he takes his leave after the genophage is cured, he and Shepard stay in touch throughout the war. In its aftermath, perhaps the love of two soldiers can endure.
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Aria has hired an interesting new enforcer; a human soldier with no memory. She is skilled in combat and infiltration, and has a hunger to eradicate the evil from Omega. Archangel has a similar mission. Can they work together? Or will they just get in each other's way?
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Spectre Shepard’s gone undercover to find the source of Omega’s latest slew of missing persons cases. Working the case alone is challenging, but teaming up with Archangel might be the most dangerous thing she’s ever done.
There’s a darkness in him that threatens not just her life, but his too. Can she save the man without putting a target on her back?
Or will his darkness consume everything in its path?
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Omega AU, Garrus never recruited by Shep, Garrus becomes Archangel before he and Shep meet. Alternate Garrus backstory. -
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22 Jun 2022