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Love & Reapers: The Memoir of Mel Shepard - Volume III: The Reaper War by Neurodivergent_Melody (Neurodivergent_Pixels)
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy
04 Jul 2025
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The culimination of an expanded and revised re-telling of the Mass Effect trilogy in which the Tali'Zorah romance begins early and Mel Shepard is autistic and non-binary.
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- 3/?
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Removed from Rakhana at the expense of being banned from the world, Casnar is brought to Kahje to live alone and wonder what has happened to his sister, her future child…His relationship continues to strengthen with the firebrand commander, Braithlynn Shepard, of the Normandy—who returns to her crew with Kaidan Alenko and Richard Jenkins. A high challenge for the rights to Rakhana becomes central focus among the forepolitics of the Citadel and the Illuminated Primacy, the Batarian Hegemony intervening…The durril that was given to the batarians in exchange for tactical fighting ships is at the heart of a conspiracy, as the powerful dust is to be contained from driving non-biotic men and women mad, and from giving greater power to biotic activists seeking war against the Council races and their young allies, Humanity, among others.
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- Part 3 of A New Fate
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The Reapers have been destroyed. Why does the victory taste like ashes? The Normandy wrecks on an uncharted planet, and a grieving crew must pull together and find a way home. At Sol, the shattered remains of the victorious allied forces struggle to survive, coexist, and reconnect to the rest of the galaxy. The greatest threat to peace comes not from without, but within. A story of grief, perseverance, leadership, and hope.
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In the year 2183, the galaxy is on the edge of a paradigm shift.
Humanity—guided by whispers of a long-dead civilization—has become a powerful, enigmatic presence in the stars. For over twelve centuries, they have expanded through the void using Slipspace drives. Human society is built upon a foundation of Advanced AI, genetically adapted instincts, and abilities.
This advancement comes not from chance, but from design.
Commander John Shepard, an elite Alpha operative with a reputation for moral clarity and martial brilliance, is chosen to represent humanity to the Council—part envoy, part threat. But Shepard is more than a soldier; he is the culmination of centuries of planning, evolution, and resistance. His mission is complicated further by rising galactic tensions, buried truths, and a connection he cannot deny: an Omega named Kaidan Alenko, whose presence awakens instincts Shepard barely understands.
As a forgotten threat reawakens beyond the edges of known space, Shepard must balance diplomacy and war, instinct and reason, to uncover the truth behind the Prothean echoes woven into every strand of his species’ DNA—and stop the cycle before it begins again.
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- Part 2 of Mass Effect: Echoes of Inheritance
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Mass Effect 1 Epic Mission Compositions by TaylorFierce1
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
03 Jul 2025
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This will be a retelling of Mass Effect via compositions. We will begin with Mass Effect 1 and make our way through the whole trilogy. There will be compositions of the missions and favorite moments, as well as portraits of the characters.
Updates on Thursday.
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- Part 1 of Mass Effect Epic Mission Compositions
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Juliette Has A Gun by chouettetc
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
02 Jul 2025
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She's the Alliance's best spy and secret weapon. He's the one of the Council's newest Spectres and ex-Blackwatch operative. And if they don't manage to cause the next intergalactic incident from this assignment, they should both be showered in accolades from the Council.
But intergalactic cooperation is never that simple, is it?
Steamy, poignant, and full of action, this fic explores the darker and more complex version of female Shepard in a spy AU, and the space boyfriend we all know and love.
This is my first fic, but I've been dreaming of a spy thriller in the Mass Effect world for SO long. Can't wait to share this version of our reluctant, redheaded hero with you <3 . Updates to come probably multiple times a week, if not weekly!
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An Operative from an unknown species is researching places on Earth that are known for strange occurrences in 2025.
Her mission is to find Prothean technology to help her people build weapons to defeat, or protect against, the reapers.
As she scans an area she was ordered to look into, one that she wasn't expecting to find anything at, she finds something. When she touches it accidentally, she is flung into 2183 onto Eden Prime, and crashes hard, from the sky, into something or someone.
Now she needs to keep herself alive against her own people who think she abandoned her mission as well as help save the galaxy when she discovers the reaper threat is now here.
Primarily Garrus/OC
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Shadows Serenade by ARandomWrites
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
02 Jul 2025
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The stability of the galaxy has been disrupted as the newest species to join the space-faring races- humans. Welcomed by many, reviled by others. With their position threatened by human ambition, resilience, and determination; factions within the galactic community have formed a ruthless cabal that means to deal with the upstart humans. Forces that would go to any lengths to ensure their domination of humanity and anyone else that would stand in their way. War is coming and a small clandestine unit is set to uncover the truth and fight from the shadows.
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- Part 1 of Edge of the Sky: Mass Effect AU
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Where the Stars Come Home by Shepard2186
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect (Comics)
02 Jul 2025
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Set 3 years after the events of Mass Effect 3, follows Commander Shepard (now retired) and Ashley Williams as they settle down and try to start a family. I was really going for a romantic drama here about 2 people whose lives have been put on hold so much by war and conflict finally getting the chance to be together and have a shot at a future.
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Asari, Salarians, Turians. Three of the galaxy's most powerful races at the height of their power, blessed by the gifts of ancient progenitors. In a small corner of the Orion Arm, they find their mirror image in a human civilization as old and powerful as they are, equipped with their own divergent technology. Will this new uneasy peace between them last, or will secretive forces from both within and without plunge the galaxy into war?
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Definition: The Spark of Hope by Calamity_J
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
30 Jun 2025
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A single decision. A selfish, desperate desire for a change. The moment, where the entire galactic history stood at a dangerous crossroads. One path leading into the darkness of destruction, the other towards the light of salvation.
A story expanding creatively on the background of the Earthborn Joyce Shepard.
🔸 How did a gray soul, with no ID or official record, gain her trademark name?
🔸 Why would a gang-raised, authority distrusting teen from the streets even want to enlist in the first place?
🔸 How could the close relationship between her and David Anderson start out and grow into what we know from the canon and why?
🔸 And what role did Adrien Victus play so early on in this story, to earn himself a nickname "Pajama guy"?Read to find out 😉 because we all have our own version of canon to tell 🥰
Set roughly 15 years after the First Contact War.
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- Part 1 of Definition: The Last Cycle
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The Fury Book One - The Legend's Tale by Mr_Specified
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
29 Jun 2025
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Shepard : Part Zero : The Alliance by Justin_Time
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
29 Jun 2025
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When Pilgrims without a home run into the last Alien race that has yet to appear on the Galactic Radar, what would happen?
Would the two species do everything in their power to form a Alliance that would be unbreakable?
Or, would the Council of established Alien Leaders do everything they could to shatter the new partnership, before the two can have any chance of ruining the meticulous plans to keep the Galaxy stable?
Follow the Early Days of John Shepard, from his First Contact with the Quarian Species, and through the blossoming relationship with the Alien Girl he'd determine to spend the rest of his life with.
We start from Zero, to go to Infinity.
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- Part 1 of Mass Effect : Shepard
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2 Years, 8 Weeks, 4 Days by HalesShepardN7
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
29 Jun 2025
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Story takes place in Kaidan's point of view in the weeks following the Battle on the Citadel. He and Shepard embark on another journey on the Normandy. Up until the Collector attack and Shepard's untimely death. Kaidan has to go through the stages of grief and learn to accept that Shepard is dead in order to move on with his life. Memories of Shepard haunt his dreams. But what happens when his dreams become reality and Shepard is alive again? When he see's her again for the first time after 2 Years, 8 weeks, and 4 days.
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Drake, Emissary by Scififan33
Fandoms: Mass Effect - All Media Types, Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics), DCU, Mass Effect Trilogy
28 Jun 2025
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Tim Drake could say with certainty that he was having a bad day. Stupid magician, stupid spells. They had a plan to deal with him, they did! That plan did not involve Tim being hit. Or waking up on an alien planet. But he could adapt. But what he really wanted was to go home. Since he couldn't, he'd help them find a way to peace with their creators, they had saved his life after all. Or, rebuilt him? He didn't particularly want to think about that either.
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Beyond The Horizon. by xMajesticWriterx
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
27 Jun 2025
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John Shepard: decorated war hero, defender of the Citadel, and savior of the galaxy against rouge Turian Spectre Saren Arterius. Killed in action by a surprise 'Geth' attack at the age of 30.
Kaidan Alenko: 32-year-old long-term serving Alliance soldier, a survivor of 'BAat' training for biotic students, and survivor of the 'Geth' attack. Lost in an empty void with his Commander gone.
Both men have faced hurt and loss, together they became close friends on the Normandy SR-1, some speculate more than friends. Both knew that their friendship was more, but neither had the chance to admit that before Shepard was killed and Kaidan is resigned.
However, Commander Shepard is alive, two years later, improved and reborn through cybernetic implants and billions of credits spent to revive the once-lost soldier. Will their eventual reunion be heartfelt or heartbreak? Can the years of unbroken trust built between the two be fixed through the mission of another suicide mission?--All rights to Bioware--
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The Citadel of Dreams by KSMoss
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
27 Jun 2025
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AU. First Contact War. The galaxy where Shepard never enlists, and Vakarian remains a faithful Hierarchy officer.
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"In the quiet moments between battles, he would catch himself going into those forbidden if-onlys. If only they hadn't been on opposite sides of a conflict that seemed to grow more insurmountable with each passing year. If only he could forget the feel of her skin, the sound of her laughter, the way her eyes would light up when she spoke about her blue skies.
But he couldn't forget, just as he could never see her again. He had no choice but to press on, because that's what a good turian would do. And he clung to the hope that somehow, someday, he might find his way back to that turian…"
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This is Part 2 of the Violet Oceans series. It features a lighter tone and more familiar setting—expect hurt/comfort, drama, political intrigue, action sequences, and occasional smut. Fan-favorite villains and beloved characters from the canon will be tagged as they appear.Series
- Part 2 of Violet Oceans and Blue Skies
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Flesh and Bone (and what are you made of?) by Sandetiger
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
27 Jun 2025
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Still an ongoing WIP. This was supposed to be a very self-indulgent oneshot smut fic, and then it became 3 chapters and 20k words, and then I added more worldbuilding and leadup, and now I'm- idk. Here? This is my first fanfic work in probably 15 years, and Mass Effect has me by the metaphorical balls as a diehard krogan simp. Basic premise is Shepard's life post-destroy ending is one of endless political posturing. Everyone wants a piece of her and it's shredding her already tattered soul. So she ends up seeking advice from an unlikely source, and decides to make a major life change. Spoiler alert: I don't see Wrex and Shepard as star-crossed lovers or anything like that (no love-at-first-sight stuff from me) and their friendship is very important to me; I think you should be friends with the people you love, personally. There will be nsfw stuff but them being friends is The Good Shit. Tuchanka stuff starts at Ch. 6. For those that came for the smut, I'll do you a solid and denote the specific chapters when I get them posted. Don't be afraid to leave comments letting me know what you think. Engagement validates me [insert discord pleading eyes emoji].
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ME 100 Word Drabbles by WesternLarch
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
27 Jun 2025
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Entries for the MEFFW 100 Word Drabble Challenge, as well as my own drabbles based on a random word generator. Various characters/scenarios
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With the Devil on Your Back by TotallyTotoro
Fandoms: Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect Trilogy
27 Jun 2025
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The second installment in Compromise Who I Am, a Mass Effect trilogy novelization.
This series will include a slow-burn romance with Garrus, and features a darker, more complex 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.
As this story continues, it will include darker themes and non-explicit sexual content. There may also be additional relationships that develop over the course of the journey. All chapters will be tagged appropriately. Reading the first installment of this series is not required, but is encouraged.
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- Part 2 of Compromise Who I Am