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What Makes a Warrior? by Socially_Inept
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
08 Jul 2025
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Jane Shepard got out of the Alliance military after losing her platoon on Akuze, and joined the diplomatic corps. She secured the release of hundreds of hostages as an ambassador to the Batarian Hegemony after the Skyllian Blitz, and took part in risky in-person negotiations before, during and after Torfan.
She dedicated herself to ending wars. But when the establishment of a Batarian consulate on the contested colony of Eden Prime is interrupted by a Geth invasion, she finds herself at the centre of a war for all organic life - one which seems to end with annihilation, even in victory.
Which is unfortunate, but she is nothing if not adaptable.
I'm just going to keep adding tags as and when the story gets to them. The Femshep/Ashley relationship is going to be platonic and snarky, but it might turn into romance if I think they vibe. Either way, Ash is bi but doesn't know it. Batarians are assholes, but I'll try to give them more depth than they get in the games.
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Mass Effect (to see through the eyes of a Turian) by Hunttijuntti
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy
08 Jul 2025
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Freya is Garrus Vakarian’s older sister with a strained relationship with their father. She loves her siblings deeply, hopes to reconcile with her family, and cares for her mother’s health. She left Palaven while Garrus was still in the military.
Freya treats all species equally and values honesty. She is ashamed of the turians’ past actions, criticizes the First Contact War, and opposes the continuation of the genophage.I do not own anything from mass effect only oc is mine
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Years after the Reaper War, a grieving Kaidan comes into possession of the files Shepard left for him.
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The Invisible Empire by a_pun_or_something
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
08 Jul 2025
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When the fading Protheans hidden away on Ilos awoke from their slumber, they found extinction waiting for them. All but twelve lost to their sleep. And so a species was chosen to avenge. To remain hidden, freed from the chains of the Relays until the time came. And so the Twelve uplifted the ones who called themselves Humans. And the Invisible Empire was born.
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Throughout the years, Garrus has found himself in the wrong place at the wrong time, injured for whatever reason. After all, in his line of work, you have to expect the usual minor (or sometimes major) flesh wound. At least he has one constant in Shepard, always there to tell him to patch it up.
—or, four times Garrus is injured in front of Shepard, and one time the roles are reversed. A relationship progression shown through injuries.
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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
08 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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Commander Shepard had no idea what fate had designed for him when he landed on Eden Prime and interacted with the Prothean beacon. From humble beginnings, he would rise to lead the fight against Saren, return from the dead to face down the Collectors, before he would lead the charge in the war against the Reapers that would bring the galaxy to the brink of destruction.
Along the way, he would build teams, make friendships, and enjoy the company of women and asari. Numerous women and asari. They loved him and he loved them.
Relationships and characters will be added as they appear.
Comments / feedback appreciated as always.
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The Reclaimer Wars:The Reaper Crisis by Johnnieboy11
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Halo (Video Games) & Related Fandoms, Battlestar Galactica (2003), Star Wars - All Media Types
07 Jul 2025
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Six months prior to the worst crisis the normal Milky Way would face, Commander Shepard hunts the Collectors abducting human colonists in the Terminus Systems when she comes upon a terrifying new sight:Three Intergalactic fleets arrayed against each-other and her sole Frigate. Three new factions, one seeking a home and two seeking answers, all linked by the Star Roads.
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Test Subject 47-R / Codename: Rose by Hunttijuntti
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Cartoon), Star Wars Sequel Trilogy
07 Jul 2025
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She was only nine years old when she was taken. Over 160 years later, she wakes up on an operating table—terrified, mutated, and more powerful than anyone imagined. Her instincts unleash a storm of biotics and Force lightning that levels an entire research facility.
Commander Shepard and the crew of the Normandy find a lone, frightened child among the ruins. She doesn’t know what she is. She doesn’t know what’s been done to her.
But Shepard makes a choice: to protect her, to raise her.
And slowly, the girl known only as Rose will discover that she might be the key to the galaxy’s survival.Series
- Part 1 of Mass star effect wars
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Emotions Long Hidden by inkedobsidian
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
07 Jul 2025
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Shepard sufferes minor affects to Morinth's powers, as Morinth was able to use Shepards long hidden emotions against her. With Morinth defeated Shepard collapses post mission and her dreams try to understand what emotions Morinth could have possibly evoked.
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Epic Rap Battles of the Galaxy by Hyperfein
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
07 Jul 2025
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Tali'Zorah is here and she isn't mincing words. On a crusade to dismantle all who oppose her, she embarks on a solo mission to prove herself as the galaxies greatest wordsmith.
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Shepard always thought she'd seen it all, and the Universe *always* had a way of proving her wrong at every turn. But this time it was different. Nothing could have prepared her for this... (A re-telling of Mass Effect 3 that explores the question: What if the kid from the vent was just a kid?)
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Commander Shepard found herself blasted out of one world and into another. Quite literally.
Her adventures took a turn from interstellar travel and warfare to, well… an utterly medieval planet. Just when she thought she’d seen it all, she was now faced with an unfamiliar world, horrible cartography, goddamn magic, new species, and horses.
Oh, and dragons; mustn’t forget the dragons.
Or: commander Shepard lands on Thedas, ass-first, and joins Bull's Chargers.
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- Part 1 of Hic Sunt Dracones
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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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Arizona knew Justin’s work as a Spectre and Black Ops operative was dangerous, but she wasn't prepared for just how dangerous it was until she gets a late-night visit.
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- Part 7 of Jan1mal's Mass Effect Stories
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The Goddesses and Gods are fickle, offering hope and love in one hand; vindictive and spiteful in the other. Mortals lives are of no consequence in the machinations and squabbles of deities.
A child of prophecy and a child of curse are caught in the middle. Is their fate set or can they defy the will of the Gods?Series
- Part 2 of Under Every Star and in Every Life
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Inside and Out by psychoadept
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
07 Jul 2025
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100% porn spin off of the Turning Tables timeline, a little fantastical and with minimal context. Think "if Shepard's submissive impulses existed in their own universe." This is not a story about Commander Shepard, it's a story about Jill, a submissive pup who can't get enough of being dominated by her owners.
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- Part 15 of Turning Tables (Jack/femShep)
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Garrus dies on Earth.
Killed by a banshee that was aiming for Shepard. It should have ended there.
But instead, he wakes back up on Omega. No wounds, no scars, and very much alive. The reapers haven’t arrived yet, the galaxy isn’t at war and Shepard is still alive. No one seems to remember anything.
Except for him.
Each time he dies, he resets to the same point, with nothing but his memories and a splitting headache. He tries to figure out how to break the cycle, even escape it entirely. But there is no remorse, only the same outcome every time
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Definition: The Spark of Hope by Calamity_J
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
07 Jul 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