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The Reapers have begun their cycle of extinction upon a galaxy unprepared for them. The fate of Earth, and all life, rests in the hands of one man. Shepard must unite everyone to create a galactic armada to fight a war unprecedented in scale against a foe that has never been beaten. However, the Illusive Man, and his rogue organization, Cerberus, have other goals in mind...
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This follows the second game of Mass Effect and continues where Class.i.fied left off
No longer on the run from her own species, former Operative Erinyes, finds herself trapped on her home planet. Unable to leave, and unable to send or receive transmissions when the Vextra sealed the planet, Erinyes finds herself in her own personal hell away from Garrus. The planet was sealed when she told the Overseers that the Reapers will be arriving soon after she helped defeat Sovereign.
Erinyes must now find a way to get off her home world and back to Garrus. She also needs to get the Reaper weapon schematics back from her abuser, and get the weapons into production. Most importantly she has to convince the Overseers to join the Reaper war of this cycle instead of hide.
A tall order from someone the Overseers see as an object and below them
Garrus exhausts his way through every possible thing he could think of to get her off world, whereas Erinyes decides to show the Overseers what the human phrase 'Fuck around and find out' means. Opting to make their lives as miserable as they made hers.
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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 she touches something accidentally and is suddenly flung into 2183
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. That is if she can.
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Under The Illusive Shadow by tilehopper
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
06 Nov 2025
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Jack Harper. Earthborn. Alliance Black Ops. Leader of Cerberus. The Benefactor of Terra Firma. A Womanizer. A Hypocritical Xenophobic. He has been called by many names, but a father was never one of them.
a.k.a what if the Illusive Man is secretly Shepard’s dad?
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The mass effect core goes bright, brighter than the sun. Energy arcs wildly, spastically, and the first structural contact is made by the asteroid. The structure fragments, energy rippling down its spine, all Shepard can see is the white core. It eats her periphery from edge to edge.
She does not feel the void out.
She does not feel anything at all.
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- 1/?
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Written logs of Theo Shepard's heart when it's flayed open, stitched closed, and fully healed.
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One minute, you're doing your nth run of the Mass Effect trilogy in your pajamas, the next ... You're waking up in that same universe, which wasn't on your bucket list.
What was fiction five minutes ago is now terrifyingly real. You’re expected to function as Earthborn Commander Shepard, morally gray and questionable coping skills.
Your only consistent backup? A chow-chow-shaped mech dog named Sebastian who silently judges your every questionable life choice.
Knowing what’s coming doesn’t make it easier. The choices still hurt. People still die. And the weight of saving the galaxy hits different when you’re the one holding the gun.
You’re holding it together with duct tape, caffeine, and pure spite.
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Mother Knows Best by TheLivingMyth
Fandoms: Mass Effect/Invincible, Invincible (Cartoon 2021), Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mythology - Fandom
04 Nov 2025
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Long before the Citadel Council, before the Protheans, even before the mysterious Inusannon... the galaxy was not silent.
An ancient, ferocious race emerged - not by chance, but by necessity. Born from the will of nature itself, they were forged to challenge an enemy that had disrupted the natural cycle of life. For over 100,000 years, these apex beings - predators perfected by extinction - waged a war of attrition against the Reapers. Their story was lost, buried beneath the ruins of forgotten empires. This is the chronicle of that war. Of evolution weaponized. Of a species born to break the cycle. This is the rise of the Viltrumites. They were not created to preserve life.
They were born to fight for it.
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Commander Shepard has a secret, one that haunts her day in and day out. She has fought these battles countless times. She has knowledge she shouldn't have. She will fight for the best outcome to come to pass, but can she save herself? She knows what she has to do to break the loop, it's the only option left. Will she be strong enough to do so? Who gave her the right to play god?
A ME2 into ME3 time loop story
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- Part 1 of Fated for Control
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On July 9th 2183 at the age of twenty eight Commander Valkyrie Shepard was assigned to the SSV Normandy leaving her posting on the SSV Massachusetts. With the SSV Normandy she embarked on a mission on Eden Prime. Unknown to her at that time she was being considered as a candidate for the Specters. She would be the first human Specter if she was allowed to join. Yet the shakedown mission on Eden Prime went south and she had one goal afterwards. Take down the rouge Specter Saren. Shepard would have never expected what came in her life due to that mission and what challenges she had to face to do just that.
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A retelling of the last mission in Mass Effect 3 with some additions afterwards (and tweaks to the Destroy ending because yes). Will have multiple chapters, all will likely be quite short, wanted to get something else up here. Teen for violence just in case.
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Mass Effect: Binary Stars by BlueLynx96
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
03 Nov 2025
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When Omega’s ruthless Pirate Queen crosses paths with an undead Spectre, something changes within these two powerful, pragmatic people. Will they devour each other, or will they become something the Galaxy has never seen?
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The Bridge Between by Stanic
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
03 Nov 2025
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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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Shepard wakes up after Synthesis ending (I like EDI and I didn’t spend three games trying to find a way for quarians and geth to get along to wipe them all out)
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Just Like Old Times by VFraggle_Rock
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect (Comics)
03 Nov 2025
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Back from the dead, Shepard is thrust back into the driver's seat, leading the charge against the Collectors and the Reapers while the rest of the galaxy questions her sanity and the validity of the threats against them - just like old times.
ME2 Novelization - I started going AU in part one, Do The Impossible, so if you're just jumping in, some things won't make sense unless you've read the first installment.
Former Kaiden/Fem Shep romance although it didn't get quite that far in Do The Impossible.
Colony background, both the war hero profile as well as the ruthless profile
Shep was a soldier through and through for Do The Impossible - but all that is about to change.
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- Part 2 of No Pressure
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Commander Shepard, The Greatest to Ever Live by Samael61
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
02 Nov 2025
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Commander Shepard, the singular greatest soldier the alliance and the humanity as a whole ever had and ever will.
One man army whose mere name envokes fear in the hearts of the enemies of the Systems Alliance.
A force of nature protecting the humanity against the galaxy.
Or: A crack fic where Commander Shepard is greater than ever.
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Mass Effect: Inheritance Rewritten by tibios83
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect: Andromeda
02 Nov 2025
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The war against the Reapers is heating up. Shepard and crew are trying to do everything in their power to keep the casualties to a minium. But petty fights, old grudges and prejudices stand in their way. He knows that Humanity has prepared for this for over a thousand years, but he can't help feel that even with that amount of time behind them, things will not be easy. The Normandy crew are ready to take the fight to the Reapers and stop the endless cycle of death and destruction that has plagued the galaxy for billions of years. Maybe they can keep the galaxy from tearing itself apart.
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- Part 5 of Mass Effect: Echoes of Inheritance
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Before Saren, before the Reapers, there was Akuze.
After suffering through a disastrous first contact with extraterrestrial species, Humanity is finally beginning to settle in amongst the greater galactic community.
One year on from an attack on the crown jewel of Human occupied space, morale has never been higher. But deep within the unexplored outer edge of Alliance space, a pioneer team of settlers have gone dark.
Military officials have secretly authorised their most decorated war hero and N7 operative to investigate the colony and report their findings. They can't do it alone.
They'll need the finest group of Marines ready and able to get the job done, no matter the cost.
But the price paid will affect their lives forever.
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The Citadel of Dreams by KSMoss
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
01 Nov 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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With the Devil on Your Back by TotallyTotoro
Fandoms: Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect Trilogy
01 Nov 2025
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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 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.
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