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Where the Stars Come Home by Shepard2186
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect (Comics)
20 Jun 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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Hades’ Dog Parties Too by Amnestria
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
20 Jun 2025
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In which Shepard learns that Cerberus has Christmas parties, that the Illusive Man requires her *entire* crew to attend, and ends up having a lot of conversations with said Illusive Man. Also featuring crew antics.
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- English
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- 9,245
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 2
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Commander Alison Jane (AJ) Shepard has lived through more than most: the batarian raid on Mindoir, the slaughter on Akuze, and the ruthless campaign at Torfan. Now, as the galaxy teeters on the edge of annihilation, she faces not only the Reapers but the weight of her past and the choices that threaten to unmake her. This story is a novelization of Mass Effect, following Shepard’s journey through familiar missions, dialogue, and relationships as seen in the game.
As the weight of her decisions threatens to crush her, Shepard is forced to confront the pieces of herself she thought she’d buried. When she finds a shy, innocent, asari maiden trapped in a stasis bubble surrounded by prothean ruins, she finds herself opening up to someone. Balancing the tension of galactic war with fleeting moments of tenderness, Shepard must navigate the fine line between duty and desire, her past and her future. Along the way, old wounds resurface, friendships deepen, and love grows in the unlikeliest of places. But even in the darkest moments, there’s room for humor, hope, and the stubborn defiance that makes Shepard who she is. It is a story of survival, healing, and the relationships that keep us fighting—against all odds.
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Ten years ago, the Reapers were vanquished, the galaxy saved. Statues were raised. Obituaries written. Shepard, having died in the last moments of the war, became a hero, a legend, enshrined in memory.
Only Shepard wasn’t dead. He was hidden. Locked away for all that time.
And now, Shepard has returned, having been freed from his frozen prison.
His pursuit for answers will lead him across a changed galaxy. He knows this wasn’t an accident. Someone had a reason to put him under for those ten years, and they had the power to make the galaxy believe he was never coming back. He will stop at nothing to find the truth and take down those that wronged him and destroy the lies they’ve built. Only then will his vengeance be complete. The galaxy will soon learn how dangerous a dead man can be.
And when the last name is crossed off, he will look to the stars again. Toward the one face that’s haunted his every waking thought and pulled him forward all this time.
A voice. A memory. His lost love.
Tali'Zorah.
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Mass Effect: Wanderer by Marcopolo135
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
20 Jun 2025
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An epic spanning three galactic cycles and the forgotten war against the Reapers—told through myth, memory, and the moments between. From ancient ruins to the halls of the Normandy, this is a story of love, legacy, and the long road toward peace.
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Another music video with surprise, surprise, Shepard and Kaidan.
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- 16
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- 1/1
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For the Archive Creators Drabble Challenge.
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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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After the Reaper War, Shepard and Garrus must navigate their new normal together and support one another in their healing journey.
[Depictions of PTSD flashbacks/panic attacks and other trauma; please take care of yourself if you are not in the headspace for these themes <3]
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- Part 4 of Bloodsoaked Stars (Oneshot Collection)
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After the mission to the Mars archives, Shepard finds himself at the Citadel waiting in Kaidan's hospital room for the man to wake up. A conversation with Liara reveals that Shepard isn't as put together as he's been pretending to be.
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After the final Battle... how does Garrus handle the loss, how does the world handle the loss?
My first Fanfic! Feedback is appreciated, I will add chapters as I can. ^.^
I do not own any characters, I just use them for my imagination!
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Love & Reapers: The Memoir of Mel Shepard – Volume II: Cerberus by Neurodivergent_Melody (Neurodivergent_Pixels)
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy
19 Jun 2025
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Continuation of Volume I (obviously), detailing a version of the events of Mass Effect 2 wherein Shepard is non-binary, autistic, and is already in a romantic relationship with Tali'Zorah.
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- 5,920
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- 2/?
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Kaidan woke to discover a message on his extranet terminal: a video file Shepard recorded post-Horizon and before heading through the Omega 4 relay. Short fic of the video Shepard recorded and Kaidan's reaction to watching it.
First thing I've written that I'm actually posting.
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Threshold by AnthropicScholar (Edge_2000)
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Command & Conquer (Video Games)
19 Jun 2025
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Decades ago, a Turian patrol fired on an unknown, heavily armed reconnaissance force attempting to activate relay 314, sparking a war with a new, militant alien society armed with an almost entirely alien technological paradigm.
Though peace was brokered by the council, the Alliance's refusal to join the Council, their belligerent response to external aggression and their embrace of Sapient AI has kept tensions between them simmering.
When a rogue Spectre with an army of hostile AI turns a joint operation into the spark of a new war, keeping the peace will fall to an Alliance Commander and a Spectre. And keeping the peace may well prove to be harder than unraveling the mystery of the rogue Spectre, and his connection to the doom of the Protheans.
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- Part 1 of Outside Context
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A Message From Below by UseOfASwhat
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
19 Jun 2025
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Lana Shepard was perfectly happy being dead. But now she isn't, and there's another impossible foe to fight. Fan-fucking-tastic.
During and post ME2.
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- Part 2 of Where Everything Goes Gray
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Commander Shepard, The Greatest to Ever Live by Samael61
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
19 Jun 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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The war ended. Shepard didn’t.Pulled from the wreckage one final time, Jane Shepard—tall, powerful, and unrelenting—wasn’t brought back by Cerberus or command. She was brought back by love. Miranda Lawson used everything she had to restore the woman who changed her life… and the galaxy.
Now, with the Normandy flying once more and the galaxy trying to make sense of survival, Shepard and Miranda set out across the stars—not as commander and operative, but as partners.
From Tuchanka to Thessia, from Omega to Earth, they’ll revisit the scars they left behind… and discover what it means to choose each other in a time of peace.
It’s not just about saving the galaxy anymore. It’s about what’s worth saving after the war.
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- Part 1 of Second Chances
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Shepard has never been one to sit around and wait for others to figure it out. She’s always preferred her own boots on the ground, no matter how many waves of husks, or Collectors, or goddamned Reapers might stand in her way. She doesn’t like this. She wouldn’t like it if any other ship was missing, and she certainly doesn’t like it now.
How could she ever trust anyone else to find the Normandy? To turn every stone? Earmark every page?
When Shepard wakes up after everything, Garrus isn't there. And with the Normandy currently missing without a trace, neither is anyone else.
Alone, injured, and stuck in a small hospital on Earth, all she can do is wait for progress to come.
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Love & Reapers: The Memoir of Mel Shepard - Volume I: Spectre by Neurodivergent_Melody (Neurodivergent_Pixels)
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy
19 Jun 2025
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Based on my livestreamed roleplay, but with numerous changes, mainly centered around the idea of an early initiation of the Shepard/Tali romance, but also a Shepard who is non-binary and autistic.
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Past and Future by ScribblesandBabbles
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
19 Jun 2025
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Samantha Traynor thinks about her time aboard the Normandy and where its led her.