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Definition: The Spark of Hope by Calamity_J
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
21 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
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No Way Back by FuzzyDragon
Fandoms: Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, Mass Effect - All Media Types
19 Jul 2025
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Without the Ark of Truth, Adria rises again, determined to wipe out Earth and give them no chance. Instead of facing annihilation, Jack O'Neill gives an order he never thought to give. Now they will have to find a new home, settle, and rebuild what they can in a universe so far removed from their own that they don't know what to expect.
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Mass Murder by TheGreatAndPowerfulCynic
Fandoms: Murder Drones (Web Series), Mass Effect - All Media Types
16 Jul 2025
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Basically, a what-if scenario where humanity escaped from the Solver and ended up becoming the Systems Alliance. Now the Drone Republic is about to walk onto the galactic stage. Or something like that at least. There might be a few stumbles.
Alternatively, the Drone Republic is introduced to the Galactic Community and proceeds to make it everyone else's problem...
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Across Enemy Lines by DEVINEPOISON
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
12 Jul 2025
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Aila never wanted to spend her life confined to an Alliance ship, but as one of the most renowned medics in the fleet, she has little choice. When a mission to Eden Prime puts her in the path of a wounded turian Spectre, she makes a split-second decision that changes everything—she saves his life.
Tylus' duty is clear: protect the galaxy, no matter the cost. That means stopping the rogue turians attacking human colonies, even if it puts him in the crosshairs of both his own people and the humans who still see him as the enemy. The last thing he expects is to owe his life to a human.
Thrown together by war they thought long over, bound by secrets neither of them should know, Aila and Tylus uncover a sinister truth buried deep within the Alliance—one that has already cost countless lives. With both sides hunting them and no one left to trust, the lines between duty and something far more dangerous begin to blur.
Enemies by circumstance. Partners by necessity. Something more by mistake.
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A teenaged Dagny Shepard survives the shattering of her world just long enough to be rescued by N7 marine Lieutenant Anderson. When the N7 offers her refuge but denies her retribution, she runs. Towards what exactly, she has no fucking idea. But hopefully there'll be some slavers to kill along the way.
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Answers the question, “What did Colonist Shepard do for the two years between the Sack of Mindoir and their enlistment?”
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- English
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- Chapters:
- 1/?
- Kudos:
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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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The first meeting between Commander Faith Shepard and David Anderson isn't the stuff of legends.
She tried to steal from him.
***New*** Added a tribute video to Anderson and Faith!
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Sense and Salarian Ability by PotatoInaHoodie
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect
23 Jun 2025
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In the year 2175, humans have been a council species for ten years and quickly become a main stay in Citadel holdings. Salarian art dealer, Ropon Lau, is currently having an infestation with the species left overs. A human duct rat currently haunts not only his work space, but his mental space as well. And it's getting old fast.
When the human girl shows a great promise as an artist, Lau will take a great interest in her development. As the two grow alongside each other as people, hopefully they can grow to be more than protégé and mentor to each other. And maybe this human child can help lift the weight of half a lifetime of regret of the salarian's shoulders...
*tags adjusted as story goes on
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Reap the Wild Wind by Milk_before_cereal
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
18 Jun 2025
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Organic life was but a random set of mutations, air that had to be conducted to be most efficient. But the structure that kept it in place was showing clear signs of erosion; and through small cracks the wild wind escaped the established path.
Inspired by "A Study in Organics" by Rushofpanic and less so by "Limbo" and "Mass Effect: Synthesis", stories over at fanfiction.net by pirate kit and Jade Tatsu respectively.
Title taken from a song by Ultravox.
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embrace eternity/ash to dust/for the planets move with you by eatenpickelsticks
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
14 Jun 2025
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Kin-slayer. Ash-child.
Kruva did not choose to be born again, especially as an alien. It took a while to realize where and how she was. By the time she did, the fact that she was living in some reality that had been merely fiction became a distant memory. There is only one thing she knows for certain: that the reapers are coming, and she refuses for it to take her family down with her. Because even though she was asari, it did not change the fact that her other mother was krogan, and nothing was going to stop her from doing whatever she could to protect the people she loved the most.
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- Part 12 of I Need Therapy
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In the Yggdrasil Nebula and the Baldr System lies the sleepy little planet of Mindoir, a small planet the humans have colonized. most the Colonists are farmers..but one day things change...
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- Part 1 of Squad Background Stories
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- English
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- 4,632
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- 4/?
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when I say fuck you I'm lying by ssstainedglasss
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
14 May 2025
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Saren has three hours in Camala to finally rest before going to the eezo refinery with Anderson... Shepard has different plans.
Mass Effect Revelation
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Mismatched Lovers (SFW version) by BoredInQuarantine (BoredInQuarantine_biq)
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
13 May 2025
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A Human man and a Turian woman go on a blind date. Leave matchmaking to an Asari…
A slow-burn, slice-of-life romance between original characters in the Mass Effect universe. What happens when an Asari talks two of her friends into going on a blind date without telling them they are of different species? Could the two of them find love? Probabillity says it will crash and burn. Or maybe their mutual friend knows them better then they know themselves...
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Not in one's own plate by SIcht
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect - Various Authors, Cyberpunk 2077 (Video Game), Cyberpunk & Cyberpunk 2020 (Roleplaying Games)
11 May 2025
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Resurrected on foreign shores, V finds the world to be much the same, if not identical. So why does it feel like something's amiss?
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Mismatched Lovers (Mass Effect) by BoredInQuarantine (BoredInQuarantine_biq)
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
01 May 2025
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A Human man and a Turian woman go on a blind date. Leave matchmaking to an Asari…
A slow-burn, slice-of-life romance between original characters in the Mass Effect universe. What happens when an Asari talks two of her friends into going on a blind date without telling them they are of different species? Could the two of them find love? Probabillity says it will crash and burn. Or maybe their mutual friend knows them better then they know themselves...
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All I Ask Is by ad_lunam
Fandoms: Hunger Games Series - All Media Types, Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games (Movies)
31 Mar 2025
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No one, not even them, knows exactly what they are. Soulmates. Partners. Lovers. Maybe something else entirely.
But she has a promise.
And in their world, that promise is everything.
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A story about quiet promises, stolen moments, and learning that love is never about replacing.
It's always about staying.Set sometime before the 75th Hunger Games, on a night of truths between Haymitch and Effie. Mostly canon compliant.
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It is 2166CE when Voice-Dalatrass Tschastarissi finally dies, rearing the Salarian Union awake from the passive slumber of her decades-old regime. But while the iron-willed dalatrass Linron plots her route to power with the aid of a reluctant turian diplomat assisting from the shadows, her daughter Jurlan loses herself to the past, uncovering dormant truths that may better stay untouched —and several stars away, two asari sisters pressured by money and haunted by false-starts must decide whether to let their ambition threaten far more than their lives alone.
This is a story about the empires that cling on.
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The Empire of Preys is part 2 of the Halfway Homes series. It is both a prequel and sequel to Halfway Home, but can also be enjoyed as a standalone.
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- Part 2 of Halfway Homes
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You Can (Not) Start Life Anew by Spade_Storm
Fandoms: Rebuild of Evangelion | Evangelion: New Theatrical Edition, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Mass Effect Trilogy
28 Mar 2025
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Kaworu promised to make Shinji happy. He didn't expect to take such drastic and impulsive measures to do so.
Still. The Angel of Free Will cannot hate the results...especially when such results include a new faction of Lilim so quick to devote themselves to his Shinji and himself.
Now, if only these pesky aliens would stop trying to sabotage his efforts, everything would be perfect. He doesn't want to kill them if he doesn't have to but if a single one makes his Shinji cry, he will be a Very. Upset. Angel...
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Shepard never really knew how she ended up in N-school in the first place. Well, she has a vague idea it had to do with her ridiculously high combat aptitude scores, but since she was still figuring out how military life (and space life in general) worked, she never bothered to find out who recommended her for ICT.
And N-school is a bitch. Somehow she manages to say and do the wrong thing all the time, and it sometimes feels like her existence alone pisses people off. Every designation is harder than the last, and that's without trying to figure out all the people around her. But it's the lessons from N-school, soon followed by the Skyllian Blitz, that form the foundation of who the infamous Commander Shepard turns out to be.
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After stumbling upon a conspiracy involving Saren Arterius and the geth, Tali goes on the run.
Unfortunately for her, she doesn't make it very far before she's caught.