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Keeping a Galaxy Right by Normalguy
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
25 Jun 2025
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This is Part 2 of my story Putting a Galaxy Right Again. Six months have passed and with relays coming back online, Councilor Shepard and his intrepid crew must take stock of the galaxy.
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- Part 2 of Putting a Galaxy Right Again
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She whispered: live. It was death. by ciarnys
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
10 Jun 2025
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Four years after the Reaper War, and the galaxy is slowly, but finally, healing her wounds. Most of the debris is cleared out, and the mass relays are repaired, facilitating travel around the galaxy once more. Garrus Vakarian has become a Spectre, and while he still thinks that Commander Shepard is alive out there, somewhere, it’s getting harder to believe with each passing year.
But the galaxy seems to love to make fun of him in thirds: on his third visit to Earth, he discovers Shepard’s third life. As part of a newly-founded arms manufacturing company, suspected of having ties to a major Earth crime syndicate.
He’s never been good with gray.
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Four years after firing off the Crucible, Shepard is right back where she started: one of the gangs of her youth. She’s never liked feeling alone and powerless, and when she woke up after a months-long coma in those exact circumstances, well, she went right back to the one thing that’d keep her safe. Except it’s become the biggest crime syndicate in the United Northern American States after the war. And now she wants out. But when it comes to Shepard, it seems like the universe loves to make things harder than necessary.
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Diablo, Kaidan, and James have been living quiet and happy lives on their little island, a retirement present that was given to Diablo when she left the Alliance shortly after the end of the Reaper War. But sometimes the quiet is just the beginning of something worse.
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an indentation in the shape of you by interventionsandlullabies
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
06 Jun 2025
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“Oh no,” Garrus said. “I know that face. That’s your problem solving face. That’s your I think I can fit through this air vent and drop down behind their reinforcements face.”
“What if we do it first?”
He stared at her. “Shepard. I fear the consequences of the next four words immensely. What do you mean?”
A smile lifted the corner of her mouth. “What if we find you a mate before your dad gets here?”
“Spirits,” he said, the word half curse, half exhalation. “That’s what I was afraid you were going to say.”
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They survived the end of the world. They've had a few (relatively) normal years with no catastrophies. But with Garrus’ dad breathing down his neck about finally settling down, they've only got 48 hours to produce a suitable partner.
Garrus has just the girl in mind. If only she wasn't the one trying to set him up.
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Diablo wakes up after being in a coma since the Citadel's explosion.
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- Part 6 of Diablo Shepard Stories
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Comfort can be found in the arms of a lover
Several weeks after the Citadel exploded and the defeat of the Reapers, Commander Diablo Shepard has been found, but her lovers, Major Kaidan Alenko and Lieutenant James Vega are having a difficult time coping. Naturally, they turn to each other to help each other cope.
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- Part 5 of Diablo Shepard Stories
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Mass Effect AU. The Reaper War is ongoing, the Milky Way’s resistance led by a different squad fulfilling the original trilogy’s story. Shepard and co (mostly) have different walks of life, but are still bound by threads of fate.
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Sets years after the end of the Reaper War, Citadel Space and the Milky Way Galaxy are still reeling from the devastation. However, a new arrival from beyond the galaxy arrives, bringing a small group of aliens fleeing their own war and must make new lives for themselves:
A father struggles to bring his violent daughter to heel to appease their hosts.
A servant overwhelmed by the new opportunities for herself and her young daughter.
A royal forced to adjusted to life without her luxuries while her lover strives to make a name for himself.
*You may see some familiar faces from my other fanworks, also borrowing an OC from @squeakymoth
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Shepard's thoughts as she reaches the Crucible.
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Twelve years ago, Commander Shepard disappeared during the reaper invasion. She entered the Crucible and decided the fate of the entire galaxy–by sacrificing herself. She killed the reapers, heretic geth, and disabled half the Mass Effect relays on her way out.
Twelve years ago, Garrus Vakarian told her to come back alive. Now, after retiring early back on Palaven, the galaxy continues to feel emptier and emptier without her. With a glass of turian Horosk in one hand and Black Widow in the other, he's blurring the lines between reality and wishful thinking. That is, until Liara, Kaidan, and Tali show up at his front door with a lead on Shepard.
Wishful thinking or not, he'll fight through hell to save her, or he'll meet her at the bar in heaven trying.
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What does it take to recover in the aftermath of the Reaper War, particularly through the lens of Garrus's grief over Shepard's presumed death. With the crew scattered in their mourning, searching for meaning and purpose in a universe that has been irrevocably changed. The faint hope sparked by Tali's discovery provides a glimmer of something to hold onto.
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Death And The Healing by IllusiveWritings, kalin7_art
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
22 Apr 2025
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Three days after the sudden collapse of the Reapers and the end of the war, there's only destruction, chaos and pain left in the galaxy. Rebuilding will take years, decades, for now all they can do is heal the wounded, and bury the dead.
Jane Shepard though, has no intention of being counted among those dead.
Written by IllusiveWritings and illustrated by Shipsnthenight
Post-destroy ending, with a twist of indoctrination theory just for fun. I started writing in 2013 and exhumed it because shipsnthenight offered to illustrate it. We have to kill time during the quarantine after all, right?
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- Part 5 of Impossible Odds
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A resistance fighter, a civilian, Sophia Miller, finds a wounded soldier during the Reaper War in London, who turns out to be Commander John Shepard. A spark starts between them, taking them together on an intense adventure—an old and new potential threat rising in the galaxy—John Shepard and his new companion along with his loyal crew are to figure it out and stop it.
A light and comfortable story with some suspense and drama.
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Help me out of the dark by SpaceLarkness
Fandoms: Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect Trilogy
19 Apr 2025
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Five years after the war against the Reapers, the galaxy is rebuilding. The Milky Way systems are isolated from each other, with mass relay technology shut down because of the Crucible explosion.
Gradually, the races are reconstructing their space technology and resuming their roles in the cosmic scene. New territories are being conquered, and conflict between nations is inevitable.
Commander Shepard knows that without her efforts and leadership the galaxy is prone to collapse once more. She will have to quell politcal conflicts while dealing with her own ghosts.
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Tech & Tattoos by happychica
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
14 Apr 2025
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It started as a chance encounter, the sort of not-quite luck that came from knowing Commander Shepard. But they kept running into each other, over the years, and after a point, even something unofficial stops being strictly casual.
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- Part 8 of A Crystal Hewn From Stone
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The war with the reapers is over, the combined might of the Galaxy allowed for the threat to be beaten back. But it wasn't a victory without cost, and Ariadne Shepard thought she was going to be one of those costs. But somehow she was still alive and now she's lost. It's time for a woman who lost so much to war to find herself in it's aftermath.
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Admiral Anderson is dead. The Illusive Man is dead. The Crucible has docked with the Citadel. The Reaper War is almost at an end. All that is standing between Commander John Shepard and the continued existence of all life as he knows it is one decision, three choices. Destroy the Reapers. Control the Reapers. Or Synthesis of all organic and synthetic life.
Shepard knows there is only one choice that will guarantee the end of the Reaper's vicious cycles, even though it is a choice that will likely end his own life, denying him the future he so craves with his beloved Miranda Lawson. As his decision is made, he finds that the lines between life and death, and dreams and reality are more intertwined than he could ever have imagined. And yet, despite everything - the war, the death, his injuries - one thing, one person, one dream remains steadfast in his mind.
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The Normandy SR-2 has landed on Earth. The universe is in shambles. So is her crew. Shepard isn't doing much better. But everyone is looking to her - to the Great Commander Shepard, twice dead, twice resurrected, Destroyer of the Reapers and almost the entire universe - to save them, one last time.
That is, if she can convince herself to stay alive long enough to.Series
- Part 2 of Last Exit
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Some Parts After Mass Effect by RavenDirt
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
02 Apr 2025
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London was destroyed, but so were the Reapers.
The events following the immediate aftermath of the Reaper war (destroy ending)
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- Part 2 of Some Parts
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Years after defeating the Reapers Ariadne Shepard lives a life of peace and quiet. But even with the whole galaxy hailing her a hero there's still times she doesn't quite see herself as one. But in the darkest moments even the smallest light can make all the difference.