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1. Definition: The Spark of Hope by Calamity_J

   Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types  

   • Mature
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • No category
   • Work in Progress

   28 Jul 2025

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Female Shepard & Adrien Victus
   • David Anderson & Female Shepard (Mass Effect)
   • Female Shepard (Mass Effect)
   • David Anderson (Mass Effect)
   • Adrien Victus
   • Earthborn (Mass Effect)
   • Backstory
   • Batarians (Mass Effect)
   • Kidnapping
   • Graphic Description
   • Blood and Injury
   • Pre-Mass Effect 1
   • Swearing
   • Turians (Mass Effect)
   • Rescue
   • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Slow Burn
   • Slow Build
   • Gallows Humor
   • Inappropriate Humor
   • Origin Story
   • Angst
   • Psychological Trauma
   • Realistic Trauma Portrayal
   • Realistic trauma recovery
   • Other Additional Tags to Be Added

   Summary

   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.

   Series

   • Part 1 of Definition: The Last Cycle

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   184,183

   Chapters:

   56/?

   Comments:

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   Kudos:

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