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Thessia dresses politics in silk and marble, but Shepard was not invited to be a prop. At Armali’s summit she cuts through ceremony, and Dr. Liara T’Soni, meant to study humanity from a safe distance, finds herself studying her instead. Between Benezia’s velvet-gloved maneuvering and the Council’s scrutiny, a slow-burn bond forms in corridors, gardens, and a Serrice balcony where choices finally belong to them. Romance braided with statecraft; quiet intimacy, consent, and two stubborn hearts learning to move together.
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The Student by Castelau
Fandoms: Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect: Andromeda, Mass Effect Trilogy
30 Sep 2025
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2167 - Saren Arterius sources, recruits and takes on training one Avitus Rix for Special Tactics.
Or, badgered into taking on a student at long last, Saren grudgingly winds up with a government assigned best friend and it's maybe not the worst thing that's happened in either of their lives.
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Out of the Cradle by TheUnpredictableMuse
Fandoms: Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect: Andromeda
21 Sep 2025
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Pursuing a batarian terrorist, Spectre Nihlus Kryik discovers a new set of dangers to Citadel Space and the species he is obligated to protect.
Bound for a greater destiny than colony life, human Joslyn Dale must face down an enemy that threatens her well-being while searching for the meaning of her life.
Citadel Space and Allied Council Space stand at the borders of a fresh slate, neck deep in politics that threaten to destroy everything they've worked for and dream of. When human terrorists threaten the fragile balance, can it be righted before greed and vengeance motivates war?
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- Part 1 of No Reapers
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Shadows Serenade by ARandomWrites
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
06 Sep 2025
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The stability of the galaxy has been disrupted as the newest species to join the space-faring races- humans. Welcomed by many, reviled by others. With their position threatened by human ambition, resilience, and determination; factions within the galactic community have formed a ruthless cabal that means to deal with the upstart humans. Forces that would go to any lengths to ensure their domination of humanity and anyone else that would stand in their way. War is coming and a small clandestine unit is set to uncover the truth and fight from the shadows.
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- Part 1 of Edge of the Sky: Mass Effect AU
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FIrst Contact war AU.
Jane Shepard. A soldier like any other of the Alliance. But since the attack on their fleet through the Charon Relay and the possible danger for their colony on Shanxi due to a unknown Threat. Aliens. Will she and her fellow soldier survive the upcomming war against the extra terrestrial race, whose weapons seem to be way more adanvanced than what humanity could muster? What were those things comming from a planet unknow to them..?
The answer.. lies on the battlefield
Mass Effect belongs to Bioware
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absolute gigantic duet of siblings by navez1114
Fandoms: Murder Drones (Web Series), Mass Effect - All Media Types
28 Aug 2025
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Absolute solver change Uzi and Doll to giga robots and drive them to complety madness. After decads they're complety took over unniverse and ensleve everything. But after one rebelion they're return to old self.
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strange as angels by calypsid
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
19 Aug 2025
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Shepard meets her first turian companion on the Citadel.
He won't stop staring at her.
She can't stop thinking about him.
(A situation in which one plus one somehow adds up to three.)
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Over the course of several hundreds of years, Humans had finally developed space flight to colonize surrounding plants to expand their system and homes from earth. This is what inevitably led to the event known by all forms of military as the “Relay 314 Incident”, also known as the “First Contact War” between humans and another species they didn’t yet have a name for.
When the colonists were forced to evacuate from their newest planet, Three of the creatures were captured and hauled to another human military colony. However, when in captivity humans realized there was more to these creatures than blind violence. The Alliance called in their top two soldiers: Jane and Eliza Shepherd, twins. What will they discover about this strange new species? Is this war really worth it? Can Turians and Humans get along?(first contact AU with my OCs and canon characters slapped in. No Reapers AU, Humans have some outside colonies. Title and Tags may change/Update!)
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when marimba rhythm starts to play by calypsid
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
10 Aug 2025
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The sound of someone sliding into a stool in front of her makes Shepard blink open her eyes again, the bar lights behind her casting a slight shadow that makes his eyes seem a richer shade of blue. She has no control over the smile that starts in her eyes, the crinkling of laughter lines and warm affection, and only then does it spread, touching her mouth lightly.
"Hey, you," she says, leaning over the bar in front of her. "You're off early."
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Book 1 of The Carrion Eaters Trilogy
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Ex-Alliance soldier, Jane Shepard, is out of work and down her luck when an old childhood friend, Gianna Parasini, comes calling. With Gianna’s help, Shepard high-tails it to the Citadel and begins a brand new life as a corporate investigator. But things quickly turn deadly as one of Gianna’s former colleagues is found drowned in the galactic capital.
Under the guidance of C-Sec’s special investigator, Detective Garrus Vakarian, Shepard and Gianna work to unravel a tangled knot of avarice, murder, and corporate corruption.
A Parasini BFF, Shakarian, No Reapers AU
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- Part 1 of The Carrion Eaters Trilogy
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Juliette Has A Gun by chouettetc
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
17 Jul 2025
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She's the Alliance's best spy and secret weapon. He's the one of the Council's newest Spectres and ex-Blackwatch operative. And if they don't manage to cause the next intergalactic incident from this assignment, they should both be showered in accolades from the Council.
But intergalactic cooperation is never that simple, is it?
Steamy, poignant, and full of action, this fic explores the darker and more complex version of female Shepard in a spy AU, and the space boyfriend we all know and love.
This is my first fic, but I've been dreaming of a spy thriller in the Mass Effect world for SO long. Can't wait to share this version of our reluctant, redheaded hero with you <3 . Updates to come probably multiple times a week, if not weekly!
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Liara T'Soni is a very determined archaeologist who isn't worried about doing a little tomb raiding to discover ancient knowledge. Cam Shepard is an ex-Alliance mercenary with a thing for people much smarter than she is. There's no way they'll get up to anything dangerous together, right?
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- Part 1 of Aggressive Archaeology
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Mass Effect: Cyber(punk?) by honeywhite
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect: Andromeda, Mass Effect - Various Authors
20 Jun 2025
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Zevin Raeka, 44th heir to the Erinle dalatrassate, is a scientist first—and a politician never, if she can help it. But salarian social convention has other ideas, and her inheritance demands public participation in what she considers little more respectable than professional mud wrestling. Cashing in favours from her old university rector, she escapes to a planet where it's twenty below on most days—but where science thrives, money flows like water, and politics 'isn’t even in the running.' Or so she thinks. What begins as a bureaucratic reassignment soon becomes a plunge into elite financial corruption so dense it bends light—a Kafkaesque event horizon of rigged tenders, shell corporations, and institutional rot, a cartel of elite-tier financial parasitism so vast it starts with a capital T. To stop it, she'll need the help of her elder brother, a barefaced turian con artist, an engineer who swears he isn't a politician, a sentient AI, an insect queen, a British spymaster, an asari magistrate with a taste for Gauloises, a Balkan hotelier with theological opinions on gambling, and the collected mathematical theories of Maupertuis, Hamilton, and Lagrange.
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Scars & Silk by FazedMuttley
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
17 Jun 2025
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Zoey Shepard was built for war. Not for nobility. Not for family.
Raised by the Alliance, forged in battle, she’s only ever known orders, discipline, and loss. Home was never part of the equation. After surviving Elysium she’s thrust into a world she doesn’t understand—in the last place she ever expected.
Thessia is a world of refinement, politics, and power—a battlefield where wars are fought with words as often as weapons. Here, Zoey is no longer just a soldier. She’s a noble. A daughter. A piece in a game she doesn’t know how to play.
There are whispers of secrets buried deep, truths about who she is and what was done to her—truths that could shake not just Zoey, but House T’Soni itself.
And Zoey?
She doesn’t know it yet, but old ghosts don’t stay buried, they don’t just haunt. Some come hunting.
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Follow the misadventures of a renegade Shepard and Garrus Spectre duo as they relentlessly hunt down criminals across the galaxy, no matter the cost.
In an effort to bolster turian-human relations after the Relay 314 Incident - or First Contact War - the Council chooses two members of both species with like-minded attitudes in hopes that they’ll work well together, and in turn, show the galaxy that any lingering animosities between their species don’t have to hold the galactic community back.
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Normandy Coffee by alta_et_astra
Fandoms: Mass Effect, Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
20 May 2025
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On break from cleaning up the mercenary groups on Omega, Garrus visits his friend James Vega on the Citadel and meets an intriguing human woman in a coffee shop. While doing a standard security job for James as a favor, things go sideways quick and James tasks him with investigating what happened. As soon as the job is done though, he will be heading back to Omega.
Shepard has retired from military life and works as a manager at David Anderson's coffee shop, Normandy Coffee. When Anderson finally decides to retire, Shepard makes the decision to buy the cafe from him. In an effort to raise money to buy the cafe, Shepard accepts a job from James to help Garrus with the investigation.
As they spend more time together they can feel their attraction growing, but while Shepard's roots on the Citadel are only growing stronger, Garrus refuses to see his time on the Citadel as anything other than temporary.
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Detective Jane Shepard and Officer Garrus Vakarian investigate the influx of Red Sand on the Citadel.
Their journey leads them from the Citadel to Earth, where they meet Kaidan Alenko, who happens to be a high-ranking member of the Tenth Street Reds.
22/4/2025: On Hiatus while I finish off Faith Shepard's story.
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Tayseri Community College by AtomicErratica
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
10 Mar 2025
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It’s the year of high school and almost everyone in her Alliance-sponsored housing has already set their future in motion. While Cleo will stay on Earth, after graduation she is offered a job by her best friend, Belle- one Cleo swore was the last time. This ultimately changes her life direction and it’s up to her if she’ll take this second chance to her full advantage.
(7/06/2025: going under heavy revisions and rewriting. I'm doing a revamp of the story)
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Good For Some-Nothing by Castelau for NoisyNoiverns, korble
Fandoms: Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect: Andromeda
15 Feb 2025
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Sometimes, what even the meanest bastard in the galaxy needs is his big brother. And more than that, someone who can help bring comfort to him.
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Before Miranda can think more about it, before she can put any thought into it, she finds herself sighing. Taking a deep breath in hopes to ease the stress that’s been eating at her, Miranda finds herself speaking before she can put any thought into it, “Jack, I can’t. I--I can’t do this anymore. Us.”
AU. After yet another bad argument, Miranda and Jack are left to pick up the pieces of each other and of their relationship.