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For The One Who Knows My Name by notTrickstery
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
10 Sep 2025
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Rayne Shepard dreamed of leaving Earth for good. As a kid, she thought she could be a hero amongst the stars. In some ways, the little kid was right, but being a hero wasn't all sunshine and roses. Sometimes it meant living with things too heavy to carry alone.
Liara T'Soni had a peaceful life doing exactly what she wanted to do as a young asari maiden. As fate would have it, her luck changed completely when the geth attacked, and she was rescued by a young Alliance commander and her crew.
(Formerly "Every Day After." See notes.)
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“This mission just got a lot more complicated.” by Al_ce
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, mass - Fandom
07 Sep 2025
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Covers the story-line of Mass Effect one, using my Jayne Shepard character's play through. Includes additional background and personal origin story that I have in my head for my character. Slight deviance from the original story here and there.
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- English
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- 36,300
- Chapters:
- 5/?
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- 26
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When an N7 reconnaissance mission goes wrong, its operators captured by a notorious batarian warlord, the Alliance calls in Commander Shepard. As an augmented human (not "transhuman," thank you very much!), a phenomenal hacker, and the best damn infiltrator this side of the galaxy, she's clearly the best choice.
It'll be in and out. Kill all the slavers, retrieve the N-team, leave. Easy.
What could possibly go wrong?
AKA: The last N7 mission Shepard gets to do before she's reassigned as Staff Commander of the SSV Normandy SR-1, goes to Eden Prime, and finds out the galaxy is a lot more fucked-up than she'd even imagined. Featuring batarians, more batarians, a fellow N7, and yet another batarian but this one's...different.
Prequel to Mass Effect 1.
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- Part 1 of Phasma Ex Machina
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If It Ain't Broke... by Snarkeologist
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
04 Sep 2025
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"“Death is supposed to be the end, right? I mean, that’s what we were always taught. Maybe there’s something beyond it, maybe not, but you’re not supposed to come back from it. Not after being spaced. Not after two years.” Fergus Shepard clawed at his white hair in a vain attempt at settling his churning thoughts. “I feel like I’m bloody going insane.”
A week ago Fergus Shepard woke up in a Cerberus hellscape, and he woke up wrong. Forced to work with the group that has caused him years of grief, he'll make them regret his resurrection.-or-
Shepard attempts to take down both the Collectors and Cerberus at the same time. With a little help from his family, of course.
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- Part 1 of Fergus Shepard: Changes
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A Different Life by BlightedButDelighted
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
18 Aug 2025
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It's been two years since the Normandy went down, Commander Shepard along with it. Life has moved on, but now he's back. Time to pick up the pieces.
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Oath of loyalty by etherealend
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
10 Aug 2025
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Loyalty: a notion that had always gravitated around Garrus’ life.
“I am loyal to him, as he is loyal to me. And isn’t this the greatest form of love?” Her mother, as the good turian she was, used to say with regard to Castis.
Loyalty. During childhood, boot camp, military service. Loyalty: a virtue every turian was supposed to possess from birth, to the Hierarchy, first and foremost.
Garrus had always, secretly, disagreed. It was something to be earned.
And with her, such had been.
Commander Shepard had secured his deepest loyalty, and only when he saw her for the last time, before the Normandy SR-1 was taken down, did he understand how right his mother was. -
Electric Sheep by lilmissnatcat24
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
26 Jul 2025
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Two years after the death of Garrus Vakarian, Delia Shepard finds herself stationed on Horizon when the Collectors attack and kidnap Kaidan Alenko. When a mysterious shadow corporation by the name of Cerberus comes to her rescue, she sees is as not only a way to save Kaidan, but to possibly do some good in the universe. But there's a mysterious turian who follows her at every step, one that may be more than he seems on the surface.
Garrus Vakarian is alive. He's 30% cybernetics, embedded with a control chip and surveillance devices that track his every move, and doesn't care about anything anymore-- but alive. He has one sole mission: to destroy Cerberus from the inside out. But when Shepard happens back into his life, he's forced to make the harrowing decision of whether to complete his mission, or to risk it all for the woman he once thought he couldn't live without.
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- Part 2 of Out of Eden Series
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A series of snapshots into Eris & Nihlus, post Project Lazarus.
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- Part 5 of Cosmic Inflation
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- English
- Words:
- 100
- Chapters:
- 1/?
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Ivory Towers & Dark Corners by SpaceVixen
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
09 Jul 2025
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Following on from her clusterfuck of a mission, Jack Harper demands answers from an unwilling Jane Shepard. They're forced to confront their own feelings about one another. As clouded as they may be.
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- Part 3 of Shadow And Flame - TimShep
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该死的，你怎么把这里当成你的猎场？
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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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A Hero Twice Born by RedDeadfan100
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
11 Jun 2025
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Harry never asked for this. After everything—the war, the loss, the battles that had stripped him of nearly everything—he just wanted to rest. To finally be with his parents, Sirius, and Remus in whatever lay beyond death.
But fate had never been kind to him.
Instead of peace, he wakes up in the distant future, reborn as Ben Shepard—the son of Jane Shepard, the infamous Butcher of Torfan, a woman known for her ruthless efficiency and battlefield prowess. Thrown into a life aboard Alliance ships, constantly relocating with his mother’s assignments, Ben finds himself struggling between the echoes of a past life and the reality of his new existence.
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- Part 3 of Harry Potter reincarnations
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Shattered Flames by AnonymousZeusy
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
09 Jun 2025
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Avalon Freya Shepard, Hero of Elysium and Sole survivor of Akuze is not only the youngest female N7 graduate but also an agent of an underground alliance class called the Valkyries. After learning how to live again, she finds love and purpose. Follow the events of Mass Effect 1 with Avalon and her Brother Aiden as they stop Saren and learn more about the reapers.
This is Part one of the Twin Flames series, There are shorter one-shots in the series but this is the first main part.
I do not own any of the characters- they are a product of Bioware, Thank you for letting us build our own stories in the universe you created.Series
- Part 1 of Twin Flames
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Crise Cardiaque - Heart Attack by AshenLavellan
Fandoms: Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect Trilogy
09 Jun 2025
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Ever since her resurrection, Renée Yvette Shepard has spent every waking moment distrustful and guarded against every individual she has met (excluding Joker and Dr. Chakwas) - after all, most of them had purposely joined a terrorist organization, better known as Cerberus, and she knew firsthand what they experimented on...
The Rachni, thralls of the Thorian, and their most recent project..?Resurrecting her from the dead.
Yet, she's surprised when an individual known as "Archangel" turns out to be more than just familiar - he's a trusted friend of hers.
Garrus Vakarian.
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- Part 1 of No Shepard without Vakarian
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Kayleigh Shepard has managed to fire the Crucible in a last ditch effort to save what is left of galactic civilisation, as the Reapers and the Citadel burn, she is facing her end, but a mysterious portal opens and draws her into another world, her N7 Fury armour and weapons are repaired as it does, but her body remains the same as it was when the Battle of Earth began
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- Part 5 of Sacrifice and Redemption
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Mass Effect: Widowmaker by whimperkingwhimper
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
17 May 2025
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Stopping a meteor from crashing into Terra Nova is complicated enough without a furious batarian woman ending up as your prisoner.
For the Butcher of Torfan, batarians are a common enemy. However, this one may prove to be much, much more.
Ruthless Paragon Shepard x Original Batarian Girl
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A new story begins...Markus, Anthony, and Natasha Shepard get nominated to become the first Human Spectres.
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In which Shepard and Garrus attempt to take a vacation, thwart a hijacking, commandeer a security scooter, destroy most of a luxury liner, pick up a baby krogan, and have to explain themselves.
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Commander Shepard: the 'Lion of Elysium', the 'Survivor of Akuze', and the 'Butcher of Torfan'; humanity's first Spectre. A galactic threat looms in the background as Shepard is forced to confront his past, to fight the future. General development of characters throughout; darker and grittier undertone. Slightly AU version of ME1's events.
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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.