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• A Very Alenko Christmas by Normalguy

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

  • Not Rated
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  28 Dec 2025

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Kaidan Alenko/Male Shepard
  • Garrus Vakarian/Tali'Zorah nar Rayya
  • Steve Cortez/James Vega
  • Jack | Subject Zero/Miranda Lawson
  • EDI/Jeff "Joker" Moreau
  • Male Shepard (Mass Effect)
  • Kaidan Alenko
  • Jeff "Joker" Moreau
  • EDI (Mass Effect)
  • Steve Cortez
  • James Vega
  • Kolyat Krios
  • Tali'Zorah nar Rayya
  • Garrus Vakarian
  • Samantha Traynor
  • Kaidan Alenko's Mother
  • Jack | Subject Zero
  • Miranda Lawson
  • Liara T'Soni
  • Post-War
  • Christmas
  • Fluff

  Summary

  It's the first Christmas since Councilor John Shepard and Colonel Kaidan Alenko got married. Kaidan's mother has invited them and all their friends to the Alenko Orchard for some Christmas spirit.
  This is a very happy low-stakes Christmas catch-up where our heroes all learn more about the spirit of friendship and Christmas.

  Series

  • Part 3 of Putting a Galaxy Right Again

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  10,040

  Chapters:

  8/8

  Comments:

  1

  Kudos:

  14

  Hits:

  294

• Keeping a Galaxy Right by Normalguy

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

  • Mature
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  10 Jul 2025

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Kaidan Alenko/Male Shepard
  • Thane Krios/Male Shepard
  • EDI/Jeff "Joker" Moreau
  • Garrus Vakarian/Tali'Zorah nar Rayya
  • Steve Cortez/James Vega
  • Jack | Subject Zero/Miranda Lawson
  • Kaidan Alenko
  • Kaidan Alenko's Mother
  • Male Shepard (Mass Effect)
  • Shepard (Mass Effect)
  • Jeff "Joker" Moreau
  • EDI (Mass Effect)
  • Thane Krios
  • Garrus Vakarian
  • Tali'Zorah nar Rayya
  • Steve Cortez
  • James Vega
  • Kolyat Krios
  • Armando-Owen Bailey
  • Kasumi Goto
  • Steven Hackett
  • Urdnot Wrex
  • Urdnot Bakara | Eve
  • Grunt (Mass Effect)
  • Chloe Michel
  • Sparatus (Mass Effect)
  • Tevos (Mass Effect)
  • Valern (Mass Effect)
  • Diana Allers
  • Samantha Traynor
  • Post-Canon Fix-It
  • Destroy Ending (Mass Effect)
  • Fluff
  • Light Angst
  • Grief/Mourning
  • Domestic Fluff
  • Porn With Plot
  • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
  • mShenko
  • Shenko - Freeform

  Summary

  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.

  Series

  • Part 2 of Putting a Galaxy Right Again

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  141,353

  Chapters:

  96/96

  Collections:

  1

  Comments:

  21

  Kudos:

  99

  Bookmarks:

  16

  Hits:

  8,294

• A Charged Alliance by Normalguy for Snarkeologist

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

  • Mature
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • F/M
  • Complete Work

  16 Jun 2025

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Kaidan Alenko/Jack | Subject Zero
  • Jack | Subject Zero
  • Kaidan Alenko
  • Steven Hackett
  • Enemies to Lovers
  • Post-War

  Summary

  To Fulfill the Big Place 2025 Exhange. Here was the prompt: I can see these two characters either balancing each other out, or destroying a small town. Either way, fireworks. Their relationship probably starts as a competition, and things escalate from there.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  3,043

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Collections:

  1

  Comments:

  5

  Kudos:

  7

  Hits:

  52

• Joker's wild by Normalguy

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

  • Not Rated
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  10 Jul 2024

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Kaidan Alenko/Jeff "Joker" Moreau
  • Kaidan Alenko
  • Jeff "Joker" Moreau
  • Tali'Zorah nar Rayya
  • James Vega
  • Porn With Plot

  Summary

  For my gift exchange, I wrote a Kaidan & Joker story, but what if it had ended differently. What if Joker had said yes.

  This is a gift to the entire Big Place Discord. Thanks for being friends.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  2,489

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Comments:

  1

  Kudos:

  5

  Hits:

  128

• Laying Your Cards On the Table by Normalguy for Zhallanna

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

  • General Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • M/M, Gen
  • Complete Work

  29 May 2024

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Kaidan Alenko & Jeff "Joker" Moreau
  • Kaidan Alenko
  • Jeff "Joker" Moreau
  • Tali'Zorah nar Rayya
  • James Vega
  • EDI (Mass Effect)

  Summary

  Kaidan offers to give Joker some poker tips, but instead, they learn a lot more about each other.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  1,712

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Collections:

  1

  Comments:

  2

  Kudos:

  10

  Bookmarks:

  1

  Hits:

  41