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In Her Element by saintnoir
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - Various Authors, Mass Effect - All Media Types
21 Feb 2026
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Her masters broke her until she was rescued. Her biotics were uncontrollable until her mentor guided her. Her soul was shattered until her first love mended it. Her compass was broken until her new family taught her how to live again.
She was a broken girl from Mindoir.
Until she became the Savior of the Galaxy.
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08 Feb 2026
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After Pinnacle Station, Shepard wins an isolated retirement property on Intai’sei—a joke prize, until it isn’t. Between missions and across years, the place becomes a fixed point in the chaos: a silence she returns to, a future she dares to imagine.
Through war, death, and resurrection, Kaidan remains the center of her gravity—and she his. This is the story of what happens in the spaces between. The things unsaid, the moments unseen, and the quiet intersections where love holds steady, even when everything else breaks.
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11 Jan 2026
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Yasmin Shepard is a lost soul in a new city trying to escape the scars of Christmas past. Not looking forward to spending the holiday season alone, she is given a new sense of purpose when she meets a stranger with a big heart, but she cannot outrun her secrets forever.
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21 Dec 2025
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Say Yes To The Dress: Citadel by faithlessone for oOAchilliaOo
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
07 Nov 2019
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Finally, the day arrives that Shepard has been dreading. Actually dreading. She had been half-inclined to run, or hide, but two things stop her. Firstly, the fact that she’s fairly certain that there’s nowhere in the entire universe that Miranda couldn’t eventually find her, and secondly, she can’t stomach the idea of Mrs Alenko’s disappointed face.
“You look like you’re about to be tortured,” Miranda says as they walk up to the most imposing entrance in the fanciest of the Citadel shopping districts. “Relax. This is going to be fun.”
“Torture would be more relaxing. And fun,” Shepard mutters under her breath, but she forces herself into a neutral expression as the door opens and Miranda all but pushes her through it.
“Welcome to Kleinfeld,” greets the receptionist. “Do you have an appointment?”Series
- Part 1 of Say Yes To The Dress
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17 Dec 2025
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The war is over and Commander Maleea Shepard has survived ... barely. Retired and returned to a home she never quite forgot, she has a new battle ahead of her: facing the many consequences of decisions made during her time in the Alliance, some of which are brought home to her in a very personal way.
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- Part 2 of Maleea Shepard
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17 Dec 2025
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Never Gonna Give You Up by ladyamesindy
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
11 Jul 2020
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After years spent together righting the galaxy's wrongs, Shepard and Kaidan fight their biggest battle yet.
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- Part 7 of Serafina Shepard
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17 Dec 2025
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Mass Effect: Survival by WCShepard
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
16 Dec 2025
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Four years after the Reaper War, Major Kaidan Alenko still struggles with the loss of Commander Shepard. With his career on the line and hope fading fast, he follows up on one last lead.
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16 Dec 2025
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2169. Humanity reached the stars, and met its limits.
Once a classified subject at Gagarin Station, Lieutenant Kaidan Alenko carries the quiet legacy of the BAaT program: a body engineered for power, a mind trained for restraint, and a past that still bleeds through the cracks.
When he’s reassigned to the SSV Normandy, he expects duty and protocol — not Commander Shepard, a woman as driven as she is volatile. The galaxy is changing, the Alliance is watching, and control has never been harder to keep.
It takes measured people to survive a war. Shepard is anything but measured.
A canon-compliant retelling of Mass Effect 1 through Kaidan Alenko’s eyes. From the shadows of Gagarin Station to the fire of the Citadel.
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11 Nov 2025
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Christmas Compromises by barddoc1992 for tlcinbflo
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
01 Jan 2019
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For their first Christmas together as a married couple, Kaidan and Shepard each want to sacrifice something special to give the other a wonderful gift. (Loosely inspired by O. Henry's short story "The Gift of the Magi.")
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18 Sep 2025
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"Shepard was - is - many things, but a liar is not among them. In all the time he knew her she never lied, wielding truth like a weapon on its own despite how difficult it could be to bear. She never…
And you refused to believe her."
Kaidan struggles with his lingering misperceptions of Shepard and decides he needs to know what happened over Alchera.
Bookmarked by AriPG (StarryAri)
31 Aug 2025
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Mass Effect: Discovery by Pigeon_theoneandonly
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
10 Apr 2019
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Sometimes, all it takes is one decision to change everything. For Nathaly Shepard, it was accepting a new post from her old mentor, and a mission that quickly turned into a war.
When a rogue turian threatens human civilization, Nathaly is forced to grow into the spectre she was perhaps never meant to be. Amid the chaos of burning colonies and hostile AI, she forges lifelong friendships, falls in love despite herself, and fights for a home she never thought she'd have- while a secret fifty thousand years old threatens to take it all away.
A reimagined Mass Effect 1, that keeps to the spirit of the canon while deepening connections between events and characters, delving into backstories, and expanding the narrative.
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- Part 4 of Nathaly Shepard
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- 62/62
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Bookmarked by AriPG (StarryAri)
16 Aug 2025
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When Kaidan Alenko killed Vyrnnus at BAaT, he took off and never looked back. Living on the streets, he ran with gangs and lived life by his own rules. Or he did until the night Adonia Shepard walked into his favorite club. One look and he was hooked.
When Kaidan finds out Adonia was abducted by Cerberus he knows to get her back he'll have to face his past, but even that doesn't matter, because now that he found her, he'll set the world on fire before he'll allow her to be hurt.
AU where Kaidan is a renegade Biotic bad boy who hates the world until the world pushed Shepard into his path.
**Note** I am not big on writing smutty stories, this was a request from a friend and hopefully, I haven't botched it too horribly ;)
*Includes original art*
Bookmarked by AriPG (StarryAri)
15 Aug 2025
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1,000 Years (A Reconciliation Story) by soldiermom1973
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect - Various Authors
24 Sep 2019
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Allie Shepard regretted the day she told Kaidan Alenko 'no' during the sanity check lunch date. In the years since the Reaper War ended, they drifted apart and she lived with that regret, often wondering how things might be if she hadn't told him no. When chance brings them together again, it is too late to start over?
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- Part 1 of 1,000 years (A Reconciliation Story)
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11 Aug 2025
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Thousands of years ago, the Protheans vanished without a trace, leaving virtually no record of their existence, other than a vague and cryptic myth of a hidden treasure of untold riches and knowledge. When a Prothean relic is uncovered and brought to the Citadel Archives for the world to see, archaeologist Kaidan Alenko isn’t so sure that it’s just an artifact. Unfortunately for him, Cerberus and notorious acquisitions contractor Jane Shepard are sure that the artifact may hold the key to finding the ancient treasure as well. Racing against one another to find answers and clues, the hunt leads them on an adventure through harsh landscapes and trials, in hopes of finding a treasure worth dying for.
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06 Aug 2025
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AU where the Alenkos decide to foster a sixteen-year-old girl after an Alliance patrol led by Kaidan's father rescues her on Mindoir. Shenko. From pre-ME1 to post-ME3.
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17 Jul 2025
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His eyes are closed and he is breathing hard and then he feels her reach up to gently smooth his hair back from the slickness of his forehead. They don’t speak of it, but he remembers, even after the pain is gone.
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15 Jul 2025
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New to the Neighborhood by SeigePhoenix
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
12 Aug 2019
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Kaidan wanted nothing but a new beginning for him and the niece he suddenly had custody of. Moving as far from Vancouver as possible seemed like a good idea at the time. The tiny touristy town on the Gulf of Mexico seemed the perfect town to begin in.
Corinne Shepard was living a quiet life in the little town she'd grown up in. Content with how her life was going, she wasn't anticipating a new neighbor or the sweet little girl that came with him.
Things will get churned up for both of them it seems.
Bookmarked by AriPG (StarryAri)
26 Jun 2025
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Feast and Famine by jenny_of_oldstones
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
15 Aug 2019
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Javik wants to eat Shepard's hamster.
Bookmarked by AriPG (StarryAri)
26 Jun 2025
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Following the events of London, Shepard and Kaidan have adjusted to life in Vancouver reasonably well. Kaidan is running his biotic spec ops unit while Shepard runs the N7 program, and everything is great because nobody from the Normandy died in London when the Reapers were destroyed. Yes, now that things have finally calmed down, Shepard and Kaidan are about to get married in two days, so everyone is taking them out for one last party.
After all, what could possibly go wrong during shore leave?
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22 Jun 2025
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After the Reaper War is over, Kaidan is called to identify an unnamed injured soldier.
Rated for brief strong language.
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29 May 2025