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Eyes by ssv_normandy (liminally_challenged)
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
11 Aug 2025
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Seph is nothing more than Grace Shepard's Clone to Cerberus. Sometimes, she feels like she's nothing else to herself. And Brooks? Well, she owes Brooks everything, but it seems the Ex-Cerberus Spy has some opinions that she doesn't agree with.
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- Part 1 of Seph's Story (Mass Effect)
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Commander/Cadaver/Constellation by ssv_normandy (liminally_challenged)
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
08 Aug 2025
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Grace Shepard has been promoted to Commander of the SSV Normandy, serving under Captain David Anderson. While on the ship’s Shakedown mission, she and her squad (comprised of Lieutenant Kaidan Alenko and Gunnery Chief Ashley Williams) uncover a plot by a turian Spectre, Saren, to destroy free will and enslave the entirety of organic life to a race of Artificial Intelligence known as the Reapers. In light of this discovery, Shepard must build a crew and race against time to stop Saren from achieving his goal. Standing in her way are armies of geth, an AI collective working for Saren. Can Shepard and her crew stop the machine overlords? Or will she die on the precipice of humanity’s fall?
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A Biotic, A Cop, and a Casino by ssv_normandy (liminally_challenged) for Amnestria
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
04 Aug 2025
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"Did I ever tell you about my casino run-in with the vorcha mafia? Five thousand credits and a bottle of whiskey? Actually, never mind."
Kaidan Alenko is on Omega to drink in the aftermath of Shepard’s death, and one year later, he still feels guilt. When a turian named Sidonis approaches him with a request from his boss…well, he just can’t refuse an old friend.
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War Never Changes (But Your Enemies Do) by diamond_city_blues (liminally_challenged)
Fandoms: Fallout 4
29 Jul 2025
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Deep underground, underneath a church, Deacon is told the tale of a Vault near Sanctuary Hills, and of potential value hidden there. Deeper Underground, X6-88 is given a mission: Find the Vault. Report back often. Kill anyone who interrupts this directive.
When a woman crawls out, 210 years after the bombs dropped, both observers are shocked. They're even more shocked when the "Vault Dweller" begins to survive in the irradiated remains of Boston. But they have their assignments, and they each have the growing knowledge that they aren't the only ones tailing the Sole Survivor of Vault 111, because the other is as well.
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Icarus is approximately thirteen when he falls from the sky...and the Sun has a moment of weakness. As a son and the sun, Apollo inadvertently starts a war on Olympus by saving the life of one boy, putting Icarus in limbo and splitting the gods down the middle.
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Seph's Story (Mass Effect) by ssv_normandy (liminally_challenged)
Fandom: Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect Trilogy
11 Aug 2025
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Running on Empty by Anonymous for liminally_challenged
Fandoms: Mass Effect - All Media Types
05 Sep 2025
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The doctor was not in the medbay, and Grace allowed herself a moment to pull her shit together. She’d sensed the warmth in the non-human’s mind when they’d melded, but it didn’t connect to anything. The Asari’s unease clearly meant something else. And, what about the biotic Lieutenant? Was she giving off some kind of signal? No matter how her body responded, Grace didn’t have time for this. Saren was out there. Saren was the mission.
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Bookmarked by ssv_normandy (liminally_challenged)
15 Sep 2025
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Written for Spectre Sorrows 2025 about Grace. Non-canon obvi but a really great job with characterization. :)
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Shepard replies to Kaidan’s email
Bookmarked by ssv_normandy (liminally_challenged)
03 Aug 2025
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Reccomend highly to anyone that enjoys a bit of tragic Shenko content
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Garrus didn’t mean to snoop, he was just trying to clean. But beneath Shepard’s chaotic clutter, he uncovers a crate full of Black Sabbath holochips and memories that roar with the pulse of metal and the ghost of the Prince of Darkness. Set against timeless riffs, this standalone weaves old memories and new moments, held together by the fierce, feral love binding Shepard, Kaidan, and Garrus.
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- Part 3 of The Normandy Archives
Bookmarked by ssv_normandy (liminally_challenged)
27 Jul 2025
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This one was soooo good. I'm not much of a metalhead (I like certain songs I've just never gotten into the scene) but this was excellent. 10/10 recommend. :)
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wind up soldier boy by help_please for lemonblossom
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010)
07 Jul 2025
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40 seconds.
You’re sitting on the floor again. You’ve done this before.
or,
Jason Todd, familiar floors, and second beginnings.
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The Institute has been destroyed and the Brotherhood of Steel stands triumphant, but a stubborn flame still flickers in the darkness beneath the Old North Church.
Deacon told lies as naturally as most people breathed, and he kept secrets even from those a less paranoid man might arguably have called his friends. Many of those secrets he carried for the Railroad, but a few he kept for his own sake...
The strangest and most closely kept was this: Most people breathed. Deacon wasn't most people.
(A Fallout 4 vampire AU starring the Commonwealth’s favorite liar.)
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- Part 1 of Null Operators
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- English
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- 16,479
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- 4/4
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Bookmarked by diamond_city_blues (liminally_challenged)
09 Jun 2025
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I just know this is going to be good. (I WAS CORRECT)