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A fan fiction set in the Mass Effect universe. Going from main mission to main mission, with some sauce angst and of course romance thrown in. This is my first fanfic please be nice…
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Juxtaposed Amended by squiggly_squid
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect
28 Feb 2026
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What if Commander Shepard and Garrus Vakarian find each other and marry before the events of the games take place? How will it alter their futures, Shepard's decisions, and the battle against the Reapers?
This is a rewrite of my first fanfic, Juxtaposed, and the beginning of an all new Parable story. Expect similarities, but also see how some things change.
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- Part 1 of Parable Amended
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The Reaper war is over, but Admiral Hackett's most crucial mission remains: find Commander Shepard's body. When two soldiers discover her alive in the ruins of London, the mission shifts from recovery to survival. With catastrophic injuries that should have killed her six times over, Shepard faces her hardest fight yet, and this time, the battlefield is her own body and mind.
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Воспоминания by WTF Mass Effect 2026 (fandom_MassEffect)
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
27 Feb 2026
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Ночная встреча на общей палубе.
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Gravity of Absence by LesbianGamerGirl
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
27 Feb 2026
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Liara and Shepard finally reunite on Illium after two years. It doesn't go how either of them thought.
That night, they cope with the reunion in different ways.
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This is exactly what it looks like, lore-based fan-fiction basically coming up with the histories and explanations for the various weapons of Mass Effect in the model of Forgotten Weapons. Shepard is bored in the post-war world, so they've decided to start archiving all of the weapons in the galaxy. Yes, ALL OF THE WEAPONS. Anyways, this is the sort of stupid nonsense that will appeal exclusively to people who read every last codex entry like the maniacs we are, but I don’t mind. I like creating lore like this and I like Mass Effect, and this is a corner of the universe with a lot of unexplained questions. There might be some slight malleability on timelines for various reasons but I’ll try to stay within-timeline and within lore where I can. Things will broadly be in the time period after ME3 after a theoretical happy ending for Shepard, pick your favorite headcanon but if it comes up I’ll be referencing the Happy Ending Mod.
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Shadow Broker Dossier: Kaidan Alenko by JosieToxic
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
27 Feb 2026
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The exclusion of Wrex, and Kaidan or Ashley on the Dossier Terminal in the Lair of the Shadow Broker was such a missed opportunity in Mass Effect 2. I recently started a fresh LE Trilogy playthrough and finishing the LotSB DLC got me thinking about what would be included in Kaidan’s Dossier. The in-game dossier files give so many different setups to play with from Keystroke Logs to Audio transcriptions. Thus the Kaidan Alenko Shadow Broker Dossier was born.
Heads up this will likely never be completed in the traditional sense, I will add to it as I think (too much) about Mass Effect and get more ideas/inspiration.
Right now things are grouped as Entry types (Purchase History, Keystroke Log, Gamer Profile, ect). This means things may feel out of order chronologically.
My goal was to stay as canon adjacent as possible and leave Shepard relatively player decision neutral. However this work assumes Kaidan survives Virmire (obviously) and that he was Shepard’s love interest in Mass Effect 1.
Hope you all enjoy!
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James Vega wondered, and not for the first time, what it was about him that the universe hated. He attracted fucked up shit like he was born with an industrial fan in his hands. It was especially complicated when the personal-hero-slash-quasi-prisoner he'd been guarding suddenly turned into his hardass CO over the course of an hour. The moment Adrien got his tags and orders tossed at him, James got a taste of the real Commander Shepard he'd always wanted to serve with. All thanks to a straight-up giant alien robot squid invasion. Not how he ever envisioned that happening. And then there was the little complication of also falling for Commander Shepard's boyfriend.
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She did what fate asked of her, she went to Earth and surrendered to lockdown. She prepared and sat waiting for that dreadful day and now it's here. The Reapers have arrived. It's up to Commander Shepard to end this cycle once and for all, both of the harvest and her own personal torment, but will she have the strength to do what must be done?
A ME3 Story
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- Part 3 of Fated for Control
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Shepard: A Survivor's Saga by twistedwit
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
27 Feb 2026
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Canon-compliant novelization fleshing out the Mass Effect trilogy's relationships and emotional toll. Centered on iconic Lone Survivor/Colonist Engineer Jane Shepard as she appeared in the Legendary Edition. Strong paragon leanings, but with the mouth of a renegade. Includes canon character deaths and detailed alien anatomy. Contains much in-game dialogue courtesy of Bioware.
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After - Part II by tomN7
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect - Various Authors
27 Feb 2026
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Continuation of the 'After' series. A collection of POV chapters throughout the ME2 storyline, marking the off screen character growth of several parties of the Normandy SR-2.
Writing assumes that the reader is quite familiar with the Mass Effect setting, and After - Part I.
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- Part 2 of After
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What truly bridges the silent chasm between species? Is it shared pain, the fragile threads of friendship... or merely the hollow rhythm of a routine born from grief? The cosmos offers a thousand answers, yet none can fill the quiet.
You drifted into my orbit when the stars had all gone dark. The death of my brother, John, didn't just leave me alone—it left me unanchored in an ocean of shadows. And yet, with the steady hum of your voice and the sharpness of your gaze, you built a fence around my darkness. You became the only horizon I could see.
I fell, as stars often do, into a love that felt forbidden by the very laws of the galaxy. A love that wasn't meant to be. And when you were torn from my side, I wasn't left with a home, or a hope... I was left only with a variable. A cold, mathematical reminder of what I had lost.
They say the Galaxy only needs one Shepard to save it. But John was the hero, and I am only the ghost he left behind.
The Galaxy needs its Savior... but I only ever needed you
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Ten years ago, the Reapers were vanquished, the galaxy saved. Statues were raised. Obituaries written. Shepard, having died in the last moments of the war, became a hero, a legend, enshrined in memory.
Only Shepard wasn’t dead. He was hidden. Locked away for all that time.
And now, Shepard has returned, having been freed from his frozen prison.
His pursuit for answers will lead him across a changed galaxy. He knows this wasn’t an accident. Someone had a reason to put him under for those ten years, and they had the power to make the galaxy believe he was never coming back. He will stop at nothing to find the truth and take down those that wronged him and destroy the lies they’ve built. Only then will his vengeance be complete. The galaxy will soon learn how dangerous a dead man can be.
And when the last name is crossed off, he will look to the stars again. Toward the one face that’s haunted his every waking thought and pulled him forward all this time.
A voice. A memory. His lost love.
Tali'Zorah.
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The Bridge Between by Stanic
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
27 Feb 2026
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The red wave of the Crucible changed everything. It destroyed the Reapers, disabled the mass relays, and apparently claimed the life of Commander Shepard. But nothing in this new galaxy is quite what it seems. As humanity tears itself apart and new threats gain power in the shadows of conflict, an impossible discovery will reunite the legendary crew of the Normandy for a mission beyond hope itself.
A post-ME3 psychological thriller exploring identity beyond sacrifice, featuring established Shepard/Garrus relationship.
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- Part 1 of The Bridge Between
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Despite You Tomorrow Will Be Another Day by Desdemonia, Paragade13 (DemiMuiraquita)
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy
27 Feb 2026
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She shot the energy conduit.
A brilliant burst of light blinded her, and she felt her body burning up in the microseconds it took for the energy wave to hit her. Time seemed to slow to a crawl. She hardly understood what Vendetta meant, 'whence it all began', how it would destroy the Reapers, or if her death would be painful. She hoped not; she thought she deserved a little more than that, after all that she'd sacrificed.
She smiled as it all went dark.
Lieutenant Commander Janine Shepard woke with a start, her lips parched, and her hair matted in sweat. She brought up her omni-tool and displayed the time: 5:27, 17th of March, 2183.
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The Thrilling sequel in my telling of the Mass Effect trilogy.
jump in to see everyone's favourite cast as they glide their way through the events of Mass Effect Two. new characters, races, and factions dot the twin's journey as they race against the clock in an effort to stop the mysterious collectors from abducting human colonists.
it is highly suggested that one reads the first story, 'The Legend of the Shepards', in order to best understand the changes in the plot. otherwise, sit back relax and enjoy the madness
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- Part 2 of Twin Stars
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shore leave by astersandstuffs
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
27 Feb 2026
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In the afterlife, Shepard makes the round to see her crew.
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Garrus Vakarian, while completing his mandatory military service, is stationed on a secret compound on Menae while the Normandy is being built. He is part of the military security personnel ordered to keep the compound secure and to make sure the mechanics play nice with each other. The placement given to him based off of prior insubordination, he finds himself constantly bored.
Zoji is a vextra, a new species that introduced themselves on the galactic stage ten years after the humans did. She is one of the mechanics building a frigate that has been designed by humans and turians, but also an undercover operative. For the time Zoji has been on Menae, keeping her secrets hasn't been an issue by isolating herself. All of that changes when she meets Garrus
Her budding friendship with the turian leads to her struggling to keep her mouth shut and her secrets hidden to stay alive
She makes Garrus' life on the moon more tolerable. Soon he discovers feelings are developing for her that she is oblivious to
Unfortunately, Zoji lives life on insanity difficulty, with death threats and attempts on her life that the two have to figure out how to navigate before a bigger problem emerges
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Shadows cast over the galaxy as a seemingly routine mission turns into a bloodbath. And in the middle of it all- there is Commander Tuana Tegrek-Shepard, the perceived pride of humanity. With the Normandy handed down to her, she leads her team through the marionette network of the best and worst. A race against time, before it breaks her.
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- Part 1 of Strings of Legacy
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Nona Shepard could be considered the luckiest woman in the galaxy. She's not so certain.