Mass Effect
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Mass Effect - Sharp Edges by laurawho7
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect
21 Jul 2026
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Commander Shepard didn't grow up dreaming of the stars. She grew up in the lower wards of New York, learning that survival means never letting anyone get close enough to hurt. The Alliance gave her a purpose, missions, rank—forged her into a weapon. It was enough, until Saren, until the hunt for a rogue Spectre pulled her into an alliance with an asari archaeologist who refused to be pushed away and breached her walls.
This is the story of the woman behind the legend: a street kid who became a soldier, a soldier who became a symbol, and the slow, unwilling process of learning that letting someone in doesn't have to mean losing them. Follows the events of Mass Effect 1, with original characters, deepened backstory, and a few sharp edges of its own.
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- Part 1 of Mass Effect - The Forging
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Shepard had had a tough life. She found some good friends and has made some annoying enemies. Her life is complicated but enjoyable. Routine mission after mission, working up the N ranks. Her most recent mission to Akuze seems routine, and she even met a cute turian before she shipped out. Looking forward to meeting up with him after her mission, Shepard heads out, not knowing how this one mission will shape her future with the Alliance. Her best friend, Toombs, seems excited to work with her again. “At least the planet has a cool name. Akuze. Definitely sounds like something I could get tattooed on me once we get back. Maybe come up with a cool story about how I won a fight there."
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Navigating grief and loss, Shepard struggles to find herself in the aftermath of the war with the Reapers. Her path of rebirth unfolds in strange ways with Prothean visions, cyclical time dilations, and a mysterious child.
A work in progress.
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The Weight of Survival by Plumppig
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
17 Feb 2026
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The Weight of Survival begins in the aftermath of the Reaper War, when the Normandy crash-lands following the detonation of the Crucible. Commander Jane Shepard, gravely wounded and presumed dead, disappears in the chaos. What follows is a sweeping, character-driven narrative of grief, survival, and the fragile hope of rebuilding, not only for Shepard, but for her crew, her family, and the galaxy itself.
At its heart, the story explores Shepard’s struggle to reclaim her identity after immense sacrifice, while grappling with her pregnancy—made possible through Leviathan-altered biology and the crushing symbolic weight placed on her by allies and leaders alike.
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Beneath Star Crossed Relays by CitadelCitizen7
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types, mass ef
03 Feb 2026
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Shepard’s hunting Reapers while Omega swallows the desperate. And somewhere between the firefights and the ghosts she thought she’d buried, (OC) Xyla Acosta keeps catching the eye of the one Turian she shouldn’t want.
Some instincts are easy to fight.
Garrus Vakarian isn’t one of them.
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Explorations, variations and off-camera moments from the Mass Effect 2 storyline. Multiple character POVs.
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- Part 6 of Mass Effect: Kye Shepard's Story
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First it was the fraternization regs. Then it was a stolen ship. Then it was her commission, her clearance, and her name, signed onto a Cerberus contract with her eyes open. Every crime Samantha Traynor has ever committed has been for the same woman, and she'd commit the first one again before all the rest.
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The trilogy, in Samantha's POV.
What if Samantha was on the Normandy from day one and was the LI through the whole trilogy? This is my take.
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The Dead Man's Lament by TheFullmetalLord
Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist - All Media Types, Fullmetal Alchemist (Anime 2003), Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types, Treasure Planet (2002)
17 Jul 2026
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After making the ultimate sacrifice to save his brother Edward Elric now has to journey through a brutal and unforgiving galaxy on his mission to destroy the Reapers ever since he recieved his vision from the Prothean beacon on Eden Prime.
Jane Shepard the notorious Butcher of Torfan, raised in the slums of Earth to only lose her entire family before she was mistreated for being a biotic by the BAaT program then by the general human public for their hatred of biotics to then becoming the most despised war criminal in Alliance Military history by massacring millions of innocent slaves unfortunately is determined to make Edward's life alot more complicated.
Edward has to deal with someone who has no issue crossing any moral boundaries in order to complete the mission.
NEW CHAPTERS WILL BE RELEASED EVERY WEEK ON SUNDAYS
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A very pregnant Samantha Traynor-Shepard looks back on her time on the Normandy
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Sheppy Playtime Episode 2 by Jetstorm
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Poppy Playtime (Video Game)
11 Jul 2026
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Second Episode
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- Part 6 of Sacrifice and Redemption
- Part 2 of Sheppy Playtime