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

  • Mature
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
  • Gen, F/F, F/M, M/M
  • Work in Progress

  27 Apr 2026

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Major Character Death
  • Female Shepard/Garrus Vakarian
  • Female Shepard/Liara T'Soni
  • Javik & Liara T'Soni
  • Kaiden Alenko/Original Character
  • Kaidan Alenko
  • Garrus Vakarian
  • Liara T'Soni
  • Solana Vakarian
  • Castis Vakarian
  • Javik (Mass Effect)
  • James Vega
  • Original Characters
  • Basically everyone you can think off
  • In the mass effect universe
  • Liara is Shepard's ex
  • Tali'Zorah nar Rayya
  • Post-Mass Effect 3
  • Mass Effect - Freeform
  • Angst
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • Canon-Typical Violence
  • Post-Canon
  • Body Horror
  • garrus and liara are going through it
  • shepard lives eventually? it's complicated
  • Post-Control Ending (Mass Effect)
  • but it's canon divergent
  • Romance
  • Kinda
  • author plays loose with Turian religion
  • Author makes things up about Prothean mindmeldery
  • Reaper Tech is it's own whole thing
  • no beta but author tried their best to edit
  • Multi-POV
  • No Shepard Without Vakarian
  • Grief/Mourning

  Summary

  In Year 2186 CE, Commander Shepard, sacrificed her life and conscious to stop the Reapers from eradicating the entire galaxy. Five years later whatever remained of the Reapers were destroyed, or empty dead husks. The Citadel is rebuilt, the embassies band together to make new laws - and the galaxy mourns their dead in a hopeful future.

  Garrus Vakarian, and Liara T'soni are the only ones unwilling to admit, or accept that the greatest hero in the galaxy had died.

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