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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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- English
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- 26,679
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- 6/?
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- 2
- Comments:
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- Kudos:
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15 Jul 2026
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Not even legends live forever.
Liara had known for months. Had known, in the way that a person who has loved someone for the entirety of a lifetime knows the shape of what is coming, that this was the end.
Shepard knew it, and Liara knew it, and neither of them said it aloud because saying it aloud would make it real, and real was coming fast enough on its own.
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08 Jun 2026
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Something like a Constant by pirozheka
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
30 May 2026
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"It was not something tangible. What lay between them was nothing like a raging river, nor a colorful kaleidoscope of feelings and sensations. Goddess, most of the time it was not even at the center of her thoughts.
It was simply…
Simply that Shepard always came back to Liara."In the middle of the Reaper War, Liara tries to understand what she and Shepard are to each other — and whether there is still room for desire, tenderness, and a future neither of them can afford to believe in.
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01 Jun 2026
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After death and resurrection, Commander Jane Shepard struggles to regain all that she lost.
Miranda Lawson has the unenviable assignment of keeping the fractured, rage-filled woman on task long enough to stop the Collectors from abducting more human colonies.
Meanwhile, Maya Brooks steals Shepard’s clone and disappears, forcing the galaxy to confront a dangerous truth: there is more than one Shepard, and neither will be controlled easily. As the Reaper War looms, identity fractures, loyalties splinter, and survival demands choices no one is ready to make.
This is a story about legacy, autonomy, and what happens when the weapon refuses to stay pointed where it’s aimed.
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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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05 Mar 2026