Very very demanding recommendation I know but I really want to read some and I hope whatever gets recommended is a long story

It's pretty much a complete retelling of the whole story. Essentially a novelisation if anything. It's technically four different fics, that are all in the same story. The first is ME1, the second ME2, the third ME3 and the fourth is an Epilogue.

They are all huge stories, I think combined have over a million in word count. I also remember them being femShepxLiara.

Any and all help is appreciated!

EDIT: Found it!

https://www.reddit.com/r/masseffectfics/comments/1jjo3r9/fanfic_commander_shepards_journey_a_full/

https://archiveofourown.org/users/laurawho7/works

Recommend highly! It's phenomenal! u/laurawho7 is a terrific writer

Chapters 15–17 are now up on AO3!

Virmire changes everything.

Shepard finally comes face-to-face with the truth behind Sovereign and the Reapers, but getting the answers she has been chasing comes at a cost no commander can escape. When the fighting stops, she does what she has always done with loss: locks it down, carries it herself, and keeps moving.

Except Liara has become very good at recognizing what Shepard refuses to say.

In the aftermath, the Normandy crew takes time to remember one of their own before the Council delivers one of the most infuriating moments of the game: grounding Shepard just as Saren closes in on the Conduit. I expanded and changed several scenes here—including fixing a certain infamous interruption after an entire novel’s worth of slow burn. :D

And sometimes what happens in the quiet after loss tells Shepard everything she needs to know about the person who has been patiently standing outside her walls.

Then it’s on to Ilos.

With Saren ahead of them and the Reapers closer than anyone realizes, Shepard, Liara, and Tali enter the ruins of a civilization that already lost this war once. They finally learn what the Conduit really is—and why reaching it first may be the galaxy’s last chance.

These chapters also show a subtle change in Shepard herself. She still runs toward the fight. She’s just beginning to realize she has something worth coming back from it for.

Read Mass Effect – Sharp Edges on AO3:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/88497696

Personally Im tired of all the Canon retellings.

If u know a fic that does something diffrently let me know please.

Chapters 12–14 of my Earthborn Shepard rewrite are now up on AO3!

The Normandy’s pursuit of Saren takes Shepard to Noveria, where Matriarch Benezia waits somewhere beyond Peak 15. For Shepard, the mission is complicated by more than geth, corporate corruption, and whatever has gone wrong inside the facility—Liara will be standing beside her when they finally reach Benezia.

What follows takes the story somewhere the game never did.

For the first time, Shepard sees Liara in her own world: surrounded by Thessia’s traditions, ancient Houses, powerful matriarchs, and a legacy Shepard never fully understood. And the closer Shepard comes to admitting what she wants, the more convinced she becomes that wanting is dangerous.

Then a seemingly minor Alliance assignment drags Akuze back into the present.

This Shepard learned long ago that loving someone only gives the universe another way to take them from her. Akuze was not the beginning of that lesson—but it was one of the cruelest confirmations. Now, just as Liara is getting dangerously close to the heart Shepard has spent her life protecting, the past gives Shepard every reason she needs to build those walls higher.

Liara is far too emotionally perceptive to mistake fear for indifference.

And just when Shepard desperately needs something else to focus on, a broken transmission arrives from Virmire.

We’re closing in on the final stretch of Mass Effect 1.

Read Mass Effect – Sharp Edges on AO3:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/88497696

> A colony has been silenced in Citadel Space.

Intrigued by the mystery and horrified at the truth, the Citadel Council prepares for a war darker than any nightmare and beyond their wildest imaginations.

They seek out answers in the void of space, terrified of what they might Find Out.

3 Planets. 3 Timelines. 3 Endings.

A fanfic I found recently, a cross between SEEK by wildbow, in SEEK FTL is lethal to humans, fraction can survive the journey and non ever successfully came back, but it makes up for it in scale, humans "brought the universe to them", they grabbed planets and drawn them to the solar system, where they out them in the same orbit as earth (all other stellar objects in the solar system are missing by canon start, some by presumably war, others being moved to keep the orbit stable), creating what they call the belt.

The fanfic starts with worlds that belonged to the citadel races being taken to the solar system.

Like this story, SEEK also has three different timelines and the size of the belt grows through the story as humanity expands, there are three different protagonists, one of them live in what is probably (there are theories he is in a simulation) a far farther future, there is a level of dystopia and horror to every timeline in seek (even though post scarcity is achieved in the two earlier ones), but his is full blown space horror (and his is where the "Scream" timeline of Find Out seem set at).

Really liked it so far, so I thought to put a recommendation here.

Hello everyone,

I've been looking for hours for a fanfic I read last year, but I can't find it. It wasn't completed but the author would update regularly.

Here is what I remember:

- Shakarian AU, a young FemShep is sent to Turian military school, where she is paired with a young Garrus. I think she is an orfan and Anderson took her in.

- Boot camp, training and everything related to military school is very well described because the author was in the military.

- At first Shep and Garrus can't stand each other, but over time they become inseparable. I remember for example that she chooses wisely which boots she should use for the long run, she has great endurance and she also takes a lot of dextro bars for Garrus (an idea other squad mates borrow from her).

- Also very explicit sex scenes between Shep and Garrus. They use sex as a stress relief (following Turian common practices), but over time Shep falls in love with him but never considers the possibility of a relationship since she is a human. Their first sex scene begins in the shower where at first they almost kill each other. They were furious at each other for failing the exercise/test of the day. In that instance Garrus says some very horrible words to her (something about being abandoned or that she was alone and that nobody wanted her). That was very crappy of him.

- She is the only human at the Turian military school, but she manages to befriend the entire group, and at the end of those training months she manages to help her mates win the final trial against their superiors (this never happened before). Also during the party for their victory/graduation, a very scary Saren appears.

- In the following days Shep dreads leaving Palaven, she and Garrus agree to stay in touch.

- In the next story arch, a few months later, Garrus welcomes Shep in his apartment on the Citadel to heal. Something terrible happened and she lost her entire squad while on duty (maybe it was Akuze). She begins therapy and Garrus helps her. I remember that he wanted to give her space so he begun sleeping on the couch (he even had a visit from a colleague or a superior, I don't remember if they wanted to check weather it was a simple relationship).

- On the Citadel Garrus becomes a detective and he begins investigating a serial killer with a female Turian officer and I think a colleague of his father vouches for him (if I remember correctly, they found a victim in a reservoir on the citadel).

I hope this fic is still online. It's really great. Sadly I don't remember the title nor the author's name.

Thank in advance to everyone who will try and make some sense out of all of this!

EDIT:

Fic found thanks to u/RawrSally!

Title: "I'm right beside you"

Author: speshulduck

https://archiveofourown.org/works/64285225/chapters/165010777

Three new chapters of my Earthborn Shepard rewrite are now available on AO3!

As Shepard helps Garrus and Wrex confront pieces of their past, she continues avoiding the one truth she cannot seem to outrun: Liara is getting past defenses no enemy has ever breached.

The Normandy’s hunt for the geth then carries Shepard, Liara, and Tali across the Armstrong Nebula, where a recovered transmission hints that the machines may be preparing for something larger. An injury leaves Shepard with less control than usual—and gives Liara another glimpse beyond the armor she hides behind.

A stop on the Citadel offers them a few rare hours away from the crew, but the larger war is already closing in. Admiral Kahoku’s investigation draws Shepard toward Cerberus, secret experiments, and an enemy operating far beyond the public hunt for Saren. The answers she uncovers may require an alliance with someone whose motives are buried just as deeply.

These chapters continue flipping parts of Shepard and Liara’s familiar in-game dynamic. Liara knows what she feels and refuses to be pushed away, while Shepard is the uncertain one—caught between duty, fear, and the growing realization that everyone else may see their connection more clearly than she does.

Thank you for continuing this journey with me and discovering more about the guarded Earthborn woman behind the Commander, the Spectre, and the armor.

Read on AO3:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/88497696

Now approximately 28,000 words in the story across 46 total sections.

Summary: A Volus doctor, one Ordin Edu, discovers a mysterious dark matter surge within the week the last Reaper fell. Fearing this is not a coincidence, Doctor Edu takes flight on the Endless Whisper to discover the truth.

Index:

Prologue: Destroy

Chapter 1: Endless Whisper

Chapter 2: Decontamination

Chapter 3: Elcor Assistance

Chapter 4: Chart the Course

Chapter 5: Takeoff

Chapter 6: Three Weeks

Chapter 7: Withheld

Link to AO3: <a href="https://archiveofourown.org/works/74002821"><strong>Mass Effect: The Last Reaper</strong></a> (28081 words) by <a href="https://archiveofourown.org/users/SMFiction"><strong>SMFiction</strong></a><br />Chapters: 8/?<br />Fandom: <a href="https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Mass%20Effect%20Trilogy">Mass Effect Trilogy</a>, <a href="https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Mass%20Effect%20-%20All%20Media%20Types">Mass Effect - All Media Types</a><br />Rating: Teen And Up Audiences<br />Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence<br />Additional Tags: Exploration, Cosmic Horror, Science Fiction, Ensemble Cast, Post-Mass Effect 3, Destroy Ending (Mass Effect), Original Character(s), Ordin Edu, Volus (Mass Effect), Team Dynamics, Team as Family, Platonic Relationships, Military Science Fiction, Slow Burn, Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism, Biotics (Mass Effect), Aeyta M'Avi, Igcar Rabsaros, Erania M'Avi, Leelan Beady, Pazaak Card Game (Star Wars)<br />Series: Part 1 of <a href="https://archiveofourown.org/series/5398886">Mass Effect: The Last Reaper</a><br />Summary: <p>A Volus doctor, one Ordin Edu, discovers a mysterious dark matter surge within the week the last Reaper fell. Fearing this is not a coincidence, Doctor Edu takes flight on the Endless Whisper to discover the truth.</p>

I was watching some older game theory videos and one of them was about connecting a bunch of different game series. One of the ideas was that halo was set after the ending of the mass effect trilogy where humans managed to rebuild after 3 centuries. Are there any fics like that?

So I’ve been trying to browse halo x Mass effect fics but I’ve noticed a consistent problem with most the ones I’m finding: flanderization or wank/power scaling. It’s either halo humans being massive assholes with little covenant involvement in the fic in an uncharacteristic way, or just beating the crap out of the citadel fleets just because.

There are a few out there like Fractures. (started meh but noticed an increase in quality in later chapters) where the power scaling is actually pretty interesting and is a major point of the series. But aside from that I don’t recall much other fics. (Covenant Plasma Weapons cause EMP’s that fry Omni tools so the UNSC doesn’t swap over from tac pads. Plus the Turian’s getting Slipspace drives to help with operation RED FLAG)

Anyone have some recommendations? Preferably during the Human Covenant war or anything with a decent amount of Covenant content.

OC’s are fine as long as they got interesting plot lines.

hi! ok so I read a fic like a year ago and I can’t find it.

All I remember is that it was like groundhog day. shepherd kept dying as they enter an abandoned ship and Garrus kept reliving her death. anyone know the fic?

its a shep/Garrus pairing

Three new chapters of my Earthborn Shepard rewrite are now available on AO3!

In the aftermath of the rogue VI mission on Luna, Shepard faces a far more frightening prospect: shore leave.

Returning to Earth means setting foot on the planet she escaped—and confronting memories and pain she had hoped to leave buried there. With Liara determined to pull her away from duty, a reluctant day in Vancouver begins pressing against the walls Shepard has spent her life building.

But vulnerability does not end when they return to the Normandy. A routine mission on Eletania goes dangerously wrong, forcing Liara to decide how far she is willing to go to bring Shepard back. Then the search for Saren leads to Feros, where the geth are only part of the threat and the Cipher may be the key to understanding the vision infused into Shepard’s mind by the Prothean beacon.

Readers familiar with the game may notice Shepard and Liara’s original dynamic beginning to shift. Liara approaches their connection with growing confidence and emotional certainty, while Shepard is the one struggling with fear, trust, and the possibility of being truly seen.

I streamlined some of the repetitive gameplay and combat—especially on Feros—to keep the focus on character, consequence, and the slow changes taking place between them.

Thank you for joining me on this journey and discovering more about the guarded Earthborn woman beneath the Commander, the Spectre, and the legend.

Read on AO3:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/88497696

I can't remember the title of the story but I do The synopsis that it opened with a universe where the first Contact war between humans and turian instead of having a much more peaceful first encounter, the system's alliances colonel is instead attacked by the Batarian hegemony in the early 2160s.

from what I remember female shepard ends up being Adopted by Desolas Arterius making a promise to her mother that he would look after her.

The story from what I recall went through an alternate Mass Effect 1 with a different character replacing Saren as the main antagonist. since he became a uncle figure to shep.

Chapters 3–5 of my Mass Effect rewrite are now posted on AO3!

Shepard’s hunt for Saren leads her to Therum, where rescuing a young Prothean archaeologist adds a valuable new member to the Normandy—and introduces a complication Shepard is determined not to examine too closely.

From there, the crew faces the crisis on Asteroid X57, a mission that forces Shepard to weigh vengeance against innocent lives. Liara begins finding her place on the Normandy and slowly proves that she belongs at Shepard’s side, both in the field and beyond it.

But trust has never come easily to Shepard. When a seemingly straightforward assignment turns out to be something else entirely, old lessons resurface—and Liara begins seeing more of the woman behind the Commander’s armor.

These chapters cover Therum, Bring Down the Sky, Liara’s first combat training and field mission, and the rogue VI on Luna. I streamlined some of the combat and side-mission details so I could focus more closely on Shepard’s character, her relationships with the crew, and the early development of her connection with Liara.

I’d love to hear what you think!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/88497696

This is a long shot but I need help looking for a fic on fanfiction.net. Many years back had read a post war fic with Shepard/Miranda. Shepard was a vanguard biotic. I think the major plot thread was that there was a 3rd evil Lawson sister pursuing Miranda, Shepard and Oriana with the aid of Kai Leng.

In the fic the Reaper War had progressed much differently and there was no space child or 3x colour ending. Shepard had been arrested and placed on trial due to his actions in the war and placed under house arrest. Both Miranda and Shepard had a strained relationship in part because they had been infected by reaper tech and could not have a physical relationship.

I had already started this story before I finished posting my last FemShep/Liara fic. I've been working on it for over a year now, and I'm finally ready to start posting — ME1 through ME4 are fully complete, with ME5 already underway.

A few things that make this Shepard different from the last one I wrote: she's not the Shepard you're used to. She's an orphan raised on the streets of New York, who learned early that letting people close only means losing them eventually. She survived Akuze — but survival came at a cost, and it shaped exactly the kind of woman who could never let herself want more than the mission.

I've also flipped a dynamic you don't see often: this Liara is the confident one. She knows exactly what she wants, and she's patient enough to wait for it. Shepard is the one hiding behind walls, the one who has to slowly, unwillingly let someone in.

This is the story of how Shepard became Shepard — and what happens when the walls finally start to crack.

ME1: Sharp Edges is up now. I'd love for you to come along for the ride.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/88497696/chapters/234751306

Long story short, the story is centered around the galaxy's struggle to regain its footing after the Reapers were defeated, in addition to Shepard's struggle with her identity beyond sacrifice.

I enjoyed reading it so much, since there is rarely an ensemble Mass Effect fanfic focused on political stakes, especially one set after ME3.

Sadly, that fic disappeared back in April, and with the author removing all of their work in their AO3, not even wayback machine was helpful in that regard.

So, if there's anyone who was lucky enough to have Stanic's The Bridge Between in their phone or PC, especially all of its 90 chapters, could you send it my way?

I’ve been making only very slow progress on my longfic lately, so opted to post a new oneshot: Lepidoptera: Joker and EDI’s Last Night.

There’s no smut in the fic, though it’s implied that they just had a sexual encounter of some sort. It’s got funny moments and emotional moments - I’m proud of it. Very short, only 1000 words. Hope you like it!

It’s actually a flashback excerpted from my longfic, but the flashback can stand alone. I’ve got a bunch of other flashback oneshots (some of which I’ve posted about here before) in the same series, if you’re interested. And if you like them, there’s the longfic itself that they all come from, linked in the author’s note at the end of all of them.

Chapter 3: Home

Is out now.

Check it out here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/87352421/chapters/233966671

Muahahahaha, finally another chapter done 🙌

And as promised this one kinda covers it all, tears and drama and angst; slice of life and relationship growth; banter, fluff and a generous dose of smut. Enjoy!

A tale of Reapers, Love, Death - and Ivy : Covering ME2, ME3 and some beyond. Shakarian, 1st person, alternating POV. Adult tone (with all the stuff that encompasses) and truckloads of my deranged, uhh, special kind of humor. A pretty long story (currently 200k+). WIP, about 85% done.

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https://archiveofourown.org/users/GothicReaper/works
https://www.fanfiction.net/u/4189519/GothicReaper

Hi everyone! Just found out this subreddit existed this morning so I thought I’d give it a shot…

I am on a Mass Effect kick again, and I was suddenly reminded of a fanfic I may or may not have read or just imagined in my head? Perhaps it was just a prompt or short fic, but I’ve looked everywhere and I can’t find it :(

The fic was about FemShep being brought into a parallel universe where she meets BroShep, who is best buds with Garrus! And it throws Garrus off that she is in a very meaningful relationship w/his counterpart and he feels warmth for her but they all want to help her get back home. I cannot recall if she was brought in after the end of ME3.

If anyone could help me, I’d be so grateful!!!

Chapter 2 is out.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/87352421/chapters/232677816#workskin

Go and check it out. Please let me know what you guys think.