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Author has written 1 story for Mass Effect. This is the account where I will be posting companion pieces and character studies for a much longer and in depth Mass Effect fanfiction I've been writing, using the FemShep I created, Astrid. Unfortunately, it is still in the works so I don't have it posted anywhere on the internet (yet). Hopefully this clears up any confusion as to why these are disconnected stand alone pieces. My talents lie with script writing and story boarding, so I apologize in advance for any spelling, grammatical, contextual errors or general confusion. |
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Sense and Flexibility by Roarkshop reviews
The story of Garrus and Femshep as told by me. Lots of off-canon. Sequels incoming. TW: It's been brought to my attention that some of Garrus' more animalistic behavior in some scenes have caused panic attacks for victims of abuse. I am so sorry for anyone who had a similar reaction. SO sorry. I would like to make any new readers aware of this beforehand. Thank you.
Mass Effect - Rated: M - English - Romance/Friendship - Chapters: 51 - Words: 220,428 - Reviews: 1563 - Favs: 2,426 - Follows: 1,375 - Updated: 11/11/2014 - Published: 10/6/2011 - Shepard (F), Garrus V. - Complete
Glory of the Darkest Winds by theherocomplex reviews
ME3 AU: With the galaxy ending all around him, Garrus finally decides to go after what he wants. Too bad Shepard's too dense to realize that's her.
Mass Effect - Rated: M - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 8 - Words: 18,051 - Reviews: 51 - Favs: 161 - Follows: 69 - Updated: 8/14/2013 - Published: 7/1/2013 - Shepard (F), Garrus V. - Complete
Guilty Conscience by NexusFaye reviews
Shakarian - Garrus/Shepard - And so I'm not dead! This takes place post-destroy!ending, where Shepard is in the hospital and is paid a visit by her one and only turian. I did this about a month ago at the request of my friend, who also was my beta. Hope you enjoy cx Reviews are appreciated and always responded to when signed-in
Mass Effect - Rated: T - English - Angst/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,519 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 12 - Follows: 4 - Published: 7/11/2013 - Shepard (F), Garrus V. - Complete
You Do Know How To Whistle, Don't You Garrus? by thepurplewombat reviews
fill for a kmeme prompt, again :) Can be found here: In which human whistling freaks Garrus out.
Mass Effect - Rated: K - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 307 - Reviews: 16 - Favs: 48 - Follows: 10 - Published: 6/11/2013 - Shepard (F), Garrus V.
Entropy by jhoom reviews
An injury causes Shepard to lose her ability to create new memories, with devastating effects on the events of ME3. How can the galaxy overcome its greatest threat without its hero? Is there anything they can do to mend the past or better the future? FemShep/Garrus.
Mass Effect - Rated: T - English - Angst/Romance - Chapters: 24 - Words: 37,144 - Reviews: 160 - Favs: 143 - Follows: 103 - Updated: 5/28/2013 - Published: 1/7/2013 - Shepard (F), Garrus V. - Complete
In Sickness and in Health by anonymous moose reviews
Shepard and Garrus have trouble adjusting to time off after the war. But time, and ultra-advanced cybernetic technology, heals all wounds. Shepard/Vakarian. Total schmaltz.
Mass Effect - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,745 - Reviews: 14 - Favs: 65 - Follows: 11 - Published: 5/13/2013 - Shepard (F), Garrus V. - Complete
A Valediction by theherocomplex reviews
Today is the day of days.
Mass Effect - Rated: K+ - English - Angst/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,151 - Reviews: 19 - Favs: 31 - Follows: 2 - Published: 4/22/2013 - Shepard (F), Garrus V. - Complete
Archangel by Rokubi reviews
Commander Shepard meets with the mysterious Archangel in a dark corner of Afterlife. He's clearly turian, but that's all that she can tell as he's kept his helm on throughout the whole meeting. But she can't help but feel like she knows him… ME 2 F!Shepard/Garrus M Content
Mass Effect - Rated: M - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 6 - Words: 37,403 - Reviews: 61 - Favs: 217 - Follows: 137 - Updated: 3/26/2013 - Published: 11/6/2012 - Shepard (F), Garrus V. - Complete
Momentum by Galexz reviews
* Formerly "Forward"* Shepard saved the galaxy by taking control of the Reapers, but she lost something precious in the process: her memories. Some things though, are so ingrained that they can never really be taken away. This is the story of Jane Shepard finding her way back to the world. Post-Blue ending. A Kmeme prompt. Femshep/Garrus.
Mass Effect - Rated: T - English - Drama - Chapters: 4 - Words: 5,965 - Reviews: 7 - Favs: 29 - Follows: 29 - Updated: 3/1/2013 - Published: 6/3/2012 - Shepard (F), Garrus V. - Complete
The Many Deaths of Lantar Sidonis by Roarkshop reviews
A Mass Effect One-shot detailing the life and betrayal of Lantar Sidonis. This story runs parallel to my main Shakarian fic: Sense and Flexibility (meaning that it happens in the same timeline). History and timeline goes a little off-canon. Rated T for mild swearing.
Mass Effect - Rated: T - English - Drama/Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 5,625 - Reviews: 14 - Favs: 30 - Follows: 11 - Published: 1/27/2013 - Lantar Sidonis, Garrus V. - Complete
brokerreport939 by anonymous moose reviews
You have one (1) new message at your private terminal, Shadow Broker.
Mass Effect - Rated: K - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 440 - Reviews: 28 - Favs: 54 - Follows: 5 - Published: 1/22/2013 - Liara T'Soni - Complete
Amity in the Stars by Sprightly Grey reviews
Amity in the Stars follows the characters and their building relationships that take place during ME2 and post collector base, leading up to ME3. Ellure Shepard struggles with her past and present as she marches ahead, fighting to be the commander everyone expects her to be. Along the way, she discovers an old friend who shares her scars, knows the risk, and loves her anyways.
Mass Effect - Rated: M - English - Romance - Chapters: 45 - Words: 198,284 - Reviews: 74 - Favs: 120 - Follows: 106 - Updated: 12/12/2012 - Published: 4/16/2012 - Shepard (F), Garrus V. - Complete
Shakedown by anonymous moose reviews
Peacetime is anything but ordinary as Shepard and Garrus return to duty after a long and interminable medical leave. Now, she must build another crew, a mixture of new and old, to prepare for a shakedown cruise that only she and Hackett know the truth about, and face a threat that only the crew of the starship Normandy could be trusted to handle. Shepard/Vakarian.
Mass Effect - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Romance - Chapters: 15 - Words: 39,500 - Reviews: 92 - Favs: 110 - Follows: 92 - Updated: 11/14/2012 - Published: 5/7/2012 - Shepard (F), Garrus V. - Complete
Setting Sail, Coming Home by anonymous moose reviews
They pieced her back together, brought her back from the brink of death more than once, but Shepard isn't alive. Not yet. Shepard/Vakarian.
Mass Effect - Rated: M - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,831 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 34 - Follows: 5 - Published: 5/6/2012 - Shepard (F), Garrus V. - Complete
Restless by anonymous moose reviews
Shepard is restless. Garrus is agitated. Vega just wants to do pull-ups. Shepard/Vakarian.
Mass Effect - Rated: T - English - Humor/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,595 - Reviews: 16 - Favs: 102 - Follows: 8 - Published: 5/1/2012 - Shepard (F), Garrus V. - Complete
Awake by anonymous moose reviews
Dying is easy. Living is hard. She hoped she wouldn't have to do it alone. Shepard/Vakarian.
Mass Effect - Rated: T - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,031 - Reviews: 17 - Favs: 69 - Follows: 9 - Published: 4/30/2012 - Shepard (F), Garrus V. - Complete
Friendly Chat by anonymous moose reviews
Some people are friends because they like each other. Other people are friends out of spite. Mentioned Shepard/Vakarian.
Mass Effect - Rated: K+ - English - Humor/Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,637 - Reviews: 10 - Favs: 44 - Follows: 4 - Published: 4/29/2012 - Garrus V., Tali'Zorah - Complete
The Proposal by anonymous moose reviews
He'd been putting it off, and when he'd finally worked up the courage to ask, their quiet moment was rudely interrupted. Shepard/Vakarian.
Mass Effect - Rated: T - English - Romance/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,971 - Reviews: 35 - Favs: 166 - Follows: 14 - Published: 4/29/2012 - Garrus V., Shepard (F) - Complete
Impregnable by anonymous moose reviews
Certain conversations are like mighty fortresses - you don't want to approach them without a plan of attack. Shepard/Vakarian.
Mass Effect - Rated: T - English - Humor/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,531 - Reviews: 18 - Favs: 78 - Follows: 9 - Published: 4/28/2012 - Shepard (F), Garrus V. - Complete
Getting Physical by anonymous moose reviews
This was the first time they'd done this, and Shepard was in some serious pain. But it could be worse. Shepard/Vakarian. Rated M for... language?
Mass Effect - Rated: M - English - Romance/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,933 - Reviews: 18 - Favs: 110 - Follows: 7 - Published: 4/25/2012 - Shepard (F), Garrus V. - Complete
Letters from the Brig by KSCrusaders reviews
A little ingenuity on the part of the Shadow Broker allows Shepard to write to Garrus after being brigged. Letter-style one-shots taking place between ME2 and ME3. FemShep/Garrus. COMPLETE.
Mass Effect - Rated: M - English - Romance/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 7 - Words: 12,541 - Reviews: 70 - Favs: 145 - Follows: 110 - Updated: 4/4/2012 - Published: 3/15/2012 - Shepard (F), Garrus V. - Complete
The Very Long Night of Kaidan Alenko by Selkit reviews
Kaidan and Garrus have a sane and rational discussion about the woman they both love. Takes place after ME 2. Shepard/Garrus, past Shepard/Kaidan.
Mass Effect - Rated: K+ - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,842 - Reviews: 18 - Favs: 73 - Follows: 8 - Published: 3/5/2012 - Kaidan A., Garrus V. - Complete
Waking Up From the Dead Is Hard to Do by Selkit reviews
There's no such thing as a support group for the recently deceased. Fortunately for Commander Shepard, she has a talent for improvisation. FemShepard/Garrus, also features Miranda, Kasumi, and Tali.
Mass Effect - Rated: T - English - Drama/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 6,310 - Reviews: 16 - Favs: 103 - Follows: 10 - Published: 1/2/2011 - Shepard (F), Garrus V. - Complete
Life Among the Xenophiles by Selkit reviews
Some aspects of romancing an alien are strange new territory, while others are all too familiar. Fifty one-sentence snapshots of Garrus and Shepard's relationship.
Mass Effect - Rated: T - English - Romance/Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,074 - Reviews: 29 - Favs: 147 - Follows: 15 - Published: 7/26/2010 - Shepard (F), Garrus V. - Complete
Where Angels Fear To Tread by WarlordFil reviews
Death changes things. When Commander Shepard tries to tell her old friend what he means to her, she finds out that her own thoughts about him have changed. Garrus/FemShep. ME 1 and 2 spoilers. T for innuendo and cussing. COMPLETE. Sequel: Closer to Home
Mass Effect - Rated: T - English - Sci-Fi/Romance - Chapters: 6 - Words: 31,623 - Reviews: 135 - Favs: 480 - Follows: 145 - Updated: 6/1/2010 - Published: 3/1/2010 - Garrus V., Shepard (F) - Complete
Acceptable Loss by skybound2 reviews
In war - soldiers die. But when its someone you love...well, that's an entirely different story altogether. Originally written to fill a prompt for the Mass Effect kinkmeme. WARNING: Character deaths.
Mass Effect - Rated: M - English - Hurt/Comfort/Romance - Chapters: 3 - Words: 26,662 - Reviews: 39 - Favs: 80 - Follows: 20 - Updated: 5/28/2010 - Published: 5/20/2010 - Garrus V., Shepard (F) - Complete
Enemies Like You And Me by WarlordFil reviews
In an alternate universe where the First Contact War never ended, Commander Shepard and Garrus Vakarian meet on the battlefield-as enemies. But destiny will not be denied... Garrus/FemShep, AU. 2 chapters. First story of a series.
Mass Effect - Rated: M - English - Romance/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 2 - Words: 15,349 - Reviews: 100 - Favs: 768 - Follows: 141 - Updated: 5/26/2010 - Published: 5/16/2010 - Garrus V., Shepard (F) - Complete
Confessions and Lamentations by Selkit reviews
Squadmates, friends and acquaintances react, in their own words, to the new turn in Garrus and Shepard's relationship. Because everybody's got an opinion. Fem!Shepard/Garrus.
Mass Effect - Rated: T - English - Drama - Chapters: 12 - Words: 14,181 - Reviews: 171 - Favs: 387 - Follows: 122 - Updated: 5/20/2010 - Published: 3/4/2010 - Shepard (F), Garrus V. - Complete
The Hundred Year Distance by fondleaf reviews
She is fast as lightning and burning just a bright, pushing him across the hundred year distance they have crossed since meeting and beyond. Femshep/Garrus, written for the masskink meme on LiveJournal.
Mass Effect - Rated: M - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 6,625 - Reviews: 149 - Favs: 553 - Follows: 60 - Published: 5/15/2010 - Garrus V., Shepard (F) - Complete
The Harvest by Tea Diva reviews
A month has passed since the end of ME2. Kaidan Alenko's surprise visit takes a mysterious turn when both he and Shepard vanish. Garrus Vakarian must track them down lest he risk losing her again. FemmeShep/Garrus -COMPLETE-
Mass Effect - Rated: T - English - Sci-Fi/Romance - Chapters: 10 - Words: 37,854 - Reviews: 37 - Favs: 69 - Follows: 60 - Updated: 4/24/2010 - Published: 2/18/2010 - Shepard (F), Garrus V. - Complete
A Matter of Perspective by Sensoo reviews
Even after finding Sidonis, not everything is right between Shepard and Garrus. Sometimes talking isn't enough to clear the air.
Mass Effect - Rated: M - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 4 - Words: 24,317 - Reviews: 128 - Favs: 372 - Follows: 88 - Updated: 3/13/2010 - Published: 3/8/2010 - Garrus V., Shepard (F) - Complete
Loose Ends by UmbralTiger reviews
An unexpected message from an unwelcome messenger. Garrus finds himself facing the reopening of multiple, unresolved issues from his past, as well as hard questions about his future, and Shepard.
Mass Effect - Rated: T - English - Drama - Chapters: 3 - Words: 4,480 - Reviews: 24 - Favs: 29 - Follows: 22 - Updated: 3/9/2010 - Published: 3/4/2010 - Garrus V., Shepard (F) - Complete
Masquerade by KSCrusaders reviews
A series of very short vignettes chronicling Garrus Vakarian's glimpses of the many faces of Commander Shepard, from that fateful meeting on the Presidium, to after the suicide mission. FemShep/Garrus, spoilers for ME1 and ME2.
Mass Effect - Rated: T - English - Romance/Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,190 - Reviews: 15 - Favs: 106 - Follows: 17 - Published: 2/21/2010 - Shepard (F), Garrus V. - Complete
Threesome by Remenants reviews
FemShep/Garrus/Tali It's not what you think it is...honest. One-Shot.
Mass Effect - Rated: T - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,916 - Reviews: 29 - Favs: 153 - Follows: 21 - Published: 2/19/2010 - Shepard (F), Garrus V. - Complete
In Translation by KSCrusaders reviews
The most precious part of being alive needs no words. FemShep/Garrus smut, post-endgame. Very minor spoilers for Garrus romance, sidequest, and ME2 endgame.
Mass Effect - Rated: M - English - Romance/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,609 - Reviews: 23 - Favs: 157 - Follows: 15 - Published: 2/10/2010 - Shepard (F), Garrus V. - Complete
Until There Was You by Tea Diva reviews
With the end of their mission in sight, Shepard contemplates her feelings for Garrus Vakarian. Contains some minor spoilers for Mass Effect 2.
Mass Effect - Rated: T - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 858 - Reviews: 8 - Favs: 22 - Follows: 6 - Published: 2/8/2010 - Shepard (F), Garrus V. - Complete
Fever Dream by KSCrusaders reviews
Being live bait for an Ardat-Yakshi is not something to be taken lightly. And Garrus Vakarian is not willing to let Shepard deal with her missions--or her nightmares--alone any more. FemShep/Garrus, spoilers for the Samara sidequest. Part 3 of 3 COMPLETE.
Mass Effect - Rated: T - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 3 - Words: 12,288 - Reviews: 47 - Favs: 158 - Follows: 49 - Updated: 2/7/2010 - Published: 2/5/2010 - Shepard (F), Garrus V. - Complete
Once by KSCrusaders reviews
The calm just before the storm. FemShep/Garrus, minor spoilers for Mass Effect 2.
Mass Effect - Rated: T - English - Romance/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,526 - Reviews: 25 - Favs: 121 - Follows: 12 - Published: 1/27/2010 - Garrus V., Shepard (F) - Complete
A Hundred Little Instances by Hyperbali reviews
Forbidden love and shy gestures. Lasting scars and haunting memories. Follow the lives of a turian and a commander; each moment is captured within one sentence and these hundred sentences mark one hundred different moments neither of them can forget.
Mass Effect - Rated: T - English - Romance/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 5,154 - Reviews: 16 - Favs: 82 - Follows: 9 - Published: 7/10/2009 - Garrus V., Shepard (F) - Complete
Hathor
It's late, but that doesn't stop Shepard's thoughts from wandering to what used to be.
Mass Effect - Rated: T - English - Family/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,986 - Favs: 2 - Published: 4/17/2013 - Shepard (F), Garrus V. - Complete