In the years since her family was killed, J.R. Shepard has learned to put the personal aside in favor of the professional. But as the galaxy's crises become her responsibility, as she gathers around her the people who will aid her, she finds a new family, and love that she never expected, and will have to learn how to put the two halves of herself back together.

Mordin and Shepard forge a strange friendship over late-night talks, chess, and language.

AU retelling of ME. Humanity discovers two alien ruins 100 years early. From this two human factions rise into the galaxy, the United Nations Systems Alliance and SpaceX's United Systems Republic. When a Spectre goes rouge and human colonies come under attack they both send their best soldiers Lt. Commander Joann Sheperd and Colonel James Warren. More info in first chapter.

Big things come in small packages. Commander Hale Shepard is proof. With a lighthearted disposition, a pistol for a mouth, and an unorthodox way of doing things that's hardly ever PR-approved, she's made her mark on the galaxy, for good or bad. She's tiny, but mighty, up until a certain asari is within range. Then she's just a smitten dork. [Cross-posted on AO3.]

Two years have passed since the Normandy SR-1 was destroyed. With a new lease on life, Commander Shepard has seemingly impossible tasks ahead: stop the Collectors, then unite the galaxy to stop the Reapers. Still, nobody accomplishes the impossible alone, and lurking in the darkness, threats will challenge the crew to their limits, both physically and mentally.

Garrus can feel the weight of his promises after everything John and his crew did right, and all they did wrong, comes to its end. The culmination of everything sacrificed is here. Hammer faces the final run, all that stands between them at the Citadel beam is a no man's land. There won't be many promises coming home.

A new cult is taking hold of those on the Citadel. Is it the Reapers or something much older?

Goddess of mind, goddess of heart - closed-off without consent, She cannot flourish; unlocked to the universe in trust and control, She protects from all outside influences. Only one sits atop the throne of Shepard's subjectivity. Ashley/FemShep, Liara/FemShep. Miranda/FemShep, Aria/FemShep. Power plays, intense loves. Renegon Infiltrator FemShep. Spans the Mass Effect Trilogy.

Garrus is betrayed. Ten men are dead on Omega. The gangs are already rebounding. Archangel is an unmitigated failure. After everything, there's no reason Garrus should be alive, but sometimes, people get what they don't deserve. "Just like old times," Garrus says, but it's not. It never will be again. An ME2 novelization. M for violence. Feat. Beth Shepard from The Disaster Zone.

This is what he wanted - to give her just one memory of this place that isn't saturated with the burdens of her command. She tastes like the spray of the ocean. Thane/FShep. Thane Survives AU. Oneshot.

Wrex was quick to search and recover Shepard. Now he works to keep her survival a secret as his people looked for the Normandy. There's just a few problems with that. 1. The alliance wants her and Hackett suspects she's alive. 2. The mass relays and most of the technology-based around them are no longer functioning. 3. Keeping her alive. Where's Vakarian when he needs him?

An AU featuring two Shepards who were violently separated during the Mindoir raid in 2170. One is the indominable man known as Commander Shepard, The Butcher of Tofan, and a career soldier. The other is presumed dead. When evidence of her survival comes to light, the commander embarks on a mission to find her, with the help of his closest friends. Profile has the full description.

Here is a large chunk of my own Shepard story. It's heavily based on the game, so much of the dialogue will be recognizable, with my own flair added in for spice to fill in a few blanks. FemShep/Garrus I hope you enjoy it as much as I have enjoyed writing it. Would love reviews. Smut start at Ch. 33, fair warned, with open season afterwards. Most are easy to skip over. Or find :)

As humanity and other Council races develop along the path set by the Reapers, a different civilization is born. Developing alongside but separately from other species, isolated from the wider galaxy. An Empire with its own FTL technology, independent of Mass Relays. What will happen if a civilization so different from others in almost every way, joins the Galactic community?

Shepard summons Kaidan to his cabin to discuss some things. Mshenko smut, you have been warner

Immediately post-ME3, Paragon FemShep Control ending, Garrus-centric. Garrus has lost her a second time. With nowhere left to disappear, he is asked to replace Shepherd as a Specter and pick up the pieces she left behind. The Reapers have vanished, but the exact effects of the Crucible remain unknown and Shepherd's body has not been found. Shakarian.

What if... Shepard was actually a tactician, not just a combatant? Shep isn't known for sitting back and watching. How would this change the series? How would the crews react? Starts in Mass Effect 2. No holds barred.

When Mindoir is attacked by slavers, 16-year-old Cara Jane Shepard is saved by mercenary Zaeed Massani, not Alliance. Now, at 28, Shepard is helping Zaeed to lead a mercenary crew. A job with a huge payday comes their way. Millions of credits served to them on a silver platter, and it's just too good to pass up. Plus, Eden Prime is a backwoods paradise colony. What could go wrong?

The galaxy has been shattered. A malevolent foe has achieved what the Reapers could not do: eradicate all hope. But there are those that still resist, that push back in the face of futile odds. It will now be up to Shepard and Tali's daughter - Roahn - to figure out a way to restore that hope, unite their lost allies, and pursue their enemy to the universe's very edge.

"Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong", the old saying goes. Survivors of a freak accident that took place in 2023, two brilliant scientists are recruited into Alliance Task Force "Cerebellum" to work on cutting-edge technology alongside other talented minds. Little did they know, their work would slowly end up reshaping the galaxy as an ancient enemy emerged from dark space.

After the conflict that would later be known as the First Contact War comes to an end, humanity enters a new era as a spacefaring species. In the midst of this new reality growing around them, Jane Shepard and Garrus Vakarian desperately try to figure out their relationship—which proves even more difficult when they're both pushed into the spotlight. Sequel to Crossing A Line.

Lieutenant Commander Shepard didn't know that she was never supposed to be on the Normandy, much less receive visions from the beacon on Eden Prime. But Fate, it seems, is a fickle mistress, and now she finds herself chasing a rogue Spectre across the galaxy. A re-imagining of ME1 with additional content that expands on the events of the game.

Enter the Wanderer: A being who originates from before the Protheans. Journey through three cycles of life and death in the fight against the Reapers.

Follow the adventures of Michael Liddle as he quite literally falls into the ME universe. A self insert covering the events of the first entry of the series. Follows the story of the Normandy crew and more as they strive to save a changing galaxy.

Shepard and Garrus chatting on Illium