Duty schmooty booty. Sylvia died. Came back to life. No big deal right? Well of course it was, but she had bigger things to be terrified of. Like Liara. A confident Liara.

What would happen if someone with vast knowledge about the Mass Effect Universe, both official (wiki/Codex) and theoretical (fanfics), decent fighting ability and a plan was dropped into that Universe 13 years before Eden Prime? As it turns out, quite a lot! FemShep. Soft HFY. And a very different kind of self-insert.

Ever since she saw Garrus Vakarian, Leena Burke always loved him. The mechanic from the Citadel joins Garrus and Commander Shepard to protect the galaxy. On her adventures Leena will face danger, adventure, and possibly love. Only time will say if she will have the courage to tell the Archangel how she truly feels.

Some short one-shots to expand on the world of E&D, posted whenever I'm feeling creative.

After Shepard makes her choice, she finds herself reunited with someone she thought she lost.

Shepard finds himself falling in love with the violent, complex woman known only as Jack. This is the story of their relationship from Mass Effect 2 and beyond. Rated M for language, violence and suggestive themes. Mass Effect 3 arc complete! Post Reaper Victory arc with Shepard and Jack's family in progress.

I'm not a good person. I've killed, and will continue to. However, here and now I have a chance to be better. To make the galaxy better and I'm going to take it. No matter what I have to go through, what I have to endure. I will help Shepard create a better galaxy, even at the cost of my life I will help create a better galaxy. Updates every Saturday.

Follow the path of the Wanderer and journey through three galactic cycles of life and death against the Reapers - an epic of lost stories spanning the distant reaches of time to the Normandy and her crew. Updated every Friday.

Following Shepard's death, the galaxy has only one question: where is the body of the first human spectre? After receiving an anonymous tip, the human alliance has narrowed down a possible location. A grief-stricken Liara is sent to a desolate planet covered in snow to once again collect Shepard's body. However, plans quickly change when Liara finds herself stranded on the planet.

Meet me at the bar. Take your time.

After being exiled from known space following a disastrous failed colonization attempt, the Migrant Fleet makes First Contact with Earth in 1968. Chaos ensues. AU Historical First Contact, Humans/Quarians. It's finally fucking done.

The year is 2160. When an investigation in lower Tayseri Ward leads him to the opulence of the Presidium, salarian C-Sec constable Vel Selar finds himself drawn to Meiko Ogawa, a human diplomat from Tiptree. But when his partner, a turian investigator named Beran, is falsely accused of murder, Selar begins to question how many of his partner's conspiracy theories might be true.

With the Reaper war over and galactic civilization reestablished, John Shepard tells his story. Will span all 3 games, cover Mindoir, military training, Elysium and eventually, Liara. Action, adventure, drama, romance and much more contained within. UPDATE: Update is becoming a total re-write. Please review and let me know what you think!

A continuation and remaster of Mal Cobb's A Measure of Salvation, a harrowing, intense, and visceral epic spanning from ME2 to ME3. Miri/Shepard pairing. Action! Mystery! Fluff! Adventure! Suspense! Chapters posted frequently, and would love to hear your suggestions! M for graphic violence, drug use, language, sexual content (Most of the content up till c.45 is Mal Cobb's work)

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.

Each life on the Normandy had a story and a past. These are moments, snapshots, and happenings from the lives of the Normandy crew before meeting Commander Shepard. Written in various styles. Rated M because Jack is Jack.

Braith Shepard meets Casnar Soterios, brother-in-law to Thane Krios by the assassin's marriage to Casnar's sister, Irikah Soterios…

From the gutters to the stars, Gale Shepard clawed a path out the bloodstained dirt of Earth. She always was a firm believer of charging forward. From the skies to the dirt, Liara T'Soni dug a path through the bloodstained bones of Protheans. She always was a firm believer that the most important truths were rooted in the past. They're simple ideologies, complicated by collision.

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.

Thane learns about the woman, Jane, behind the title of Commander Shepard. She confides in him, sharing her fears, hopes, dreams, and her grief for a part of her lost somewhere over Alchera. Together they save his son from making a grave mistake, and somewhere along the way, he realizes he's fallen in love with another siha.

Jacen Tarren, once a prodigy to the turian military, and former security officer of the Citadel, ends up in a stasis pod on Ark Natanus of the Andromeda Initiative. Before his sleep in cryo-stasis, he recalls his life once promising turned tragedy among friends and his family. What has come to his choices?

Six months after the Battle of the Citadel, Arlen Kryik is an experienced C-Sec Interceptor on the hunt for a dangerous criminal. Meanwhile, the Joint Security Task Force team are dealing with a sudden, deadly threat to the Citadel. Amidst rising political tensions between the asari and turians, these unrelated incidents will collide in a way that will shake the galaxy to its core.

A rewrite of one of my older stories: The Challenger Deep is the deepest part of the ocean, and for millions of years has kept its secrets for itself. In the year 1960 a team of scientists made the first dive to the Challenger Deep. What they discovered was something that would forever change the course of human history.

They thought themselves invulnerable, invincible, and infallible. They thought themselves the apex of all life, they thought of themselves gods. But in their arrogance, the reapers would make a fatal mistake. They would not notice some Prothean refugees discreetly moved both nearby mass relays away form the primitive humanity, thus cutting them off from all reaper influence.

After stopping the coup attempt on the Citadel, Kaiden rejoins the crew on Normandy, with a lot of questions for Commader Kacey Shepard about her time with Cerberus. It's about time he got an explanation! A causal retelling of Mass Effect 2 and a slight AU for Mass Effect 3. KaidenXFemShepard