MusingMagpie
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A Thousand Forgotten Stars by MusingMagpie
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
26 Sep 2022
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In the aftermath of the Reaper War, a synthesized galaxy must learn to pick up the pieces and move on without Commander Shepard. Newly-minted Spectre Garrus Vakarian is finally ready to start healing as he begins to work for the Council. But despite being saddled with a Reaper and a dangerous asari as partners on his first mission, his greatest challenge comes when they discover Shepard herself, alive after being presumed dead for three years. But is it really her? And can Garrus trust her if she isn't the Shepard he knew and loved?
While navigating the difficulties of a changed galaxy, they must retrace her steps across many worlds to remember who she is--and chart a new path together.
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Night Terrors by MusingMagpie
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games)
28 Jan 2022
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Inquisitor Lavellan defeats the corrupted Highest One at Dirthamen, but the memory of it continues to haunt her dreams. Shaken by her own perceived weakness in the face of the demon, she goes to Cullen for comfort and reassurance.
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- Part 3 of Skyhold Vignettes
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The Inquisitor mulls over her feelings about the Anchor, leading the Inquisition as a Dalish elf, and her growing romance with her Knight-Commander. It's a lot to stress about when your full-time job is leading an army against Corypheus.
Fortunately, Cullen is good at distractions. And arranging a little self-care for the Inquisitor is right up his alley.
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- Part 2 of Skyhold Vignettes
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Amatorium by MusingMagpie
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types
09 Jan 2022
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Sera shakes things up at Skyhold with a few pranks that are mostly harmless, except for one: a potion that makes the whole Inquisition besotted with Commander Cullen. But can the Inquisitor convince herself - and Cullen - that her feelings for him just might be real?
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- Part 1 of Skyhold Vignettes
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Follow You Into the Dark (2181 Despoina) by MusingMagpie
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
30 Nov 2021
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When Shepard leaves Garrus and EDI behind on Despoina to go confront the Leviathan, Garrus struggles with intense anxiety over the possibility of her imminent death. EDI asks some pointed questions about their relationship in an effort to distract him, and he realizes his feelings for Shepard go deeper than he’d been willing to admit.
(One-shot)
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Skyhold Vignettes by MusingMagpie
Fandom Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Inquisition
28 Jan 2022
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The Place That You Left by savvysav
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
23 Mar 2023
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Shepard had reconciled with death, prepared to give her life to end the Reaper War. She sacrificed her friends, her relationship, and herself to save the galaxy. She never expected to make it out alive.
Five years have passed since the Battle for Earth and Shepard finds herself adrift in a life she never imagined she'd have. When Primarch Victus offers her a job overseeing a new Spectre training program on Palaven, Shepard accepts immediately. What she isn't prepared for is to be working with Garrus Vakarian again.
Now she's trying to pick up the pieces of everything she destroyed in her wake.
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- English
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- 42,891
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- 15/15
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Bookmarked by MusingMagpie
17 Dec 2021
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sing the body electric by thistleraven
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
17 Jun 2023
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Shepard wakes up.
ME2 from Shepard's perspective, slice of life style.
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- Part 3 of Elsbeth Shepard
Bookmarked by MusingMagpie
30 Nov 2021
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New Game by alden
Fandoms: Mass Effect, Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
07 Nov 2023
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She'd woken up in an unrecognizable galaxy, jammed together from spare parts, a Cerberus logo stamped on her ass. She'd been handed a beautiful, expensive, top-of-the-line mockery of her old ship, crewed by beautiful, expensive, top-of-the-line terrorists.
The Alliance wanted her to shut up and go back to being conveniently dead. Kaidan, it seemed, felt the same way. Anderson was the only family she'd ever had, and he wouldn't even answer her emails.
And either Shepard's sanity had splintered under the stress, or she was now some kind of unkillable demigod. Or both.
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Ghost in the Machines by Dulcidyne
Fandoms: Mass Effect, Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
13 Oct 2024
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A woman, not alive and not dead, stands at the end of a road of compromises in an underworld written in the quantum qubits of a machine god’s mind. The stars spin overhead, too large and too close, kaleidoscoping colors she didn’t know existed before. They speak with the voices of aeons. Chaos and order exist in oppositional states, they say. There can be no peace without control.
She's about to prove them wrong. (Post ME-3 Control Ending).
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Destroy. Control. Synthesize.
Aristaeus Evangeline Shepard has been through hell and back. She's died, for spirits' sake. But it was all worth it. It all finally brought her to the Crucible. She could take care of the Reaper problem.
Destroy. Control. Synthesize.
The options are presented to her, but... But is this it? No matter what she chooses, it still doesn't feel like winning. This is just another instance of sacrifice for the greater good. She's so tired. She doesn't want to have to lay down anymore lives for the sake of the war.
Destroy. Control. Synthesize.
Ari Shepard decides on something else.
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Bookmarked by MusingMagpie
30 Nov 2021
Bookmarker's Notes
Make a New Option, YouAreMyHappilyEverAfter