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Hey Nana,
Do you remember the first time we met? I believe in things like fate. So I think it was fate.
Maybe fate will bring us together again someday. Maybe then, I won't be such a coward.
Maybe we can go back to that apartment we shared and go watch the fireworks together.
And maybe... I can kiss you like I mean it next time.———
Nana wrote Hachi a dozen letters over the years she never received. And now that she has them, she knows just where to find her.
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17 Jan 2026
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Her own personal Noverian peak. That’s what it was supposed to be. Nothing but the discovery: no distractions, no comfort, no windows looking out—no familiar faces. But it's starting to look like her winning streak might have ended in that pile of Citadel rubble, if it ever extended that far to begin with.
In which Shepard doesn’t want to be found, and Garrus, of course, has other ideas.
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One polished pauldron bobs. “How does the Earth idiom go? No use beating a dead—” A long-suffering sigh. “What was it again?”“A dead horse. And yet, you’re here. Beating it.”
Pot, kettle. She wishes he’d just fucking say it.
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18 Nov 2025
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Consumed Memories by ContinuousSpec
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
05 Jul 2025
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A steaming mug of darorn fruit, the hum of a bustling market, the crispness of an unworn uniform—mundane things, yet they all pull Garrus back to Shepard. All he has are fragments of their time together, haunting him in the silence of space, not knowing whether she’s dead or alive.
Story told through Garrus' nonlinear memories, as he commands Normandy in the aftermath of the Reaper War. Six months of a perilous journey, the crew faces the harsh realities of survival in a post-war-torn galaxy. With the Mass Relays destroyed, the Normandy's FTL drive is their only lifeline, and every day is a struggle against dwindling resources and the unknown.
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17 Sep 2025
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Beneath Star Crossed Relays by CitadelCitizen7
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types, mass ef
03 Feb 2026
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Shepard’s hunting Reapers while Omega swallows the desperate. And somewhere between the firefights and the ghosts she thought she’d buried, (OC) Xyla Acosta keeps catching the eye of the one Turian she shouldn’t want.
Some instincts are easy to fight.
Garrus Vakarian isn’t one of them.- Language:
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16 Sep 2025
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The Moment by Griffamene
Fandoms: Mass Effect, Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
31 May 2024
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"This moment, right now - it’s all I have."
A tale of the missing moments in Shepard and Thane's time together through each others' eyes. A deep-dive character study of Thane through the eyes of many. An exploration of Shepard and Thane's evolving love for each other, and of Shepard's grief and trauma. The return of Thane to Kalahira's seas with the full recognition and remembrance he deserves.
An ouroboros through which Thane and Shepard can live again and again.This work was a labour of love for me, and I hope that it may bring closure and meaning to others, too.
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- Part 1 of The Moment
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09 Sep 2025