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You are: Commander Shepard (in name).
You are: human (mostly).
You are: real (enough).Commander Shepard storms back into the galaxy; Cerberus just keeps a closer eye on her than she thought. She finds herself a little more hyperaware of the moving pieces, the ones of her left to string back together. The ones that don’t seem to exist in the exact way she remembers, if she remembers correctly. Good thing Garrus is patient and good with puzzles.
part of the 2026 Shakarian Mini-Bang
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31 Jul 2026
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A week after the Collector base, a week of trawling around space and mindless errands and revisiting posts they only passed through, Garrus comes up to her cabin like a man on a mission.
They’ve gone back and forth over the past few days, him coming to her quarters or Shepard to his, passing around fleeting touches that carry more intent and are more explorative than anything they would have exchanged months ago. Sometimes, more often than not, it’s to simply spend time together, just as they always have.
For now, whatever it is between them feels real enough.
“Did you need me for something?”
“I—ah, yeah,” he says, and she twists her cheek into the dip of his cowl to look up at him.
Shepard smooths her hands down his chest, enjoying the twitch of muscle, the minute give of plates where they meet his hide, and his gaze flicks around her face. It lingers on a damp bang curled against her forehead before meeting hers again.
His hands settle on her hips and he glances to her bed before asking a curious, “Show me?”
surviving the omega 4 relay gives them a lot of time to themselves.
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31 Jul 2026
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Shepard looks around at the faces watching her, human and alien and reflective envirosuit plate, all her friends and coworkers and shipmates wearing a variety of concerned expressions, and braces herself for the inevitable. She sits down heavily in the space on the couch that she’s ushered towards, and sighs at length.
“Fine,” she says, scrubbing her hands over her face, “let’s just get this over with. I think I know what this is about. I know an intervention when I see one, and -“
“Actually,” Garrus says, calmly throwing something flat and rectangular toward her from where he’s sitting across from the couch. “This is a book club.”
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30 Jul 2026
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Much to Vulpes' chagrin, Caesar demands the Courier's allegiance be secured.
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Vulpes convinces a mailman to fix a robot and save a god.
His plan is simple. The execution is not.
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25 Jul 2026
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After absorbing all of the engrams in Mikoshi and frying its servers, Alt discovers Johnny’s cryofrozen body in the bowels of Arasaka Laboratories. One problem: V has already given him her body. With limited time until Arasaka agents swarm the building, the solution Alt proposes to Johnny is perhaps a bit inelegant, but theoretically plausible: If V’s body can accept Johnny, then Johnny’s should accept V.
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24 Jul 2026