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nights' ME fic masterpost 🪐✨

hello! i'm nights, and i write shakarian fic. you can find it:

{multi-chapter}

rated E • 36 chapters • 190k words (complete)

what if earthborn shepard never enlisted? what if garrus never boarded the normandy? what if they find each other anyway? this one is a slow burn, adversaries to reluctant coworkers to friends to lovers to something complicated to lovers again.

rated T • 3 chapters • 13k words (complete)

your garden-variety post-destroy fix-it reunion fic. short and sweet.

{series}

pt 1: whose is it now? • rated E • 7k words pt 2: he's mean; i'm meaner (prequel) • rated E • 4 chapters • 27k words

a rival spectres au; shepard is infamous as the butcher of torfan and the first human spectre, while garrus defied his father's wishes to become one and carries a chip on his shoulder because of it. the fact that they clash professionally does absolutely nothing to dampen their physical chemistry.

{one-shots}

rated E • 7k words

a mission goes awry when shepard and garrus stumble into a field of psychoactive pollen. sexy pollen!

rated E • 6k words

since their "first date" roleplay went so well, garrus suggests a new scenario for the bedroom: being captured by shepard's dastardly clone!

rated T • 5k words

a mishap on a last minute mission results in shepard and garrus stuck in a hellish blizzard — and no other options but to huddle for warmth. darn.

do you ever think about how much garrus trusts shepard. how when you find him in 2 he’s been trapped up in that room for like three days or something and the second shepard is there he sighs and he hands them his gun—the thing that has been the only thing between him and death all this time—because he is just so sure that everything is going to be okay. he even hangs up on his call with his dad according to the comics like he’d called his dad because he was sure he was about to die and then he saw shepard and told his dad not to worry because his odds just got better because. because shepard is here now everything is fine he’s going to make it because its shepard and they’ve been dead for two years but he doesn’t even kind of question it he’s just so relieved and happy that they’re back and they are going to get him out of this because shepard would never let him get hurt thats not the way they do things and. and. and then he gets hit in the face with the rocket but he gets back on his feet immediately ready to go into hell with shepard because they’re back and they need him at their six and there’s never any doubt in his mind that shepard is real and he’s even ready to expose himself to a deadly plague if they need him to he doesn’t care as long as shepard is safe. and after that it’s unwavering loyalty and they might argue about stuff but he is in this until the end no matter what and if you romance him its so clear he is just head over heels in love with shepard because they try to play it off (to each other and themselves) that its just a little harmless fun but they’re both like “i want You because i can trust you” and “this is about Us” and there’s no shepard without vakarian, garrus and I’m crying

Every single fic update there is an author trying frantically to find the right balance between a nonchalant aside of "leave a comment if you enjoyed =)" and clinging desperately to the coat tails of a random stranger, dragging along behind them on the street wailing "Please, please! I have to know what you thought! I'm desperate to talk to people about this! Ask me about the alliterative repetition! Ask me about the symbolism!"

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i do think it would take some time for garrus to like, "get" boobs. but once he does he does. thank you

It would be the reaction that would get him to grok it. First time Shepard leans into it he's like I'm going to crack this case wide open

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