History FanFic / VictorShepardverse

* ArcWords: Alesh'Kal

* BigBad: [[spoiler: Anna Whitwell,]] until the title is stolen by [[spoiler: Samuel Yin.]]

* {{Drabble}}: ''Mass Mayhem's'' format.
* MrFanservice
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Shepard,]] due to {{Blackmail}}.

* [[ICantBelieveAGuyLikeYouWouldNoticeMe I Can't Believe a Guy Like You Would Notice Me]]: Joker about Shepard, slightly.
* IUhYouToo: Twice, one of which is a ShoutOut to the instance from StarWars.

* LoveHurts: [[spoiler: Shepard and O'Connor]] didn't end well.
* MysteriousPast: Shepard and the MSV Snake Fang

* StraightGay: Shepard, Joker, Jake O'Connor.

* WordOfGod: Most updates as they appear on the author's [[http://c-saber.livejournal.com/ blog]] have more in-depth notes explaining the thought process behind the writing, not present in the Fanfiction.net uploads.

* GenreSavvy: The Normandy crew is instantly distrustful of Yin when he appears out of nowhere to help them track down Shepard; they only follow his advice because they have nothing else to go on. Actually, though, [[spoiler: they're right. He usurps Whitwell as the BigBad.]]

* [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6195250/1/Chessboard Chessboard]]: Post-MassEffect2, Commander Shepard goes missing, leaving the Normandy's crew to track him down and, more importantly, figure out why. A longer, multi-chaptered story, in contrast to the one-shot nature of the rest of the series.

It's BetterThanItSounds; much of the material concerns how this particular Shepard affects the people around him and spends little time re-writing canon, instead focusing on how others see Victor and what his actions mean, both for himself as a person and for how he changes things around him. Very OriginalFlavour, with an emphasis on exploring certain things not given much detail in canon like Shepard's Earthborn BackStory. Shepard's history and even his class are drawn on for CharacterDevelopment, all of it making him the person he is instead of being mentioned once in the summary and promptly forgotten. The writing itself goes up in quality as the author improves with each entry.

* AcceptableTargets: Batarians, [[spoiler: and subverted.]]

* CompleteMonster: [[spoiler: Samuel Yin]]

* FanPreferredCouple

* FridgeBrilliance: One chapter of ''Mass Mayhem'' contains a relevant passage from ''Chessboard,'' where Whitwell chastises Victor for a failure of some kind. [[spoiler: Once halfway through ''Chessboard,'' the reader will know what the failure is, but it's also shown that Whitwell believes mass-murder is how ''not'' to remove the batarians as a threat. One imagines that the disaster conflicting with her beliefs, more than anything, is why she's angry.]]

* MagnificentBastard: [[spoiler: Samuel Yin.]]

* TheReveal: [[spoiler: As a First Lieutenant, Victor let over 70, 000 colonists die rather than kill Jake O'Connor to stop it. The fact that the colonists were batarians doesn't make him feel better.]]

A series of MassEffect [[FanFic fics]] by [[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/254354/Universitas Universitas]] exploring his version of Commander Shepard, an [[BackStory Earthborn, Warhero]] [[ClassAndLevelSystem Infiltrator]] named Victor. He's [[StraightGay gay,]] [[SlashFic has a thing for]] [[AcePilot Joker,]] and a lot of baggage.

* EstrogenBrigadeBait