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* BiggusDickus: At one point, Archangel's team recovers a statue of a volus fertility god. Despite it never being seen (it is a fanfiction, after all), the reactions of the team indicate that this trope is in play.
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* RaceAgainstTheClock: Chapter 19. [[spoiler:Gabby and Ken racing to get the dampeners back online before the away team returns and Joker makes the jump without them.]]
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* TimedMission: Chapter 19. [[spoiler:Gabby and Ken racing to get the dampeners back online before the away team returns and Joker makes the jump without them.]]
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* AscendedMeme: One of the things that Mass Effect 2 players will note is that Garrus spends a ''lot'' of time Calibrating the main guns. The Doyalist reason for this is that this is just what he says when he has no new information for the player, and that it takes a while for his missions to come up in the game. In this story, though, there's an actual reason for it- as long as the guns are in Calibration Mode, they generate an EM field that blank out the Cerberus recording devices in the room.
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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: In many of Mordin's scenes, including end-chapter codices, we find he's been using Donnelly as a guinea pig for his Seeker Swarm counteragent experiments. Doubles as a ChekovsGun when Donnelly [[spoiler:proves to be immune to Seeker Swarms and the side effects of the Collecter pods during the events of the kidnapping and suicide run]].
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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: In many of Mordin's scenes, including end-chapter codices, we find he's been using Donnelly as a guinea pig for his Seeker Swarm counteragent experiments. Doubles as a ChekovsGun ChekhovsGun when Donnelly [[spoiler:proves to be immune to Seeker Swarms and the side effects of the Collecter pods during the events of the kidnapping and suicide run]].
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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: In many of Mordin's scenes, including end-chapter codices, we find he's been using Donnelly as a guinea pig for his Seeker Swarm counteragent experiments. Doubles as a ChekovsGun when Donnelly [[spoiler:proves to be immune to Seeker Swarms and the side effects of the Collecter pods during the events of the kidnapping and suicide run]].
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** A strange case of this, as this segment was written before ''Lair of the Shadow Broker'', which [[spoiler:proves Wilson is indeed a traitor, working for the Shadow Broker.]]
*** Actually, it remains ambiguous, as Wilson has a rivalry with Miranda, and it is implied that he fled after he was framed by Miranda for selling them out. In-story it is entirely in-character, and none of the story actually contradicts canon in this regard.
*** Actually, it remains ambiguous, as Wilson has a rivalry with Miranda, and it is implied that he fled after he was framed by Miranda for selling them out. In-story it is entirely in-character, and none of the story actually contradicts canon in this regard.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Joker casually mentions to Kennith and Gabby that he has absolutely no problem with liquifying half the crew by jumping without inertial dampeners if it means protecting Shepherd or saving the ''Normandy.'' While they are in Zero-G and said inertial dampeners are offline, and said engineers are not in an area protected by backups.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Joker casually mentions to Kennith and Gabby that he has absolutely no problem with liquifying half the crew by jumping without inertial dampeners if it means protecting Shepherd Shepard or saving the ''Normandy.'' While they are in Zero-G and said inertial dampeners are offline, and said engineers are not in an area protected by backups.
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The story is now complete with thirty two chapters and an epilogue.
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* NotSoDifferent: Jacob regards the assassin Thane and the mercenary Zaeed as being cut from the same cloth. Thane points out their own similarities.
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** Jacob regards the assassin Thane and the mercenary Zaeed as being cut from the same cloth. Thane points out their own similarities.
** The Illusive Man has the opinion of himself and Shepard. Shepard disagrees strongly.
** Jacob regards the assassin Thane and the mercenary Zaeed as being cut from the same cloth. Thane points out their own similarities.
** The Illusive Man has the opinion of himself and Shepard. Shepard disagrees strongly.
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* SwitchingPOVSwitchingPOV: Every member of the team and a few side characters get ample time in this, often showing more of them than Shepard himself.
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''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5753454/1/Interstitium Interstitium]]'' takes the world of ''MassEffect2'' and expands upon it by exploring the [[PointOfView PoVs]] of various characters. Everyone gets their time in the spotlight, from [[TheHero John Shepard]] himself to some surprising choices.
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''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5753454/1/Interstitium Interstitium]]'' takes the world of ''MassEffect2'' ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' and expands upon it by exploring the [[PointOfView PoVs]] of various characters. Everyone gets their time in the spotlight, from [[TheHero John Shepard]] himself to some surprising choices.
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** FridgeBrilliance: We see in canon ME2 that TIM allowed rumors of Shepard working for Cerberus to spread, which isolated him from the Alliance and from former crew members (like the Virmire Survivor). Presumably, this was done to keep Shepard off balance and to make him feel more inclined to trust Cerberus. By not including allies from the Saren adventure, it would have allowed TIM to exert more control over Shepard.
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** FridgeBrilliance: We see in canon ME2 [=ME2=] that TIM [=TIM=] allowed rumors of Shepard working for Cerberus to spread, which isolated him from the Alliance and from former crew members (like the Virmire Survivor). Presumably, this was done to keep Shepard off balance and to make him feel more inclined to trust Cerberus. By not including allies from the Saren adventure, it would have allowed TIM to exert more control over Shepard.
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** Samara feels this about Jack and Morinth.
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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Mordin notes that despite the fact that prolonged exposure over time of cohexisol gas can be lethal, can exacerbate problems to those with breathing difficulties, and that it managed to knock out Samara in ''seconds'', the main problem he has is an ethical one. Not the ethics of using it, but that the company that makes it is manipulating the patent office so it has a monopoly on the production. He chides Garrus mentally for supporting a company with such poor standards.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: "When the evil computer thought that the surveillance device location was distasteful, you had problems."
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* BiggusDickus: At one point, Archangel's team recovers a statue of a volus fertility god. Despite it never being seen (it is a fanfiction, after all), the reactions of the team indicate that this trope is in play.
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** The crew is also far more divided than is usually portrayed. Zaeed's rude mannerisms drive people away, Miranda... is Miranda, with all that set of baggage implies, Grunt has nearly ''killed'' several crew members because... well, krogan, and Jack has threatened to kill other members of the crew and is outright insubbordinate to anyone except Shepard.
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* EnemyEatsYourLunch: Grunt tries to intimidate Garrus into handing over his rations during a mission. The fact it's dextro-formulated and not really fit for krogan consumption doesn't matter to him.
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* EnemyEatsYourLunch: Grunt tries to intimidate Garrus into handing over his rations during a mission. The fact it's dextro-formulated and not really fit for krogan consumption doesn't matter to him. It later causes him to throw up.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: [[spoiler: Played up by Shepard. Because military training is ''mandatory'' for all turians, and those who used to be in the military still have access to guns, ammo, and shooting ranges, he takes his squad of five turian soldiers during the Blitz and recruits almost a hundred ex-soldiers from the turian section of town, which ultimately saved the colony.]]
** This has also been shown to have negative sides for him- Garrus' rations are not compatible with krogan physiology, causing him to throw up, and Mordin once laces some food with elcor tranquilizer in order to perform a medical examination on Grunt.
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* WhatTheHellHero: Shepard gives Grunt a ''huge'' dressing-down after [[spoiler:his trigger-happiness with a flamethrower kills half the colonists his team managed to save, and he him (Grunt) nearly killed killing Jacob for calling him on it]].
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* ICallItVera: [[spoiler: Zaeed Massani's rifle Jessie. Interestingly, it turns out that he named the rife after a mandolin he used to have before it broke. Vido Santiago bought the gun for him.]]
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Joker casually mentions to Kennith and Gabby that he has absolutely no problem with liquifying half the crew by jumping without inertial dampeners if it means protecting Shepherd or saving the ''Normandy.'' While they are in Zero-G and said inertial dampeners are offline, and said engineers are not in an area protected by backups.
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* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: Shepard TRIES to pull this off when he mentions that none of the crew are criminals except Jack. Then Kasumi (galactic super-thief) speaks up, then Shepard remembers that Zaeed is a bounty hunter, Garrus is Archangel, and most of the crew is Cerberus... it turns into less of "My Friends And Zoidberg," and "All Of My Friends Are Zoidberg."
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* HeroOfAnotherStory: Allele, one of the rejected tank-bred Krogan who is unceremoniously mowed down by Shepard on Korlus. Turns out that he had been going on a merc-killing rampage that made Shepard's job easier, and protected Grunt's tank from a merc with a rocket launcher that Shepard and his crew never noticed.
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** FridgeBrilliance: We see in canon ME2 that TIM allowed rumors of Shepard working for Cerberus to spread, which isolated him from the Alliance and from former crew members (like the Virmire Survivor). Presumably, this was done to keep Shepard off balance and to make him feel more inclined to trust Cerberus. By not including allies from the Saren adventure, it would have allowed TIM to exert more control over Shepard.
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* CasualDangerDialogue: A random asari asks a drell waiter to make her a Suraboz whiskey...as a massive gunfight breaks out around them at the casino they're in. "...When you get a chance." [[spoiler:The waiter, of course, is Thane.]]
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*** Actually, it remains ambiguous, as Wilson has a rivalry with Miranda, and it is implied that he fled after he was framed by Miranda for selling them out. In-story it is entirely in-character, and none of the story actually contradicts canon in this regard.
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* EnemyEatsYourLunch: Grunt tries to intimidate Garrus into handing over his rations during a mission. The fact it's dextro-formulated and not really fit for krogan consumption doesn't matter to him.
* EnsignNewbie: In Chapter 20, it's revealed that [[spoiler:Shepard was thrown into this role in the Blitz. Being a lieutenant, he technically outranked a squadron of turian soldiers; thus, they expected him to lead them into battle]].
* EnsignNewbie: In Chapter 20, it's revealed that [[spoiler:Shepard was thrown into this role in the Blitz. Being a lieutenant, he technically outranked a squadron of turian soldiers; thus, they expected him to lead them into battle]].
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* FormerTeenRebel: [[spoiler:Mordin]] turns out to be one.
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* OneManArmy: Shepard already had a reputation as this due to his heroics during the Blitz. [[spoiler:Except he hadn't acted alone.]]
* PropagandaMachine: Put quite the spin on Shepard's actions during the Blitz, ignoring little details like [[spoiler:how he had help from a squad of turians]].
* PropagandaMachine: Put quite the spin on Shepard's actions during the Blitz, ignoring little details like [[spoiler:how he had help from a squad of turians]].
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* AlternateContinuity: Minor details are changed. For instance, TIM does ''not'' give Shepard a dossier on Archangel; Shepard overhears rumors about him while on Omega and decides he'd make as good a recruit as anyone Cerberus chose. Similarly, there is no dossier on Tali, and Shepard goes after her because she's ''Tali''.
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* DeathIsCheap: Averted; in addition to the monetary cost of bringing Shepard back, the ''physical'' consequences are explored, along with the mental repercussions of waking up a 'zombie'.
* DeathIsCheap: Averted; in addition to the monetary cost of bringing Shepard back, the ''physical'' consequences are explored, along with the mental repercussions of waking up a 'zombie'.
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** A strange case of this, as this segment was written before ''Lair of the Shadow Broker'', which [[spoiler: proves Wilson is indeed a traitor, working for the Shadow Broker.]]
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* DontExplainTheJoke: When Kasumi cracks a joke and her audience doesn't laugh, she asks if they even got it. Thane immediately details why it was meant to be funny, earning himself a [[AffectionGestureToTheHead head pat]].
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** A strange case of this, as this segment was written before ''Lair of the Shadow Broker'', which [[spoiler: proves Wilson is indeed a traitor, working for the Shadow Broker.]]
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''Interstitium'' also makes some tiny tweaks which have larger overall effects on the course of the story. The potential side-effects of being brought BackFromTheDead are looked at more closely, and the conflict between Cerebus and Shepard becomes a running theme.
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''Interstitium'' also makes some tiny tweaks which have larger overall effects on the course of the story. The potential side-effects of being brought BackFromTheDead are looked at more closely, and the conflict between Cerebus Cerberus and Shepard becomes a running theme.
** Averted with [[spoiler:Wilson]], whose POV chapter shows them to be morally ambiguious, but not someone who deserved their fate, either. (That fate being [[spoiler:murdered so that Cerberus can keep his work on the Lazarus Project under TIM's thumb]].)
* BreakTheHaughty: Miranda's allegience to Cerberus is more of a sticking point here
* DividedWeFall: Just because Shepard was revived by Cerberus to save the galaxy doesn't mean he's willing to trust them. The subtle power struggle becomes more overt over time, until [[spoiler:TIM points them right into a trap and Shepard decides enough is enough]].
* DividedWeFall: Just because Shepard was revived by Cerberus to save the galaxy doesn't mean he's willing to trust them. The subtle power struggle becomes more overt over time, until [[spoiler:TIM points them right into a trap and Shepard decides enough is enough]].
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* OhCrap: Ken and Gabby share this with Joker in Chapter 19 when he announces [[spoiler:EDI shut down their dampeners, rendering them unable to jump away from the trapped Collector ship without casualties in the lower decks]]. Becomes a bigger one when he adds [[spoiler:that won't stop him from jumping without them, even knowing it would kill most of the Cerebus crew]].
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* OhCrap: Ken and Gabby share this with Joker in Chapter 19 when he announces [[spoiler:EDI shut down their dampeners, rendering them unable to jump away from the trapped Collector ship without casualties in the lower decks]]. Becomes a bigger one when he adds [[spoiler:that won't stop him from jumping without them, even knowing it would kill most of the Cerebus Cerberus crew]].
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: The reason for [[spoiler:Wilson's execution]].
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: The reason for [[spoiler:Wilson's execution]].
