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* Main/Ubermensch: Nihlus. "He was like a force of nature. He had his own ideas and codes that governed how and why he did things. Galactic law and even his former mentor could not get him to do something he did not want to do. He was chaos itself, and Shepard feared to place her trust in the unpredictable. After that, it was all a matter of making excuses."
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* AssInAmbassador: Do we really need to say Udina?
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* AssInAmbassador: Do we really need to say Udina?Udina? He has precisely the character of his in-game version.
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* BoisterousBruiser: Wrex.
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* BoisterousBruiser: Battlemaster Urdnot Wrex.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Administrator Rannadril Ghan Swa Fulsoom Karaten Narr Eadi Bel Anoleis is skimming three million credits a month off Noveria's accounts.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Saren wavers between this and JerkWithAHeartOfJerk.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Saren wavers between this and JerkWithAHeartOfJerk. Yes, he's less of a jerk than Udina—no Reapers, so he's free to be himself.
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* MinovskyPhysics: Standard for this universe.
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* MinovskyPhysics: Standard for this universe.universe (the eponymous Mass Effect, which creates mass out of thin air when positive current is applied to a particular material, and makes mass go away with negative current).
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* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Ambassador Donnel Udina, '''and how'''.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Donnel Udina, let me count the ways. Chewing an Alliance officer out because she responded to a distress beacon while commanding a secret stealth ship? Check. Forcing that same Alliance officer to accept a spec-ops post she doesn't want, offered by the man broadcasting the distress beacon, solely to advance human interests? Check. Managing to do it in the most disagreeable possible way? Check.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Donnel Udina, let me count the ways. Chewing an Alliance officer out because she responded to a distress beacon while commanding a secret stealth ship? Check. Forcing that same Alliance officer to accept a spec-ops post she doesn't want, offered by the man broadcasting the distress beacon, solely to advance human interests? Check. Managing to do it in the most disagreeable possible way? Check.
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* TheChessmaster: Nihlus Kryik. [[spoiler:Saren, his mentor, wants him to sabotage Shep, his mentee, by filing an unfavourable report, because Saren is a racist wanker. Saren even implies he'd be fine with disposing of her in a more permanent fashion. Nihlus parks himself where he knows Shep will find him and, knowing her penchant for eavesdropping, record the conversation; of course, Shepard doesn't realise this, thinks he's a traitor, and after a tense moment or two, he admits that it didn't matter whether she'd recorded the conversation (she hadn't, but by a fluke, Garrus had), because ''he did'', and then suggests blackmailing Saren or going to the government and having his clearance revoked. And Edi, the ship's computer, encouraged him in this!]]
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* TheChessmaster: Nihlus Kryik. [[spoiler:Saren, his mentor, wants him to sabotage Shep, his mentee, by filing an unfavourable report, because Saren is a racist wanker.wanker (well, it goes deeper than that, but see ItsPersonal and FreudianExcuse). Saren even implies he'd be fine with disposing of her in a more permanent fashion. Nihlus parks himself where he knows Shep will find him and, knowing her penchant for eavesdropping, record the conversation; of course, Shepard doesn't realise this, thinks he's a traitor, and after a tense moment or two, he Nihlus admits that it didn't matter whether she'd recorded the conversation (she hadn't, but by a fluke, Garrus had), because ''he did'', and then suggests blackmailing Saren or going to the government and having his clearance revoked. And Edi, the ship's computer, encouraged him in this!]]
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* Main/Paparazzi: Khalisah bint-Sinan al-Jilani, though she believes herself to be an IntrepidReporter
* TranslationConvention: It's implied that everyone is speaking their own language most times (though bilingualism in the conventional way is common and encouraged) but that their omni-tools (smartphones in all but name) are running simultaneous voice translation.
* TheChessmaster: Nihlus Kryik. [[spoiler:Saren, his mentor, wants him to sabotage Shep, his mentee, by filing an unfavourable report, because Saren is a racist wanker. Saren even implies he'd be fine with disposing of her in a more permanent fashion. Nihlus parks himself where he knows Shep will find him and, knowing her penchant for eavesdropping, record the conversation; of course, Shepard doesn't realise this, thinks he's a traitor, and after a tense moment or two, he admits that it didn't matter whether she'd recorded the conversation (she hadn't, but by a fluke, Garrus had), because ''he did'', and then suggests blackmailing Saren or going to the government and having his clearance revoked. And Edi, the ship's computer, encouraged him in this!]]
* FreudianExcuse: Saren's racism. Humans killed [[spoiler:his brother (in ship-to-ship combat during the Contact War)]].
* ItsPersonal: Saren's hate for Shepard in specific. [[spoiler:The CO of the ship that destroyed the turian flagship and killed his brother Desolas was her mother Hannah.]] Small world.
* CommanderContrarian: Councillor Sparatus will nitpick and argue ''because he likes to argue''. Had Shep killed the Rachni Queen, he'd have said something along the lines of "The Council doesn't promote genocide", but since she saved her, he instead said "You risk the rachni killing us all." Fortunately, Shep knows this.
* TranslationConvention: It's implied that everyone is speaking their own language most times (though bilingualism in the conventional way is common and encouraged) but that their omni-tools (smartphones in all but name) are running simultaneous voice translation.
* TheChessmaster: Nihlus Kryik. [[spoiler:Saren, his mentor, wants him to sabotage Shep, his mentee, by filing an unfavourable report, because Saren is a racist wanker. Saren even implies he'd be fine with disposing of her in a more permanent fashion. Nihlus parks himself where he knows Shep will find him and, knowing her penchant for eavesdropping, record the conversation; of course, Shepard doesn't realise this, thinks he's a traitor, and after a tense moment or two, he admits that it didn't matter whether she'd recorded the conversation (she hadn't, but by a fluke, Garrus had), because ''he did'', and then suggests blackmailing Saren or going to the government and having his clearance revoked. And Edi, the ship's computer, encouraged him in this!]]
* FreudianExcuse: Saren's racism. Humans killed [[spoiler:his brother (in ship-to-ship combat during the Contact War)]].
* ItsPersonal: Saren's hate for Shepard in specific. [[spoiler:The CO of the ship that destroyed the turian flagship and killed his brother Desolas was her mother Hannah.]] Small world.
* CommanderContrarian: Councillor Sparatus will nitpick and argue ''because he likes to argue''. Had Shep killed the Rachni Queen, he'd have said something along the lines of "The Council doesn't promote genocide", but since she saved her, he instead said "You risk the rachni killing us all." Fortunately, Shep knows this.
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* Main/Paparazzi: Khalisah bint-Sinan al-Jilani, though she believes herself to be an IntrepidReporter
* TranslationConvention: It's implied that everyone is speaking their own language most times (though bilingualismAIIsACrapshoot: '''Inverted''' in the conventional way is common case of Legion. They are probably the most stable and encouraged) but that their omni-tools (smartphones in all but name) are running simultaneous voice translation.
* TheChessmaster: Nihlus Kryik. [[spoiler:Saren, his mentor, wants him to sabotage Shep, his mentee, by filing an unfavourable report, because Saren is a racist wanker. Saren even implies he'd be fine with disposinglevel-headed of her in a more permanent fashion. Nihlus parks himself where he knows Shep will find him and, knowing her penchant for eavesdropping, record the conversation; of course, Shepard doesn't realise this, thinks he's a traitor, and after a tense moment or two, he admits that it didn't matter whether she'd recorded the conversation (she hadn't, but by a fluke, Garrus had), because ''he did'', and then suggests blackmailing Saren or going to the government and having his clearance revoked. And Edi, the ship's computer, encouraged him in this!]]
* FreudianExcuse: Saren's racism. Humans killed [[spoiler:his brother (in ship-to-ship combat during the Contact War)]].
* ItsPersonal: Saren's hate forcrew—not even Shepard in specific. [[spoiler:The CO is as calm. Double-subverted for Legion's faction of the ship that destroyed geth. Averted for Edi (only because she's a bit more emotional than Legion, justified because she's a single computer program and Legion is the turian flagship voice of thousands of processes in the cloud acting as one). Played straight for Nazara and killed his brother Desolas was her mother Hannah.]] Small world.
Harbinger.
*CommanderContrarian: Councillor Sparatus will nitpick and argue ''because he likes to argue''. Had Shep killed Ambadassador: Legion. They're a sort of ambassador for the Rachni Queen, he'd have said something along Orthodox faction of the lines geth, a robotic HiveMind race experiencing a sort of "The Council doesn't promote genocide", but since she saved her, he instead said "You risk civil war; they're also a scarily competent sniper who pull more than their own weight in the rachni killing us all." Fortunately, Shep knows this.squad.
* TranslationConvention: It's implied that everyone is speaking their own language most times (though bilingualism
* TheChessmaster: Nihlus Kryik. [[spoiler:Saren, his mentor, wants him to sabotage Shep, his mentee, by filing an unfavourable report, because Saren is a racist wanker. Saren even implies he'd be fine with disposing
* FreudianExcuse: Saren's racism. Humans killed [[spoiler:his brother (in ship-to-ship combat during the Contact War)]].
* ItsPersonal: Saren's hate for
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* MinovskyPhysics: Standard for this universe.
* MohsScaleOfSciFiHardness: Very much on the hard side, even more than the games, with just OneBigLie.
* AIIsACrapshoot: '''Inverted''' in the case of Legion. They are probably the most stable and level-headed of the ship's crew—not even Shepard is as calm. Double-subverted for Legion's faction of the geth. Averted for Edi (only because she's a bit more emotional than Legion, justified because she's a single computer program and Legion is the voice of thousands of processes in the cloud acting as one). Played straight for Nazara and Harbinger.
* TheAce: Nihlus. It gets to his head, but in comedic ways.
* OneNationUnderCopyright: Noveria.
* MohsScaleOfSciFiHardness: Very much on the hard side, even more than the games, with just OneBigLie.
* AIIsACrapshoot: '''Inverted''' in the case of Legion. They are probably the most stable and level-headed of the ship's crew—not even Shepard is as calm. Double-subverted for Legion's faction of the geth. Averted for Edi (only because she's a bit more emotional than Legion, justified because she's a single computer program and Legion is the voice of thousands of processes in the cloud acting as one). Played straight for Nazara and Harbinger.
* TheAce: Nihlus. It gets to his head, but in comedic ways.
* OneNationUnderCopyright: Noveria.
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* MinovskyPhysics: Standard for this universe.
* MohsScaleOfSciFiHardness: Very much on the hard side, even more than the games, with just OneBigLie.
* AIIsACrapshoot: '''Inverted''' in the case of Legion. They are probably the most stable and level-headed of the ship's crew—not even Shepard is as calm. Double-subverted for Legion's faction of the geth. Averted for Edi (only because she's a bit more emotional than Legion, justified because she's a single computer program and Legion is the voice of thousands of processes in the cloud acting as one). Played straight for Nazara and Harbinger.
* TheAce: Nihlus. It getsBoardingSchoolOfHorrors: Kaidan went to one to hone his head, but in comedic ways.
* OneNationUnderCopyright: Noveria.sci-fi magic skills.
* MohsScaleOfSciFiHardness: Very much on the hard side, even more than the games, with just OneBigLie.
* AIIsACrapshoot: '''Inverted''' in the case of Legion. They are probably the most stable and level-headed of the ship's crew—not even Shepard is as calm. Double-subverted for Legion's faction of the geth. Averted for Edi (only because she's a bit more emotional than Legion, justified because she's a single computer program and Legion is the voice of thousands of processes in the cloud acting as one). Played straight for Nazara and Harbinger.
* TheAce: Nihlus. It gets
* OneNationUnderCopyright: Noveria.
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* GuileHero: Shepard.
* TheEngineer: Tali.
* DaChief: Saren and the Council, particularly Sparatus.
* BoisterousBruiser: Wrex.
* TheEngineer: Tali.
* DaChief: Saren and the Council, particularly Sparatus.
* BoisterousBruiser: Wrex.
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* FriendlySniper: Shepard. Less so, Garrus Vakarian (only because he's more sarcastic).
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Ambassador Donnel Udina, '''and how'''.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Saren wavers between this and JerkWithAHeartOfJerk.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Ambassador Udina. On a scale of Medici to Machiavelli to Borgia, he's just a bit past Borgia.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Ambassador Donnel Udina, '''and how'''.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Saren wavers between this and JerkWithAHeartOfJerk.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Ambassador Udina. On a scale of Medici to Machiavelli to Borgia, he's just a bit past Borgia.
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* FriendlySniper: Shepard. Less so, Garrus Vakarian (only because he's more sarcastic).
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Ambassador Donnel Udina, '''and how'''.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Saren wavers between thisCommanderContrarian: Councillor Sparatus will nitpick and JerkWithAHeartOfJerk.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Ambassador Udina. On a scaleargue ''because he likes to argue''. Had Shep killed the Rachni Queen, he'd have said something along the lines of Medici to Machiavelli to Borgia, he's just a bit past Borgia."The Council doesn't promote genocide", but since she saved her, he instead said "You risk the rachni killing us all." Fortunately, Shep knows this.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Ambassador Donnel Udina, '''and how'''.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Saren wavers between this
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Ambassador Udina. On a scale
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* KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter: Weapons in this fic are railguns firing supersonic slugs; no directed-energy weapons are mentioned.
* FantasticRacist: Saren questions Shepard's candidacy behind her back, seemingly just because she's human. Little did he know she recorded the whole thing for use as insurance—and so did his former protegé Nihlus! Ashley acts similarly, but only in private, and in a more benign way than Saren.
* JurisdictionFriction: The Special Tactics and Reconnaissance group (essentially the Citadel's FBI) and Citadel Security (their local police).
* SandWorm: Thresher maws. Their presence on one planet was even set up as a trap.
* MasterRace: Pro-human (and anti-everything else) Cerberus and pro-turian Facinus.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Donnel Udina, let me count the ways. Chewing an Alliance officer out because she responded to a distress beacon while commanding a secret stealth ship? Check. Forcing that same Alliance officer to accept a spec-ops post she doesn't want, offered by the man broadcasting the distress beacon, solely to advance human interests? Check. Managing to do it in the most disagreeable possible way? Check.
* FantasticRacist: Saren questions Shepard's candidacy behind her back, seemingly just because she's human. Little did he know she recorded the whole thing for use as insurance—and so did his former protegé Nihlus! Ashley acts similarly, but only in private, and in a more benign way than Saren.
* JurisdictionFriction: The Special Tactics and Reconnaissance group (essentially the Citadel's FBI) and Citadel Security (their local police).
* SandWorm: Thresher maws. Their presence on one planet was even set up as a trap.
* MasterRace: Pro-human (and anti-everything else) Cerberus and pro-turian Facinus.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Donnel Udina, let me count the ways. Chewing an Alliance officer out because she responded to a distress beacon while commanding a secret stealth ship? Check. Forcing that same Alliance officer to accept a spec-ops post she doesn't want, offered by the man broadcasting the distress beacon, solely to advance human interests? Check. Managing to do it in the most disagreeable possible way? Check.
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* KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter: Weapons in this fic are railguns firing supersonic slugs; no directed-energy weapons are mentioned.
DaChief: Saren and the Council, particularly Sparatus.
* DeadpanSnarker: Nihlus, all the time.
* FantasticRacist: Saren questions Shepard's candidacy behind her back, seemingly just because she's human. Little did he know she recorded the whole thing for use as insurance—and so did his former protegé Nihlus! Ashley acts similarly, but only in private, and in a more benign way than Saren.
*JurisdictionFriction: The Special Tactics and Reconnaissance group (essentially FreudianExcuse: Saren's racism. Humans killed [[spoiler:his brother (in ship-to-ship combat during the Citadel's FBI) and Citadel Security (their local police).
Contact War)]].
*SandWorm: Thresher maws. Their presence on one planet was even set up as a trap.
* MasterRace: Pro-human (and anti-everything else) Cerberus and pro-turian Facinus.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Donnel Udina, let me count the ways. Chewing an Alliance officer outFriendlySniper: Shepard. Less so, Garrus Vakarian (only because she responded to a distress beacon while commanding a secret stealth ship? Check. Forcing that same Alliance officer to accept a spec-ops post she doesn't want, offered by the man broadcasting the distress beacon, solely to advance human interests? Check. Managing to do it in the most disagreeable possible way? Check.he's more sarcastic).
* GuileHero: Shepard.
* DeadpanSnarker: Nihlus, all the time.
* FantasticRacist: Saren questions Shepard's candidacy behind her back, seemingly just because she's human. Little did he know she recorded the whole thing for use as insurance—and so did his former protegé Nihlus! Ashley acts similarly, but only in private, and in a more benign way than Saren.
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* MasterRace: Pro-human (and anti-everything else) Cerberus and pro-turian Facinus.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Donnel Udina, let me count the ways. Chewing an Alliance officer out
* GuileHero: Shepard.
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* SquishyWizard: Kaidan Alenko.
* TheMedic: On the ship, it's Surgeon Major Karin Chakwas, who has an M.D.; in the field, it's usually Kaidan Alenko.
* SherlockScan: Thanks to his grasp of Shep's habits, Kaidan deduces, or rather abduces, that she didn't order him to play a role for C-sec's benefit and that Nihlus did. That's just an example. Nihlus as well: he figured out that the ship's executive officer was a (highly illegal) computer program, from day one, and was unfazed by the fact.
* TheGadfly: The ship's pilot, Lt. Jeffrey "Joker" Moreau. Also Nihlus Kryik, in a less abrasive way.
* IWorkAlone: Nihlus. Shep regards this as a liability, and he gets better.
* BoardingSchoolOfHorrors: Kaidan went to one to hone his sci-fi magic skills.
* MyBelovedSmother: In a non-familial sense, Dr Chakwas, to absolutely everyone on the ship.
* TheMedic: On the ship, it's Surgeon Major Karin Chakwas, who has an M.D.; in the field, it's usually Kaidan Alenko.
* SherlockScan: Thanks to his grasp of Shep's habits, Kaidan deduces, or rather abduces, that she didn't order him to play a role for C-sec's benefit and that Nihlus did. That's just an example. Nihlus as well: he figured out that the ship's executive officer was a (highly illegal) computer program, from day one, and was unfazed by the fact.
* TheGadfly: The ship's pilot, Lt. Jeffrey "Joker" Moreau. Also Nihlus Kryik, in a less abrasive way.
* IWorkAlone: Nihlus. Shep regards this as a liability, and he gets better.
* BoardingSchoolOfHorrors: Kaidan went to one to hone his sci-fi magic skills.
* MyBelovedSmother: In a non-familial sense, Dr Chakwas, to absolutely everyone on the ship.
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* SquishyWizard: Kaidan Alenko.
* TheMedic: OnHiveMind: The Orthodox geth and the ship, it's Surgeon Major Karin Chakwas, who has an M.D.; rachni both qualify in different ways; the field, it's usually Kaidan Alenko.
* SherlockScan: Thanks to his grasp of Shep's habits, Kaidan deduces, or rather abduces, that she didn't order him to play a role for C-sec's benefit and that Nihlus did. That's just an example. Nihlus as well: he figured out that the ship's executive officer was a (highly illegal)geth are computer program, from day one, and was unfazed by programs all contributing a tiny share to the fact.
* TheGadfly: The ship's pilot, Lt. Jeffrey "Joker" Moreau. Also Nihlus Kryik, in a less abrasive way.
* IWorkAlone: Nihlus. Shep regards this as a liability, and he gets better.
* BoardingSchoolOfHorrors: Kaidan went to one to hone his sci-fi magic skills.
* MyBelovedSmother: In a non-familial sense, Dr Chakwas, to absolutely everyone onoverall cloud (which has no leader, of course), while the ship.rachni are governed top-down by their Queen.
* TheMedic: On
* SherlockScan: Thanks to his grasp of Shep's habits, Kaidan deduces, or rather abduces, that she didn't order him to play a role for C-sec's benefit and that Nihlus did. That's just an example. Nihlus as well: he figured out that the ship's executive officer was a (highly illegal)
* TheGadfly: The ship's pilot, Lt. Jeffrey "Joker" Moreau. Also Nihlus Kryik, in a less abrasive way.
* IWorkAlone: Nihlus. Shep regards this as a liability, and he gets better.
* BoardingSchoolOfHorrors: Kaidan went to one to hone his sci-fi magic skills.
* MyBelovedSmother: In a non-familial sense, Dr Chakwas, to absolutely everyone on
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* SnarkToSnarkCombat: Wrex and Nihlus.
* DeadpanSnarker: Nihlus, all the time.
* SkunkStripe: Shepard's hair looks like a badger's arse and ends up significant in a plot to frame her for murder by its absence.
* PrivateMilitaryContractors: Blue Suns and to a lesser extent Eclipse.
* TheHacker: Edi and Tali. Played with, as the former is a program running on the ship's computer.
* ThePaladin: Oddly enough, '''Wrex''', who is essentially a krogan Vanguard.
* DeadpanSnarker: Nihlus, all the time.
* SkunkStripe: Shepard's hair looks like a badger's arse and ends up significant in a plot to frame her for murder by its absence.
* PrivateMilitaryContractors: Blue Suns and to a lesser extent Eclipse.
* TheHacker: Edi and Tali. Played with, as the former is a program running on the ship's computer.
* ThePaladin: Oddly enough, '''Wrex''', who is essentially a krogan Vanguard.
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* SapientShip: The Normandy hosts a highly illegal AI. Debatable if the ship is sapient, or if it's just a peripheral for a sapient computer.
* TheFederation: The Galactic Council is either this or a confederation; it has its own special forces, but the turians, humans, salarians, and asari have their own armies and navies as well.
* TheRepublic: The humans and asari, at the least.
* XanatosGambit: Nihlus Kryik ''embodies'' this trope. He leaves (likely empty) crates on the Normandy as a form of duress code and BotheringByTheBook, because he's familiar enough with police and military protocol that he knows it'd work—and pulls several such tricks, one after the other.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Shepard and Kryik, but it's light on the vitriol—more like muriatic best buds.
* TheLostLenore: Arthur for Shepard.
* Ambadassador: Legion. They're a sort of ambassador for the Orthodox faction of the geth, a robotic HiveMind race experiencing a sort of civil war; they're also a scarily competent sniper who pull more than their own weight in the squad.
* HiveMind: The Orthodox geth and the rachni both qualify in different ways; the geth are computer programs all contributing a tiny share to the overall cloud (which has no leader, of course), while the rachni are governed top-down by their Queen.
* TheFederation: The Galactic Council is either this or a confederation; it has its own special forces, but the turians, humans, salarians, and asari have their own armies and navies as well.
* TheRepublic: The humans and asari, at the least.
* XanatosGambit: Nihlus Kryik ''embodies'' this trope. He leaves (likely empty) crates on the Normandy as a form of duress code and BotheringByTheBook, because he's familiar enough with police and military protocol that he knows it'd work—and pulls several such tricks, one after the other.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Shepard and Kryik, but it's light on the vitriol—more like muriatic best buds.
* TheLostLenore: Arthur for Shepard.
* Ambadassador: Legion. They're a sort of ambassador for the Orthodox faction of the geth, a robotic HiveMind race experiencing a sort of civil war; they're also a scarily competent sniper who pull more than their own weight in the squad.
* HiveMind: The Orthodox geth and the rachni both qualify in different ways; the geth are computer programs all contributing a tiny share to the overall cloud (which has no leader, of course), while the rachni are governed top-down by their Queen.
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* SapientShip: The Normandy hosts a highly illegal AI. Debatable if ItsPersonal: Saren's hate for Shepard in specific. [[spoiler:The CO of the ship is sapient, or if it's just a peripheral for a sapient computer.
that destroyed the turian flagship and killed his brother Desolas was her mother Hannah.]] Small world.
*TheFederation: The Galactic Council is either IWorkAlone: Nihlus. Shep regards this or as a confederation; it has its own special forces, but the turians, humans, salarians, liability, and asari have their own armies and navies as well.
he gets better.
*TheRepublic: The humans and asari, at the least.
* XanatosGambit: Nihlus Kryik ''embodies''JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Saren wavers between this trope. He leaves (likely empty) crates on the Normandy as a form of duress code and BotheringByTheBook, because JerkWithAHeartOfJerk.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Ambassador Udina. On a scale of Medici to Machiavelli to Borgia, he'sfamiliar enough with police just a bit past Borgia.
* JurisdictionFriction: The Special Tactics andmilitary protocol that he knows it'd work—and pulls several such tricks, one after Reconnaissance group (essentially the other.
* VitriolicBestBuds: ShepardCitadel's FBI) and Kryik, but it's light on the vitriol—more like muriatic best buds.
Citadel Security (their local police).
*TheLostLenore: Arthur for Shepard.
* Ambadassador: Legion. They're a sort of ambassador for the Orthodox faction of the geth, a robotic HiveMind race experiencing a sort of civil war; they're also a scarily competent sniper who pull more than their own weightKineticWeaponsAreJustBetter: Weapons in the squad.
* HiveMind: The Orthodox geth and the rachni both qualify in different ways; the geththis fic are computer programs all contributing a tiny share to the overall cloud (which has railguns firing supersonic slugs; no leader, of course), while the rachni directed-energy weapons are governed top-down by their Queen.mentioned.
* LastNameBasis: Only Shepard's mother calls her Jocelyn.
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* XanatosGambit: Nihlus Kryik ''embodies''
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Ambassador Udina. On a scale of Medici to Machiavelli to Borgia, he's
* JurisdictionFriction: The Special Tactics and
* VitriolicBestBuds: Shepard
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* Ambadassador: Legion. They're a sort of ambassador for the Orthodox faction of the geth, a robotic HiveMind race experiencing a sort of civil war; they're also a scarily competent sniper who pull more than their own weight
* HiveMind: The Orthodox geth and the rachni both qualify in different ways; the geth
* LastNameBasis: Only Shepard's mother calls her Jocelyn.
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* TheAntiNihilist: Legion. Though as a platform for the Orthodox Geth they don't believe in a Higher Purpose, they believe they're free to make their Own Purpose—which just so happens to be blowing people's brains out from a mile away.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Exactly the same as a human, thank you very much. No more, as Saren seems to think, and no less, as Ashley thinks.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Exactly the same as a human, thank you very much. No more, as Saren seems to think, and no less, as Ashley thinks.
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* TheAntiNihilist: Legion. Though as a platform for the Orthodox Geth they don't believe in a Higher Purpose, they believe they're free to make their Own Purpose—which just so happens Main/Paparazzi: Khalisah bint-Sinan al-Jilani, though she believes herself to be blowing people's brains an IntrepidReporter
* MasterRace: Pro-human (and anti-everything else) Cerberus and pro-turian Facinus.
* MinovskyPhysics: Standard for this universe.
* MohsScaleOfSciFiHardness: Very much on the hard side, even more than the games, with just OneBigLie.
* MyBelovedSmother: In a non-familial sense, Dr Chakwas, to absolutely everyone on the ship.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Ambassador Donnel Udina, '''and how'''.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Donnel Udina, let me count the ways. Chewing an Alliance officer outfrom because she responded to a mile away.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Exactly thedistress beacon while commanding a secret stealth ship? Check. Forcing that same as a human, thank you very much. No more, as Saren seems Alliance officer to think, accept a spec-ops post she doesn't want, offered by the man broadcasting the distress beacon, solely to advance human interests? Check. Managing to do it in the most disagreeable possible way? Check.
* OneNationUnderCopyright: Noveria.
* PrivateMilitaryContractors: Blue Suns andno less, as Ashley thinks.to a lesser extent Eclipse.
* MasterRace: Pro-human (and anti-everything else) Cerberus and pro-turian Facinus.
* MinovskyPhysics: Standard for this universe.
* MohsScaleOfSciFiHardness: Very much on the hard side, even more than the games, with just OneBigLie.
* MyBelovedSmother: In a non-familial sense, Dr Chakwas, to absolutely everyone on the ship.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Ambassador Donnel Udina, '''and how'''.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Donnel Udina, let me count the ways. Chewing an Alliance officer out
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Exactly the
* OneNationUnderCopyright: Noveria.
* PrivateMilitaryContractors: Blue Suns and
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* LastNameBasis: Only SandWorm: Thresher maws. Their presence on one planet was even set up as a trap.
* SapientShip: The Normandy hosts a highly illegal AI. Debatable if the ship is sapient, or if it's just a peripheral for a sapient computer.
* SherlockScan: Thanks to his grasp of Shep's habits, Kaidan deduces, or rather abduces, that she didn't order him to play a role for C-sec's benefit and that Nihlus did. That's just an example. Nihlus as well: he figured out that the ship's executive officer was a (highly illegal) computer program, from day one, and was unfazed by the fact.
* SkunkStripe: Shepard'smother calls hair looks like a badger's arse and ends up significant in a plot to frame her Jocelyn.for murder by its absence.
* SnarkToSnarkCombat: Wrex and Nihlus.
* SquishyWizard: Kaidan Alenko.
* TheAce: Nihlus. It gets to his head, but in comedic ways.
* TheAntiNihilist: Legion. Though as a platform for the Orthodox Geth they don't believe in a Higher Purpose, they believe they're free to make their Own Purpose—which just so happens to be blowing people's brains out from a mile away.
* TheChessmaster: Nihlus Kryik. [[spoiler:Saren, his mentor, wants him to sabotage Shep, his mentee, by filing an unfavourable report, because Saren is a racist wanker. Saren even implies he'd be fine with disposing of her in a more permanent fashion. Nihlus parks himself where he knows Shep will find him and, knowing her penchant for eavesdropping, record the conversation; of course, Shepard doesn't realise this, thinks he's a traitor, and after a tense moment or two, he admits that it didn't matter whether she'd recorded the conversation (she hadn't, but by a fluke, Garrus had), because ''he did'', and then suggests blackmailing Saren or going to the government and having his clearance revoked. And Edi, the ship's computer, encouraged him in this!]]
* TheEngineer: Tali.
* TheFederation: The Galactic Council is either this or a confederation; it has its own special forces, but the turians, humans, salarians, and asari have their own armies and navies as well.
* TheGadfly: The ship's pilot, Lt. Jeffrey "Joker" Moreau. Also Nihlus Kryik, in a less abrasive way.
* TheHacker: Edi and Tali. Played with, as the former is a program running on the ship's computer.
* TheLostLenore: Arthur for Shepard.
* TheMedic: On the ship, it's Surgeon Major Karin Chakwas, who has an M.D.; in the field, it's usually Kaidan Alenko.
* ThePaladin: Oddly enough, '''Wrex''', who is essentially a krogan Vanguard.
* TheRepublic: The humans and asari, at the least.
* TranslationConvention: It's implied that everyone is speaking their own language most times (though bilingualism in the conventional way is common and encouraged) but that their omni-tools (smartphones in all but name) are running simultaneous voice translation.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Shepard and Kryik, but it's light on the vitriol—more like muriatic best buds.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Exactly the same as a human, thank you very much. No more, as Saren seems to think, and no less, as Ashley thinks.
* XanatosGambit: Nihlus Kryik ''embodies'' this trope. He leaves (likely empty) crates on the Normandy as a form of duress code and BotheringByTheBook, because he's familiar enough with police and military protocol that he knows it'd work—and pulls several such tricks, one after the other.
* SapientShip: The Normandy hosts a highly illegal AI. Debatable if the ship is sapient, or if it's just a peripheral for a sapient computer.
* SherlockScan: Thanks to his grasp of Shep's habits, Kaidan deduces, or rather abduces, that she didn't order him to play a role for C-sec's benefit and that Nihlus did. That's just an example. Nihlus as well: he figured out that the ship's executive officer was a (highly illegal) computer program, from day one, and was unfazed by the fact.
* SkunkStripe: Shepard's
* SnarkToSnarkCombat: Wrex and Nihlus.
* SquishyWizard: Kaidan Alenko.
* TheAce: Nihlus. It gets to his head, but in comedic ways.
* TheAntiNihilist: Legion. Though as a platform for the Orthodox Geth they don't believe in a Higher Purpose, they believe they're free to make their Own Purpose—which just so happens to be blowing people's brains out from a mile away.
* TheChessmaster: Nihlus Kryik. [[spoiler:Saren, his mentor, wants him to sabotage Shep, his mentee, by filing an unfavourable report, because Saren is a racist wanker. Saren even implies he'd be fine with disposing of her in a more permanent fashion. Nihlus parks himself where he knows Shep will find him and, knowing her penchant for eavesdropping, record the conversation; of course, Shepard doesn't realise this, thinks he's a traitor, and after a tense moment or two, he admits that it didn't matter whether she'd recorded the conversation (she hadn't, but by a fluke, Garrus had), because ''he did'', and then suggests blackmailing Saren or going to the government and having his clearance revoked. And Edi, the ship's computer, encouraged him in this!]]
* TheEngineer: Tali.
* TheFederation: The Galactic Council is either this or a confederation; it has its own special forces, but the turians, humans, salarians, and asari have their own armies and navies as well.
* TheGadfly: The ship's pilot, Lt. Jeffrey "Joker" Moreau. Also Nihlus Kryik, in a less abrasive way.
* TheHacker: Edi and Tali. Played with, as the former is a program running on the ship's computer.
* TheLostLenore: Arthur for Shepard.
* TheMedic: On the ship, it's Surgeon Major Karin Chakwas, who has an M.D.; in the field, it's usually Kaidan Alenko.
* ThePaladin: Oddly enough, '''Wrex''', who is essentially a krogan Vanguard.
* TheRepublic: The humans and asari, at the least.
* TranslationConvention: It's implied that everyone is speaking their own language most times (though bilingualism in the conventional way is common and encouraged) but that their omni-tools (smartphones in all but name) are running simultaneous voice translation.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Shepard and Kryik, but it's light on the vitriol—more like muriatic best buds.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Exactly the same as a human, thank you very much. No more, as Saren seems to think, and no less, as Ashley thinks.
* XanatosGambit: Nihlus Kryik ''embodies'' this trope. He leaves (likely empty) crates on the Normandy as a form of duress code and BotheringByTheBook, because he's familiar enough with police and military protocol that he knows it'd work—and pulls several such tricks, one after the other.
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* TheLoner: Nihlus. Shep regards this as a liability, and he gets better.
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* TheLoner: IWorkAlone: Nihlus. Shep regards this as a liability, and he gets better.
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* Main/Paparazzi: Khalisah bint-Sinan al-Jilani, though she believes herself to be an IntrepidReporter
* TranslationConvention: It's implied that everyone is speaking their own language most times (though bilingualism in the conventional way is common and encouraged) but that their omni-tools (smartphones in all but name) are running simultaneous voice translation.
* TranslationConvention: It's implied that everyone is speaking their own language most times (though bilingualism in the conventional way is common and encouraged) but that their omni-tools (smartphones in all but name) are running simultaneous voice translation.
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* TheMedic: On the ship, it's Dr Karin Chakwas, who has an M.D.; in the field, it's usually Kaidan Alenko.
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* TheMedic: On the ship, it's Dr Surgeon Major Karin Chakwas, who has an M.D.; in the field, it's usually Kaidan Alenko.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: '''Inverted''' in the case of Legion. They are probably the most stable and level-headed of the ship's crew—not even Shepard is as calm. Averted for Edi. Played straight for Nazara and Harbinger.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: '''Inverted''' in the case of Legion. They are probably the most stable and level-headed of the ship's crew—not even Shepard is as calm. Double-subverted for Legion's faction of the geth. Averted for Edi.Edi (only because she's a bit more emotional than Legion, justified because she's a single computer program and Legion is the voice of thousands of processes in the cloud acting as one). Played straight for Nazara and Harbinger.
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* ItsPersonal: Saren's hate for Shepard in specific. [[spoiler:The CO of the ship that killed his brother Desolas was her mother Hannah.]] Small world.
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* ItsPersonal: Saren's hate for Shepard in specific. [[spoiler:The CO of the ship that destroyed the turian flagship and killed his brother Desolas was her mother Hannah.]] Small world.
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* TheChessmaster: Nihlus Kryik. Saren, his mentor, wants him to sabotage Shep, his mentee, by filing an unfavourable report, because Saren is a racist wanker. Saren even implies he'd be fine with disposing of her in a more permanent fashion. Nihlus parks himself where he knows Shep will find him and, knowing her penchant for eavesdropping, record the conversation; of course, Shepard doesn't realise this, thinks he's a traitor, and after a tense moment or two, he admits that it didn't matter whether she'd recorded the conversation (she hadn't, but by a fluke, Garrus had), because ''he did'', and then suggests blackmailing Saren or going to the government and having his clearance revoked. And Edi, the ship's computer, encouraged him in this!
* ItsPersonal, FreudianExcuse: Saren's racism. Humans killed his brother (in ship-to-ship combat during the Contact War).
* ItsPersonal, FreudianExcuse: Saren's racism. Humans killed his brother (in ship-to-ship combat during the Contact War).
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* TheChessmaster: Nihlus Kryik. Saren, [[spoiler:Saren, his mentor, wants him to sabotage Shep, his mentee, by filing an unfavourable report, because Saren is a racist wanker. Saren even implies he'd be fine with disposing of her in a more permanent fashion. Nihlus parks himself where he knows Shep will find him and, knowing her penchant for eavesdropping, record the conversation; of course, Shepard doesn't realise this, thinks he's a traitor, and after a tense moment or two, he admits that it didn't matter whether she'd recorded the conversation (she hadn't, but by a fluke, Garrus had), because ''he did'', and then suggests blackmailing Saren or going to the government and having his clearance revoked. And Edi, the ship's computer, encouraged him in this!
this!]]
*ItsPersonal, FreudianExcuse: Saren's racism. Humans killed his [[spoiler:his brother (in ship-to-ship combat during the Contact War).War)]].
* ItsPersonal: Saren's hate for Shepard in specific. [[spoiler:The CO of the ship that killed his brother Desolas was her mother Hannah.]] Small world.
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* ItsPersonal: Saren's hate for Shepard in specific. [[spoiler:The CO of the ship that killed his brother Desolas was her mother Hannah.]] Small world.
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An alternate-universe re-telling of VideoGame/MassEffect that is extremely faithful to the games but for one crucial difference: no Reapers. This transforms the genre of the story from a SpaceOpera with LovecraftLite CosmicHorror tendencies to a SciFi BuddyCopShow in textual form.
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An alternate-universe re-telling of VideoGame/MassEffect that is extremely faithful to the games but for one crucial difference: no Reapers. This transforms the genre of the story from a SpaceOpera with LovecraftLite CosmicHorror tendencies to a character-driven SciFi BuddyCopShow in textual form.
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* ItsPersonal/FreudianExcuse: Saren's racism. Humans killed his brother (in ship-to-ship combat during the Contact War).
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* ItsPersonal/FreudianExcuse: ItsPersonal, FreudianExcuse: Saren's racism. Humans killed his brother (in ship-to-ship combat during the Contact War).
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* ItsPersonal: Saren's racism against humans in specific. Humans killed his brother (in war).
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* ItsPersonal: ItsPersonal/FreudianExcuse: Saren's racism against humans in specific. racism. Humans killed his brother (in war).ship-to-ship combat during the Contact War).
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* ItsPersonal: Saren's racism against humans in specific. Humans killed his brother (in war).
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* FriendlySniper: Shepard. Less so, Garrus Vakarian.
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* FriendlySniper: Shepard. Less so, Garrus Vakarian.Vakarian (only because he's more sarcastic).
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* TheChessmaster: Nihlus Kryik. Saren, his mentor, wants him to sabotage Shep, his mentee, by filing an unfavourable report, because Saren is a racist wanker. Saren even implies he'd be fine with disposing of her in a more permanent fashion. Nihlus parks himself where he knows Shep will find him and, knowing her penchant for eavesdropping, record the conversation; of course, Shepard doesn't realise this, thinks he's a traitor, and after a tense moment or two, he admits that it didn't matter whether she'd recorded the conversation, because ''he did'', and then suggests blackmailing Saren or going to the government and having his clearance revoked.
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* TheChessmaster: Nihlus Kryik. Saren, his mentor, wants him to sabotage Shep, his mentee, by filing an unfavourable report, because Saren is a racist wanker. Saren even implies he'd be fine with disposing of her in a more permanent fashion. Nihlus parks himself where he knows Shep will find him and, knowing her penchant for eavesdropping, record the conversation; of course, Shepard doesn't realise this, thinks he's a traitor, and after a tense moment or two, he admits that it didn't matter whether she'd recorded the conversation, conversation (she hadn't, but by a fluke, Garrus had), because ''he did'', and then suggests blackmailing Saren or going to the government and having his clearance revoked.revoked. And Edi, the ship's computer, encouraged him in this!
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* TheChessmaster: Nihlus Kryik. Saren, his mentor, wants him to sabotage Shep, his mentee, by filing an unfavourable report, because Saren is a racist wanker. Saren even implies he'd be fine with disposing of her in a more permanent fashion. Nihlus parks himself where he knows Shep will find him and, knowing her penchant for eavesdropping, record the conversation; of course, Shepard doesn't realise this, thinks he's a traitor, and after a tense moment or two, he admits that it didn't matter whether she'd recorded the conversation, because ''he did'', and then suggests blackmailing Saren or going to the government and having his clearance revoked.
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* CommanderContrarian: Councillor Sparatus will nitpick and argue ''because he likes to argue''. Had Shep killed the Rachni Queen, he'd have said something along the lines of "The Council doesn't promote genocide", but since she saved her, he instead said "You risk the rachni killing us all." Fortunately, Shep knows this.
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* AssInAmbassador: Do we really need to say Udina?
* OneNationUnderCopyright: Noveria.
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* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Councillor Donnel Udina, '''and how'''.
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* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Councillor Ambassador Donnel Udina, '''and how'''.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Councillor Udina. On a scale of Medici to Machiavelli to Borgia, he's just a bit past Borgia.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Councillor Ambassador Udina. On a scale of Medici to Machiavelli to Borgia, he's just a bit past Borgia.
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* RedOniBlueOni: Legion (blue), Garrus (blue), Kaidan (blue) to Ashley (red), Nihlus (pink), and Wrex (red).
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* RedOniBlueOni: Legion (blue), Garrus (blue), Kaidan (blue) to Ashley (red), Nihlus (pink), and Wrex (red).(red).
* LastNameBasis: Only Shepard's mother calls her Jocelyn.
* LastNameBasis: Only Shepard's mother calls her Jocelyn.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Saren wavers between this and JerkWithAHeartOfJerk.
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* MinovskyPhysics: Standard for this universe.
* MohsScaleOfSciFiHardness: Very much on the hard side, even more than the games, with just OneBigLie.
* MohsScaleOfSciFiHardness: Very much on the hard side, even more than the games, with just OneBigLie.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: '''Inverted''' in the case of Legion. They are probably the most stable and level-headed of the ship's crew—not even Shepard is as calm. Averted for Edi. Played straight for Nazara and Harbinger.
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* TheLostLenore: Arthur for Shepard.
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* TheLostLenore: Arthur for Shepard.Shepard.
* Ambadassador: Legion. They're a sort of ambassador for the Orthodox faction of the geth, a robotic HiveMind race experiencing a sort of civil war; they're also a scarily competent sniper who pull more than their own weight in the squad.
* HiveMind: The Orthodox geth and the rachni both qualify in different ways; the geth are computer programs all contributing a tiny share to the overall cloud (which has no leader, of course), while the rachni are governed top-down by their Queen.
* LastOfHisKind: Her Rachni Majesty. Shepard does the right thing and saves her.
* LeaveNoManBehind: Shep subscribes to this ideology, as does her mother.
* TheAntiNihilist: Legion. Though as a platform for the Orthodox Geth they don't believe in a Higher Purpose, they believe they're free to make their Own Purpose—which just so happens to be blowing people's brains out from a mile away.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Exactly the same as a human, thank you very much. No more, as Saren seems to think, and no less, as Ashley thinks.
* RedOniBlueOni: Legion (blue), Garrus (blue), Kaidan (blue) to Ashley (red), Nihlus (pink), and Wrex (red).
* Ambadassador: Legion. They're a sort of ambassador for the Orthodox faction of the geth, a robotic HiveMind race experiencing a sort of civil war; they're also a scarily competent sniper who pull more than their own weight in the squad.
* HiveMind: The Orthodox geth and the rachni both qualify in different ways; the geth are computer programs all contributing a tiny share to the overall cloud (which has no leader, of course), while the rachni are governed top-down by their Queen.
* LastOfHisKind: Her Rachni Majesty. Shepard does the right thing and saves her.
* LeaveNoManBehind: Shep subscribes to this ideology, as does her mother.
* TheAntiNihilist: Legion. Though as a platform for the Orthodox Geth they don't believe in a Higher Purpose, they believe they're free to make their Own Purpose—which just so happens to be blowing people's brains out from a mile away.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Exactly the same as a human, thank you very much. No more, as Saren seems to think, and no less, as Ashley thinks.
* RedOniBlueOni: Legion (blue), Garrus (blue), Kaidan (blue) to Ashley (red), Nihlus (pink), and Wrex (red).
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* SherlockScan: Thanks to his grasp of Shep's habits, Kaidan deduces, or rather abduces, that she didn't order him to play a role for C-sec's benefit and that Nihlus did. That's just an example.
* TheGadfly: The ship's pilot, Lt. Jeffrey "Joker" Moreau. Also Nihlus Kryik.
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* SherlockScan: Thanks to his grasp of Shep's habits, Kaidan deduces, or rather abduces, that she didn't order him to play a role for C-sec's benefit and that Nihlus did. That's just an example.
example. Nihlus as well: he figured out that the ship's executive officer was a (highly illegal) computer program, from day one, and was unfazed by the fact.
* TheGadfly: The ship's pilot, Lt. Jeffrey "Joker" Moreau. Also NihlusKryik.Kryik, in a less abrasive way.
* TheGadfly: The ship's pilot, Lt. Jeffrey "Joker" Moreau. Also Nihlus
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* XanatosGambit: Nihlus Kryik ''embodies'' this trope. He leaves (likely empty) crates on the Normandy as a form of duress code and BotheringByTheBook, because he's familiar enough with police and military protocol that he knows it'd work—and pulls several such tricks, one after the other.
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* XanatosGambit: Nihlus Kryik ''embodies'' this trope. He leaves (likely empty) crates on the Normandy as a form of duress code and BotheringByTheBook, because he's familiar enough with police and military protocol that he knows it'd work—and pulls several such tricks, one after the other.other.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Shepard and Kryik, but it's light on the vitriol—more like muriatic best buds.
* TheLostLenore: Arthur for Shepard.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Shepard and Kryik, but it's light on the vitriol—more like muriatic best buds.
* TheLostLenore: Arthur for Shepard.
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* TheAce: Nihlus. It gets to his head, but in comedic ways.
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* FantasticRacist: Saren questions Shepard's candidacy behind her back, seemingly just because she's human. Little did he know she recorded the whole thing for use as insurance—and so did his former protegé Nihlus!
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* FantasticRacist: Saren questions Shepard's candidacy behind her back, seemingly just because she's human. Little did he know she recorded the whole thing for use as insurance—and so did his former protegé Nihlus!Nihlus! Ashley acts similarly, but only in private, and in a more benign way than Saren.
* SandWorm: Thresher maws. Their presence on one planet was even set up as a trap.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Donnel Udina, let me count the ways. Chewing an Alliance officer out because she responded to a distress beacon while commanding a secret stealth ship? Check. Forcing that same Alliance officer to accept a spec-ops post she doesn't want, offered by the man broadcasting the distress beacon, solely to advance human interests? Check. Managing to do it in the most disagreeable possible way? Check.
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* TheRepublic: The humans and asari, at the least.
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* TheRepublic: The humans and asari, at the least.least.
* XanatosGambit: Nihlus Kryik ''embodies'' this trope. He leaves (likely empty) crates on the Normandy as a form of duress code and BotheringByTheBook, because he's familiar enough with police and military protocol that he knows it'd work—and pulls several such tricks, one after the other.
* XanatosGambit: Nihlus Kryik ''embodies'' this trope. He leaves (likely empty) crates on the Normandy as a form of duress code and BotheringByTheBook, because he's familiar enough with police and military protocol that he knows it'd work—and pulls several such tricks, one after the other.
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* Main/ColdSniper: Legion. Justified: they're programs on a walking, talking computer, and computers don't have feelings, do they?
* Main/FriendlySniper: Shepard. Less so, Garrus Vakarian.
* Main/ObstructiveBureaucrat: Councillor Donnel Udina, '''and how'''.
* Main/FriendlySniper: Shepard. Less so, Garrus Vakarian.
* Main/ObstructiveBureaucrat: Councillor Donnel Udina, '''and how'''.
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* Main/ColdSniper: ColdSniper: Legion. Justified: they're programs on a walking, talking computer, and computers don't have feelings, do they?
*Main/FriendlySniper: FriendlySniper: Shepard. Less so, Garrus Vakarian.
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* Main/FantasticRacist: KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter: Weapons in this fic are railguns firing supersonic slugs; no directed-energy weapons are mentioned.
* FantasticRacist: Saren questions Shepard's candidacy behind her back, seemingly just because she's human. Little did he know she recorded the whole thing for use as insurance—and so did his former protegé Nihlus!
* FantasticRacist: Saren questions Shepard's candidacy behind her back, seemingly just because she's human. Little did he know she recorded the whole thing for use as insurance—and so did his former protegé Nihlus!
* MasterRace: Pro-human (and anti-everything else) Cerberus and pro-turian Facinus.
* HateSink: Udina. There is nothing redeemable about the man, and he exists solely to attract everyone's irritation. Even the humans hate him; he's a bureaucrat doing the job of a politician.
* HateSink: Udina. There is nothing redeemable about the man, and he exists solely to attract everyone's irritation. Even the humans hate him; he's a bureaucrat doing the job of a politician.
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* MallenStreak: Shepard's hair looks like a badger's arse and ends up significant in a plot to frame her for murder by its absence.
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* MallenStreak: SkunkStripe: Shepard's hair looks like a badger's arse and ends up significant in a plot to frame her for murder by its absence.
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* TheHacker: Edi and Tali. Played with, as the former is a program running on the ship's computer.
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* TheHacker: Edi and Tali. Played with, as the former is a program running on the ship's computer.computer.
* ThePaladin: Oddly enough, '''Wrex''', who is essentially a krogan Vanguard.
* IOweYouMyLife: Played every which way. Shepard takes a bullet for Nihlus, and Saren saves Shepard and Nihlus several times over.
* SapientShip: The Normandy hosts a highly illegal AI. Debatable if the ship is sapient, or if it's just a peripheral for a sapient computer.
* TheFederation: The Galactic Council is either this or a confederation; it has its own special forces, but the turians, humans, salarians, and asari have their own armies and navies as well.
* TheRepublic: The humans and asari, at the least.
* ThePaladin: Oddly enough, '''Wrex''', who is essentially a krogan Vanguard.
* IOweYouMyLife: Played every which way. Shepard takes a bullet for Nihlus, and Saren saves Shepard and Nihlus several times over.
* SapientShip: The Normandy hosts a highly illegal AI. Debatable if the ship is sapient, or if it's just a peripheral for a sapient computer.
* TheFederation: The Galactic Council is either this or a confederation; it has its own special forces, but the turians, humans, salarians, and asari have their own armies and navies as well.
* TheRepublic: The humans and asari, at the least.
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An alternate-universe re-telling of VideoGame/MassEffect that is extremely faithful to the games but for one crucial difference: no Reapers. This transforms the genre of the story from a Main/SpaceOpera with Main/LovecraftLite Main/CosmicHorror tendencies to a Main/SciFi Main/BuddyCopShow in textual form.
All right, now that you're properly confused, here's a better description: Main/TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, a lady captain and Main/FriendlySniper in Main/TheRepublic's Main/SpaceNavy rescues a Main/TuxedoAndMartini special-ops Main/CowboyCop of an alien species. He takes up residence in her ship, and together with Main/ARagtagBunchOfMisfits, Main/TheyFightCrime Murderers, terrorists, cult leaders, and omnicidal artificial intelligences, watch out, because Shepard and Kryik are on the case! Definitely a fun read even if you've never played the games.
All right, now that you're properly confused, here's a better description: Main/TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, a lady captain and Main/FriendlySniper in Main/TheRepublic's Main/SpaceNavy rescues a Main/TuxedoAndMartini special-ops Main/CowboyCop of an alien species. He takes up residence in her ship, and together with Main/ARagtagBunchOfMisfits, Main/TheyFightCrime Murderers, terrorists, cult leaders, and omnicidal artificial intelligences, watch out, because Shepard and Kryik are on the case! Definitely a fun read even if you've never played the games.
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An alternate-universe re-telling of VideoGame/MassEffect that is extremely faithful to the games but for one crucial difference: no Reapers. This transforms the genre of the story from a Main/SpaceOpera SpaceOpera with Main/LovecraftLite Main/CosmicHorror LovecraftLite CosmicHorror tendencies to a Main/SciFi Main/BuddyCopShow SciFi BuddyCopShow in textual form.
All right, now that you're properly confused, here's a better description:Main/TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, a lady captain and Main/FriendlySniper FriendlySniper in Main/TheRepublic's TheRepublic's Main/SpaceNavy rescues a Main/TuxedoAndMartini TuxedoAndMartini special-ops Main/CowboyCop of an alien species. He takes up residence in her ship, and together with Main/ARagtagBunchOfMisfits, Main/TheyFightCrime a RagtagBunchOfMisfits, TheyFightCrime Murderers, terrorists, cult leaders, and omnicidal artificial intelligences, watch out, because Shepard and Kryik are on the case! Definitely a fun read even if you've never played the games.
All right, now that you're properly confused, here's a better description:
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* Main/CowboyCop: Shepard, Nihlus Kryik, and Garrus, in equal measure, but differently. Garrus quit the police force because he was tired of the endless red tape; Shepard plays up her empathy but is prone to bypassing regulations to get the job done; Nihlus repeatedly breaks protocol seemingly because Main/ItAmusedMe.
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* Main/CowboyCop: CowboyCop: Shepard, Nihlus Kryik, and Garrus, in equal measure, but differently. Garrus quit the police force because he was tired of the endless red tape; Shepard plays up her empathy but is prone to bypassing regulations to get the job done; Nihlus repeatedly breaks protocol seemingly because Main/ItAmusedMe.
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* Main/GuileHero: Shepard.
* Main/TheEngineer: Tali.
* Main/MagnificentBastard: Nihlus, with emphasis on the ''Magnificent'', and Saren, with emphasis on the ''Bastard''.
* Main/DaChief: Saren and the Council, particularly Sparatus.
* Main/BoisterousBruiser: Wrex.
* Main/TheEngineer: Tali.
* Main/MagnificentBastard: Nihlus, with emphasis on the ''Magnificent'', and Saren, with emphasis on the ''Bastard''.
* Main/DaChief: Saren and the Council, particularly Sparatus.
* Main/BoisterousBruiser: Wrex.
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* Main/GuileHero: BoisterousBruiser: Wrex.
* GuileHero: Shepard.
*Main/TheEngineer: TheEngineer: Tali.
*Main/MagnificentBastard: Nihlus, with emphasis on the ''Magnificent'', and Saren, with emphasis on the ''Bastard''.
* Main/DaChief:DaChief: Saren and the Council, particularly Sparatus.
*Main/BoisterousBruiser: BoisterousBruiser: Wrex.
* GuileHero: Shepard.
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* Main/JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Councillor Udina. On a scale of Medici to Machiavelli to Borgia, he's just a bit past Borgia.
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* Main/JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Councillor Udina. On a scale of Medici to Machiavelli to Borgia, he's just a bit past Borgia.
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* Main/JurisdictionFriction: The Special Tactics and Reconnaissance group (essentially the Citadel's FBI) and Citadel Security (their local police).
* Main/SquishyWizard: Kaidan Alenko.
* Main/TheMedic: On the ship, it's Dr Karin Chakwas, who has an M.D.; in the field, it's usually Kaidan Alenko.
* Main/SherlockScan: Thanks to his grasp of Shep's habits, Kaidan deduces, or rather abduces, that she didn't order him to play a role for C-sec's benefit and that Nihlus did. That's just an example.
* Main/TheGadfly: The ship's pilot, Lt. Jeffrey "Joker" Moreau. Also Nihlus Kryik.
* Main/TheLoner: Nihlus. Shep regards this as a liability, and he gets better.
* Main/BoardingSchoolOfHorrors: Kaidan went to one to hone his sci-fi magic skills.
* Main/MyBelovedSmother: In a non-familial sense, Dr Chakwas, to absolutely everyone on the ship.
* Main/ICallItVera: Shepard's pistols are named Sin and Dex; her rifle's name is Vincent.
* Main/SnarkToSnarkCombat: Wrex and Nihlus.
* Main/DeadpanSnarker: Nihlus, all the time.
* Main/MallenStreak: Shepard's hair looks like a badger's arse and ends up significant in a plot to frame her for murder by its absence.
* Main/PrivateMilitaryContractors: Blue Suns and to a lesser extent Eclipse.
* Main/TheHacker: Edi and Tali. Played with, as the former is a program running on the ship's computer.
* Main/SquishyWizard: Kaidan Alenko.
* Main/TheMedic: On the ship, it's Dr Karin Chakwas, who has an M.D.; in the field, it's usually Kaidan Alenko.
* Main/SherlockScan: Thanks to his grasp of Shep's habits, Kaidan deduces, or rather abduces, that she didn't order him to play a role for C-sec's benefit and that Nihlus did. That's just an example.
* Main/TheGadfly: The ship's pilot, Lt. Jeffrey "Joker" Moreau. Also Nihlus Kryik.
* Main/TheLoner: Nihlus. Shep regards this as a liability, and he gets better.
* Main/BoardingSchoolOfHorrors: Kaidan went to one to hone his sci-fi magic skills.
* Main/MyBelovedSmother: In a non-familial sense, Dr Chakwas, to absolutely everyone on the ship.
* Main/ICallItVera: Shepard's pistols are named Sin and Dex; her rifle's name is Vincent.
* Main/SnarkToSnarkCombat: Wrex and Nihlus.
* Main/DeadpanSnarker: Nihlus, all the time.
* Main/MallenStreak: Shepard's hair looks like a badger's arse and ends up significant in a plot to frame her for murder by its absence.
* Main/PrivateMilitaryContractors: Blue Suns and to a lesser extent Eclipse.
* Main/TheHacker: Edi and Tali. Played with, as the former is a program running on the ship's computer.
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* Main/JurisdictionFriction: JurisdictionFriction: The Special Tactics and Reconnaissance group (essentially the Citadel's FBI) and Citadel Security (their local police).
*Main/SquishyWizard: SquishyWizard: Kaidan Alenko.
*Main/TheMedic: TheMedic: On the ship, it's Dr Karin Chakwas, who has an M.D.; in the field, it's usually Kaidan Alenko.
*Main/SherlockScan: SherlockScan: Thanks to his grasp of Shep's habits, Kaidan deduces, or rather abduces, that she didn't order him to play a role for C-sec's benefit and that Nihlus did. That's just an example.
*Main/TheGadfly: TheGadfly: The ship's pilot, Lt. Jeffrey "Joker" Moreau. Also Nihlus Kryik.
*Main/TheLoner: TheLoner: Nihlus. Shep regards this as a liability, and he gets better.
*Main/BoardingSchoolOfHorrors: BoardingSchoolOfHorrors: Kaidan went to one to hone his sci-fi magic skills.
*Main/MyBelovedSmother: MyBelovedSmother: In a non-familial sense, Dr Chakwas, to absolutely everyone on the ship.
*Main/ICallItVera: ICallItVera: Shepard's pistols are named Sin and Dex; her rifle's name is Vincent.
*Main/SnarkToSnarkCombat: SnarkToSnarkCombat: Wrex and Nihlus.
*Main/DeadpanSnarker: DeadpanSnarker: Nihlus, all the time.
*Main/MallenStreak: MallenStreak: Shepard's hair looks like a badger's arse and ends up significant in a plot to frame her for murder by its absence.
*Main/PrivateMilitaryContractors: PrivateMilitaryContractors: Blue Suns and to a lesser extent Eclipse.
*Main/TheHacker: TheHacker: Edi and Tali. Played with, as the former is a program running on the ship's computer.
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* Main/MallenStreak: Shepard's hair looks like a badger's arse and ends up significant in a plot to frame her for murder.
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* Main/MallenStreak: Shepard's hair looks like a badger's arse and ends up significant in a plot to frame her for murder.murder by its absence.
* Main/PrivateMilitaryContractors: Blue Suns and to a lesser extent Eclipse.
* Main/TheHacker: Edi and Tali. Played with, as the former is a program running on the ship's computer.
* Main/PrivateMilitaryContractors: Blue Suns and to a lesser extent Eclipse.
* Main/TheHacker: Edi and Tali. Played with, as the former is a program running on the ship's computer.
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All right, now that you're properly confused, here's a better description: Main/TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, a lady captain and Main/FriendlySniper in Main/TheRepublic's Main/SpaceNavy rescues a Main/TuxedoAndMartini special-ops Main/CowboyCop of an alien species. He takes up residence in her ship, and together with Main/ARagtagBunchOfMisfits, Main/TheyFightCrime Murderers, terrorists, cult leaders, and omnicidal artificial intelligences, watch out, because Shepard and Kryik are on the case!
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All right, now that you're properly confused, here's a better description: Main/TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, a lady captain and Main/FriendlySniper in Main/TheRepublic's Main/SpaceNavy rescues a Main/TuxedoAndMartini special-ops Main/CowboyCop of an alien species. He takes up residence in her ship, and together with Main/ARagtagBunchOfMisfits, Main/TheyFightCrime Murderers, terrorists, cult leaders, and omnicidal artificial intelligences, watch out, because Shepard and Kryik are on the case!
case! Definitely a fun read even if you've never played the games.
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* Main/ColdSniper: Legion. Deconstructed: they're a sentient machine, and computers don't have feelings, do they?
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* Main/ColdSniper: Legion. Deconstructed: Justified: they're programs on a sentient machine, walking, talking computer, and computers don't have feelings, do they?
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* Main/FantasticRacist: Saren questions Shepard's candidacy behind her back, seemingly just because she's human. Little did he know she recorded the whole thing for use as insurance—and so did his former protegé Nihlus!
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* Main/FantasticRacist: Saren questions Shepard's candidacy behind her back, seemingly just because she's human. Little did he know she recorded the whole thing for use as insurance—and so did his former protegé Nihlus!Nihlus!
* Main/JurisdictionFriction: The Special Tactics and Reconnaissance group (essentially the Citadel's FBI) and Citadel Security (their local police).
* Main/SquishyWizard: Kaidan Alenko.
* Main/TheMedic: On the ship, it's Dr Karin Chakwas, who has an M.D.; in the field, it's usually Kaidan Alenko.
* Main/SherlockScan: Thanks to his grasp of Shep's habits, Kaidan deduces, or rather abduces, that she didn't order him to play a role for C-sec's benefit and that Nihlus did. That's just an example.
* Main/TheGadfly: The ship's pilot, Lt. Jeffrey "Joker" Moreau. Also Nihlus Kryik.
* Main/TheLoner: Nihlus. Shep regards this as a liability, and he gets better.
* Main/BoardingSchoolOfHorrors: Kaidan went to one to hone his sci-fi magic skills.
* Main/MyBelovedSmother: In a non-familial sense, Dr Chakwas, to absolutely everyone on the ship.
* Main/ICallItVera: Shepard's pistols are named Sin and Dex; her rifle's name is Vincent.
* Main/SnarkToSnarkCombat: Wrex and Nihlus.
* Main/DeadpanSnarker: Nihlus, all the time.
* Main/MallenStreak: Shepard's hair looks like a badger's arse and ends up significant in a plot to frame her for murder.
* Main/JurisdictionFriction: The Special Tactics and Reconnaissance group (essentially the Citadel's FBI) and Citadel Security (their local police).
* Main/SquishyWizard: Kaidan Alenko.
* Main/TheMedic: On the ship, it's Dr Karin Chakwas, who has an M.D.; in the field, it's usually Kaidan Alenko.
* Main/SherlockScan: Thanks to his grasp of Shep's habits, Kaidan deduces, or rather abduces, that she didn't order him to play a role for C-sec's benefit and that Nihlus did. That's just an example.
* Main/TheGadfly: The ship's pilot, Lt. Jeffrey "Joker" Moreau. Also Nihlus Kryik.
* Main/TheLoner: Nihlus. Shep regards this as a liability, and he gets better.
* Main/BoardingSchoolOfHorrors: Kaidan went to one to hone his sci-fi magic skills.
* Main/MyBelovedSmother: In a non-familial sense, Dr Chakwas, to absolutely everyone on the ship.
* Main/ICallItVera: Shepard's pistols are named Sin and Dex; her rifle's name is Vincent.
* Main/SnarkToSnarkCombat: Wrex and Nihlus.
* Main/DeadpanSnarker: Nihlus, all the time.
* Main/MallenStreak: Shepard's hair looks like a badger's arse and ends up significant in a plot to frame her for murder.
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* Main/TheChief: Saren and the Council, particularly Sparatus.
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* Main/TheChief: Main/DaChief: Saren and the Council, particularly Sparatus.
* Main/ColdSniper: Legion. Deconstructed: they're a sentient machine, and computers don't have feelings, do they?
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* Main/CowboyCop: Shepard, Nihlus Kryik, and Garrus, in equal measure, but differently. Garrus quit the police force because he was tired of the endless red tape; Shepard plays up her empathy but is prone to bypassing regulations to get the job done; Nihlus repeatedly breaks protocol seemingly because Main/ItAmusedMe.
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* Main/ObstructiveBureaucrat: Councillor Donnel Udina, '''and how'''.
* Main/JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Councillor Udina. On a scale of Medici to Machiavelli to Borgia, he's just a bit past Borgia.
* Main/CowboyCop: Shepard, Nihlus Kryik, and Garrus, in equal measure, but differently. Garrus quit the police force because he was tired of the endless red tape; Shepard plays up her empathy but is prone to bypassing regulations to get the job done; Nihlus repeatedly breaks protocol seemingly becauseMain/ItAmusedMe.Main/ItAmusedMe.
* Main/FantasticRacist: Saren questions Shepard's candidacy behind her back, seemingly just because she's human. Little did he know she recorded the whole thing for use as insurance—and so did his former protegé Nihlus!
* Main/JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Councillor Udina. On a scale of Medici to Machiavelli to Borgia, he's just a bit past Borgia.
* Main/CowboyCop: Shepard, Nihlus Kryik, and Garrus, in equal measure, but differently. Garrus quit the police force because he was tired of the endless red tape; Shepard plays up her empathy but is prone to bypassing regulations to get the job done; Nihlus repeatedly breaks protocol seemingly because
* Main/FantasticRacist: Saren questions Shepard's candidacy behind her back, seemingly just because she's human. Little did he know she recorded the whole thing for use as insurance—and so did his former protegé Nihlus!
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All right, now that you're properly confused, here's a better description: Main/TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, a lady captain and Main/FriendlySniper in Main/TheRepublic's Main/SpaceNavy rescues a Main/TuxedoAndMartini special-ops Main/CowboyCop of an alien species. He takes up residence in her ship, and together, Main/TheyFightCrime.
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All right, now that you're properly confused, here's a better description: Main/TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, a lady captain and Main/FriendlySniper in Main/TheRepublic's Main/SpaceNavy rescues a Main/TuxedoAndMartini special-ops Main/CowboyCop of an alien species. He takes up residence in her ship, and together, Main/TheyFightCrime.together with Main/ARagtagBunchOfMisfits, Main/TheyFightCrime Murderers, terrorists, cult leaders, and omnicidal artificial intelligences, watch out, because Shepard and Kryik are on the case!
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!!''Mass Effect'' contains examples of
* Main/GuileHero: Shepard.
* Main/TheEngineer: Tali.
* Main/MagnificentBastard: Nihlus, with emphasis on the ''Magnificent'', and Saren, with emphasis on the ''Bastard''.
* Main/TheChief: Saren and the Council, particularly Sparatus.
* Main/BoisterousBruiser: Wrex.
* Main/FriendlySniper: Shepard. Less so, Garrus Vakarian.
* Main/CowboyCop: Shepard, Nihlus Kryik, and Garrus, in equal measure, but differently. Garrus quit the police force because he was tired of the endless red tape; Shepard plays up her empathy but is prone to bypassing regulations to get the job done; Nihlus repeatedly breaks protocol seemingly because Main/ItAmusedMe.
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!!''Mass Effect'' contains examples of
* Main/GuileHero: Shepard.
* Main/TheEngineer: Tali.
* Main/MagnificentBastard: Nihlus, with emphasis on the ''Magnificent'', and Saren, with emphasis on the ''Bastard''.
* Main/TheChief: Saren and the Council, particularly Sparatus.
* Main/BoisterousBruiser: Wrex.
* Main/FriendlySniper: Shepard. Less so, Garrus Vakarian.
* Main/CowboyCop: Shepard, Nihlus Kryik, and Garrus, in equal measure, but differently. Garrus quit the police force because he was tired of the endless red tape; Shepard plays up her empathy but is prone to bypassing regulations to get the job done; Nihlus repeatedly breaks protocol seemingly because Main/ItAmusedMe.
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An alternate-universe re-telling of VideoGame/MassEffect that is extremely faithful to the games but for one crucial difference: no Reapers. This transforms the genre of the story from a Main/SpaceOpera with Main/LovecraftLite Main/CosmicHorror tendencies to a Main/SciFi Main/BuddyCopShow.
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An alternate-universe re-telling of VideoGame/MassEffect that is extremely faithful to the games but for one crucial difference: no Reapers. This transforms the genre of the story from a Main/SpaceOpera with Main/LovecraftLite Main/CosmicHorror tendencies to a Main/SciFi Main/BuddyCopShow.Main/BuddyCopShow in textual form.
All right, now that you're properly confused, here's a better description: Main/TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, a lady captain and Main/FriendlySniper in Main/TheRepublic's Main/SpaceNavy rescues a Main/TuxedoAndMartini special-ops Main/CowboyCop of an alien species. He takes up residence in her ship, and together, Main/TheyFightCrime.
All right, now that you're properly confused, here's a better description: Main/TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, a lady captain and Main/FriendlySniper in Main/TheRepublic's Main/SpaceNavy rescues a Main/TuxedoAndMartini special-ops Main/CowboyCop of an alien species. He takes up residence in her ship, and together, Main/TheyFightCrime.
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An alternate-universe re-telling of VideoGame/MassEffect that is extremely faithful to the games but for one crucial difference: no Reapers. This transforms the genre of the story from a Main/SpaceOpera with Main/LovecraftLite Main/CosmicHorror tendencies to a Main/SciFi Main/BuddyCopShow.
