History Fanfic / OfSheepAndBattleChicken

In addition to the original, the first sequel focuses on the immediate aftermath of the Battle of the Citadel, ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10712397/1/OSABC-And-Then-There-Were-None OSABC And Then There Were None]]''. Particular time is given to Bring Down the Sky, Pinnacle Station, followed by Redemption. As with the first story, those various aspects are greatly expanded. A third story, covering the events of ''VideoGame/MassEffect2, is currently in progress: ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11178712/1/OSABC-II-That-Which-Cannot-Die OSABC II That Which Cannot Die]]''.

* BloodKnight: Tazzik, Tetriumus, Matriarch Trellani, Shepard, Grunt to name a few.

* HeKnowsTooMuch: Major Kyle was killed even though he understood only the basics of what was happening in the Alliance.

* HigherUnderstandingThroughDrugs: The Elcor in a nutshell.
** [[spoiler:They aren't wrong.]]

* WetwareBody: Several early Asari leaders were in fact Prothean AI's downloaded directly into Asari bodies.

* AbnormalAmmo: Most races have variations on the base technology. Asari, for example, rely heavily on plasma and utilize their natural biotics even with their basic weapons.

* AGodAmI: [[spoiler:Leviathans would obliterate galaxies simply to make the view more aesthetically pleasing.]]

* AIIsACrapshoot: Averted with EVA, EDI and Vigil, though the latter's such a {{Troll}} that many feel the trope applies.
** Played straight with virtually every Prothean AI according to Vigil and Uressa T'Shora.

* ApocalypseHow: Class 2: ''Several'' species' homeworlds are devastated by war in their histories, including [[GaiasLament Earth]].
** Class 4: The intention of the Reapers as per canon, [[spoiler:albeit in several galaxies instead of just the Milky Way.]]

** [[spoiler: Class X-2: The Collectors turn Horizon's sun into a mini-supernova, obliterating the whole planetary system .]]
** [[spoiler: Class X-3: The Darkness destroyed whole Galaxies during the war with the Leviathans, and later the Reapers.]]
** [[spoiler: Class X-4: The High Ascended inflicted horrific damage to Darkness's universe by draining the energy from it. Supplementary materials state it was only one of ''many''.]]

* AxCrazy: P., He Who Is Not, - a famous turian crime boss and [[spoiler:a Joker expy.]] Few of his plans make any sense to anyone else, but they always involve a high body count.

** Time will tell for the crew of the SR-2.
** [[spoiler:Angel Team from Omega.]]
* BatmanGambit: Several of these are enacted openly and are implied to have been used in the past, particularly in regards to Shepard.
** The High Lords of Sol have utilized her in their plans more than once, to varying degress of succuess.
** [[EvilMentor Rachel Florez]] used these in regards to Shepard once she had been properly molded into the Butcher.
** [[spoiler: The Illusive Man relied on Shepard being too occupied smashing the rest of Cerberus to have the time to track him down.]]
* BattleCouple: Shepard and Liara, especially once the latter gets some combat training in her.

* {{BFG}}: They are usually mounted on [[MiniMecha battlesuits]], but some, like a turian electron accelerator gun "Lance" (also known as a lance cannon) can be carried by infantry in PowerArmor.

** All elcor infantry troops are armed with BFG.
** Hanar Prism Cannon.
* BigBad: the Reapers retain their boss role to the Milky Way [[spoiler: and several hundred other galaxies]].

* TheChessmaster: Plenty of them, which causes [[GambitPileup gambit pile-ups, and not once.]]
** In the 24th chapter of ATTWN the POV of a particular Chessmaster - Maxwell Manswell - is shown.

** [[spoiler:The Dark Gods.]]

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: %%The Butcher and Archangel both deliver many of these to their victims in OSABC II.
** What batarian Special Intervention Unit prefers to do with some of its prisoners and rebellious slaves.
** Anyone sacrificed by batarians to [[ReligionOfEvil the Dark Gods]].

* DesignatedGirlFight: Most rivalries between Asari, Aethyta vs Benezia in particular.

* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler:Uressa loses her patience with the Thirty in the wake of events on Illium.]]

* EldritchAbomination: The Reapers, full stop. Possibly the most Cthulhoid version of them ever written in fan fiction,[[spoiler: capable of breaking the laws of physics through the usage of the Godpower as well as being immensely more powerful and controlling several galaxies.]]

* EldritchLocation: The Inusannon ruin on the planet named Gryt-III (described in Encyclopedia Biotica).

* JustAMachine: %%How the rest of the galaxy views the Geth.
** Subverted with EDI, as Admiral Ahern has specific orders to treat her as a person.

* LightningBruiser: Shepard is fond of using biotic charges to zip around the battlefield, blowing away targets with her overtuned shotgun.
** [[spoiler:Taken up to eleven after her resurrection.]]
** [[spoiler: Tazzik, after being rebuilt by Broker's people.]]

* OneSteveLimit: A non-straight example given the number of characters named 'Jason'.
** Jason Delacor, Jason von Grath, Jason Dunn, and several others.
* OnlySaneMan: Vigil usually takes on this role, mocking the lack of common sense and general shortsightedness of all of the people around him.

* PrivateMilitaryContractors: Numerous, but Zaeed Massani's Firestorm in particular.
* ProperlyParanoid: The AIS's security protocols concerning [[spoiler:Benezia's corpse.]]

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Matriarch Trellani against the Thirty after they kill her close family, extended family, friends, associates, and followers.
** [[spoiler:What Liara and Telanya descend into after the events of the second fic.]]
** [[spoiler:Shepard against Cerberus, when she thinks that Liara has been killed by a sniper.]]

* SexSlave: Part of Shepard's extensively awful backstory.
** Batarian females are barely sentient and often treated like this.
* ShellShockedVeteran: By the time of OSABC II, Liara and Telanya are barely holding themselves together.
* SirSwearsalot: Tradius Ahern and Theo Pelham.
* SociopathicHero: Garrus holds himself back from becoming this, remembering the names of every innocent killed in the collateral damage of their fight on Omega.

* SuperMode: Shepard [[spoiler:pushing her cybernetics to the extreme.]]

* SuperSoldier: Turian Final Line Soldiers-cyborgs, Tetrimus, [[spoiler:Shepard post-resurrection and Tazzik after being rebuilt]], Quarian Heavy Marines.
** Subverted with Asari War Priestesses. They aren't augmented cybernetically or biologically, but accumulate A LOT of eezo inside their bodies and train for several tens of years. Because of that, their biotic abilities are extremely powerful and sophisticated.
* SwissArmyGun: The weapon that Shepard makes for Liara is both a shotgun and a pistol, depending on the firing mode chosen.

** [[spoiler:The Innusannon. ''Always'' malicious.]]

** [[spoiler:The Catalyst to the Leviathans.]]
** [[spoiler:The Reapers to the Catalyst.]]

* UpperClassTwit: Many young Asari of the Thirty fall victim to this trope, much to the disgust of Matriarchs like Aethyta.
** A few members of Earth's High families also qualify.

* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Uressa T'Shora refuses to compromise her principles, even when ordered to by the rest of the Thirty.