History YMMV / MassVexations

** Equally, a DragonAge counterpart called FanFic/LifeOnThedas (now with its own page too) was released that directly references Vexations, as the GenreSavvy main character is a fan of it. Became AscendedFanboy when Herr Wozzeck endorsed it in chapter 13 of MV2.

* SeasonalRot: Some fans accuse the fanfic of having this in the later fanfics, citing the overusage of other characters from other universes and the entire [[DragonAgeOrigins Fade]] storyline.

** ItGotWorse: [[spoiler: The impostor is one of the Migrant Fleet's most dangerous exiles, he mind-raped Tali, Legion nearly died and the Reapers know about the Fade.]]

** ItGotWorse: [[spoiler: The impostor is one of the Migrant Fleet's most dangerous exiles, he raped Tali, Legion nearly died and the Reapers know about the Fade.]]

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Is Art a GaryStu of the bygone DavidGonterman-esque variety, or is he -and the whole story- a StealthParody/Deconstruction of Gary Stus in fan fiction?

* TooCoolToLive: [[spoiler: Nogond,]] we hardly knew ye... *sob*

* PanderingToTheBase: The (occasionally forced-seeming) over saturation of references can be seen as the author trying to rack up some nerd cred.

* AngstWhatAngst: The tendency of this trope to show up in self-insert fiction where the author avatar just teleports into their world is heavily deconstructed. Almost as soon as he realizes he's in the Mass Effect universe, Art begins wondering what's become of every person he's ever come to really care about, and about what they must be thinking in turn. At first, Art brushes off the angst under the pretense that [[PlotlineDeath he can head home via Virmire]]. However, by the time he gets to Virmire he's truly gotten to know the Mass Effect cast, and so he begins greatly second-guessing himself on his desire to go home, torn between losing one group of people that he cares about to gain another. When he finally decides to attempt to go back to his home dimension, [[spoiler:it ends up not happening thanks to Shepard saving him at Virmire]]. After that, the angst comes for him with a major vengeance when he realizes that he'll never see the family and friends that he knew for basically his entire life. Even worse is that thanks to the cover story he made to avoid suspicion, he basically can't tell anyone about why he's really angsting and has to hold the real reason for his angst in. As if that wasn't enough, [[spoiler:Ashley Williams, the woman who taught him everything about how to use military-grade weaponry, a reasonably good friend of his, and '''''one of the people he was trying to save from her probable in-game fate on Virmire''''' was the one who died. Art blames her death on himself for not being able to convince Shepard to save her instead of him.]] After the obligatory OneWomanWail, he spends an entire chapter locked in his room while moaning about his predicament. [[IGotBetter He gets better]] [[AFriendInNeed thanks to Tali]].

** It goes ''even further.'' It sounds like FanFic/SpellbindingRadiance uses the same method of getting the hero to the canon universe in question, aka, [[spoiler: The person dying and entering the Fade in the right area so that they're reshuffled dimensionally. It's outright stated that Art's teacher and Ashley Williams did the same thing, so it's not a unique thing. If this is the case, than ''how many other Self-Insert fan fictions are the result of the death of the author?'']]
* GeniusBonus: The chapter titles of Garrus, Tali, and Art's loyalty missions gain extra significance for men who are members of [[spoiler:Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia.]]

* GeniusBonus: The chapter titles of Garrus, Tali, and Art's loyalty missions gain extra significance for men who are members of [[spoiler:Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia.]]

** Equally, a DragonAge counterpart called FanFic/LifeOnThedas (now with its own page too) was released that directly references Vexations, as the GenreSavvy main character is a fan of it. Became AscendedFanboy when Herr Wozzeck endorsed it in chapter 13 of MV2.

* FollowTheLeader: There were relatively few MassEffect self-inserts before Mass Vexations was originally posted. Afterwards, the section at first slowly and then very quickly became flooded with quite a few self-inserts.

* BetterThanItSounds: If the reviews where people say that it's the first self-insert they've ever liked are anything to go by...

** YourMileageMayVary, of course.
* CharacterDerailment: Happens to Shepard herself. Throughout the first installment, she's a Paragon through and through. She dies, and comes back to life. Art doesn't realize something is wrong until she starts using Intimidate conversation options during Okeer's recruitment.
** And to Miranda in the sequel, due to the [[AuthorFilibuster author's dislike of the character.]] At least, [[CharacterRerailment until her loyalty mission]], when her character is more or less put back on the rails.
** Kaiden's the latest to be derailed, generally being a douche.

** Kaiden's the latest to be derailed, with shades of ClingyJealousBoyfriend.

* GeniusBonus: The chapter titles of Garrus and Tali's loyalty missions gain extra significance for men who are members of [[spoiler:Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia.]]

* GeniusBonus: The chapter titles of Garrus and Tali's loyalty missions gain extra significance for men who are members of [[spoiler:Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia.]]
* GaryStu: Or is Art truly StealthParody/deconstruction of one?