History Fanfic / CrucibleMassEffect

** BadassAdorable: Gaius and Tib in ''Interference'' after [[spoiler: their merging with their older souls]]. The two 6-year-old kids beat the shit out of their 3 teenage bullies like it's nothing.
** BadassFamily: The Vakarian clan. Almost every clan in the North, actually.
** HeartBrokenBadass: Maybe around half of the cast are this. The most obvious example would be Gaius.

* [[BaitAndSwitch Bait And Switch Tittle]]: The name "Interference" can be understood as alt.Garrus interfere into alt.Shepard and their son's lives. But come [[WhamEpisode chapter 87]] and those who read ''Crucible'' can finally realize that [[spoiler: it's the actions in ''Crucible'', thanks to the help of some Cosmic Powers, interfere into this future and change it to a completely different course]].

* OverprotectiveDad: Many turian dads.
** Sheor tried to kill Avitus with an axe when discover that the latter's impregnated his daughter before marriage.
** Avitus's dismay over the fact that Solana is all grown up and has a suitor.
** Alt!Gaius's worry about his daughter will have dates, right after he realized his wife ''is pregnant with said kid''.
** And hilariously, Crassus over his cat Mrs. Tibb. When he discovered that the cat is pregnant he was indecisive between killing the neighbor's male cat that did it and the vet that installed the faulty contraception chip.

* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Aside from the obvious Garrus/Shepard, we have so many other couples who really enjoy their partner regardless of their ages like Miranda/Victus, Avitus/Kari, Crassus/Sarah, Alt.Gaius/Alt.Amata.

* CosmicHorrorStory: Take UpToEleven from the original series. The Reapers, which had devastated the galaxy, was considered to be small fries compared to the Aegrus, and there are other forces that have been controlling the whole universe and multiverse behind the scene since forever.

* AdultFear: Once again, 3 chapters in and we've already got one with Gaius got kidnapped by a group of street-rats, sold and almost got shipped to some Salarian labs. ''And two shipments had been made before that''.
** Tib almost got kidnapped straight in his bedroom, when his parents were at home, just down the hall! And there have been a few successful cases before him. That's right, the mercs got so confident that they wouldn't get caught that they tried to kidnap ''the Primarch'''s son right in his own house!
*** The Salarians lead by the Dalatrass herself were behind all those kidnappings. And remember back in ''Crucible'' when they were pretty excited about "cataloguing" the new species?!
** Samara actually planned to kill the 3-year-old Gaius if he was evil. Just try to imagine yourself in Jane's place when she heard her old friend had planned to kill her toddler.
** The merc sneaked in the ''Primarch'''s house and tried to kidnap his son straight out from the kid's bedroom.

* AdultFear: This fic can be basically called Adult Fear - The Series. From the BadFuture to the present timeline, it can say that almost every character has experience this in some forms:
** Many [[HalfHumanHybrid turian-human hybrids]] are victims of [[FantasticRacism racism from both their parents' species]]. They're are used for war but have no right as sentient beings. Meanwhile, the quarians want to capture, experiment on and enslave them.
** The whole chapter where Garrus and his dad investigate the cases of quarians kidnapping pregnant mothers carrying hybrid children. Their men are trying to find their partners and children with no hope because the governments from both sides don't give a damn about them.
** In the BadFuture, Garrus, because of one mistake of sleeping with the wrong person, ends up causing his and Shepard's son to be born as a bastard. Even with his parents' best effort, Gaius still suffers throughout his life.
** Alt.Garrus constantly breaks his promises with Gaius and leaves the child to Jane in favor to work on building a better future and protecting Hadrian from the toxic influence of the Marius clans. This attitude is pretty understandable but [[BecauseYouCanCope the way he handles it]] scars Gaius so badly that by the time Alt.Garrus realizes it, Gaius's already had the thought that his father hates him and he himself is unlovable. Doesn't help that alt.Gaius has been suffering abuse from many people (his schoolmates and his stepmother) and Garrus wasn't there either, which further cemented the child's assumption.
** Also in the bad future, Miranda's child is taken away while she is in prison. She gets away with Tiberius but can only live with him for a few years before leaving to protect him.
*** When Alternative!Miranda finds Tiberius, it turned out that her 2 months-old baby has been neglected to the point of having malnutrition, skin and plates' conditions, and can't even be nursed normally.
*** Alt.Gaius and Tib disobey their parents by sneaking away to play, they almost get kidnapped by asari mercs who plan to sell the kids to batarian slavers in broad daylight because no one would care about hybrids.
*** Gaius's been molested and wounded by his stepmother, the child drags his bloody body across the streets looking for help but everyone ignores him because he's a hybrid.
*** Alt.Amata got shot by Alt.Aria and lost her baby because her nanites chose to save her over the child.
*** Alt.Gaius comes home only to find his son is shot in the head, [[CruelAndUnusualDeath his pregnant wife's stomach is cut open]] and the child inside has been taken away. He later finds his daughter's corpse inside the quarians' lab, cut up and preserved in a jar (along with thousands of other hybrid children which means he isn't the only parent who suffers such a fate).
** Kari, [[spoiler: Garrus's real mother]], is forced to send her children away to be raised by another woman
** Shepard's in her labor and a strange turian kidnaps her, his wife does something to the child inside and she can't do anything to stop it.
** Your child's being born premature.
** Garrus runs back home to find his infant has gone missing. And the kidnapper is a friend he trusts.
** Avitus returns and hears that someone has tried to kidnap his pregnant daughter-in-law Shepard and his daughter Solana is dead.
** Koria, the only daughter of Makern, is born disabled. When she grows up, an old noble kidnaps and rapes the young girl. [[RapeLeadsToInsanity She goes insane from the trauma]] and drowns herself when her parents aren't looking.
** Garrus and Shepard witness the two quarian kidnappers throw their baby down a cliff as a distraction.
** Altilius discovers that his niece Perdita and her cousins were raped by her own father which leads to her having the same sick attraction toward young children.
** Garrus, Shepard, Miranda and Victus know that [[KidFromTheFuture their children]] are going to die but couldn't do anything about it.
** [[spoiler: Sam]]'s family was destroyed by a petty man. His daughter had to grow up on the street, being assaulted and stepped on by other people.
** 2 young boys run away to play behind their parents' backs. End up getting attacked by a huge, dangerous, wild animal and the only ones who manage to find them in time are a pregnant woman and two dogs.
** Ceimal was brainwashed to follow her "religion", once she comes to herself, her daughter had already died from hunger and neglect.

Jane Shepard has ended the Reaper War but sometimes the end is just the beginning as a ship from [[BadFuture a future]] appears to save her from the ruin of the Crucible. As Shepard meets leader of the ship, Lantar Sidonis together with his crews of [[HalfHumanHybrid turian-human hybrids]], one of which is Gaius, her and Garrus's son; she discover that not only there is a force that's not only even more powerful than the Reapers is lurking to devour this universe but the world is also consisting of many things that most mortals cannot understand.

A companion fic named ''Interference'' depicts the events of the Alternate BadFuture until halfway where it change to a new timeline thanks to the influence from the main timeline in ''Crucible''. Can be found [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9194901/1/Interference here]].

** The whole chapter where Garrus and his dad investigate the cases of quarians kidnapping pregnant mothers carried hybrid children. Their men are trying to find their partners and children with no hope because the governments from both sides don't give a damn about them.

** Alt.Garrus constantly breaks his promises with Gaius and leaves the child to Jane in favor to work on building a better future and protecting Hadrian from the toxic influence of the Marius clans. This attitude is pretty understandable but [[BecauseYouCanCope the way he handles it]] scars Gaius so badly that by the time Alt.Garrus realizes it, Gaius's already had the thought that his father hates him and he himself is unlovable. Doesn't help that alt.Gaius has been suffer abuse from many people (his schoolmates and his stepmother) and Garrus wasn't there either, which further cemented the child's assumption.

*** Alt.Gaius comes home only to find his son is shot in the head, [[CruelAndUnusualDeath his pregnant wife's stomach is cut open]] and the child inside has been taken away. He later finds his daughter's corpse inside the quarians' lab, cut up and preserved in a jar (along with thousand of other hybrid children which means he isn't the only parent who suffers such a fate).
** Kari, [[spoiler: Garrus's real mother]], is forced to sent her children away to be raised by another woman

** Koria, the only daughter of Makern, is born disabled. When she grows up, an old noble kidnaps and rapes the young girl. [[RapeLeadsToInsanity She goes insane from the trauma]] and drowns herself when her parents isn't looking.

** [[spoiler: Sam]]'s family was destroyed by a petty man. His daughter had to grows up on the street, being assaulted and stepped on by other people.
** 2 young boys run away to play behind their parents' backs. End up getting attacked by a huge, dangerous, wild animal and the only ones manage to find them in time are a pregnant woman and two dogs.

* BadFuture: The Ad Astra crew and the antagonists comes from a version of future where everything has gone so much wrong. Jane and Garrus didn't married due to his shotgun wedding with a racist general's daughter. When they managed to get together again, she was killed, Garrus was forced to abandon their son to Sidonis. The hybrids were hunted to be war machines or lab rats or slaves. Miranda was tortured to death by Cerberus's remains while Victus was killed in the 2nd krogan rebellion. The Aegrus was trying to devour the universe and Gaius's family was destroyed in the worse way possible. And that was just the short version.

* BecauseYouCanCope: Alt.Garrus's general attitude to alt.Gaius's distress is usually this. Not out of malice but because of his bad habit of simply assuming what people thought without much investigation. It comes back to bite his ass when he realizes Gaius's no longer trust him and even thinks himself as unloved.

** Alt!Jane and Garrus were a big offender of this trope. [[DarkAndTroubledPast Her lost of innocence from a young age]] caused her to be overprotective over Gaius so when they had to explain Alt!Garrus's constantly away for his work of reforming the Hierarchy, instead of expose the truth to Gaius that "your dad does it because he's fighting against the people who want to hurt or even kill you and your kind" they just went with "I will explain it when you're older". This made Gaius misunderstood that his father hated and wanted nothing to do with him. Had they just gave Gaius the truth, the child would have felt less hurt and be more understanding of the situation.
** Alt!Victus also did it to Tiberius. He overcompensated for his son lack of motherly affection by shielding the child from every bad thing, even the flaws of others. But by constantly telling the child stories about Tarquin's heroic deeds without reveal anything bad about his deceased older brother, Victus has effectively put Tarquin on a pedestal, made Tib seeing himself as unworthiness and thus damaged his self-esteem beyond repair when he grew up.

** Jane later was revealed to has been chosen by Death even before she was born to be the one leading the galaxy against the Reapers and being responsible for the creation of the Hybrids since as she's [[spoiler: his child]], she has the right powers and supports to do it.

* CosmicHorrorStory: Take UpToEleven from the original series. The Reapers, which had devastated the galaxy, was considered to be small fries compare to the Aegrus, and there are other forces have been control the whole universe and multiverse behind the scene since forever.

* DeathSeeker: Alt.Gaius as he no longer have any will to live after all the tragedies in his life.
* DemotedToExtra: Many characters from the original series are either play smaller roles or not mention at all (like Jack, Grunt, Samara, etc.)

** Later it's reveal that Sam, the {{Psychopomp}} of the ''Franchise/MassEffect'' universe is married to a human woman named [[spoiler: Sarah, the mother of Jane]].
* DotingParent: If some one who is a parent but not abusive, chances are they're this trope. Biggest examples would be Miranda and Garrus. Makerm himself used to be one until his daughter's death turned him into a KnightTemplarParent.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: By the end of ''Crucible'', [[spoiler: all the time-travelling Hybrids are dead but their souls've been transferred to a new re-winded timeline to reunite with their loved ones while still keeping their memories of the BadFuture to prevent it from happening again. Jane reunites with her parents again, knowing that she's always been loved and they will always be with her. Tiberius is born safely with both of his parents being happy together. The AIs are given the rights to live on the Citadel with EDI and Tristan adopt what remaining of The Catalyst, now called Jeffrey, as their son and they're working releasing the Keepers. The governments of all species, meanwhile, get to see what the Hybrids've done for them to reflect on their unfair treatment of the latter in the future.]] The Makern plot is still unsolved but there're a lot of hope for the future.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: During chapter 75, Herz mentions somethings about everyone owe a death. More than 20 chapters later, Death appears for real and is planning to take what people owe him.

* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Aside from the obvious Garrus/Shepard, we have so many other couples who really enjoy their partner regardless their ages like Miranda/Victus, Avitus/Kari, Crassus/Sarah, Alt.Gaius/Alt.Amata.
* GrandfatherParadox: The time-travellers believe that their world works on the multiple alternate timeline version (it's actually the single timeline version). So when they're starting to get flashbacks they believe that their original timeline is forcefully calling them back (not necessary arrive back in one piece); it's actually the timeline starting to get rewritten and the BadFuture's disappearing which will erase their time-travel effort before it even begins. But then Death, Life and The Song has other ideas...

* HappilyAdopted: On Omega in the alt.future, many hybrids are adopted by couple in inter-species relationships when their blood parents died or abandoned them. Lantar/Kate and Jakus/Kikyo were such couples. Later in ''Interference'', Jane become [[spoiler: stepmother of Hadrian]] and was happily adored by him.

* HeroicBSOD: Many cases but it seems Gaius and Garrus often fall victims to this tropes the most. Must be running in the family.
* HeroicSacrifice: Alt.Jane saved her child and died in the process. Jarkus, one of the Ad Astra crew pulls one later. And after that, [[spoiler: Alt. Gaius choose to stay to save Tib and Garrus. Thankfully, it does't stick]].

* ImperiledInPregnancy: A bunch of women carried Hybrid babies were kidnapped by the quarians. Luckily for them, Garrus and Avitus manage to find them thanks to the help of one of the boyfriends.

** The foetuses in the quarian's lab madeit pretty clear that a lot of pregnant mother had been killed. Probably in the same way that Alt.Amata did.
* {{Imprinting}}: All turian and hybrid children imprint on their parents by their sight, smell and sound. Naturally, the first thing a child imprints on is its mother, but it doesn't matter who the father is. The imprint can be so strong that even if the child is separated from its parents from a very young age and remember nothing of them, it can still remember the smell. The process also causes a baby to react very violently if the one holding it isn't its parent or at least a family's member.

* KidsAreCruel: The kids at school bullies alt.Gaius and alt.Tiberius for being different. In the former's case, they go as far as ''breaking his finger with a hammer!''. Worse yet, Shepard's reaction to the school's attitude implies that they suppose this because Gaius's a hybrid.
* TheLifestream: The Song, the place where all souls come from and return to. Billion and billion of universes floating in it, tied to it but mortal cannot see it, only hear its sings.

* LoveHurts: Not only romantic love but also every other kinds of love hurts like hell. Almost everyone suffer from this trope, even [[spoiler: Mira]].

* MoralMyopia: Alt!Garrus and Alt.Gaius, like father like son. When they weren't with the woman they love (Alt!Jane and Alt!Amata, respectively), they had no trouble sleeping around but the moment they kneww Jane/Amata was seeing someone, they went out their way to sabotage that relationship with all kinds of reasons.

** Herz imprisoned Makern to prevent him for massacre the South, but his time in his prison actually help him developing his powers that she previously gave him. Whereas he was just a stronger than normal turian before, now Makern can ''one-shot'' a REAPER while in a weaken state.
** The adults in ''Interference'' trying to enforce the ChildrenAreInnocent trope has accidentally caused more harm than good. See the ChildrenAreInnocent trope above for more details.

** In Garrus's cases, he's named after his grandfather just like his uncle. Said uncle also has a son named Garrus (nicknamed Rus).

** Vitius Crassus's wife is named Sarah, which happen to be the same as Shepard's mother.

* OrphanageOfFear: The Mondala, an orphanage in name only since many children there were taken away from their parents by the government. They torture, train and starve the kids to turn them in killing machine. At one point, the jailers even planned to make the starving but still strong children kill the weaker ones to [[ImAHumanitarian use them as food]]. Luckily, Alt.Sidonis managed to save them all before that happens.

* OvernightAgeUp: In ''Interference'', that's what happen to the younger versions of the Ad Astra crew because [[spoiler: Sam brings their older souls from Crucible to here to merge with the younger souls in order to give them knowledge and a second chance to change the future]].

* PoorCommunicationKills: A lot of bad things in the alternative future could be avoided if people are just willingly to ask for help from others instead of trying to keep silent and solve it by themselves. Hell, even a little warning could make a huge change in some tragedies that had happened!
** For example, if alt.Garrus had decided to share his pain over Shepard's death with someone else (namely, his father), he wouldn't have to "blow off steam" with Perdita and setting up a chain of disastrous events.
*** Alt.Garrus could have explain about his continuous breaking of promises to Gaius, but instead [[BecauseYouCanCope he just assumed that the child could endure it a bit more]] because he understood that his father's absent was due to his work in building a better future for Gaius and his hybrid kind. Sure, an adult can understand that but not a six-year-old who's been going through abuse from his schoolmates and stepmother. By the time alt.Garrus realized his mistake, alt.Gaius's already had the idea that his father hated him and he was a bad child.
** Or Alt.Miranda could have ask Victus or Liara or any of her friends for help and protection to avoid Cerberus, but she just decided to give Tiberius to his father Victus, and ran away by herself to be bait, wanting to have control over her own destiny. The result: she was tortured and degraded in absolute horror that continued way beyond her death by Cerberus once they caught her. Her son grew up and became a broken, regretful man with self-esteem issue and screwed up a lot of things in his life.

** A group of quarians led by Raan and Tali killed Alt.Amata and their son, Alt.Gaius made them pay by dropping a bomb on Rannoch, completely pushed the whole race to extinction while making the leaders watched before they too died.

* SummonBiggerFish: The Reapers were resurrected again while everything were in devastated state with no hope of fighting back so in order to prolong time until a new code can be uploaded to destroy them, Herz was forced to release her husband Makern out of his prison to deal with them.

** To elaborate, the hybrids are all born-biotic that can jump, run faster and far longer than any council species, their normal punches have the same force that other species can only generate with biotic, their human traits also allow them to fill out the disadvantages normal turians have (be able to climb, run vertically up walls, swim, handle the cold, having ape-liked feet that help balancing and tool-manipulating), they can eat both dextro and levo food which means they can live almost anywhere in the galaxy while being able to interbreed both between themselves and with humans and turians (which increase the degree of certain traits like sensors, flexibility, etc.). They also born from two already-ascended species means that they don't have past burdens that came from fighting tooth-and-nails through evolution and disasters, they just simply be born one day and have everything from culture to technology available to them from their parent species. Even Bakara said that sooner or later the hybrids will become the leading species.
** The few weakness that the hybrids have are their sometimes over-reactive immune systems (due to their symbotic relationship with their nanites), their fast metabolism (due to having stomach that must process both levo and dextro which leads to nutritions fail out and being biotic) makes them require more food than normal, and if someone manage to mess with their nanites, it can be fatal.
* TimeyWimeyBall[=/=]TemporalMutability: It's a bit confusing but the multiverses work mainly as "Overwriting the timeline" but later the [=CrucibleVerse=] itself become a hybrid version of both "Overwritting" ''and'' "Branching timelines". Basically, time can be seen as a river with different universes as balls floating in it. Each ball has in front of it what look like millions of almost identical versions of itself in different points spread across the width of the river while behind there's nothing. As the ball floats forward depending on how the river flows ­it'll take the place of one of the many copies and the others in line with it disappear. The potential what ­might have ­been's all disappear when the ball finally arrives. So as the the future hybrids come to present of the [=CrucibleVerse=] and change it, the BadFuture soon disappear to be replaced by a new future.

* TransferableMemory: The visions of alt. future, the potential future and the past are constantly appear, sometimes can be seen by different people at the same time.

** Samara actually planned to kill the 3-year-old Gaius if he was evil. Just try to image yourself in Jane's place when she heard her old friend had planned to kill her toddler.

* MarriedToTheJob: What's caused a crack in Jane and Garrus's marriage as she constantly away from home to do her job and left most of the responsibility of raising Gaius to her husband. They've argued about it several times before but she still got back to her own way to the point it drove Garrus into considering divorcing her (granted, he was very mad and not thinking with a clear mind at the time). However, there was some implications that Jane's tendency of avoiding her family and focusing too much on her work was due to her upbringing and insecurities, but in the end, she chose her family and quit being Spectre altogether.

* HalfHumanHybrid: The Hybrids. They mainly have turian-liked appearance but with human 5-fingered hands, ape-liked foots. Because of their far suprior human's strength and flexibility combine with turian's heighten senses and speed, not to mention all are born-biotic, they're either feared or hunted by other races.
** It should noted that since they're considered a species of their own, and with their currently low populations, their nanites gear them to have high drive and attraction to each other but if a hybrid mate with someone outside of their species, the child will also be a hybrid but with extra different degrees of things like having a human/hybrid pairing would results in even more flexibility.
* HappilyAdopted: On Omega in the alt.future, many hybrids are adopted by couple in inter-species relationships when their blood parents died or abandoned them. Lantar/Kate and Jakus/Kikyo were such couples.
** Later in ''Interference'', Jane become [[spoiler: stepmother of Hadrian]] and was happily adored by him.
* HarmfulToMinors: What happened to Alt!Gaius and many other hybrid children because of the discrimination they had to face.
** Implied with the turian orphans after the Reaper War; you don't survive it without any scarring.

A companion fic named ''Interference'' depicts the events of the Alternate BadFuture until halfway [[spoiler: where it change to a new timeline thanks to the influence from the main timeline in ''Crucible'']]. Can be found [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9194901/1/Interference here]].