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* YourCheatingHeart: The bad future has many examples of this trope. Alt.Garrus had one with Perdita with resulted in his other son Hadrian and a broken relationship with Alt.Shepard; at least in his case, he thought Shepard was dead at the time when it happened. Tiberius unsure about Emi prompted him to sleep with Mira and indirectly caused Emi's death.
** In ''Refuge'', Pallin's sister is being cheated on by her husband with an Asari, fuels her dislike for other species.
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* BadDreams: Alt.Gaius often has them which is hardly surprise considering everything he's been through.
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* InfantImmortality: Averted to hell and back with all the numbers of dead children and babies. Unless you're Gaius, you have a very high chance of dying a horrible death.
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** Later it's reveal that Sam, the {{Psychopomp}} of the MassEffect universe is married to a human woman named [[spoiler: Sarah, the mother of Jane]].

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** Later it's reveal that Sam, the {{Psychopomp}} of the MassEffect ''Franchise/MassEffect'' universe is married to a human woman named [[spoiler: Sarah, the mother of Jane]].
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* 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.

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* 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 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.
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** 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 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.

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** 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 quarians want to capture, experiment on and enslave them.
** The whole chapter where Garrus and his dad investigate the cases of Quarians 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.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).

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*** 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' 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).



** Garrus and Shepard witness the two Quarian kidnappers throw their baby down a cliff as a distraction.

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** Garrus and Shepard witness the two Quarian quarian kidnappers throw their baby down a cliff as a distraction.



* 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.

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* ImperiledInPregnancy: A bunch of women carried Hybrid babies were kidnapped by the Quarians.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.

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** The foetuses in the Quarian's quarian's lab madeit pretty clear that a lot of pregnant mother had been killed. Probably in the same way that Alt.Amata did.



** Marcus, a member of the Ad Astra is actually the son of Proteus and Alice, one of the missing pregnant women from Garrus and Avitus's investigation connected to the Quarian

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** Marcus, a member of the Ad Astra is actually the son of Proteus and Alice, one of the missing pregnant women from Garrus and Avitus's investigation connected to the Quarianquarian



** 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.

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** A group of Quarians 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.



* TraumaticCSection: This was done to Alt.Amata, the wife of Alt.Gaius. She was still alive when her stomach was cut open and her daughter was ripped out of it, still kicking and screaming before the Quarians shot the mother in the head (they also killed her son before that). After that the baby was taken to a lab to be experimented on. Judging from [[NauseaFuel hundreds of dead Hybrid babies' bodies being tested,]] [[NightmareFuel cut apart]] [[MoralEventHorizon and preserved in that place]], Amata was not the first or only victim.

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* TraumaticCSection: This was done to Alt.Amata, the wife of Alt.Gaius. She was still alive when her stomach was cut open and her daughter was ripped out of it, still kicking and screaming before the Quarians quarians shot the mother in the head (they also killed her son before that). After that the baby was taken to a lab to be experimented on. Judging from [[NauseaFuel hundreds of dead Hybrid babies' bodies being tested,]] [[NightmareFuel cut apart]] [[MoralEventHorizon and preserved in that place]], Amata was not the first or only victim.
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** Many member of the [[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 sentiment beings. Meanwhile, the Quarians want to capture, experimen and enslaved them.

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** Many member of the [[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 sentiment sentient beings. Meanwhile, the Quarians want to capture, experimen experiment on and enslaved enslave 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 suffer 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 handling 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.
** Also in the bad future, Miranda's child is taken away while she is in prision. She gets away with Tiberius but can only live with him for a few years before leaving to protect him.

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** 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 suffer 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 handling 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.
** Also in the bad future, Miranda's child is taken away while she is in prision.prison. She gets away with Tiberius but can only live with him for a few years before leaving to protect him.



*** 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 board-daylight because no one would care about hybrids.

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!!Tropes in ''Crucible'' and ''Interference'' include:

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** The merc sneaked in the ''Primarch'''s house and tried to kidnap his son straight out from the kid's bedroom.

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** The merc sneaked in the ''Primarch'''s house and tried to kidnap his son straight out from the kid's bedroom.bedroom.
* 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.

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* {{Badass}}: The normal characters in the originals games are this trope and so does almost all the hybrids (thanks to having the best traits of both species and more).
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** 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), they can eat both dextro and levo food which means they can live almost anywhere in the galaxy while being able to interbreed between themselves and with humans and turians. 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.

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** 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 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), 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.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.

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** To elaborate, the hybrids 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 humans' traits also allow them to fill out the disadvantages normal turians have (be able to climb, run vertically up walls, swim, handle the cold), they can eat both dextro and levo food which means they can live almost anywhere in the galaxy while being able to interbreed between themselves and with humans and turians. 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.

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** 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 humans' 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), they can eat both dextro and levo food which means they can live almost anywhere in the galaxy while being able to interbreed between themselves and with humans and turians. 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.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.

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** And hilariously, Crassus over his cat Mrs. Tibb. When he discovered that the cat is pregnant he's indecisive between killing the neighbor's male cat that did it or the vet that installed the faulty contraception chip.

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** And hilariously, Crassus over his cat Mrs. Tibb. When he discovered that the cat is pregnant he's he was indecisive between killing the neighbor's male cat that did it or and the vet that installed the faulty contraception chip.


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* SuperiorSpecies: WordOfGod was that there're no species that is culturally, morally or psychologically superior to others, but In-Universe, it's obvious that the Hybrids are much more powerful than any currently-known species at least in term of physical abilities. The combination between turians' strength and discipline with humans' adaptability and flexibility has created a race of, as in Garrus' words, "weapons-made flesh and built for war".
** To elaborate, the hybrids 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 humans' traits also allow them to fill out the disadvantages normal turians have (be able to climb, run vertically up walls, swim, handle the cold), they can eat both dextro and levo food which means they can live almost anywhere in the galaxy while being able to interbreed between themselves and with humans and turians. 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.
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* WhatAnIdiot: Alt!Garrus and Alt!Atilius in regard with the whole mess about Perdita.
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** 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.



* ChildrenAreInnocent: Enforced by the adults in ''Interference'' to their hybrid children which causes more harm than good in the long run. Instead of telling the kids that there're are [[HalfBreedDiscrimination bad people out to kill and use them simply for being Hybrids]] and prepare the hybrids for the worse, the parents shield them from everything with "you will understand when you're older" or [[JustAKid dismiss that they're just kids and won't be able to understand anything]]. This attitude causes misunderstanding from the hybrid children and thus makes them unprepared when the brutal truth catch up to them in the form of [[OrphanageOfFear Mondala]].
** 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.
*** Victus being into on this trope also cause him to not believe Tib when the kid tried to tell him that he was being bullied at school (which included racial slur throwing), it wasn't until Alt!Shepard confirmed it to him that Adrien realized that he was [[KidsAreCruel dead wrong about his trope]].



** Jane later was revealed to has been chosen by Death even since she was young 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.

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** Jane later was revealed to has been chosen by Death even since before she was young 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.



* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Alt.Amata's death. General Marius's end is also counted.

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* CreepyChild: Happened in ''Interference'' when many hybrids kids, [[spoiler: thanks to the sudden merge with their older souls]], changed overnight and started to switch between being an innocent child and a ruthless war veteran. It, of course, freaks the adults out big time.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Alt.Amata's death. General Marius's end is also counted.counted and he totally deserved it.



* 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.



* MamaBear: Shepard, Herz, Kari, Miranda and many more.

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* MamaBear: Shepard, Herz, Kari, Miranda Miranda, Titus and many more.



** 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.



* 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]].
* 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's indecisive between killing the neighbor's male cat that did it or the vet that installed the faulty contraception chip.



* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Mira from a young age thanks to her long time living in Mondala.
** Later this happened to the younger version of the Ad Astra crew in Interference thanks to [[spoiler: their older version's memories]].



** 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.

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** 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.toddler.
** The merc sneaked in the ''Primarch'''s house and tried to kidnap his son straight out from the kid's bedroom.

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* FaceDeathWithDignity: Alt.Zaeed when his plan of betraying and letting alt.Gaius to die failed. He just accepted his death with calmness.


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* 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...
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** The foetuses in the Quarian's lab make it pretty clear that a lot of pregnant mother had been killed. Probably in the same way that Alt.Amata did.

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** The foetuses in the Quarian's lab make it madeit pretty clear that a lot of pregnant mother had been killed. Probably in the same way that Alt.Amata did.



* 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 know Jane or Amata was seeing someone, they went out their way to sabotage that relationship with all kinds of reasons.

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* 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 know Jane or Amata kneww Jane/Amata was seeing someone, they went out their way to sabotage that relationship with all kinds of reasons.

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%%----NOTE: Characters from the future that have a duplicate in the present should have the word "Alt." in front of their name to avoid confusion.

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A companion SliceOfLife fic called ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11489118/1/Snippets-Of-Life Snippets Of Life]]'' depicts smaller stories about different characters from all timelines.



* EarnYourHappyEnding: By the end of ''Crucible'', [[spoiler: all the time-travelling Hybrids are dead but their souls've been transferred to a new timeline to reunite with their loved ones while still keeping their memories of the BadFuture to prevent it from happening again. Jane reunite with her parents again and knows that she's always been loved as they will always be with her. Tiberius is born safely with both of his parents being happy together. The AI 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.

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* 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 reunite reunites with her parents again and knows again, knowing that she's always been loved as and they will always be with her. Tiberius is born safely with both of his parents being happy together. The AI 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.



* 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 know Jane or Amata was seeing someone, they went out their way to sabotage that relationship with all kinds of reasons.



** In Garrus's cases, he's named after his grandfather just like his uncle.

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* BabiesEverAfter: Happened on galaxy scale after the Reaper War to many turian/human couples thanks to the effect of the Crucible. By the end of ''Crucible'', Present!Tib was born and Atilius was also waiting for Sabia to give birth to twins.



* 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 thoughts 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.

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* 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 thoughts 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.



* ScienceFantasy: ''Crucible'' started with the time traveled Ad Astra which continue the sci-fi theme from canon, then the existence of living stars was revealed which kinda ventured out of this, and then ghosts/souls started to popping here and there and finally ''Death'' himself appeared which firmly pushed the series into Fantasy theme.



* 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''.

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* 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''.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 image yourself in Jane's place when she heard her old friend had planned to kill her toddler.
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* [[BaitAndSwitch Bait And Switch Tittle]]: The name "Interference" can be understand as alt.Garrus interfere into alt.Shepard and their son's life. 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]].

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* 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.
** Or Alt.Atilius could have warn Alt.Garrus about Alt.Perdita's [[PaedoHunt issue with children]], but nope, he decided to give her the benefit of doubt and shut his mouth about it, leading to her [[WouldHurtAChild "incident"]] [[RapeAsDrama with young Alt.Gaius]] when Garrus left the boy in her watch.

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** Herz imprisoned Makern to prevent him for massacre the South, but his time in his prison actually help him too develop his powers that she previously gave him. Whereas he was just a stronger than normal turian before, now he can ''one-shot'' a Reaper while in a weaken state.

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** Herz imprisoned Makern to prevent him for massacre the South, but his time in his prison actually help him too develop developing his powers that she previously gave him. Whereas he was just a stronger than normal turian before, now he Makern can ''one-shot'' a Reaper REAPER while in a weaken state.



** Marcus, a member of the Ad Astra is actually the son of Proteus and Alice, one of the missing pregnant women from Garrus and Avitus's investigation connected to the Quarian



* OneSteveLimit: Quite realistic that many characters share the same name. It helps that many parents tend to name their kids after someone they know.

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* OneSteveLimit: Quite realistic that many characters share the same name. It helps that many parents tend to name their kids after someone they know.know or after themselves.



** Lantar Sidonis's first-born was also named Lantar.



* PapaWolf: Many but the most obvious examples would be Garrus, Avitus, Adrien, Gaius, Tiberius, Makerm and [[spoiler: the bare-faced turian]]. Turian fathers in general and many of the male characters who are in a interspecies relationships also run very strong on this trope.

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* OrphanageOfLove: what Lantar and Kate created in the alternative future. And probably in the main timeline of Crucible too.
* PapaWolf: Many Too many to count but the most obvious examples would be Garrus, Avitus, Adrien, Gaius, Tiberius, Makerm and [[spoiler: the bare-faced turian]]. Turian fathers in general and many of the male characters who are in a interspecies relationships also run very strong on this trope.

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*** 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 take 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 meant he isn't the only parent who suffers such fate).

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*** Alt.Amata got shot by Alt.Aria and lost her baby because her nanites chose to save her over the child.
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** 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 handling 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.

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** 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 handling 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.



** BadassFamily: The Vakarian clan.

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** BadassFamily: The Vakarian clan. Almost every clan in the North, actually.

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** 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 handling 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.



* 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 thoughts 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.



* InfantImmortality: Averted to hell and back with all the numbers of dead children and babies. Unless you're baby!Gaius, you have a very high chance of dying a horrible death.

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* InfantImmortality: Averted to hell and back with all the numbers of dead children and babies. Unless you're baby!Gaius, Gaius, you have a very high chance of dying a horrible death.



** The foetuses in the Quarian's lab make it pretty clear that a lot of pregnant mother had been killed. Probably in the same way that Alt.Amata did.



* 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!''

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* 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!''hammer!''. Worse yet, Shepard's reaction to the school's attitude implies that they suppose this because Gaius's a hybrid.


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* SexForSolace: Alt.Garrus slept with Perdita to forget about Shepard's apparent death. Worst decision ever!
** Later he did it with Alt.Jane to help both of them release the stress after their son's incident with Perdita.

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* AdultFear: This fic can be basically called Adult Fear - The Series. See in this [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/AdultFear/FanWorks page]] here for more details.

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* AdultFear: This fic can be basically called Adult Fear - The Series. See in From the BadFuture to the present timeline, it can say that almost every character has experience this [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/AdultFear/FanWorks page]] here in some forms:
** Many member of the [[HalfHumanHybrid turian-human hybrids]] are victims of [[FantasticRacism racism from both their parents' species]]. They're are used
for more details. war but have no right as sentiment beings. Meanwhile, the Quarians want to capture, experimen and enslaved them.
** 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.
** 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 suffer throughout his life.
** Also in the bad future, Miranda's child is taken away while she is in prision. 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 board-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.
*** 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 take 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 meant he isn't the only parent who suffers such fate).
** Kari, [[spoiler: Garrus's real mother]], is forced to sent 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 isn'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 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.
** Ceimal was brainwashed to follow her "religion", once she comes to herself, her daughter had already died from hunger and neglect.

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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]]. Can be found [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9194901/1/Interference here]].

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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]].timeline in ''Crucible'']]. Can be found [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9194901/1/Interference here]].



!!Tropes in ''Crucible'' include:

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!!Tropes in ''Crucible'' and ''Interference'' include:



* [[BaitAndSwitch Bait And Switch Tittle]]: The name "Interference" can be understand as alt.Garrus interfere into alt.Shepard and their son's life. 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]].



* DeathSeeker: Alt.Gaius. And judging by how [[spoiler: Alt.Zaeed betrayed Alt.Gaius and then letting the hybrid kill him without a fight, he was one too]].

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* DeathSeeker: Alt.Gaius. And judging by how [[spoiler: Alt.Zaeed betrayed Alt.Gaius and then letting as he no longer have any will to live after all the hybrid kill him without a fight, he was one too]].tragedies in his life.



* FaceDeathWithDignity: Alt.Zaeed when his plan of betraying and letting alt.Gaius to die failed. He just accepted his death with calmness.



* 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.



* 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!''



* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Had Atilius killed Marius all those years ago, a lot of disasters wouldn't happen now.



!!Tropes in ''Destiny'' include:

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* 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''.

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!!Tropes in this series include:

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!!Tropes in this series ''Crucible'' include:



** In ''Refuge'', Pallin's sister is being cheated on by her husband with an Asari, fuels her dislike for other species

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** In ''Refuge'', Pallin's sister is being cheated on by her husband with an Asari, fuels her dislike for other speciesspecies.

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A sequel of ''Crucible'' is currently in the working. It's [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11342536/1/Destiny here]].

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A sequel of ''Crucible'' ''Crucible'', called ''Destiny'', is currently in the working. It's [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11342536/1/Destiny here]].



'''Note''': Characters from the future that have a duplicate in the present should have the word "Alt." in front of their name to avoid confusion.

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