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@shakarianminibang
Hey! Do you guys have a discord you hang out in?
Hi! We do have a discord for the event participants, the invite is included in every signup form! However outside of the event period it's rather quiet/dead, so it will probably only pick up around next year.
Title: Snug as a Bug
Rating: G
Word Count: 6,394
Summary:
Two tired soldiers cling to each other amidst the swelling dread of the coming Reapers, and Garrus keeps forgetting to wash this blanket that smells like Shepard. Oh well, he IS very busy, lately.
Posted to the Shakarian Mini-Bang 2026 collection on the AO3.
You can find the author here and the artist here!
Title: Split Memory
Rating: T
Word Count: 5,286
Summary:
Shepard is back and Garrus is ecstatic. After nearly losing his life on Omega, he races up to the briefing room only to learn Shepard’s memory is gone. She only has access to her memories during high adrenaline moments. Chakwas says she needs time to heal. As Garrus tells her their history, she is unhappy to learn about some of her choices from the past. While Shepard learns what it takes to appease the rest of her crew, she asks Garrus what will help him work through his demons. This leads to an infamous discussion of how turians deal with high stress missions. One half of Shepard asks him to spar, while the other suggests a tiebreaker.
Posted to the Shakarian Mini-Bang 2026 collection on the AO3.
You can find the author here and the artist here!
Title: Stretches for Mental Reach and Emotional Flexibility
Rating: E
Word Count: 7,267
Summary:
Jane and Garrus agreed to have sex. That's all it is, right? Well, they're not really sure. If only one of them could draw up the courage to ask. But maybe it's better this way. Less likely to interrupt the crew without any feelings. After all, it's not like the crew has been betting on when they'll get together, right? . . . Right?
Posted to the Shakarian Mini-Bang 2026 collection on the AO3.
You can find the author here and the artist here!
Title: Be Between Me and Thee
Rating: T
Word Count: 6,337
Summary:
On multiple occasions in the years they've known each other, Shepard and Garrus have been kept apart by space, time, commitments, and on one memorable occasion, death. That has never stopped them from keeping in touch, however. Be Between Me and Thee records the messages sent between Shepard and Garrus (or from Garrus to Shepard) on four occasions in their lives: after Garrus leaves the SR-1, while Garrus is alone on Omega, during Shepard's house arrest after the destruction of the Alpha Relay, and after the Battle for London. It explores their evolving relationship and what they mean to one another through these significant milestones.
Posted to the Shakarian Mini-Bang 2026 collection on the AO3.
You can find the author here and the artist here!
Title: Hypothesis Testing aka Humans and Turians and Blowjobs, Oh My!
Rating: E
Word Count: 9,208
Summary:
When Mordin gives Adrienne Shepard a very dubious piece of medical advice regarding the ingestion of turian bodily fluids, Shepard immediately calls bullshit — and Garrus is more than happy to help her prove the hypothesis wrong.
Posted to the Shakarian Mini-Bang 2026 collection on the AO3.
You can find the author here and the artist here!
Title: Crossing the Line
Rating: E
Word Count: 7,993
Summary:
In the aftermath of letting Sidonis go, Garrus is struggling. But his guilt goes deeper than he realizes, and it takes a much-needed conversation at a bar with Shepard for him to realize some things that may have been there all along, and wondering if he's willing to cross that line.
Posted to the Shakarian Mini-Bang 2026 collection on the AO3.
You can find the author here and the artist here!
Title: Shotgun Wedding
Rating: T
Word Count: 8,394
Summary:
To celebrate their last day of shore leave, Shepard and Garrus go out to drink on the Silversun Strip. They have a wild night–or at least, they think they did. Shepard and Garrus wake up in bed together the next morning with no memories of the night before and a trashed apartment to boot. The hazy couple in question retraces their steps in a race against time. With lives on the line, will Shepard and Garrus be able to unpack their feelings about each other along the way?
Posted to the Shakarian Mini-Bang 2026 collection on the AO3.
You can find the author here and the artist here!
Title: I Just Need You...
Rating: E
Word Count: 7,080
Summary:
The suicide mission was a success, but not without tapping into a suppressed fear. The mission reminded Garrus how closely death is hovering over them, and how much he stands to lose if it catches up. It quietly and quickly eats at him until it spills out, something that hasn’t happened in years. It’s terrifying, knowing you could lose someone you love at any moment, and stress relief can only help so much. He just needs her to live.
Posted to the Shakarian Mini-Bang 2026 collection on the AO3.
You can find the author here and the artist here!
Title: Signed, Sealed, Delivered, and One Hell of a Bad Idea
Rating: T
Word Count: 10,355
Summary:
A distraction. A bet. A fake engagement. And nothing more? Set just after Shepard kills her clone, the Normandy crew is still on shore leave and finding ways to entertain themselves. What starts out as a means of helping Kasumi with a simple little heist turns into a fake engagement story and a Normandy-wide bet. Determined to keep Garrus from catching on too quickly, Shepard takes them on a wild goose chase around the Citadel. But when her ruse is discovered, she finds out she’s not the only one playing games. There’s twists and turns and a double agent.
Posted to the Shakarian Mini-Bang 2026 collection on the AO3.
You can find the author here and the artist here!
Title: where do we begin?
Rating: T
Word Count: 9,774
Summary:
“I think Garrus should go.” It is, of all people, Ashley Williams who breaks the stalemate and declares the unspoken insinuation of the others. It’s surprising, given her discomfort with aliens in general, and it makes him shift uneasily in his seat. His subvocals, normally easily contained, flare up dramatically with embarrassment as he considers all possible implications of going to speak privately with Shepard. “You want to send me?” They can’t possibly think that encouraging the hot-headed former cop to stop in for a heart-to-heart is the best solution to this. And yet, Tali leans in to agree. “Yes! She’s always more relaxed after you talk. I think it’s why she takes you with her so often.” Her observance surges the anxiety building in his chest. Still, the heavy slam of Wrex’s hand on his shoulder distracts him from dwelling on it. Chastened, he forcibly tamps down on his nerves, even though it’s too late to hide them. The bounty hunter has amusement laced into the rumble of his voice when he speaks next. “Time to get your head out of the Mako’s rear axle, kid.”.
Posted to the Shakarian Mini-Bang 2026 collection on the AO3.
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Title: Operation Fire Cobra Claw
Rating: E
Word Count: 5,364
Summary:
Garrus had planned it - it was perfect. They served dextro and amino friendly foods, he had managed to sweet talk his way to the front of the substantial wait list for Shepard (okay name dropping Shepard), and no one was going to bother them. Turns out someone did bother Shepard, and Shepard? Well…there was a Shepard shaped hole in the floor and a minor water leak. Very minor. Now Garrus must plan another date night for Shepard but they seem to be on the tail on some shenanigans involving a krogan, a flaming C-Sec cop car, and a noodle incident....
Posted to the Shakarian Mini-Bang 2026 collection on the AO3.
You can find the author here and the artist here!
Title: deeper well
Rating: M
Word Count: 17,855
Summary:
Omega was a blight on the galaxy— something Garrus knew all too well. But when Shepard gets strung into Aria T'Loak's coup, he insists to return to the place he swore off for good. Except the ghosts of his past are loud, his mistakes louder. And after a year, he comes to realize that maybe Aria shouldn't be in charge after all. Not a novelization of the Omega DLC, but an introspective look at Garrus's perspective if he were to join Shepard during the events of the mission.
Posted to the Shakarian Mini-Bang 2026 collection on the AO3.
You can find the author here and the artist here!
Title: The Storm on Ontarom
Rating: T
Word Count: 5,765
Summary:
As Shepard confronts the horrors of Cerberus experimentation and the ghosts of a past she narrowly escaped, Garrus begins to realize his feelings for her run far deeper than admiration.
Posted to the Shakarian Mini-Bang 2026 collection on the AO3.
You can find the author here and the artist here!
Title: Rubicon
Rating: T
Word Count: 5,120
Summary:
The Rubicon. A line that's been crossed; a point of no return. With only hours left before the inevitable, Garrus seeks out Shepard and proposes going on one last date to spend what could be one of their last days alive on just being together. When Shepard agrees, they take a small walk down memory lane. Bittersweet and light on plot.
Posted to the Shakarian Mini-Bang 2026 collection on the AO3.
You can find the author here and the artist here!
Title: Priorities
Rating: T
Word Count: 6,609
Summary:
A routine planetary mission to collect a few caches goes awry when the Hammerhead is shot down. Shepard finds herself falling back on her N7 training to get herself and Garrus through their unfortunate predicament, with more than a few bones to pick with Cerberus about their idea of "field-ready."
Posted to the Shakarian Mini-Bang 2026 collection on the AO3.
You can find the author here and the artist here!
Title: The Stray
Rating: M
Word Count: 19,111
Summary:
A Shakarian AU about a disillusioned man, a mischievous cat, and the quietly guarded woman who becomes attached to them both. When recently demoted detective Garrus Vakarian moves into his new apartment on the Citadel, the last thing he expects is an intruder. A stray, to be exact. Mysterious, aloof, and more than a little bedraggled, his neighbor Shepard keeps odd hours and the rest of the world at arm's length. Thanks to her troublemaking cat, however, avoiding Garrus proves harder than she'd like. But earning the trust of a stray—human or otherwise—has never been easy. The closer he gets, the more he realizes there’s more to her than she lets on, and that beneath her battle scars lies a grief she's spent years trying to bury. At this rate, she may disappear from his life before he ever gets a real chance. Can he reach her before she slinks away into the shadows?
Posted to the Shakarian Mini-Bang 2026 collection on the AO3.
You can find the author here and the artist here!