Subject: I have a fic, but it has a few issues.
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Posted on: 2016-12-05 22:40:00 UTC

Here's one: The Spirit of Redemption by Myetel. It's for Mass Effect. (Link is SFW, but the fic is not. There are plenty of explicit romance scenes, but they're decently done, can be skipped, and are clearly marked with scene breaks/author's notes so you can easily skip past those.)

I don't want to scare you away from this and its prequel, but there are several caveats to this fic. The first is that it's a Mass Effect AU, so much so that the canons are side characters to the OCs.

Drawback 2: There are more than a few changes to canon, so biotics become psychic wizards even more than in the games.

Drawback 3: Plotholes and Deus Ex Machinas. There are a lot of 'em, especially toward the end of the fic (it kind of jumps the shark for its final arc). Worst offender is a two-year time skip where a romantic pairing breaks up with no foreshadowing or explanation, and a spoileriffic thing involving Prothean nanobots.

Drawback 4: A bunch of cultural stuff is entirely made up for the fic, up to and including snippets of language. It's based on the influences the canon drew from, so I consider this a strength, but others may feel differently.

All of that said, The Spirit of Redemption is still amazing. I don't read a lot of fanfic, but this has great characterization and nearly flawless SPaG across several million(!) words. Some of it is less-than-great, but there's enough good stuff that it's more than worth the read.

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