Bioware Declares All Mass Effect Fanfiction Is Now Canon

In response to frustrations over Mass Effect 3's ending and subsequent "extended edition" storylines, Bioware President Matthew Bromberg stated that all fanfiction related to Mass Effect is considered canon from this point forward. The announcement comes years after Mass Effect 3's release date and amidst rumors of a fourth entry into the series on the horizon. 

In the controversial Mass Effect 3 ending, the protagonist Commander Shepard was presented with three options of how to handle the main enemy, the Reapers - destroy them, control them, or merge with them. This ending effectively negated all the choices the players had made previously in the three games and reduced the game to a single choice with three options. This is all something that Mr. Bromberg acknowledged briefly in the press release stating, "Yeah that shit sucked."

With this new fanfic-driven initiative, the story of Mass Effect has taken some strange turns. 
Similar to The Legend of Zelda timeline, the branching storylines will hinge on one specific event. But unlike Zelda, which was centered around a major battle in one of the games, this timeline will instead be centered around Commander Shepard's love interests. 

Based on our cursory glance of Mass Effect fanfiction this will lead to hundreds, if not thousands, of timelines. Everything from Shepard's sexual relationship with Tali from the original Mass Effect to Kaiden Alenko, Ashley Williams, or zombie Ashley or Kaiden depending on who the player picked to survive on the planet Virmire. Even the series of Normandy ships aren't safe from the commander's mass erection**, being front and center in several timelines that would more often than not end up also including the crippled pilot Joker in the steamy ship-on-man action. 

The gender of Commander Shepard in these writings also seems to vary, sometimes being male, female, no gender or even multiple genders at once. All of which we have been assured will be worked into the Mass Effect universe. 

In a later interview with senior Mass Effect writer John Dombrow regarding the story's quality going forward he seemed a bit irritated, "Yeah, well at least now they can't blame us. You didn't like our ending and now you get to watch your character have sex with a one-hundred-twenty ton spaceship. You bet your ass we're going to dedicate most of our budget animating that. Oh, you still wanted more choices? How about suck it, suck it or suck it?"



**I'm so sorry