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* [[Ascended Extra]]: Al, who made a small cameo in the middle of the first Mass Vexations, joins the Normandy, thus becoming a supporting character.
* [[Author Avatar]]: Art, very obviously. Leads to a bit of [[Author Filibuster]] and a lot more [[Author Appeal]] when he lampshades a few things.
* [[Badass Normal]]: Art eventually becomes this. He starts out as someone who has never fired a firearm in his life, has never led anyone into combat, and lives in an age without DNA modification technology. By the time he gets to Virmire, he's able to hold his own in Shepard's squad, he leads a salarian STG unit into battle and manages to avoid extremely high casualties, and he's able to be a pretty decent Soldier class fighter, even without the modifications to his DNA. In fact, the only medical procedure he's undergone in the ME universe is surgery to correct near-sightedness, and such a surgery already exists in his home time period. Wrex lampshades his improvement at a couple of points, and then there are the two [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|CMoA's]] he racks up below. [[Took a Level
* [[Batman Gambit]]: {{spoiler|Art attempts to pull this almost on the spot to make sure he dies at Virmire. Unfortunately, Shepard goes for him instead of Ashley.}} For his failure he gets a [[What the Hell, Hero?]] speech from Shepard.
* [[Better to Die Than Be Killed]]: Art takes this approach when plotting how he'll return back to his world. His first thought? Rather than get shot down on the battlefield where someone could use medigel on him, he'll allow himself to get caught in the blast on [[Wham! Episode|Virmire]]. {{spoiler|[[Your Princess Is in Another Castle|Unfortunately...]]}}
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* [[Catch Phrase]]: "Jesus Christ on a pikestaff."
** May or may not have an [[Precision F Bomb Strike|F-Bomb]] or a "Goddamn," to denote emphasis.
* [[Character Development]]: See [[Took a Level
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: Aside from the many examples from the Mass Effect universe?
** The cell phone that Art holds on to ends up helping him explain himself to Tali when she presses about his past.
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** An important thing to note is that it's actually justified at one point: Art attempts to make the events at Virmire occur as close as they did to the actual game while being in the place of Kaidan in the hope of steering Shepard's decision towards what it could be in the game so that he can get caught in the blast and get sent home. {{spoiler|It just ends up not being ''his'' decision when everything unfolds as it should and Shepard has to make her choice.}}
* [[This Is Unforgivable!]]: Art to Gavin Archer near the end of the Overlord chapter.
* [[This Loser Is You]]: Art doesn't always excell at everything. He actually has to learn how to use firearms, [[Crowning Moment of Funny|injures his instructor very unintentionally at one point]], very nearly gets his ass handed to him by an asari commando on Noveria, and is not exactly a stand-out member of Shepard's squad by any means. He doesn't get biotics, either. Probably his only advantage is that he can learn how to handle firearms quickly. That said, [[Took a Level
* [[Throw It In]]: The referral to the [[MacGuffin]] as 'the orange paperweight' throughout the fic was actually spurred after a reviewer comment referred to it as such.
* [[Took a Level
** The cincher comes even before he leads the salarians when Art stands up to a krogan who is aiming a shotgun in his face. ''After having cast his weapons to the ground''. {{spoiler|Granted, said krogan is Wrex, but still, it's incredibly brave and pretty awesome, especially when you consider that it helps to save Wrex from his [[Final Death]] before Virmire.}}
* [[Transplant]]: Happens to {{spoiler|Ashley, who ends up joining the cast of [[Spellbinding Radiance]] after she dies at Virmire.}}
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* [[Two Lines, No Waiting]]: In part three, the story splits into two narratives after {{spoiler|Shepard's arrest}}: the one follows Art and the crew of the Normandy on their typical adventures trying to unite the galaxy against the threat of the Reapers, and the other {{spoiler|follows Shepard's trial from the point of view of her defense lawyer, Will Moskas.}}
* [[Twofer Token Minority]]: Nogond'Viraliz, gay biotic quarian not from the Fleet.
* [[Unlikely Hero]]: Art, a musician with no military training, is dropped into the events of Mass Effect and becomes a member of Commander Shepard's elite team. Adapts [[Took a Level
* [[Unstoppable Rage]]: Art flies into one after {{spoiler|Shepard goes to him on Virmire.}}
** {{spoiler|Art and [[Papa Wolf|Rael'Zorah]] both fly into one when they find out what happened to Tali in Chapter 18 of the third story.}}
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