ME3: How to Preserve Tali's Mystique When the Mask is Off
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Well Quarians were already described in one of the books so the Xenomorph idea is unlikely to say the least.
Y'know, as much as I like Tali 'as a character', I couldn't care less if they left the mask on. You see enough of her face through the mask to see that she isn't some molerat/zoidberg hybrid, she's more of an elf with glowy eyes.
I know, right? I start a thread regarding a hypothetical subject and the responses range from long winded refutations that miss the points entirely, the impugnment of my integrity (someone insinuated that this was fan fic), some genuinely good humor and opinions on what Tali looks like.NightmareLuna said:
The last thing is the most unrelated of the three and thus the politest.
I love the internet.
Talimancers are beyond creepy and strange. If we WERE to see tali's face, I would like it to be strange/slightly unattractive. Why? I'd rather her be a genuine interesting character/alien than some amalgamation of fetishes and fantasies for the weirdos.
I like the OP's scenario but it does come off as a bit silly if Tali was romanced in part 2.
Re Tali's eye-appeal, I hope she's scaled (like turians) and plain. Not beautiful, not ugly, just a woman. I always liked that Liara looks kinda butch - even though I suspect it was done to protect her as a LI for straight femsheps.
Not all aliens can be supermodels, after all.
Re Tali's eye-appeal, I hope she's scaled (like turians) and plain. Not beautiful, not ugly, just a woman. I always liked that Liara looks kinda butch - even though I suspect it was done to protect her as a LI for straight femsheps.
Not all aliens can be supermodels, after all.
What sort of situation calls for taking Tali's mask off anyways? You take it off, she dies. The whole thing is redonk.
Sorry, if I came off as dickish. I guess I did over examine your piece but I also said it was viablely a good idea just not the best. Alas.Freechoice said:
1. I should probably have re-checked this before questioning as the last time I played a ME game was at least over a year ago. But I admit that I got this wrong. Though I do have to question now if the Reapers had tried to sway the Geth forces previously and pretty much failed apart from the 'small' sect of heretics that followed Sovereign, then why would they bother again? Especially as indoctrination has only been shown to work on organic lifeforms rather than AIs. Just seems like a waste of time for a machine race that already has experience in killing the whole galaxy. Also the Reaper wouldn't need to land on the planet in order to try and turn them. The Geth on the Quarin homeworld mostly exist in computer networks on orbiting space stations.
2. Thats true but not always. But it still sounds like the scene would happen if this type of scenario came up rather than the product of choice where Shepard decides not to put a leash on Tali when she decides to mess with the Geth systems or something.
3. That may be but as I said it sounds really confusing seeing as there was no mention how she may have been involved in the fight aprat from messing around with a terminal. I understand it's meant to be a situation specific version of "We did it." line but all the same. Yes Legion does have that ability but in order to do that he (Since Legion's badass) has to be in pretty close proximity to other geth platforms to execute it. Additionally, as I already said the Geth aren't going to hand the planet on a platter back to their creator's after one gets killed fighting something they have don't have any real interest in (the Dyson Sphere concerns them more), unless they knew for sure that they weren't being scrapped the moment the Quarians returned.
Now I don't quite understand what point you're trying to make in the second half of 3 however since I didn't protect the council in ME and only had the human council headed by Anderson in ME2, the impression that Anderson gave me was not so much they didn't believe the Reapers existed rather that public knowledge of an universally destructive machine race was not something they needed after the council had been killed and things were just getting back on track. Also the chance of people believing someone who had supposedly died and also helped support a human only council after the questionable circumstances in which the orignal council had perished is pretty low.
4. I never said that Bioware didn't include a trainload of cliches in ME and it's other games just that it would be better if we didn't encourage anymore. Also I didn't question the emotional merit of the scene just that it would look weird for fem/Shep staring at a dead Tali for a second before jumping up, yelling mission accomplished and riding a rocket Legion to the normandy whilst clutching a blanket covered Tali.
Aside from getting it on with Shepard and flying on the migrant fleet, I'd say the fact she was on her home planet makes it okay... Wait I just realised something crucial!Evil Teddie said:
At OP:
I hope she's ugly, or at least, not beautiful in the conventional sense. She's never gooing to be as amazingly gorgeous as her fanclub wants her to be, so why try to please them? Why do they care so much about her face? That's not what they fell in love with. She should be ugly, seperate the men from the boys.
It's already been established that the strength of Shepard's mind is astonishing...what with all the brain scrambling he/she goes through in ME 1.ravenshrike said:
And they all have to sound like him too. Their masks include a voice modulator that makes them sound the way they do, but without it they're all making trill shrieks and woop-woop-woop sounds.A Raging Emo said:
xD "Look at me! I'm Tali'Zorah...HOME OWNER!"
Fits just too perfectly!!
Because after so long on the Migrant Fleet, their immune systems would still need time to adapt, even to their own planet. Tali says herself that the difference between living on their home planet over settling on a new one is decades of adaptation, rather than centuries.Nile McMorrow said:
I thought about something like this, too. Actually, I found it somehow silly that nobody knows how the quarians look like; it's only been 300 years since they ended up in suits (unless they were always in suits, which I don't think it's the case). There would be some records of their anatomy and looks. Just like we know from paintings how people looked like 300 years ago. If we all end up in suits now, in 300 years, we would still have data of how we look like. Prior to the war with the geth, they were obviously a part of the Citadel and had an embassy there. Unless they always wore suits when in contact with other species, their pre-suits looks would be common knowledge.1nfinite_Cros5 said:
Anyway, I am curious as to what Tali looks like, but I would be satisfied if they only show how quarians generally look like. Maybe what you suggested, seeing little Tali without a mask in an old picture or something. That would be a really nice touch, especially to see her with her family, before her parents died.
Well there ARE suitless quarians walking around at the time the games are set in. There's that operation advertised in-game with its massive 70% death rate, and there will be images and whatnot on the... extranet, is it called?
I guess people in-universe just don't care all that much apart from when they actually know a quarian personally.
I guess people in-universe just don't care all that much apart from when they actually know a quarian personally.
With ya on that one. Fuck yea, Chthulu [http://zeboyd.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Boxart15.png]. Although those are more like beard tentacles. Beardacles? I digest. Wait, that has an additional joke. Squid. Calamari. Calamri Damacy! Squid spirit!Tree man said:
'preciate the save there, bucko.Loop Stricken said: