TheWerdna wrote...
I have a good idea for a Tali related topic. Since everyone Roleplays and pictures our own shepard differently; why did your Shepard become romantically involved with Tali? When did he start having feeling for her? What about her was he attracted to? How did his relationship with her grow over time?
((I will be posting my own answer this this question later, once I get home and have time to write something longer))
Okay, now thatb I have time, I shall answer my own question.
My cannon Shepard (John, Soldier: Spacer/Sole-Survivor) was a sole-survivor, thus in the begining of ME1 was very cold and impersonal when talking to team members, he had decided it would be easiler for him if he did not grow attached to his team.
However this began to change when he started to talk to Tali on his frequent visits to enginearing (While growing up, John would often spend his free time talking to and helping the enginears on the ships he lived). He found he enjoyed talking to her, discussing ships and tech, topics that they both shared (While a Soldier, John has always been good at tech stuff, just not in terms of combat) and due to living on ships most of his childhood found he shared a common groand that few human did.
From these talks, Shepard began to open up, not only with Tali, but the rest of the crew. Though at the time he began to develope feelings for her, he did not pursue a relationship. He assumed she would not be interested becasue he was Human, just as Tali had assumed he would not be interested because she was a Quarian. He eventually entered a relationship with Liara (((I was trying to go no-romance, but got ninja-manced...but decided to roll with it anyhow)) though even then still had feeling for her.
Then came the events of ME2. After coming back, he found everything had changed. His friends either called him a trator (Kaidan) or had become absorbed by revenge (Liara, thus ending that relationship); but Tali (along with Garrus) had joined him again despite all that has happened. John once again did not act on his feeling for Tali, fearing that if he did and she rejected him it would somehow ruin his friendship with her. It wasn;t untill she made her feeling known that he finally begin a relationship with her.