CmnDwnWrkn wrote...
Volkai7 wrote...
theillusiveman11 wrote...
Bioware brought Volus into MP. Why not male Asari? I think it's doable.
Volus already existed, it's just that they are often dismissed as a threat due to both their diminutive stature and their non-military-focused culture (attributable to their client relationship with the Turians.) However, there has never been anything that prevented a Volus from taking up arms in the same way that there's nothing preventing a sane and healthy real-life human from walking downtown wearing a swimsuit and practicing with an electric guitar that's not plugged in - no reason you can't but many reasons you probably won't.
Asari, on the other hand, are a mono-gendered species. Technically they aren't Female, even - but humans tend to arbitrarily assign genders to anything that doesn't have one, and we decided to call Asari female for obvious reasons. However, because Asari are actually genderless you can't have Asari Males as a second distinct gender. That would require them to have a first distinct gender to differentiate from, and they don't.
Your Volus/Asari justification is like saying that because we have now seen someone who was raised as a pacifist learn how to kill a man and enlist in the army as a sniper, there's no reason we shouldn't have winged flying gerbils.
There actually is something preventing the Volus from taking up arms and fighting - they're physically unable to do so. Have you ever seen a Volus walk? They waddle. They tip over if you push them too hard. But now they're running around the map like a world-class athlete, rolling and dodging. It's literally impossible for them to do this, yet all of a sudden they have this capability. A Male Asari actually is a reasonable comparison.
No. You are wrong. It is not literally impossible for Volus to run, roll, and dodge. We know this because we see them do it. We had not previously seen the capability be demonstrated, it's true.
Fact of the matter is that what is or is not possible in the Mass Effect universe is up to its authors - which currently means the Bioware dev team. What we know of what is or is not possible is limited to what has been stated by them, or has been stated in the setting.
It was never stated in the universe of Mass Effect or by the devs that Volus cannot fight. It was stated by the Volus Ambassador in Mass Effect 1 that they do not have a large military and that they rely on the Turians for military defense, having only a small military fleet - but that was specifically in regards to their method of governance and political status, not their physical capability.
On the other hand
it has been explicitly stated that Asari do not have males and female genders. They do sometimes refer to the parents of Asari as 'mother' and 'father' - based on which parent carries the child* (meaning an Asari Father only exists where two Asari conceived a child together - an occurrance of increasing rarity) - but
even in the case of an Asari being a Father, that Asari is still the same gender as the Mother.
* Interestingly, this allows for the otherwise rare case of any non-Asari female being titled 'Father' as well.
Modifié par Volkai7, 28 novembre 2012 - 05:04 .
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