Garlador wrote...
I agree about Tali.
She's been in love with you for pretty much 2 years. Hooking up with her technically took 2 years, rather than the measly few days or weeks for the other potential LIs.
But I love the fact that she states that the reason she never acted on her impulses was because she had convinced herself that, despite all your heroics and valor, you could never see her for "her", that there were too many barriers. Despite being the sweetest, most selfless girl you know, she doesn't feel she's "worthy" of being Shepard's lover. She repeatedly tells you that you deserve to be happy, that you deserve someone else, that she understands if you don't want to put the effort into loving her....
... and that just makes me want beat the whole damn galaxy into submission just to be with her. She gives her entire life over to helping others, helping the Quarian people, helping the galaxy, helping you.... and she's never asked for anything in return. For all her good deeds, she gets shot, threatened with exile, ignored by her father, treated poorly by Citadel security and others, looked down upon, and worse. You're the best thing that's ever happened to her, and romancing her is giving her the happiness she never dreamed of having in her lifetime.
I can't name any other game with a romance that selfless, that sacrificial, that touching, or that memorable.
Agreed, add onto that, the fact that the default assumption that a female Shepard wouldn't be into women (only time evidence would show up would be when she'd already be taken which Selfless Tali would just want her to be happy), plus an insecurity about feeling that way about a fellow female herself (Remember the 2nd dairy entry on Samara's loyalty mission, and that was about an Asari, not a woman of a two-gendered race), and you have
a wonderful reason why, even if you support Tali being Bi/Shepard-sexual (which could mean making an exception for her or Tali's straight/lesbian status is tied to the same state as Shepard's gender) she isn't a female romance option in ME2, it wasn't until I romanced her as a Male that I got that, and it made sense to me.
And the talks between female Shepard and Tali are so wonderfully written and acted, that you can just tell there's a connection there which is totally open to reading into how you want their relationship to be, something that a lot of the LIs didn't get if you weren't actively trying to get them in bed.
Still would like a f/f romance option for her in ME3, but if they manage to keep the kinda relationship she has with a female Shepard, it's in her character for people to see it anyway they want, which can be fine too.
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