The_KFD_Case wrote...
SteelEagleShane wrote...
Thank you for the welcome!:
General question to all:
At what moment, in either ME1 or ME2, did Tali ninja her way into your brain and hack into it?
Good question!
For me, IIRC, it began with the chats I shared with her down in Engineering on Normandy 1. She was genuine. I suppose that's the one core trait we keep coming back to over and over again in this thread regarding Tali and why so many of us choose her as the love interest. It just felt natural; as comfortable as walking in to your warm, cozily lit home without fear or concern of what awaits you there. That she clearly has more than two pieces to move about upstairs doesn't hurt at all either, and her fierce dedication to friends, family and whatever causes she believes in earned her my admiration and respect almost straigth away. I romanced Ashley in ME1 (and yes, I did/do genuinely like and care for Ashley,) but she would have been my second pick had Tali been available. She wasn't but in ME2 she is and it makes the romantic tale of Tali and my Shepard all the more epic, IMO, because it's akin to a story of long time friends who never quite managed to meet in the middle despite their being a strong mutual interest and attraction. Then suddenly events around them change all of that and finally their minds, hearts and souls meet. This is the stuff romantic fairy tales are made of!
How was it for you?
In ME1, as we have all pointed out, she seemed so geniune. She was also eager, but not in an overactive way- in a productive, realistic way. Her intelligence and emerging maturity were backed up by a sweet personality that was persistent in not being rattling. She wasn't pushy or nosy; she was just Tali. The story of her people, as it played out, only cemented her as awesome: Everyone else, Shepard included, could retire and go home and stop being badasses, living well on their homeworlds or doing what they loved. But she couldn't. Her people were ruined, and behind Tali lay the story of a broken people, and in front of Tali lay a future occupied by heartache, isolation, and war.
There was little to be happy about, yet her eagerness showed a character who could overcome these things. Throughout ME1, she was my favorite character, but not sure I would romance her. Not yet. Maybe a tad too young, for my Shepard.
But after Haestrom in ME2, it was different. Tali had grown up and was a hero to her people, a doer of great deeds. Yet she was the same person, and when I saw that her life or death inspired prodigious sacrifices by the Quarian marines on Haestrom, I knew what Tali was. She was not just a Quarian, a character, a love interest. She WAS the story of Mass Effect in a nutshell, a struggle against stacked odds where an endearing personality(which she has in bucketloads) was sometimes the only thing that stood between hope and the barrel of a gun.
Tali is not, gameplay wise, the best character. But CHARACTER wise, Garrus and Joker are distant second and third when it comes to characters. Tali is first, and it isn't even close.
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thought she was kinda hot?
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It just grew from there hehe
