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I never had a "thing" for her in ME1. She was interesting, that was it. Her dialog options never even hinted at the possibility of a personal relationship, and I never suspected nor desired it. There was a distinct cultural divide between her and Shep, or maybe Humans and Quarians altogether. Her story was fascinating, the Quarian story is fascinating, but I never found her alluring.
In my view, your other squadmates, even the aliens, seem based on or have close approximations with prototypes that exist within our own world. Liara, for instance, certainly plays on a generalized idea of wholesome femininity, and the warmth and sophistication associated with it. She's the cute librarian nerd we all had a crush on at some point in our lives. Wrex is your team's tank, the shotgun wielding ogre, the "big guy", very simple, very blunt, obtuse even. Garrus is the ex-cop, "Robin Hood" of C-Sec, plenty of street cred, gone maverick because he can't keep his mouth shut about status quo, wants to do the right thing but hates jumping through hoops.
We have real world templates for all of these characters in ME, both 1 and 2, and the writers do an extremely awesome job in crafting these characters so that we can identify with them, and care for them. I especially love Samara. I know other people complain that some of ME2's characters fall a little flat, but I personally can't endorse that opinion.
But Tali? It hit me while playing ME2 that she is truly in a class all of her own. My wife made a comment about her last week: "She's not even all that feminine... look at how she walks, it's like she just got off a horse." I had to laugh but then I realized that this character feels made totally from scratch, like she came out of thin air. I can't think of any single real-world notion, metaphor, race, culture, prototype, stereotype even, for Tali whatsoever. For me, Tali seems more like ME's poster icon than the male Shep we see on the cover of the game because of her originality and how confined it is within the ME brand. I mean, I don't think there's anything else like this character anywhere else.
I might be totally wrong in this... there might be another videogame or something out there that she's based on that I haven't been acquainted with. But for me, as soon as I realized how unashamedly unique of a character Tali was, that was it... she's my favorite character in the game now. I've been shamelessly assimilated into the Tali fan ranks.
She's obscure, even haunting, elusive, she's a leather-clad DIY eezo-wielding mechanic with hips of death, unabashedly Sci-Fi, her voice actress with the accent ramped up also contributes to the total Tali package, and... well... I just think the writing team, the artists, and the animators all met in the middle and nailed her concept so squarely on the head and brought something so utterly brand new to us that, in my mind, they created an icon.
There's my confession. Flame on.
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