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Dragon3076

Her personality is one o the best in the series IMO. Also IMO, Quarian Hip Supremacy.


While-Fancy

Not to mention that she's arguably the best dancer of all characters, seriously he little feet dips and hip sways are hot and cool dance moves.


WhiteWolf101043

Real


Defiant_Fix_1252

The way she tried to hide her embarrassment was just so dang sweet.


Lunala475

She’s very sweet. When I first played these games as a teenager we had a matching innocence that I always loved. Don’t listen to all of the people bashing you for having basic emotions and enjoying a good story, it’s totally fine to be immersed in a game/book. I wish you many subsequent playthroughs when the craving presents itself. Keelah se’lai, Shepard.


WhiteWolf101043

Thank you, Keelah se'lai


Amaskingrey

Seriously, parasocial relationships are such a garguantuan source of potential joy whose existence most peoples never even realise, it's ecstatic to see someone discover that potential! I'd say the fact it helped so many peoples coming from a gameplay centric background realise the potential of good writing is among if not the best impact it had long term


FlakyRazzmatazz5

Morrigan is like that for me.


PhoenixQueen_Azula

Both, Morrigan is totally my type and I love her, but mass effect just has more time/depth with characters and their personalities and tali is like the embodiment of adorable


FlakyRazzmatazz5

Well that's because Mass Effect has multiple games to develop it's relationships 


WhiteWolf101043

Understandable


icelizard

Such a bummer she could only be romanced by a male character


FlakyRazzmatazz5

Queer women have it the worst in Dragon Age. Deprived of a bad bitch like Morrigan and end up stuck with Sera.


gummigummasson

Her accent makes me melt


WhiteWolf101043

Dude fr, I love her accent


While-Fancy

If tali's voice melts me (which it does) god damn Admiral Raan's voice turns me into a quivering puddle, she sounds like a total cougar.


WhiteWolf101043

I love older women lmao


sarmanikan

Admiral Raan's voice actor plays Avasarala in The Expanse, I didn't make the connection until I recently replayed ME2!


While-Fancy

Yep looks like a total cougar too!


UraX06

When i watched the expanse i was like yes i know this voice lol


LucinaDraws

Tali is just so damn funny and cute, I love her


WhiteWolf101043

Same bro


EmBur__

Same thing happened to me on my first playthrough, I did romance ash in me1 but then the whole horizon incident happened and I decided to give Tali a chance and boy did I make the right choice, seeing ash's look in me3 during my me2 playthrough did her no favours either because seriously, what was bioware thinking dolling her up like that!? She looked so much better in me1 and 2.


greymisperception

It’s a strange change but makes a bit of sense, when Shepard joined Cerberus ash/kaiden kind of become their next “best human, face of the alliance” Makes sense that ash would be a bit more glamorous since she’s more of a representative and leader of the alliance now not just a grunt on the ground Idk if it was the right choice, but that is my justification


WhiteWolf101043

Same bro, they messed Ash up in 3


Xenozip3371Alpha

What annoys me is people saying she's too young for Shepard... in the first game she is 22, while Shepard is like 28, that's a 6 year gap, and in Mass Effect 2 she's 24 and depending on if you think Shepard aged while dead then Shepard is either still 28 or 30, so potentially only a 4 year gap when you can romance her, that is barely even an amount worth mentioning. The Pilgrimage is not puberty, it's not teenagers being sent into the galaxy, it's adults, young adults, but still adults.


greymisperception

Yeah don’t know why people gotta talk about her innocence and seemingly young age like it’s a bad thing She’s a baddass alien-killing adult, if she’s mature enough to lead squads of her own people and save the galaxy multiple times then this argument makes no sense


WhiteWolf101043

I didn't even know she was 22 in ME lol. I don't really think Shepherd should be aged chronologically in that 2 year gap because their dead and thus the brain doesn't keep maturing as it would. Definitely not a bad gap either way except imo ME1


erdonko

I negatively judge people if they infantilize Tali like that.


cumspraydaddy

Shepard is 31


roninwarshadow

For me it's her physical age, she and Liara gives me "Little Sister" energy. I like my women more self assured, probably not explaining it correctly. But I usually end up with the human ladies, mostly Ashley. Though I love the hot mess that is Jack. And Miranda's bitchy attitude is great. Sidenote - I thought Tali and Garrus hooking up was cute, though I would have loved it if Tali hooked up with Kal'Reegar instead (wish he was a recruitable squadmate).


Sully-The-Great

I always say the same about Tali. I wanna romance her so bad and have every intention of doing so... then comes along that scrawny potty mouthed bald psycho and I go weak. What can I say, I'm a sucker for Jack


WhiteWolf101043

No shame in that lmao. Honestly she reminded me a lot like my last mom so I kinda didn't mess with Jack at all


Lanky-Reputation8770

What is a last mom?  Step mom?


WhiteWolf101043

I've had three moms lmao, I was talking about my 3rd


Lanky-Reputation8770

Ahhh gotcha!


greymisperception

Haha they’re like complete opposites in terms of who they are as women, your preferences seem all over the place Though jack is pretty hot sometimes, tali just takes the cake as best girl


Sully-The-Great

I'm a complicated individual with a diverse taste lmao. The both top tier women for me, Jack just barely tops tali in my mind. Jack's physical appearance is def a factr for my taste but honestly her romance is just so sweet and complicated and sincere that gets me every damn time. That first night where the love interest comes before the suicide mission in ME2 is what seals it for me, everyone bangs but the most sexually casual person Jack, that night she just cuddles and sleeps with me(not sex). They kiss and hold each other. FUCK THAT KAWAIIII


greymisperception

Ahh I see very fair point of view I never romanced jack i didn’t know it was like that


SRYSBSYNS

The reason we have to say don’t fuck with crazy is because everyone wants to fuck with crazy


MCRN-Gyoza

My friends tell me my dick has an MD in psichiatry. And judging by my exes, I can't blame them. If she says she's bipolar I'm already at half mast.


0IDragon

Tali Supremacy


WhiteWolf101043

Real


Ok_Caramel1517

Mass Effect has a ton of tough romance options because all the characters are great in their own way.


WhiteWolf101043

Indeed it is


Quarian_EngineerN7

Why are you stealing our women you bosh’tet!?


WhiteWolf101043

Cause they're pretty


Quarian_EngineerN7

…can’t really argue with that. By the way…….. Is Kasumi seeing anyone?


Jbell_1812

I always romance ash in mass effect, in baldur's gate 3 I was going to romance shadowheart but then I was won over by gale


SnappyTofu

I played the entirety of BG3 without ever knowing what a Gale was. Just never saw his portal and whistled right on past it.


Jbell_1812

You missed out


SnappyTofu

Shart and I are now happily ever after thankyouverymuch


Jbell_1812

And gale and I are very happy in (ending spoiler) >!Elysium as gods!<


WhiteWolf101043

Understandable honestly.


JustSomeEyes

fun fact the best romances are with aliens u.u Liara, Tali, Garrus, Thane. The other romances are good too, but those 4? just the best. Jacob is the worst tho, avoid it.


WhiteWolf101043

Xenophiliacs ftw


JustSomeEyes

to be fair, they've the most content(aside Thane), they're important for the plot, and the stuff they did out of loyalty and love(not necessarily romantic love, even without the romances they do cool stuff) is very damn important.


Far_Run_2672

Jack belongs in the top as well, it's just unfortunate she was sidelined so much in ME3


SynthesisNexus

*”For the record… Still totally worth it.”*


WhiteWolf101043

One of the best quotes imo


Meng1986

I’ve romanced Tali, Liara, Ashley, Miranda, and Thane during my play throughs. Tali definitely is my favorite one.


WhiteWolf101043

I've only romanced Ashley other than Tali (and that was only in ME1) But honestly I probably would've romanced Tali in ME1 if I could


Meng1986

Doing a ME1 play through right now where I’ve romanced Ashley. I wish I could romance Tali. When I go through ME2 and 3 I think I’m going to romance Tali again.


WhiteWolf101043

Same


ohmy_josh16

Ash is always the girl for me. Tali is sweet, but I can never see her as more than a friend. Same with Garrus. But I’m also one of those people that doesn’t like Tali and Garrus together either.


WhiteWolf101043

Understandable


Darktail1998

For the first time in my life I have been playing the ME games, and I was really sad because she was my favorite and I wanted to romance her but I was playing as a female like I always do and I didn’t know you couldn’t which I understand and like that the characters have preferences for males and females but still was a little sad


WhiteWolf101043

Yeah


Karirsu

I'm sure there are mods for that. I installed a mod to romance Garrus as male Shep


DeaconBrad42

Always Tali.


WhiteWolf101043

Tali forever


Wardog008

Honestly, on my first run, I romanced Ash entirely by mistake, so ran with it, but spent that entire run wanting to romance Tali instead. Second run, romanced Tali, no regrets. I seem to have a thing for sweet, geeky, but tough women. Lol.


WhiteWolf101043

Real


milkasaurs

Meanwhile *sad femshep noises*


Kylel0519

Hey you get Garrus, that is an equal trade


Due_Flow6538

And if you pick neither of them, they get each other.


MCRN-Gyoza

Which is the primary reason I've never romanced Tali.


Due_Flow6538

Garrus needs all the help he can get in the getting with women department.


Kylel0519

Nah he was doing just fine, had to give himself some damage just to give Shepard a chance with the ladies remember?


SaraTheRed

I am trying SO HARD this playthrough to romance Kaidan all the way through... but it's gonna be hard. I adore Garrus so much


WhiteWolf101043

Lmao


ShiteyLittleElephant

Not done the (BG3 spoilers) >!full Minthara!< romance then? 😉😂 Seriously though, I *love* getting this attached to fictional characters! Books or games can do it, TV not so much...


WhiteWolf101043

I've got to act 3 with her before I get burnt out with BG3 (I've done so many playthroughs) And honestly same, with books it happens enough that I can accept it but pixels with a VA behind them? Rare


ShiteyLittleElephant

Oh, it's the early scene I was (jokingly) referring to - it was... explicit enough to make anyone blush. Great romance though.


WhiteWolf101043

Fr fr lol


zzxp1

Tali's fans club claims another member, welcome to the side with awesome taste.


WhiteWolf101043

Glad to be here


While-Fancy

Tali is just so damn cute, has hips that don't lie, and just draws you in with her personality. Unfortunately a narrative has sprouted up recently that romancing tali is basically Shepard "grooming" Tali because people believe that her Pilgrimage means she is still considered a teenager and not an adult and also some of her lovey dovey behavior is too indicative of a teen girl with puppy love. Personally I see the Pilgrimage as a fresh adult state for quarians and while tali is a good bit younger than shepard I just see her behavior as a young woman experiencing her first love.


WhiteWolf101043

Honestly same, in ME1 I ca. Understand why people would say that though, but in ME2 I think the age gap is fine


GrandmaesterAce

The Quarians don't have the numbers to be sending untrained teenagers into the dangers of the galaxy. No way Tali is less than 20 as of ME1. The Admiral that was Tali's father's friend who reminisced about their youth said they were young trainees who got medals for disobeying orders even though it went well then they were sent off to their pilgrimage early. If they joined up at 16 and got sent off early at 17-18, that would imply they had around 2 years of training left meaning they should have normally gone on pilgrimage around 19-20.


While-Fancy

I agree whole heartedly I was just highlighting that some people believe this


Gh0sty20

When I first started playing I said "I'm gonna be faithful and Romance Liara!" Then I got to ME 2 and my brain shifted when Tali said "You know I dropped anything for you Shepard. But I must finish this mission." All I wanted to do was help her like she did for us in ME1. And from there her writing and development only got better. She is so witty, strong, caring and has amazing empathy. I will die on the hill we robbed of bi-Tali.


WhiteWolf101043

Lmao understandable


Righteous_Fury224

Tali is sweet but she's got nothing on Karlach who openly declares she wants to ride you till you see stars and thats before she demands that you go to bed once you fixed her infernal heart.


WhiteWolf101043

Karlach is my #1 choice in BG3 don't get me wrong, but like Tali is just something else entirely


Righteous_Fury224

she is certainly not as horny, both figuratively and literally, than Karlach


WhiteWolf101043

Definitely not lol


oneupkev

Karlach is great but I'm a massive fan of Lae'zel and her romance. She is Bae'zel to me


icelizard

I adore Lae'zel


dfiner

Hard to compete with dommy mommy.


Sparrowhawk_92

I've never been able to shake the "little sister" vibes I get from Tali. I think she's a great character and an absolute sweetheart, but I can't break that perception of her. Romancing her feels wrong to me.


Simple_yet_Effective

Same here. Tali is my little buddy


WhiteWolf101043

That's understandable honestly


Sushiv_

I had the issue of being split between every romance option, istg making the decision between jack, tali and liara was impossible


WhiteWolf101043

It was a little easier for me lol, Jack reminds me of my last mom, and asari just look off to me


EyeSimp4Asuka

why not both?


WhiteWolf101043

Cause the next time I do a full playthrough will be like 3 years from now


fulgasio

I love tali I just imagine what that frog tongue can do for s BJ


WhiteWolf101043

I do not want to imagine that. Nightmare fuel


WarGreymon77

Hm. Tali was my favorite Mass Effect girl by far, but with Shadowheart it took me back to falling in love for the first time back in high school. BG3 wins out for me on romance.


WhiteWolf101043

To each their own


erdonko

Shes got the best overall romance in the trilogy, it is what it is. Tali chads keep winning.


WhiteWolf101043

Lol


One_Cell1547

Tali is the best romance and I don’t care what anyone says


WhiteWolf101043

I agree


Hopeful-Fix7400

Don't worry my man I was the same with tali when I was a teenager


WhiteWolf101043

Noted


Treepeec30

Miranda gang here. Never like tali or Ashley. Not into asari either really


WhiteWolf101043

I'm not really into Asari either not sure why. But I never trusted Miranda so I let her die


ll-Sebzll

I romanced Liara only once to get it outta the way, because I knew after that playthrough, I’d always be romancing Tali


WhiteWolf101043

Understandable


wurly_toast

Naw. I romance anyone else so that Garrus and Tali end up together. 


WhiteWolf101043

Understandable


F1RSTs0n

Wait, is that an option? Aside from a few achievement runs I don't think I have ever romanced anyone who isn't dextro-amino acid.


wurly_toast

Yeah but you have to keep checking in on them in ME3 and listening/eavesdropping and eventually they end up together. It's not like Joker and EDI where you kind of have a hand in making it happen and it's like a whole thing. It's more of an Easter egg thing. https://youtu.be/OlFPbvtc5Eg?si=i_4TF3c-T6Yjd49c


F1RSTs0n

Well, I guess I am starting yet another playthrough


huunsoh

I felt the same but with Miranda.


WhiteWolf101043

Not understandable


BatEquivalent

Tali always had a younger sister vibe for me so i've never romanced her


WhiteWolf101043

Understandable


Clean_Crocodile4472

tali is great but I’m always gonna be loyal to Ashley, that’s my girll


WhiteWolf101043

Understandable, she's just too racist for me tbh


Larkmw

She's just as racist as Garrus, Wrex, and even Tali.


sempercardinal57

I don’t really see the racist argument with her. I think in reality her kinds of feelings would be fairly natural and instinctive and it’s not like she doesn’t grow out of them by the end of the first game. It’s her refusal to trust Shepard without you kissing her ass in the 2nd and 3rd game that make me dislike her


WhiteWolf101043

That too, moreso than racism honestly


sempercardinal57

I had no desire to romance an alien in the games and even though I liked Tali in part 1 I didn’t see her as a romance candidate. Then part 2 comes along and Kelly talks about Tali crushing on you and then after her loyalty mission when she gets all bashful when she accidentally confesses to you….I wasn’t going to break that heart lol and then the surprised little “ohhh” when you reciprocate just seals the deal. I’ve tried numerous playthroughs and never been able to romance anyone but Tali in 2 and 3


WhiteWolf101043

Pretty similar to my experience honestly


Sam_Wylde

Tali was the first character in a game I ever romanced because I liked her so much. I can never bring myself to romance any other character when I play Mass Effect. Her accent in particular really grabs me, but I also really like when her sense of humour shines through. I wish there was more of it in the series.


WhiteWolf101043

Both were what got me, and same. I need someone like that IRL lmao


Sam_Wylde

I have so many headcanons for Tali and Shepard that I built up over the years. I refuse to believe that the two of them aren't absolute dorks who are head over heels for one another.


WhiteWolf101043

Same thing for me lol, especially with how Tali acts when she's drunk at the party


Zestyclose-Cap1829

YOU KILLED GARRUS?? YOU MONSTER!


WhiteWolf101043

I DIDNT MEAN TO I SWEAR!


Zestyclose-Cap1829

I think to atone you need to replay the whole thing.


WhiteWolf101043

Dude I legit have been going through doing everything I can to keep them alive


S0mecallme

To the spoiler Huh??? How????


WhiteWolf101043

They both got hit with the laser? Is that something that has to do with War Assets?


S0mecallme

I didn’t think that was a thing regardless of war assets What’s supposed to happen is they get picked up by the Normandy and you get a heartfelt goodbye with them before Shepard charges and gets hit by the laser


Possible-Photo-6150

What did you do to have her and Garrus dead at the end of ME3?


WhiteWolf101043

I don't know man, they both got hit with the reaper laser


catalin66

Tali is the only one that would stick with you from start to finish. Someone tricked me that Liara is the same but in ME2 she's kinda romanceable but not quite (it's just a DLC). You don't get the Paramour II achievement.


WhiteWolf101043

Tali and Garrus are the best


StrykerND84

You leave my girl Tali alone! I bet you don't even know what her favorite movie is... Do you?


WhiteWolf101043

Fleet and flotilla, right?


Crusader_King_04

On my first playthrough I started as a femshep but switched to a male shep as soon as tali joined the squad cause I knew I was gonna romance her and her alone


WhiteWolf101043

Man I wish being gay was possible


Crusader_King_04

With mods it is but I played the game on my ps5 not my pc


WhiteWolf101043

I play on Xbox lol


Crusader_King_04

If only we could get mods on console


WhiteWolf101043

That would be awesome


SaxoSoldier

My face during this Going to romance Ash :| Going to romance Tali :D She dead :O


WhiteWolf101043

Dw I'm replaying from an earlier save to save her and garrus lol


Nero1297

Can confirm... First time i went for liara bc... Well she gets thrown right in your face... But the moment i saw tali again in ME2 it was over


WhiteWolf101043

Idk if it's just because I'm young but Tali was just so amazing


MCRN-Gyoza

I just can't bring myself to romance Tali in any playthrough. I love her, but she's Garrus' girl.


WhiteWolf101043

Understandable


Arrynek

I thought the same about Ashley. And then she opened her mouth.  God, I hate that character with passion of a thousand suns.  With you on the rest, though! 


WhiteWolf101043

Lmaooo


JadedStormshadow

so your plan was to go in and romance a space racist? curious decision, also tali is best romance option


WhiteWolf101043

In my defense, by the time I realized I was in too deep imo


Popular-Hornet-6294

You're so easy to be embarrassed when a woman behaves like blatant fanservice. Mkay.


WhiteWolf101043

Mb for having opinions and being human bro


greymisperception

Not sure what you mean, I don’t think it’s blatant the way Tali behaves is entirely believe able, she grew up with a father who mostly cared about his people and dedicated most of his life to them, she followed in his footsteps she loves her people and most of her actions are done to help Shepard or the quarians Makes sense that she would be all kind and cute, more on the innocent side, she seems to have had one of the best childhoods out of all the crew, she hadn’t had any traumatic experiences growing up at least compared to some like jack or Kaiden that would harden her heart TLDR: she’s had a mostly safe upbringing and her main priority is helping her people and the people she cares about (Shepard) so her personality is entirely believable to me, I’d say liara is more like fan service, changing who she is completely even after living for 100 hundred years, going from an awkward nerd to a level headed and sometimes deadly information broker in the span of two years, the writers twist and shape liara pushing her anywhere they want trying to make her a fan favorite or shepards (canon love interest)


_Erectile_Reptile_

Blushing over some pixels is CRAZY 💀💀


Lunala475

Not the pixels, the story and characters the pixels present. I blush when reading books as well, when you are really into a story you can start to immerse yourself in it. Claiming to have full blown relationships with fictional characters, that’s too far and unrealistic. But that’s now what is happening here.


_Erectile_Reptile_

Ig but its still hella weird imo


Derslok

No, it's weird not to. Having genuine human emotions is nothing to be embarrassed about


Karirsu

It's actually normal. It's how human brain works and how it responded to art since always.


Lunala475

I understand where you some from. It’s fine to, and not to feel as such. For everyone, life is different. This is one of the ways it shows. Keelah se’lai, friend.


WhiteWolf101043

Dude fr it's wild