Just commenting on my prior blog post on Asharan’s Tali and Shepard – Space Age Fairytale video.
First comment I have to reiterate is that it’s a really well and put together fan made video and the choice of Tori Amos’ “A Sorta Fairytale” for the music is perfect and doubly good choice of the simpler demo version (A Piano: The Collection – Disk 5 track 14).
I find it interesting as to the choice of offering the option in Mass Effect for male Shepard to have a romance with Tali. They at first are not an obvious couple (other than her being female and Shepard doing anything female).
She seems to be the Archetypical “Spunky Kid” romance character, she’s supportive & reliable, has plenty of friends, a positive attitude and not afraid to get her hands dirty helping out.
This fits well with her initial role in ME1 as it fits her personality from the first game, standing up for her self, helping Shepard and her people. In ME2 her character is better rounded out, by her working with a team in Haestrom and their faith in her. Later on during her loyalty mission back at the migrant fleet you hear people talking about how they don’t believe that she could have possibly done the things she’s accused of and all seem very supportive of her.
The “spunky kid” romantic character is almost a perfect type for Shepard, a “crusader” type character would also be very good, but Ashley from ME1 is not available in ME2 and Samara is not a romance option in ME2.
I’m actually a little disappointed that they had the Tali romance take on physical aspects. It could have been more touching for them to not consummate their romance and instead kept it more spiritual seeing that the levo-amino and dextro-amino difference between human and quarian mean they can’t even eat the same food and physical contact can be hazardous.
I’m apparently too obsessed with this topic as I’ve written more than I intended and this is after throwing half of what I’ve written out.
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