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CHARACTER CHARACTER NAME: Tali'zorah vas Normandy SERIES: Mass Effect CANON POINT: end of Mass Effect 2
LOSS: As a loss Tali will lose all memories and knowledge of geth, including the ability to even hear/understand the word. When spoken by others it will come through her helmet as distorted and intelligible. This particular loss was chosen for a number of reasons that relating to both Tali personally as well as those of her entire race.
Geth were created by her people as a virtual intelligence unit to be used for labor and as disposable warriors. Over time they were modified for more complex tasks, eventually becoming sentient. When the Quarians became aware of just how sentient they had become their government panicked declared martial law on their homeworld. This in turn caused the geth to defend themselves, eventually giving the entire quarian race little choice but to flee their homeworld. Since then the quarians have taken the part of scavengers across the galaxy in search for a new home. It is due to this that most quarians have an incredibly negative connotation towards them, Tali included.
In order to return to her people as an adult, Tali's offering as the end to her pilgrimage was a copy of information about the geth extracted and copied with permission from Shepard. This information not only allowed her to return to the fleet and gain her title as an adult, but once fully decrypted could possibly even be what the quarians needed to one day overthrow the geth and return to their homeworld.
Even after her pilgrimage Tali continued to gather information, carefully selecting pieces of geth to send to her father as a part of research. Tali thought he was simply gathering information, however his work eventually lead a geth outbreak on the ship his research was done on. Due to the outbreak, Tali was nearly exiled as the one to send the pieces in the first place, but regained her honor by saving the ship. In this time she found her father's last words recorded on his omni-tool, stating that the work he had performed was all in hopes to one day put an end to a geth so that he could build her a house on their homeworld.
ABOUT THE CHARACTER:
At the beginning of Mass Effect, Tali is but a young quarian on her pilgrimage to be accepted towards adulthood among her people. As a quarian, she is expected to bring back something useful in order to return to to the flotilla as a rightful member. Much of her early personality is not only shaped by her journey, but many common traits that are found among those of her people as well. Like most of her people, Tali is incredibly advanced technologically, particularly where it comes to maintaining and converting technology as well as recovering data from geth memory cores. When it comes down to it, quarians choose to recover what most species would melt down. Tali even states that she picked up on reassembling disused parts at an incredibly young age, as expected of most young quarians. As one forced to live upon a migrating space fleet her knowledge of ships comes off as rather impressive to the average human. Most of her time through the games is spent in the engine room in both fascination for the advances the ship is equipped with as well as aiding in her own expansive knowledge.
The quarian race puts a heavy emphasis on the survival of the Migrant Fleet and little else. It is due to this that those of the flotilla are a rather insular group, caring little about the goings on of what happens outside of their people. It is expected of every quarian to pull their own weight, becoming very community-oriented rather than by living by individual needs as is normal for most other races. A high value is also put on family and ancestry and because Tali is the only daughter of the senior member of the Admiralty Board a lot is expected of her to perform at a higher level than the average quarian child, she is also expected by many to one day follow in his footsteps. Though Tali states as a younger child she had it rough due to her father's position, she has grown to accept and appreciate how hard he pushed her. It is naturally due to this that she is excels, particularly when it comes to the work she performs for Shepard and the Normandy.
Most other species treat quarians as second class citizens, not only for unleashing the geth and in turn losing their embassy with the Citadel. It is not uncommon for them to be seen as thieves and scavengers, often because they are not allowed to have real jobs and are forced to scavenge parts for their ships. Shepard was the first to really treat Tali as an equal in allowing her to fight along side her as well as aid her in her Pilgrimage in providing information on the geth to her people. Due to this Tali is not only grateful, but incredibly loyal to Shepard and anyone who is willing to treat her as an equal.
Tali deals with general conversation with sarcasm and a rather dry sense of humor, often making it difficult to tell if she is serious or not. She can be quick to annoyance or even anger in instances, particularly on things she feels strongly about, including the treatment of her people or her stance on the geth. However, even when angered she is quick to bounce back once she cools down, which is rarely more than a short period of time (sometimes even within minutes). In most instances she is very set in her beliefs with a very solid black and white view of right and wrong with little room for grey space.
Like most quarians, most of her motivations are decisions are focused around what is best for her people. While she recognized that some of their beliefs are not always perfect, she accepts that they are still her family and worth fighting for. Her primary motivations lay in giving her people a better life than what they have, whether going above and beyond for the sake of her people while on her own pilgrimage so that they may gain the information to return to their homeworld or taking a stand for the right's of the young. Even upon her first encounter with Shepard in the second game she refused to rejoin her right away-- it is not until she is sure that a young, sick quarian has returned to the flotilla safely that she can willingly give herself to the cause.
Tali's loyalty to the flotilla and her people is particularly displayed when she learns that she is to stand a trial on her exile from the Migrant Fleet, something quarians consider the ultimate punishment. Tali is not only confused, but upset that she is potentially standing trial for exile when her purpose was to not only help the fleet, but her father in his research as well. The name Tali'Zorah vas Neema is stripped from her upon her trial, in turn going by Tali'Zorah vas Normandy. Tali is first outraged that she has been stripped of her proper title, but when she calms down and Shepard speaks with her she is equally honored to be considered a part of the "Normandy" family, only furthering her loyalty towards the Commander as not only a member of her crew, but a friend as well.
ABILITIES: As a quarian, Tali has incredibly advanced knowledge in technology, particularly when it comes to space ships, recovering data as well as maintaining and converting technology. In a fight she comes in handy with her abilities as a skilled mechanistic, with a specialty in ai hacking, deception and use of her combat drone to aid in taking down the enemies. As for weapons, she is equally skilled in the use of pistols as well as shotguns.
Living in a static location was something that would prove to be difficult to get used to for the quarian. Growing up the flotilla ever moving from one solar system to the next. Even her life on the Normandy was non-stop movement in an act to save the world from the reapers. Not only did the castle not move, it was on solid ground, made of materials that were hardly suitable if invasion where to take place and far too large for Tali's tastes. Even her room within the castle was bigger than any house she ever imagined.
Even worse was living in a place with so little technology. Tali couldn't see how people could manage it, though she heard the occasional complaints. Since a child she had been so used to tinkering, yet there was no engine room to maintain and no element zero to be found. Without distraction she only felt more compelled to worry that the castle would crumble down around them in attack at any second.
Her time so far had been spent well, mostly exploring and learning her way around the castle, but even that became boring after a while. In the attempts to find something to occupy her restless mind, Tali paced around her room with her journal held up with one hand. Someone out there bound to have some idea of fun, or at least a good distraction.
"Pool party," she read out loud, not bothering to properly respond to the journal entry or any following. "Pass. I'd rather not risk infection." When you lived in a suit, swimming for leisure was useless.
"Lost cat--" She tilted her head slightly. "I'll let you know if I find it."
She flipped the page, this time she frowned. "Keelah... Your friends are better back home than here." Not that the castle was terrible to her thus far, but in her short amount of time there she'd heard enough rumors.
The next page was one that actually piqued her interests. "A bar, hmm? Now that I can get behind." She paused, before responding with a quick answer-- "Count me in." Even if she didn't drink, Tali was one of the rare few that actually enjoyed large crowds, likely stemmed from her childhood on the busy flotilla. She was bound to at least find someone or something to keep her busy there.
FIRST-PERSON JOURNAL SAMPLE: You know, where I'm from no one bothers to even print books on paper anymore. Everything is done digitally and through the extranet, including means of communication. I never imagined I would be using such backwards means for such things-- magical journals? Laughable at best and hardly secure. I never really realized how much I took technology for granted before my arrival here. I guess that's to be expected from a quarian. We thrive off living on space ships, not some castle made of rocks. Even structures like this are rare in most parts of the galaxy and I have to admit I fear how structurally sound it would be under attack.
Even the elevator here is so slow that I've only gone up two floors since I started this. Though I guess I really shouldn't complain, it's better than taking the stairs.
INTENT: I would like to explore different sides of Tali you don't get to see in game, particularly concerning living in a place with little to no tech. In addition I'd love to play out how receptive she'd be to those outside of her flotilla and The Normandy, especially as one whose race is usually looked down upon.
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CHARACTER
CHARACTER NAME: Tali'zorah vas Normandy
SERIES: Mass Effect
CANON POINT: end of Mass Effect 2
LOSS:
As a loss Tali will lose all memories and knowledge of geth, including the ability to even hear/understand the word. When spoken by others it will come through her helmet as distorted and intelligible. This particular loss was chosen for a number of reasons that relating to both Tali personally as well as those of her entire race.
Geth were created by her people as a virtual intelligence unit to be used for labor and as disposable warriors. Over time they were modified for more complex tasks, eventually becoming sentient. When the Quarians became aware of just how sentient they had become their government panicked declared martial law on their homeworld. This in turn caused the geth to defend themselves, eventually giving the entire quarian race little choice but to flee their homeworld. Since then the quarians have taken the part of scavengers across the galaxy in search for a new home. It is due to this that most quarians have an incredibly negative connotation towards them, Tali included.
In order to return to her people as an adult, Tali's offering as the end to her pilgrimage was a copy of information about the geth extracted and copied with permission from Shepard. This information not only allowed her to return to the fleet and gain her title as an adult, but once fully decrypted could possibly even be what the quarians needed to one day overthrow the geth and return to their homeworld.
Even after her pilgrimage Tali continued to gather information, carefully selecting pieces of geth to send to her father as a part of research. Tali thought he was simply gathering information, however his work eventually lead a geth outbreak on the ship his research was done on. Due to the outbreak, Tali was nearly exiled as the one to send the pieces in the first place, but regained her honor by saving the ship. In this time she found her father's last words recorded on his omni-tool, stating that the work he had performed was all in hopes to one day put an end to a geth so that he could build her a house on their homeworld.
ABOUT THE CHARACTER:
At the beginning of Mass Effect, Tali is but a young quarian on her pilgrimage to be accepted towards adulthood among her people. As a quarian, she is expected to bring back something useful in order to return to to the flotilla as a rightful member. Much of her early personality is not only shaped by her journey, but many common traits that are found among those of her people as well.
Like most of her people, Tali is incredibly advanced technologically, particularly where it comes to maintaining and converting technology as well as recovering data from geth memory cores. When it comes down to it, quarians choose to recover what most species would melt down. Tali even states that she picked up on reassembling disused parts at an incredibly young age, as expected of most young quarians. As one forced to live upon a migrating space fleet her knowledge of ships comes off as rather impressive to the average human. Most of her time through the games is spent in the engine room in both fascination for the advances the ship is equipped with as well as aiding in her own expansive knowledge.
The quarian race puts a heavy emphasis on the survival of the Migrant Fleet and little else. It is due to this that those of the flotilla are a rather insular group, caring little about the goings on of what happens outside of their people. It is expected of every quarian to pull their own weight, becoming very community-oriented rather than by living by individual needs as is normal for most other races. A high value is also put on family and ancestry and because Tali is the only daughter of the senior member of the Admiralty Board a lot is expected of her to perform at a higher level than the average quarian child, she is also expected by many to one day follow in his footsteps. Though Tali states as a younger child she had it rough due to her father's position, she has grown to accept and appreciate how hard he pushed her. It is naturally due to this that she is excels, particularly when it comes to the work she performs for Shepard and the Normandy.
Most other species treat quarians as second class citizens, not only for unleashing the geth and in turn losing their embassy with the Citadel. It is not uncommon for them to be seen as thieves and scavengers, often because they are not allowed to have real jobs and are forced to scavenge parts for their ships. Shepard was the first to really treat Tali as an equal in allowing her to fight along side her as well as aid her in her Pilgrimage in providing information on the geth to her people. Due to this Tali is not only grateful, but incredibly loyal to Shepard and anyone who is willing to treat her as an equal.
Tali deals with general conversation with sarcasm and a rather dry sense of humor, often making it difficult to tell if she is serious or not. She can be quick to annoyance or even anger in instances, particularly on things she feels strongly about, including the treatment of her people or her stance on the geth. However, even when angered she is quick to bounce back once she cools down, which is rarely more than a short period of time (sometimes even within minutes). In most instances she is very set in her beliefs with a very solid black and white view of right and wrong with little room for grey space.
Like most quarians, most of her motivations are decisions are focused around what is best for her people. While she recognized that some of their beliefs are not always perfect, she accepts that they are still her family and worth fighting for. Her primary motivations lay in giving her people a better life than what they have, whether going above and beyond for the sake of her people while on her own pilgrimage so that they may gain the information to return to their homeworld or taking a stand for the right's of the young. Even upon her first encounter with Shepard in the second game she refused to rejoin her right away-- it is not until she is sure that a young, sick quarian has returned to the flotilla safely that she can willingly give herself to the cause.
Tali's loyalty to the flotilla and her people is particularly displayed when she learns that she is to stand a trial on her exile from the Migrant Fleet, something quarians consider the ultimate punishment. Tali is not only confused, but upset that she is potentially standing trial for exile when her purpose was to not only help the fleet, but her father in his research as well. The name Tali'Zorah vas Neema is stripped from her upon her trial, in turn going by Tali'Zorah vas Normandy. Tali is first outraged that she has been stripped of her proper title, but when she calms down and Shepard speaks with her she is equally honored to be considered a part of the "Normandy" family, only furthering her loyalty towards the Commander as not only a member of her crew, but a friend as well.
ABILITIES:
As a quarian, Tali has incredibly advanced knowledge in technology, particularly when it comes to space ships, recovering data as well as maintaining and converting technology. In a fight she comes in handy with her abilities as a skilled mechanistic, with a specialty in ai hacking, deception and use of her combat drone to aid in taking down the enemies. As for weapons, she is equally skilled in the use of pistols as well as shotguns.
More on Tali's abilities can be found here
THIRD-PERSON WRITING SAMPLE:
Living in a static location was something that would prove to be difficult to get used to for the quarian. Growing up the flotilla ever moving from one solar system to the next. Even her life on the Normandy was non-stop movement in an act to save the world from the reapers. Not only did the castle not move, it was on solid ground, made of materials that were hardly suitable if invasion where to take place and far too large for Tali's tastes. Even her room within the castle was bigger than any house she ever imagined.
Even worse was living in a place with so little technology. Tali couldn't see how people could manage it, though she heard the occasional complaints. Since a child she had been so used to tinkering, yet there was no engine room to maintain and no element zero to be found. Without distraction she only felt more compelled to worry that the castle would crumble down around them in attack at any second.
Her time so far had been spent well, mostly exploring and learning her way around the castle, but even that became boring after a while. In the attempts to find something to occupy her restless mind, Tali paced around her room with her journal held up with one hand. Someone out there bound to have some idea of fun, or at least a good distraction.
"Pool party," she read out loud, not bothering to properly respond to the journal entry or any following. "Pass. I'd rather not risk infection." When you lived in a suit, swimming for leisure was useless.
"Lost cat--" She tilted her head slightly. "I'll let you know if I find it."
She flipped the page, this time she frowned. "Keelah... Your friends are better back home than here." Not that the castle was terrible to her thus far, but in her short amount of time there she'd heard enough rumors.
The next page was one that actually piqued her interests. "A bar, hmm? Now that I can get behind." She paused, before responding with a quick answer-- "Count me in." Even if she didn't drink, Tali was one of the rare few that actually enjoyed large crowds, likely stemmed from her childhood on the busy flotilla. She was bound to at least find someone or something to keep her busy there.
FIRST-PERSON JOURNAL SAMPLE:
You know, where I'm from no one bothers to even print books on paper anymore. Everything is done digitally and through the extranet, including means of communication. I never imagined I would be using such backwards means for such things-- magical journals? Laughable at best and hardly secure.
I never really realized how much I took technology for granted before my arrival here. I guess that's to be expected from a quarian. We thrive off living on space ships, not some castle made of rocks. Even structures like this are rare in most parts of the galaxy and I have to admit I fear how structurally sound it would be under attack.
Even the elevator here is so slow that I've only gone up two floors since I started this. Though I guess I really shouldn't complain, it's better than taking the stairs.
INTENT: I would like to explore different sides of Tali you don't get to see in game, particularly concerning living in a place with little to no tech. In addition I'd love to play out how receptive she'd be to those outside of her flotilla and The Normandy, especially as one whose race is usually looked down upon.