Peebee (Official Thread)

I never heard of that. Is there anything in the game mentioning that?

Me, too. I remember the options in ME1's character creator being more limited for females. I prefer the character creators in Fallout 4 and the last couple of Saints Row games, which had the exact same scars for males and females, and the ability to apply multiple scars rather than select a single one from the list. I think it makes the character look more interesting and hints at some fascinating backstory.

Since I haven't been able to find a "multiquote" option, I'll just address some general points that came up.

I can see how it might be too complicated for companion characters to ask how the scars happened, or that it might lock the character into a backstory the player might not want, but it would still make for some interesting conversations. Friendlier, more tactful characters could be hesitant to ask for fear of hurting his/her feelings, but characters who are more blunt or rude could just say, "Hey, what the hell happened to you, anyway?" An additional question might be, "Why haven't you had surgery to fix that?" And the answer could be similar to the points others have mentioned here -- too expensive, recovery time too long, recovery process too painful or traumatic, or the character either doesn't care all that much about the scars, or kind of likes them for whatever reason. Or the medical equipment or expertise isn't available, or the scars are so recent that there just hasn't been time to deal with them. The character in that image lived on a "space western"-type colony planet where everything is trying to kill you, and medical facilities were pretty rudimentary despite the setting's technology level being crazy-advanced. Also, transport off-planet wasn't readily available.

As for why a character wouldn't have the scars fixed, aside from the reasons already pointed out ... well, just as an example, Kolya Mason, the character in my work-in-progress novel, initially wasn't able to because the medical insurance provider used a loophole to avoid paying for the surgery, because it was "purely cosmetic." They used the same excuse to refuse covering a replacement for the eye that was damaged, and got away with it somehow.

The accident that disfigured her happened nine years ago, so she's had time to adjust and move on, and by now it's kind of just part of who she is (and one idea I'm thinking over is the surgery and recovery time being too long and painful). Before the accident, she'd just started getting into a promising career as a supermodel, but then a shuttle fuel cell exploded one day. She considered herself lucky enough to still be alive, and didn't want to waste her second chance, so she changed her priorities. She decided that she wanted to see what's "out there" and started hitchhiking on starships to explore as much as the galaxy as possible and see things no one else had ever seen. She decided to become an adventurer, whereas before the accident she was focused entirely on how she looked.

I also figured that making her bitter and angry would kind of be the obvious direction to take the character, so instead I decided that she'd had time to recover and was mostly well-adjusted by now, and found more fulfillment in her adventurer lifestyle than her budding model career. So she's outgoing, quick to throw herself into whatever comes next, and loves traveling to new planets and exploring ruins where no one has lived for thousands of years. She still has a lingering fear of fire and sudden explosions, but aside from that, she usually shrugs off adversity. She does want to save up enough money for a cybernetic eye, not because of what her damaged eye looks like, but because she just wants to be able to see out of it.

Heh, last year I was asked to submit a story for a sci-fi/paranormal romance anthology, so I decided to use Kolya as the main character. I'd originally planned for her to be happily single and self-sufficient, but since the story had to be a romance, I thought she'd be a perfect character for it. From the reviews it got, it seemed to be one of the more well-received stories in the anthology, and I decided to expand it into a whole novel.

Oh yeah, and the idea of "scars = evil" is something that bugs me, and is probably another reason why I decided to give Kolya a well-adjusted, adventurous spirit rather than making her angry and bitter and nasty. Aside from the other things I talked about, I also just like to take concepts like this one and invert them.

As for whether such extensive scarring makes the character horribly disfigured or she's still beautiful in spite of them, well, that's a matter of opinion just like whether Hamburglar Girl is cute or ugly or whatever. Just for me, personally, I wouldn't consider it a deal-breaker at all.

Hmm. Now that I think about it, I can see Kolya and Hamburglar Girl getting alone nicely, based on what little I've seen of the asari's personality. Looks like both are adventurers of one sort or another.

But then, the way my luck works, the asari will turn out to be a completely different type of character. 

Agreed, dalinne . When I said there'd be "reasons", I didn't mean to imply that the game needed to tell us what those reasons might be. As I mentioned, "head canon" fills in lots of blanks for many RPG players. Many players even prefer it that way. The more quality options the devs can provide the merrier, I say.
I hope the CC can finally exceed my expectations this time. DAI almost succeeded in outright impressing me, until I got to the hair. I know better than to have any real expectations heading into the CC. It keeps my inevitable disappointment in check.

ME was...okay/bland in terms of hairstyles. In terms of hair quality it isn't really better. Well, compared to the times ME games and DAI games were released, DAI's hair quality is worse. It's also more glaring because the rest of the CC is well made in terms of quality.
I prefer to remain skeptical on hair quality in MEA, because in Bioware game they're generally bad, to varying degrees.

Yeah, I think this time they'll manage to do good hairstyles (the femRyder one is a pleasant surprise, and I hope we'll have longer hairs for male Ryders, at least compared to Shepard), but I won't get my hopes up in terms of quality.

They're handheld bungee straps to keep him bouncing back as he's getting his ass destroyed by that krogan. I really hope they use the female Ryder for the marketing. That male Ryder default looks like a total buzz killing dorky loser. He reminds me of Casey Hudson.

Ok, scars, buttstraps, hairs (missed these), aren't we forgetting thread's title a little?

Wait...the Hamburglar has butt hair? Massive ret-con!!!!

Is it... really truly... Peebee now? I just can't seem to believe they could come up with a decent name for every other frickin' Asari in the galaxy but this one had to be unnecessarily... special. ugh.

Sounds more like a nickname than anything. Like she doesn't like her actual name at all and just tells everyone she meets to "just call me PB".

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@macwalterslives is peebee the asari's real name or a nickname? Deffo a strange name lol but she looks awesome!! Reminds me of aria a little


Mac Walters
@user It's a nickname. Also. She's very different from Aria.

Good to hear that it's just a nickname. Would have preferred some of the forum-invented ones though. Oh well, I guess its mainly the spelling that puts me off. PB would not be that bad... I guess