Jaal Ama Darav (Official Thread)

Here's the thing. People play games to escape to fantasy worlds. They play games where they can control life. If they can't, they mod like crazy to make it happen. That's the majority of gamers. The minority are pretty cool about vanilla games and romances that aren't meant to be.

If the media wants to pander to the majority, revealing a few LI's to ease their fears would most likely boost sales, but that's just how I see it from years of experience and playing my first Sims game in 2000.

If they think waiting is best, we just have to hope for the best.

Whelp, I already have 600 words and counting. I hope you guys are happy. OTL

Not sure it'll be too much longer, but I do plan on posting it on Ao3. I tried to keep the characterization general but my odd sense of humor refused to be left out, as a result Ryder comes off as snarky.

I'll have a link handy when I get done. :3

EDIT: Pon.ee @princeenigmatic Fanfic AHOY~ First Contact. Complete with female and male versions, though there's no actual difference between them. *goes to hide under a leaf*

I've seen a couple comments about this so I just went back and relistened to the Reyes clip followed by some from Jaal's voice actor and I have to say.....I don't think the accents sound the same at all.  I think Reyes sounds like he has a spanish influenced accent and Jaal has an african influenced accent.  They pronounce some words very differently, enough to sound like totally different accents to me.  But I am a silly American who has almost no language ability outside of English, so I might be wrong.

Maybe they are like the Tamaraneans, and learn the language of other species through lip contact 

Okay, the stare down -- are you guys talking about the scene at about 1:10 where there are two profiles on screen, Scott on one side, and a blue-skinned person on the other? I don't think that's Jaal or even someone of his species. I mean the nose alone is pretty much human-shaped.

Oh okay; I would love to see the "outtakes" of that scene. Like if we kept watching we'd see Jaal's model just walk face-first into Scott's model and, yay, crazy glitches ensue

Okay that scene is officially ruined for me now   ever see the behind the scenes of ME sex? That was so funny I can't even play through one without laughing now!

I'll see if I can find it. It showed the funny angles the characters are in and how they are miles apart. Tali had 2 masks when she takes one off to show male Shep, Garrus is in the room while a naked female Shep showers, making out with an empty bed, etc... 

My point is, some people are just flirty regardless of intent and have to sometimes shut things down when it becomes clear that the other side is serious. Sometimes, you get shut down on. I see nothing wrong with that.

Escapism, sure, but there's limits to how far people want to push their suspension of disbelief, like when everyone copped a fit because everyone was bi in DA2 (I think it was DA2) because it wasn't realistic.

And golly, you're gonna write more? You, my friend, are playing with fire, but I personally thank and salute you 

On a more speculatory note; if the Kett aren't going to be 100% evil and have sympathetic motives, what if we have to choose between them and the Angarans? BioWare has said that we haven't seen all the squadmates yet (which I'm still rather dubious about). What if Jaal and a Kett are mutually exclusive part members depending on which side we choose?

At this point, I'm not too sure how I'd feel about that.

Excuse me while I translate my urban black colloquialisms.

copped a fit=having an attitude/being angry/etc

Fans were angry over everyone being bi whichever Bioware game everyone was bi in, which spurred the changes made in later games.