Jaal Ama Darav (Official Thread)

You are right.

And is skin is really pretty! *.*


Another thing! Do you guys think the ama in his name is a honorific?

I was going to say this too. I'm kind of confused, actually? If we talk about anything "out there" we're joking half the time. Meanwhile other fans fixate to a crazy extent on Cora's hair or whether or not her butt is big enough or if her height and weight taken together make her fat, etc.

I don't know, I'm not fond of being labeled a "crazy fangirl fandom" even in jest because usually it makes people get nasty. The game isn't even out yet and we're getting that label?

I see your point. On the other hand, we did see only 3 seconds of Jaal, and just look at this thread.

Ama Darav may be something like 'of Darav', kind of like Vas with Quarians.

On another note, when do you guys think they'll introduce us to Jaal, if they will at all before release? I remember one tweet in response to the dev who talked about Jaal's butt suggesting that she should make up a little haiku about him once they've told us more about him. That's kind of suggestive of us getting info on him before the game comes out.

Here's that old pic of the Angara (I believe my comment then in regards to a possible romance among their species was something like - no thanks, purple play-doh people, not doing it for me... LITTLE DID I KNOW...):
So my guess is the textures on these guys aren't finished, since they look really basic and flat compared to what we saw in the recent trailer. But it does look like the common NPCs wear tighter clothing with drape-y bits. But I imagine Jaal will wear something more unique if he does have more casual clothes around the ship. Though his teal jacket might be that, but he'll have optional light armor to wear out in the field (if I'm correct in that he's an infiltrator/soldier with emphasis on stealth type). I'm hoping he has armor to wear anyway. That Angaran armor looks pretty badass. Also these guys do look very thick... Jaal looks like he's a bit slimmer than them.
I also noticed all the Angara in that line-up are wearing identical green armor, except for the lady leader in red who's wearing something unique. And I just noticed how in that gif it looks like she just stepped aside for him... Hmm. Also does anyone remember the 'quarian' on the Nexus? I'm guessing now that's a female Angara. She look like she's wearing the same green outfit as the girls above. And there's a casually dressed one beside her. So, mystery possibly solved, but... Quarians...? (Not that Jaal isn't a fantastic consolation prize and all, but, my space gypsies - this picture was my one hope!   ):

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Comes with being female (or perceived female) and a fan. Trying being a Cullen fan for the past several years. I didn't even "desire" him in that way; I just thought he was a great, complex character and wanted to romance him with my character. Yet I was lumped in with the "raving fangirl!!11111 omg so kawaiii hoooTOTTTTTT want to bang hahahahahah" trope. (Which was hardly any old school Cullen fans).

Of course one thing that contributed to the disdain and the name-calling was a somewhat new group of fans who coined the term "Cullenite" and started posting naked pics of Cullen in the thread and acting generally like teenagers (and also tweeting the devs all that stupid shit). Sometimes you can't help what other people in a fandom do. You will just get lumped in with all of them. That's part of the reason I'm against have a fandom "name" (like the Jaal Cats or whatever) or tweeting the devs fan art and stuff.

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Comes with being female (or perceived female) and a fan. Trying being a Cullen fan for the past several years. I didn't even "desire" him in that way; I just thought he was a great, complex character and wanted to romance him with my character. Yet I was lumped in with the "raving fangirl!!11111 omg so kawaiii hoooTOTTTTTT want to bang hahahahahah" trope. (Which was hardly any old school Cullen fans).

Of course one thing that contributed to the disdain and the name-calling was a somewhat new group of fans who coined the term "Cullenite" and started posting naked pics of Cullen in the thread and acting generally like teenagers (and also tweeting the devs all that stupid shit). Sometimes you can't help what other people in a fandom do. You will just get lumped in with all of them. That's part of the reason I'm against have a fandom "name" (like the Jaal Cats or whatever) or tweeting the devs fan art and stuff.

Oh, I've seen us Solas fans got our share of accusations and labels from many fans, often to a bizarrely caustic personal level. We're the types that fall in love with serial killers in real life, we're racism/abuse apologists, we're pathetic fangirls who are "obsessed" some douchebag character and to be disdained, so on and so forth. It's not fun how far that stuff can go.

But honestly, we digress. Fact is that Jaal fandom is chill and nice and though it gets me a little on edge that people on Twitter are presenting us as bordering on obsessive, there's nothing that can really be done about that.