Jaal Ama Darav (Official Thread)

Me too, though i'd envision that character profiles for Drack and Vetra will come before Jaal so we're probably still a few weeks away from his character profile being up on ME.com

If that's their excuse for not giving us info on him, I will be very disappointed. I mean, Peebee, Vetra and Drack weren't originally part of the Pathfinder team, so we shouldn't get profiles for them, either, if that's how their logic works. I think we'll be getting a character profile for Jaal, but probably after everyone else we've seen so far. I wonder if they'll release profiles for crew members as well? Then his might be released after some of those as well. Hopefully by the time we get some real information on him the game won't be out yet... 

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Ok so welcome to all the newcomers to this thread! Despite what may or not be circulating around the interwebs, this isn't a weird or crazy place, just a lot of fans who are really intrigued by Jaal and like his design to talk and speculate and discuss.

I'm not sure but was it a dev who responded a little negatively to the Jaal fandom? I wouldn't think it would be. I mean, what would they rather want from the fans? Disinterested complacency and ambivalence? Racist, sexist, anti-SJW anti-EA "IHATEYOUBIOWARE" rants? Or excited, enthusiastic fans, passionately and respectfully discussing with equal interest and a good dash of humour about a character they are excited about meeting?

Anyway, on topic, kind of, in that picture you linked fialka , the one with Avina, Cora and Vetra on the Nexus, I am pretty sure there is a quarian looking figure in the far far background? Kind of greeny blue? Sort of looks like a male quarian to me, but I could be wrong.

And as a sidenote, if I were the creator and or writer of Jaal, I'd be really humbled by the positive and enthusastic response to the characters brief unveiling.

This thread is hardly crazy or weird. Its a really positive and friendly space, much like a lot of other areas on the BSN to be fair (excluding the Political Thread ), which is why I come to this site to talk about the games, and avoid reddit and youtube like the plague.

It's my favourite ME:A character thread in fact and I don't even want to romance Jaal!

In the grand scheme of things and I'm a vet of BSN, I've seen much weirder stuff. This is very tame and it's just shits and giggles, nothing to clutch your pearls over new blood, imo. Just BSN being BSN.

It's like the Solas thread. People were misunderstood there too. Only difference here is we don't have any leader or spokesperson for this one. Everyone just combines together. It's lovely.

We spent sooo long on Ashe's stream trying to figure out who that Quarian-like person was, and concluded it's probably just an Angara. On the planet in the gameplay trailer you see a lot of people wearing hooded civilian outfits too, but none are Quarians.

Yeah, I would loooove to see Quarians but I am 99% sure that was an Angaran. But that doesn't mean we won't see the Quarians! Don't lose hope!

Ohhh this is my new favorite idea, glowing because feels...
All the possibilities. Maybe some flashing as warning, wave-like for laughter, subdued for sadness, a soft pink glow for happiness/love?

Even its never part of the game, I will put this into my headcanon and it will stay there forever!

All this talk about the Quarians, what about the Vorcha? I still want my Vorcha scientist crewmate dagnabbit!

Okay, so I was thinking it looks like Jaal came from that building in the back and everyone (including the Angaran lady in red) sort of stepped out of his way and then he walked down the stairs. And it was just a feeling (and hope bc that would make him look very badass) but I found this





Listen... I have reason to believe that might be Jaal in the background, but we can only see half of him bc of the lady's leg. 
Okay, so notice the armors? The soldiers in the beginning escorting Ryder are all wearing mostly black


with some yellow and what looks like turquoise in this light, but it's only in some places, mostly shoulders and in small patches. And the arms are all black. Including the shoulders (except the yellow patches)

The 5 Angarans in the first picture also have a mix of black and turquoise armor. 

Okay. So in the first picture, several Angarans can be seen moving in the background, one of them clearly has white arms on his armor, etc. But the one I circled looks like he's moving towards the stairs. And look at his armor. And compare it to Jaal's: 




We know that he has a turquoise jacket-ish thing that extends below his shoulders and that the rest of his arms are black. Honestly, comparing that to the figure in the first picture, I'm pretty convinced that's Jaal in the background. The figure's armor colouring doesn't look like anything else we've seen in that scene, and I would say it's unique to Jaal.

So my point is that Jaal did indeed walk all the way to those stairs as everyone just sort of stepped aside for him (judging by the scene where we see Jaal's face and the lady in red behind him looks like she had just stepped aside for him to pass) which leads me to conclude that Jaal is indeed a high ranking Angaran and maybe even some kind of leader - either way he definitely has some authority. 

Badass Jaal: confirmed 

Disclaimer: I'm not taking this post very seriously myself so please don't go all "that's one hell a stretch what are you talking about this is why they're calling us crazy fangirls" like. I know how far fetched this is. I'm just saying, it could be true. Which would be great. But this was meant more as a joke 

I couldnt stop myself so I've done a second oneshot (2nd chapter) www.fanfiction.net/s/12351328/2/Kiss
XD I claim you all are an awesomely bad influence on me XD haha xx

Its because were just that good XD and they probably left all the clues for us like they did with Ryder's name when we had the song 'ghost rider' then the hidden name tag..... bioware knows what they are doing XD they like to let us think we worked it all out by ourselves XD

I KNOW RIGHT, IS IT MARCH YET? 

I need to finish my InDesign projects but I'm just sitting here looking at the Jaal thread instead.   My priorities are perfect, okay?