Jaal Ama Darav (Official Thread)

Sure, as long as there's female options too.

When your thread about about a species gets merged with a thread about romancing a specific member of that species:

Well seeing as we're talking romances, wasn't it stated in an interview somewhere that there were going to be romances outside of the squad, like how we had cullen and Josephine but more of them and some of them smaller like Kelly? I can't remember where I read that. 

If so we don't just have to make our romance set fit our squad set, other Angarans and Ai peeps are in the line of potential fire.

For Scott I am really really really hoping to be able to romance both Liam and Jaal.

From the looks of things, Liam seems to start off with and develops an even greater friendship with Scott,
and I'd love to be able to turn that into an awesome romance over time throughout the game.

As for Jaal, while I enjoyed the everloving fuck out of Garrus and getting to know him and romance him in the trilogy -
I would have killed to be able to do that with a male Shep, and have a gay male alien romance </3
So yeah - very much crossing my fingers here for Jaal and Scott to be able to get to know each other intimately

For Sara - if Cora isn't straight, then perhaps. But I really want to romance Vetra with Sara.
The height difference makes everything super adorbs and awesome

PeeBee we'll see... I'm waiting to see if her Lone Wolf status might also carry through into romance territory,
with her being either aromantic - asexual - or both, would be really interesting and maybe put a cat amongst
the pigeons of those wanting to get their PeeBee on.

Drack would be super interesting, as a Krogan romance for starters - if Bioware would go there, I'm game.
But also as a romance with an older character, not just in comparison to how young Ryder is - but also
exactly how old Drack potentially is.

Then there's whoever this other teammate/teammates might be and whoever else might be on the Nexus,
an outpost, some random planet like they've been hinting at... or maybe even Kallo

*realises he's been rambling* .... I'm just really looking forward to this game okay?

Aren't you supposed to go dark?

Apparently I don't have a soul.

I like his design! Angara seem a mix of a Khajiit and a Twi'lek. Even if for Jaal...

-Blue eyes
-Monocle
-Scars
-Feline appearance

Garrus? Is that you? In another body?

I am in no way displeased by this

I just hope he isn't just a soldiar. I have nothing against military backgrounds, but if really Liam is the other male LI, I hope for some variety.
I would like if Jaal is some kind of diplomat. Surely being a native of this galaxy, it can open some very interesting rivalry path/confrontations.
But I believe he is some kind of bodyguard/soldiar.

I still would love my Quarian male romance...

As a fellow beacon of stupid hope I agree.   I said this elsewhere in the forum, but I'm hoping with their rather poor comparative track record of male LIs (for both genders, though you guys certainly got it worse) and the ME team (hopefully) being aware of the criticism, they went ahead and made Jaal and Liam bi. With gay or straight male options elsewhere on our crew or on the Nexus. Especially since it's looking like Cora, PeeBee, and Vetra might all be romanceable, and I doubt Drack is since he's supposed to be super old even by Krogan standards (which I love by the way - badass space Grandpa to a bunch of crazy alien kids? Hell yeah!). That would give players of both genders a choice between one human and one alien squadmate male LI, and about time, I say, since ME has had that option and more for the straight guys in every game in the trilogy... (Not saying I wouldn't want them to continue having those options, but, it's time we saw some balance, no?) Of course there might be 7th squad member, but they might not show up until later in the game if he (or she!) is being kept under wraps.

Anyway, getting away from the romance topic for a bit... I wonder about the Angaran culture and how they will end up interacting with ours. They look technologically advanced - I quite like their funky curved architecture. Also, it looks like they're on one of the jungle planets? The plants in their city (I do hope it's a real city!) look the same as the ones in this image:


And it looks they're going to have a complicated relationship with us Milky Way aliens. We see some at Sloane Kelley's outpost and among Milky Way enemies. And one joins our squad at some point - though we do meet him at gunpoint at first (an understandable precaution, considering). Perhaps they start joining us because the Kett are a common enemy? We also know there's some Angaran faction called the Rokar from that scanning scene in Sara's gameplay trailer, and that they're going around murdering Krogan in a rather gruesome manner. Which might suggest some are a little more hostile to our presence than others - unless the Krogan struck first. Might lead to an interesting relationship between Drack and Jaal if that's how first contact between their species happened...

By association. A lot of ladies immediately identify him with Garrus. I look at him and think Zenith, and well, that's one romance I wanted to get for a few years.

Most romanced characters are not unpleasant in Bio games, unless there are tons of options like in SWTOR. Here, we seem to only have two males, so Bio unlikely to make him an annoying, disgusting, pittiful, etc,

While I know that gay guys did not get any alien romances save for Cytherat, female PCs also did not get many non-humans either. There was only Zevran, Aric, Thane and Garrus in the games I've played... and, well, I don't like romancing humans, so.. Jaal is pretty much the only one we've seen as an actual option.

You know, I thought the same about the Vetra fans and the people who wanted to romance Cora when she was literally just a named human, but... I actually kinda get it now.

Yes, there's a chance I might not like him - that his voice will grate on me and I'll hate his personality. But, so far, the potential for what he could be as a character and romance has me excited. I find his design really appealing - strange and alien but still beautiful (those eyes...). And I was hoping for a pretty male alien - like what male players got with the asari and Tali. I wanted a male quarian - they're alien and exotic and their suits are pretty - but that's looking very unlikely. But now we have Jaal, and he's been semi-confirmed, and not worrying about killing him with my gross human germs is a plus. I know a lot of female players felt that about Thane but he was too amphibious for me  - apparently crustaceans are more my thing   - and those red gills freaked me out. And Thane's personality wasn't quite interesting enough for me to look past his looks like I could with Garrus (who I found aesthetically interesting, but not physically attractive either).

I also like the idea of a romance with a completely new species, whose culture I'm learning about for the first time - 'first contact' love stories are a pretty fun trope. Also, there's been female LIs like Morrigan, Miranda, and Jack and to a lesser extent Cassandra who have started off as suspicious, mistrustful, or even hostile toward our character. But it transforms into respect and then eventually (if you play a male protagonist anyway) a romance. We've never had a male LI like this and I've been wanting one, a lot. Jaal may not be, but the less-than-friendly circumstances under which we apparently meet makes it a possibility.

So why exactly does this Jaal join a group of what could be invaders from another galaxy?

That could be it, tough if i was Jaal i wouldnt trust the extra galactic newcomer any more, theres always a catch. Theyre still going to come to live near or into your territory. so unless most angarans are xenophilic all loving space hippies, i see co-existance problematic. Who knows, the only thing i know about angarasn atm is that they seem to love outlandish colors on their clothes.

I agree with all this ^


Ditto to the stuff about learning about angaran culture. Something I'm really excited about, getting to meet a new alien species and learning about their culture and history etc.

A lot of us weren't sure Jaal was male so we referred to him as "them" that's why most assume he's an LI after Ian replied with that tweet.