{"id":30326,"date":"2012-05-23T17:45:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T17:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/05\/23\/kobbers-k4ll0-so-bioware-did-the-awful-thing\/"},"modified":"2017-07-01T16:26:43","modified_gmt":"2017-07-01T16:26:43","slug":"kobbers-k4ll0-so-bioware-did-the-awful-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/05\/23\/kobbers-k4ll0-so-bioware-did-the-awful-thing\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-30326 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/05\/23\/kobbers-k4ll0-so-bioware-did-the-awful-thing\/attachment\/30327\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/tumblr_m4fxy72wOr1qkv9q4o1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/tumblr_m4fxy72wOr1qkv9q4o1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/tumblr_m4fxy72wOr1qkv9q4o1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/kobbers.tumblr.com\/post\/23615822439\/k4ll0-so-bioware-did-the-awful-thing-to\">kobbers<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/k4ll0.tumblr.com\/post\/23560026171\/so-bioware-did-the-awful-thing-to-actually-reveal\">k4ll0<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>So Bioware did the awful thing to actually reveal Tali\u2019s face <em>AND<\/em> doing a crap job at it. That made me pretty much deny the whole thing ever happening (..among other things) so Tali\u2019s \u201cofficial\u201d face is still a mystery to me.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d like to point out before anyone gets mad about her looking \u2018wrong\u2019 that this is 90% my headcanon and it\u2019s not meant to necessarily meet anyone else\u2019s ideas about her looks. How she looks here is based on my views of Quarian biology, geography of Rannoch, codex\/dialogue, and earlier Quarian concepts. I always try to make my headcanons logical in a bio<strong><em>logical<\/em><\/strong> sense (adsjghf im so funny) but since we don\u2019t know that much about quarian physiology, most of my \u201cfacts\u201d are guesses at most.<\/p>\n<p>So if you\u2019re interested, go ahead and read the massive wall of lol-science text because I obviously had too much time in my hands.<\/p>\n<p>Sooo..<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/68.media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_m4fxg4CEDT1qj0s93.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The first thing you have to remember are the enviro-suits and how important they are to quarian culture. They\u2019ve been worn by quarians for hundreds of years and there\u2019s no way the suit\u2019s design hasn\u2019t been inspired by how the quarians look underneath the suit. It also makes it quite certain that quarians don\u2019t have horns, big ears or anything that would greatly effect the suit design (both aesthetically and functionally).<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, according to the codex Rannoch\u2019s surface temperature is over 48\u00b0C so it\u2019s one hot place to live in. Most mammals that live in hot places on Earth have huge ears for cooling purposes but quarian suits make that idea seem quite impossible or at least very un-practical. Since quarians are probably not cold-blooded, I\u2019d imagine they would have a \u2018ventilation\u2019 closer to us humans but more suited for Rannoch\u2019s temperatures. The \u2018cuts\u2019 and lines on her face are like a super efficient cooling system and they pretty much cover the whole body as well, keeping quarians from overheating but also saving them from having to sweat all the time. Sweating would suck in that suit.<\/p>\n<p>Also since Rannoch is mostly a desert planet, and thus a very brown habitat to live in, quarian skin color is most likely very \u2018natural\u2019 looking. Any overly colorful skintones (green, blue, purple etc) don\u2019t really make sense from evolution\u2019s point of view, so to me quarians have always had a wide variety of brown-ish skin color to help their ancestors blend into their surroundings.<\/p>\n<p>And as for the overall skin type, I\u2019d like to think quarians are more like turians than humans. Grunt once said that humans, asari and salarians are soft and thus easy to kill, turians and quarians not as much. So quarian skin would be tougher and thicker than human skin since their physique is obviously quite the same. <\/p>\n<p>The markings on her face are kinda like tattoos. Having something special decorating your face and body is something I see quarians appreciate, but anything other than permanent tattoos would be too much trouble because of the suit. The \u2018text\u2019 itself is a part taken from Migrant Fleet ships\u2019 walls, and it probably has something to do with their homeworld as always.<\/p>\n<p>And no hair. At least in a sense that humans would think as hair. To me growing any \u2018fur\u2019 in that suit makes no sense since I doubt they\u2019d have hair in any other reason than for aesthetical purposes, and no-one gets to see it anyway because of the damn suit. Since they already use a lot of cybernetic augmentations in their bodies you\u2019d think they also used some sort of medicine or technology to stop any unnessecary hair from growing. At least I would. But yeah if they had hair, it\u2019d be kinda like dreadlocks because ..because I say so.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, I\u2019ve seen a lot of art and posts that describe quarians kinda sickly-looking because of all the years spent in the enviro-suit. I honestly can see where people are coming from with the idea but it\u2019s still not how I see quarians. Yes they are often sick because of the immune system and sterile environment, but I\u2019d also like to believe that the suits are damn well made and don\u2019t really affect their overall appearance that much. Otherwise you\u2019d hear a lot more whining. <\/p>\n<p>..wow I wish I could hide text in photo posts. that\u2019s a lot of <strike>crap<\/strike> text. I think I just got myself +100 pathetic geek points. level up, man.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>hnng I\u2019m reblogging too much of other peoples\u2019 art and posting too little of my own, but this is really great stuff too. I thought that revealing Tali\u2019s face would be a mistake, but having quarians look practically human was an even bigger mistake. I read your artbook, Bioware. I know you had cooler ideas for quarians. We already had asari to play the role of space-babes.<\/p>\n<p>(talked with my cousin about this recently &#8211; he thought Tali should have been really ugly, haha. And Shepard would still have loved her :B)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>kobbers: k4ll0: So Bioware did the awful thing to actually reveal Tali\u2019s face AND doing a crap job at it. That made me pretty much deny the whole thing ever happening (..among other things) so Tali\u2019s \u201cofficial\u201d face is still a mystery to me. I\u2019d like to point out before anyone gets mad about her &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/05\/23\/kobbers-k4ll0-so-bioware-did-the-awful-thing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30328,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30326\/revisions\/30328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}