Remember when the gamers were upset about the OG Mass Effect 3 using a stock photo of an attractive human woman to reveal what fan-favorite Quarian Tali looks like unmasked? Well, apparently developer BioWare wants you to forget about all that because, alongside patching Tali’s portrait into something less Getty in Mass Effect Legendary Edition, the game maker is now selling merch of her updated, unmasked portrait.
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The Mass Effect Tali Zorah Framed Photo Replica is exactly as advertised on the tin: a metal frame with a brutalist acrylic window, and a tasteful portrait print of one Tali’Zorah vas Normandy for $30 USD. To the uninitiated, a photo of an attractive alien lady may seem pretty rudimentary in comparison to other, more showy BioWare products like a Garrus Vakarian body pillow, but the photograph holds a lot of weight for some who romanced Tali in BioWare’s remastered space trilogy.
In case Tali-lovers needed some IRL romance flavor text to convince them to add her replica photo to their cart, the product’s description page features a love letter from the purple humanoid alien gal.
I bet Tali got that last line from those space telenovelas she loves so much. Nerd.
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As a Quarian, Tali must walk the galaxy wearing a skin-tight plug suit and a face mask so foreign germs from, say, grimy humans like Commander Shepard don’t get them fatally ill. This is why Tali goes above and beyond in preparing her immune system for the worst just so she can be close to Shepard (the male-presenting version) during their romance in Mass Effect 2 and 3.
