Jaal: So, Liam. I’m still confused about the nonspecific erogenous zones.
Ryder: Yikes.
Liam: (Coughs.) Maybe now’s not the time.
Jaal: Why not? I’ve no shame about my relationship with Ryder.
Liam: Yes, but we consider that private, like … oh! Like how angara never ever talk publicly about being sick. Like the other day …
Jaal: Liam! Conversation over.

xxleondraxx:

So I dont recall seeing a bellybutton on Jaal. I have a theory about that.

What if the two divets by his collar bone is actually the amgaran equivelant of a belly button?

Now hear me out. The codex entry for angara biology says, “Though there are variations from adapting to diggerent planets, all angara are warm-blooded mammals that gavor a cool, wet climate. Angaran females typically give birth to several young…” Word for word from the game.

So, like humans, angara are mamals that give, presumably, live birth. So they probably have umbilical cords somewhere.

After reviewing the naked armor scene with Liam and the romance scene (for science, of course) I see no trace of a belly button. However, those divets are quite deep. Just a sort of weirdly deep hole in the body. Like a human bellybutton.

And mind you, this is a different species in a different galaxy. Who’s to say the attachment of the chord has to be on the belly? So why couldn’t it be, say, a single chord that splits into two and is attached to where those divets by the collar bone are? Why not? Different galaxy, different rules.

At the very least it would make for a plausible explanation as to the lack of a bellybutton and those two deep divets on his torso.

feralsaarebas:

Well, here’s what I gather, especially regarding her later emails.

Jaal has told her about you. We know this, she says it right to your face. He probably told her, after your discussion about ‘family’, because he DOES ask you about your family, that you had no parents as they were both dead, and your brother’s in a coma. He told her about you, how amazing you are, and she sees you, this stranger in their galaxy, so dedicated to helping her people, so strong, so goodhearted, and beyond that she sees all of this, and she sees you alone. She sees a child, because to her that’s probably closer to what you are, as Ryder is no older than Jaal at this point, cast out 600 years away from their home with no hope of ever going back, whose parents are dead, whose only living relative is comatose in a hospital.

And whether you like it or not, she’s adopted you. You’re hers now. But she knows nothing about you. The angara know nothing about humans. Sure they know about the INITIATIVE, but not really about HUMANS. They don’t know about their foods, their homes, their hobbies, their sports, the things that make humans HUMAN. She knows you’re not an angara, she knows you are nothing like anything she has ever encountered, and she wants to rectify that. She wants her home to be YOUR home. She wants to be able to cook you food from your home planet and make sure you’re not allergic to any of the angaran food she tries to make for you. She wants to hear about how much you loved the zoo in your childhood and take you out to observe the wildlife on Havarl. She wants to hear about your favorite kinds of movies and, if she can’t procure the actual ones you watched, procure an angaran movie that she thinks is just like it. She wants to make sure she doesn’t accidentally poison you with the food she makes you, and she wants to make sure that her home can ease your homesickness. She knows that Jaal cares for you, she knows that Jaal trusts you, and seeing someone her son thinks so highly of be so seemingly alone in the world in terms of family breaks her heart.

Sure, I think it’s also that Sahuna is forward, she admits she ‘never feels embarrassment’, but I think it’s mainly than Sahuna, like her son, is a very kind hearted person who wants to make you feel at home in this new galaxy. She wants to be the family that you lack, and I think that’s one of the most beautiful dynamics in the game.