Jaal: I don’t trust any of you aliens yet.
Also Jaal: I’m going to post an Angara word of the day on the crew bulletin board every single day.

feralsaarebas:

my fave part about jaal is like, honest to god how GENUINELy emotional he is. like u have all these movies and games where they’re all ‘oh he’s so emotional!’ but all the dude character does is whine and throw things but jaal just. is really fucking free with his emotions. he embraces the people he loves without a moments hesitation, he’s eager to do nice things for his friends, when horrible things happen he’s one of the first to weep, like genuinely fall to your knees weep, and he never tried to deny it. he even warns you on several occasions ‘i might cry, as this is a somber subject’ with the kind of flippancy you’d expect of someone saying ‘oh i might be doing this later’, he’s so genuinely unashamed of it! and anger! he gets angry too! but not in that edge-lord bloodthirsty way but in a deeply wounded righteous fury kind of way. i remember hearing him scream. ‘LOOK AT ME! I WILL KILL YOU. I WILL KILL YOU ALL!’ or something along those lines as he was witnessing someone, who he didnt even know, be horrifically tortured. he also openly says he loves people. before your romance with him is even locked in, he calls you ‘dearest’ and lists what he loves about you, SAYS that he loves you. and this isn’t used as a joke except for one time when he offers the crew ‘emotional sensitivity training’. they just. respect it. and he’s not weak. he’s not made to feel like less of a cool, tough resistance fighter. he’s not berated or talked down to. jaal is a deeply emotional, deeply sympathetic, and all loving badass resistance fighter who is allowed to be cool and open hearted at the same time.

you-are-a-program:

Don’t get why the andromeda initiative is so confused about the Scourge

It’s very clearly the physical manifestation of heteronormativity that Bioware thinks permeates not one but two different galaxies.