It’s canon that Angaran society subdue sickness and ill health similar we do sexuality. This means that talking about sickness isn’t something you can bring up in casual conversation, but it might depend on the situation; a group of friends can definitely joke about their hay fevers, and some Angaran equivalent of Buzzfeed is probably making videos of stomach infections.

And since the Angara don’t sneeze, they might not cough or vomit either. (Like rats, or horses.) So it’s not like humans where it’s taboo to cough openly on public transportation; when an Angara gets sick, it’s also literally private because its very internal.

If there’s any visual indicator that an Angara is sick, it might be a skin condition. Angara skin texture is scaleous and pebbly, which might indicate shedding (like lizards or snakes), or like fish, they only visually shed chunks of skin if there’s something very wrong.

At that point, that Angara would be avoided like the plague. No self-respecting Angara would ever associate themselves with someone who was so obviously unhygienic and of ill condition. Of course, some Angara are more prone to sickness than others, and/or can’t help but continue their day even though they’re in dire need of medical attention.

The expectation to keep skin smooth is probably why Jaal is so invested in his moisturizers. He, like other Angara, isn’t gonna drop off chunks of skin unless he’s very sick, but it’s the height of Angaran beauty to have a glossy. soft face and mantle. And the odd flake that naturally hangs off is like having a huge whitehead right smack on your nose.

Scent, too, is important to Jaal. He doesn’t explicitly say how badly Eladaan’s heat affects him, but it probably created some bad B.O since he insists on a shower. Aquatic mammals like whales don’t sweat, but many excrete nasty goo for various reasons – protein based, like our sweat, and therefore stinky bacteria have a field day. Mmm, fishy Jaal.

And let’s get real; the Angara canonically have multiple gender identities, our celebrated soldier Jaal loves perfume and lotion, and the Angara are more rainbow colored than the spectrum itself. They’re obviously big on being fabulous and looking sharp, and other wonderfully queer, non-human-binary things. Instagram must be huge there.

I bet Angaran bioelectricity is mild when passive. You’re not gonna get shocked by just standing next to some random Angara, it’s not that potent right off the bat. More likely, Angara have control over minute muscles in their extremities that can discharge electrical energy, like the human ability to contract our pupils. And like all energy, it builds up before executing force, which means that someone who’s been shocking khett every five minutes is pretty drained of electricity while another topples a tank because they haven’t let one loose in several days.

A large group of Angara together, like, at a concert or something, creates this mysterious currant in the air. Like an evening before a thunderstorm. You swear your skin is tingling with some strange constant spark. Technically, this shouldn’t be happening because the Angara only release bioelectricity on command, but everyone knows the feeling anyways. It’s like the human tendency to sync menstrual cycles – no one knows why it happens, but we’re certain that it does.

Angaran pop culture is stalled, due to the 80-year Khett conflict. Music, art, and entertainment is decades behind what would have evolved if everyone wasn’t caught up in a war. What exists nowadays is very much caught up in the Resistance, the war effort, the loss and struggle, the fight and passion, and righteous fury. To humans, music sounds like 60′s pop – very artsy and Joan Baez – while movies and television programs are largely war dramas and other hard-hitting stuff. 

With such potent emotions, you’re more likely to see weeping Angara in a theatre rather than on the bus listening to their earphones. Angaran music is so dulled, dancing is a novel idea. But their movies don’t pull any punches when it comes to suspense, or action, or soberity, and so on. You’re more likely to hear music live, because of their instruments that rely on Angaran bioelectricity.

As Jaal states, education amongst the Angara is fractured. Jaal’s only schooling was studying under Moshae Sjefa for a time, before essentially dropping out. A couple years of schooling is considered undereducated. But during a time where only one planet isn’t unoccupied by the opposing force, getting a Masters’ isn’t gonna be as readily attainable. 

In fact, since Aya’s population is under so much demand its managed by a vessal system, Angara schooling under the Khett is probably private apprenticeships rather than government universities and managed curriculums. A child growing on Havarl or Voeld is sent by their family elders to accompany and study under working scientists and historians, while perhaps being tutored in writing back home.

Angaran dicks (yall knew this was coming) are partially internal, unwind from a screw-like position to point directly upwards, the point of entry being higher on the hip than human genitalia. So Angara are some of the few sentient species that naturally mate face-to-face, unlike Krogan or Turians. Body lubricants are oily and water-resistance, which requires a good scrubdown using soap afterwards. 

And it takes longer, too; human ejaculation is a mid-point between how other animals sire very quickly for necessity, while others focus on removing competitor DNA over a longer process. Because of the high reproduction rate of Angara, they (as a predator species) have evolved to ensure only their genes would be passed on. That’s purely from a layman’s explanation of their weird dicks and vaginas, of course. Angara society doesn’t put any attention on a partner’s past sexual history.

But the Angara do expect children. They’re colony-based families, where a child in a pack is everyone’s responsibility rather than a hierarchy of a top breeding pair and their children – like feral cat behavior versus wolf pack dynamics. Jaal’s brother’s wife became one of the family’s mothers rather than a sister-in-law, which to us sounds like a ‘rise in rank’, but to the Angara is what happens when another person joins the family. Everyone is equally responsible for raising and caring for the younger ones.

The Angara usually give birth in pairs (identical or fraternal, we don’t know), so having 30+ siblings and cousins means nearly every bonded pair is having descendants. I imagine that not every Angara wants to become a parent, which might cause tension.

And on the subject of mothers; there’s a reason why Jaal’s so big on oral. It’s because he doesn’t have any penetrating sexual organs. It’s egg-carrying Angara that have the dicks – more accurately, ovipositors – sexual organs that deposit eggs. Angara with sperm are the ones that carry and deliver children, by fertilizing the eggs internally.