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PLAYER INFO.
✖ Handle: Tao
✖ Contact: Plurk @ TaoSenpai or AIM @ Taosenchii
✖ Are You Over 16: Y
✖ Other Characters Played in Consignment: N/A
CHARACTER INFO.
✖ Character Name: T’Soni Liara
✖ Canon: Mass Effect, in third game just before the assault on the Illusive man’s base.
✖ Character Appearance: Liara in Armour
✖ Character Age: 110
✖ Pick A Number: 21 and 91
✖ Canon Setting: Thessia is a beautiful planet. With no orbiting planetary satellites it’s a very calm world with large oceans and soaring silvery cities of the most modern architecture in the galaxy. It’s considered a garden planet, much like earth is but with the key difference of all of it’s flora and fauna can handle extremely high levels of element zero and not only are able to use biotics, but are the same tones of blue, purple, and teal that the asari themselves are. Thessia is designed around the concept of art, the aesthetic, political discourse, and cultural appreciation. It’s cities are a marvel of beauty and as much artistry is put into mundane objects as they are grand ones. The asari operate on a very communal basis, with religion being a very non-confrontational concept in which locals are free to associate themselves as closely as they choose or ignore completely if that is their desire. Although, most asari seem to believe deeply in a goddess, Athame.

It’s a highly liberal society, most asari living together in larger groups such as a matriarch and her acolytes sharing a house together. This is not uncommon, and many asari are very liberal in who they take both as partners and in their hobbies or free time. It’s not uncommon on Thessia to see consort houses or hotels of a similar fashion, for many it’s seen as another form of artistry. Modesty is also not a concept that the asari hold in much regard, when dealing with aliens they consider it to keep them comfortable, but in their own society, which is monogendered, it often overlooked.

There are some social taboos that are mentioned such as ‘pure blood’ asari, this means that an asari daughter born between two asari parents. Often times it is feared because of the genetic disease that can cause ardat yahkshi, or asari that cannot meld nervous systems with another being without overpowering the other person and entirely burning their partner’s nervous system out. These asari are highly feared and often locked away in specific monasteries where they can live out their exceedingly long life spans surrounded by asari of a similar condition. There are other odd things that can happen with pureblood asari such as obsessive tendencies and mannerisms that can indicate something similar to a sociopathic diagnosis in humans.

The asari also seem to have a very high sense of social structure and appropriate mannerisms that go along with different stages of their life cycle and their station within the society. Artisans are thought of very highly, as are scholars, and politicians, from there it filters down. They do not place a strong focus on their military but that does not mean they do not have one. The asari are tough and voracious opponents when pressured, but compared to other members of the galaxy they are far inferior in military strength.

Much of the asari culture was generated 50, 000 years ago from the Protheans, who guided the asari by showing them how to grow crops, create tools, build homes, and elevate themselves from creatures living in mud huts to something close to what we would consider the ancient egyptians to be today. Athame is often depicted as a prothean in the early hieroglyphics showing the asari how to do many of these basic skills to create a decent society to which they could build off of and thrive, which they did.

The asari are the oldest race in the galaxy currently, with each asari being able to live over a millennia, it’s not uncommon to see humans around the 25 year age mark dating an asari that’s 400 or older. They’re very good at coping with loss, having such long lifespans, their minds can recall information from another person’s nervous system if they’ve bonded with them and remember specific ideas from that person long after they’re gone. It’s a tactic that many asari do not talk about because it is considered exceedingly private and is not something that is often discussed unless a younger asari is dealing with their first loss of a loved one.

✖ Character History: Link to Liara's Wiki
✖ Character Personality: Liara is best described as innocent, sweet and bookish. But, she keeps her business side much quieter to her friends than what they expect. As the Shadowbroker, Liara knows quite a bit more information than anyone else in the galaxy. Liara even states that if she was given ten minutes she could start a war between any combination of races in the galaxy with the information networks. What she controls is all the sensitive information that people think is kept safe, locked up, or destroyed. Information that people do not want to have exposed or brought up. She’s ruthless as an information broker, letting nothing stop her from getting her objectives and learning more about anything that she can get her hands on. One of her scenes involves threatening to flay someone alive with her mind if they didn’t give her the information she was promised.

She tends to keep these traits hidden from her friends, her obsessive attitudes in collecting information. Of course, when it comes to her all-time love of prothean [a previous empire of aliens that went extinct because of a massive invasion by sentient space ships] history it’s very easy to get her tripping over herself in trying to find information and answers to her numerous questions. She’s very excitable when it comes to prothean history, acting more like a child than her ruthless Shadowbroker persona that she works at maintaining.

Liara cares very deeply for her friends, including the Commander that she’s had an infatuation with to the extent that she went looking for the Commander’s body once she learned that they had been killed. It was even her decision to turn over Shepard’s body to Cerberus [A humans for humanity terrorist group] in the hopes that they could bring the Commander back to life. She will go above and beyond for her friends and for causes that she believes are important. Using her skills and hidden abilities as the Shadow broker she can pull strings with all kinds of organizations and people across the galaxy. Although, it is not widely known that Liara is the Shadow broker. Very few people have access to this knowledge, mostly the Normandy crew and a few people that Liara has told personally, like her asari father Aethyta.

Within conversation, Liara tends to trip over herself of make odd blunders in how she phrases her words. While being very intelligent and holding a PhD from a prestigious asari university, she feels more comfortable around books and computers than she does people. As the Shadow broker she holds the anonymity of a voice changer and not showing her actual face. It gives her a power that she lacks in face-to-face conversations where sometimes what she means and what she says doesn’t mesh up entirely. Often the blunders are minor and just end up making her feel awkward.

Over the progression of three games, with her only debut in the second game being a DLC and a very short side mission, Liara grows from an awkward introvert into someone that is quite complex. There is something vaguely proud about her, being the daughter of a Matriarch, and haughty with a sense of indignation about being called out on not being proper for what the asari are considered to be. Her obsession with the Commander and Protheans don’t go unnoticed either, while she’s certainly a very soft and likeable character there is always a darker side to Liara’s personality that cannot be pinpointed to merely one trait, but that might be the result of her telepathy upon other characters.


✖ Character Powers:The highlights of Liara’s abilities are within her use of biotics, as outlined in the wiki as the manipulation of an element that when an electrical current is added to it increases or decreases the weight of the object or person it is imbedded within. The element can also be used in various other attacks such as creating miniature black holes, or ripping something or someone apart at a molecular level. All asari are born with the ability to use biotics because it is naturally occurring in their bodies like iron is in humans.

Asari are also capable of a small amount of telepathy. This allows them to adjust their appearance to other people/species to make them seem more attractive. Because Liara is young she doesn’t play up her abilities of making herself overly attractive, but she carries the same elegance and grace that all asari seem to have. Liara is also able to access people’s minds and when needed can mesh her nervous system’s electrical signals with another person’s. She never uses either of these abilities without permission because it is a difficult and exhausting process for both her and whomever she’s melding with.

Liara is also highly adept at obtaining information, sorting through information, and organizing information into what is highest and lowest priority. She’s very adept at handling multiple things at once and still keeping a very level head and her quiet demeanour.

CHARACTER SAMPLES.
✖ First Person POV: Test Drive Meme

✖ Third Person POV There was so much information that she had to sift through. RUnning the Shadowbroker network only added to the stress of trying to find a plan or some method to stop the reapers. Reports were coming in across the board of planets suddenly going dark, others vanishing entirely being demolished entirely from orbit. It made her head spin how many reports all pointed in the same direction, they were losing, and drastically.

Setting the report back on the table she rubbed at her eyes and reached for her drink, surprised when the man in heavy armour across from her slid into the vacant seat across from her. Holding up a hand he silenced the inquiry on the tip of her tongue and instead spoke evenly.

“I have a way to save your planet from destruction,” was the only thing he said. Liara’s eyes narrowed suspiciously, no one could save an entire planet, it was impossible. She wasn’t even sure that it was possible.

“No one can save a planet from destruction.” She replied cooly, watching the person across from her. It wasn’t one of her agents, she knew that, and the person across from her here seemed a little too relaxed for her to be comfortable with.

“We can, if you agree to help us, we can save your home planet.” He insisted, the hint of distress in his voice more apparent now and Liara, part of her was desperate for any help in trying to save Thessia from the Reapers. “Otherwise it’ll be targeted sometime soon, probably very soon.”

Liara had her doubts but she also knew that any information in the galaxy was worthwhile and she wouldn’t get anything without cooperation. She wanted more information, needed it, but she’d made deals with people must more untrustworthy and unsavory than someone who obviously had to know slightly who she was.

“I’ll help you, but you need to tell me what information you have.” She replied, the man across from her smiled and stood, adjusting his armour.

“That’s a yes, right?” He clarified, almost insisting she say yes.

“Yes, I’ll help you.” She replied, watching him, wondering what she had just, perhaps, stupidly agreed to.

“Then welcome to the CDC.” He replied, giving her a smile and motioning her to follow him, “I’ll fill you in as we walk.” It wasn’t exactly as Liara had hoped for as an explanation, but taking her datapad in hand she followed him into the crowd.

CHARACTER ITEMS.
✖ Pick a Team: Blue Team
✖ Mission Freebie: Her VI assistant 'Glyph'
✖ Personal Item or Weapon: One Carnifex heavy pistol.

✖ Character Inventory:

Liara will bring in one set of light asari armour in medic white.