
She also names her combat drones and praises them for doing a good job of killing things.
Badass Adorable: She can fight her way through hundreds of geth without breaking a sweat and yet she stammers when you romance her. Back Stab: She'll be forced to kill Legion this way if you're unable to broker peace between the quarians and geth and choose not to let Legion upload the Reaper code. She's an Admiral in the third game, but aside from making a few deals on the Citadel and voting against going to war with the geth, she doesn't really do any admiral stuff. Authority Equals Asskicking: Though only technically. She could only deploy one in Mass Effect 2, which was so much weaker that a better name for it would be "Distraction Drone". While she can't summon more than two at a time, she can almost instantly replace them when they're destroyed. One guards her personally, while the other floats around the the area, distracting enemies and bombarding them with rockets.
Attack Drone: She can deploy two at a time in Mass Effect 3. Notably, she still keeps the name in the third game, when every other quarian has taken to using "vas Rannoch". After you earn Tali's loyalty (especially if you proved the admirals wrong and got Tali acquitted without the evidence), she decides to let the name stick. Appropriated Appellation: During her loyalty quest the Admiralty board (specifically Zaal'Koris) has Tali's ship name changed from "vas Neema" to "vas Normandy," in the belief that being associated with a human ship (and having a human captain represent her instead of a quarian) would hurt her chances of avoiding exile. Apologetic Attacker: She really doesn't want to kill Legion, and tells it before it dies that yes, it really does have a soul. Anger Born of Worry: Like the other love interests, if she's taken along to the final mission of the Leviathan DLC in Mass Effect 3, Tali chastises Shepard for almost getting killed.
While it's perfectly possible for straight females to appreciate the female form from a purely aesthetic standpoint, it does add a bit more weight to the idea that Tali has, shall we say, curiosities. Also during the Citadel DLC party you can get a drunk Tali to tell you about her ridiculously elaborate tattoo, one element of which is a naked lady riding a Thresher Maw.Played for Laughs, but considering how flustered she got around Fem!Shep in the second game during that suit-linking conversation. Ambiguously Bi: During the Citadel DLC, if Garrus is romanced by Fem!Shep, depending on how the party goes, she can be found drunk and talking to herself in a pretend conversation with him, in which the possibility of a threesome intrigues her.Having her be an admiral is required to get the peaceful ending to the Rannoch quest line, and on one occasion she is seen negotiating with a turian to arrange the now-emptied Quarian Fleet to evacuate turian refugees. Ambadassador: Seems to be her de facto position on the Admiralty Board.A male Shepard who romances her calls her " miss vas Normandy." Joker quips that, every time he hears Shepard call her that, he expects her to be wearing a sash and tiara.
The jumpy one with the glowing eyes? Sparks.