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Salarian Image Reference Post - The Citadel Part 2 - Flux, Chora's Den and the Citadel Tower

Part 1 of this post can be found here.

Flux's bartender is one of my favourite random background salarians. I didn't even try to adjust for the lighting here, but I love the contrast between his red eyes and the light blue markings...

Some assorted images of Flux customers - the last two have the same markings, seen here from different angles.

This guy in Chora's Den is actually a really nice olive green colour, but you have to crank the brightness in the photo mode up pretty high to see it!

This guy looks pretty similar to Flux's bartender but it's hard to get the camera close enough to see him properly.

This salarian also seems to use the same model as Flux's bartender.

To round off the Citadel part of this series, here are a variety of salarians found in the Citadel Tower. The topmost NPC out of these four is I think the only salarian I spotted with that specific colour combination (lilac and magenta) for their face markings.

The next part of the series will cover Noveria and Feros. I will update each installment with links to the others as I go along!

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you know im enjoying something if i start making textposts about it

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could make a community as a Mordin fanclub... hmm... 🤔

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Even a Salarian needs a tiny break

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Trazyn doodle page I did while reading The Infinite and The Divine. I have to figure out how to draw and stylize this dusty old man immediately

My soul is being consumed by Warhammer rn 😵‍💫 I found an old 40k pc game (Dawn of War: Dark Crusade) with some very appealing robots on the cover at a thrift store for 2 euros a few weeks ago and it all went downhill from there. where have the necrons been all my life I am smitten

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keep up, princess

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he is done!!! This is the first time I ever modeled, textured, and then rigged a character completely from scratch!!

And here's a little test animation

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thinking about making my own Mordin Solus avatar in VRChat since some of them have not many varieties and could make this a different outfit for Mordin then 🤭

Edited the Model I rigged of Mordin so he has his horn back and wearing STG armor and... damn... he's hot

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Like look at him... so sexy...

Edited the Model I rigged of Mordin so he has his horn back and wearing STG armor and... damn... he's hot

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Edited the Model I rigged of Mordin so he has his horn back and wearing STG armor and... damn... he's hot

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Some salarian doodles from earlier

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served cunt. died. resurrected. served more cunt. died again.

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A random Salarian, its been a while since i drew something 🥲

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Needed to take a quick break, some doodles

Ignore that I wrote the date wrong like a doofus

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Okay but salarians' emotional processing is very fast to us.

It only seems fast to us.

From their perspective, we're the ones who wallow in sadness, never let go of a grudge, spend entire lifetimes yearning for love and never making a move, stay determined despite the odds

I can't tell how they must view it. How would you view a species whose happiness lasted years at a time? who take your life equivalent of months as a mental health break, who stay affected by the movies they watch to days on end.

To us, these years, months, and days are equivalent to weeks, days, and hours.

It's not just a case of a long lifespan—you don't see the asari stretching out their emotional experiences just because—no, we do in fact process emotions at a much much MUCH slower rate than those funky space frogs.

The awkward situations it would cause, the aftermath of a fight between you and your salarian friend where they immediately process it, decide it wasn't worth it, forgive you, and get over it. All within the same minute.

Meanwhile, you, the apex predetor human that you are, were cussing them out in your head during the whole duration of that minute. Only to turn around and see them return to their natural friendly demeanour, which could serve to either diffuse the situation or...

Piss you off even more. And now you're mad for two reasons.

So you restart the argument because you want them to engage with you, to actually show some emotions, a resemblance of a hint that they care. It's a basic human need to want others to relate to your emotions, to empathise, to actually stimulate you, and meet your emotional intensity.

But you get nothing from the salarian, they're fully over it. They'd much rather talk about the new episode of their favourite show, even watching paint dry seems more interesting to them than repeating this.

The misunderstanding it would cause, the gaint hill titled "miscommunication" every salarian and human must cross when it comes to friendship. The human brain reading too much into the salarian's behaviour, measuring it to the human scale and completely misinterpreting the message. While the salarian is completely lost to why you're making a mountain out of an ant hill, why can't you just let things go?

Worst case scenario, we seem very prideful, emotional, fragile, and nagging to them.

Best case scenario, we are confident, infectious with our happiness, determined, full of life and soul to them

But the most realistic scenario is that the salarian doesn't take offence because their unconscious brain knows you're a different species that should be acounted for with different measures, while our brain's tendency to "humanise" other species is a double edged sword that makes us hold them to human social standards that they invetiably fail to meet.

They realise they're speaking to a human with an average human emotional range. They don't look down on you for it, they understand therefore they empathise in their own way, become more paitent, allow behaviour from you that they wouldn't allow from other salarians because they know its in your nature.

If a human bit you because you touched their stomach, you'd completely cut ties with them. But if a cat smacked you awake with its paw for food at 3am, you wouldn't bat an eye at its behaviour. Because you realise the difference, you know this is normal cat behaviour, they square up with each other all the time. Their paw smack might as well be then first letter in the cat alphabet.

While some humans tend to misinterpret this behaviour as the cat hating them, the intentions do not matter at the end of the day because the action is hurtful and unacceptable to them.

Conclusion: Cat people would get along extremely well with salarians.

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On my first Mass Effect 2 playthru so I felt like doodling some guys + my Shep.

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So uh... mods are fun..💀