What is it about asari?

So I was in the bar having a Flare (or three - almost persuaded the bartender to give me a fourth) and there was this asari dancer. Fair enough; I mean, they're everywhere nowadays. No offense to actual asari out there. As opposed to fake asari.

Anyway, it got me wondering what it is exactly about them that attracts multiple species. I mean there were turians and humans and I think I saw a krogan there, all staring at the dance-table-thing. Am I missing something here, is it like... turn-on pheromones or something? My question is; why do most sapient species out there want to get it on with asari?

I think the leading theory is that they just incorporate a lot of traits that a lot of species find appealing among their own. Fringes, colorful skin, five fingers, etc.

Or they put something into the water.

Not all of us do you know.

Most Asari have no idea. Charming personalities? :P

Actually, has someone done a study? I'm curious, now.

Someone's afraid of them bumps. :3

Don't get the appeal more like.

I mean they're just there, they don't do anything besides hang around and yet most males and a fair few of the galaxy's females absolutely lose their minds at the sight of them.

Or not even the sight

the reminder that they even exist.

One should not be deterred that they are obviously filled with dark eezo. Adventure is the soul of discovery, as is said.

Oh please, the one thing you must know about asari boobs is; that you can motor-boat them.

And when all is said and done that's all that counts!

And how's that make 'em different from regular tits?

what the fuck is wrong with this website

They're blue, duh...

And how does that make them different from normal chest lumps? I've never really understood the appeal of those, I mean, yea squishy and all, nice to use as a pillow but... I'm afraid I'll frigging break something.

Too many to count; it's a subject that's obviously of some professional interest, I try to keep up to date on the latest research. So far (to my knowledge) nobody's found any kind of wonder pheromone or psychic field or take your pick of far-fetched theories.

Anyway. Having been on the receiving end of pretty much every species being attracted to us, I think it's really just a matter of subtle cues based on deep-seated tribal instincts. Most species - even if they consciously override it in the interests of broader cooperation - are innately cautious and reserved in dealing with people who aren't part of their 'tribe', whether that be a clan or a guild or a subculture; the old 'us vs them' theory. That instinct's always there, etched into the psyche by generations of biological and cultural evolution, and it manifests in all sorts of subtle indicators - body language and so on - that are very difficult to consciously suppress, while at the same time very easy to pick up on as an observer, even if only subconsciously. It's why if you visit, say, an aircar dealership and the attendant does one of those clichéd 'friendly' acts, it's often so off-putting (at least, I know a lot of people find it so) - even if we haven't made any particular study of body language, speech patterns, and all that, we've got all that evolution backing us up as well: we sense it's not real friendship/camaraderie being expressed, just something that looks like it.

Asari - I've seen quite detailed studies into this, I'll go try to find the bookmarks if anyone's interested - have that clannish instinct only very weakly, so far as modifying our behaviour to 'outsiders' goes: our primary reaction to a person we don't know, whose manner and features and bearing is different from our familiar group, is curiosity first, and as a whole the notion that the unfamiliar could be a threat is something we arrive at far more by conscious deduction than innate instinct. Those cues that tell someone they're being seen as a 'stranger' (in a negative sense) are far weaker. It can still be pushed too far (those daft be-the-customer's-friend sales tactics aforementioned), but in general terms an asari is less likely to trigger those evolved outsider responses - that she's (obviously) different is more likely to be mentally classified in a positive manner like 'exotic'.

It's always worked for me, anyway. Smile, and people tend to smile back. On a species level, we tend to smile at 'aliens' more than average. Everything else is a follow-on consequence of that.

Don't worry about that, I've done a lot field tests and none has ever broke on me...

Sulla, you didn't damage anything.
But your caution is truly appreciated:)

I also have to deny the claim that there's something in the water.
Well, at least for C-Space.

There are, as Daia said, quiet a few studies, some are just plain awkward though. I am not sure what some of the authors actually 'studied' there.

I like these
Asari sociology and the universal attraction by Maxis Dahag
The siari principle by Keat'Nao vas Marinox
Universal blue by Jason and Mary Grant

One idea (and not from someone who's particularly attracted to Asari) is that your average Asari woman has already had decades, if not centuries, of life experience. With rare exception, they're going to have had fuller lives with a lot more experience with life and others in that time. A 380-year-old Asari still close to her prime is going to have a decent idea of what makes a 45-year-old human tick.

Or, at least I hope so if I meet the right one.

That... explains quite a bit, actually. The dark eezo thing. The biotics, the squishiness, the... black eye-swirly-thing... But wouldn't that make asari the single most accessible source of that stuff? You could probably tie them up and milk eezo from them or something...


Well, they're like normal tits, but blue. They could always use biotics to make them harder or something. Heh, harder.


So because you're 'wired' (for want of a better word) to like other species, you're nicer and therefore they like you back? Very interesting. Is that why the asari/asari couple thing isn't too popular? Because you like outsiders?


Now they do look interesting. I'd put actual creds on what they 'studied' in some of those, though. Heh. Studied.



So you're saying it's a... conscious thing? Asari making everyone else turned on? Is that some kind of, like, sexual indoctrination? The Asareapers are coming to turn us all into sex slaves!

Vigilance, were you trying to get that one drunk-post down that's seemingly mandatory for a turian member of this site?
Please don't take examples for scatterbrained quoting from the wrong people.

pardon?

Awww, Mr. Almeida. I still consider myself well in or on an upward curve towards my prime:)

And about figuring out what makes others tick. The fun thing I found out is, the more examples you have to draw experience from, the more complex the matter gets really. The only thing that grows is the ability to adapt to others and find out what you like or not. Age and experience makes you more relaxed sometimes, that's true though.

Doesn't work - believe me, if it did, I'd know by now. ;)

That's part of it, part of why it's allowed to persist, I think. The prejudice... well, it's a prejudice, they're not entirely rational, and there are a lot of contributing factors combining in ways that aren't always in proportion to their actual importance. We are, yes, attracted to outsiders (pre-contact that applied to asari from other tribes, clans, communities, republics, as appropriate to the era), most of us feel that 'foreign' thought and perspectives enrich us as we mingle, and our history has borne that out - it's not such a long hop from that to frowning on confining one's familial circle to a narrower group. Some feel that a certain level of genetic potential is left dormant by intraspecies mating; the exact influences and potential outcomes of the electrochemical genome mapping process aren't really fully understood, there's room for a lot of debate and opinions which may or may not prove to be accurate. There are certain medical conditions thought, some quite widely thought, to be reduced or even eliminated by the genetic scatter of a cross-species reproductive meld. And we're as susceptible as anyone else to faulty logic - I like to think we're a wise people, for the most part, but even the wise have off days, and there's a certain traction to the notion that because you can do a thing (especially something so singular as mating with other species), you should, that not doing so is ignoring an opportunity. Once something like this gets started, it can become self-perpetuating all too easily.

Ah, you misunderstand me. It was only whilst inebriated I came up with the question; I wrote it the day after. Perfectly sober. Hell of a hangover, though. Had I known it was a requirement, I assure you I would have gone and got hammered far earlier. Heh. Hammered.

And not all turians are alcoholics. Not at all. Just most of us.


It was expanding on the theory that asari may lactate Element Zero.


I don't doubt it. Maybe you store it somewhere else... The eyes! They get all black because of the eezo! I am a GENIUS.


Ah, I get it. I think. Kind of like the overheating->heat-sink upgrade; everyone rushes to get heat sinks when the old method was just as good too (well, I think so)? That right?