Liara T'Soni

A mono-gender race, the asari are distinctly feminine in appearance and possess maternal instincts. Instead of head hair, asari possess semi-flexible, cartilage-based scalp-crests that grow into shape. These structures are rigid, and do not "flop around" as some believe. Liara, like all asari, is a soft blue color, and has no body hai.

Liara is very shy, naïve and inexperienced. She often prefers to be alone, which is why she spends much of her time on remote digs, unearthing items. This can be explained by the discrimination she suffers due to being a "pureblood", a slur used for children born from two asari.

She is socially awkward and not good with people, a fault she admits and is proven when she makes a fool of herself by telling Shepard that, due to being touched by a Prothean beacon, they would make an interesting specimen for an in-depth study, only to realize afterwards how wrong that sounds. She's still beating herself up over this even when Shepard comes to talk to her again, to the point that she's done a background check on Shepard behind their back so that she doesn't say something else stupid, though she does apologize for this. After her mother's death, Liara claims that she is fine, and that she prefers to remember her mother as who she was before she got indoctrinated.

A defining trait of Liara's is her lifelong passion of studying Protheans, describing them as 'wondrous, mysterious creatures'. She speculates that her fascination with the past is due to being a Matriarch's daughter; matriarchs guide their followers into the future and seek the truth of what is yet to come, and so she is more interested in the secrets of the past, though this sounds like she became an archaeologist to spite her mother. As a result, she is very excited when she finally gets to meet a Prothean in the form of Javik, only to discover that Protheans are far from the benevolent entities she thought they were, and were in fact very severe and controlling. Occasionally, however, Liara forgets that there are some things she learns simply by spending time with the people she cares about, an example being a song she learned from a friend during one of her first archaeology digs.

“That is why I find you so fascinating. You were marked by the beacon on Eden Prime; you were touched by working Prothean technology!”