So, I was looking up the quarian wiki article and trying to check for any particular inspiration developer's had in mind when they made 'em, and there was a trivia bit about how Matt Rhodes intitially designed Tali/quarians. This was the first one/his personal favorite (gonna put it all in spoilers in case they take too much space):

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Also, these three were possible ideas, I believe the middle one's basically what ME3 went with:
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The eyes are interesting on the first Matt Rhodes II pic. He blogged on it [url=http://mattrhodesart.blogspot.com/2013/07/concept-art-behind-scenes.html]here.[/url] Just neat trivia. He apparently liked the idea that players who liked Tali get challenged by her actual appearance (e.g. see if players still wanted to do the romance). I personally always wanted Tali to look extra bizarre in a gag (immersion breaking, uncanny valley, "Were the developers on drugs?" kind of bizarre), just to see everyone's reactions.

Gonna start working on a new post and some SB shiz. The collab I've got with Sunny D isn't done yet, but the next part of the RP's separate from that, so no problem there.