What Is This Thing You Call Love?: Difference between revisions

** Played a different way with the salarian aliens who, thanks to their relatively short life expectancies, are not known for holding emotional stances for long periods of time (salarians have "reproduction contracts," not marriages, since they can't maintain feelings of courtship to serve as the icing on the commitment cake), not that they aren't completely incapable of it however. The most obvious example of this is perhaps the salarian talking to his asari step-daughter on Illium about buying a gift for his asari wife so she will have something to remember him by (as the asari have some of the longest lives of any species, up to around a thousand years).

** Realizing she is capable of this and coming to terms with it is a major part of {{spoiler|EDI's}} character arc in the third game.

 

== Web Comics ==

{{quote| What is this Love that so many speak of with such apparent familiarity? Do they truly comprehend how unattainable it is? Are there not as many definitions of Love as there are stars in the universe?}}

* Used in ''[[Discworld/The Last Continent|The Last Continent]]'', with a twist: The questioner is the God of Evolution, and the explainers are a bunch of wizards who have managed to travel back in time to before sex was even invented. Ponder is trying to explain to the aforementioned god why things don't work in ones, and how babies could be made, but the conversation screeches to a halt when the topic of sex is broached. It is left to Mrs. Whitlow (the housekeeper of Unseen University who has been hauled along for the ride) to explain things, leading a few of the wizards to ask if anyone knows what happened to ''Mr.'' Whitlow.

* In [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s ''[[Stranger in A Strange Land]]'', Michael ([[Blue and Orange Morality|having been raised by aliens]]) takes a long time to catch on to human emotions. He has the worst time with love and humor.