History Characters / MassEffectRaceTropesCitadelAssociate

* AlienArtsAreAppreciated: As revealed in ''Literature/MassEffectAnnihilation'', the all-elcor performance of ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' isn't a one-time joke: as a matter of fact, it's revealed from the book that [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff a sizable amount of elcor are enamored with the play]], to the point the elcor representative of the book - a doctor named Yorrik - deliberately eschewed his real name (Naumm) for his new name.

* ItIsDehumanizing: Subverted. Hanars use "it" or "this one" on themselves when talking to other creautres to avoid pride or rudeness. They only use "I" if they are in a realtionship, particulaly those who know their "Soul Name".

* ItIsDehumanisng: Subverted. Hanars use "it" or "this one" on themselves when talking to other creautres to avoid pride or rudeness. They only use "I" if they are in a realtionship, particulaly those who know their "Soul Name".

* HundredPercentAdorationRating: In no shortage to their cordial nature and polite attitude, most everyone seems to like the elcor. Even a [[NinetiesAntiHero Renegade]] ''[[HeroicComedicSociopath Shepard]]'' can't help but express fondness for them.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: An in-universe example; see AlienArtsAreAppreciated. In short, a sizable amount of elcor adore Shakespeare's ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'', to the point one named elcor deliberately eschewed their old name in favor of a reference to the play.

* NoInfantileAmnesia: Subverted - Thane (who can recall a bullet-shattered knee) thinks the birth trauma would be too much for them.

* TheReptilians: They bear a pretty good resemblance to lizards.
* UndyingLoyalty: To the hanar.

* InfiniteSupplies: No-one is quite sure how they are about to scrounge materials for maintenance of the Citadel. However, it's common knowledge that the Keepers will recycle any dead bodies left lying around into the station's protein vats, the source of most of the food on the Citadel. ''[[ImAHumanitarian Bon appetit]]''.

* StealthInsult: Though more accurately a backhanded compliment: the elcor diplomat in ''3'' notes that elcor wielding the aforementioned heavy weaponry are calling "walking tanks", and says it's an unflattering comparison -- he admits, however, it's basically true.

* PhotographicMemory: Evolving on a planet where resources were scarce and the distance between deposits often days or weeks apart, drell developed a powerful version of perfect recall so that they always knew where to find food or water. Drell can experience memories as if they are happening in the present, all details intact. The only downside is that the drell can't always control these flashbacks. When idly recalling memories, drell can become locked into [=PTSD=]-style flashbacks of memories, re-experiencing them as if it were the first time. Drell's memories make them perfect as spies and scholars, and they are passionate lovers due to their ability to vividly recall romantic memories at any time. However, they can also perfectly recall the pain of being shot in the knee, and the loss of loved ones haunts drell for their entire lives. Some drell become so obsessed with their memories that they choose to abandon the present and live in the past -- what Thane refers to as "UsefulNotes/{{Solipsism}}."[[note]][[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solipsism Solipsism]] is the theory that only things that exist in the mind actually exist, and everything else is unknown. Meaning, drell who live in the past are restricting themselves to their own mind, and forsaking everything else outside their body as irrelevent.[[/note]]

* KillEmAll: For the majority of their population if you failed to save Kahje in the Hanar Diplomat side quest in VideoGame/MassEffect3. A news report will inform you that the planet quickly fell to the Reapers and they exterminated its entire population. Made worse when you realise that, due to their UndyingLoyalty to the hanar, the drell living on Kahje most likely remained to fight alongside them, leading to many of the drell being wiped out as well.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: When Shepard asks how many elcor civilians the evacuation teams managed to save in ''3'', the Diplomat, who prefaced every previous line (like all elcor) by stating his current emotion, simply says "Not... ''enough''". It's ''that'' obvious how upset he is; specifically, his hesitation to speak. Since elcor emotions are conveyed through pheremones and expressions imperceptible to non-elcor, the fact that Shepard can gauge the ambassador's emotion from vocal inflection alone means that the elcor ambassador had completely broken down with emotion. By elcor standards, he's ''sobbing''.

* HundredPercentAdorationRating: In no shortage to their cordial nature and polite attitute, most everyone seems to like the elcor. Even a [[NinetiesAntiHero Renegade]] ''[[HeroicComedicSociopath Shepard]]'' can't help but express fondness for them.

* LongLived: Heavily implied throughout the series[[note]]Throughout the series, the elcor have been shown not just to be exceedingly patient, but their economic lore reveals they are more than happy to make centuries-long business investments, implying that they are LongLived[[/note]], officially confirmed in ''Literature/MassEffectAnnihilation'': the elcor are the third longest-living species in the galaxy, being only outranked by the [[SpaceElves asari]] and [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy krogan]] respectively. Indeed, the elcor consider being 100 years old young by their species standards', while 300 is considered old. [[JustifiedTrope Justified when you remember]] the elcor are a species of [[HeavyWorlder Heavy Worlders]], so unlike the [[WeAreAsMayflies salarians]], they don't burn metabolism nearly as fast, hence why they live a lot longer than most other species. However, as the diplomat in ''3'' notes, their numbers have never been great, partly because they're restricted to a small part of their planet -- their long lives in combination with their low population means their species has always been on a knife's edge in terms of viability. The Reaper invasion may have started them on their way to extinction, even if Shepard manages to get a portion of their population evacuated (hence the diplomats reply: "Not... enough.")

* HeavyWorlder: Irune has a surface gravity of 1.5 ''g'', and an atmospheric pressure of 60.25 ''atm''. As such, it's impossible to visit their world without a pressure suit.

** The volus ''do'' have a perfectly respectable space-fleet (for a non-council race), and their strong economy means they can afford to equip their ships with all kinds of goodies. For example, the volus were the first Citadel race to deploy a dreadnought armed with magnetohydrodynamic weapons (Thanix cannons). In ''Mass Effect 3'', the volus gift to the cause if they're won over are bombing fleets.

* LongLived: Heavily implied throughout the series[[note]]Throughout the series, the elcor have been shown not just to be exceedingly patient, but their economic lore reveals they are more than happy to make centuries-long business investments, implying that they are LongLived[[/note]], officially confirmed in ''Literature/MassEffectAnnihilation'': the elcor are the third longest-living species in the galaxy, being only outranked by the [[SpaceElves asari]] and [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy krogan]] respectively. Indeed, the elcor consider being 100 years old young by their species standards', while 300 is considered old. [[JustifiedTrope Justified when you remember]] the elcor are a species of [[HeavyWorlder Heavy Worlders]], so unlike the [[WeAreAsMayflies salarians]], they don't burn metabolism nearly as fast, hence why they live a lot longer than most other species. However, as the diplomat in ''3'' notes, their numbers have never been great, partly because they're restricted to a small part of their planet -- their long lives in combination with their low population means their population has always been on a knife's edge. The Reaper invasion may have started them on their way to exctinction, even if Shepard manages to get a portion of their population evacuated (hence the diplomats reply: "Not... enough.")

* LongLived: Heavily implied throughout the series[[note]]Throughout the series, the elcor have been shown not just to be exceedingly patient, but their economic lore reveals they are more than happy to make centuries-long business investments, implying that they are LongLived[[/note]], officially confirmed in ''Literature/MassEffectAnnihilation'': the elcor are the third longest-living species in the galaxy, being only outranked by the [[SpaceElves asari]] and [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy krogan]] respectively. Indeed, the elcor consider being 100 years old young by their species standards', while 300 is considered old. [[JustifiedTrope Justified when you remember]] the elcor are a species of [[HeavyWorlder Heavy Worlders]], so unlike the [[WeAreAsMayflies salarians]], they don't burn metabolism nearly as fast, hence why they live a lot longer than most other species.

* PhotographicMemory: Evolving on a planet where resources were scarce and the distance between deposits often days or weeks apart, drell developed a powerful version of perfect recall so that they always knew where to find food or water. Drell can experience memories as if they are happening in the present, all details intact. The only downside is that the drell can't always control these flashbacks. When idly recalling memories, drell can become locked into [=PTSD=]-style flashbacks of memories, re-experiencing them as if it were the first time. Drell's memories make them perfect as spies and scholars, and they are passionate lovers due to their ability to vividly recall romantic memories at any time. However, they can also perfectly recall the pain of being shot in the knee, and the loss of loved ones haunts drell for their entire lives. Some drell become so obsessed with their memories that they choose to abandon the present and live in the past -- what Thane refers to as "solipsism."[[note]][[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solipsism Solipsism]] is the theory that only things that exist in the mind actually exist, and everything else is unknown. Meaning, drell who live in the past are restricting themselves to their own mind, and forsaking everything else outside their body as irrelevent.[[/note]]

* PoisonousPerson: A very minor example, but drell skin secretes a mild venom that can cause hallucinations if ingested.

* EnclosedAliens: They evolved in an extremely high-pressure environment, such that being naked on, say, Earth would result in ExplosiveDecompression. We the players are never given any info about what they look like underneath, save that they have a cloaca.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Quite a few of them. Their culture is primarily mercantile and they essentially created (and run) the Citadel economy, so they almost literally wrote the book.

* OffScreenMomentOfAwesome: According to the elcor flotilla entry in the War Assets, a soldier elcor might as well be the single-most terrifying thing you'll ever see: their common infantry has [[ShoulderCannon Shoulder Cannons]] as their ''default'' weaponry, made even more effective thanks to complex AI. Sadly, you never see any of these elcor combatants, even if you recruit them to the cause in ''3''.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: When Shepard asks how many elcor civilians the evacuation teams managed to save in ''3'', the Diplomat, who prefaced every previous line by stating his current emotion, simply says "Not... ''enough''". It's ''that'' obvious how upset he is; specifically, his hesitation to speak. Since elcor emotions are conveyed through pheremones and expressions imperceptible to non-elcor, the fact that Shepard can gauge the ambassador's emotion from vocal inflection alone means that the elcor ambassador had completely broken down with emotion.

** In ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', if you help save the survivors of the Reaper attack on Dekuuna, you'll be granted the remnant of the elcor flotilla as a way of saying thanks. Makes you wonder how a species of [[GentleGiant Gentle Giants]] can be much help... but ''then'' you realize that they have sophisticated AI systems that help them hold their own against much faster species, on top of having ''[[ShoulderCannon Shoulder Cannon-wielding]]'' ''infantry.'' If an angry elcor is scary, imagine how terrifying an angry elcor with [[GatlingGood a big-ass, automated minigun strapped to their back would be.]] The answer: [[OffScreenMomentOfAwesome pretty freaking terrifying.]]

* ExplosiveDecompression: Justified; since the volus come from a very high-pressure world, exposure to atmospheres that other races find comfortable will cause them to burst like some species of Earth's deep-sea fish.

The volus tend to be great businessmen and run many of the galaxy's wealthiest corporations. Their skin cannot withstand the types of atmospheres that other species live in, so when not on their worlds they wear exosuits which cover their entire bodies. Although the volus were the third species to discover the Citadel, their small military has led to them being denied a seat on the Council because they are unable to make the contributions to galactic security that are expected of the Council races. To compensate for their small military, the volus have become a client race of the Turian Hierarchy, officially dubbing themselves the "Vol Protectorate", lending their economic know-how to the turians in exchange for turian protection.

** Their hat is being excessively polite, and they can't even hold guns. So you wouldn't think they'd be dangerous combatants, right? Well, according to certified badass Zaeed Massani, they can be deadly if they manage to get those tentacles around your throat: they're both strong and poisonous. Furthermore, they're literally out of their element when dealing with most people since they're an aquatic race. On their homeworld, they're ''predators''.