All hanar have two names. The Face Name is known to the world; the Soul Name is kept for use among close friends and relations. Hanar never refer to themselves in the first person in conversation with someone they know on a Face Name basis. To do so is considered egotistical, so instead they refer to themselves as "this one", or the impersonal "it".
2015, Summer Glassie, “"Embraced eternity lately?": Mislabeling and subversion of sexuality labels through the Asari in the Mass Effect trilogy”, in Matthew Wysocki, Evan W. Lauteria, editors, Rated M for Mature: Sex and Sexuality in Video Games[1] (Media Studes / Game Studies), Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 167:
Comments concerning breasts occur again with Liara’s “father” when she uses the phrase “about as useful as tits on a Hanar,” separating the Hanar from humanoid beings and rendering them as unattractive as lovers and mates to a human, despite the Asari having a history of mating with this jellyfish species (Mass Effect 3). This distinction between Asari and Hanar draws further attention to the physique of the Asari and the fact that they have all the right parts for acceptable sexual relationships with the player's avatar.
We can infer that these aliens also have very different brains, especially with some of the stranger races like the jellyfish-like Hanar and the Vorcha with their ‘non-differential neoblast cells’, and yet they have similar mental states.
2021 June 4, Jhaan Elker, “Every ‘Mass Effect’ squadmate, ranked from a storytelling perspective”, in The Washington Post[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 June 2021, Launcher News[4]:
Grunt reveals he likes reading comics, is fascinated by dinosaurs and sharks, and says he’s “sad Hanar [an in-game jellyfish alien race] can’t wear sweaters” after having a few too many drinks.
