BYOND Key: BearSchwanz
Character Names: My most played characters: Klaus Kitzler, Cerise Contritum, Guillaume Mol, Miracle, Ethwasa Sliver
Species you are applying to play: Unathi
What colour do you plan on making your first alien character: Unsure - khaki or muted green.
Have you read our lore section's page on this species?: Yes
Please provide well articulated answers to the following questions in a paragraph format. One paragraph minimum per question.
Why do you wish to play this specific race:
Unathi is an interesting and seemingly kind of underplayed race that I think deserves more love, so it was attractive to me as a first alien whitelist candidate. After reading through the lore I found the narrative of Unathi to be a lot more interesting than I'd previously presumed from player interaction. That coupled with the difference in roleplay relative to humans I think would make for a very fun race to play.
Identify what makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a Human:
Obviously you have the comparison of technological development and hardship throughout recent years for the Unathi or the effects of more ancient history but I think largely the difference in role-play boils down to the contrast of behaviour between the two species. Such differences like expressing emotion and what different gestures may mean or why such gestures would be displayed and how that exhibits the different mentality of the Unathi. Beyond that would be the way Unathi condone themselves based off of class or clan ties and honour as well as feuds over religion and major conflict both past and present.
Character Name: La'Ur Dorviza
Please provide a short backstory for this character:
In 2412 La'Ur hatched on the southern coast of what is now known as the Guzari sea, 26 years prior to the contact war. Here in what was still a lush landscape he experienced a more traditional upbringing where he learned to hunt, fish and occasionally assisted with the harvest of medicinal plants. By 16 he took on the role of fisherman assisting with the clan's haul of fish.
After the nuclear exchange of the contact war In the coming years life became harsher and harsher on La'Ur and his clan as they migrated South in hopes of preserving what little remained of the jungles, swamps and forests. Now too far from the coast to continue his work as a fisherman and growing too weak from giving all his food to his children to hunt, La'Ur turned to assisting the shamans and farmers in their effort to utilize the Dionae to repel the expanding wastelands, learning as they did how best to preserve flora in the wasteland whilst also learning the uses of each plant. Now largely unemployed La'Ur expanded upon this new found knowledge of medicinal plants in offering assistance to the healers tending to the sick, earning his keep of food for himself and his family this way.
Finding great joy in assisting his clan this way La'Ur developed a fascination of medicine and wished to continue learning further than what the healers and shamans could teach him. Amongst the tales exchanged by travellers that passed through his clan's domain in search of medical assistance La'Ur learned of the opportunities being granted to Unathi by mega corporations seeking employees. Now at the age of 43 in 2455 and his children no longer requiring his guidance, La'Ur set out of the wastelands for a harsh journey East to the nearest city to then seek the nearest shuttle port and managed to secure employment on a Nanotrasen ship within Uueoa-Esa where he would learn medicine in exchange of his knowledge of Moghes' flora, later being station on the NSS Aurora as a fully trained physician at the ripe age of 51.
What do you like about this character?:
I think playing an older Unathi in particular would be a lot of fun. The experiences of living in and supplying for a family during pre/post nuclear war Moghes, the transition from labour work to medicinal work, the journey across the wastelands, experiencing interstellar life, learning modern medicine stationed on another Nanotrasen asset all would give me a lot to work with for role play.
How would you rate your role-playing ability?
Pretty decent. Getting into character is fine and inventive emotes are always fun.
Notes:
I tried to keep the backstory short as the format asked for just about two paragraphs. But I have been naughty and done three.