BYOND Key: Irrationalist
Character Names: Noah Staple & Mercury Hanson, excluding others in my list because I am not sure if I did ever play them
Species you are applying to play: Tajara
What color do you plan on making your first alien character: Silver
Have you read our lore section's page on this species?:
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:
In my 6+ years of playing SS13, I was never content with playing humans as the sole species. I have felt like that I had exhausted every possibility I had of playing with human characters. Given the setting of Aurora, many of the other ideas I had for human characters will not fit in. I do not intend to replay character ideas I had before again. My interest has been on alien species, with most experience with Skrell and Tajara on Bay and other Baycode servers. Used to have a whitelist for Tajara at Bay until the species were nuked by the developers. Seeing that Aurora lore has much more depth than what I used to know. While I am not a fan of the lore in general at a glance, I am willing to go give it a shot.
Identify what makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a Human:
People that you pass by point at you and plaintively say "furry". One of the most obvious qualities about Tajara roleplaying is not the anatomy. It is the basic cultures that has been the characteristic of Tajara, being the language and the natural thrill in 'r's, deliberate use of third-person in place of first-person due to culture. Otherwise implies the person in question has not grown up on Adhomai whole their life or too trusting of people. For expression, they have other body parts to use instead of the human body language as we know it.
Leaning more on the gameplay-wise aspect, the Tajara are subject to prejudice and generalization due to the relations of the factions to the human corporate factions that are dominant in the very setting. Subject to occasional audits, interviews, and paranoid micromanagement. Tajara identifying as participants or members of PRA are often given more leeway due to the history of loyalty towards NanoTrasen (et.al). While it does not bar the Tajara from having the same competence as humans, Tajara are often thought to be under qualifying due to the lack of credible and well-established education institutions. Not impossible, just rare.
Is it just me being nervous or is it getting hot in here? Could we please turn down the thermostat, 20 C is too much is it not?
Character Name: Ruuoli Yachaglov
Please provide a short backstory for this character:
A male M'sai born into a family in one of the PRA controlled part on Adhomai, he had been grown up to become a successful student at a technical school and became an electrician by trade. Then served the PRA military for a while as a technical specialist. Although while he had enjoyed the benefits of the NanoTrasen-supported benefits that PRA-loyalists receive. His loyalty to PRA has faltered due to the lack of recognization for his ethnicity and culture, planting seeds for his opposing views on PRA and most politics. Becoming a political expat and managed to get across a PRA-DPRA border with skin and life intact among with the dissenting remnants of his family and friends.
During then in his time on DPRA, as hard it was, he has adapted the idea to use human scripture for Siik'Maas as he learned Ceti Basic, making it easier for him to understand human scripture, allowing him to access books and literature written in Ceti Basic or a close dialect, unintelligible otherwise. It sparked an interest for engineering and more technical topics, turning his electrician trade to more of an electrical engineer, with some merit. However, while he managed to get in touch with the employers at corporations, he faced slighting due to his status as a DPRA citizen. His employment was finally accepted with Ruuoli holding a clenched fist in his pocket in front of a smugly grinning representative at the interview. But it is his way forward, a hope away from politics, to advance his career in electrical engineering - for now.
What do you like about this character?
The intent of this character is allow me to try to experience the depth of Tajara lore, the interaction between Tajara and others, esp. humans. Try out the life of an expat who has struck a bargain to win bread.
How would you rate your role-playing ability?
Considered that I have not been banned yet, I must be decent enough. But I prefer to let others be the judge of that.
