BYOND Key: Gabrieldltc
Character Names: Emilie Juliene.
Species you are applying to play: Tajara
What color do you plan on making your first alien character: Kochiba
Have you read our lore section's page on this species?: Yep!
Why do you wish to play this specific race: I’m going to be honest with ya’ll I just love cats and I find andromorphic felines as extremely adorable creatures.
Now regarding their lore, as I was reading it, I didn’t expect to have such a blast learning their history. It’s just rich in context, they’re what I’d have always thought humans would be if we were ever found by an alien and more advanced civilization. Tajara are close to human history in a way, filled with conflict, hate, racism and all the flawed traits that a solid species would have when it comes to the development of a branching society.
I think this race is not only cute and fun to play as, but also can have a lot of room for character development and interaction with other species, which is what I seek, a common everyday conversation between the same species honestly bores me a little (human on human) but being able to notice the difference between each other, maintaining the different views and psychology makes the story writing so much rich and interesting in every sense. Hence why I hope I can play them soon! Or at least the only character I have in mind for now.
Identify what makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a Human: Mostly the fact that they can be seen as lesser or less developed, or even ‘thankful’ at being provided the technology to get to where they are now. From basically dictatorship to different factions with widely different objectives where at least there’s opportunity to grow individually. This all can lead to resentment, admiration, or indifference to humans for example, seeing that a Tajara should have experienced some sort of discrimination by being expected to be better than a human for no logical reason.
Character Name: S’ajii Siratani.
Please provide a short backstory for this character:
S’ajii was born on little Adhomai, being the third born of a big family of Tajara, she was surrounded by her parents, brothers, cousins and uncle. She was considered one of the more reserved of the family, leading up to her getting little to no attention in most gatherings and day to day life. Her parents, oblivious to S'ajii's reservations, never noticed that she was slowly becoming more and more distant with the family around her. They did however, try to push her to become a more social and active member of the family as she grew older, something that resulted in the young Taj becoming more and more anxious due to her families strict expectations and ultimately influencing her later in her life.
As she grew up in that attention starved home, S’ajii would find herself adversely affected with her education, failing many of her classes. Finally seeing her worsening grades, her family finally decided to step in, pushing her into many remedial classes and tutors that amounted to little, which lead to her family consider her a black sheep and disappointment, which they never feared to hide. She would take various dead end jobs as a result of her struggling academics, accepting of her fate. That is until she was hired as a waitress on one of the largest restaurants of Little Adhomai.
The job was a struggle unlike any other. A reserved Tajaraan, she found herself often at odds with the bustle and busy nature of a waitress job. It wasn’t her fault, but as meek as she had always been, she would sometimes she’d disappear from her job to have her own moment of peace. She did this on several occasions through the months, until the head chef and owner of the restaurant found her hiding on the roof.
The head chef was not known for being nice, often cursing and yelling at the cooks in the kitchen. When he found S'ajii up there, however, she did not find herself on the receiving end of a loud and angry chef, but rather a consoling and even gentle understanding for the first time in her life. S'ajii didn't quite know why he was nice to her, perhaps he understood, maybe he simply took pity on her, or found her small, diminutive form disarming. Whatever the case, he didn't fire her, encouraging her instead to talk to him when she felt she needed a break from the world. Through friendly chats, she slowly gained the courage to try to take cooking lessons, often spending time in the kitchen when it was slow to learn the various forms of kitchen duties. Eventually she began working as one of the cooks of the restaurant, building up experience in cooking and the duties of a chef as well as building a strong friendship with the head chef.
After her parents passing, she found herself no longer under the stress of trying to please her strict parents. The experience and friends she had made at the restaurant showed, as she had worked there for a decade, the quiet and reserved Tajara having shed away those old habits. People who had known her for a long time remarked at the change, her old self like a distant memory now. She found herself free of her old restrictions, aspiring for more than just the city of Little Adhomai. Hence the reason she applied to more jobs as a chef until she was hired by nanotransen to work on NSS Aurora.
What do you like about this character?
Well not only she’s a cute and small Tajara, but I feel her backstory is a whole arc by itself. Being oppressed by your own family can be relatable to some and it can develop issues trough life. Yet with the help of kind people on a cruel world and being lucky enough to find your passions, leaving behind the needs of aprooval from whoever you thought you need makes you mature. S’ajii is the representation of letting go of the past and look onto the future, motivated to seek more than working on the same place forever, meeting new people and new places after basically wasting her early life over trying to please everyone but hersef.
How would you rate your role-playing ability?
8/10, I’m not an amazing writer by no means, English is not my mother language which makes me commit typos a few times but nothing that would be groundbreaking. I’ve been roleplaying on forums and chatting plataforms for 10 years, but only 2 years in games like wow, zomboid, and all those kinds of games that allow for rp interactions.