Cnaym's Tajara Whitelist App

[Cnaym]

BYOND Key: Cnaym
Character Names: Most known currently: Akki Guwan (Officer / Cheff), Emilia Roth (GOOD Nurse), Kim (Librarian), Optikam Rin (Cargo Tech), Spike Barnes (Engineer), Voices of Reason (Assistant, Janitor)
Species you are applying to play: Tajara
What color do you plan on making your first alien character: Beaver Brown
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:
I like to play somewhat quirky characters, from the feedback I got for characters like Akki, Emilia and Voices, I feel comfortable portraying characters that could keep a job, but not without facing their own troubles. Playing with a more restricted race is something that fascinated me for a long time and I am excited to see how this turns out.

Identify what makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a Human:
The politics and factions really, every tajara I met so far has  an interesting story and a strong personality and opinions on things. I think the restrictions and racism that this species brings with them can make for some really interesting interactions. Been dipping into that a lot with my Guwan character and enjoyed it a ton. I hope to provide a rather traditional character that does not throw their convictions and ideals overboard (or in everyones face), but slowly finds their place in a foreign civilization.

Character Name: Masika Al'saharn
Please provide a short backstory for this character
Masika, born in the winter of 2441 in Nal'Tor, grew up as most Hharar do in the city. She visited the state school, watched her father work long days in the capitols factories, helped her mother out with housekeeping and cooking and watched her two older brothers get drafted into the Grand People's Army. As the youngest of the three children she was sent to the Nal'tor College of Career Excellence by her parents, in order to learn and find a craft that would make sure she was safe from the horrors of the war. That came finally true in the form of a contract with NT, and the permission to work aboard a research station in Tau Ceti. As many young tajara do, Masika boarded the shuttle in hopes of a new life and better future... and to send back money to her family, who had invested so much into getting her the education she needed to work for a megacorporation in human space.

She now has a small room in little Adhomai, in an apartment shared with four other young refugees. There is not much that she calls her own, but the journey so far has been good to her and she is hopeful that things will improve over time. She watches the clashes between supporters of the different factions with mixed feelings, seeing how she still considers herself a citizen of the PRA but wonders if the politics of her home will ever stop following her or at least calm down. For herself she found a stronger connection to her faith in an area surrounded by politics and economics. Practicing the worship of S'rand'marr more and involving it into her daily life, partly to have a bit more order, partly because she misses her family.

What do you like about this character? A bit of going back to the roots for me, a young character that is not a blank slate but has their own reservations and opinions, while exploring a mostly new world. I am excited to see how this turns out. So far Tajara Lore was this massive wall of text for me that I never got into, but I spend more time reading it than I'm willing to admit and I hope I will enjoy this whitelist and provide a fun character for others aswel. I would like to play this one as a cargo tech, with an emphasis on traditional things like self made food,  religion and a tidy workplace.

How would you rate your role-playing ability?
9/10 Roleplay above all else. Staying in characters, staying calm, just enjoying the game. That's what matters most to me. LooC and OOC are for the memes.

Notes:
Ask away, give feedback or suggestions. We are all here to have fun and improve.

[Alberyk]

I have some questions about your character:

- what is her job with nanotrasen?

- what are exactly her political beliefs and how she sees each tajaran faction?

- what does she think of the recent ceasefire and armistice between the tajaran nations?

[Cnaym]

- Cargo technician, she'll visit courses in biesel to improve her ceti basic and work toward leading her own cargo department / logistics center one day (character is to young for QM / HoP but it makes sense from an IC perspective to strive upwards, given her education and that she has most of her life in front of her). Seeing how cargo is rather low pressure on our server, introducing someone who's not only set on paperwork but after that sweet sweet promotion, a focus on education instead of experience and grateful to NT for giving her the chance it should lead to some interesting conflicts involving other departments and command members. The goal is not to annoy others, but have someone who'll want to keep their job long term instead of not caring about proper procedure.

- Growing up in the PRA, she was raised as a mixture between the traditional sharing and working for the greater good and the new influences that NT and the modern education brought with it. Seeing how her dad was just one small wheel in a booming industry made her realize that, as individual she'll have to study and work harder then her peers to make it outside of adhomai. She knows that large political and economical change requires policies and above all time and will praise the PRA for making true on it's promises in recent times, blaming the other two ideologies for stopping the PRA from reaching more achievements. While outright thinking that the old ways taken by the NKA should be buried along those that lead it, she does not blame the uneducated masses for following what in their eyes, is the only chance to survive under their harsh conditions. The DPRA on the other hand is in her mind mortal enemy of the PRA and cannot coexist with it. She grew up learning that the freedom and democratic system they fight for brings nothing but death and suffering and that only a strong government, formed by strong people can enable their culture to strife for a better future.

-The recent ceasefire has made her hopeful that her brothers might be able to return home, rather than dying on the battlefield, helping their father and settling into a work place that does not require them to handle weapons daily. On a larger scale she hopes to be successful enough to afford visiting her family and thinks that the ceasefire will make it a lot easier and cheaper to travel to and from adhomai. In her mind the nations now all have to think about working together with forces outside of adhomai to show through economic and political ways which system is the best for the people and in the end will prevail. It's obviously the PRA for her, since they managed to lift up the people even during the hardship of war, which should now be going a lot easier with the ceasefire in place.

[Alberyk]

Application accepted.