[ACCEPTED] Codename Bear's Unathi Application

[Codename: Bear]

BYOND Key: Codename_Bear

Character Names: Marty McCullin, Jacob Cross, THRIVE and others I play on and off.

Species you are applying to play: Unathi

What color do you plan on making your first alien character: Black Scales

Have you read our lore section's page on this species?: Yes I have.

 

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 space. I like lizards. This is a hard question for me to answer in the proper format, but I will do my best.

I like the post-apocalyptic nature of the modern Unathi society. Like many others I am interested in the Contact War and the vagueness with how the nukes were acquired. It’s an interesting scenario where the Alien Visitors indirectly caused a worldwide apocalyptic event. Their religions and warrior codes are pretty interesting to me as well.

 

Identify what makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a Human:

MUH HONOR!

Seriously, I do like the honor aspect of the Unathi Culture. I know similar cultures could exist for humans as well, but this sense of honor is something all Unathi strive for. It also makes sense for them to be very devoted to their duty now that their world has been ravaged. They must perform their duty to survive and rebuild. I enjoy the faith Th’akh and its mixed views on things like prosthetics and cloning.

I also really like the fact that the Unathi culture in general has a lot of room to GROW. I feel that Humanity has grown and expanded to the point it's at conflict with itself in some cases, while being at peace with itself in others. The Unathi people are still new to the wider galaxy. They have yet to reach this height and I think the possibility of experiencing something like that is very interesting.

 

Character Name: Shurik Malzgnar

Please provide a short backstory for this character:

Shurik was born and raised during the Contact War, and for almost half his life knew only the fear and confusion that stemmed from it. When it was over he helped his father keep their village running by maintaining their machines. One day his father “happened upon” some supplies, but soon after bringing them to the village his father disappeared. A trader later confirmed his father stole the supplies, and those left of Shurik’s clan were treated with doubt by the other villagers. Still, Shurik’s older brother was able to convince the village they needed to relocate or they would die off.

The villagers gathered what they could for a long journey to Ura’Mastyx. While traveling, Shurik would leave the others to wander the Wastes alone in search of his father. He never found his father, but he did meet up with a strange group of Unathi who praised flames as well as their prophet. They kept him fed with raw meat and gave him plenty of water. Shurik would later find out he had been in the presence of a group of Fire Priests, followers of Si’akh. Unlike his brother, Shurik wasn’t too religious. He did believe in Th’akh and the spirits, but not fervently. The kindness of the Si’akhs was something he would strive for, but often fail to achieve.

He later joined a group of Reclaimers who were traveling North, and aided them with general maintenance as well as hauling salvage. Eventually he arrived at Ura’Mastyx, but found it to still be crowded with refugees from far and wide looking to join the many guilds. Shurik’s brother found a place in a nearby Th’akh temple and was doing his best to aid the villagers. Shurik struggled to find work, but eventually Lord Orezali initiated a Job Lottery system for the many refugees. They would be given jobs with one of the many interstellar megacorporations, but a portion of their wages would return to the Lord’s treasury. He also promised that should the refugee come from a community, that community would see great rewards as well from these wages.

Shurik won a position as a shaft miner for NanoTrasen, despite having hoped to get some form of engineering apprenticeship. Shurik left with honor, and blessings of the Spirits from his brother. Shurik arrived on the ODIN where he received EVA and mining equipment training and now awaits assignment to a station.

 

What do you like about this character?

He’s something of a fish out of water character who is just going to try and go with the punches. He’s adventurous and will explore this new system he finds himself in. He’s also a bit rambunctious and I kind of want to play more chars like that.

 

How would you rate your role-playing ability? 

Hard for me to properly quantify it. I think I can be an outstanding roleplayer, but sometimes I fall into the autopilot mode of just going along with things. I did see a post from Zundy about emoting more in reference to a character feedback, so I have been trying to do that more. I must admit I feel I’ve always been better at dialogue than emotes.

Arbitrary numerical TL;DR: 6/10

 

Notes:

1. I was going to make some scalie joke in the title, but it has been done so much recently I’m going to avoid it so it doesn’t become too stale
2. HOLY CRAP is it hard for me to make a backstory and I feel this one might be a little too much with the travels he’s taken. I would love to hear opinions on that.
3. Lastly I hope my answers are coherent. I work a alternating shift where I do graveyards for two days, get a day off, and then work mornings, then get a day off and repeat. This has gravely affected my sleep the past few weeks, and it has been very hard for me to have really coherent thoughts. I hope the answers to questions I have given are coherent enough.

Edited June 25, 2020 by SleepyWolf
minor format tweaking

[SleepyWolf]

i absolutely ADORE it. I have made similar characters - where they go into the wasteland on a journey, and find themselves in a new one they didn't expect. this journey separates an Izweski-centric character from a Wasteland centric character, and you displayed it very well. Living in the wasteland is all about 'rolling with the punches' - and you leave some of the story points to be filled in game, and questions left to be answered. NICE.

If you want, you can definitely fill in more moments to your story - A Gawgaryn attack, coming across a stray Diona in the middle of nowhere, almost getting eaten by a pack of wild Shriekers... you can play around, add tiny little stores that DEFINITELY could have happened over the course of life in the Wasteland - just let them come naturally while roleplaying, y'know.

Also, you can have the choice of choosing between Hephaestus and Nanotrasen in your character - change up which corp was chosen for the lottery, and then become contracted by one of them. Hephaestus fits the general aesthetic of 'skilled labor' a lot better, and I just want to let you know that's an option.

Accepted!