[Accepted] Stev finally applies for scalie (Unathi application)

[stevIII]

BYOND Key: steviii

Character Names: https://imgur.com/8fUhiim

Species you are applying to play: Scalie. Unathi.
What color do you plan on making your first alien character: Red
Have you read our lore section's page on this species?: Yep, all of ‘em

 

Please provide well articulated answers to the following questions in a paragraph format. 

no
 

Why do you wish to play this specific race: In my experiences with unathi, from Dominians to pirates, I’ve seen an interesting race concept. The fact that they’re sort of a race with a slowly expiring home planet is an interesting concept, ditto with the feudal system. It’s now an alien concept for humans to have a feudal system anymore, so a race with clear class divides makes for an interesting concept. The interesting things like Guwans, clashing religions, Aut’akh and the hard-set gender roles would likely make for plenty of interesting roleplay on station. There’s also the small thing that I kinda wanna be able to play unathi as an antag. 

 

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

I’m starting to feel like a broken record here. Some of the important aspects include:

Mechanical: Aversion to cold, the ability to ingest small animals, immunity to carpotoxin, lack of nutrition from vegetables. I could just copy paste the differences thing, but I’ll just move on to

Non-mechanical: Some of the more interesting aspects of non mechanical include the whole feudal system leading their civilization, which would lead to a whole mess of on station things, especially with women and guwans. Others obviously being the religions, leading to interesting on station roleplay between Sk’akh and th’akh or si’akh. Aut’akh obviously being a big player as well. A large portion of the differences boils down to societal fears/hatreds that would be so ingrained in to a character it would likely mold a lot of their opinions in a very specific way. 

 

Character Name: Kelehari Iszhokha
 

Please provide a short backstory for this character

Quick explanation of the system here: in my most recent applications, I started using a system where I write three phases about their life, with short stories inside. This time, the three phases will be Hatching, Struggle and Travel.

Hatching phase: (2422 - 2439)

Story one: Kelehari, or Kele for short, was born in 2422 to the small now largely dead or displaced clan Iszhokha. Their parents were Akseik (father), a farmer, and Skohali (Mother). Some other notables in the clan were Loehir, the clans Th’akh shaman and Koeskala, the clan leader. As Kelehari’s family was rather poor, the best education they got was their father teaching them fighting and the shaman instilling the proper Th’akh values, plus their mother teaching them general other skills. When they were old enough to work more effectively, they were quickly put to work as a farmer, but they grew bored of this and asked to be allowed to do other work. They were eventually, after plenty of convincing, allowed to work as a hunter with supervision, adventuring off into the forests and hunting wild animals. When they turned thirteen, they were formally accepted to guard training in the village.

Story two: After being accepted as a guard, Kele went through three solid years of training, ending up being an effective warrior, including knowing how to maintain and create their own weapons. At the age of sixteen, they were put into regular guard duty. They patrolled their village, acting as a guard and guide when needed. They still commonly went out hunting, helping feed their family.

Story three: At this point, their guards had started going out on multiple day hunting trips, and Kele was invited to start tagging along. They were outside their village for extended periods of time, hunting, fishing and gathering in forests and savannas with the guards of the village. Then it happened. Clan Iszhokha was very cut off from most of the rest of Moghes society, so the contact war was unknown to them. They had not sided with either faction, but their small village was close enough to one of the nuclear detonations, it still affected them.

Struggle phase: (2439 - 2450)

Story one: Kelehari was only 17 when the bombs dropped. They were out on a hunting trip with four other guards, they had just ventured down a small cave entrance to hunt a small creature, when a shock wave hit the cave and forced them to flee on threat of being crushed by falling stone. When they came out, the trees had been levelled, and off in the distance, was a gigantic mushroom cloud. The entire band rushed back to their village, to find large puts of it in ruins. Their village had somehow managed to survive the explosion, but the weak housing was obliterated by the shockwave, including crushing multiple people in rubble, and destroying all of the crops. Keles' family made it out, but their father was severely injured, and succumbed to wounds and radiation poisoning within two weeks. This left Kele, and a group of others including his mother, alone. Kele was chosen as the leader from his skill in hunting, and they were forced to flee their village to avoid radiation and famine.

Story two: Keles life took a drastic turn at this point. Going from a guard patrolling their village, to a warrior adventuring, staving off starvation, radiation and death in the post apocalyptic wasteland, with nought more than their meager group of survivors, and a spear to protect them. A large part of their survival owed to Kele, having plenty of training, managing to start training and arming up the group, so within about a month of abandoning their village, only one was deceased, and most were trained in hand to hand and armed combat. Then one of the worst events of Keles life happened. His mother died. She had gotten irradiated in one of the scavenging missions, and slowly died of major radiation poisoning. Kele was grief stricken, refusing to even fight for multiple days, mourning and begging the ancestors for guidance.

Story three: Keles group, now down to four people, found an unusual bit of salvation in the wasteland. They stumbled upon a dionae gestalt, fighting off wastelanders trying to eat it. Kele and the survivors (which is a great name for a band) fought back the wastelanders, assisting the Dionae. The gestalt, after sampling some of Kele’s blood to learn Sinta’Azaziba, explained that their name is “To sing under shadowed figures” and that they were abandoned here by their previous friends. Kele, seeing the help in having an extra companion, invited Shadowed into their survivors group.

Travel phase: (2450 - Present)

Story one: Eleven years of surviving the wasteland, left Kele a hardened veteran of survival. Skills in combat only matched by their wit and determination to keep going. Most of their group had dwindled, and the last person left to join a clan that offered a spot to them. Shadowed and Kele were the last left, wandering the wasteland. Eventually, they made their way to skalamar, where they managed to sign up at a recruitment office to join Nanotrasen, and also get off Moghes. Shadowed was taken to a seperate area, and sadly had to split up with Kele. Kele luckily still keeps in touch. Kele was transferred around from area to area, eventually ending up in Biesel, where they got a proper cadetship education, which was both easy and difficult, owing to the fact that Kele had a great dislike for ranged weaponry, declaring them dishonorable.

Story two: Keles life with nanotrasen was an interesting one. Facing nigh constant discrimination from their largely human co-workers, with most of the other unathi being Hegemony members, who kele had a keen disliking to, thinking that they had personally doomed Moghes, leading to a situation where Kele nearly challenged one to a duel, before nanotrasen security had to step in and stop it.

Story three: After finishing their training, they were transferred to the odin, where they were given a small apartment and sent to work on the aurora. They haven’t had much time on the aurora, and therefore don’t have many stories yet, as they only got formally moved recently.

Story three point five: This is different from others, as it’s a sort of overview of their life in the style of all the little character suggestion boxes from the wiki.

Kelehari Iszhokha, 40, is a former Wastelander turned Nanotrasen security officer. He works with a staggering efficiency, having been self sufficient in the wasteland for years.

Iszhokha is 6’5, with a well made build. He is 275 pounds, with blue eyes, long ram horns, dark red hide, and a long tongue.

He lives in a small apartment in the odin, keeping it clean and tidy. He lives with no-one but his work mate, and their cat, who he is still slightly confused by. How does such a small animal have such a ferocious fighting attitude. How does it have such vicious claws, while being so small? How can it jump so far? This is clearly a dangerous animal.

He has a slightly condescending attitude to women, and fervently despises both Guwans and Aut’akh, going so far as nearly getting fired for getting into a rather aggressive spat with an aut’akh.

He is Th’akh, having been raised with it’s values, and rather dislikes Si’akh. He is mostly indifferent about sk’akh, though.

He speaks Sinta’Azaziba and Sign language, being taught SL during his security training.

What do you like about this character?
I like Kele cause he’d give me plenty of interesting experiences. From the opinions of aut’akh, guwans, women and si’akh, I’d likely have a very interesting and varied time on station. Unlike most other species I've played, Unathi are unique in that they have very hard lined gender roles, classes and the like. The whole troubled backstory thing would also be interesting to slowly roleplay out, and likely the fact he totally has trauma from seeing most of his family, friends and allies die, slowly and painfully. 

 

How would you rate your role-playing ability?

Depending on the day, 6 - 7.

 

Notes:

Of all the lores, unathi has been what I'm the most shaky on in aspects. If I missed anything interesting/important, please tell me so I can correct it. Especially dates. I'm shit at dates. 

Also, I'm always better at making backstories, less the other questions. Feedbacks appreciated 

Edited August 29, 2020 by SleepyWolf

[SleepyWolf]

Sorry this took so long, I enjoy your application! Structuring it like this shows how Kele kinda views their life in chunks, and how life is so different in each part of it. You've also shown what the character is like, some of their ideals, and a ton of work that shows you've thought of their viewpoint and can roleplay it.

Accepted! I hope you enjoy playing unathi, and create plenty of interesting stories.