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[Desven]

A Tajara application

 

BYOND Key: Desven

Character Names:

Species you are applying to play: Tajara

What color do you plan on making your first alien character: Njarir'Akhran cream Tajara

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've been interested in Tajara politics for a while, although nothing too major. For the most part, I simply learned how to differentiate Zhans and the main three factions, which greatly improved my RPing with Tajara players. It was, however, a background curiosity and did not bother to read the lore, learning purely from IC interactions and really minor OOC questions. Despite that, plenty of my OOC friends hold Tajara whitelists, and I was recently encouraged to write one myself, after making some remarks regarding their aesthetics, as well as having some discussions about my lore understanding.

What I particularly like about Tajara is their lore, and that they don't fall into the problem I greatly have with sci-fi as a whole, where planets and cultures are reduced to gimmicks and homogenized. Adhomai feels like a real place because it has great regional differences, as well as a struggle between local factions. I was honestly impressed to see the wiki into detail about sports and instruments, which is, imo, an area where human lore is lacking. There has clearly been a lot of care crafting the narrative of Tajara, and I wish to join the playerbase.

Plus cats are really cute.

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

I'll be honest and say that Tajara are probably the least alien-like of all the species, perhaps even less alien than Unathi. However, the aesthetic, politics and culture as a whole have made them more unique, and while it's not exactly anything foreign to us humans (social revolutions, war, mass migration, etc) they do add a huge element that feels less sci-fi and more historical drama. Also, the race divided society, while it's not strange to us irl either, is not something humans greatly deal with in the 25th century, while Tajara do still struggle with, and each racial group (despite their faction) might hold prejudices against others because of the race division of Adhomai. In short, I think it provides an interesting scenario for interactions with different species, as well as with different kinds of Tajara.

 

Character Name: Zhranzda Rajii'rthaamrrdar

Please provide a short backstory for this character:

Born shortly after the D'as'ral massacre, Zhranzda is the youngest son of a noble family. His childhood would be affected immensely by the changing political climate of Adhomai. Forced to remain hidden for survival many years, the Rajii'rthaamrrdar family would find most of their properties lost, as well as the lives of their other sons. The eldest because of the First revolution, dying in battle, and the one in the middle because their new precarious life would not be able to cover the treatment for Dornskhy. Zhranzda grew up with his two sisters, the blurry memories of his Dornskhy brother and the legends told about his Alyad'almalik brother.

The Rajii'rthaamrrdar family would find relative peace in Dymtris. Although encouraged by his parents to join the loyalist forces, Zhranzda would decide to embrace medicine and begin his practice in the late interwar period. This would later be disturbed by the Second Revolution. Zhranzda would subscribe to the support of the New Kingdom of Adhomai, serving as a doctor aiding the forces of the Dymtris line. This would wear him intensely and would prove to be where he spent most of his medical career, until 2458 when the collapse of the line was imminent and he, alongside his mother and sisters, would retreat to a village closer to Kaltir. Their devotion of S'rendarr and Messa, as well as a purchase of land made by his two brothers-in-law, would be how the family would sustain itself for the following years.

As a decision to join lands, Zhranzda would marry a noblewoman in similar conditions to his family, and his doubts between conservative and absolute monarchism would dissipate because of the conservative ideals of his father-in-law, who is a great supporter of Nanotrasen. Despite the newfound peace with the Armistice, two events would encourage Zhranzda and his in-laws to leave Adhomai: the death of his own mother and the death of the king. Now his in-law family established with a thriving bakery in Little Adhomai, he joins the Aurora as a surgeon.

What do you like about this character?:

I admit I like royalist characters and while I'll likely make a PRA or DPRA one at some point, I find interesting the minor nobility striving to survive in a world that rejects them. I also like that Zhranzda greatly values his family and that he's particularly close to his in-laws, which is something I have not explored with any of other characters before, as most of them are soft-exiled or too distant with their own kin. I think Zhranzda would avoid conflict and try to distant himself from the events of what occurred in Adhomai too, and I would like to expand on his family lore such as his two brothers.

How would you rate your role-playing ability?: Feeling like a 6 today.

Notes: ty GreyWolf, Ramke and SonicGetsNuked for encouraging me, and I hope Kaizr gets their app so we can both be cats together.

 

 

[sonicgotnuked]

-1 for spelling my name wrong.

 

In all seriousness, the story is good and I'd like to see them inside medical. Dr. Godard is also a good CMO with a mixture of seriousness and a great balance of patience when it comes to OOC fuckups in medical not absolutely destroying a characters reputation (Which has been an issue with previous CMO's in the department) I feel they support the environment well. 

 

The story to me checks out personally. I like the struggle of nobility which is an issue. Big +1 from me.

[Desven]

Some DLC for my app:

How does religion fit in Zhranzda's life?: He is a firm believer in S'rendarr and Messa. Greywolf and I wondered about education of Njarir during the interwar period, and I thought that it would be feasible if it was private religious schooling, probably with dubious validity because of the small size of the alumni and the persecution of Njarir, and eventually he would have to prove his credentials again as a citizen of the NKA. Besides the education aspect, the family deaths would increase their faith in Messa, and his father and brothers would be seen as enjoying the afterlife in Messa's forever. Zhranzda would also have had a traditional  S'rendal'Mati wedding, and I expect Zhranzda to wear his wrap in station to symbolize his marriage.

What does Zhranzda think about the DPRA and the PRA?: I think it's obvious that, because of his presence in Dymtri, he would hold a grudge against the PRA, even if the differences with the DPRA and Al'mariism are greater. Suffice is to say, however, that he agrees with the NKA's position that the republics are founded in genocide, and the struggles of his childhood, mainly, are empirical evidence for him. I think he has little interest in conflict with other Tajara he sees, although he would hold strong, traditional beliefs about what each race should do.

Is Zhranzda a conservative royalist?: I'd say yes, because of what I explained about his father-in-law.  Although I'd think that his own father, while alive, would be more interested in absolute royalism, Zhranzda is conscious enough to know old-school royalism isn't feasible in the current situation. I don't think Zhranzda has ever been in serfdom, but I do think the serfs they had with their land near Kaltir would make him more conscious about workers and, while not sympathizing with hadiism at all, he would understand their need for basic rights.

I'm thinking more about his finer details. While I would like Zhranzda to be a bit more like Doctor Zhivago (the setting fits), I already have a writer-doctor. I think he's mostly worried about helping to provide his family in this new world, as well as the hope that Adhomai will one day be stable enough for his return. I might add more details later when I'm on my PC, as formatting on phone is really hard.

[TheGreyWolf]

I had a few questions written up last night before I went to sleep but they appear to be lost so instead i'll simply say that I have seen Godard around as one of the few people in medical where I wish I had more reason to go to medical just to interact more with him. And yeah, I encouraged him to apply because honestly I think Desven will make an amazing addition to the taj playerbase. A big +1 from me.

[Alberyk]

I don't think I have anything to ask and the application displays enough knowledge of the species.

Application accept.