Sarges Tajara app

[Star Dust]

BYOND Key: Sarge7767

Character Names: Ishel Blackmar, Theo Bodkin, and Juliet Potter

Species you are applying to play: Tajara

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

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 believe it would be an interesting way to break out of the mold of just making Human characters over and over, for as enjoyable as Human lore is and as free it can be, there is something refreshing about picking up something new like another race, and exploring their lore, culture, and history. What really drew me to the Tajarans was actually their history, with the first revolution having militia groups such as the People's Emancipation Movement, Republic of Free Tajara, or the Liberated People's of Harr'masir. All of that really reminded me of real life wars such as the Congo wars and the like which makes me very happy for I like realistic depictions of wars, civil wars, and uprising, along with all the splinter cells that would pop up from such a massive war across the entire planet.

 

Identify what makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a Human: What makes Tajarans a bit different to Humans is their technological development on the home planet, for unlike the Humans, Unathi, or Skrell, most recent Tajara developments were from other civilizations. This inturn has lead to a strange mix of 1920’s and modern day livelihoods on the home planet, with it being even stated in the lore that though they have modern medicine in the New Kingdom of Adhomai, most tajarans still use more primitive forms of medicine such as herbal remedies and even bloodletting. So this can shape a lot of the perceptions of Tajara who live in these more outdated lifestyles being suddenly exposed to new technologies they might have not had access to, or the money to get depending on parts of the planet. These things are not often discussed or talked about in Human lore, and so not many people really roleplay a character from a more outdated time period. Though if we’re also to say the differences biologically speaking, they’re very different to Humans to state the obvious, Tajarans tend to be quicker than Humans, more cold resistant to Humans, and can be somewhat shorter than most Humans, while also being a bit more physically frail to things like blunt trauma or lacerations due to their lighter bodies.
 

 

Character Name: Trhofiim R'odion
 

Please provide a short backstory for this character

Trhofiim R'odion was born in a small village outside of the city of Kaltir, he was raised as the oldest child out of three other siblings. His younger years as a child were spent often helping on the farm as best he could, being retold stories of his great grandfather by his family who he served as a soldier for the Kingdom of Kaltir during The Great Revolution; this heavily influenced his life,  leaving a permanent mark on him and his personal ideals. Trhofiim R'odion when nearly an adult was given the greatcoat his grandfather wore during The Great Revolution, a piece of clothing that stuck with him for the rest of his life and often wore it around as often as he could durning the bitter and unforgiving winters. When Trhofiim R'odion turned 22, the NKA rebellion had started, the mixture of stories from the past about his Grandfather defending the monarchy, the secret printing press releasing pro-NKA propaganda, and being so close to the capital of the NKA rebellion is what prompted him to sign up for service for the Imperial Adhomian Army to become an infantryman. He served in the military all the way up till the end of the civil war, while serving he didn’t do anything to noteworthy or extreme outside of what the common footsoldier partakes in on the daily. Though in his military service he did suffer a lingering injury that still plagues him to this day, he suffered a bayonet wound to the left hand, making it lose some motor control in the middle and ring finger, thankfully this wasn’t his trigger hand, and was still able to serve. By the end of the civil war, all notions of patriotism, the glorification of duty and being a soldier, or the honor for fighting for one's king had left him at this point, replaced with a hollow melancholy for his lost youth and innocence. Trhofiim R'odion returned to his family's farm as a jaded and quiet person, and for about a year he spent his time working with his family. But the endless reminders of war from his scarred homeland was too much for him to bear so he departed Adhomai to hopefully find a more peaceful and quiet life in Biesel.

 

What do you like about this character?

I like this character for it allows me to explore my own personal interest of war veterans, but also soldiers returning home from war changed. 

How would you rate your role-playing ability?
I would say my skills as a roleplayer are above average, yet I’m eager to keep proving still. 

[Pedantic]

Based on our OOC interactions and in-game time, I'll throw a +1 here. They seem invested in making a lore appropriate tajara, and want to make something fun for the station.

[Alberyk]

This application as some issues:

Tajarans is not a thing. The plural is just Tajara.

The backstory is a single paragraph, when the application says it should be at least two.

The backstory is really barren and we can't really know anything about the character besides the fact that he idolized his grandfather and later gave up on the nka after serving in the army.

R'odion's reason to just give up on the NKA are kinda strange. It is not really explained, despite a minor injury that would not even stop him from doing his job, why he just gave up on the Royalist cause.

What the character is doing on Tau Ceti or what he plans outside of just living there are not explored in any manner. We don't even know what job he will be on the station.

 

I will have to deny this application for now, but you are free to reapply in one week. Please rewrite the backstory to fix the issues I pointed out.