bobbob212 - Tajara Application

[Afya]

BYOND Key: bobbob212

Character Names: Maya, Edmund Baker, Amari Linzenge, Kevin Wardle

Species you are applying to play: Tajara

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

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

Why do you wish to play this specific race: It's one of races I'm most familiar with and miss playing to be honest. Used to play them back on Bay and various other HRP servers. I've always been interested in the lore behind the Tajara. With the very culture they are based off of is on the verge of collapse after their uprisings and lots of interior drama. I enjoy their aurora of suspicion they give off, but being extremely loyal to the ones they are close to. The constant updates along side all that is very nice.

Identify what makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a Human: Plenty of thing lore-wise, and mechanically make the Tajara different from playing a human. From the most obvious like the Taj speaking in third person, to the fact that Tajara are so dangerously divided. Mechanics being such as night vision and slashing. The race themselves is super conservative, with a mentality that their own matter than the rest. With the recent uplifting Tajara are still mistreated more than most. They are still figuring out their place in the stars, of what they will become, it is uncertain what will become of them in even the near future. 

Character Name: Afya Kassab

Please provide a short backstory for this character:

Afya Kassab was born in 2437, a Hharar Tajara on the outskirts of Crevus. She was raised by her parents alongside the community until she was fifteen. Her parents disappeared in a skirmish between the DPRA and the PRA, both having signed up to the Adhomai Liberation Army only months before. She is a follower of S'rand'marr, with particular worship towards Messa. Having always seen and related with the mutual loneliness she feels in her. Being a follower and unable to find or see her parent’s potential bodies, she is devastated. Having always been a curious mind, tinkering with various electronics, she got herself into a technical school focusing on automation and mechanics. Putting herself deep into work to not think about the past.

Afya believes in the DPRA and in the civilian government but realizes a lot of work needs to be done by a lot of people. She looks up to Nated and the hope that he brings. As such in 2456 Afya joined the Adhomai Liberation Army, supporting the civilian government as a mechanic in the back lines. During this time she would learn the basics of Siik'tajr. She helped repair and modify old Mata'ke Rafama II tanks while in her off time tinkering with various newly introduced robotics. After the second revolution was finished in 2461 Afya was discharged from the ALA, no longer required, she was given half of what she was promised. 

After being let go with no job to hope for Afya would use all the money she had to pay a now ‘legalized’ Ha’rron to get her away from the planet and to the Biesel Republic as a refugee, hearing that things are much better there. The only thing to her name the clothes on her back and a portrait of the former supreme command Nated. Once in space the rickety ship she was being transported on had a sudden breach, and as a result her arm would become extremely hurt, to eventually be replaced by a cheap prosthetic in Biesel. She would end up in Mendell city district six, in which she would get a little education to finish her training before becoming a licensed machinist, resulting in her eventually being among the stars.

What do you like about this character? Afya is honestly a character/character type I've always had around/played. I enjoy playing the reserved tinkerer. Someone who has seen thing but keep it to themselves. Shy and reserved but extreme for the ones she cares about. 

How would you rate your role-playing ability? Never been a fan of this question personally. As someone who's been playing SS13 for eleven years and run plenty of events, I like to think I'm decent at it. Always do my best to stay in character. Always will be days where I do worse or better than normal.

Notes: 

[EJJ]

Bobbob's always a treat to have a jaunt with. Maya is fun and the other characters that are theirs I've interacted with less but still enjoy. I enjoy interactions I have with their characters and AI overlord Maya has been fun to work with on the rounds I play with them.

A definite +1 from myself.

[WickedCybs]

What are their thoughts regarding the PRA and NKA, respectively?

[Afya]

21 hours ago, WickedCybs said:

What are their thoughts regarding the PRA and NKA, respectively?

She hates the PRA, she sees them as the ones who took away her family, whom she fought them in the second revolution. She believes that the PRA is nothing more than a savage dictatorship that wants to control all of Adhomai, forcing the working class into work camps. How reliant on megacoporations they seem to be annoys her greatly. An unstable, but very real threat that is the root problem of all the issues on Adhomai. 

Regarding the NKA, she hasn't had many interactions with their culture, so is rather indifferent to them. Seeing them as silly, not really comprehending the ideals of the NKR. She equates them to a more unstable, underdevleoped PRA, but with even more horrible megacoporation corruption. The NKA is very corrupt to her, with noble families taking all that they can for themselves. She basically believes that the NKA is just an insignificant backwater gang country that's bound to fall, and is confused by the fact it hasn't yet.

Edited May 7, 2022 by bobbob212

[Alberyk]

Some questions:

Which Al'mariist school of political thought she relates the most with?

What are her objectives with going to Tau Ceti? What is she strying to achieve?

 

[Afya]

9 hours ago, Alberyk said:

Which Al'mariist school of political thought she relates the most with?

She easily falls under the ideals of Moderate Al'mariism. She is a fan of Nated but not as much of a loyalist to him as his party generally is. She believes democracy is important and that it will lead to Adhomai improving overall, with a more equal look onto things.

9 hours ago, Alberyk said:

What are her objectives with going to Tau Ceti? What is she strying to achieve?

She wants to start a new life for herself, simply. She heard rumours about Biesel, and specifically Mendell city, that it wasn't too bad. That if she could get away she'd get to start anew without as much drama, in a safer environment. 

[Alberyk]

Application accepted.