SinfulBehaviors Tajara Application

[SinfulBehaviors]

BYOND Key: SinfulBehaviors

Character Names: Azzam Amari, Antonio Valente, Silas Grayson, a cavalcade of other characters I need to use more

Species you are applying to play: Tajara

What color do you plan on making your first alien character: Taupe, a darker furred Hharar.

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

 

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 really enjoy the interplay and tension between the three factions of Taj. While I love humans, political strife doesn’t exactly seem to be an inbuilt issue for those characters, considering most of the time Solarians on the ship don’t actually seem to agree with their government, at least not to the degree of the issues between the Royalists, Republicans, and Al'mariists.

 

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

Unlike my previous whitelist pertaining to IPCs, Tajara DO have a different way of speaking to your standard human. Much more Khajit like, but not identical. Tajara are also, depending on their origin, generally more conservative than your average human. DPRA in particular are quite a bit more disdainful of xenos. Doing things like maintaining a romantic relationship with, say, a human or unathi are generally frowned upon. 

 

Character Name: Tajrhalrr Sokolov

Please provide a short backstory for this character

Born in the midst of the first revolution, Sokolov’s early days were shaped by years of news of massacres and warfare. Idolizing the PRA and the Hadii family in particular, it came as no shock when he joined the Republican Army at the age of 18, following the president’s assassination. With boots on the ground as part of a brigade, the young Hharar fought against ALA forces during the Winter Offensive. Unfortunately, as war tends to go, in late September 2458, Sokolov was injured in the line of duty, losing his left arm and rendering his right a barely usable mess. For a period of about a year he was out of action until he was able to snag a spot in what would become the PRA’s famous Tesla Brigade, serving with them even past the end of the war and abroad.

 

Years on, with his fur beginning to grey and scars marking his body, the former soldier has become a little disillusioned with his homeland. Witnessing the firebombing of cities just so no one else could have it was the beginning, but with every bit of progress came its own issues so he retired from the military, using his experience in the Tesla Brigade to get jobs working with machines and prosthetics. Now, with a somewhat freshly developed alcoholism and a rather sharp demeanor, he’s landed himself on the SCCV Horizon.

 

What do you like about this character?

Due to my own life experiences, I’ve always had a fondness for disheveled old veterans, especially ones who can admit that not everything they did during their career was good. I’ve played characters who grew up in wartorn areas, characters with a hard-on for conflict, but I’ve never actually gotten around to playing a war vet with a nihilistic wit to them. 

 

How would you rate your role-playing ability?

Pretty good, I’d think, but playing a less “standard” character definitely will take some getting used to.

[Alberyk]

Some questions:

What does Tajrhalrr thinks of the DPRA and NKA?

Does he follow any religion?

Out of all hadiist schools of thought, which ones does he sympathize the most with?

What is Tajrhalrr's objective/long term plan with leaving Adhomai?

[SinfulBehaviors]

Currently, he sees the DPRA as a valid idea, ruined by traditionalism and xenophobia. Are they working to eliminate the caste system? Absolutely, but if you're still shunning people for intermingling with the "lower" ethnicities, what's the point? In contrast, he hates the Royalists. The people deposed the royals such a long time ago, and clinging to the monarchy is a bastardization of Adhomai.

 

He is a follower of the Ma'ta'ke pantheon.

 

As a young man in the military, he was a supporter of Total Hadiism. As he grew older and more disillusioned with the political games, he got out of it until he heard of Young Hadiism, jiving more with that than any other ideology he'd heard.

 

Truthfully, his hope is that while he's away, things will calm down and reform a bit. The current state of his home planet is disconcerting, and he'd rather not end up being a casualty if it boils over or someone gets their hands on a weapon of mass destruction. If everything smooths out, he'd be willing to return, and if not...well, he'll probably get the paperwork ready to fully move to Biesel.

[Alberyk]

Application accepted.