unathi [Denied] Unathi - Grazal Thruka

[GrazalThruka]

BYOND Key: GrazalThruka
Character Names: Daniel Berkland, Ka'Akaix'Miath Zo'ra, Trent Corbin
Species you are applying to play: Unathi
What color do you plan on making your first alien character:  Slightly lighter than Yu'kal Soil
Have you read our lore section's page on this species?: Yep!

Why do you wish to play this specific race: I've played Unathi on other servers, and I really like playing warrior races and more importantly, very inhuman aliens. Unathi are also cool lizards.

Identify what makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a Human: Physically, Unathi are cold-blooded bipedal lizards, slightly larger than the average human. They only get nutrient from meat, and drink butanol instead of ethanol. They vary in appearance from lizard-like to draconic to serpentine, and many have horns, frills, or crests. They have a longue forked tongue used to sample the air. Given their physiology, they tend towards slow and purposeful movement.

Unathi society is feudally divided, with strict gender roles, traditions, and honour codes, especially within their main government: the Izweski Nation. Women are held to a less strict standard than the men, a major point being that women are permitted to lie.  Their society has begun recovering from a planet-wide nuclear war, with the survivors divided between those who made the non-traditional choice to leave Moghes for a colony or human space, those still living in the remaining Izweski cities, or the various factions of wastelanders.

The main theme with Unathi I see is tradition vs. progress. How do they hold onto their rigid culture while still moving forward? Or do they bother at all? What influences will the other cultures of the galaxy provide (if they haven't already RE: the contact war conspiracies)? 

Character Name: Dr. Uzors Kzeskis (referred to below by his first name just to differentiate between him and the clan)

Please provide a short backstory for this character:
Born a year before the war broke out, Uzors was orphaned in the chaos: his father died fighting for the Izweski, and his mother died of radiation poisoning shortly after the atomic exchange. His childhood was spent moving between various refugee camps and mobile hospitals as his mother worked with other healers to provide humanitarian (Unathitarian?) aid to civilian populations. When his mother died, he was taken in by Clan Kzeskis, a member of which had worked with his mother. A desert-border-clan-turned-Oasis, the Kzeskis provided medical aid to Reclaimers and others as the wasteland spread, eventually settling down on the edge themselves.

Uzors lived out the remaining few years of his childhood in the wasteland. He spent most of his time with his adoptive mother, and she was reluctantly supportive when he insisted on following in her footsteps. He quickly learned the Kzeskis' various herbal remedies, as well as the modern medicine that trickled in. His vivid memories of the war's injured as well as the warrior culture still prevalent among the (relatively) pacifistic plan have left a strange imprint on him; Uzors is vehemently opposed to emotionally driven violence, but understands the occasional necessity of its application.

Taking advantage of a Nanotrasen scholarship, he left Moghes when he turned 20 to study medicine, and found many like-minded peers who were willing to overlook the fact that he was a man studying medicine. He trained to become a trauma care specialist, with enough general practitioner skills to make it by. In the present day, at the age of 26, he was assigned to the Horizon.

Kzeskis follows Th'akh in a very literal ancestral sense, praying to specific ancestors for guidance (most often his mother).

What do you like about this character? 
I really like the vibe of "scary-looking doctor who's a really chill dude." I also always enjoy playing very counter-cultural characters who nonetheless do their best to honour their culture however they can. 

How would you rate your role-playing ability? 6-8/10, depending on the day

 

Edited December 20, 2022 by Haydizzle
Application processed. **Fixing the header**

[Haydizzle]

Hello, and thank you for your interest in Unathi! I really like your answers for your questions, but I feel the backstory is somewhat lackluster. Normally this isn't a huge issue; however, the lack of any feedback on your roleplay, I would be hard pressed to accept this application.

I'll be denying this application, and you can reapply in two weeks. You are allowed to reuse this application as a base when you reapply, just make sure to expand on your backstory and change any answers to your questions if you feel your responses to them have changed. I have a couple of tips for you as well for reapplying to ensure success. Doing both are not required for success, but doing at least one of these will greatly improve your chances:

- Ask people post-round to give you feedback on your application. Positive endorsements about your ability to roleplay show me that you can be trusted to represent the species in a meaningful way; or

- Incorporate the themes of the species into Kzeskis's backstory. You touch on the themes of the species in responses to the questions as well as your backstory, but you do not explain a lot of them and how they affected her growing up. Approving a whitelist means giving you the capacity to make any Unathi character, so I want to see how you handle using more of the themes of the species!

- Making a new application from the ground up. This can be a lot of work, but making an entirely different character can show me how well you can flex your creative muscles.

 

You can reapply on November 27th your time. Thanks again for applying, and I'm very much looking forward to seeing you reapplying! Feel free to DM my deputies or myself either here or on Discord if you have any questions.