unathi [Accepted] GrazalThruka - Unathi Take 2

[GrazalThruka]

BYOND Key: GrazalThruka

Character Names: Daniel Berkland, Ka'Akaix'Miath Zo'ra, ACCE-364, Torfin Bilrost

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 clan 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). He believes in the firm Good/Evil dichotomy of zo’zyola, and feels the same way about morality: Every situation has a right and a wrong answer, with any greyness stemming only from confusion or ignorance. With regards to prosthetics, he sees them as a necessary evil. He believes they only temporarily scar the soul and, so long as they are removed before burial, the kyula will return to health when reborn or the zo’zyola’s scars will become part of its identity.

When it comes to the aforementioned theme of progress vs tradition, Uzors is incredibly in favour of the former. The suffering and death he saw during the Contact War were, to him, an inevitable consequence of a warrior culture discovering weapons of mass destruction. His disagreement with tradition also comes from a more selfish place: he finds medicine incredibly interesting and fulfilling, and hates that he’s considered less “manly” for pursuing it. That being said, he agrees with the Warrior's Code in a looser sense. He believes people should be unflinching in their principles, unafraid of failure or death, and deal fairly with their inferiors, superiors, and equals.

 

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

(This is mostly the same as my last application. I will be seeking +1s from people after rounds, but I've also added some explanation stuff to the end of the backstory section)

Edited December 28, 2022 by Haydizzle
Accepted!

[La Villa Strangiato]

I +1 Grazal's apps on reflex, but I have a couple questions to ask:

1. What are Kzeskis' feelings on augments and implants? Does he accept their usage medicinally but privately balk at the fact that they exist? Is he completely content with the idea of prosthetics? What are his feelings on Diona protheses vs. metal augments?

2. You mentioned Kzekis was born to Hegemony parents, but later grew up in the Wasteland. How does this affect his thoughts on the Contact War? Does he feel loyalty to the Hegemony, or is he more detached from it?

3. Kzeskis has a pretty odd choice of career, for a male Unathi. Was he ever isolated from his peers for it? Is he more empathetic to the differences of others because of it? Does he have biases of his own, despite his struggle?

[GrazalThruka]

12 minutes ago, La Villa Strangiato said:

I +1 Grazal's apps on reflex, but I have a couple questions to ask:

1. What are Kzeskis' feelings on augments and implants? Does he accept their usage medicinally but privately balk at the fact that they exist? Is he completely content with the idea of prosthetics? What are his feelings on Diona protheses vs. metal augments?

2. You mentioned Kzekis was born to Hegemony parents, but later grew up in the Wasteland. How does this affect his thoughts on the Contact War? Does he feel loyalty to the Hegemony, or is he more detached from it?

3. Kzeskis has a pretty odd choice of career, for a male Unathi. Was he ever isolated from his peers for it? Is he more empathetic to the differences of others because of it? Does he have biases of his own, despite his struggle?

Ooo good questions

 

1. My curse of "I thought about this but forgot to write it" strikes again. He believes prosthetics acquired by necessity are fine, especially when it's "have a metal organ or die." He sees them akin to a chronic condition, but one taken on willingly to continue doing good in the world rather than dying. He finds dionaea prosthetics strange, but not necessarily evil. While he doesn't believe they damage they soul, they do alter it in ways he doesn't fully understand, and thus should not be taken lightly.

 

2. Uzors dislikes the Hegemony. They sent his father to his death for a war he views as a selfish power-grab and later wanton destruction. He also dislikes the traditionalists, for, y'know, starting the atomic war and killing an insane amount of non-combatants. He is fully devoted to clan Kzeskis, and views himself as a member of it rather than the Hegemony. 

Of course, he doesn't advertise this, but especially out of Hegemony space, he doesn't try to hide it

 

3. Clan Kzeskis was slightly more accepting of Uzor's career choices than most clans would've been. That being said, he did not spend a lot of time around the men and boys of the clan, who didn't so much openly shun him as just avoid him. Most of the discrimination he faced was from his patients, who were usually warriors from deeper in the Wasteland. They would often insult him, mock him, or straight up refuse to be treated by him. Uzors has thus developed a general disdain for what he views as "excessively macho men."

[Nathan1111]

+1. User grazalthruka has been nothing but a faithful rp'er in my experience, I think he'd be a great fit for playing a unathi character well.

[Mortecai4]

+1 good rp’er

[RustingWithYou]

I've seen Grazal playing an Unathi on ghostships before, and played with him once as a Kataphract captain - he seems to get the style of the species right, and I had a lot of fun RPing with his Zo'saa. Giving this my +1

[eddymakaveli]

Having roleplayed with Grazal on several of his IPCs that were very clearly well-defined in their duties and such, as well as reading his response to lavilla's question, I have the utmost confidence that he'd be able to accurately play an unathi. A +1 from me.

[Haydizzle]

Hello, and thanks for applying! I had one question I wanted to ask, but your answer to that is largely covered by your answer to La Villa's third question. I'm liking the development you've had between this app and your last, and I'm proud of you for sticking with it.

Application accepted. Feel free to send any questions to my deputies and I.