RustingWithYou Posted January 25, 2023 Posted January 25, 2023 BYOND Key: RustingWithYou Character Names: Casimir Tilton, Ra'Akaix'Avek Zo'ra, Azkohi Dorviza, Ta'Akaix'Aledeion Zo'ra, Hermes Species you are applying for: Tajaran What color do you plan on making your first alien character: 0,0,0 Have you read our lore section's page on this species?: Yes Why do you wish to play this specific race: With the upcoming Adhomai arc, I've been brushing up on Tajaran lore and found it really interesting, as well as several IC interactions with Tajaran characters who I found very compelling. I also like the struggles between Adhomai's three factions a lot - I feel like all of them are written in a very interesting and three-dimensional way, and I feel like all of the existing lore sets up a lot of interesting character conflicts and ideas. I also have a soft spot for the sort of dieselpunk aesthetic that the PRA especially seems to have in a lot of its design, and I really like the style of the Tesla limbs + spine. Identify what makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a Human: Tajara are a race that's very much been on the bottom rung of the Spur for a while. They were the least advanced civilisation that humans have made contact with, and the consequences of first contact led to decades of brutal conflict. More than any other species, really, Tajaran politics shapes their way of life - even expats or young Tajarans born elsewhere are likely to have strong ties back to Adhomai and the cold war that still rages there. Character Name: Khazarir Markov A Zhan-Kazan Tajara, Khazarir was born in 2411, and raised into a standard life of any Tajara before the First Revolution - raised to a farming family in a backwater village in the Rhazar Mountains. The work was hard, and the ruing dynasty's M'sai enforcers were always on the watch for dissident behavior, especially after the first contact with humans was made. After the D'as'ral Massacre, the First Revolution sparked, and Khazarir was swayed by the revolutionary words of the rebels - of a society were all Tajara were equal and free, where a Zhan like Khazarir could work for himself and his comrades, instead of suffering under the cruel hands of the aristocracy. During the First Revolution, Khazarir fought for the cause boldly - and after it was done, left the mountains behind, settling in Nal'tor as the process of establishing the People's Republic began. Having known nearly a decade of war, Khazarir struggled somewhat adjusting to peace, eventually formalising the non-combat skills he'd learned in the Revolution through a NanoTrasen engineering program. Khazarir eventually found himself a wife in Nal'tor, and the two started a family together. For years, their lives were peaceful, happy, and largely uneventful, until the Second Revolution began and Khazarir, again, was pulled back to fighting for the Hadiist cause. Though the defections of many Republican military personnel to the ALA bothered him, and he did have doubts as to whether or not he was fighting for the right side, he never acted on them - his family was in the heartland of Hadiist territory, and he viewed the PRA as the continuation of what he'd fought for, all those years ago. Whatever doubts he may have had were erased when an ALA landmine triggered, nearly killing him and blowing his left arm and leg off. Discharged from service, and returned to his family, Khazarir grew depressed - he could no longer work to provide for his family, or fight for the Republic. However, with the development of the Tesla prosthetics, and the rolling out of them to veterans, he was able to work once again, helping to repair the damage done by the Revolution. Now an old man by Tajaran standards, he found himself increasingly dissatisfied with the People's Republic under Malik Hadii's rule, even with the harsh laws punishing Zhan-Khazan having ceased. Seeking a better life for his wife and children, he took an engineering position with Hephaestus, going off-world in the hopes of letting his family prosper once he was too old to work. Eventually, he was assigned to the SCCV Horizon, in a wave of new hires after some battle Khazarir didn't particularly care about at some orchard somewhere. What do you like about this character? I liked the idea of an older character, who'd seen Adhomai go from its pre-Revolution ways to what it is now. I also liked the idea of playing a Hadiist Zhan, growing less and less sure about the current state of the PRA, but still dedicated to its ideals - something of a Young Hadiist in his thoughts, wanting to see the PRA reformed into what it is that he fought for. The Tesla prosthetics are also very cool, and I liked the idea of making a character who was given what he viewed as a new lease on life by the People's Republic. How would you rate your roleplaying ability? Probably a 7 or 8 out of 10? 1
UponASeaOfStars Posted January 25, 2023 Posted January 25, 2023 I just woke up so I'm too tired to give good feedback right now but Casimir is S+, absolute pleasure to interact with, and I'd honestly love to see how Khazarir plays on the Horizon. +1 from me.
Alberyk Posted January 30, 2023 Posted January 30, 2023 Some questions: -What religion does Khazarir believes in? -How does he sees the DPRA and the NKA?
RustingWithYou Posted January 30, 2023 Author Posted January 30, 2023 Khazarir is a follower of the Mata'ke Pantheon. He has a personal grudge against the DPRA, as they cost him an arm and a leg. As a Zhan who suffered from Malik Hadii's persecution, he does feel some empathy for the idea of changing the PRA closer to Al'mari's vision - however, he believes that the Al'marists splitting from the PRA in the way they did was an enormous mistake, that set back all the work the First Revolution did by allowing the NKA to rise. For the NKA, he has nothing but contempt- he still has distant memories of the days of noble rule on Adhomai, and views the NKA as a return to centuries of oppression for the working Tajara.
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