FrozenDahliaRose Posted May 31, 2023 Posted May 31, 2023 (edited) BYOND Key: FrozenDahliaRose Character Names: Narcisse Juno, Jovna Amlliq, Kyriake Antonelli Species you are applying to play: Unathi What color do you plan on making your first alien character: Albino (Specifically the "Bleached Bone" color) Have you read our lore section's page on this species?: Yes. Alongside what I’ve gathered from interacting with Unathi characters, I spent a while reading through the lore to ensure that my character adheres to the expectations of an Unathi character. 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: As I’ve been playing and interacting with Unathi characters in-game, especially while playing as Narcisse, what I’ve learned and the characters I’ve encountered has drawn me to learning more about Unathi lore and has gotten me very interested in playing my own Unathi character. In particular, the Unathi code of honor and how pervasive gender roles are to both the career prospects of a character as well as society in general are both very intriguing to me. Identify what makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a Human: Unathi are seemingly much more bound to traditions and societal expectations than most humans. They stress loyalty to one’s clan, to one’s religion, and to one’s family. They also have much different biology than humans which has to be taken into account when playing a character. Even their use of language is different, with unique terminology and slang based around their culture as well as their own bodies/biology and how that differs from humans or other species. Unathi society places heavy emphasis on clans and gender roles which influences the behavior of the individual Unathi on a level that’s much more ingrained than humans, and this has to be shown in an Unathi character through their interactions with other Unathi, as well as characters of other species. Character Name: Yzteka Guwan Please provide a short backstory for this character: Yzteka was born in 2440 in one of the tent cities surrounding Camp Integrity. Yzteka’s parents were an older couple who had already had two sons before her. Her brothers were much older, and the gap effectively kept the two distant from their younger sister. Oftentimes, the boys would leave Yzteka behind to entertain herself with whatever she could find. This usually meant that she would have to play with rocks and stones and, if she were lucky, she would enjoy the company of other hatchlings her age… at least, until their parents pulled them away. An albino, Yzteka was seen as an omen of misfortune by her highly religious and traditional-minded Th’akh parents. Growing up, Yzteka was made to believe that her birth, as well as her very existence was a curse on the family. Her mother would often have Yzteka join her in ritual prayer to ask the spirits for forgiveness in whatever they had done to anger them. As a hatchling, her mischievous and playful nature seemed to confirm to her parents that Yzteka was more trouble than she was worth and as she became more rowdy in her early teenage years, she was very abruptly abandoned. Yzteka wandered the city for a while, mostly living off of scraps and the pity of others. However, as food was already a major concern to most families, the idea of another mouth to feed wasn’t something that was willing to be entertained. Around the age of 14, Yzteka left the city. Less than a week out from when she left, close to death out in the Wastelands, a Reclaimer clan heading to the Vihnmes took pity on her, taking her in and saving her life. The clan welcomed Yzteka as another set of hands to help out. While living with the clan, Yzteka often assisted the other women with cooking and other basic yet necessary chores that kept everything running smoothly. She was especially close with the clan leader’s wife, an older woman who treated Yzteka like she was another of her daughters. She helped Yzteka learn the skills typical of Unathi women, as Yzteka was denied the chance to learn from her own mother. Despite her efforts, Yzteka believed she could always be doing more to help out the clan. She eventually married a young man from the clan at the age of 16 in the hopes of being able to better contribute to the clan and repay them for their kindness in saving her. Within a few years, Yzteka was still without children, drawing the anger of her husband, who gradually began to mistreat her. At the age of 23, sick of her mistreatment, Yzteka confronted her husband. An intense argument ensued and Yzteka ended up killing her husband after he began to attack her. Horrified at what she’d done, she begged and pleaded with the Clan leader for forgiveness. Her pleas failed to reach him and instead, he petitioned an imperial court to have her exiled. The court overwhelmingly sided with the Clan leader and Yzteka was exiled and marked as ‘Guwan’. For around half a year, Yzteka wandered from city to city, but found she was unable to stay anywhere for very long. As Yzteka drifted from place to place, she found herself turning to religion once again. Shaking and tearful, she asked the spirits what she did in a past life to deserve their anger and pleaded with them to be allowed a chance to appease them. The next morning, she arrived at a city where a she was offered work in service by NanoTrasen, which she desperately accepted. What do you like about this character? What I like about Yzteka is her ability to survive and eventually overcome adversity despite what the universe has decided to throw at her. Her status as ‘Guwan’ was not a mistake, and was earned through her actions, but also prompts the question of ‘What would or could you have done if you were in her place?’. She is not overtly rebellious and wants nothing more than to have a peaceful, average life for an Unathi woman, though the opportunity was never really available to her. She still, however, aspires to return to that feeling of belonging somewhere, which gives her motivation to persist in spite of everything that has befallen her. On a less character-driven note, I also love the idea of a Wild West-style Unathi lady. How would you rate your role-playing ability? I believe that my role-playing ability has improved significantly from when I played on the server in 2019. I especially believe that my ability to flesh out a character both through their background as well as their interactions with other characters has improved greatly. While I’m still open to learning more and improving even further, I am confident that I’m at a good place as far as my role-playing ability is concerned. If I had to give a number rating, I'd say maybe somewhere between 7.5-8.5/10 Notes: Yzteka considers herself Th’akh, but has a very complex relationship to the religion after her very early experiences growing up in a stricter, traditionalist household. Edited June 4, 2023 by FrozenDahliaRose Expanding on backstory (Again - forgot to include a part from the first time) 1
Triogenix Posted June 2, 2023 Posted June 2, 2023 Hello, and thanks for applying! After looking over your application, I think I'd like you to expand upon your backstory a little more, right now it's not bad, and would work fine once you have the whitelist, but doesn't go into enough detail for the purposes of this application. How you want to expand on this backstory is up to you, a few ideas are expanding on her clan, immediate family, and religion's role in her youth. That's all for now!
FrozenDahliaRose Posted June 3, 2023 Author Posted June 3, 2023 17 hours ago, Triogenix said: Hello, and thanks for applying! After looking over your application, I think I'd like you to expand upon your backstory a little more, right now it's not bad, and would work fine once you have the whitelist, but doesn't go into enough detail for the purposes of this application. How you want to expand on this backstory is up to you, a few ideas are expanding on her clan, immediate family, and religion's role in her youth. That's all for now! Thank you for you input! I've expanded on her backstory with the topics you suggested. Please let me know if anything else needs to be added or expanded on!
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