Maltivus Unathi Whitelist Application (Part 2, Lizard Hissgaloo)

[Weaselscribe]

Resubmitting application after two weeks, per previous application here: 

 

BYOND Key: Maltivus
Character Names: 

Rain Chevron

Iskander Fields 

Makayla Paynter

Ch4r1r (if pAI count)

Distant Star Branching Into The Void

Species you are applying to play: Unathi
What color do you plan on making your first alien character: Green

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

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've always found unathi to be one of the most interesting of the races available on this server.  Not only are they a sort of mingling of the Klingon sort of alien race that is all about honor and combat, but they also are in the unique position of being both a cautionary tale about carelessly sharing advanced technology with a lower tech race that isn't ready to handle it.  Normally in fiction this results in their extinction by some sort of global thermonuclear war, but unathi only destroyed part of their world, so they had the chance at least improve going forwards.  And, I guess I'm also a sucker or the whole knightly/shinobi honor motif and shinto-esque ancestor worship.

Identify what makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a Human: Well, on a mechanical level unathi are slower, tougher, and stronger than humans, aside from their ability to sprint real fast for short periods.  But it depends on which of the origins of Unathi people they come from.  For a Moghes Hegemony unathi, you will tend to come from a honorbound, feudalistic society with defined gender roles and maybe a little bit of latent xenophobia coloring your behavior.  Ouerean unathi have a less conservative mindset because they live within a representitive democracy, but I expect they'd still hold onto their spiritualism and gender roles, with less xenophobia in general.  I'm not entirely sure what a wastelands unathi would be like if they managed to arrive on the Horizon, but I imagine the extremely stressful life they had to live on an irradiated wasteland would color their perceptions about things like free access to food and water. Dominian unathi probably are used to dressing much warmer and it seems that they have had some cultural pushback against their gender roles, so they might not consider that to be very important.  Dominion unathi also seem to be less likely to follow the traditional unathi faiths that originally formed on Moghes, due to living in human communities.

Character Name: Sithar Zass'ra 

Please provide a short backstory for this character:

Sithar was born (hatched?) in a small township at the edge of the mountain bordering the wastelands southeast of Baandr in 2640, shortly after the beginning of the Contact War.  While he was technically born to the the larger and more well respected Zass'kar clan, his parents were part of a schism that occurred within the Zass'kar clan a few months after his birth.  The new branch, renaming themselves the Zass'ra clan, had increasingly little to do with their parent clan as he grew up.  Sithar met his grandfather, whom he shared his name with, only once before he and much of the rest of the Zass'kar clan were annihilated at the end of the Contact War by one of many nuclear strikes in what is now part of the Wasteland.

He developed into his adolescence watching the formation and ascent of the Izweski Hegemony, but his clan maintained a political distance with the Hegemony for many years largely on the principle that they disagreed with establishment of the Sh'akh church as a state religion.  Having been raised as a devout Th'akh follower by their clan's shaman and insulated by their distance from the capital, Sithar had little reason to doubt that pledging fealty to S'kresti was not an option.

Following S'kresti Izweski's coma and the turmoil that followed when Not'zar assumed regency and was then almost deposed by the his father when he reawoke and converted to the Si'akh faith - and was subsequently assassinated - his clan had a change of heart about Not'zar's value as a leader.  While they did not precisely agree with the Sh'akh church, at least it was not openly heretical like like 'those wasteland Si'akh savages'.  The fact that the Sh'akh church was on the decline now also helped with the change of opinion.

As a result, his father, Sasslar, entered into service Zo’saa when Sithar was in his 20's.  His father's ability as a warrior was only barely above mediocre, and he often struggled to maintain the conduct expected of a Karaphract, though he persevered for two years, determined to honor the rest of his clan with his appointment to such a prestigious order.  Sithar attended the final trial of his father to be appointed as a full Kataphract, fully intending to enter Zo'saa service after his father succeeded in the trail of combat.  He had even submitted the formal request and had been accepted into the next season's recruitment batch.

Instead, he and the rest of his clan were shamed when it was discovered in the middle of the trial that Sasslar, afraid that he might fail this final test, had secretly poisoned his weapon in an attempt to gain an edge over his opponent.  The disgraceful conduct resulted in his immediate expulsion from his status as a Hopeful, and it was only through his clan calling in every political favor that they had that Sasslar narrowly avoided being branded guwan.  Nevertheless, their reputation and standing suffered greatly, and it would take years for their clan to recover.

Disillusioned by his father's behavior, Sithar retracted his request to join as a Hopeful, and grew distant with his clan, attempting to find some form of acceptance with other unathi his age from other clans that were less dishonored.  He met with little success in this venture, as the brand of shame was too recent of a scandal, and eventually he made arrangements to depart from Moghes, finding his way eventually to human space, where there were less of his people who knew about his clan's status, and ended up on the Horizon.

What do you like about this character? 

I don't see many people that utilize much of Moghes contemporary culture on the station, and I wanted to do someone with that.

How would you rate your role-playing ability?

Very good.

Edited June 28, 2023 by Weaselscribe

[Triogenix]

Hey! Sorry it's taken me a while to get to this. I don't have any questions for you, the application seems solid. Feel free to reach out to either me or my deputies if you have any questions.

 

Accepted.