JeffMomentRed(1# Mars Fan), Tajara WL

[JeffMomentRed]

BYOND Key: JeffMomentRed

Character Names: Darwin Collins

Species you are applying to play: Tajara

What color do you plan on making your first alien character?: Kochiba (RGB 107, 68, 35 / Hex #6b4423)

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 have reached the bottom of the well for interest in Human characters after coming upon two years now. Tajara have always been an interesting species to me, from the small glances at them I’ve been able to interact with ICly, to the well curated writing on the wiki, Tajara lore has been probably my second most clicked on topic, besides the Mars wiki page. I've invested quite some time in hunting the Tajara Smuggler ghost role and playing that with who shows up and have enjoyed it thoroughly, not just the smuggler part either, I recall one round where I spent maybe an hour or so taking a PAP out and filling up a canister with a grove-worlds gas where my character sat down and talked about the Revolutions and how the galaxy is indeed too big for him, with his crewmate. Now that I’ve begun shifting my main’s schedule to be aboard the Horizon every other month or so and going to school in-universe, I have decided to pursue this after several character ideas did not stick the landing for me.

 

Identify what makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a Human:

Tajara lore has been a hulk for me to tackle and absorb. What most stands out for me in differences between playing a Human and playing a Tajara, aside from the obvious ones of third-person speech, emotes of flicking a ear or moving a tail, is the stellar-culture shock, the ethnic oppression, the long standing history of intellectual suppression, suffering, and the completely fragmented life your average Tajara comes from. For one, the entire section of “Oh yeah most of their recorded history has just been a race of historically-embedded people playing the role of nobles” is fascinating, the Akhran for three thousand and a half years(citing 1138 BCE when Dirrnavirr'Almalik mixed the nobility of the warring M’sai and Hharar) have controlled their entire species through a series of eugenics, selective breeding and such, which has brought about deformities and so much more trouble for the Tajara species.

Whether it be Adhomai, Little Adhomai, Hrro’zamal, Gakal’zaal, the Tajara in Sol before their ban, or the fleeing revolutionaries in the Free Tajaran Council. Your average Tajara will likely always have some sort of political history and opinion resulting from either revolutions, the stellar culture shock from being introduced to interstellar society far too soon, life in the Spur in general, or living in any common location one might find a community of Tajara. Their species is in a state of turmoil, and their homeworld is under the nuclear sword of Damocles. It is something that is very interesting to play the role of an average-joe(average-zosef?) breaking out of their conditioning, which is what I very much would like to capture when playing such a character.

Religion is a very important thing in Tajaran society, the PRA being the only nation to take steps towards suppressing it as it is seen as a tool the Njarir used to control those below them. A deeply rooted piece of Tajaran culture, S’rendarr and Messa and the Ma’ta’ke gods makeup or have affected the lives of every single Tajara in some way.

Expanding on the obvious ones though, rolling r’s, communicating with others in different perspectives is a challenge I would really like to try out, I’m fascinated that the first-person perspective is used only in situations where a Tajara trusts an individual with their life, I enjoy that it is an additional milestone in a friendship or romantic relationship which is unique to Tajara alone. I enjoy experimenting with dialects and ways of speaking to better play a character. I was inspired to speak in a unique way in Freespeak as my main, Darwin, because of Eridani slang lore, so this seems right up my alley in terms of interests. Loud noises are another thing, as minor as it seems, which Tajara vary compared to other species, their ears being far more sensitive to such noises than other, screaming, gunshots, whatever, will result in a flick of the ear.

 

Character Name: Kezerjem Jaar’zeck

Please provide a short backstory for this character

(Approximately two paragraphs)

 

Kezerjem was born in 2432 under Hharar parents, in the final months of the First Revolution. His father Pa’zaack and his mother Rahseena met in a Hadiist field hospital after Pa’zaack took a debilitating injury to one of his legs. Naturally they drew close to each other and when the war ended the two were wed in a S’rendarr church. Rahseena gave birth to first Kezerjem, then during the Interwar years, two girls. Raised in the city of Tampiska by his hard-working veteran Hadiist father and his part-time nurse and superstitious mother, Kezerjem was inducted into Nal’tor’s CCE in his youth where he was taught valuable skills to mature best into Republican society, and the Spur as a whole. Kezerjem, like many Tajara, wound up working in a manufacturing facility, where he remained employed until the Second Revolution.

Kezerjem at the age of eighteen, with the fervor for adventure and the hate for Royalists stoked by his father, was among the first to sign up for enlistment, becoming part of the infantry, where he was deployed on Harr’masir as part of the Dymtris Front. Having fought in several skirmishes Kezerjem was transferred to East Ras’nrr following the fall of Tampiska to the Liberation Army in 2458. It was here he participated in the Recapture of B’urr(P’urr), and where he was injured taking him out of the war for several months, following major blood loss and a broken arm. Kezerjem, for nearly the rest of the war, stayed in Nal’tor as part of a reserve and guard for the city, up until the final months of the Second Revolution where Liberation Forces began their final offensive across Ras’nrr. Kezerjem found himself embroiled in the last three months of the war, having been called to the front along with countless other reservists, until the stalemate came in October and finally the ceasefire and armistice.

The Second Revolution took much from and taught much to the matured Kezerjem, the war, especially his time on Harr’masir, strengthened his belief in S’rendarr and Messa. His faith helped him recover from his sister’s death to a bombing and the casualties he had witnessed first hand during the conflict. As the Second Revolution came to its closing months, the final offensive by the Liberation Army brought him to compare his struggle to the Sun Wars of Tajaran Antiquity, the Liberation Army and their practices seemed so easy to compare to the Raskariim cults so far before, suicide bombing to ritual sacrifice, the factionalism to the ancient divided warlords of the 2600’s. With the signing of the Armistice and the arms race between the three nations continuing, Kezerjem worried that perhaps the doomsday cultists were correct, and perhaps Adhomai was nearing its end. It was then that Visionary Hadiism adopted him, Tajara colonizing the stars was the only way to ensure the survival of Adhomai and Tajaran tradition, the adventure and thrill of exploring space capturing his heart.

The war over and Adhomai at relative peace, Kezerjem, like many a typical Tajara, returned to civilian life. His hometown devastated, his youngest sister dead, and his mother disabled, Kezerjem found himself, his father, and his remaining living sister as collective breadwinners. His elderly father and him working in a factory, his sister as a nurse like her mother was. At twenty-nine, only a few months after the war, Kezerjem, a more nuanced and weary Tajara, left home to provide for his family with a job working supply for NanoTrasen and a feverish-guilty itch to escape the world he had participated in bringing to a boil and simmering. Now working under Orion Express following the Conglomerate’s official creation, Kezerjem has had four years of experience outside of Tajaran space, working most of that time on Biesel. Four years of Human society has given him a perspective on Adhomai unique to most Tajara, and quickly he realized that Human rule has, historically, brought ruin to many worlds, even if he refuses to admit it.
 

What do you like about this character?

(Describe what you like about this character

I enjoy the superficial “Average Joe” archetype quite a bit, someone who comes off as your run-of-the-mill nobody, who has experienced what the majority of his kind has experienced and only recently has begun to breakthrough as a unique individual. I think that is a goal many people want to achieve with their characters, taking them from one setting and evolving them as they become more attuned to life in an extremely different setting. This character, like Darwin before, is a project I would like to take up as a way to get the ball rolling on yet another evolving “average Joe”.

He just works here : )
 

How would you rate your role-playing ability?
A lot better than when I started two years ago. If I need to do a 1-10 rating, ask because I as of now don’t wish to.

Notes: : ) I'm trying

Edited September 26, 2023 by JeffMomentRed

[Ublicto]

Darwin Collins is an interesting character and I have no doubt that JeffMomentRed can play a good tajara. Praise Hadii. +1

[Nathan1111]

yeah hes pretty alright +1

(For real though, an exceptional roleplayer, I fully support any ascendance to whitelists.)

[NM_]

Jeff puts in considerable efforts in his characters to provide a detailed, compelling, and ultimately driven story fueled by his dedication to creating a living, breathing person in all the trials and tribulations of space. He's taken time to ensure accuracy of the lore in question to give his new prospective concept justice, and has been all the more receptive to feedback as needed. A wealth of detail already included, which I appreciate - helps to round out a Tajaran trying to reconcile themselves in a new alien environment with all the history behind them.

+1

Edited September 28, 2023 by NM_

[N8-Toe]

an excellent Roleplayer. And a great concept for a cat I think

+1 from me

[Carver]

A dedicated and passionate writer, he puts quite a bit more thought into his characters than what is often expected of a server regular.

+1

[White Void]

As others have said it, he is a amazing roleplayer with great writing skills, i'm sure he will make a excellent tajara player +1

[Alberyk]

Application accepted.