Timby's horrid beast application (Unathi)

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BYOND Key: Timby
Character Names: Maja Gretzsky.
Species you are applying to play: Unathi
What color do you plan on making your first alien character: I find this question funny... green, the classic color.
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. Yes, teacher.
Why do you wish to play this specific race: Because outside of a few months in 2014, I have never played an alien.
Identify what makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a Human: Aliens are inherently different from humans in terms of culture, biology, and a lot more. This question's pretty broad, so I'll try and answer it to the best of my ability: basically, everything. Outside of the absolute bare-basics of good roleplaying, everything. Absolutely everything. Body language and culture are the two biggest things; I'll talk more about culture. Essentially: as a species, the Unathi have gone through, in three or four generations, what humanity has gone through in four-hundred years. Space-travel, contact with aliens, a world war, nuclear holocaust, and so on... life's rough. Being an Unathi is not a pleasant experience. The society you come from is, at best, a somewhat technologically advanced feudal autocracy and, at worst, a bunch of guys walking around in the desert and trying not to die. It's a time of a great change. That's really scary.

Character Name: Rezak Krazul
Backstory: Rezak comes from a coastal village a few kilometers north of Teht and he is entirely, fully fucked. He was born fucked. His clan is weak and small in number, having gradually dwindled down to only fifty-some members; their traditional occupation is unglamorous. They have serviced and tended to a number of lighthouses along the coast, ranging at times from twelve and down to the current five. Most of the men and a handful of the women on his clan suffer from kaasilik, an embarrassing but otherwise harmless condition that renders them utterly hornless, hoodless, and without frills. Perhaps worst of all, Rezak was particularly small growing up and stopped growing early on --- at five-eight, he is unremarkable among men and noticeably short when among his kind, something that bothers him deeply.

Being Rezak is deeply unpleasant. He makes sure of that. His outlook on things is so negative and, for lack of a better term, bitchy, that it's impossible for him to not feel unwell at almost all times. He had little contact with those outside of his clan when he was young, and when he did, it was mostly negative; he was bullied and mocked for his clumsy, awkward gait and being horrible at sports. He grew into a wiry, hateful thing. Rezak does not like his own species. Rezak does not like any species. Rezak doesn't even like himself. He pretends to be traditional, of course, and plays at being a devout Sk'akhist --- but it's all a put-on. Deep down, Rezak sees little point in such things, given that all of them led to his current condition: being who he is.

That all changed when his clan arranged a marriage for him. Perhaps life had meaning...? Perhaps, after all, God was real? Rezak has yet to meet his wife, having either decided to (or been forced, owing to his churlishness, depending on who of his clan you ask) seek his fortune outside of Teht, and certainly outside of Moghes. Only time will tell if he can earn enough money to return home and prove all of his haters (a human term he has readily adopted) wrong.

That day may never come. Rezak works for Orion Express. He works in the hangar. Rezak is never going home. Rezak, in all likelihood, is going to die in outer space. At least that's what he thinks, every single night, before going to bed. There's a chance that he might come home a (relatively) wealthy man and return to his clan's traditional occupation of making sure boats don't crash into rocks, with a wife... still short and without any ornamentation, but hey, money talks.
 

Anyways, if you asked him, he'd probably say something about not wanting to think about it.

What do you like about this character? I think playing a short, hornless green guy who's deeply negative could be fun. The lizard equivalent of Arnold from The Magic Schoolbus.
How would you rate your role-playing ability? There's no way to answer this question in a way that isn't self-effacing or humble-bragging. Skip. It should be removed. Even this answer is self-effacing.

[hollyhock]

horrible little beast
+1

[painus]

i have known botanist for an alarming amount of time during my imprisonment on ss13

im pretty sure theyre a lizard irl so it would be easy to be a lizard ingame

flashbang out the door

+1 

[meep109]

+1 (idk how to make it green)
I've always enjoyed my roleplay with them so make them a scalie .

[RustingWithYou]

Hey, thanks for applying. I like your character concept, and this is a solid app, but I do have a couple questions.

1. How does Rezak view recent events in the Hegemony? The civil war/coronation of Not'zar, the expansion of Hephaestus, and the period of rationing being the big three. 

2. How has Rezak adjusted to working in a completely alien culture and environment? 

3. You mention that Rezak's Sk'akh faith is largely an act - how does he feel about the other religions of Moghes, such as the Aut'akh and Si'akh cults?

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6 hours ago, RustingWithYou said:

Hey, thanks for applying. I like your character concept, and this is a solid app, but I do have a couple questions.

1. How does Rezak view recent events in the Hegemony? The civil war/coronation of Not'zar, the expansion of Hephaestus, and the period of rationing being the big three. 

2. How has Rezak adjusted to working in a completely alien culture and environment? 

3. You mention that Rezak's Sk'akh faith is largely an act - how does he feel about the other religions of Moghes, such as the Aut'akh and Si'akh cults?

1. Let's get more than recent, honestly. The Contact War and the subsequent nuclear holocaust only strengthens Rezak's resolve to make as much money as lizardly (not humanly) possible. At twenty-eight years old, Rezak has no coherent memories of what Moghes was like prior to the Contact War. This upsets him. He would not associate with anyone who is openly against the Hegemony --- not because he particularly loves the Hegemony, but because the Hegemony weren't the guys who lobbed a bunch of nuclear bombs around. (Rezak's traditional in the sense that he's culturally traditional.)

Rezak finds the sequence of events that led to Not'zar's coronation suspicious, but also mostly agrees with his policies. And not even in a 'pretending to agree with the current ruler to conform' way, Rezak genuinely believes that Not'zar is a good king/hegemon. He also believes, without zero evidence, that he and Not'zar have much in common. He was secretly glad to see the civil war start, given that it would allow Not'zar (long may he reign!) the chance to clean up the Hegemony and get rid of those churls who wish to stand in the way of progress (and also he would mumble something about honor.)

The expansion of Hephaestus is another fact of life. More aliens on Moghes. Business as usual. Rezak finds life on Moghes deeply unpleasant and the rationing is just another example of that. (He doesn't eat a lot, though.)

2. Rezak finds humans to be creepy and unpredictable. There's something deeply off-putting about their eyes, not to mention hair, which he finds strange at best and positively repulsive at worst. Skrell, perhaps, are even worse: they're too "wet." Still, the aliens are paying him, so it can't be that bad, can it? I mean, they are a more advanced civilization than his own. Maybe after a while, Unathi will be more creepy, more moist, too... and colonizing their own star systems, more than they could have ever hoped for? (Yep. God bless the glorious Izweski Hegemony.) Aside from his own instinctual distrust of aliens, Rezak has readily adopted some facets of human culture to better fit in: he uses the term "haters" to describe essentially anything and everything, even inanimate objects, that displease him. He also calls people "bro."

Rezak, paradoxically, likes most people he encounters, so long as they're of a similar disposition as him.

3. Rezak believes in God insofar that things are going well for him. As of late, working aboard an alien space ship, makin' a whole lotta money pushing crates around, things are going well. He has no particular faith on the Aut'akh other than what he's heard every other person around him say about them: that they're a buncha freaky soul-mutilating outlaws.

In his darkest moments, Rezak believes that Juzida Aizahi is right about almost everything.

[RustingWithYou]

These are all good answers and a good concept, I look forward to seeing Rezak on the ship. This application is accepted.