Rextenebrarumsum's Tajaran application

[RexTenebrarumSum]

BYOND Key: Rextenebrarumsum
Character Names: A-205 Epsilon (android); Collin Urbanski; Jan Sagorski; Xiaohou Feng; Bax Goddard; Dirk Stange; Tenzin Gyaksten; Dwaine Woodson; Nicholas Deimos; Chad Faust. HIRC-621; ZHDU-621; Yosef Trabilse;  Grigore Harrold.  I have a couple other characters i made for trying out other jobs, but I never really made a background for them or played more than 1 shift with them.  I've also played a lot of Grigore and Dwaine recently. Mainly because I love xenobotany as Grigore, and Dwaine i've gotten so into his mannerisms, I love playing him whenever xenobotany is taken, or I know i'm gonna have RP with other people.

Species you are applying to play: Tajara
What color do you plan on making your first alien character: Orange (Njarir'Akhran)
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 want to make a Tajaran Njarir xenobotanist.  After reading the lore page, there's so much strife and conflict surrounding them, there's so much more to them than I thought before just being cat-people.  I also like a lot of the tajara I've encountered on the ship, although I've had limited RP with a lot of them due to the jobs I play.  I like their speech in basic, speaking in the third person, as someone who played khajiit in the elder scrolls series, that entire aesthetic is unique in conversation.

Identify what makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a Human:
They have had multiple conflicts surrounding their history, which is extremely fresh. 4 years since the end of the 2nd revolution.  A lot of Tajara that would be working abroad right now within the megacorporations, and aboard the Horizon, would still have the entire conflict fresh in their minds. As such, there's a heavy political conflict between the different factions striving for adhomai's control, and I couldn't see a Tajara that wasn't cast out from their society to not care about this and actively keep tabs on this, and discuss it with other Tajara aboard the ship, and even get outsiders opinion on the factions decisions as they wage the cold war for supremacy and control over the tajara homeworld.   Aside from that, Tajara speak in the 3rd person except for when they're with someone they are very intimate with, someone they trust wholeheartedly.  So there's an entire different mindset you need to be in while interacting with others aboard the ship, and how you word your sentences.  Auto-hiss removes the need to put multiple R's in your speech, but during special announcements I imagine you'd still need to put those in if it's a voice announcement like bridge crew can do (unless i'm wrong on how that mechanic works. I know the RD Gir-Loveq has used the announcement system a lot in the past few days and their speech-difference has always been present in their station announcements as acting captain.)  The Tajara are also a very conservative species, but the new generation keeps making numerous attempts in changing all of that as they replace the old, although it appears to be a very long and an "uphill battle", because of how deeply rooted a lot of the Tajara are in their beliefs towards homosexuality and LGBTQism within different factions and cities.     

Character Name: Mahkre Dynhernjarir

Please provide a short backstory for this character:
Mahkre Dynhernjarir.  A Njarir'Akhran Tajaran born in 2435, and raised within the PRA on Adhomai.  Mahkre grew up in Nal'tor and spent his time until adulthood living with his Father Khazmier, his mother Jurl, and his sister Draere.  Khazmier worked within the PRA as a government official helping the PRA run and stabilize Adhomai. Mahkre didn't know much about what he did as his father kept his work life seperate from his home life.   His mother stayed at home and raised both of the young tajara as they grew up, recieving the education they were able to recieve as kids within the capital city of the PRA, Mahkre enrolled into the Nal'tor College of Career Excellence as soon as he was able, so he could study for a career in botany. He always enjoyed growing plants, and tending to them.  Jurl always cooked dinner with anything Mahkre was able to grow and harvest from any gardens  he could get something to grow in.  Mahkre learned many things while he was in the college, and enjoyed going out to party with his friends whenever they were off from their studies, and would go dancing and drinking in Nal'tor.  He even got to participate in some of the early discussions for the Young Hadiist Movements within Nal'Tor but never made himself a target for fear of putting his father's job in jeapordy, or worse yet getting himself in trouble or possibly even imprisoned for exposure to such liberal talks within the PRA's sphere of influence.  As such, he only ever joined small circles that he knew he was completely safe to discuss things of this nature in, and never openly made himself an ally to the movement.
  Mahkre soon yearned for more whenever he completed his studies in botany, and talked to Rector Jamison Knight about possible opportunities in the science field that could further his career.  Mahkre was able to use Nanotrasen to pursue a career in xenobotany to further enhance his education beyond just growing plants, but so he could study xenoflora from all around the galaxy, and escape the political strife that struck Adhomai whenever the 2nd revolution hit.  Nanotrasen was more than accomodating to Mahkre, and his career counselor within NT to help him get his phD in xenobotany was more than eager to accept the Tajara to increase diversity in one of many attempts to increase diversity and relations amongst Tajara and NT.  
In the middle of his studies for his PhD, Mahkre heard about his sister Draere disappearing from Nal'Tor in a long range communication with his mother and father one day. He knew immediately where she went. She was always more radical than he was, and Mahkre was privy to where she headed off to thanks to all his conversations with his sister while he was in college on Adhomai.  Little Adhomai. Draere had bought into the propaganda that Little Adhomai was an escape from all the war and infighting going on around Adhomai and Mahkre knew one day he'd have to go find his sister if he ended up in Mendell City one day.  There was no way Mahkre could ever tell his parents about this, for fear his father would get terminated, and all the progress he made towards becoming a true xenoflora researcher would get wiped away if the PSIS got involved. So he kept his head down, and prayed to S'rendarr for his sister's safety in the big city on Biesel.  
Upon completion of his PhD, Nanotrasen managed to land Mahkre a Job aboard the SCCV Horizon within the Research wing performing as a Xenobotanist. Mahkre is more than excited to start his work aboard the impressive Ship, and hopefully make some new friends while he's there, and possibly if it ever stops at Biesel or Mendell city, he hopes to find his sister one day and find out what happened to her. All the while keeping a watchful eye on the turmoil that Adhomai has gone through, hoping he doesn't read in the news one day that Nal'tor gets bombed.

What do you like about this character?
A lot, just like my last application. I really got the creative juices flowing with this, and was able to add a fair bit of conflict in mahkre's life, with some political involvement, being forced to stay out of the small liberal talks that go on within the younger generation of Tajara, and also being the son of someone working within the PRA itself, although I didn't assign a job to the father because I feel that's beyond my scope to make him anything that's a high-ranking role within the lore for the PRA that you guys have made.

How would you rate your role-playing ability?
Above average. when i'm fully immersed I absolutely take on the mindset of my character and play into whatever's going on around them based on character interactions.  Always room for improvement, but I feel I do a good job as my characters that establish themselves aboard the Horizon such as Dwaine Woodson and Grigore Harrold. Although harrold hasn't been able to really interact with people outside of science.  I feel he has a good relationship with the Research Director Gir-Loveq for the number of times i've played under their command.
Notes:  Please advise me if anything I put into my backstory is directly oppposing of any lore I may have missed. I spent the last 2 days reading up on the Tajara lore page, the ethnicities page, and the PRA page.  I'm a tad burned out from reading all of it.
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[Alberyk]

Some questions:

How does Mahkre view the DPRA and the NKA?

What are his religious beliefs?

 

[RexTenebrarumSum]

On 15/11/2023 at 09:19, Alberyk said:

Some questions:

How does Mahkre view the DPRA and the NKA?

What are his religious beliefs?

 

sorry for the late reply, work made me stay over today, and I had DND last night before my 12 hour shift.

 

How does Mahkre view the DPRA and the NKA?
Mahkre views the DPRA as a militaristic rebellion set out to destroy everything that the PRA has going on to save Adhomai.  Mahkre knows that the PRA isn't the perfect government for Adhomai, but hearing stories from people travelling abroad, and all the propaganda surrounding the DPRA when he was in college before leaving Adhomai, he heard of all the Juntas taking control of regions where the DPRA is in control,  and how much tech they've stolen from the PRA.  Their living conditions are far worse in the DPRA than in the PRA, at least so he's been told by his father and professors within the PRA.  He also knows the city of Crevus is within the DPRA's borders, and has heard of it being a city of pleasures, crime, and money.  A lot of Mahkre's views on the DPRA come from his dad sharing little snippets of information he's heard about as the DPRA kept growing and becoming a world power on Adhomai.  The 2nd Civil war between the 3 nations really cemented in Mahkre's mind that the DPRA is just another revolutionary attempt like the first one that happened years before he was born, but it'll ruin all the progress that the PRA has made to try and fix the caste system and just have the leaders of the DPRA rule by Martial Law.
The New Kingdom however,  Mahkre views it slightly different. Like a look into another life.  He would never defect to the NKA, because he's spent so much time becoming a Xenobotanist with NT, and his Father's position within the PRA. When he first heard of them establishing themselves as a world power on Adhomai, as a teenager/young adult, he did dream of what it would be like to be a Prince, or possibly even king, since he's Njarir-descent.  He's swayed the notion from his mind every time, but still holds onto that child-like wonder of what could be.  Aside from his day-dreaming of being a king, and when he's back to his senses about the NKA, he thinks it's a resurgence of Tajara who want to bring back the caste system and enslave all the other races again to go back to the way things are.  Once again, like the DPRA, he thinks the NKA seeks to destroy all the progress that the PRA has made towards making a better Adhomai, and would not want to see them win the conflict.  He remembers seeing in the news when King Azunja died, that Queen Shumaila took his place, and thought she was beautiful.  With her being a new monarch, Mahkre hoped she'd cooperate with the PRA to take out the DPRA, and look to better the citizens.  However, the cynical part of Mahkre feels she's just a puppet of the rest of the nobility, and are just going to use her as a puppet-queen to further the agenda of the rest of the nobles within the NKA.  

What are his religious beliefs?
He's a follower of S'rand'marr worship.  I wrote S'rendarr's Hands, the plant when I was writing that part in his backstory. Honest mistake. Mahkre grew up worshipping the suns with his family.  

[Alberyk]

Application accepted.