ValentineUnderscore - Unathi application

[Valentine]

BYOND Ckey: ValentineUnderscore

Discord username: Valentine

Character names:

- Roman Markov

- Xeqo'naq Oonq-Resh

- Tajrrhraz Sha'relrr

- Adebayo Kehinde

Species you are applying to play: Unathi

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General Whitelist Requirements

What colour do you plan on making your first alien character?: I'm torn between Skalamar Red or Janvir Black, one of those.

Have you read the lore pages for the species you wish to be whitelisted for?: I sure have, although I mostly read History and the eponymous page.

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 species?:

I'm a big alien species fan because of the opportunity it gives me to explore radical cultures and how biology plays into it. Unathi especially interests me with their honor-bound clan lore, which reminds me of the feudal East.

What makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a human?:

Beyond the fact they're humanoid cold-blooded reptiles? Unathi have a fascinating ancient traditionalist culture that pedestalizes honor and obedience, they are deeply spiritual and the largest and oldest of their faiths are animist, which sets the tone for the entire foundation of their culture, IE, honoring spirits and ancestors, (we don't talk about the transhumanist guwan), their traditional concept of gender is reliant upon what job you hold, their physical expression is uniquely blunt (they WILL stare at you), they express themselves through the throat, tail stomping, secondary characteristics (like frills) and their voice, chuffing or barking, to name a few.

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Character Application

Character Name: Ozikar Yathaki

Write a backstory for your character. 

Ozikar hatched in 2444, the fifth child to his father of the minor Yathaki clan, a clan with little to its history or name besides a ceaseless legacy of conflict as a warrior clan, claiming even the apocryphal honor of having bred men who became loyal and honest Kataphracts in antiquity before the reign of the Sarakus saw to their end, embittering them to the rule of the Second Hegemony. Much of the clan's history is lost during this period, although they remained within Kutah and served its lords until the Contact War. When Hutay'zai brokered vassalage to Izweski to spare his lands, many clan Yathaki felt betrayed.

They were men who bled for the Traditionalists and would now serve the very enemy they fought, who bathed Moghes in as much nuclear fire as they did. Others, like Ozikar's father, knew that it was their duty to follow the will of whoever sat upon the kingdom's throne. This schism grew steadily. Simultaneously, then-clan leader, Ozikar's grandfather Kithek, had been all but broken by the horrors of nuclear war. He was unwilling to declare so many of his own as Guwan after seeing so many Unathi perish. When the two Yathaki clans came to loggerheads and begged the clan leader Kithek to render a decision, he replied thus:

Billions vanished into a ruined world because cold men reinvented the stars.

At that point, the schism exploded into duels, and in the end, only those loyal to Hutay'zai—thus Izweski—remained by 2447. Perhaps it was the grief of loss or the grief of time wearing down upon his body, but Kithek did not survive either. Ozikar's father, Arizar, came to be the head of the Yathaki clan with despondent regret: the schism was no more, but the death needed to mend it had broken Kithek's heart and killed him. Arizar instilled this same gloominess over the tattered remains of clan Yathaki for the next two decades. Arizar has become increasingly despondent as the years pass, fearing that the Wasteland will devour Moghes and "pollute" the Spirit-World.

Ozikar devised his interpretation: if Moghes is doomed, all a man can have is his honor. This axiom guided his mind during his early life, honing his body and skill at arms to serve the way his ancestors did. Although he had no remarkable military career as his remaining older siblings did, serving under the ultimate banner of Izweski and Hutay'zai, Ozikar still desired honor. He joined the ranks of the Fighter's Lodge in 2461 to find glory, and it was only natural that he began working alongside PMCG subcontractors or city Watchmen, alongside Reclaimers when pitted against Gawgaryn, standing in streets or the wastes, protecting Hephaestus installments. He learned many lessons that deceived his idea of the Warrior's Code, sometimes unsuited to the new Moghes. He would ask himself daily if adapting to a harsh world meant dishonor.

Ozikar built contacts with PMCG over these harsh four years, now more disillusioned with his honor, the spirits, and the future. In this time, he realized the wisdom in what Korza Dagamuir did nearly 400 years ago: a man with his home destroyed carved out a future for himself, and it was this that Ozikar would do, as he sadly came to believe Moghes' fate was doom. In short order, he joined with the contemporary iteration of Korza's dream, leaving Moghes behind to seek... seek what? Honor, wealth, a future? The young man didn't know. He was too naive, brazen, or afraid to admit it to himself. He spent a year abroad as a subcontractor for Dagamur Freewater Private Forces before transferring to the SCCV Horizon for contracted security work.

How have the recent events of the Orion Spur impacted your character? Events such as the Phoron Scarcity, the Solarian Collapse, or even the Invasions of Biesel for interstellar-wide affairs, while region-specific events such as the Peacekeeper Mandate, The Titan Rises, or even Cold Dawn may impact your character.

Hephaestus monopolizing Moghes' guilds during The Titan Rises surprised Ozikar very little. If a Hegemon could claim power over all of Moghes, why couldn't Hephaestus claim power over the Hegemon's economy? Ozikar believes that at the very least Hephaestus couldn't ruin Moghes any more than it already is. When he worked with the Fighter's Lodge, he technically WAS an employee of Hephaestus and protected many of their installments, and they never bothered him much.

How does your character view the megacorporation they work for?

PMCG is a nebulous entity, so I'll specify what he thinks of DFPF. As said in his backstory, Ozikar became disillusioned with what it meant to have honor in a world where something like 2.8 billion sinta got reduced to nuclear vapor, due to his time working with the Fighter's Lodge, and seeing what the Contact war did to his clan. He regarded what Korza Dagamuir did as the only noble thing to do when your home is destroyed, the only way to honor the Spirits in a broken future, and he was in no place to inherit functionally nothing, so he emulated it.

Note:

Thank you for reading this far. I'm eager to read notes or comments on my application because I strive to make a character the best I can. Kind regards.

Edited March 28 by Valentine

[Captain Gecko]

Hello there! Really liking the character so far, but I have some questions.

- What faith does Ozikar follow?

- You spoke about the DFPF, but what about the SCC and megacorps themselves? What's his opinion about these typically alien entities? Especially since he, like many other Moghesian, had to get introduced to these in some way with Heph barging in.

[Valentine]

@Captain Gecko

Hey, thanks for reading.

1. Ozikar follows the Th'akh faith as is practiced in the Tza Basin, like his father, and his father's father.
2. His opinion of the SCC as a whole is neutral leaning negative, albeit, he approves of the idea of the SCC since centralization works well for the Hegemon. He doesn't care much for the other members of the Chainlink, because in his opinion, there is little they can offer the people of Moghes that Hephaestus can't. Too many cooks in the kitchen, he'd say. Nanotrasen, particularly, seems to him like they can barely hold onto their position on top, and the Trasen's affirmation that NT will remain the most influential megacorporation at the detriment of the rest of the Chainlink sounds threatening to him. It sounds to him, in some roundabout way, that Nanotrasen would be willing to cause indirect damage to Moghes by somehow weakening Hephaestus if it meant Nanotrasen remained strong, regardless of how true or untrue that is. There's also the standard "humans only look out for their interests" rhetoric, maybe a little blunted thanks to Aeson being the head of Hephaestus, but still. It's difficult for Ozikar to like any of the other megacorporations beyond tolerating their presence when they're more focused on one-upping each other than fixing his actively dying planet.

[Valentine]

@Captain Gecko Hello, is there any update on this application? Kind regards.

[dessysalta]

Having played with Adebayo and Markov more than once, I like the direction Valentine has for their characters and this application is just beautiful. I have no doubts they can play a lizard.

+1

[RustingWithYou]

8 hours ago, Valentine said:

@Captain Gecko Hello, is there any update on this application? Kind regards.

Sorry for the wait, we will handle this application soon.

[RustingWithYou]

This application is accepted, have fun lizardposting!