Sparky's Unathi Application - I crave the strength and certainty of steel!

[Sparky_hotdog]

BYOND Ckey: Sparky_hotdog

Discord username: _sparky. (Sparky. on the maincord)

Character names: Only active on Eris Wyvis at the moment

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?: Azure: RGB 1, 102, 255 / Hex #0066FF (Maybe slightly lighter from Albino heritage, with lore approval) 

Have you read the lore pages for the species you wish to be whitelisted for?: The main page, history, and relevant regions and religions.

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've flirted with the idea of making an application for unathi for a while, with their lore being, to me, a perfect mix of Fallout meets Game of Thrones. There is a vast variety of backgrounds the species offers, and a range of religions which interact with each other in quite a unique way amongst our lore. And I'd be lying is the current arc and many rounds exploring Moghes on expeditions didn't rekindle my interest.

What makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a human?: Purely from a roleplay perspective, unathi culture is very alien, from the subtle body language tells to display emotion, to them finding pointing or the use of first names taboo, and perhaps most obviously their view of gender. As a species, regardless of their background, they are pretty universally shell shocked from the Contact War, the aftermath of which continues to manifest itself in religious heresies and societal struggles. Mechanically, they are carnivorous, have their signature short but fast sprint, can eat/drink most things safely (except alcohol) and are more susceptible to the cold, preferring the warmth.

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Character Application

Character Name: Ackiilzhia Leyka

Write a backstory for your character. This may include their origin, education, personality and how they arrived to the SCCV Horizon. (2 paragraphs minimum)

Achiilzhia Leyka hatched an azure healer in a small, obscure kingdom west of the Kopesh States on 10/03/2436, to an albino engineer, Troka’odoak, and an azure spy, Kreiikzachiti, a pair of outcasts who found each other. When the contact war broke out, their kingdom joined the Traditionalists, but when the bombs began to fall, Achiilzhia's parents saw the writing on the wall. They fled in the night, never again too see their home that would be lost in a nuclear blaze. They spent all their savings to be smuggled to Skalamar across the Moghresian Sea, where Kreiikzachiti then sold Coalition secrets to the Hegemony. For the remainder of the war, however, the three suffered discrimination, and lived as urchins, their only income being whatever Kreiikzachiti could steal. They were living like this when the first Aut'akh to form a commune in the capital's Undercity arrived, and the family of societal rejects made easy converts. Troka'odoak took up a calling as a shaman with their engineering knowledge for their commune, while Kreiikzachiti began stealing scrap and parts rather than coin. The young Achiilzhia took quickly to this new group, who while not immune from their prejudice, were the first people she ever felt welcome among. Their teachings felt true, an explanation for why she had lost her home, and spent her childhood on the streets. And better yet, they offered a way to avoid it in the future.

The war ending changed little for their commmune, save they were now busier with more desperate souls looking to convert. On her 14th birthday, Achiilzhia requested her Ritual of Shards, and was sent north of the wasteland to deliver food and medicine to a group of Aut'akh there studying Mador ruins. While the journey was difficult, the spirits saw her through it, and almost all the way home, until she was set upon by Gawgaryn raiders. It was only through the intervention of a Si'akh missionary that she managed to flee, without ever thanking her saviour. For her Ritual of Rebirth, she selected prosthetic eyes, engraved with runes of knowledge and wisdom, and coloured violet like her Fisher parent, rather than her natural red, to allow her to "see the world as they do". A few years later, she received her second cybernetic - A soul anchor. While initially excited, upon experiencing her first baffles she became less enthusiastic about further augmentation. The memories she saw were versions of herself in places she had never been, and as people she only half recognised as herself: A warrior in the Zazalai Mountains; A fisher in the Southlands; A healer in the ruins of Darakath. Scared and confused by who she was, she turned to mentoring under Troka'odoak as a shaman for answers.

In 2457, the Leykas were among those to leave Moghes for Tau Ceti, forming what would become the Luthien Pact commune. It was here, as their commune began to develop their differing view of gender, that Achiilzhia stopped rejecting her baffles, and began to embrace them, seeking new ways to channel each part of her spirit. She would paint and volunteer to help with rituals to channel her fisher nature, while she began serving in the TCFL upon its formation in 2459 to draw closer to her soldier spirit (In addition to drumming, which she took up upon arrival in Tau Ceti), serving as a medic while using a Legion scholarship to study medicine at the Biesel Institute of Medical Science. After the Iron Crusades and the arrival of the Akhanzi Order in Tau Ceti, Ackiilzhia began visiting their new temple, disguising her prosthetics, to learn more about Th'akh, the predecessor faith. Through them she learned of the zo'zyola pantheons of the various regions of Moghes, and discovered she felt a stronger connection to those in the regions she had baffle memories of than those from her true homeland. Her studies were interrupted by the Second Solarian Invasion, where she fought in the Legion, before resuming them later. She began her residency in 2464, splitting her time between Legion vessels and Mendell City Hospital. With the formation of the TCAF in 2465, she switched to complete her residency with the Minutemen, being deployed to Mictlan as part of the Peacekeeper Mandate. Her experience there was difficult for her, as while defending Tau Ceti from the Solarians had been easy to reconcile with her faith's anti-authoritarian views, her being complicit in the conflict on Mictlan was far harder to make peace with. Completing her residence in 2466, she made the decision to leave the Minutemen, using PMCG contacts she had gained on Mictlan to acquire a contract with Nexus Security to serve as a Physician.

How has 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. (1 paragraph minimum)

The Invasion of Biesel was important to Achiilzhia, as she began to feel that Biesel might be the lesser of all the evil: She doesn't support any state of governance, but at the time she was fighting for people to have a home, and her own home, which felt right to her. The Peacekeeper Mandate broke this idea: Achiilzhia is now certain that all governments and power structures are equally corrupt, and remains haunted by her own assistance in the conflict on Mictlan. While Hephaestus monopolising the guilds on Moghes doesn't directly affect her much any longer, she naturally doesn't approve of the power they now wield.

How does your character view the megacorporation they work for? (1 paragraph minimum)

Achiilzhia's view on Nexus is mixed: Like her, they were involved in the Peacekeeper Mandate as a member of the PMCG, however their ties to NanoTrasen, one of the corporations she has a higher opinion of through their deal with her commune, makes them someone she is willing to work for, so long as she can continue to support the Luthien Pact in doing so.

[RustingWithYou]

Hey, apologies for the delayed response, I've had a busy couple days playing Elden Ring working on event stuff. Just a couple questions for you:

How does Achiilzhia view IPCs given that the Luthien Pact often works with them?

What are her thoughts on the Razortail Enclave, as the other commune in Tau Ceti?

 

[dessysalta]

I'm late, but as someone who's been on the receiving end of Sparky's roleplay for a little less than a year, I can't but attest to his quality of writing and just how much thought goes into how he writes his characters, moreover how they interact on the setting around them.

Guy's good at writing. It's really that simple. +1

[Sparky_hotdog]

4 hours ago, RustingWithYou said:

How does Achiilzhia view IPCs given that the Luthien Pact often works with them?

As is fairly typical of Luthien Pacters, Achiilzhia sees them as beings with pure souls, and feels their treatment and ownership to be morally and spiritually corrupt - Though it hardly surprises her that they are yet more victims of people seeking power. I think she once thought them incorruptible, through being entirely synthetic, but after the Rampancy Crisis on Konyang she isn't so confident in that, more viewing them as the least vulnerable to evil zo'zyola.

4 hours ago, RustingWithYou said:

What are her thoughts on the Razortail Enclave, as the other commune in Tau Ceti?

She sees the Razortails as sort of lost siblings; While she respects their commitment to their faith's ideals, and - having grown up in the Undercity - can relate to their need to survive through illegal methods, she has ultimately come to believe that the best chance for their people is to work with the Corporations, the safety that path offers being worth the loss of conviction. She also finds their unwillingness to work with or trust the other downtrodden peoples of Mendell to be a mistake, and their treatment of synthetics at times to be abhorrent.

[RustingWithYou]

No issue with these, answers, this application is accepted