Fyni Posted July 3 Posted July 3 BYOND Ckey: Fyni Discord username: Fyni Character names: Currently: Z.I. Circe Rhea Volvalaad Hazel #S-H8.11 Elizabeth Joyce Polyhymnia Species you are applying to play: Tajara ------------------------------ General Whitelist Requirements What colour do you plan on making your first alien character?: #1e1e1e Dark Grey Have you read the lore pages for the species you wish to be whitelisted for?: Yes Why do you wish to play this species?: I’ve always appreciated Adhomai’s rather grounded history with inspiration from some lesser explored parts of our own history. A lot of origins and species take inspiration from real life history, and let you explore the themes in a real fun mash on the Horizon. The themes of oppressive governments, poverty and war are strong for the Tajara, and I think that can make a great character. What makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a human?: The very obvious and noticeable to even the casual player is the use of the third person in conversation. “She is hungry” instead of “I am hungry.” Add in motions and mannerisms would take that feline aspect. And then, under all that is the history, caste based and governmental divisions which flavour and impact their interactions not just with other tajara but with anyone. There is a lot of recent history but also ancient history. Castes, nobles, serf, revolution… it’s all a lovely mix of ideas I find it very easy to make a Taj personality wise – a lot of it is already there. ------------------------------ Character Application Character Name: Mirrouen Hak’kar Write a backstory for your character. This may include their origin, education, personality and how they arrived to the SCCV Horizon. Mirrouen Hak’kar, a Zhan-Khazan, was born in 2443 in the city of Zatushka, not long after the PRA’s tenth anniversary. She grew up in the modernizing city, as Al’mari Hadii’s reforms continued apace during the interwar period, the daughter of loggers who works on the outskirts of the city. As she grew, she attended a state sponsored school, where she started to be taught according to Hadiist principals and partaking in the new literacy program – something never afforded to her parents. While the city worshipped Dhrarmela, her lumberjack parents followed the more practical minor god, Zhukamir. In this capacity, she learned to cook traditional Adhomian cuisine, and came to appreciate finer foods. Her mother was partially noted for a brewed concoction made from berries found while working the woodlands. As war and famine came to Zatushka, this worship faded from her memory, only remembered in a crudely carved wooden icon of Zhukamir as a muscular Zhan which she has kept into her adulthood. As the second revolution began, with the creation of the NKA and in 2450, Mirrouen begin to experience personal hardships. In 2451, when Mirrouen was 8 years old, Al’mari Hadii was assassinated. She, and her parents, attended the infamous parade itself, though they were passed by the late President before his untimely death at the hand of PSIS agent. They had already returned to Zatushka as the Liberation Army was formed. Hardship after hardship fell on the family. With the death of her mother during the Liberation Army’s occupation, Mirrouen had a hatred of the Halkiikijr Nated'Hakhan instilled on top of the incomplete education she had received. She took to roaming the war-torn streets, a doing odd jobs while her father continued to work the forest. Times got hard, and food scarce towards the end of the civil war, with the pair reduced to eating vermin, pests and sawdust filled food. In 2461, as the city was recaptured and devastated, Mirrouen held that hatred in her heart, blaming Nated for the suffering she had endured. The civil war finally came to a close with the Armistice of Shastar towards the end of the year. Mirrouen, now long an adult at 18 by Tajara standards, made many an overt sign of support toward the party. Debating taking a place in the army now she was free of the DPRA, she struggled under the PRA’s persecution of the Zhan-Khazan, shaking her belief somewhat. With the death of her father in a logging accident, she sought work away from Adhomai. Through NanoTrasen, Mirrouen eventually ended up working for Orion Express as a courier aboard the OEV No Good Deed, which eventually lead to her position as a Hangar Technician aboard the SCCV Horizon. 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. Mirrouen experienced the assassination of Al’mari first hand, and lives through the devastation of the civil war. She received an incomplete education under Al’mari’s programs, before suffering at the hands of the Liberation Army, blaming them and Nated directly for much of it. However, once Zatushka was liberated by the PRA, and she got to live under the modern PRA as an adult her belief was shaken. An initial burst of optimism and hope, no doubt coloured by that sparse education she received, fizzled out. This left her disillusioned at the PRA as a whole, something she was smart enough to keep to herself. While she once planned to join the army, she fled Adhomai instead to both escape the pervasive spy state of live in a PRA urban centre and troubling news of DPRA nuclear developments. She has been left a jaded and bitter tajara, who constantly feels the need to prepare and horde food and wealth and struggles around corporate authority off world. She was largely distant from the NKA’s military actions, however she does have a bitterness towards them, seeing them as instigators for the civil war and knowing their track record towards Zhans. How does your character view the megacorporation they work for? Under Orion’s umbrella, Mirrouen has worked alongside numerous other Tajara who have found security in the steady employment. She herself has struggled to adapt, but has slowly come around to enjoying the corporate work environment, adapted as she as a Zhan to the manual labour of hauling and fueling. The relative stability of Orion courier work, where she would often work alongside fellow Zhans, has left a positive impact on her compared to the chaos of Adhomai. This positive experience of megacorps has somewhat turned her more in favour of the PRA and it’s relationships with the corps of the Spur. 4
Mr.Popper Posted July 7 Posted July 7 Fyni does character voice really well from what I've seen, to the point that I was surprised to learn some of her characters are even played by the same person. In general she goes above and beyond for the roleplay, most apparent in her becoming one of the few storyteller mains keeping the odyssey gamemode going, and I'm sure that devotion will translate to playing Tajara. Mirrouen's backstory already shows a good understanding of the lore and I look forward to seeing her in the warehouse.
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