TheGreyWolf Posted July 29 Posted July 29 BYOND Ckey: TheGreyWolf Discord username: TheGreyWolf Character names: Sofia Zeil Species you are applying to play: Tajara ------------------------------ General Whitelist Requirements What colour do you plan on making your first alien character?: Primarily white-ish #9E9A9A with small variants for body markings Have you read the lore pages for the species you wish to be whitelisted for?: 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 species?: I would say their rich and varied lore is one of the primary reasons. They have a lot to offer and have experienced a ton in a short timeframe, which allow a lot of options to play with and make use for. What makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a human?: Lore-wise it would be the way their society is, with the three major factions (and Himeo) and recent wars and now cold war they have. The events on their homeworld are very near to them, affecting how they are and with their culture also greatly changes how they view the world around them in a way that I would say feels different than a lot of the human cultures. It gives them a lot of archetypes and themes to play with, where while some could fit with parts of human lore, a lot of it also feels unique to them and the combination itself of all the small bits being important. From soldiers in the war to officers, nobility, peasants and anti-royalty, and that’s not even getting into the distinction between things like those who live under the DPRA civ government and the military juntas, nor how Crevus is a place of its own in all this chaos. Mechanically/gameplay I would say there is a lot to it on its own. Their accents with the rolled R and way of speaking are of course some of the more obvious ones but also how they need to act around situations. A M’sai is not going to have a good time if they get hurt or especially if they are around flashbangs or other loud noises like that. Oh yeah and the bit that they are better with cold temperatures but suck in hot environments. ------------------------------ Character Application Character Name: Tulkir Zarkiirran Write a backstory for your character. This may include their origin, education, personality and how they arrived to the SCCV Horizon. Early Life (0-17 years) Tulkir was born on the island of Amohda around 2442, near the coast. Her father worked in a warehouse, while her mother took care of rations for a local garrison. The first part of her life was relatively stable, until the start of the second revolution began to stir up trouble in 2449, when she was around 7 years old, with her parents now getting involved in the war effort due to their work. This got worse again when the monarchists got involved, creating a three-way problem on Amohda and would eventually be part of the chaos that got her parents killed a year later. Though she never learned of the circumstances surrounding their disappearance, she began to realize it as they did not return home one day. It first got to her that she was not seeing them again, when a group of guerrilla soldiers found her, and they took her with them to help ferry supplies, though she was lucky enough as well as hiding enough to avoid getting into combat with them, though at times it was close as she hid from the war around her. Adulthood (18-25 years) After going through another six years of the war, barely surviving at times, starving at others and overall just trying to get by, the ceasefire with the NKA was finally signed. There was still the war with the PRA, but this gave a much needed breathing room and gave her the first time where she had to pick her own way, after the guerrilla group she was with disbanded to join the proper army. With little knowledge of what else to do, she did the same and was assigned to work at a military warehouse/depot, primarily being tasked with helping out with logistics until the armistice was signed a year later, which let her finally breathe free. Or so she would think. A year later again, in 2462, the Amohdan Junta attempted to secede, and war was once more coming near. This time, it was even closer to her as she realized that between the Junta rebelling and the eventual response the rest of the DPRA would give, she would be stuck right between them as a part of the military, just as she thought it was calming down. As she became more desperate to find a way out of the consequences from taking either side, she was given an offer by a group, a simple one at that: Take a few packages they had, and let them go on a few supply trucks, no questions asked. In return, they would make her problems fade to nothing. Despite not knowing who they were, she took them up on the offer as it was the best shot. The packages went out like a charm, and when she returned the next day she found instructions. Times to not be around, when a set of supplies should go or be rerouted. It continued, but once the attempted secession failed and the junta leader replaced, she found herself almost free of the consequences and back to her work, though not quite as well regarded anymore by the few who were still left at her warehouse. Issues which soon would be solved in similar manners. A few deliveries out, some going missing, a few things from the warehouse to go elsewhere and the paperwork changed to fit, sometimes even new packages with the deliveries or to be dropped off on the route. She never questioned it, even as the military checkpoints got heavier and she barely managed to avoid suspicion at times. But the trouble? That stopped. The coworkers changed, a suspicious soldier being reassigned, even some hard to get medicine for when she sustained an injury. It all went smoothly away like it never was, and all for things nobody would ever miss. At least until an unexpected audit appeared, where she previously had warnings before, she was surprised by this one, and they had their own numbers to go by. The others began to get questioned, soldiers escorted coworkers and there was talk of serious consequences. Escaping the island would be near impossible as it was, especially if they began searching for her, so once more she had to pray. One group had gotten her out of similar trouble before, so surely they could again? Just one last thing: a package to leave in the warehouse, they said. Once it was done, a letter to a waiting ship. She didn’t understand, as nothing before was a letter, but she did it anyway. She soon learned it was passage to Crevus and an ID card. Whatever her former name was, it didn't matter anymore. She was now Tulkir Zarkiirran, a recently hired employee of Orion Express on her way to work on the SCCV Horizon, far away from Amohda. 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. Having grown up on Amohda, most of her life has been affected by the second revolutionary war. One of the bigger events being when the previous Junta leader attempted to secede, which put her on a hard spot between that and the eventual retaliation from the rest of the army and as a result, it is also what put her on the path of being in contact with a raskariim cult. This cult is then the cause of her reason to eventually end up leaving Adhomai. Her leaving the planet is then facilitated in part by the Phoron Scarcity too, as the creation of the Orion Express came as a result of it, and their low hiring standards worked in her favor. How does your character view the megacorporation they work for? She doesn’t like them, or most megacorps for that matter, but she keeps quiet about it to avoid trouble. Out of all the megacorps, Orion Express is the one she has the least issues with in part because of how recently it was made.
CatsinHD Posted July 29 Posted July 29 Thanks for applying. Just some questions. Remember, there are no wrong answers: 1. What are Tulkir's opinions on the PRA and NKA? 2. How does Tulkir feel about the Second Revolution now that it is over, and how it affected her? 3. Tulkir worked for an Amohdan Guerilla cell, and later the ALA. How does she feel towards the Liberation Army and DPRA in general? Does she subscribe to any schools of thought? 4. Is Tulkir aware she has effectively entered/assisted the Raskariim? If not, what religion would she claim to follow?
TheGreyWolf Posted July 29 Author Posted July 29 8 minutes ago, CatsinHD said: 1. What are Tulkir's opinions on the PRA and NKA? She doesn't like them. The PRA is mostly the propaganda after she was taken in by the guerilla group, as before that the entire fighting was scary for her but not something she understood. She has more issues with the NKA though, since her parents disappeared after they rose up so in her mind, she blames them for causing it rather than the PRA or DPRA. 8 minutes ago, CatsinHD said: 2. How does Tulkir feel about the Second Revolution now that it is over, and how it affected her? It sucked, it was dangerous and despite what she would actually tell to people, she wished it didn't happen. Despite all that, she does believe the DPRA is the better group that came out of it. Overall though, she would have wished to have a normal childhood, but instead it caused her to focus on her own survival above everything else. As far as she cares now, her life matters the most. 8 minutes ago, CatsinHD said: 3. Tulkir worked for an Amohdan Guerilla cell, and later the ALA. How does she feel towards the Liberation Army and DPRA in general? Does she subscribe to any schools of thought? She has been heavily influenced by them, having effectively spend more of her life working with those two than she have been a civilian. Her feelings towards the military is pretty positive, in strong parts due to both the propaganda as mentioned above and she liked the sense of power she had as a member of the military, despite her dislike of the fighting. Her feelings towards the wider DPRA is not as positive though. She acknowledges there are attempts to make things better, but at the same time she thinks they were part of why she was in danger during the attempted secession. If one were to ignore that, she likes them. She had power as the military and the civilian government seems to be fixing things. As for the school of thought, I would say she most closely follows the Natediism school of thought. The military is necessary, because of all the rebels and foreign hostiles. This comes heavily from all the issues that were on Amohda and how locked down the island became, something she came to see as a necessity to bring back order and safety. 8 minutes ago, CatsinHD said: 4. Is Tulkir aware she has effectively entered/assisted the Raskariim? If not, what religion would she claim to follow? At the beginning, she did not realize it. For her it was a deal for safety. Over the years since as she continued it, she began to realize it more and more, but it was first near the end that she fully accepted her part in it too. Until then, she considered it very strictly a something for something situation. After she fled her post, she has outright embraced. She considers them the only ones that has actually helped her and the only ones she can depend on, and even then she is wary of depending too much on them.
CatsinHD Posted July 31 Posted July 31 After reviewing previous issues with your last Tajara Whitelist in combination with the recent return, I will be denying the application at this time. You may reapply in 2 weeks (8/14/25).
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