rejected Kelnor's Tajara WL application

[Kelnor]

BYOND Ckey: Kelnor

Discord username: kelnor9781

Character names:

Dumitra Moore, Minerva Galen, Ka'Akaix'Pilcg'Cthur, Jennifer Volvalaad

Species you are applying to play: Tajara

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General Whitelist Requirements What colour do you plan on making your first alien character?: (IPCs exempt) Have you read the lore pages for the species you wish to be whitelisted for?: 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: To have a swing dancing Taj medic. But also to explore Tajara lore from the inside.

What makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a human?: Tajara are a young species, and they mature fast and die fast. Be more active, less patient, you only have like 50 years probably, that's half a humans, This one has to hurry and catch up to them. Exploit their lazzyness.

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Character Application Character Name: Rashel Arrask'chel

Write a backstory for your character:

Msai/Njarir, silver white. (Edit, I forgot to update the fur color when making a change in my head)

Born in Little Adhomai to a first generation NKA transplant, I'm thinking her grandmother or grandfather was a very minor noble that just gave up and embraced Biesel. They'd be the Njarir influence, they met their partner in Little Adhomai, a M'sai . That or maybe her father/mother was the one that gave up, since they'd barely remember Adhomai and married the M'sai, and probably got disowned for marrying them. Could use feedback there.

I can drop the minor nobility idea and make her straight M'sai. If I include the Njarir heritage I'd probably make her a M'sai mechanically and hide the hell out of her noble origins to avoid conflict (see below about the second rev and moving out of Little Adhomai.) It really comes down to how minor a noble can be, and I don't understand the lore well enough for that yet. Could use feedback here.

Their Grandparents would have left before the second revolution, probably in response to rising tensions and fear. So maybe 2440ish? This'd put Rashel at about 18 year old now0 if her parents had her around 18-20? Her parents moved out of Little Adhomai after the second revolution sparked the unrest, moving to a rural part of Biesel. She would have been 2 years old then in 2451.

In the countryside she grew up alongside other rural Biesellites, mostly human probably. This is partly why her parents chose a name that sounds similar to Rachel. She probably responds better to Rachel than Rashel by now anyway. Her rural upbringing made her good with a rifle, and as a hunter and farmer/rancher. Mostly ranching. They'd have raised Fatshouters to supply milk and meat to Little Adhomai.

Her main connection to Tajara would be the festivals in Little Adhomai, her parents would take her there sometimes when delivering produce to the market, and every time there was a festival.

She probably doesn't speak any Tajaran languages. Just basic.

She'd speak third person when referring to herself (She, This One) because of her parents but I'm considering using first person possessives (mine, ours) to represent her more hyper-capitalist BIesellite view on possession of property?

When turning 15 she joined the TCFL, then TCAF and was trained as a combat medic.

And finally, the main OOC reason I want the WL and to make her.

She loves Electro-Swing and owns some headphones

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

She's a second generation Biesellite, only her grandparents would have stories from Adhomai, but now that she's surrounded by Adhomian Tajara, I expect she'll develop an interest in her history. The recent democratic toppling of Dorn probably has paralells to Hadii I could explore too.

Her partial nobility, if kept, could spark an arc about how her parents abandoned her responsibility, or how she's the enemy by blood of some Tajara aboard. I don't understand the lore well enough to fully guess how that'll go but it should be fun.

Mostly she's just a Biesellite though so she sees this is a chance to get out of her bubble and explore the unknown (and the spur when we return)

Her view on megacorps boils down to money == good things, because Biesel, all hail Miranda.

Edited September 9 by Kelnor

[Hepatica]

Kelnor has been around for quite some time and has always roleplayed very well on their various characters in my opinion. I've never found them to misunderstand or misuse lore on any of their characters, and I think they have a lot to offer to the Tajara playerbase with their potential characters, +1

[CatsinHD]

Hi! Thank you for applying.

While there is a good foundation for a character here, the overall application reads as unfinished and doesn't touch on major aspects of the species lore sufficiently (namely the 2nd Revolution). For these reasons, I will be denying your application. You may reapply in 3 days (18th of September).