Juani2400's Tajara Application

[Juani2400]

BYOND Key: Juani2400

Character Names:

• Lea Fontaine (Engineering)
• Tom Autenberry (Medical)
  
• E.B.E. (Synthetics)

Species you are applying to play: Tajara.

What color do you plan on making your first alien character (Dionaea & IPCs exempt): Taupe (RGB 72, 60, 50).

Have you read our lore section's page on this species?: Yes, I have.

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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 specific race:

Throughout my whole time in SS13's roleplaying servers, I have always loved how people RP'd their Tajara characters, normally making me laugh and enjoy. This is the only specie I really like from all the available ones, and it's also the one which I have some experience with, as I used to play as one in the server I used to play before leaving, temporarily, SS13 and then finding that server didn't exist anymore. Now that I feel more integrated within this server's community, I would like to try again and play as a Tajara, once again. I also used to play as a Tajara in an apartment server I used to co-own, and some of the people here might know me from there.

(I'm also a cat-lover IRL; got several cats and love them. Given the feline-ness of this race, I got to love them.)

Identify what makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a Human:

Mechanics-wise, the differences are several but they are not as important as those from other species, such as rolling all Rs, speaking in third person for most people except for those really close to the character, in which case you would speak in first person, or their difficulties when dealing with devices designed for humans, in which case they normally need to cut their claws or cut the tips of gloves/boots. These also cause them to be uncomfortable. They can't stand wearing hardsuits for extended periods of time, as they tend to overheat and to be extremely uncomfortable when wearing them.

Lore-wise, this specie has an enormous historic background which defines the race's personality, ideology and how to behave and react to others. Nowadays, the Tajara are an open-minded society with communist ideas with several ethnicities living together.

 

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Character Name: Ibrahim Al-Enezi.

Please provide a short backstory for this character, approximately 2 paragraphs

Ibrahim's origins are a bit unclear, being left in an orphanage at the age of two months. He lived in the orphanage for around two years, time when we was adopted by medium-class family which couldn't reproduce but felt the need to have someone to take care of. Ibrahim lived with their adoptive parents happily and with no issues as he studied in his local school and, then, high-school, where he managed to get some decent marks. During his growth, Ibrahim showed interested in everything related to how things work, often disassembling several devices at their parents' cost. At the age of 16, he was offered to work in one of his city port's repair shipyard as an assistant technician while he kept finishing his secondary studies. He accepted the offer and worked hard for one year, increasing even more his interest for everything related to technical stuff.

At the age of 18, when he finished his secondary studies. His parents could afford paying their son's university and so he decided to start studying a degree in Marine Engineering. Even though it was hard for him, which reflected in some of the marks he got through his advanced studies, he finished successfully his studies at the age of 23. After seeking work for half a year, he was hired as an Apprentice Engineer in another of his city's shipyards. He worked there for three years, advancing to "Engineer" only after his first year. At the age of 27, Ibrahim decided he wanted a change in his life, as his routine started to be tedious for him and went ahead and filled an application for several Engineering-related spots in some of the biggest corporations, both planet-wise and universe-wise, such as Nanotrasen. He was contacted by a few of them to proceed with the interview phase, but he only passed the recruitment process at Nanotrasen, corporation Ibrahim has been working for one year.

What do you like about this character? I decided to make a character who loved Engineering because I do, as well, love engineering in all its level both in-game and in real life. I also feel, with the story I wrote about him above, that I have plenty of liberty when developing him IG, and adapt his final personality to what happens the first rounds I'll play with him, as I do not have a clear idea of what his personality will be, yet.

How would you rate your role-playing ability?

Given that I only play games where RP is involved, I would say my RPing capability is pretty decent. I find myself often being a bit lazy, and that is one of the reasons why I don't write long texts about my characters, but I normally have some ideas in my head which I use to develop my characters.

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Notes: I have recently re-picked my activity in SS13, and you probably don't know me from anything. I haven't been really involved in any discussions in these forums, but I hope that doesn't affect negatively this application.

Edited February 26, 2016 by Guest

[UnknownMurder]

+1

Whenever I play as Engineer (Oreki Nomura). She tends to brighten up my day and opens herself with us. She seems to be a cheerful person, and I like cheerful tajarans.

[Owen]

I have seen Lea Fontaine in Engineering a few times. All of those times I have seen some pretty good interactions between them and the rest of the Engineering personnel. I think Juani did a good job on writing Ibrahim's backstory, not really seeing any outstanding issues with it

+1

Also, I believe I remember you from an apartment server. I think I was on it a few times. As far as I remember it lasted for only a short time. Nevertheless, good luck with the whitelist.

[Juani2400]

Thank you both for you responses!

[Guest Marlon Phoenix]

Hello! Sorry for the delay. I haven't overseen a Tajaran application in ages so I rereread their page to make sure my I'm fully on the ball.

Now, in your OP you said that Tajaran are an open-minded species. However, Tajara have always been sharply divided by their species' many races. You could also say that Tajara can face difficulty in achieving higher education seamlessly due to the current conflict spilling across the planet.

How has your character experienced prejudice? What race of Tajaran is he? How has the difficulty of his home world affected him? Or was he sheltered from the violence and the discrimination?

[Juani2400]

Hello! Sorry for the delay. I haven't overseen a Tajaran application in ages so I rereread their page to make sure my I'm fully on the ball.

Now, in your OP you said that Tajaran are an open-minded species. However, Tajara have always been sharply divided by their species' many races. You could also say that Tajara can face difficulty in achieving higher education seamlessly due to the current conflict spilling across the planet.

How has your character experienced prejudice? What race of Tajaran is he? How has the difficulty of his home world affected him? Or was he sheltered from the violence and the discrimination?

 

Don't worry about the delay!

Now, into matter: Ibrahim belongs to the Hharar ethnicity, even though his adoptive parents both belong to Zhan-Khazan's ethnicity group. They all lived in Nal'Tor during the childhood and teenage times of Ibrahim, which is the capital city of the People's Republic of Adhomai, the only country recognized to this day by the major factions of the galaxy. People's Republic is the only country recognized by Nanotrasen and is where most of their Tajara employees originate.

Ibrahim lived throughout his whole life in a multi-ethic city, as you could expect from a big city which is also the capital of the country, and thus didn't have major troubles with discrimination. However, his entire adoptive family, himself included, have suffered from occasional discrimination derived from the adoption of Ibrahim, who belongs to another ethnic group than their adoptive parents', reaching the point of receiving death threats. These, fortunately, were never carried out.

In regards to his higher education access, both Ibrahim's parents have middle-income jobs, his father working at one of the multiple mining facilities as a supervisor on the perimeter of the city, and his mother being the owner of a small and humble bakery in their neighborhood. Due to this, their parents could afford to supply Ibrahim with some decent higher education, which wasn't in the best universities of the planet, but rather on a very regular one specialized in marine-related jobs (ship building and maintenance training, ship captain's training...) near the port district of the city.

Ibrahim has, however, experimented high levels of discrimination when working at Nanotrasen, normally originated from humans, which hasn't, fortunately, reached violence yet. Due to Ibrahim's calm nature, he doesn't take all the insults he receives to heart, and rather prefers to deal bureaucratically, which normally ends in a demotion or dismissal of the racist employee.

[SierraKomodo]

Hello! Sorry for the delay. I haven't overseen a Tajaran application in ages so I rereread their page to make sure my I'm fully on the ball.

Now, in your OP you said that Tajaran are an open-minded species. However, Tajara have always been sharply divided by their species' many races. You could also say that Tajara can face difficulty in achieving higher education seamlessly due to the current conflict spilling across the planet.

How has your character experienced prejudice? What race of Tajaran is he? How has the difficulty of his home world affected him? Or was he sheltered from the violence and the discrimination?

 

Don't worry about the delay!

Now, into matter: Ibrahim belongs to the Hharar ethnicity, even though his adoptive parents both belong to Zhan-Khazan's ethnicity group. They all lived in Nal'Tor during the childhood and teenage times of Ibrahim, which is the capital city of the People's Republic of Adhomai, the only country recognized to this day by the major factions of the galaxy. People's Republic is the only country recognized by Nanotrasen and is where most of their Tajara employees originate.

Ibrahim lived throughout his whole life in a multi-ethic city, as you could expect from a big city which is also the capital of the country, and thus didn't have major troubles with discrimination. However, his entire adoptive family, himself included, have suffered from occasional discrimination derived from the adoption of Ibrahim, who belongs to another ethnic group than their adoptive parents', reaching the point of receiving death threats. These, fortunately, were never carried out.

In regards to his higher education access, both Ibrahim's parents have middle-income jobs, his father working at one of the multiple mining facilities as a supervisor on the perimeter of the city, and his mother being the owner of a small and humble bakery in their neighborhood. Due to this, their parents could afford to supply Ibrahim with some decent higher education, which wasn't in the best universities of the planet, but rather on a very regular one specialized in marine-related jobs (ship building and maintenance training, ship captain's training...) near the port district of the city.

Ibrahim has, however, experimented high levels of discrimination when working at Nanotrasen, normally originated from humans, which hasn't, fortunately, reached violence yet. Due to Ibrahim's calm nature, he doesn't take all the insults he receives to heart, and rather prefers to deal bureaucratically, which normally ends in a demotion or dismissal of the racist employee.

 

This right here tells me you're putting work and effort into this character and his history. I like this. +1

[Guest Marlon Phoenix]

You show an understanding of the species and I'm glad to accept this whitelist!