BillyNomad's Tajaran Application

[Billynomad]

BYOND Key: BillyNomad

Character Names: Levi Rauchenberg

Species you are applying to play: Tajara (Zhan-Khazan)

What color do you plan on making your first alien character (Dionaea & IPCs exempt): Blue-Grey

Have you read our lore section's page on this species?: About 90% of it.

Why do you wish to play this specific race:

To role play as Tajara would almost seem to be easier for me. After reading the lore, their culture more so fits my personality type. Leaning more towards Family and Friend loyalty above all else. I also find their lingual tendencies to be quite interesting. For instance, How they refer to themselves in the third person around people/life forms they are not accustomed to. Also, with their relatively fresh relations with the Sol and Jargon factions, I could get away with not reading so much of the other Lore. And still be able to play off that level of ignorance with my character.

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

For starters, the different sentence structure and word choices within how they speak would be fun. And their anatomy differences are significant enough also, changes one gear and occupation choices a little bit. For instance, playing a Tajaran Roboticist could take some decent thinking to make believable. And depending on which Political group one chooses to align with, the interactions with Humans could be quite different.

Character Name: Nikita Col'Nareet

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

Nikita was born in a small Mountain community just outside of Quizosa on the year 2430. Childhood for him was peaceful due to location of their home. Nikita never met his Grandfather, who died in the first uprising. And his father rarely spoke of him, or the war for that matter. He was raised to be a lover of peace. When he was 5, he started to help with the work in the village. His family mostly dealt with Logging. After his Father and older brothers brought the trees to ground, it was his job to begin with removing the branches to make transport of the Logs easier.

In the year 2441, A Tajaran by the name of Al'Mari Hadii was shot and killed during a Parade, Thus sparking the second revolution. What came with it was a persecution of the Zhan-Khazan Tajara. Nikita was 11 when his Father and Brothers were hung in the village center for all to see. Being the eldest male left in the Clan, and nearly the whole village, it was up to him to pick up the pieces for his mother and younger sisters. Although, it was no longer his home. Years passed till the day the other boys of the Clan were old enough to watch over the others. He then struck out to find a new life for himself, in hopes to eventually better the Clan.

And to find new opportunities, he had to travel far south and across ALA lines. Legally he had the full right to travel through their territory, although socially and culturally was a different story. A Pro-Human group offered Nikita their help in crossing the territory. In return for a years worth of low paid work aboard one of their Space Freighters. Nikita saw this as a choice opportunity to get a foothold in the outside world. After a year had passed, Nikita decided to stay on board as a full time employee. His higher-ups weren't the best in the Verse, but he was able to do his duties with minimal micro-management and strife.

A few more years passed, and his journey brought him to a very interesting and possibly lucrative station. But most of all it was the people on board that fascinated Nikita. Nikita decided to call the station home, Finding different jobs here and there where he could. And thus, Bringing us to the current.

What do you like about this character?

His drive to overcome what life threw at him. How he strove to be a worthy man in his fathers eyes, even after death. Not looking for personal gain, but the betterment of his friends and family.

How would you rate your role-playing ability?

Enthusiastic Amateur, I don't have much experience with it. Although, I am looking forward to role playing more. It always seemed fun to me. Especially in a Non-Human role such as this.

Notes: Want. Want Funs.

Edited March 3, 2016 by Guest

[Guest]

Why did you change the formatting o_E

[Billynomad]

How so?

[Owen]

How so?

 

You got rid of the bold formatting . Not too big of an issue.

Now, I don't believe I have ever seen your character ingame before so I will just go off of what I have from your application.

 

He was raised to be a lover of peace.

This is completely fine but, I want to make sure you are aware that life on Adhomai at the moment is very difficult. There is a lot of unrest with three factions vying for control. Just keep that in mind when you are playing your character. (I would even say it is harder for Zhan-Kazan than most others. Just my point of view though.) You are able to play him as you please but I have seen SOME interesting characters who came from Adhomai that were from the lower economic levels who were one of those tough people that have seen a lot of shit. This didn't make them super insane where they were hyper-aggressive and all it was just something you really noticed when you got into their history. A cool little touch that I have seen improve peoples characters.

 

Nikita was 11 when his Father and Brothers were hung in the village center for all to see.

Again, this can effect Nikita how you choose but I still am not sure how "lover of peace" he would be after basically having no family left at the age of 11 in the middle of Zhan-Khazan persecution.

Besides those things, the last major issue is that his backstory is short. It doesn't really have much substance besides his early life. Doesn't really meet the minimum requirement for the backstory. As long as you add a bit on how Nikita managed to make his way to Nanotrasen, I would have no problem giving this application a +1.

Once it is fixed, you can pretty much count this as a +1 if I don't get back to this post.

[Billynomad]

Ah yes, I see now about the bold. I don't know what I was thinking with that.

And as far as substance, the application called for a brief back story. I was really holding back, I felt like I would have kept going on and on for a while. I didn't want to completely bore the mod chosen to read it. perhaps i held back a bit to much..

I am also going for a different view of what type of individual may come out of a war torn society. Not everyone is completely aggressive from those situations.

[Owen]

Well, I wasn't really saying they needed to be aggressive more that they should show signs that they were effected. I mean, you can go your own way but I think it would make it realistic.

Also, there is a two paragraph minimum for the applications. Some circumstances change it but it is so you can go over a little bit of parts of your character's life. Just a little more detail for the later parts of his should be fine.

[Billynomad]

Done a couple edits. Thank you for you Insight, YJGO, I agree with your points of interest. Much olbiged. Hope to see you on the station.

[Susan]

Approved.