Tainavaa's Unathi Application

[Tainavaa]

BYOND Key: Tainavaa

Character Names: Tina Kaekel, Anna Lee, True Lemming Synthetics

Species you are applying to play: Unathi

What color do you plan on making your first alien character (Dionaea & IPCs exempt): Green with a sand tint

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

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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:

I've always had a vision for Unathi; how I saw them, my own interpretation of their culture and philosophies and I always liked them in concept. Typically headstrong, valuing utility in a person and rather xenophobic. Sticking to their own, I think there's a lot of potential with psychological play within a character. I've had some interesting ideas concerning the Unathi religion, politics, and philosophies and how it would ultimately effect the Unathi. I thought it would be fun to express my interpretation of their psyche after sitting up in my bed one morning, taking a deep breath, looking around, and saying, "I'm a scalie now," in a flat but enlightened voice.

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

I'm not going to lie, what I see in Unathi are what I think has been seen in humans before and even now. Religious tradition, culture, politics even; the only difference is a human behaving in this way with a similar psychological state and a military/religious culture would probably be seen as a snowflake - and therefore hated - and people would get angry for taking physical action against someone who wronged them.

The most different thing I can see here from a human being is the superficial actions typically done in response to their emotions, and their preference for melee over ranged due to a perception of more honor in the act (Honor kill farmers, am I right?) though I've heard of people preferring melee over ranged in human culture for that exact reason. I dunno if that's a thing in history or a particular culture but I do know some neckbeards say that. Oh and they're carnivorous. Oh and also their bodies are structured differently. Referring back to my first statement saying "superficial actions" I do use 'superficial' with a purpose. It isn't uncommon for human beings to be emotionally distant or reserved and it isn't uncommon for their behaviors to reflect that. I suppose what difference there is is cultural: responsibility, discipline, tradition being core aspects; or entirely physical what with lizards not being humans and all. They're like a niche part of human's history of cultures. Which isn't bad. I like it a lot. It opens up those avenues of play.

Mechanically however, I know that they're sensitive to cold and resistant to heat. Extensive exposure to cold causes them to shut down consciously. They hissssss in Engli- I mean Tau Ceti Basic. They have claws. Can eat monkeys like a champion. Probably something else.

 

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Character Name: Issan Silitar

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

Issan is part of a small clan that practice Sk'akh that reside on the outskirts of Trizakael; a clan of healers normally seen as weak but thanks to the more liberal values humans (and apparently Skrell?) have instilled on the inhabitants of Ouere instead of being shunned by the other clans that are more able in a skirmish they've been more or less 'annexed' by a superior clan in the chain of command of Trizakael. Which clan, you ask? Open the set-up character screen on the server, set your species to Unathi, then click "Random name" 17 times. Look at the last name of your newly generated Unathi. That one.

The clan is often sent refugees as a way to relieve pressure from themselves and probably don't think twice about it since the Silitar clan is seen as weak. As a result, their population swells and the Silitar home is becoming a slum. Issan is agitated at the weakness of his clan, choosing to focus on the livelihood of the living and letting an important pillar of the Unathi way crumble in the process. He opts to leave in pilgrimage for greener pastures, to make use of his life and without submitting himself so passively to such blatant disrespect. Though he'd never admit that truth.

What do you like about this character?

I like that he goes against the grain of his clan going against the grain to go WITH the grain of the whole of Unathi society. He wants to be respected among his own kind and he sees no possibility of that in his home, especially not when it deteriorates under the numbers of refugees invading his home.

How would you rate your role-playing ability? Functional.

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Notes:

[Thundy]

Saw the name and didn't think twice. Taine, you are one of the people that make this server so special to play on. You put a great amount of effort and time into your characters and it really shines through your roleplay. I am excited for a lizard and hope to see you on station soon.

+1

[Killerhurtz]

+1, I mirror Thundy's sentiment.

[SmokedFish]

You wrote about healers...does that mean they are going to be medic?

[Tainavaa]

Not necessarily. I haven't made a final decision about what I want my Unathi to do or what their background consists of; it's just the general state of his home.

[LordRaven001]

Your a great roleplayer, have a great history with roleplaying and the catbeasts have outnumbered the lizards for too long, +1, Good luck!

[Guest Marlon Phoenix]

They're like a niche part of human's history of cultures

This is true of pretty much every fantasy race in any fiction. They're all metaphors, or used to explore a theme of human society/culture. In Lord of the Rings, the hobbits represent idealistic rural english life, while the orcs and trolls represent the evils of industrialization, all coming from Tolkein's bitterness of such things after going through WW1!

All in all your application shows a strong understanding of the Unathi species and i'll be glad to give you the whitelist.