[Accepted] Toasterstrudel's Tajara application

[ToasterStrudel]

BYOND Key: Toasterstrudes

Character Names:Main Character: M.A.K.E

Species you are applying to play: Tajara

What color do you plan on making your first alien character (Dionaea & IPCs exempt): Chocolate (RGB 94, 38, 18)

Have you read our lore section's page on this species?: Yup!

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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 was looking for another race to try out, Seeing as how lore heavy the Tajara are, I decided to try and apply for the race. I eventually plan to try and go for as many races as I can, to try and broaden my ability as a roleplayer. Other than that, the reason I would like to go for a Tajara character is because I enjoy the lore that was made for them.

Identify what makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a Human: The Tajara arn't really respected, they are mostly concidered nuisance and have to work hard to become respected. Besides the respect, they differ in appearance, personalities, and speech patterns. For the most part, they are just concidered rebellious cat-people.

 

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Character Name: Tal'iar Sel'rea

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

Tal'iar was a simple Tajara, Born September 9th, 2439. She worked in a family owned shop that had been running for generations, and had plans to run it someday aswell. Her mother and her father, both Zhan-Khazan both lived up to their ethnicity, a strong and proud family who believed if they worked hard enough that they could achieve anything. Their personality bleed over to Tal'iar, she believed herself that if she just worked hard enough, she could live a happy, simple life as her parents did. Particularly the family wished to stay out of the war that was happening on their home-world, they believed that both sides had their flaws, but ultimately believed in the Liberation. When the Liberation army would come through their town, the family would help them medical supplies, food, and anything they really needed.

The new kingdom had recently attacked, and managed to annex another town nearby, word quickly spread that the Sel'rea family had been assisting the Liberation Army. It did not take long for the New Kingdom to react to this, their soldiers began to harass the family. They frequently came by, broke windows, shelves, and all other sorts of things. Over time the attacks stopped being on just the shop itself, they began attacking the family outright. One day, Tal'iar's father had enough, when the soldiers came around, and began to harass the family, he struck one of the officers, clawing them across the face. The soldier promised that the father would pay for his treachery, before turning and marching off, bringing his men with them. That night, the soldiers burned down the families shop, destroying everything they had. It didn't take long for them to run low on their backup funds, they didn't have much to start with, it was mostly just saved for a trip to one of the large cities, something Tal'iar always wanted to see. Tal'iar's mother began to get sick, and her father was beginning to age, and wasn't able to work as well as he used to be able to. The family was broken, demoralized, and scared, They went hungry some nights, and never knew when they were safe. The family decided something needed to happen, so they scraped what was left of their money, and sent Tal'iar to school, hoping that if she was educated she could be picked up by a corporation. Not long after she completed her schooling, she met someone working for NT, they offered her work, and she accepted.

What do you like about this character? Overall, I enjoy the premise of their backstory. She's just trying to help her family get by. I also enjoy the irony of a family assisting the Liberation would end up having to send their child to work for a corporation. Overall, I feel this character would be fun to roleplay.

How would you rate your role-playing ability? 7/10

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Notes: None, Thanks for the consideration! (Also, another reason is because I have really bad luck with IPC's )

[XenosTiger]

+1

I've RPed with Strudel in other mediums than SS13, and I can vouch for their RP skill. This isn't their first time playing characters of multiple races. They should be more than capable of doing so in SS13 as well.

[hivefleetchicken]

I like the application. It focuses on Adhomai and how the war is affecting civilian lives and I LOVE IT.

My only concern in this entire application is how she managed to work for NT. While possible for People's Republic folk, who have a strong bond with NanoTrasen, the Adhomai Liberation Army does not have any connections to NT. They mostly get to Biesel by smuggling members with illegal passports or just by hiding them in cargo holds. If your cat pretended to not have ever supported the ALA, getting a job with NT would be easy, since she still probably has PRA citizenship.

Just some things to think about. This is all small shit that you don't have to put in your backstory at all, it's just that the PRA controls NT-Taj relations, and has done its best to keep the ALA from getting off world. She might have encountered some difficulty there.

Onto the verdict itself.

Sorry my reply is so late, I've been stuck in a world that is extremely fuck, as of late.

Like I said, I love your app.

I confused MAKE for Maya (who I no like) admittedly a few times and allowed that to give me a negative opinion of your character, but now that I've differed the two I don't recall having any interaction with you.

One thing I can recommend to make my life easier - this application is no doubt superb and accepted - is to try to bring your conflict diversity (we have very few ALA players) to the station. Maybe do so subtly, so you don't get abducted by secret police.

This application is accepted.