[Accepted]Ezuo - Tajara

[Ezuo]

BYOND Key: Ezuo

Character Names: Amelia Stoker, Mio Ariana, F.L.I.T (AI), Jeana Silvers, Esther Graham, Alice Peterenkov-Richards, Amelia Constantine, Byte (Android)

Species you are applying to play: Tajara

What color do you plan on making your first alien character (Dionaea & IPCs exempt): A dark grey, with a slight tinge towards the blue end of the spectrum. Something like 30/30/40 (Zhan-Khazan, if you didn't guess.)

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

Well, Tajara have always interested me. I've always liked the idea of revolution and civil war, so their backstory has always kept my attention. I've actually played Tajara on other servers, so this wouldn't be my first time applying for the white list.

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

First and foremost would be the continued conflict that is hanging over their heads. Such instability in such a short period of time is bound to divide many of the Tajara, which might come across on station at times. There is of course the changes in speech and wording, and to think about how the are compared to other races on board.

 

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Character Name: Izdir M'ranma

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

Izdir was born in 2434, in a village to the south of Mal'Jor. The town, influenced by corporate hand, primarily focused on mining, using new technology supplied by NanoTrasen to hollow out the mountains in which the residents resided. From a young age she was encouraged to assist her family in the mines, letting her sit comfortably in the close knit society of her home, among family and friends. Bearing burdens that others were never given the chance to carry, she grew up working in the mine. Her heritage marked her as a simple worker, but also gave her the gifts of community, and a sense of unity.

She was only seventeen when the second revolution started, bringing with it the punishment for being born a Zhar-Khazan. Not two months later her village was taken by the Republic, many of its residents being accused of collaboration with the ALA. She was forced to watch as friends and family were marched from their homes, and executed via firing squad in a horrific display of power. From then on she was accosted at almost every turn by resident Republic forces, barely scraping by in her work.

3 years later resistance forces pushed south into the mountains, securing Izdir's village as part of an effort to capture artillery emplacements. The response from the Republic was swift, and vengeful, shelling villages and encampments in an attempt to flush out and eradicate the rebel forces. From the mine, Izdir had the perfect view of her village as it was obliterated by Republic retaliation. Having lost all dear to her, scarred by the horrors of war, she fled south into Republic territory. Disillusioned with both factions, she soon joined the ranks of those leaving Adhomai for employment under NanoTrasen.

After having lost everything dear to her, sans a few small trinkets laden with memories, she took up a position where she felt she could protect others. Swearing to herself to never allow such atrocities to again occur in her realm of influence, she signed on with the corporate security team. Years of mining in the bitter cold of the mountains gave her a thick skin and a powerful strike, letting her be welcomed easily into the ranks. Now she works day to day, forming new bonds, ready to step up and protect others at a moment's notice.

What do you like about this character?

I quite like Izdal for a few reasons, one of which being where her sense of duty comes from. It wasn't drilled into her like a regime, or taught to her like an Ethics 101 class. It is born from hardship, and the desire for it to never happen to anyone again. War cuts deep, leaving scars on the landscape, the history, and the people. History is written by the winners, but the truth is left branded into the minds of those who went through it.

How would you rate your role-playing ability? Torn directly from my other app: I'd give myself a solid 7 out of ten. And not just because I like the number 7. Knowing what my character knows has become second nature, meaning no creation of Peridaxon as an engineer. I've played Xeno races previously, and am accustomed to the more intricate parts of creating a believable character. I do not create giant, interwoven backstories for my characters right off the bat, but that is just because of my style. Instead of putting them in a box, I plant a seed of an idea, and see how the box grows around the character. This means some of my characters have blindspots record or flavor text wise, but I was never really a perfectionist.

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Notes: Is boop, not beep.

[Mofo1995]

Hello! I've come to pass the time while my laundry is finished review your application.

Formality Questions:

As usual, the first two questions are not really worth all that much talking about unless exceptional answers have been provided for them, but your answers are neither exceptionally bad nor good. They are however above average due to your focus on roleplay qualities in what makes playing them different rather than mechanical qualities. This is always pleasing and typically shows better intentions in motivations to play the race. It also smooths out some of my fears in the backstory which I will address when the time comes.

Backstory:

Izdir M'ranma grew up in a mining town in the northern Rhazar Mountain Range, currently a front line between the PRA and ALA. Foreign investment from humans economically vitalized the village in the interwar period and improved quality of life with modest introductions of new technologies. M'ranma lived a life of hard labor but after the breakout of the war, her village was occupied by the Grand People's Army and people accused of collaboration with the ALA. Later, it was all destroyed in a confrontation between the two factions leaving her with nothing but to escape to foreign worlds through the very company that likely invested in her village in the first place, escaping the intense persecution. So far, I have no issues with this backstory and it actually lightly reminds me of my own character's backstory in some respects, geographically their villages are even not terribly far away.

Where I begin to worry is here:

Swearing to herself to never allow such atrocities to again occur in her realm of influence, she signed on with the corporate security team. Years of mining in the bitter cold of the mountains gave her a thick skin and a powerful strike, letting her be welcomed easily into the ranks. Now she works day to day, forming new bonds, ready to step up and protect others at a moment's notice.

Specifically, "welcomed easily into the ranks" and "ready to step up and protect others at a moment's notice." The first is unlikely as Zhan are doubled dipped as far as discrimination goes, both for slanderous media from their own species as well as for Tajara in general being viewed lowly. Though, this is a nitpick on one word, because if the word "easily" was removed I'd have no problem with it, so let's not dwell on it too much. The second part, "ready to step up and protect others at a moment's notice." is concerning as it is typically an indicator of using a justice-oriented and heroic character as an excuse to secure valids and powergame antags. This is where your responses for what makes roleplaying the race different do well to assuage my fears as you didn't focus on the mechanical advantages of playing a Tajara, let alone a Zhan. So long as you do not use your character backstory and traits in this application as an excuse to be abnormally cruel and uncompliant with antagonists and their gimmicks (IE, to secure valids) then this shouldn't be a problem. And judging by your head of staff application, others seem to attest that this isn't in the cards for your play style.

What do you like about this character?:

You mispelled your own character's name, but funnily enough, you did it in a way which sounds similar to our head admin, Itzal. Izdal. I can't rag on you too hard for this as I once mispelled one of my character's name so much that his name changed since everyone similarly only remembered the mispelled version.

How would you rate your role-playing ability?:

I put no weight on this question and have no idea why it's on the application format.

I would've preferred if you could've gotten feedback on this application in addition to your head of staff application, as it seems many people think highly of you, as it was weighted much less when considering this application as feedback for a good head of staff is not the same for feedback for a good Tajara. However, I believe this application meets my standards for acceptance.

Application accepted.