[Denied]TheIncredibleRory- Tajara Application

[TheIncredibleRory]

BYOND Key: TheIncredibleRory

Character Names: Adalbert Stoss, Rowdy Betters

Species you are applying to play:Zhan-Khazan Tajara

What color do you plan on making your first alien character (Dionaea & IPCs exempt): Probably a dark grey or black!

Have you read our lore section's page on this species?: Yes. Lots of cat pictures! 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:

Simply put, as interesting as human is, I would have more fun playing a Tajara. Given the races unique backstory, the way that the society works, I feel as if it offers more flavor to a character. I'm no longer new to Station 13 having played for a while now, enough to make a decent warden and viable interim security chief at any rate, and an experienced roleplayer and writer. That being said, I feel as if playing something I enjoyed might be more fun to me than simply sticking with a normal human and just working with the gameplay mechanics.

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

I would say that getting cold wouldn't be that much of a problem for the characters. Going and communicating, putting a flare on the words to accentuate an accent from an alien tongue, the idea is exciting! Given the class structure and relative strife of the Tajara homeworld, I'd say that a character that comes from there is bound to be full of flavor. And to top that all off, a bit of spite, a bit of damage, I can see a great potential for alot of fun roleplay.

Character Name: Raiji K'Sarr

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

Raiji grew up poor, uneducated. Of course, these things happened, from time to time. Growing up in the countryside, there was little for him to do other than to bear the harsh, mountain winters. And of course...fight. The affiliations of his parents led him to be targeted by some of his peers, egged on by their own family, carrying their own prejudices and loyalties. Raiji grew up small, he learned to take a beating from an early age. But, time heals all things. In this case, by the time he was in his teens, Raiji, from his work on his families farm, was quite large, quite strong, and very, very angry. After a savage beating dealt to one village boy that had been tormenting him forever, enough that the local militia had to create a report...Raiji didn't heave reason to fight again. It wasn't that Raiji was the best fighter. Or even a good one. It wasn't a matter of his former tormentors afraid of losing; but Raiji had grown up. They weren't quite sure that they'd win, either. Life became peaceful after that...normal, even. But in the end, Conflict was something that didn't change; no matter where, no matter what, conflict occurred. Whenever there were resources to be had, a profit to be made, or an ideology to cram down peoples throats; points were made at the tips of spears, . Later, it became the bullets of guns. As it was for Raiji.

Raiji grew up poor and in a rural community, as did many Zhan-Khazan. His father and mother, of course, had both been involved with the service. His mother was a soldier, and his father had been a quartermaster. When both were able to leave the side of the loyalists, they returned to his father's family land, and did what most mated pairs did. Start a family. Raiji didn't have toys to play with as a child; his mother taught him how to hunt in the mountains, and his father taught him how to work the land. Raiji grew up honest, innocent, even. He heard stories, one couldn't escape from the war in Adhomai. But in their secluded mountain village, to him, the War was something that happened to other people. When he was old enough, he took a job in a nearby mine. He was more than happy to work the land; while he wasn't the greatest with anything written, having been raised poor and uneducated as many of his kind were, he was able to learn very rapidly by watching others work, and having things explained to him. This job took him further away from his village than he'd like; close enough that he was still able to visit family, and vice versa. His life, growing up in rural Adhonai, was about as normal as it could have possibly been for his kind. His parents didn't tell him much about the conflict, though he did hear stories, but he never asked. Technically, working in the mine, this was part of the war effort...but again. To Raiji, War was happened to other people. He had no motive other than to be happy.

People tended to ignore small little villages full of old men and women. However, as always, with War, borders and frontlines shift. And soon enough, a faction came to the mine, a press-gang seeking to shanghai the able-bodied young men and women to fight in 'their' war.

Drafted into the Adhomai Liberation Army, whether he believed in their cause or not, Raiji was given a rifle and forced to fight in the war. The fighting didn't suit him well, of course, most people despised getting shot at every day, and despite the somewhat...militant past of his people, it wasn't a trait that he shared. Deserting from the army, Raiji, who had nothing left that had not been taken for him, had managed to disguise himself as a refugee, and leave the system of his birth for, what he had hoped, was a time of rest. Amongst Safer Stars. This was after he attempted to return home to his village...which wasn't there anymore. He never learned what became of his family. They would have fled the conflict when it came closer, but given that he was a deserter, given that he didn't have much education beyond farming, mining, and staying alive...he never had the resources to track them down. It broke his heart, but Raiji was used to loss.

NT was the Golden Land for him. A land of opportunity. Where he could be safe. Where he could be happy. Where, if he ever had a family of his own, he'd have them grow up safe, educated.

Of course, he didn't know about the Kill-Teams, or the Experiments, or the fact that they loved to create crimes against nature in the form of tomatoes, among other tamperings in the domain of the divine.

But he'd learn. Oh, would he learn.

What do you like about this character?

Self made; everything he learned, he taught himself

Alot of people brag and bluster about military service; Raiji would not have viewed it so heroically. It's a point of shame for him, and he wants nothing to do with fighting.

Yet at the same time, Raiji would not hesitate to use his skills to stop others from being harmed. Desiring to work in Security, where he believes that he could use his skillset to prevent others from coming to harm. In his naivety, he believed that a quiet job like that where he could help among the "Safe" and "Secure" NT station would be a place where he wouldn't waste his own skills, and be able to help others. He might wish for a job in the Cargo Bay, or upon the mining team, if Security proved to remind him to much of the ALA. One thing that he's only ever known is hunger and conflict, settling into a somewhat tamer environment would be a massive culture shock to him; never mind the fact of living amongst aliens!

How would you rate your role-playing ability?

Pretty darn well

[Mofo1995]

There are a few nuggets of information worth reviewing here.

Here is a list of all rounds you played as the character you applied to play as in your previous application (which this is app is a very near copy paste from):

Here is a list of all rounds you played as some other Tajaran character that you made in the same night:

 

While there is no limit on the time you have to play as a whitelist accepted character before making a new one, you had effectively one round as the character you applied for, the same character you are reapplying for, before making a new one and playing them for five rounds. It is clear to me that Raiji is not the character you mean to play, and that this Maliq character is the one you intend to play. However, it was as this Mal'iq that I found myself getting pinged and zinged from about five or six different people complaining. And that isn't including this gem I unearthed on my own:

 

It has been a common tactic in the past that people would apply with characters which abide by the lore only to bait and switch to play as what they actually wanted to play once they have their whitelist- usually a fursona. When I see statistics like this combined with the complaints I had received at the time, I'm inclined to assume this is a bait and switch.

Onward to the next, here's your playtime following your whitelist strip:

 

Four rounds. You have played four rounds, two the day of your whitelist strip and two a week later. Maybe a couple more if a character slot wasn't saved, but I would have to bug a developer to inform me of this.

And lastly, the elephant in the room, the one which I now see in hindsight you PM'd me telling me you would do, your whitelist application is a near copy and paste of your first whitelist application.

If you're going to make a whitelist application, a reapplication no less, you should make it for the character you actually intend to play as. Not including the round as a mercenary, as that shouldn't count anymore than a wizard would, you only played a single round as Raiji K'Sarr before playing a bunch of rounds as Mal'iq Sayir. Who is Mal'iq Sayir? What is his affiliation? What is his history? What is his personality? Is his story in line with our Tajaran lore? If someone made a whitelist application as him, would it pass?

The point of a whitelist application is to demonstrate for the species handler that you have a working knowledge of the lore and the ability to role-play appropriately. Your whitelist was taken because of numerous complaints about your conduct, your repeated showing of being uninformed about basics of Tajaran lore (such as rolling r's and speaking in the third person, two things which are on the main page of the Tajara wiki, which is supposed to be read in its entirety before even applying!), and your exceptionally low playtime on server. When I'm given a copy and paste of the same application (which was later stripped) armed with the knowledge that your playtime on the server is still extremely low and that by all appearances you intend to play as another character entirely, in what way am I shown that you now have a better understanding of the species lore, or even the server lore? Community feedback would be one way to determine this, but there isn't any which is typically a symptom of limited playtime.

Given these circumstances, I'm afraid I'm going to have to deny this application. Feel free to apply again in the future.