[Accepted] rankdiRty's Unathi Application

[rankdiRty]

BYOND Key: rankdiRty

Character Names: Cliff Donovicci, Fleance MacBride

Species you are applying to play: Unathi

What color do you plan on making your first alien character (Dionaea & IPCs exempt): Dark Green

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

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Why do you wish to play this specific race: I admire the warrior culture of the Unathi, I think it's interesting that such a culture could survive in an age like this where wars are fought in spaceships rather then face to face. Beyond that I just think they have interesting morphology, in simpler terms, they're snakemen and that's cool as fuck. I also have experience playing Unathi on other servers so it's something familiar to me.

Identify what makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a Human: Your mannerisms are different than a human's. To show that someone is testing your patience you wouldn't glare, you might quietly hiss or start thumping your tail on the ground. You also have wildly different values; a human might be appalled by the violence an Unathi would revel in and consider honorable. Unathi also have a different view of women that would be considered old fashioned to most humans, but is sacred practice to Unathi (i.e. arranged marriage), which could create tension in a work environment.

 

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Character Name: Vra'ik Seshka

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

Vra'ik Seshka is a curious man originally from the Unathi homeworld of Moghes. In his youth he was always more of an intellectual than a warrior, with an immense curiosity in medicine and how lives could be saved rather than taken. He grew up in starvation and fear of the wasteland slowly consuming his home, knowing that his people had done this to themselves; he simply had lost his taste for fighting. While the other young of his clan were out boxing and wrestling with each other, Vra'ik stayed inside pouring over books and tomes of ancient wisdom in the arts of healing, tales of Unathi shamans and their herbal remedies. This made him an outcast with few friends, looked down upon by his father and forgotten by his peers.

As he grew into adulthood he became frustrated with the limitations of his people's knowledge, as well as his culture's inability to accept his talents and aspirations. Determined to become a doctor and do great things, he left his wartorn home to study with the humans in the art of medicine. While still a nonviolent person, growing up Unathi meant he could stomach quite a bit of gore, so he found his niche with surgery. He found that he could wield a blade and shed blood as his brothers did, but not to harm. With the same cut a warrior would make to kill, he could grant a thousand lives.

What do you like about this character? He's an oddity among his people, he doesn't fit in. He had to travel lightyears to find his place in the universe, and with that comes experience and a broadened perspective. Vra'ik Seshka is strong in a way that is unconventional to his people, which makes him unique.

How would you rate your role-playing ability? I have a good deal of roleplaying experience from not only SS13 and Gmod heavy RPs, but also tabletop RPGs like D&D and World of Darkness, for which I have been both player and GM. So I would consider myself to be a very competent roleplayer.

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[Guest Marlon Phoenix]

Hello!

Thank you for your application. Your knowledge on the cultural aspects of Unathi is good and I always approve of Unathi that come from non-warrior backgrounds. However, your Unathi seems to immediately jump from a tribal village to space age humans without considering any inbetween - there are many universities in the few remaining cities of Moghes, and the colony of Ouerea is a wealthy and more liberal (in terms of unathi) place to live and be educated. Is there a reason that your character shunned the chance to get an education within his own culture? Is his attraction to human culture a way of giving him a conflict between his desire to remain conservative in his values but attracted to human liberalism?

[rankdiRty]

Ah I see. I suppose I didn't consider that. I mean, he definitely doesn't consider his own kind to be the smartest bunch, but I'll be honest, I didn't really think of that. Is it something you'd like me to change?

[Guest Marlon Phoenix]

It can go either way: He succeeds in a Unathi-based environment and moves on to NT, or he's frustrated with the Unathi-based environment and abandons it for humanity. I just want you to better consider that stage in his life to avoid the common stereotype of Unathi being bronze-age level barbarians living in mud-huts. This aesthetic for them is common on other HRP servers and I tend to notice when this mindset is carried over to Aurora's Unathi in applications. They have a major university for medicine your character could have graduated from, for example:

https://wiki.aurorastation.org/index.php?title=Skalamar_University_Of_Medicine

But there's also more esteemed universities outside the hegemony that he could have been attracted to.

https://wiki.aurorastation.org/index.php?title=Education#Medical

Adding onto that would make your character stronger and make it clear that you understand that the Unathi aren't a barbaric race of savages to be fled, but more of a really stifling and condescending society that really suppresses people like Seshka, who don't have the money and influence to buy his way to the top like the nobility.

[rankdiRty]

Yeah, the way you described it, Seshka would despise that kind of aristocracy, and probably would have just left (only to be blindsided by human bureaucracy lol). The way I see Seshka, I think it would have been torment to remain in his mother culture any longer, and he would have gone for the "grass is greener" route whether he knew it to be true or not. On another note, I do understand that they are not barbarians too simple to understand their intellectuals, but are a society that values a rather homogeneous skill set that is slow to accept outliers. I read through the descriptions of the universities you linked, and he would likely have been attracted to the Lunar University, as the Sol System is about as far from Unathi anything one can get, and it excels in both human and xeno surgery. He definitely would have struggled with the language barrier, perhaps this would give reason to add Sol Common as one of his spoken languages. Guess he's going to catch a lot of humans talking shit about him thinking he doesn't understand lmao.

[Guest Marlon Phoenix]

A Unathi fluent in sol common would be interesting to see. An outlining Unathi that isn't so radically anti-Unathi that he needs to be Guwan would be a refreshing change of pace for the unathi community. Thank you for responding to my concerns and showing good intentions with your character; I'll be happy to accept this application!