[Accepted] Vizendel's Unathi App

[Vizendel]

BYOND Key: Vizendel

Character Names: Lachlan King and Robert Shor are the only ones I’ve played in a while.

Species you are applying to play: Unathi

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

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:

While I could continue to play Humans with little fuss on my end, I find the way that the Unathi culture has been written out and developed to be extremely interesting and engaging, I want to take part in the honour-bound culture of this race, along with the way it treats social interactions with other species.

Interacting with Unathi (particularly non-Guwan Unathi) has been a source of great entertainment for me, as I love interacting with their honourbound culture and society and want to take part at a deeper level than that of an outsider.

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

Aside from the simple fact that they're not Human, Unathi have a much more centralized culture that isn't nearly as varied as Human culture. The greatest cultural (though not Religious) divergence within the Unathi people is Ouere and Moghe, where Ouere is much more forgiving for social faux-pas dealt by non-Unathi races, but still considers such faux-pas to be insults, even if unintended. The entire way their culture has developed lends them to be much more different to Humans than simply being lizards.

Additionally, the several distinct Religions within Unathi culture, all at eachothers throats represents an interesting niche that while not entirely dissimilar from Human Religions, is different in the fact that they may as well be openly at war, for all the blood that is spilled by them even in the present.

Character Name: Tersza Kazur

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

Though hatched on Moghes, his family fled the planet for Ouerea as soon as they could, thinking it a better place to raise a family away from the poisoned, expanding wasteland on Moghes.

Tersza was hatched in Versakh and embodied the warmth and comfort of his birth season quite well as a child, not a particularly difficult child to rear save for the unfortunate incident where a young, sun-loving Tersza developed the skin condition common to Ouerean Unathi, much to his embarrassment in not listening to his parents’ warnings about such and being the first in several lessons in learning to obeying one's wise elders.

These traits followed him into early adolescence, where Tersza was raised in a traditionalist household, the tenets of honour and the family’s personal faith- The Akhanzi Order- were drummed into the young Tersza. With a childhood that was atypically free of a majority of struggle, Tersza may have grown up somewhat soft compared to the majority of his kind. This was aided by a mother which coddled him and encouraged him to learn, imprinting on her child her own unfulfilled desires to learn and grow more intelligent.

His father was not wholly against these practices, though while he had desires to see his firstborn son grow into a model of traditionalist Unathi customs, the fire of his youth had been tempered by his love for his wife and changed him, softening him enough to relent and allow his son a more bookish childhood.

As a result, Tersza grew up valuing his knowledge more than his fists (though never lacked for opportunity for the latter to make a showing in his teenage years, where most of such fights were bitter losses.) University was a guaranteed prospect once he had matured enough for it, and enrolled in the Hongsun Park Engineering Institute for, (at first) a Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering, and soon after completion of that going for a Masters in the very same, doing little more than his very best and graduating much to the pride of his family.

At the tender age of just twenty five, the young Unathi, very much unprepared for the rigours of life in the real world, away from those who love him unconditionally, applied for a position at NanoTrasen, and to his delight was granted (in his eyes) the privilege of working for such a prestigious corporation.

What do you like about this character?

Personally, my favourite part about Tersza is that I can play him as a wide eyed Unathi, a step apart from the old and grizzled Unathi that lived through a lifetime of war, very much unskilled in the ways of the world and still believing that most everyone will act honourably. I am really looking forward to roleplaying how he’ll handle working in a multicultural workplace like the Aurora, with so many conflicting cultures and how life aboard the Aurora will change him, for better or worse.

How would you rate your role-playing ability? I like to think that I'm a good roleplayer! I could probably improve, but the best way to improve is to branch out and go into areas one isn’t skilled in.

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Notes: None come to mind, other than please be honest, I’d love to improve!

[furrycactus]

Having done a lot of RP with you lately, I can say that you're a pretty good roleplayer, and you've made for interesting antag situations too. I like the backstory and the character's personality, too. It's a +1 from me.

[Guest Marlon Phoenix]

I will get to this before the end of the 14th.

[Guest Marlon Phoenix]

Hello,

I am sorry for the delay. You show good understanding of the unathi lore. I like that he lived a rather comforted life away from the struggles of Moghes but still had his own struggles in life. He is not an archetype of the warrior, but of a typical urban Unathi trying to find their place in this strange new galaxy.

Application accepted!