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spectre21184
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(Does best Doctor Nick impression he can) Hi everybody...
I'm working on a new tactical officer, with a faction I've not played before and I was wondering if i could get some advice on roleplaying a romulan. His basic story is that he was brought to the virinat colony and ended up being a decent peacekeeper type (which is why he's tactical instead of science or engie).
I am however willing to work with other ideas, and i've been playing around with the alien creator to make an irathiant or jaffa
I'm working on a new tactical officer, with a faction I've not played before and I was wondering if i could get some advice on roleplaying a romulan. His basic story is that he was brought to the virinat colony and ended up being a decent peacekeeper type (which is why he's tactical instead of science or engie).
I am however willing to work with other ideas, and i've been playing around with the alien creator to make an irathiant or jaffa
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As for RPing a Romulan... well... sounds to me like you've already got a good base to build off of.
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Expressing dissent of any kind is done with exceptional subtlety. Outright resistance to a superior is almost unknown. For me the argument between Hakeev and Janek stood out as anomalous. Janek should have died by firing squad moments after raising her voice! (I realize that conversation had a story purpose, but I am glad the writers included her fatalism.)
Given the current state of Romulan society there may be some who defy these social conventions, but they will be deviants, (not necessarily in a bad way, but being different is deviation.) Romulans, even in a tolerant society, would be demure and formal. In every way from speech to dress to manners, the average Romulan does not want to stand out. The best and brightest of them are consistent third place finishers.
This does not necessarily apply to upper class Romulans, who can be ambitious, venal, arrogant, and authoritarian. My own Patrician character tries to hide her background, but it is apparent to Romulans. My fix-it-man Romulan is a complete pragmatist whose only concern is, "Make it work." However, he is exceedingly polite without being unapproachable. I intentionally play him as having adopted the Federation ideal and rejecting the old Romulan ways.
Nadirh is half-Romulan, half-Reman. She was on Virinat as a merchant freighter crewmember, and wound up signing on with D'tan's Republic as a mercenary of sorts. (She's officially on the rolls of the Fleet, but is also well-known for running the least military ship in the Republic.) She consciously rejects the society in which she was born, because she can see that it didn't really get the RSE anywhere in the long run.
It was now the harvest, a time of renewal, of festivities but he felt no desire to be festive. Tovan had contacted him, they had become friends over the years at the colony and Tovan had been polite in not asking much of S'Vots past or how he knew weapons and survival as he did.
(a brief mock up of what I thought for S'vot, I would appreciate critque)
something to remember when RPing remans that being overly conservative in manners and desire to not stand out would be dialed up to eleven with them, since for a slave standing out from the crowd would mean a savage beating or worse and it wasn't so long ago that remans were slaves so it would influence their cultural norms.
also your average reman would be most likely to deal with their "enemies" in a way that cannot be traced back to him/her, rather then confronting them openly (again slaves that talk back to their masters get beaten or worse).
Not to mention that any distrust towards authorities would be much, much stronger with remans due well them being ex-slaves and thus understandbly not all that trusting of those who used to mistreat them or their allies.
An interesting beginning. Does Rinna ever light his fire? Or is he going along for the ride for Tovan's sake? (I don't really want to know, I'm tossing ideas at random.)
Has his time as a Tal Shiar officer affected his attitudes? Perhaps he is more secretive than average, or perhaps a bit more arrogant? Do other Romulans suspect his background, or has he mastered living under a disguise? Is this something he would hide from his superiors? Perhaps out of habit, or just prudence? Has he any secret shame that goads him to be better or which, if revealed, make a pariah of him?
This background you have created opens lots of doors, and I'll bet you explore some and close others as you play your character. Sometimes the emergent personality surprises even the creator of a character.
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My roms nam is
Joran Tomalak son of the infamous romulan commander during TNG, though his father was an asp of a man he on the other hand is a man of the people more concerned in service to the romulan people then anything else, him andd his father hated one another to such extent his own father tried to have him killed while he was in the romulan naval academy before hobus mind you.
My toon was one of the last rescue shuttles to leave romulus before its destruction, it pains him deply that he couldnt save more then the few he did, he is in his mid 40s entering the academy at age 14 and being assigned to his first warbird by 18.
he is a staunch supporter of D'tans and believes ferevently in the republic, though he is a liason oficer to the klingon empire he took the assignment to help better relations betwn the empire and republic, in those efforts he has been mostly successfull.
At first it was for Tovan's sake and that S'vot sets family as one of the highest priorities one can hold. She is beautiful but she also the sister of someone who has become a dear friend so he weighs the option of pursuing either path.
Has his time as a Tal Shiar officer affected his attitudes? Perhaps he is more secretive than average, or perhaps a bit more arrogant? His time as a Tal Shiar officer was more interesting than anything else, fascinated by enigmas, secrets, the way people act when they do not know they're being watched and feel safe fascinated him. As such he was a very well regarded interrogator when needed, and yes was slightly arrogant but some of it was very warranted.
Do other Romulans suspect his background, or has he mastered living under a disguise? Is this something he would hide from his superiors? Perhaps out of habit, or just prudence? Tovan suspects, but does not ask as he respects his friend and believes he knows him well enough to judge if he was lock stepped in with the star empire or not. However if you did not know him well or did not have extensive knowledge of the Tal Shiar you would not know he was anything other than a normal citizen. He keeps his former allegiance though hidden out of prudence rather than shame, although there where a few interrogations that he is not proud of and if he ever found survivors of what happened he would do his best to make amends albeit clandestinely.
Has he any secret shame that goads him to be better or which, if revealed, make a pariah of him? There were a few interrogations, men who simply did not fall in the proper way of thinking or offered charity where the tal shiar believed it was not needed that gave S'Vot pause. He did not like performing his duty during that time, but he was clinical, thorough in his assessment so their families would be spared any further questioning.