BYOND Key: Bag of Rice
Character Names: Dmitri Kalishnakov
Species you are applying to play: Dionaea
Have you read our lore section's page on this species?: yes
Why do you wish to play this specific race: I want to play this race because it seems like a vastly different experience than playing human. I believe having the ability to absorb nymphs to become bigger is a cool concept and the fact that a dionaea can survive in a vacuum will open up some interesting opportunities. I think that having to stay in the light to not starve is a unique restriction that will make my play experience more interesting.
Identify what makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a Human: The mindset is completely different. Dionaea are passive, curious, childlike creatures that can only emulate emotions. This means that they are extremely open minded and will resolve disputes with words rather than violence. They will question everything around them and seek to learn as much as possible while humans often stop after a certain point.
Character Name: Lights dancing across (lights dancing)
Please provide a short backstory for this character This diona is still relatively new to the world, having been grown in a lab in space. Their first memories of the world were leaves sprouting in the tray adjacent to them, and a man of plastic with sharp metal objects. As time passed, they remember crawling in the ventilation shafts as a nymph, talking to (unsuccessfully) and eating rats and staying by the windows for sustenance, until finally finding another nymph. This process repeated over the course of 3 weeks until the diona had enough nymphs to form a gestalt.
As soon as the diona exited the maintenance tunnels, they were detained by security for not having a ID and sent away from the station. The long, grueling process of going through bureaucracy to attain citizenship was not a negative one for the young gestalt, as they was fascinated by all the technology surrounding him. They often spent many hours talking to government officials as he was applying for citizenship, after a couple hours of pestering the officials with endless streams of questions while also holding up the line, the officials reached their limit and told them to "buzz off", they did not know how to buzz, so they continued to ask more questions. During their journey for citizenship, they often talked to many of the locals, but all they learned was that they were a "stupid plant" and that "eating a pet is not OK" and that they should "go back to where you came from." So, that is exactly what he did, signing up as a research assistant, truly following the locals' enlightening advice.
What do you like about this character? I like the fact that they take everything literally and cannot tell when someone is insulting them. I really like that they returned to their roots (hAH hAh get it?) and I also like their wonderment with everything that happens around them. Another part I like about this character is that they are very impressionable, allowing me to create a distinct personality for them from the experiences they get on the aurora. What I also like about this character is the fact that they will be more likely to try out new thing because they are so curious, probably doing more risky experiments for the sake of knowledge.
How would you rate your role-playing ability? 7.5/10
Notes:First application, feedback would be great