[Accepted] Sleepy's Head Whitelist

[SleepyWolf]

BYOND key: Sleepy Wolf

Character names:

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How long have you been playing on Aurora?: fuck like 5 years

Why do you wish to be on the whitelist?: WELL, I have characters that are already heads. I lost my last whitelist from playing non-head characters that were a bit too joke-y.

Why did you come to Aurora?: only god knows

Have you read the Aurora wiki on the head roles and qualifications you plan on playing?: yes

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Please provide well articulated answers to the following questions in a paragraph each.

Give a definition of what you think roleplay is, and should be about: Roleplay is fabricating a story for the characters you create, and having them interact with other people in amazing ways. Your character fits into the narrative seamlessly, if you're a good roleplayer, while also still having three dimensional qualities - and likely goals. I personally love to roleplay like I'm in a TV series, or a movie.

What do you think the OOC purpose of a Head of Staff is, ingame?: I feel it can be both antagonizing your staff below you to drive a story a bit, or pushing them to work their best. Heads of staff don't have to be amazingly charismatic people that work well with everyone and know everyones issues and how to solve social situations, sometimes they can just be there to drive a story - antagonize people with paperwork and orders, organizing them into groups but being too stubborn to change the groups when someone says 'I just don't like this guy', because they want them to 'Find a way to work together' - because that would be a better narrative! I have characters that are both ways, the 'Just work, you punks' and the 'Fuck, okay, I'll fix that with you guys by diagnosing the issue and fixing it slowly and diplomatically.'

What do you think the OOC responsibilities of Whitelisted players are to other players, and how would you strive to uphold them?: To be role models, sort of? Whitelisted players are usually the most recognizable characters since they're communicating to every member in the department, and have to communicate with other department heads as well. Whitelisted players should also keep their toxicity levels to a Minimum most of the time, uphold the standards of roleplay on the server, and realize that rules are meant to be followed, because if someone sees a whitelisted player break rules constantly they feel they can do the same.

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Please pick one of your characters for this section, and provide well articulated responses to the following questions.

Character name: Zilosnish Szu - (Unathi HoP)

Character age: 54

Please provide a short biography of this character (approx 2 paragraphs):

Szu was born a long time before the Contact War on Moghes. Born the son of a notable blacksmith, he yearned to make a name for his clan name and ended up taking advantage of his fathers work in coin-smithing. Rising to become a Master of Coin for the city of S'th, he ended up advising the local Lords of the region in the time of the war - purchasing, bartering, and selling various supplies, armaments, and mercs to help with the issues that arrose in maintaining the city. Near the end of the war, Szu had to ration supplies between noble houses, enforce the war taxes on the city, and delegate meetings with the houses to help keep the peace - at least amoungst the rich families.

After the Contact War ended, and he felt he had done his part in keeping his city safe, he retired his title of Master of Coin to his son. His new goal in life for the past few years has been to explore the galaxy - and know all sorts of exotic things. He came to Tau Ceti five years ago, and has made a name for himself in the management community. As a Head of Personnel he uses pay raises, commissions, and budget management to his advantage - moving and making credits from seemingly nothing but a few good workers.

Szu now returns to work aboard the Aurora, seeking new workers to endorse his exotic interests of xeno-art, xeno-tailoring, and xeno-cuisine - all very easily found in Tau Ceti space.

What do you like about this character?: If Szu sees something he likes, it might as well already be his. He'll make some sort of deal to allow Nanotrasen to purchase some exotic artifact from a trader, and if it's not found to be useful for Nanotrasen, Szu will purchase it himself for his xeno-art collection in his keep. I ALSO already have a few custom items that make Szu look REALLY cool, he's got an exotic hide mantle that was killed by a security officer he commissioned from station, it was skinned and tanned on Moghes, and tailored in Sol. You can PROBABLY tell how he'll act by just how pretentious that sounds, but I love that about him.

What do you dislike about this character?: He's a coward, but don't tell that to him or he'll buy a private investigator to watch you at all times.

What do you think makes this character fit to be a head of staff?: He can DEFINITELY enforce his rules and regulations on people. He wants the kitchen to start having customers purchase meals for 15 credits? He'll request the HoS to station an officer to watch and make sure that happens. A cargo tech is causing issue and not taking payments from people? He'll tell the QM to deal with it or it's the cargo tech and the QM on the line for fraud or theft. Szu's probably going to be very hands-off for most issues, but still a hovering hand - constantly making sure everything's fine.

 

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Please provide well articulated answers to the following questions.

How would you rate your own roleplaying?: a generous 89

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Extra notes: i have a lot of old characters that i really want to play, Flaming Hearts Love Stars, Toronto-88, Szu here, and Karnaikai.

Edited June 5, 2018 by Guest

[geeves]

I don't really have much critique on the application itself, it's a bit joke-y, but that's fine, I suppose. Far as I know the character's backstory is solid and meshes with Unathi lore.

Big thing is, Sleepy has proved to be a competent roleplayer, and despite the application's joke-y-ness, they can roleplay a serious and genuinely entertaining character. They're fun to talk with OOCly and they have the personality to mold into what one needs for a Head position, I believe. Also, "A Big Fucking Tree". +1

[Chen Yakumo]

At the risk of sounding like a meme, I have roleplayed with several of these characters and I can safely say +1 look good. Each one is unique in their own respect, and I honestly didn't suspect they were all played by the same person. He's quite good.

[Ferguson]

I have interacted with 3/4 of your characters and they each have their own well fleshed out personality to them, I have missed seeing them it would only benefit aurora to have them back!! +1

[DronzTheWolf]

Welcome Heart and Star.

I bring you back from the depths of obscurity with my +1

[Bygonehero]

I have full confidence in sleepys roleplay. I believe the original decision to be egregious as it did not factor in that sleepy does this with all of his characters. There are very few rememberable characters, really. Think about how many samey HoS, Captain, CMO, and RDs there are. There are few that are understandably different, and sleepy brings this to all of their characters. As I said before, perhaps more than any other player, sleepy has a way to subvert lore in positive ways, to make really interesting, but not snowflake characters.

[Coalf]

Application accepted.