[Accepted]Diggiez's Skrell Whitelist Application

[GreenBoi]

BYOND Key: Diggiez

Character Names:

A short key of everything you'll see: L means Legacy (Characters that are retired but still in my slots), R means Retired meaning Characters that are inactive and have probably been deleted or recylced, A means Active and are the characters you may see me as in-game. WIP means characters that are currently being made, either missing out on records or missing some crucial piece to their personality. Now, for the actual list:

Preston Fulton - Station Engineer [First Character] (L)

Orde Halson - Roboticist (L)

Gage Birolen - Xenobiologst (L)

Lorto Andibaz - Scientist (R)

Zane Stahl - CSI (R)

Colton Davis - Warden (R)

Zakaria Ibn-Eazim (Zachary, Son of Great) - Warden (WIP)

Duanmuhe Haogan - Janitor (A)

Josuke Houstani - Bartender (A)

Tuda Weihe - Librarian (WIP)

Species you are applying to play: Skrell

What color do you plan on making your first alien character (Dionaea & IPCs exempt): R: 8 G:71 B:98

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

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: I want to play as a Skrell because they stuck out to me. While going through my little "What should I read next?" lore list, I ended up with Skrell because as of right now, they're the most prominent AND they've gotten lore-friendly changes. I want to play Skrell not just because they got slightly more interesting with their little buffs, but because they just feel interesting, and like good fertile ground to start off with Xenos as they have more to work off with unlike IPCs, but you aren't bombarded with things like Unathi, Tajaran, or Vaurcae (whom I personally find to be the hardest whitelist given everything they have and all their lore). In short, they're a good ground to expand horizons without a large amount of expectations laid upon you.

Identify what makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a Human: Skrell are different in everything from humans, while anatomically they may be very similar. Skrells have a much different culture and groomed behavior than to humans. They express their emotions through very nuanced tones in the voice at soundranges other species are just unable to hear, meaning one covertly-expressive and enthusiastic Skrell may sound like a very boring but strangely active person to non-Skrell (and it'd especially affect Skrellian celebrities). Skrell are also at a wierd little struggle-point with Synthetics. It's ingrained into their culture to have AIs and Androids, but at the same time. Those same creations nearly caused the end of their race, this would birth many different beliefs about how they should be treated in present day for Skrell, some of which that the lore address and other that is left to be interpreted (with context and reasoning).

Character Name: Jyar'Qoin Abuii

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

Born recently on April 2nd, 2405, Abuii was blasted into a life with nothing but work as a Shaft Miner. A life that, while short, would be one of Abuii's most memorable on Aliose. The tuning labor of mining, setting up large drills, and driving crates of resources and drill parts back to outposts made Archaeology much, much easier of a job for Abuii. He'd be used to whipping cold within the mines, the dark tunnels and the near-silent hum of nature. Setting up digsites eventually became second-nature, recording finds and surveying the geological landscape: just another thing to tick off on the To-Do List. It was all a schedule Abuii kept up with, a small quota he found easy to do within his time constraints. However, with the exponential advances in bluespace research and the thought of artifacts with enticing, strange properties, it became only a matter of time before Abuii settled well with the Bluespace and Phoron Craze that swept the galaxy by 2433

Abuii's ambition lead to an increased work ethic that lasted for about two years which he personally regards as "The Efficiency Era" that would land him a job at NanoTrasen in the Romanovich Cloud. As the years went on, Abuii would take notes on all the "dull" artifacts found and the more interesting and dynamic ones that seemingly used bluespace or phoron in some manner. When Abuii heard of the Aurora being built as a Mining and Research facility, he knew it'd be his moment to find something most interesting there. That the most important, scientific breakthrough-causing artifacts would be there and there only, waiting for someone to document them.

 

What do you like about this character? I enjoy Abuii's thinking (hard to see my point given how I can't exactly put it into good words in the backstory section). It shows how they idolize making some breakthrough in research, whether by finding an insanely-advanced artifact that he can just feel is out there, or finding a way to reverse-engineer tech wonders of artifacts. Whichever way he gets it, Abuii is basically a big-dreamer who wants major bragging rights.

 

How would you rate your role-playing ability? I don't like using arbitrary numerical systems so I'll just use words instead. I find my roleplaying ability to be Average (and definetly better than what it used to be), but I feel like it's slightly sub-par to what it should be, and, as said before, I find playing xenos would be a great way to expand horizons and try to improve a bit more broadly especially since I find it that I'm having trouble making personalities pop out more (It's separate from being unable to make characters with no discernable personality and kinda hard to describe, kinda like a little tingling feeling)

Notes: There are probably some small holes in the backstory that need to be filled that I can FEEL are there, but I don't know if they'll affect anything. Just tell me if they need fixing (and maybe hint to the part of the wiki that says it since I know I'm missing that one minor detail but literally cannot find it in ANY wiki page I look for)

Edited December 15, 2018 by GreenBoi
Added the needed answers for two questions

[VTCobaltblood]

Diggiez is a good roleplayer that cares deeply about the lore. That's all I can say. I think they can be trusted with a whitelist.

[StationCrab]

I'd love to see more Skrell, and Diggiez is a great player. +1

[SleepyWolf]

I really feel you have the general vibe of Skrell down, and your character could definitely be unique and fun to play! 

I have a few questions to just encourage a bit of thought, sometimes asking questions can just fill in those 'blanks' you're thinking of and encourage a bit of a narrative/idea for your character - although I definitely understand needing to play them to get into the mindset to better do that.

How do you feel Abuii was taught to treat synthetics? There are so many ways to actually be taught that go beyond just simple hate. To help, I like to imagine the stories that their caretakers told them - were their guardians loudly self-depricating to allowing synthetics to be created? Did they teach the full history - of how the AI used to be friends before the Betrayal?  Maybe never even talking about it and instead your character only hearing the stories from non-family members, or history logs? 

I'm asking these questions to encourage variations in emotions about synthetics - Flat hate is definitely still valid, however.

 

[GreenBoi]

 Abuii has slightly mixed views on synthetics. He dislikes seeing them do complex jobs by dumbing them down to the core principles and effectively, the simple functions of a complex job (everything that is advanced is just a bunch of small dumb things working together on larger scales) and generally sees this as what could constitute the potential creation of another singularity, but at the same time, he believes enough in his species to think they wouldn't let something like Glorsh happen again and if they did, it'd be stopped as soon as there were signs of trouble. Relative to IPCs, he dislikes seeing them be advanced and as he was used to not seeing them for a good amount of his life, he wouldn't care if someone commited Automacide against one or if one was kidnapped, though he'd keep this to himself to stay hired by NT to pursue his ambitions. Relative to Stationbounds, he sees them as moderated and wouldn't be scared to talk to one, if though slightly relunctant. The easiest analogy of this would probably be how I see Dreg to Suit relationships on Aurora where one is relunctant to talk or ask for help to the other, but if the situation calls for it, they wouldn't hesitate too much...if that makes sense.

[SleepyWolf]

You've got this stuff down, can't wait to see you around.

Application accepted!

If you'd like to join the skrell discord you can here, it's not required though: https://discord.gg/cM2HP5z