[Denied] Stev's frog boi application

[stevIII]

 BYOND Key: steviii

Character Names: Amelia Karrith, Wilson Johannson, T.E.R.A, A.P.E.X.

Species you are applying to play: Skrell

What color do you plan on making your first alien character: Very light blue, bordering on white

Have you read our lore section's page on this species?: Yes. And also most sub-pages

Why do you wish to play this specific race:

A number of reasons. I personally think Skrell are the ideal race, cause of the interesting RP mechanics of the skrell rebellion, and the fact they're amphibious. There planets are very interesting in my opinion, and the general political climate of the Jargon Federation interests me. I personally like the fact that they generally dislike synthetics, because it will provide an interesting RP mechanic. Like, a skrell would be suspicious of an AI or cyborg, cause of the whole sterilisation thing. The military is also very interesting in the way they dislike copious quantities of bloodshed, and prefer to simply cripple the opponent enough to be able to take them over/disable them completely

Identify what makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a Human:
Gameplay: Skrell have a number of interesting gameplay mechanics. Nlom, the whole amphibian thing, the lack of teeth, the inability to slip, etc. So really, they’re not insanely different from humans, but still different enough to be an interesting experience to play
Lore: The totalitarian-ism of Jargon, The whole idolizing of good scientists and doctors, the fact they look basically emotionless to ignorant humans, polyamory and general intrigue of their society.

Also the whole listener and receiver thing, that's pretty cool. It is less of a roleplay aspect, but it still is a difference between the two races OOC.

 

Character Name: Purrish'kaquil Qxiksis

Please provide a short backstory for this character:

Young life:

Purrish was born in 2333, and is now 128. He was born on Aliose to a rather small union of parents. Vesh-Kaaxi Ishus, Gallish Vullish and Qual’Quell Qool. Qual’Quell had beakmouth, and it interested Purrish so much he decided he wanted to dedicate his life to general study of medical practice and science. Purrish did the normal 19 years of kindergarten, and mostly aced it. He then went off to Aliose University of Medical Sciences, or Aliose uni for short, and that started his mid life. Vesh-Kaaxi was a Xenobiologist, Gallish Vullish was a scientist and Qual’Quell was a Pharmacist. In Purrish’s young life, he swapped slightly between the idea of being a researcher and a medical doctor, but eventually decided he wanted to help with the research and treatment of birth disorders and general diseases. Throughout his entire childhood, his parents were generally very protective, but not overbearing. He had a safe childhood on Aliose.

Mid life:

He trained for 30 years to gain the equivalent of a PhD in Medical Science, Genetics and chemistry. He took a hobby in Rapid response tactics, to provide a broad general knowledge across the entirety of medical fields. He always enjoyed medical practice, and thought of university as less of a chore to get a good job, and more of a  fun activity with bonuses at the end. He moved out of Aliose at the age of 52, to live in Tau Ceti Space. Another large part of the reason he moved out was cause his best friends were all moving to mendell city, and he wanted to continue that friendship. It took a long while to get his citizenship in Tau Ceti space, cause of stigma of Skrell being good friends of sol, blah blah blah. That's not very interesting unless you want to hear about the process of a skrell getting a visa.

Current life:

He currently lives in a small apartment (with pool, cause duh) in Mendell City, and currently works as a medical doctor on the N.S.S Aurora. Before the aurora he worked in a hospital, and got a reputation in the local area as a rather good doctor. His parents are still alive and reasonably proud of him. To this day he is rather homesick, and misses his parents often.

 

What do you like about this character?
I rather like medical, and I’ve never played a race that isn't human, or nearly identical to humans with a few small changes (Off worlder) so I feel like playing as a skrell medical doctor could be an interesting venture. I have never played medical doctor before, opting instead to play as a chemist or paramedic as my main entry in to the whole medical field. I also like how he’s a reasonably reclusive character, with only a small group of friends, which will allow for relationships and friendships to blossom in roleplay. I feel like since he’s so ‘old’ but also so young, he’ll be an interesting character to play.

 

How would you rate your role-playing ability?

Id probably rate my skills as about a 6.5. I know how to adapt to most situations (say, an admin bans someone/winds them and we need to completely avoid them, or if someone asks us to void something) and I think I can probably pull of a skrell with reasonable ease. But obviously I’ll have problems cause that's just human nature, but I hope to increase my skills by playing skrell and generally expanding my horizons.

 

Notes:

I don't play APEX, I play A.P.E.X. completely unrelated.

Also thanks to a friend for all the names, because I simply couldn't comprehend skrell naming schemes.

[Xevanthraxis]

+1, whilst I have not know them for long and only interacted with one or two of their characters, and I've enjoyed the interactions I have had with them.  I believe that they have enough knowledge to pull off roleplaying as a skrell.

[SilverTalismen]

This has my support aswell, I've had fun with his character Paul in the past and enjoyed the interaction with him, I think he could handle this.

[stevIII]

3 minutes ago, SilverTalismen said:

This has my support aswell, I've had fun with his character Paul in the past and enjoyed the interaction with him, I think he could handle this.

ill just uhh, clear this up: I think they meant his character and Paul. Silver, Me and Paul grunnus have hung out a few times.

[SilverTalismen]

Yes, that is what I mean. It is late at night and I am tired, apologies.

[stevIII]

2 minutes ago, SilverTalismen said:

Yes, that is what I mean. It is late at night and I am tired, apologies.

I dont mind.

[Resilynn]

I’m interested in hearing more about the friends Qxiksis moved to tau Ceti to follow- what is drawing this particular froggo so far from home?

Can you clarify what you mean by the RP mechanics of the skrell rebellion?  I don’t follow  

And finally, how would Qxiksis speak/emote in game if they were scared?  No wrong answer here, just interested in how you plan to play a species with extremely limited expression to most passerby.

 

[stevIII]

He moved to tau ceti for job opportunity, And that his friends were going, so he felt it would be an interesting next chapter of his life.

The rebels that fought against glorsh in his 'rule' and like the whole sterilization and distrust of synthetics

And I'm not sure, wiki doesn't say. I'd guess similar to insulted, and the skrell may cry and speak slower? I don't know.

 

 

[stevIII]

Also, sorry for shorter answers, I'm on mobile while my computer is fixed.

[Faris]

Hello, I will be judging this application.

So I've noticed a few pros and cons with the application itself. I'll start with the pros.

1.  You've got people vouching for your skills, always good. 
2.  Your time with the community has had few issues, and none of them really major. 

As for the cons, I have to say that the app itself feels very minimal. While we don't actually require extremely verbose ones with a high word count, we do need to see that there's effort and thought behind it.

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Also the whole listener and receiver thing, that's pretty cool. It is less of a roleplay aspect, but it still is a difference between the two races OOC.

I don't quite understand this statement, because it is a roleplay aspect for the Skrell. A method to differentiate. Gives me the impression that you just threw that in and other stuff as buzz words to catch our attention. 

On 24/11/2019 at 08:02, stevIII said:

He trained for 30 years to gain the equivalent of a PhD in Medical Science, Genetics and chemistry.

So the character has rather large spread of interests. I'm going to quote something from the wiki 

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They might hold multiple degrees on different things within their field of education, rarely outside. Example: A Scientist focusing on the field of Biology might have degrees in Molecular Genetics, Cell Biology, Zoology and so on.

So what I get from the above is that you want your character to have a wide scope in terms of server mechanics. So your character would be able to do medicine, do chemistry and when applicable do genetics. The way it's written, it's important to specialize. They don't tend to be jack of all trades, they instead master one.

 

Then the whole split between their life points feels like it was written irregularly, remove the headers of early and mid life and it's hard to differentiate parts of it. I feel like the background story itself is lacking much in terms of what skrell lore has. You brought up aspects of skrell lore but didn't implement it in the story.

For this reason I will be declining your application. I do however encourage you to apply again, read over other accepted applications. On the front of people vouching for you, you have enough, so we only need from you a rewritten application to judge. 

 

Denied. Locking and archiving.