[Accepted] Cnaym's Vaurca Application

[Cnaym]

BYOND Key: Cnaym
Character Names: Most known currently: Ansiba Seki (Detective), Najila Faj'iq (Roboticist), Voices of Reason (Lab Assistant), Alecto (Security Officer), Judi-329 (Consular), Sophie Cerys (Engineer)
Species you are applying to play: Vaurca
What color do you plan on making your first alien character: RGB 111, 21, 0
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:
Been playing some "background" characters recently, mainly focused on doing their job and focusing on the stations well being. The idea to play a bound worker is basicly dipping my feet into a new whitelist in hopes of spreading their lore a bit and by extension experience the small differences between someone bound by laws like the stationbounds, by programming like the IPCs and someone who through their creation process and upbringing is simply content with their given task. I currently do not enjoy the more goofy vaurca and have no big interest to create an unbound, but that might change depending on the rest of the playerbase I suppose.

Identify what makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a Human:
The speech pattern, the hivenet, the mechanics. The relations between the different hives, even queens. The difference in how they perceive and interact with the world around them, the fact that bound in their case really means bound, the scavenge hunt for K'ois due to lack of credits, the natural mistrust coming from other species, their creepy forms, their different equipment functions like the internals situation, their strict specialization and lack of inter department knowledge, their hard counter to the diona mentality by disliking light... there is a ton that makes them really alien and hard to RP as.

Character Name: Ka'Viax'Amur Zo'ra
Please provide a short backstory for this character
Amur was born in 2459 as part of the Ta'Akaix'Athvur'zekt'azi Zo'ra brood. It's batch was to fulfill a simple task for the new goddess of offering simple services to the wide public at low prices. They where only trained in basic tasks required by their new environment, like agriculture or freight transport. Amur himself was designed to clean and navigate the different workplaces of Phoenixport without even bumping into one of the other species. A show of not only how efficient, but also easy to handle her bounds are even to alien species. Over time Amur became accepted in Phoenixport, not seen as a person, but rather as a mop on legs, some humans working in places that Amur cleaned have taken up the fun activity of placing a sticker on it's clothes, or putting a cap on it's head. Those items and clothing were always returned the next day, cleaned and in a bag. Working almost without a need for rest, never complaining, never questioning orders or speaking about it's work, Amur was a perfect candidate to be send as a Janitor to a NT facility like the Aurora. Amur continues it's work, efficiently, calm, sometimes even described as happily by others only having his purpose and queen in mind.

What do you like about this character? It's by all intends and purposes a stationbound without a lawset. The idea is to provide another background character and having the playerbase decide how they receive and treat him. Amur is a simple minded creature, but that does not make him stupid. He will simply focus on his task at hand, only straying from his path when ordered by either command or one of the unbound vaurca. My hope is to provide a bit more of insight into the fate of the bound, their daily routines and how they handle situations that would require a lot of thinking, which they by definition are not able to perform. That does not mean Amur will be a suicidal bucketbot, but rather a on demand cleaning service showing how a designed worker would fit into an open minded and crazy workplace as the Aurora.

How would you rate your role-playing ability?
I'd place myself up there with the pros by now. Staying in characters, staying calm, just enjoying the game. That's what matters most to me. Creating extensive records and backstories for the crew to figure out,  giving lengthy exploitable information and so on. My characters are known for being rather calm and having a private life instead of blurping out everything on their first shift. LooC and OOC are for the memes.

Notes:
Ask away, give feedback or suggestions. We are all here to have fun and improve. I hope I express that throughout my interactions.

[Leudoberct]

I don't see any real issues with the character presented in the app, and I think it's pretty interesting to see someone apping with a Bound instead of an Unbound. Cnaym has also shown themselves to be a competent roleplayer with a strong grasp on how to portray characters of varying species and backgrounds.

 

+1

[niennab]

I cannot speak for the lore in the app but I can vouch for Cnaym's skill in creating lore-adhering, well rounded, and fascinating characters. I am excited to role-play with Amur and/or any other future characters you may make in getting a Vaurca white-list. +1

On a side note, I worry that the background portion is small however, I don't know if a bound could reasonably have more. I did however appreciate the sort've simple pleasures outlook to their backstory.

[JamOfBoy]

I have an issue when it comes to people using bound as their whitelist application characters. Unbound can reach much, much deeper levels of character nuance and detail, to the point where I'd personally consider applying with a bound akin to the act of shooting yourself in the foot.

Regardless, this is done in an eloquent enough manner and I've kept you waiting. I also share the two above opinions regarding your characters, and roleplay.

Application accepted. Also, join the vaurca discord. If you want...