[Accepted]Star Dust Diona app

[Star Dust]

BYOND Key: Sarge7767

Character Names: The Protector of the Silent

Species you are applying to play: Diona 

What color do you plan on making your first alien character: N/E

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

 

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 find Diona to be one of the most fascinating races out of the bunch due to their collective mindset. Another thing that really peaks my fancy about it is due to their wide backstory opportunity potential making writing a story for them extremely comfortable and easy. I also find the idea of communicating by song and learning from drinking the blood of other races to be a very new and refreshing thing about this race, making it one of, if not the best in my opinion when it comes to lore creativity and the like.  So these are the reasons why I would want to play a Diona, they have a very unlimited backstory potential , something new and interesting, and have the potential to make something very fun to not only roleplay but for others to roleplay with.

 

Identify what makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a Human: Well one of the biggest things is that they are a plant based species and are not made of flesh and blood like most other organic races are but instead, made up of vines, juices, and Nymphs (They are adorable). They also have a wildly different way of communicating, they have 6 minds all having to work together to speak as one and this forces them to live in harmony and if they are unable to live in harmony they will quickly become unable to do much of anything from the rampant discord, simple tasks as moving or picking up anything will become near impossible as the body fails to find common ground. This makes roleplaying a Diona a much more of a harder task for it forces you to think about every sentence you put down because all 6 Nymphs have to agree on it. The final thing I find most different about them is how they learn, with how I understand how other races learn so far, Diona are the only one who learn from absorbing the blood of other races.

 

Character Name: The Protector of the Silent

Please provide a short backstory for this character
In the beginning there was nothing, then a botanist planted it's spore and grew it until it became a fully grown Nymph. It was rather confused at first and wondered around the small garden of plants before the botanist picked up the Nymph and threw it out of the garden and then hit it with a bag, causing the creature to flee into the unknown halls of NSS Aurora.

It didn't understand much, how could it understand much in it's state, it could not speak what the others spoke and was rather hungry, but thankfully soon enough it came across a Surgeon who allowed it to feed on some of her blood. It gratefully took this opportunity and drank it up happily before moving on. It's quest to find food was cut short when a Human wearing a blue jacket picked it up and took it to a room full of metal looking limbs, inside this room was another Human wearing a grey mask. The two Humans allowed the Nymph to drink their blood and it did so, it just needed a little bit more blood to drink before it could start to understand their weird voices and so it left the room full of metallic limbs.

It went exploring some more until it came to the holodeck where then again 2 more people allowed it to feed and that's when the world opened up to it, it could understand the weird language that all the Humans it came across would speak. Now with this, it soon started to ask questions, where are they, are there more of my kind, can I have your blood, you know the Important questions. So moving on from that it had at that point gained enough biomass to grow out 4 other Nymph and merge together to create a Cyclops, though it was at that point it's right arm had not grown fully so it was forced to move around the station with one arm, no ID, and no bag but later down the line it did gain enough biomass to grow out the last Nymph. Thankfully a kind woman helped show it around the space station, which help it learn where each branch of the station worked and what they did.

So after a long tour around the station, it was taken to the bar where it met Yumi Yotin, it's soon to be friend and caretaker/teacher. Yumi Yotin took the Diona under her wing and allowed it to drink some of her blood to learn the dark arcane craft of bartending, but not only that she actively started to teach it how to make more exotic drinks and assisted it in getting citizenship in the Republic. So after helping it gain citizenship it now lives with Yumi in her apartment and will be soon working as a bartender for NanoTrasen.
(Do note, this story was made from a round I played as a Nymph who grew into a Diona Cyclops. So I hope that clears up a little confusion about the story, sorry.)

What do you like about this character?
I love this character idea is because of how much character development It has the ability to gain, and how it's morality and personality will from. I have always like those kind of characters, a alien taking in the culture and outlooks.

How would you rate your role-playing ability?
I would say my roleplaying skills are slightly above average. I still have some stuff to learn to take me from a average role-player to good one.

Notes: This took way to long.
I play these characters.

 

Edited February 18, 2020 by Star Dust

[Zer0Winds]

So this application is... strange to say the least. Your formatting is quite odd, and makes it somewhat of a pain to read. I also have no idea who you are, what characters you have, since you didn't put it anywhere.

Starting questions, why did the botanist who I'm assuming grew the nymph, throw them out of the garden, and assault them? How come so many people just offered their blood to it, without any forethought, or it's ability to ask?

Now, it's also my understanding the way a Gestalt forms, isn't by obtaining enough biomass. Diona gestalts are not a single nymph, they are an amalgamation of many. Three to six or so nymphs are needed to form one. It also takes time, which for a Cyclops, the gestalt that's playable, would be a couple hours, for each nymph to fully form a functioning, sturdy body. Game mechanics may have it only be like fifteen seconds, but game mechanics are not always in sync with lore.

You start on the Aurora, in your application, so I feel it's worth noting that Diona are not an unknown, and therefore, being on a somewhat secure research facility, that even employs Diona, it is unlikely that they would have an unchipped Gestalt wandering the facility with no ID.

All in all, the backstory could use some work, and especially some reformatting, and the first mention of character names, by the way, the one above the species you want to play, is for your currently active characters on the server, not for what you are applying with, so if you could remedy that, then someone may be able to recognize you and give feedback as to how you play. Finally diona are neuter, so try to avoid "he", and instead use "it". Just a small gripe on my part.

[Star Dust]

1 hour ago, Zer0Winds said:

So this application is... strange to say the least. Your formatting is quite odd, and makes it somewhat of a pain to read. I also have no idea who you are, what characters you have, since you didn't put it anywhere.

Starting questions, why did the botanist who I'm assuming grew the nymph, throw them out of the garden, and assault them? How come so many people just offered their blood to it, without any forethought, or it's ability to ask?

Now, it's also my understanding the way a Gestalt forms, isn't by obtaining enough biomass. Diona gestalts are not a single nymph, they are an amalgamation of many. Three to six or so nymphs are needed to form one. It also takes time, which for a Cyclops, the gestalt that's playable, would be a couple hours, for each nymph to fully form a functioning, sturdy body. Game mechanics may have it only be like fifteen seconds, but game mechanics are not always in sync with lore.

You start on the Aurora, in your application, so I feel it's worth noting that Diona are not an unknown, and therefore, being on a somewhat secure research facility, that even employs Diona, it is unlikely that they would have an unchipped Gestalt wandering the facility with no ID.

All in all, the backstory could use some work, and especially some reformatting, and the first mention of character names, by the way, the one above the species you want to play, is for your currently active characters on the server, not for what you are applying with, so if you could remedy that, then someone may be able to recognize you and give feedback as to how you play. Finally diona are neuter, so try to avoid "he", and instead use "it". Just a small gripe on my part.

I tried my best to fix all the parts where I put him or he and replaced it with It. I also put the characters I often play down. I also fixed up the story alittle and added a small note at the bottom to help people better understand. Also why the botanist created the Nymph and threw it out, I still have no clue why. Also why I was unable to get a ID or anything was the HoP just flatly told the Diona to go away and the Captain was busy dealing with Antag stuff so I could not add it to the story. Also my roleplaying skills are much better then my story writing skills. But still I thank you for pointing out these faults and giving me some tips on how to fix them!

Edited February 18, 2020 by Star Dust

[Yonnimer]

Hello! Just something you might want to include, when it says your character names, you should put a list of your current characters, not the one you plan to apply with. I sent you a screenshot on discord of what I mean.

[TrickingTrapster]

Putting aside a flaw or two in the app itself, I enjoy roleplaying with the player. Also yes, I did give consent for the backstory to use Yumi. I'll give a +1 for trust and roleplay (though I can't say anything about dionae being represented well since I'm not a tree whitelistee.)

[Yonnimer]

After some thought, we've decided we'll be accepting your application!