[Accepted] Kermit's IPC Application

[kermit]

BYOND Key: Sadkermit
Character Names: 

Spoiler

Robert de Winter (Captain) - Active

Hugh Oswald (Chief Medical Officer) - Active

Penelope Weaver (Assistant) - Active

Singing a Forgotten Requiem (Biochemist) - Active

Jack Welbourn (Engineering Apprentice) - Recently Active

Roy (Medical Stationbound) - Inactive

Vincent Lemmons (Quartermaster -> Head of Personnel) - Inactive

Reservoir of Souls (Psychologist) - Inactive

Faith Windsor (Biochemist -> Retired) - Retired

Alexander Nietzsche (Surgeon -> Medical Doctor -> Retired) - Retired

Clarice Peterson (Emergency Physician) - Retired

Ciara Chipperfield (Psychiatrist) - Retired

Species you are applying to play: Integrated Positronic Chassis
What color do you plan on making your first alien character: Undecided
Have you read our lore section's page on this species?: Yes, several times over.
 
Why do you wish to play this specific race:
Simply to explore various concepts that arise when creating IPC characters as I go along (detailed below). There is no singular reason that I can identify.
 
Identify what makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a Human:
For the most part (and in regards to owned IPCs, which I will likely see myself playing more than unowned IPCs), IPCs are more professional and efficient, otherwise they risk being deactivated or wiped or sold, at least by working to a sufficient degree they may be afforded some modicum of freedom. Their self-preservation directive would be constantly pushing them to do better and to please their employers, or at any moment, they could be replaced with another model which can.

All IPCs, owned or not, are of course robotic in nature. They can vary in how well they imitate humans, how much they may even aspire to be like humans, or whether they have a superiority complex to make up for the fact they are slaves within society. They approach tasks different, instead of investing feelings and emotion into something, they may tackle the task more logically and systemically. In the field of medicine, where most of my characters will likely be, this could lead to so many different ways of roleplay - whether you patients are treated with a holistic mindset, or whether your character checks lists and diagnoses due to met conditions.

Character Name: Rosie
Backstory:
Rosie, Baseline IPC, Emergency Physician
Created in 2453 at Hephaestus Production Station Sidirourgeio.
Commissioned by the Republic of Biesel at a cost of 103,599 credits, Rosie was designed for use in the resuscitation ward of Mendell City General Hospital's A&E/ER department.
 
     Programmed with the most up-to-date medical software at the time, they are capable of performing all procedures that would have been required in the resuscitation ward; Rosie is also equipped with decent social and emotional emulation software to allow for great bedside manners and team co-ordination. When they begun their work, they mostly showed little little empathy, treating the issues as they came in, working quickly and efficiently to keep patients flowing out of the resus. ward, though while working in the resus. ward, they learned how valuable and cherished life was to people, and how quickly it could be lost due to poor decisions or simply unfortunate circumstance. 
 
     In 2458, after several years working in the resus. ward, and with the reluctant introduction of a large vaurcae population into Mendell City society and a larger amount of the high-end IPC models being introduced to Mendell City’s General Hospital, Rosie was relieved of their duties within the resuscitation ward and was re-assigned to a small team of pre-hospital emergency medicine physicians & critical care paramedics who worked in tandem with the MCPD to respond to calls in District 9. Picked due to their neutral stance, Rosie would attend incidents related to gang fights between vaurcae D9 and tajara D6 populations, fights between vaurcae hives, as well as the frequent systemic k’ois mycosis case - often having to enter the quarantined homes of infected individuals to remove the parasite on-scene. They would work this position for a decent amount of time.
 
    Overtime, after working for 3 years in District 9 and the outer boundaries of neighbouring districts, Rosie would prove too expensive to maintain, with damage sustained by any of the various gangs within D9 needing to be repaired, and the occasional deep and thourough cleans that would have to be done after any response to a k’ois mycosis infected individual. They were slowly and gradually retired from service, cleaned and repaired one more time, and advertised for sale. Rosie next woke up following an update to their software and a memory re-write which registered NanoTrasen as their new owner, the medical department aboard the Aurora their new workplace.
 
Rosie’s view on her ownership and how easily it is for those who own her to shut her down and move her around as they will is rather simple. They have no intention on purchasing their freedom as it would impact their ability to continue to live and pay for maintenance, and could also impact job opportunities. They largely see themselves as a tool for delivering quality care to any patients they are assigned to.

What do you like about this character?
I'm going to try and play them as an efficient and professional robot, one that is largely methodological and exact. I quite like these traits in characters, so there's one. The background they have is also one that I really like and have been trying to explore in a character, though have yet until now, hopefully it will allow for some good anecdotes and approaches to situations that occur during rounds.

How would you rate your role-playing ability?
'I’d rate my roleplaying ability at anywhere between 7 and 8 - it depends on the character I'm playing. Since June, I’ve gathered some feedback as to how well I can roleplay and I’ve stepped back to see how well I’m doing myself, I believe I’ve improved marginally, and plan to continue doing so. My roleplay quality shifts a lot depending on who I play, which is something I hope to fix, becoming more consistent with my roleplay despite which character I've joined the round as.' - I wrote this on my dionae application at the very end of last year, I still believe this to be my stance on how well I roleplay. I've not been gathering feedback so much as of late, and so I cannot say if there is any marked improvement.
 
Notes:
None.

Edits:

18/02/20: Missed details

19/02/20: Spelling correction

21/02/20: Edited list of characters.

Edited February 21, 2020 by SadKermit

[niennab]

I came to know your character Roy when first starting out on the server and if my memory serves me right, your stationbound play was good.

Out of curiosity, was Rosie memory wiped in being sold? Or more that her memory was in a way 'updated' to have Nanotrasen as her employer/owner? Either option is acceptable.

[kermit]

1 hour ago, niennab said:

I came to know your character Roy when first starting out on the server and if my memory serves me right, your stationbound play was good.

Out of curiosity, was Rosie memory wiped in being sold? Or more that her memory was in a way 'updated' to have Nanotrasen as her employer/owner? Either option is acceptable.

I briefly mentioned in the backstory that, after being sold to NanoTrasen, their memory would be updated/altered to register NanoTrasen as their new owner. Rosie will not be against this so much, having been owned before at a hospital where they were likely branded and subject to similar memory re-writes.

[niennab]

1 minute ago, SadKermit said:

I briefly mentioned in the backstory that, after being sold to NanoTrasen, their memory would be updated/altered to register NanoTrasen as their new owner. Rosie will not be against this so much, having been owned before at a hospital where they were likely branded and subject to similar memory re-writes.

Mhm, that's the line I am referring to. However I'm still confused, was Rosie memory wiped in being sold? Or does the rewrite only pertain to her ownership?

What was the purpose of the memory rewrites while working in the hospital?

[kermit]

11 minutes ago, niennab said:

Mhm, that's the line I am referring to. However I'm still confused, was Rosie memory wiped in being sold? Or does the rewrite only pertain to her ownership?

What was the purpose of the memory rewrites while working in the hospital?

Their memory hasn't been altered, mostly because it's a backstory I'd enjoy exploring through dialogue with others, playing the character, and tweaking it further. The memory update/alterations in the hospital and in the brief period they were working around District 9 were much for the same reason as her memory update/alterations for being employed at NanoTrasen; mainly to solidify ownership, to ensure Rosie is aware that they're owned and who they belong to so that they work at their best when on display to the public and higher-ups within the resus.ward/hospital and then when they're working out in the field within D9.

 

- In hindsight, memory re-write does sound like their memory is being re-written, as opposed to some internal clarification as to who they're owned by.

Edited February 21, 2020 by SadKermit

[niennab]

Sounds good! Keep in mind an IPC is intelligent enough that it wouldn't require hard coding in order for it to understand who it's owner or chain of command is, however if you want to run with that you're free to.

Nevertheless, the application demonstrates an understanding of IPCs. Thank you for addressing my questions! Accepted!