[Accepted]SonicGotNuke's Diona Application (AKA I finally decided to do it)

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BYOND Key: SonicGotNuked

Character Names: 

Species you are applying to play: Dionaea

What color do you plan on making your first alien character: Tree Color

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: (One paragraph minimum)

I think Dionaea is a really interesting race because it is much older, biologically different at a fundamental level, making it very alien in both philosophical and psychological. They are the roaming species of the universe where one nymph can gain entire life times of experience and learning just by getting a small blood sample. They're almost here as if to just exist, willing to mingle with other species found inside the galaxy, as some cultures see them as beings that represent perfection. Others as an easy labor force. They always seem content as they don't have the same emotional standards that other races have. Dionaea have this sense of wisdom that comes with age, thousands of years, as a single nymph can be of this age. But it is very doubtful skills would still exist in that single structure for that long since sometimes Nymphs split off and take portions of the knowledge with them. You can almost have six mini backstories converging into one single gestalt that ended up on the Aurora. Or you know, just sitting in space till it hit something.

Identify what makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a Human: Dionaea are a more philosophical almost tree of wisdom that seeks experience and grows based off of culture found around the galaxy. Dionaea can be fundamentally different then one another: Militarized by a raider group, curiosity infused by a research team, or simply a peaceful slate that seeks new knowledge and wishes to help those around. Experiences are shared between all the Nymphs. Nymphs share these concepts among each other where a sudden split or deaths can severely change the gestalt. They also can gain by sampling blood or taking in a new nymph as new experience enters. This of course keeps those standards of self preservation as to not loose that experience gained. They hold a greater sense of community by this nature. Their education is gained from blood of those who are experienced, allowing virtually any background from anywhere in the galaxy. Their names are what reflect this concept as they are chosen from the gestalt's shared knowledge.

Character Name: Industrious Clashes In Icy Starlight

Please provide a short backstory for this character: 
Starlight is the birth. It is the lifeline for life. It is what helps the seeds drift, settle, and grow against rock or hull. This is a gestalt from its single origin in space with nymphs that mingled, learned, and grew by the bedside fire known as the frontier. Deep in this dayless space lays the fringes of humanity that these spores grow against. The rock rested those pods, those pods that grew against the rock, slowly yearning for any scrap of carbon mist before finally the stars became what is first seen by the small group of nymphs. Inexperienced, alone, with only their senses to guide them before the clashing steal arms of that ice harvester tore up that isolated corner, shooting them into a culture of industrious humans, who worked long hours on that ship. Humans who rested paranoid with guns in hand against looming evil against that ship. Humans who didn't mind the nomadic group of Nymphs who seemed content in finally learning and experiencing the culture on this drifting ship.
 

The engine is what they lived with, sat beside it, to experience a culture on that human ship. The machines of Industry that clawed the ice to store and transport with the many gears that the cyclops assisted in. It became not only crew, but a friend, on a ship that ripped apart with an engine failure throwing the ice through hull like butter, shattering the many lives, before all that remained was this fateful friend in a breached pod. It drifted. Alone. Beneath starlight.

The Tajara, freshly hardened by the edge of war. Conflict that distilled distrust of the unknown; especially with the Cyclops that wanted just to learn dumped at the port of Tau Ceti. The Cyclops that of course knew of others of its kind, Nymphs chipped, and tested in experience that it gained from those years of ice harvesting. The conglomerate, a monopoly of true scale, passing its eye to another cheap worker with experiences in the fields of robotics and mechatronic engineering. One that eventually found fate pointing towards the Aurora to gain new experience, learn new culture, and be another gestalt to work.

What do you like about this character? 

I enjoy the concept of the character with progressing experience demonstrating how the gestalt gained its name. It has a reason to understand death through the first contact that its nymphs engaged in. It understands that death is a natural part of life. Industrious doesn't need to mourn for the losses of those who taught it as it holds gratitude throughout itself. All the Nymphs grew isolated and only that fateful harvesting is what started their life into a society of culture after being dormant for so long. It came to the inner colonies simply by chance due to the immigration efforts by the Tajaran away from their home planet. The Dionaea in a way almost thanks life as a whole for expanding its seed into pods, then nymphs, then into culture, before being among others in different space.  

How would you rate your role-playing ability? Good I guess. I've been here too long.

Notes: I finally did it. Now you can stop telling me to make it Yonni!

[Kiha]

My interaction with Stepka has only been good, and actually changed my perspective on how to approach playing as a cultist, and I enjoyed reading the story, so I'd really like to see Sonic play a Diona. I +1 this!

[Yonnimer]

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