lilyflower Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 (edited) BYOND Key: littlelilyflower Character Names: Summer Valiere, Zoey Ester, Stanza, Tohru Species you are applying to play: Skrell What color do you plan on making your first alien character: yellow lilac Have you read our lore section's page on this species?: Of course, Glorsh is the biggest jerk as an fyi. 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: After watching and interacting with the other skrell on the station, I took a look at their lore page - which I had already read part of due to playing an IPC, since I read about the Three Incidents - and realized that the race's lore is really fantastic and I just adore their overall theme. They are a race that I would most definitely enjoy a lot, also apparently I do several of their mannerisms with Summer (Mostly cliquals about stars; and I prolly butchered that word) Identify what makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a Human: Lets see, one of the things I like is that; Skrell express their emotions with different tones as well as their telepathic abilities. This is far different from humans, who rely on body language, facial expressions and their much more limited range of tone. Not only this, but they have a lot of other nuances that a human would take for granted; like humor. Younger skrell will typically find the surprise of the joke funny, while older Skrell will not. Some jokes can even come off as an insult with older skrell. All these things lead skrell to expressing themselves different with one another compared to humans, this also makes them expressing themselves to other races significantly harder as well. I think this makes them come off as more awkward comparatively so. Not from any sort of naivety but just from how different they express themselves. Character Name: Seela'kluub Please provide a short backstory for this character Native from Jargon IV, she lived in one of the underwater cities all her life. She spent all of her time studying so that she could one day be one of the federations Idols. She always had a curious mind and one of her favorite things to do when she was younger was to explore, even if it got her in trouble. This would eventually lead her to applying to the Gliutip’lyaz University. Upon getting into the university she found the atmosphere way to stressful, and at several points nearly found herself expelled from the university. This caused her to have a small shift in how she viewed her peoples Idols and the huge amount of stress placed on such individuals. She eventually decided to no longer care about being one of those idols and instead focused wholeheartedly on her studies in xenoarcheology and anomalous materials. It was largely thanks to meeting another skrell, with a similar name as her, Seela'Vida. She studied in the same fields as Seela, and at the start was rather helpful towards the skrell. But once Seela began to slack off and become depressed, Seela'Vida became antagonistic towards her. Seela'Vida became Seela'Kluub's Lu'Poxii through out the rest of her time at the university, this served to help focus Seela and got her through her studies. Eventually she'd graduate from the university with a PhD in Xenoarchelogy and AM, having spent the extra time to get both, though her main focus was in AM due to its practical nature in scientific method and as an outlet of satisfying her own curiosity. She quickly applied for work with NanoTrason, and has since been station on the Odin and NSS Aurora. What do you like about this character? She feels like a believable character. Faith in her people, but obviously understands that there is an inherent problem with the culture and the expectations placed on each skrell. But it isn't disillusioned enough to leave them, giving a nice inner-conflict to work with. How would you rate your role-playing ability? I don't like to rate myself, but in the past across most places I've ever invested in, I've always been told I'm a fantastic roleplayer. But really, I'm a writer at heart and I know there is always room to improve and I'm usually super adaptable. Notes: I actually can't decide on colour, blue or some shade of purple though. Edited March 21, 2020 by lilyflower added a bit more to backstoryyyy Link to comment
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