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[Jamesthefrog2]

BYOND Key: Jamesthefrog2

Character Names: James Springs

Species you are applying to play: IPC

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

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: Ok, So I discovered this game a week ago-ish, and after a fair share of janitorial stuff, I centered around robotics, and interacting with IPC's is always such a cool experience I would like to contribute to myself. It also is an aesthetic  that I very much enjoy.

Identify what makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a Human: As someone relatively new, and still learning roleplay, this give an opportunity to make use of the character's nature to speak for me. As i'm not great at extensive conversation in real life, having a IPC with a screen on its head would allow me to, in a way mime out what I want to say to non robotic lifeforms. For instance, instead I could "show images" that inform people what message im trying to convey

Character Name: MELV 

Please provide a short backstory for this character MELV is a free IPC from the outer colony's,  when the humans who built him received research data on better models, he was set off in a old rusted 1 man ship, but the cost of his freedom was a portion of his code that allowed speech, with several security measures to prevent tampering. After months of drifting, he went station to station, trying to find a calling and a home, when he found Aurora Station. With their large Robotics lab, He decided to become a robotics technician to provide caring support to other IPC that he had never received.

What do you like about this character? I like this character because it would allow me to have a more manageable RP experience, and provide a cool aesthetic for the crew I guess. I'm not great at RP now, but i'm always trying to improve

Notes: its 2:30 AM -_-

[niennab]

Hello and welcome to the server! Although I am open to accepting applications from new players, I usually expect a little bit more in terms of the content of the application. As such, I am going to deny the application for the reasons I will get into below, however if you want to get a taste for synthetic play on the Aurora and familiarize yourself with the lore, I recommend playing a stationbound, or (if you want,) joining the IPC Discord channel or simply making it a point to roleplay with the currently whitelisted IPCs. They're a great bunch. Nevertheless,

On 28/03/2019 at 20:04, Arrow768 said:

Please provide a short backstory for this character (Aproxomately two paragraphs)

The application calls for a two paragraph backstory, although I understand it is a bit unclear.

1 hour ago, Jamesthefrog2 said:

Identify what makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a Human:

Typically I expect a lot more from this question. For players, the question offers an opportunity to demonstrate to me that you've read the lore, internalized it and are able to conceptualize it in your own words.

In regards to the backstory, a lot of what is written leaves me with a lot of questions. A number of the details are a bit of a stretch as well, in terms of the lore and reality. Some of these questions include:

What chassis is MELV? How old are they? What is their outlook on their existence or treatment? What are their goals? Why would his owners build him onto to strip his speech, give him his own ship and cast him off into the world? It seems out of the ordinary for his owners to have spent the time making him, only to give him expensive hardware and send him off. Where did they acquire the chassis and positronic brain from? Why did they strip his speech? How did he make it all the way from the Outer Colonies to the Aurora on a ship?

Feel free to apply a minimum of three weeks.