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[nonno_anselmo]

BYOND Key: nonno_anselmo

Character Names: Owen Barnard, Myrtie Goodstone, Akalewerk Unamitu, Rasim Braham

Species you are applying to play: Dionae

What color do you plan on making your first alien character: [n/a]

Have you read our lore section's page on this species?: thoroughly

 

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 have always been sort of infatuated with dionae lore after knowing about them. Not in the fact that they are misterious moreso in the fact that they have unlimited abilities when it comes to learning.
The fact that they are tied in one way or another to almost every species is particularly interesting aswell, letting them be in touch and interact with an unparalelled variety of species and cultures as long as it pertains to their character. The potential that comes from developing a dionae and the amount of experiences you can tie to it is awe inducing. How quickly they can  change personality based on wheter or not they have to comunicate with one another as a gestalt or directly speak and interact with people through nymphs. The fact that they can also loose their memory when splitting aswell as having their memory inevitably damaged after loosing a nymph is also a concept which has attractred me a lot since it also opens up for multiple roleplay possibilities both as an  antag or as a non antag. Their position as a race in ss13 which dangles inbetween scary due to how they are still a mistery and how generally nymph-to-nymph interactions are also an opportunity to further the race on this aspect.
 

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

First and foremost the mechanics, as obvious as it maybe as an answer. What i think primarily makes them different from humans on an RP standpoint is how they process experiences both of others and their own. A gestalt processes experiences as multiple entities comunicating with one another in the span of microseconds aswell as how they can directly understand the feelings, emotions and experiences of others by drinking the blood of those who offer theirs to them. The ability of a gestalt to become a nigh endless reservoir of experiences and knowledge is an extremely interesting concept. How they can also bond with others through  coming to understand better what shaped that specific person that way makes for a very interesting opportunities and situations.

 

Character Name: Unification of Common Beliefs

Please provide a short backstory for this character:

A relatively young gestalt, result of a diplomatic experiment indicted by house Volvalaad. This is one of a small sample of gestalts whose main purpose is to represent the House's prowess aswell as the dominian race's skill in the medical field, being fed the blood of the most qualified Dominian doctors. However, due to the usual dominian way of doing things and their general view on genetics the merging of the nymphs composing these gestalts was all but natural as they were handpicked amongst the best of the bunch.After being encased under the same dome for weeks under the constant scrutiny of Volvalaad scientists they were one of the few nymphs to reach an agreement and merge together, being one of the first and few gestalts to leave the dome, naming themselves Unification of Common Beliefs to celebratre this moment.

Their agreement was based on the love for the profession, their sense of duty upon learning they are tasked with the mission to represent Dominia as best as they can and after the knowledge that the vast amount of knowledge given to them is only granted by the Emperor so that they may complete this task and that they have to repay this debt by taking upon themselves this task. They may find bickering between eachother on the proper steps to take when treating a patient however the gestalt becomes highly proficient upon agreeing on the proper course of action when treating a patient.

All of the nymphs composing the Gestalt take great pride in their skills, the task they have been entrusted with and how it is instrumental to furthering the wellness of both their homeland, serving the emperor by being humble heralds of both the Dionae race aswell as the dominian race's strenghts and almost a representation of how the dominians are a noble and proud race brough together by a higher ideal. Minor disagreements are bound to happen amongst professionals but their teamwork and proficiency like with any team of practicioners is a also a representation of how through unity even the worst of situations can be overcome when proper comunication and knowledge are put together... they just have to do it.

 

What do you like about this character?

While the idea of a Gestalt being quite literally multiple nymphs working together and the concept of this character came out of this small funny mental image i had of a bunch of nymphs wearing nurse hats, surgical hats and tiny nitrile gloves trying to save another nymph and they are all bickering on what to do and who does what with very little coordination, much like a real medbay : ^ ). However i also wanted to incorporate this conept in a realistic way coupling it with the Dominian lore i am so in love with due to its depth and complexity which is, in my opinion, not used by too many characters i have met. Of course this dionae won't be a stereotypical Dominian more akin to a caricature but they will obviously share common beliefs with dominian culture aswell since they had assimilated dominian history and beliefs from the blood of the donating medical practicioners. This may even open more and more opportunities as i intend to roleplay the nymphs more than the gestalt. Although i am still working on a small draft that goes in depth on how each Nymph's personality.

 

How would you rate your role-playing ability?: 
around a 5 to 5 1/2 

 

Notes:
I do intend to also create a small list of different personalities attached to each nymph (mainly to keep track of them for myself as i get used more and more to playing the character) aswell as their own names personal names based on their personalities. These names will then be written in the Gestalt's medical records/employment records, i still am debating as to what role they will cover in the medical bay but it will likely be Surgeon or Physician as those are the roles i am the most familiar with, currently. The gestalt may at times take some time off to pray to the emperor or even (although i don't think i'll do it) take turns to each go pray at the church by splitting. I'm currently working on making more and more examples on how the nymphs would bicker with eachother both in Me" and Say" (likely in rootsong, most of the time) although i'll have to calibrate it to the various personalities contained in each nymph, of course i won't just make them split randomly or insult eachother for no reason. These nymphs will fluctuate more on a passive-aggressive spectrum when interacting with eachother.

 

edit history: 
-Fixed formatting errors

Edited May 2, 2020 by nonno_anselmo

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