[Accepted] Colfer: Become Bug whitelist

[Colfer]

BYOND Key: Colfer

Character Names: Ticket(IPC), NTAR-400(IPC), NTAR-144(IPC), Anoxie-v8.04(AI), S-R2(Robot)(asks for a different name every game)

Species you are applying to play: Vaurca

What color do you plan on making your first alien character: RGB 90, 150, 255, bright white with a hint of blue

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: 
I never really took interest in Vaurca for a long while since I just thought they were uninteresting bugs with only humanlike qualities similar to how I feel about skrell. Somebody told me more about Vaurcae and I was hooked on the idea of playing a bound Vaurca as its the play style I've already been building towards while playing as synthetic drones (robots). When I began actually researching them I started to really enjoy some of the lore they were set in with the ideas and roleplay opportunities it could present. I also need to have a change of pace and branch out of my comfort zone of playing primarily robots with lacking social skills though. My inital plan is to play more on the bound side but I think I will play unbound here and there

Identify what makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a Human:
There is a lot to cover on this section to be honest but I will simplify it in my own words as well as I can. Vaurca from a roleplay perspective are seperated between body castes and mind castes, Akaix mind caste, or Unbound are free thinking and intelligent, spending alot of their time in a described 'paradise' virtual reality which can lead to sensitivity to the real world and the working conditions they were assigned and will eventually adjust to. Viax mind caste, or Bound are effectively lobotomized, specialized versions of the Akaix which have no personal wills or sense of themselves, and would lay down their life if commanded to by an Akaix of their hive, higher hive members such as the breeders and queen, or a head of staff. Ka' body caste primarily deals with work and labor like tasks, having their body adapted to space like conditions, while Za' cast deals with warrior tasking that requires strength and power, more resistant to damages and tougher while foregoing space resistance. Ta' body castes are the breeders of the vaurca and are fertile, providing the hive with fertilized eggs and raising the young which is typically their only task, but they have been employed as consular.
Vaurcae will most likely experience a common discrimination, oppression, and hazardous conditions outside of vaurca locations which brings with it no surprise due to their insectoid and alien appearance, breeding, language, biology and alien behavior, such as their dependency on phoron to breath and K'oi paste to eat. Vaurca have been able to mitigate some of their discomforts through the use of high tech augments Vaurca are known for to alleviate the lack of exterior phoron to breath
Lastly for this segment, Vaurcae try to preserve Ta' breeders of their Hive as they are quite valuable to all members of it, but not surpassing the value of the lesser or higher queen, bound in particular risking life and limb to ensure the safety of them. 

Character Name: Ka'Akaix'Teril C'Thur

Please provide a short backstory for this character
Ka'Akaix'Teril was born more greedy than their peers where at birth typically feasted more than their similar spawn and spent most of their early life being pampered by their breeder and exploring and seeking to understand the virtual landscape of Mouv'lek'tanta and its workings, believing that 'their' hives VR world was better than the rest by its ability to influence reality. Teril was initially made in the image of an engineer or builder for construction work for both their birthplace and nanotrasen's stations, though they quickly began seeking interest in artificial intelligence after seeing some of the codes and data outputted by artificial units within the world of their VR, though never brave enough to think of going into the waters of the world and examine it thoroughly.
outside of VR Teril was a tinkerer and experimenter, using his capacity as a more engineering focused caste to provide repairs to simple prosthetics and machinery to further benefit the hive.

When it came time for Teril to begin their purpose they were assigned as a lab assistant to the aurora station in order to get their avowal to become a bio-mechanical engineer. Before departing off Teril spent the majority of their time outside of VR and intently studying engineering based terminology a human colloquialism as to not be totally alienated from the crew onboard, worried they would be less accepting of an unknowing vaurca and too excited to let the opportunity be foiled by negligence. Teril's waking hours and time spent were consumed with their somewhat extensive research and not much else aside from eating and boarding the shuttle to leave.

What do you like about this character? 
Firstly, his personality, I plan on going way out my comfort zone as Teril and play as extroverted and unique in contrast to what is my usual with a sort of 'how do you do fellow kids' feel as they try to blend in with regular people. Secondly, Ka'Akaix'Teril is probably one of the first characters that I consider well and truly alien in nature, I've rarely played any quite 'out-there' their species such as this one but im eager to get to know how and have a truly unique experience as this alien race. 

How would you rate your role-playing ability?
I'm quite good at picking up races and new personality quirks fast but my improvements quickly start to slow down over time, so I think for Vaurca I'd get over any initial hump that they may present but I probably wont be one of the best around as a unbound, but my experience as a drone synthetic should help me as a bound.  7/10

Notes:
I wanted to hold out and let some of the wiki knowledge fade away before posting but I was pretty excited to get this out as early as possible so a few things may sound like they are too close to the wiki and I apologize

[DeadLantern]

The foundations of this app are good, and there are no overt errors in lore or in your understanding of the species. Mouv has one of the more interesting VRs, and it will be interesting to see how Teril deals with getting off the "high" of being able to dive into the world's source code, adjusting to normal reality. I am going to ask you some questions which will be relevant to on-station play and for the background of the character.

1. As you know, the C'thur are a client state to the Skrell. What is Teril's overall relationship with the Skrell? She obviously has a liking to AI and robotics, so how does that affect her opinion on Glorsh? Do they really care if the Skrell have reservations about Teril's interest?

2. What is Teril's opinion on the other Hives in the Orion Spur? With the C'thur and the Mouv brood especially being known as diplomats, does that affect her view on the Zo'ra and the K'lax? Additionally, what are her opinions on the Lii'dra?

3. Finally, you state that Teril will chiefly learnt he customs and mannerisms of the Humans. What is Teril's opinion on the other races in the Orion Spur? This includes the Skrell. Are they a great ally or a wary half-threat? Are the nations here just a stepping stone to get back to Sedantis, or can they make a real home here? Simply, how is the place and the people in the Orion Spur?

[Colfer]

1. Teril is in a weird state when it comes to skrell, I would call it sympathetic & shameful/wary, they dont dislike skrell and wouldnt care to be in their company but has their own personal liking towards AI which skrell despise (in most cases). They still do like being in the presence of skrell, but more than often would feel guilt if glorsh is mentioned in a conversation, similar to how somebody would feel if they deeply admired a murderer and talked to the family who lost somebody (with obvious differences because not ever AI commits murder)

2. Teril would not have any strong opinions, but a formally positive opinion of Zo'ra while trying to maintain a more positive and warm position with K'lax due to their more technologically advanced. Teril personally strongly dislikes the Lii'dra due to their idea of an interconnected consciousness, hating the idea of removing individuality (and with that) despising operations such as cyborgification, only when absolutely necessary

3. Teril seeks to impress people and integrate with the new society hes been brought into, considering other races in a sort of "dress to impress" sort of way, with a positive opinion on them as a whole (obviously being more inclined to like IPC's). To follow up with the nations, Teril believes that the way back to Sedantis is trinary in priority to securing the territory they are given and expanding their rights and growth in this new society

Hope that answers your questions to satisfaction

[Cnaym]

Lord knows we need more invested bug players. Colfer is a good egg OOCly and ICly. One of those players that are just overall uplifting to rounds. I think he would do great with the whitelist.

[JamOfBoy]

Hello. Vaurca lore writer here.

Application accepted.