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[stevIII]

BYOND Key: Steviii

Character Names: Here
Species you are applying to play: diona

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

Have you read our lore section's page on this species?: I've read the pages all the way through, excluding clusters, which I just skimmed. 

 

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: 

In my various experiences with dionae, they have been seriously the most varied race. It gives such a variety that other more mundane races (skrell, human) can’t fill as easily, or even the more extreme ones like IPC. In the extreme camp, I only have IPC so far, so I really just want dionae cause of the variety of things you are able to play.

 

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

In my opinion, there's really tons of differences, and that's why I enjoy the concept of being a dionae so much. Some of the more prevalent differences including things like the collective, making simple decisions take relatively longer times. Other things include the unique variation of self preservation in the pursuit of gaining and maintaining knowledge and experiences, the intriguing nature of their unusual food source, among plenty of other things. Some of the minor differences being of course the naming scheme, ability to split, etc. Overall, it is a long list of differences 

 

Character Name: Shining stages in stranded vessels 

Please provide a short backstory for this character

 

Challenge fucking accepted.

 

Shining was formed in a deadend platinum mining facility. A vessel that had docked there delivered some dionae pods in hopes of experimenting with optimal growing conditions for dionae. After the company doing the experiment went bankrupt, they just left the dionae to their own mercy. Shining was formed by a few of "the stranded" as the miners named them, who decided to form a gestalt for convenience in the untamed voids. After a while slowly scraping by in the facility, it was shut down, and shining managed to hitch a ride on the outside of a leaving mining ship. After the ship arrived at its destination, shining managed to sneak on to a better vessel, and slowly hitch hike between stations, eventually ending up in a very shady frontier dock. There they were discovered, and captured by some pirates. In their captivity, they were used as basically a mule for storage and manual labour. After some time in the pirates 'care' it was seen by a wealthy eridanian entertainment company owner, who decided to challenge the pirates to a simple game. If he won, they gave him the dionae. If they won, he'd pay up. In short, he won. To repay the man, shining ended up working in entertainment in a travelling vessel called the travelling entertainer. Shining had their own stage inside the travelling entertainer, which was basically a large stage with rows of seats, and a small vacuum area with grates on top and bottom, which it would use to perform some very fancy tricks, including having nymphs form different shapes by winding and turning reasonably quickly.

 

The three phases of its life were the: Twilight phase, the Terror phase, and the Travel phase. 

 

Twilight phase:

The Twilight phase was marked at the start by it's growth and formation as a Cyclops, and ended with it hitching a ride on a mining vessel 

 

Story one: Back when shining was first formed, it had some issues with acquiring biomass on a largely abandoned mining facility. The lucky thing was, the mining facility was once giant. Fit with security, medical, RND and service staff. Then they ran out of platinum. At that moment, the facility started to fall apart. The lucky thing for shining, was that multiple rushed evacuations happened during that time, leaving ruined areas, such as cryogenic storage and hydroponics bays. Some of the xenobotany bays grew completely out of hand, so that provided an easy biomass source that shining could feed off, while also helping the miners to reclaim their facility. A more gruesome source was the cryogenics bay, which had only recently failed as it's solar panels got destroyed, so shining could simply devour the corpses of the recently dead staff. This, unsurprisingly, alienated them from some of the more easily disgustable crew. After shining a stable supply of biomass, they were able to grow more nymphs to grow slightly larger, coming to their total of 7, instead of 5. They also used plenty of biomass to make the hydroponics bay in to a sort of oasis, allowing for more advancement in the acquisition of biomass. 

 

Story two: from the point it was caught devouring corpses, the populace started to more dislike shining. At one point, they even tried to trash his area of the facility, luckily failing in the process. During the raid, shining accidentally breached one of their helmets, causing them to flee. From that point onwards, shining would not be very welcome on the facility, by the mostly human workers. The two unathi miners still liked shining, realising their need for food and helping by providing any left over biomass. After quite a while of this, more people left, meaning the population was down to 7, plus shining and a facility pet. 

 

Story three: at this point, the population and platinum deposits were basically depleted. The danger grew ever more, as there was now only one medic. The miners all agreed that they would depart the station the next day. One of the unathi, who at this point was now coming to their hydroponics bay daily to walk around and talk after the death of the other unathi, informed shining of this, who took all their belongings and readied up to leave. They asked the crew if they could board, getting a straight "no." And threats of weed killer. They decided the best option would be to hitch a ride on the outside. To do this, they crawled atop the ship, hanging off a maintenance ladder. After a bit the shuttle left, flying smoothly through space. Eventually they landed at another dock, where they departed the vessel, hiding within some cargo boxes.

 

Terror phase.

The terror phase was marked at the start by getting to the docks, then ended by leaving captivity, after being bought by Teniola Tejumola. 

 

(I'm not entirely sure anyone really wants to read "shining hopped around for a while eating rats", so I'm skipping ahead a bit in parts) 

 

Story one: after landing in the docks, shining was nearly caught multiple times by various workers, crew and civilians passing. Eventually, they were able to hitch a ride on a civilian vessel heading to a frontier planet, by nestling up near it's engines. When they arrived at the frontier planet, they hitched a ride a few more times, eventually ending up near a shady pirate dock. At said shady pirate dock, they were finally found; by the worst people possible, aka, a band of dreg gang members, known for trafficking aliens. They quickly captured shining, while the dock security turned a blind eye. Once shining was captured, they were muscled on to a large pirate vessel. In the vessel, they were treated terribly. Barely given enough light or radiation, only enough to survive. Eventually, after not having anyone wish to buy them, the pirates started using them as some unpaid labour aboard the ship. Mostly heavy lifting and repairs and the like.

Story two: The crew of the pirate ship (Ship being known as the Killers Fortune) were flying around space, finding more aliens to traffick, when suddenly, an explosion. Fire was coming on them from navy vessels. They’d been found out. They returned fire, attempting to evacuate aswell, and were just fast enough. In the chaos, shining was used for transportation of guns, ammo, and to load the guns. The ship managed to escape, only slightly destroyed. They realised how broken everything was, and had to dock at a space port for repairs. While all the repairs were going on, shining was forced into a cell and had the door slammed shut, with barely enough light to survive. Luckily, Shining lived. Eventually the ship left the dock, after getting mostly repaired, as it still was getting chased and needed to not be in one location for long. It eventually found itself at a large dock inside the Outer Ring.

Story three: At the dock, An Eridanian suit entertainment company owner named Teniola Tejumola saw shining, And challenged the pirates to a game. Teniola, being a man of charisma, challenged the pirates to space poker. Teniola was on a winning streak, and one of the pirates tossed in shining for another chance at cashing out. Luckily Teniola won, taking home shining and a tidy pile of cash. Later, back on his ship, Teniola saw shining’s value, and presented them two option; Be released, to wander around space to everyone's mercy, or earn a living working as a performer with Teniola. Shining thought on this for a while, deliberating with the nymphs, and accepted the offer to be a performer. Teniola obviously shot up at this opportunity, and welcomed them on to their vessel. Aboard their vessel, they were quickly given a small stage with a non atmospheric chamber in the center (Basically a hole through the ship with grates above and on top) so they could perform more advanced tricks.

Travel Phase:
The travel phase was marked at the start by their acquisition by Teniola, and at the end by.. Nothing! It’s still going. (Also, I have no idea how to make this chapter more interesting, so it’s shorter than everything else.)

Story one: One of the first performances shining did involved having nymphs move around to form ‘intricate’ shapes, things like basic shaped objects, formations and the like. The first show had around 8 people watching, and they all said it was.. Eh. Mediocre. Shining saw this criticism, and immediately sunk itself into practicing it’s tricks. Some of it’s more interesting tricks included detaching a nymph prior to the show, and doing stuff like forming a formation, then having the nymph climb it.

What do you like about this character?

One of the main things I accidentally fall guilty to is basically making the token ‘perfect’ character. I’ve started doing this less lately as it makes for boring roleplay, and I think shining is a good example of that. They will likely have a lot of negative views on people (People like eridanians, and people with any form of criminal past) and will roleplay that in a logical manner. I just think it’s gonna be quite fun to play a character that is both flawed, and likely a little scarred (If dionae can even get scarred) from the amount of shit they’ve been through

 

How would you rate your role-playing ability?
I’d go a 7/10, 8/10 on good days. I personally think I’m not bad, but I sometimes get a bit stressed/mad when playing certain roles. 

 

Notes: I'm trying out a new system for my applications backstory, as I got bored with "here's how their life went up until this point"

 

Edited July 27, 2020 by stevIII

[Chada1]

Hello, I don't review whitelist apps often mostly because I make it a point to not review an app unless I have the whitelist, but this is a neat case where I do have the whitelist actually and also I really like it. ?

In the Twilight phase, I really like the way that Shining is all Nymph-like and animalistic and basically the Crew is trying their best to just ignore they're around/push them out of mind, and shining is just doing his thing as a Nymph right up until he gets on their ship and hitches a ride. I also like the purpose of the facility (To research Diona) that eventually went bankrupt and died, and the legacy it left behind (A group of Diona like Shining)

The Terror Phase is also v. cool because it plays off of the theme in Dionae that they're a novelty in a lot of areas, I could see a pirate crew finding one in an extremely human dominated area where not many Xenos are around, capturing them and trying to pawn them off/etc.

Taniola (The rich Eridanian CEO/gambler) playing poker with unsavory groups competitively for thrills is also a really great addition which plays off of the highluxury nightlife of a faction like Eridani too.

Overall I'm just a big fan of this background, +1 ?

Edited July 27, 2020 by Chada1

[Zundy]

Ok sounds good, I like the dip into the macabre with the twilight phase and the swash buckling vibe from the terror phase. My questions are:

- What job are you planning on having Shining do on the Aurora?

- How did they end up in Biesel and on the Aurora?

- What interactions have they had if any with the dionae community within Biesel?

[stevIII]

2 hours ago, Zundy said:

- What job are you planning on having Shining do on the Aurora?

Depending on if I'm even actually allowed to do this, but it's entirely possible Shining may not even board. if it isn't, visitor most likely. I'm likely going to lean towards actually playing them, tbh. cause it'll mean I can actually get the fruit from this much damn effort
 

2 hours ago, Zundy said:

- How did they end up in Biesel and on the Aurora?

again, depending on if it's allowed for shining to just not board the aurora, Then they likely wouldn't. Otherwise: Shining, in he and Teniolas adventures across the spur, have brought them to many a place. Elyra, places in the frontier, biesel, etc. shining was always quite a fan of Biesel from it's nightlife to it's diona population, and when Teniola let them go off for a bit on holiday/whatever they want, cause Teniola had to handle a bunch of personal issues with his company, Shining enjoyed returning time and time again to biesel. Eventually, shining, saw the aurora, and decided to try get allowed on as a visitor to perform and entertain crew. Once they were accepted, they journeyed aboard, and did their normal job.

 

2 hours ago, Zundy said:

- What interactions have they had if any with the dionae community within Biesel?

In their shows, they were always quite well known by dionae far and wide, so people would come aboard the Travelling Entertainer to watch them perform. Also, when they were in biesel and other places, it would be very common for them to purposely seek out whatever enclave they have in that place, and see if there is any way they can assist their kind. So, while they were enjoying the life of a biesellite entertainer, they would commonly go back to The Biesselian Choir to sit, and experience their species more.


I hope this is enough, tell me to expand if needed. I'm perfectly happy to write a bunch more on shining, he's fun to write about

[Caelphon]

Zundy has asked the questions I would have, and I've read through your application a good few times.

 

I think you have a good grasp of Dionae Lore. Personally, I think each Diona character is a window into who the player is and I believe you have the ability to roleplay Diona well. 

I do like the phases, so I might write some lore on that (if you're okay with it). 

This application has my support.

[Yonnimer]

Hello! After some thought, we've decided to accept your application!