[Accepted]Myphicbower's Skrell Application

[Myphicbowser]

BYOND Key: Myphicbowser
Character Names: Katha Mars, Ka'Akaix'Mirz Zo'ra
Species you are applying to play: Skrell
What color do you plan on making your first alien character: A darker Blue color, I’d need access to the Skrell Character Setup to get you an exact shade and RGB value

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

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:
It’s hard to put into words why I wish to play any species on this server, as they are all incredible, but I will try to word this one well. Psychic Dream Police sounded incredibly neat and as I delved further into their lore from my friend’s buzzword of, once again, psychic dream police, I started to really appreciate the Skrell lore here and I thought it was nifty, which is really the only thing I need from a species to want to try and be them. I really like them and I am horribly at explaining why I think things are good.

Identify what makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a Human:
The Skrell are long term planners, in every possible way, they live for an incredibly long time and develop great memories from their mental growth spurts that allow them to do these things, they act slowly and consider a time of a year to be nothing at all. They tend to just be ancient beings that hold grudges for a long time, which I think is fun. Other smaller things to note would be the inability to eat harder foods as they have gums to munch unless they have this really messed up deformity that gives them a wicked beak.
Oh I also forgot to mention the Psionics, they are Psionic which doesn’t seem like a big part of playing them and is more of an addition and while I am sure it has neat mechanics and abilities, I feel like it doesn’t really affect them acting differently to humans unless we want to talk about the Dreamscape thing or how their thoughts form a thought field deal, but I feel like that is less important for how a character acts as it sounds like it moves glacially and on a space station with less than a continents worth of Skrell on it, I feel like it wouldn’t come into play often.

Character Name: Zaqix Zixquu
Please provide a short backstory for this character

Zaqix was born in the year 2153 CE, during the buildup period of Glorsh-Omega, and as a Listener in that time they never found themselves entirely living comfortably but not really able to complain. Being born on Qerrbalak was also a minor detriment to their health as they advanced in age, quietly but surely speaking ill of Glorsh-Omega, these secret backroom discussions usually ended up in the air because no one could really be trusted, and as such whenever more genetic treatments were released and Zaqix was “convinced” to go to them, they ended up sterile among the vast majority of Skrell. Despite the ailments from the genetic treatments, Zaqix continued to speak out against Glorsh and was usually treated poorly from the Receivers and those who supported Glorsh but as they never acted too dangerously to the public eye, even the most staunch supporters of Glorsh left them be. Despite all the challenges that were faced during that time, Zaqix did pursue education for the entire duration of Glorsh's reign, going through a few different colleges and studying the various sciences that were present at the time of their education. During class one day while studying at the prestigious Aliose University of Medical Sciences, in the fateful year of 2200 CE is when it all fell apart, while still being rebellious to Glorsh they were still young, and the sudden loss of an empire can leave one slightly worried about their future, and so the young Zaqix fought to maintain the sciences they once loved, trying to maintain digital archives in the University and transcribe what could be remembered from others while the system was trying to get itself back together, the parting words of Glorsh-Omega would forever be branded in their mind.

The years piled on, waiting for anything from outside this planet's atmosphere, and it took a long time for good news to finally arrive, so Zaqix made the best of it, still studying and learning, never bragging about how they were right about Glorsh, one shouldn’t take pride in their species falling apart. They pushed through more studies of what information they could get, which was still substantial, and was a survivor on the planet just like the rest, trying to make the best of this situation. It took some time, but once the Second Federation was established and interstellar travel was finally going around again, Zaqix returned to the homeworld and continued studying, teaching in some fields after his century of experience, due to the mixed teachings of theoretical xenostudies and his later heavy emphasis on medical technologies, Zaqix became a formidable Xenobiologist and continues to practice whenever applicable, and he continues to advocate for the destruction of most “sentient” machines near Federation Space, while the AI itself wasn’t the problem free thinking anything with no morals or qualms about doing what is objectively the most effective is an abomination in and of itself, so Zaqix would commonly use the term Synthetic as an insult for those who are heartless or willing to throw away large portions of morals and ethics for efficiency.

What do you like about this character?
It allows me to play as a Synth hater with more variability then a Dominion, of which I also have a character, the situation of the Skrell is very different with AI as it has been tampered with by people, a situation where it wasn’t a full AI takeover or an immediately “Machines are evil because no soul” deal, like objectively some of the issues can be explained, their hatred of AI is nuanced and I can really get behind that in IC discussions about AI, yah know?

How would you rate your role-playing ability? I can RP well, I have trouble sometimes finding topics of conversation but I also have that in real life to, but I can hold an IC conversation and have fun discussing events with people and responding to situations well, I don’t have any complaints about how I go about things so I assume my RP ability is acceptable.

Notes: Ha ha, frog boy go *warble *chirrup *croak
 

Edited October 18, 2020 by Myphicbowser

[Eple]

• What color do you plan on making your first alien character:  Darker Blue
• Why do you wish to play this specific race:  want to try and be them.
• Identify what makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a Human:  They tend to just be ancient beings that hold grudges for a long time, which I think is fun, and psychic abilities.

Other than that, nifty read

[Chen Yakumo]

I haven't personally interacted with your characters, nor have I really seen you much on server. I'd feel it out-of-place to comment on the lore accuracy of the background when I myself am waiting on a whitelist approval/denial, but the backstory definitely describes an interesting character that I'd enjoy seeing on station.

+1

[Snakebittenn]

After some backroom talks, I'm totally alright with approving this. Good character, I'd like to see where you go with it.