[Accepted] Cinny has decided to reject modernity, become bug (Vaurca app)

[CinnySuccubus]

BYOND Key: CinnySuccubus

Character Names: Adannaya Kayeda, Elisabeth Osterweis, Erri Sliszek, and a bunch of others

Species you are applying to play: Vaurca

What color do you plan on making your first Vaurca character? #829614, the colour of unbound Vedhra brood.

Have you read our lore section's page on this species? Yes. (Does anyone ever answer no for this? Genuinely curious.)

 

Why do you wish to play this specific race? I like the lore of the inter and intra-hive politics, all the different Queens, and their roles on their hiveships prior to their arrival to the Orion spur. I also think there should be more K’lax on station! Also bug go brr

Identify what makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a Human: Along with Dionae, Vaurca are the most alien species on station. As such, they can have a lack of understanding of some galactic norms, and vice versa. They are also incredibly loyal to their Queens, even the unbound with strong free-will are eager to work in the interests of their Queens.

 

Character Name: Za’Akaix’Aki K’lax

Please provide a short backstory for this character:

Aki was born on Tret, the second planet in the Uueoa-Esa system, granted to the K’lax hive by the Hegemony. They belong to the brood of a lesser Queen directly below the Princess of Configurations. Their brood is largely made up of unbound Za and bound warforms, and as such all members of the brood are skilled military tacticians and soldiers in their own right.

As part of Aki’s maturation, they spent a year or so in Vedhra’s VR realm, some time spent in the great weapon-forges, learning how to design, manufacture, and test new prototypes for the coming war with the Liidra. However, the vast majority of their time was spent in the simulated battlefields, running mock battles and reliving old ones. Despite their relative inexperience, Aki is capable of holding their own on almost any battlefield, and it is near impossible to break their resolve.

Due to the K’lax hive’s connection with the Hegemony, Aki also fought in simulated recreations of historic Hegemony battles, including some from the Contact War. This has ignited a love of alien weapons, both historic and modern in them. Even to this day, long after they have left VR, Aki continues to be fascinated by weaponry, even tinkering with their own assigned gear, much to the chagrin of their commanders.

 

What do you like about this character?

I like the K’lax hive in general, and I don’t think they get enough love. More specifically though, I love Vedhra’s take on the Liidra threat, and that their VR realm is literally made nearly entire up of huge weapon-forges and simulated battlefields. My plan is to play this character as a cadet initially, maybe advancing to officer or warden, or maybe even a lab tech with a desire to learn more about building weapons. (I don’t know if Za are allowed to do this, please enlighten me.)

 

How would you rate your role-playing ability? About 8/10. I play a bunch of tabletop games as well as stuff like SS13, so I’d say I’m pretty good. I also have a bunch of other whitelists.

[Xevanthraxis]

Hello! A few questions and such from me.

1) You mention that your Vaurca's tacticallity is good enough to the point where they are able to hold their own: in this case, say there is an assailent holding a simple blade and they mean to cause harm. How would Aki react?

2) Aki is also said to tinker with their own issued gear, armour, weapons etc. Yet you mention that their commanders are not quite fond of theirs trait. Surely this trait would suit a worker within the science department? Rather then - I assume - a place in security?

3) You mention how the hive politics are one of the reasons you wish to play them, besides this are there any other reasons as to why?

And lastly:

6 hours ago, CinnySuccubus said:

 Also bug go brr

Surely bug go buzz?

[CinnySuccubus]

If Aki were to be dealing with an assailant with a knife, their reaction entirely depends on whether they have a gun or not. If so, they're likely to fire disabling shots if they approach, while trying to disarm them. Were they unarmed, or had their own knife, their primary goal would be to disarm the assailant directly, then pin them. In most cases they would then kill them, however, being part of NT's security department, they would arrest them and have their wounds treated instead. They would also follow security guidelines for warnings before shots, as they tend to follow orders to the letter and rarely break rules, unless it goes directly against their Queen.

Aki tinkers with her gear in a way that someone who cares greatly about it would, keeping it clean, making sure they understand how it works, and could repair it if the need arose. While their skills do not compare to a worker trained explicitly in this task, they are still better than the average untrained officer. As for commanders not being fond of this trait, it is largely human and other Spur races being in a position of having staff to perform maintenance and repairs for them, and possibly the fear of them damaging or even breaking equipment.

Internal politics always interest me, and it's been something I've explored with every other whitelist (I made the first dreg aut'akh!), and Vaurca are no exception. Vaurca are also interesting to me because of the social structure, and roleplaying differing classes will be interesting. Hopefully I get to play a Ta at some point! Vaurca are also just neat. Weird alien bug fellas. As for other reasons, I like Aurora's lore in general. Some of it's a little shaky in places, but overall I want to do everything!

[Xevanthraxis]

Whilst a short app you've put across the idea for your character well enough in my eyes and I've also interected with you on the server itself, so I have full faith you'd be able to do well with a Vaurca app.

+1

[JamOfBoy]

Sorry for the late reply.

If Xev sees no issues, and I see no issues, then...

Application accepted. Hope to see you on station soon. If you have any questions, feel free to DM me on discord or ping me in the lore server.

 

On 04/03/2021 at 20:32, CinnySuccubus said:

(Does anyone ever answer no for this? Genuinely curious.)

Nope. But, you can tell when someone is lying if their application is, for lack of a better word, terrible, and they've replied 'yes'. Kinda. Sorta. It's mostly redundant.