Yaku's Command Application (Wee Woo wants to go Commando)

[Yaku]

BYOND key:Yakunan

Main Character names: Brochius Abril (Gardener, Janitor), Wee Woo (Cyborg), Viggo Sook (Visitor), Bill Floros (Merchant), Lucky Zoleta (Robotics)

Side Character Names: Miley Dimitrivich (Janitor), Viliam Fuse (Visitor), Greta Kopic (Medical Intern), Bouvier Chateaux (Chef), Nathan White aka Bayonet Boy (Security Cadet), Alona Haller (Bartender), Davydd Virsiini (Miner), Karla Iseman (Cargo Tech), Humaid Todd (Surgeon), Deandre Hallos (Xenoarcheologist), Augustinus von Rahl (Priest), Perla Kaur (Scientist), Zack Hegemone (Visitor), Zachary Pichler (Specially made Antag character for one of the planned gimmicks), Michelle Sibari (Pharmacist)

How long have you been playing on Aurora?:

Soon it will be around a year
 

Why do you wish to be on the whitelist?: 

Because the Command department is a section which is still left untouched and i have not great knowledge of. Therefore im very curious on how it will play and with what kind of challenges and or unique interactions comes with.

Why did you come to Aurora?:

I came to Aurora after checking out diffrent kinds of "RP" servers which were most of the times very chaotic which became stale after some time. Aurora has for me right amount of seriousness and occasional chaotic momments. Thats why i chose to remain on this server.

Have you read the Aurora wiki on the head roles and qualifications you plan on playing?:

I checked the "Guide to Command" wiki page i hope thats the right one

Have you received any administrative actions? And how serious were they?

Ive gotten two warnings:

- Once for releasing bees in the brig as Brochius to play a prank on security (Griefing and self antagging).

- Another warning for Low rp behaviour and breaking laws in which i attempted to to tame a Pine tree in xenobiology by luring it out with a hanged monkey and afterwards chugging the tree full with sedatives.

Both incidents happend half a year ago.

Ive gotten one Permanent Antag ban for poor escalation and no story building aspect. Where i as wee woo lubed arrivals and fought off security. To which i appealed and made a promise on how to play antags in the future which i intend to uphold.

Please provide well articulated answers to the following questions in a paragraph each.

Give a definition of what you think roleplay is, and should be about:

Ive got hooked to RP when a friend of mine introduced me to a fanatasy tabletop game and since then i love it. Roleplay for me is all about the memorable stories, fun and imersiveness. Creating memorable stories/encounters is the most pleasant thing if you manage to do that as they will stay for a long time with you. Fun is well... having fun. Fun or the motivation to do something RP wise can be considered a great factor for roleplaying as it will most likely get hooked other players onto it aswell which a good mood after all is contagious :). Imersiveness is also a key factor for roleplaying however differs from player to player some like it chaotic some serious and some a mix in between depending on the characters they play. I would consider myself a mix in between i have serious character and also less serious and more chaotic character. Like the station hopping hobo viggo sook who tries to get by whos still a bit scared by his past. Or the absolute serious chef Bouvier Chateaux who only wants to serve freshly cooked food and not serve the food which is already on display as this is food for display which has gone already cold. On an end note Roleplay is not a single man endevaour and requires everyone to do their part to create an enjoyable round!

What do you think the OOC purpose of a Head of Staff is, ingame?:

OOCly i would say a Head of Staff is present in order to keep people busy to some degree, organize project which involve alot of people to potentially strengthen the bond of the people within the department, interactions. Generally to advance roleplay. Head of staff also have alot more tools available like for example the research director has access to the AI core cyborg law upload console which can be used to create interesting developments Antag and non antag wise. The head of staff is also responsible for coordinating and speaking to antags, OOCly the main goal there should not be to eradicate the antags in one swoop but to further the roleplay with them and the crew. ICly this might proove more difficult due to regulations and such but where theres a problem theres multiple ways.

What do you think the OOC responsibilities of Whitelisted players are to other players, and how would you strive to uphold them?:

I believe i can refer to my point above and say the Heads of staff are partially responsible to create an interesting enviornment with the antags. Otherwise they are just people like the rest of the crew maybe with a bit more knowledge in various degress but by no way god like or all knowing. I would uphold these standards by giving the antags some leeway as usual, by that i mean not instantly pointing a finger at a vampire and screaming "VAMPIRE" but instead (Depending on the severity) shrug it off as unusual behaviour at first and steadly become more and more apparant of the current situation that something i definetly amiss. Otherwise... they are just like people like you and me except that they also might function a bit as a Idol or someone to look up to.

Could you give us the gist of what is currently happening in Tau ceti and how it affected your character and their career?

After Mercers graduation, he went back to Moroz serving the house volvalaad in their research and endevaours. Mercer followed closely the happenings over news and realized that there might be a war soon. "War is profitable." he thought. Ships need to be replaced, research will be focused on more effective weapons, overall lucrative for those who are not involved in the war and this impact will linger even after the war has ended. Continuing to follow the news, there son was a broadcast that the SCC has been formed, the Stellar Corporate Conglomerate consisting of the 5 greatest megacorporations. "Now this is an opportunity." he said, quickling establishing communications with house volvalaad stating that this might be a very good opportunity in order improve Diplomatic relations with the 5 megacorporations, and prehaps also strike a profitable deal or two.After a couple days have passed the house agreed, and ordered Mercer to send his application to become a research director onboard the NSS Aurora, and to be on his best behaviour and to conduct exemplary work. Mercer promised to house volvalaad to do not only his best but to be better than the best. A little time has passed and mercer is currently awaiting for his application to be reviewed.

( Im gonna be honest here and say that my knowledge of lore is quite bad.)

What roles do you plan on playing after the application is accepted?

Research Director. More later on once i gathered sufficent knowledge.

Characters you intend to use for command or have created for command. Include the job they will be taking.

Mercer Vermeer, is a 52 year old man who has first attended Juro University in order to become a part of the great house volvalaad. After successful graduation and a rather quick graduation he was sent by house volvalaad to the Solis Cognito Universtiy in order to buildup on his current existing knowledge. During his stay at the University, Mercer Vermeer focused improving his knowledge in the Research and development section. Building weapons, grenades and various other devices in order to please the house volvalaad as this is where one of their focus rests. Additionally Mercer received a message from the great house that he will also be attending classes in order to become a Research Director, it appears Volvalaad had more plans with Mercer. At one point in class Mercer had a heated argument to which the other student snapped and out of rage, splashed a beaker of sulphuric acid into mercers face. Mercer immedeatly had to be put into the medical ward as his breathing slowly and steadily failed, despite some burns on his face mercer suffered a permanent injury to his right eye but was otherwise fine an soon after released. After he graduated Mercer went back to Moroz continuing to serve house volvalaad. (Mercer Vermeer will be taking the role of the Research director)

How would you rate your own roleplaying?:

Depending on the Character 5-7

Do you understand your whitelist is not permanent, and may be stripped following continuous administrative action?

Yes

Have you familiarize yourself with the wiki pages for the command roles?

Yes

Extra notes:

If you have any question, concerns, or anything else really feel free to ask. 

I would love some honest feedback and opinions i will interpret these as constructive feedback!

 

 

 

 

Edited May 16, 2021 by Yaku
Some formating issues :(

[Astra]

I remember Yaku from back in the early Brochius days. You have a deep understanding of mechanics, and certainly the "science spirit", as well as the willingness to learn the spirit of the server and evolve their RP. I believe you will do more than fine as command.

I will say you have a tendency to go quite loud with antags and ideas your characters have, and you should be aware that as command, you are kind of expected to reel other people in a bit, but I have no doubt you will do well as command, so a big +1 from me.

[Yaku]

Yeah thats true... xD  i tended to go out loud in the early days and unplanned before my antag ban rolled out. However i learned from it and made a promise now and will make sure that theres more story involved and to further roleplay.

[limette]

I'm going to give a -1 to this; I've interacted with a few of your characters, namely Brochius, Viggo, and Wee Woo, and found none of them to be that impressive in the RP department. Instead, I found them somewhat lackluster; certainly better than the average Goon character in terms of RP, but definitely not up to the standard I've come to expect from players on Aurora. They all felt like one-dimensional gimmicks, without much else going on behind them. The contents of this application don't reassure me, with Brochius still seemingly a one-note drug dealer and Viggo being a literal hobo on this station.

Furthermore, in the OOC expectations section you just seem to have restated a basic rule of this server more than explained what you think Command specifically has an obligation. I do not mean to be needlessly harsh, but I don't see anything here that indicates anything different from what I've seen ingame and from which I really would not trust you in command of an entire department.

[MattAtlas]

I will handle this application and come to a decision in the following days.

[Hepatica]

Aftering reading over your "Could you give us the gist of what is currently happening in Tau ceti and how it affected your character and their career?" I have no choice but to -1 this app. It shows a profound lack of understanding, which you admit with your own words, of the lore of the server. For starters, why do you think you can use corporate assets, in this case something you grow on the station, as something your character would be able to take off station and sell? There are a number of checkpoint customs that check over what you take off the station. Assuming that's not the case, given you say in it that the character doesn't leave the Aurora, yet still manages to sell these things, I assume you're selling drugs to workers on the Aurora. Recreational, legal drugs, yes, however being a drug dealer selling drugs to your coworkers on company time, with Nanotrasen's product? Not legal. I think you should heavily consider what sort of character you want to play in this role and revisit the question.

[Yaku]

8 minutes ago, limette said:

I'm going to give a -1 to this; I've interacted with a few of your characters, namely Brochius, Viggo, and Wee Woo, and found none of them to be that impressive in the RP department. Instead, I found them somewhat lackluster; certainly better than the average Goon character in terms of RP, but definitely not up to the standard I've come to expect from players on Aurora. They all felt like one-dimensional gimmicks, without much else going on behind them. The contents of this application don't reassure me, with Brochius still seemingly a one-note drug dealer and Viggo being a literal hobo on this station.

Furthermore, in the OOC expectations section you just seem to have restated a basic rule of this server more than explained what you think Command specifically has an obligation. I do not mean to be needlessly harsh, but I don't see anything here that indicates anything different from what I've seen ingame and from which I really would not trust you in command of an entire department.

Yeh its true most of my characters dont have a truly fully developed backstory with propper origin and lifestory. I usually create them on the go when i get a new idea. Some are more fleshed out some less. Like for viggo, he used to be a miner who lost his leg during a mining accident connected with more unfortunate events which made him mentally a bit weird so he got into drinking problems lost his credits appartment everything else made some trouble and attempted to steal so he racked up a few fines which i added to the security record so during a round i can work towards trying to pay it off. He hops from station to station begging for credits hence why he always will stay a visitor, he may need to cover tickets for traversal to diffrent stations i would assume people who work on space stations are usually quite wealthy or are on the higher range of income.

But yeah some are more fleshed out some less they all usually have a little backstory to them as to what happend to them but prehaps not to the degree you would expect it from a command player. Ill make sure to put more effort into my characters in the future.

[4000daniel1]

I enjoy distinct characters with personalities that are discernible and unique. Having interacted with Viggo, Brochius, and Wee Woo I'd say all of them have that, and more. Their personalities are very outwardly visible, which may make you assume that there can't be anything else to them, but I wouldn't say that is the case. I think their personalities being the way they are generates avenues of enjoyable roleplay that aren't possible with a lot of other characters on the server, and it doesn't necessarily force them to be inhibited from partaking in roleplay that's more nuanced.

OOCly, I'd also say that Yaku is very modest and has a good mindset for improvement. I'm of the opinion that they should be granted a trial, as I am interested to see in how they'd execute a command character. +1.

Also quick note, the seeds in the public garden are purchased with credits, which I assume would render them property of the character that bought them. I also personally don't see how Brochius engaging in criminal activity is particularly relevant as he is not mentioned on the list of characters Yaku intend to play in command. Unless the "Could you give us the gist of what is currently happening in Tau ceti and how it affected your character and their career?" is meant for the character the applicant wishes to play in command, in which case I suspect there's been some confusion.

[Yaku]

8 minutes ago, 4000daniel1 said:

I enjoy distinct characters with personalities that are discernible and unique. Having interacted with Viggo, Brochius, and Wee Woo I'd say all of them have that, and more. Their personalities are very outwardly visible, which may make you assume that there can't be anything else to them, but I wouldn't say that is the case. I think their personalities being the way they are generates avenues of enjoyable roleplay that aren't possible with a lot of other characters on the server, and it doesn't necessarily force them to be inhibited from partaking in roleplay that's more nuanced.

OOCly, I'd also say that Yaku is very modest and has a good mindset for improvement. I'm of the opinion that they should be granted a trial, as I am interested to see in how they'd execute a command character. +1.

Also quick note, the seeds in the public garden are purchased with credits, which I assume would render them property of the character that bought them. I also personally don't see how Brochius engaging in criminal activity is particularly relevant as he is not mentioned on the list of characters Yaku intend to play in command. Unless the "Could you give us the gist of what is currently happening in Tau ceti and how it affected your character and their career?" is meant for the character the applicant wishes to play in command, in which case I suspect there's been some confusion.

Oh shit yeah i looked at it now i was thinking that the "Could you give us the gist of what is currently happening in Tau ceti and how it affected your character and their career?" question was a question to check if im keeping track of the timeline and have a reasonable understanding of how it could affect my character. But now i realise it was more meant for the command character i intend to play. Well to clear this up Brochius is not going into command. The New Dominian character im creating was meant for the command role.

 

I will update it as soon as possible

 

Edited May 15, 2021 by Yaku

[Desven]

I've read this a few times and I'll -1 this. I think your answers are poor and do not represent the command mindset at all. I can't say I'm a fan of your characters either, but that's probably just more my personal taste.

 

Although: while head of staff are not idols in any sense, they are the face of their department and, to an extent, of the round. I try to not be too picky with spelling, but I definitely think you should improve your IC punctuation and capitalization, the last thing we need is more Command that ignore those rules. I've seen your merchant speak over the radio and it breaks the immersion of the round for me.

[Yaku]

35 minutes ago, Desven said:

I've read this a few times and I'll -1 this. I think your answers are poor and do not represent the command mindset at all. I can't say I'm a fan of your characters either, but that's probably just more my personal taste.

 

Although: while head of staff are not idols in any sense, they are the face of their department and, to an extent, of the round. I try to not be too picky with spelling, but I definitely think you should improve your IC punctuation and capitalization, the last thing we need is more Command that ignore those rules. I've seen your merchant speak over the radio and it breaks the immersion of the round for me.

@Desven is it the way Bill (Merchant) talks or is it generally the punctuation and capitalization? I tend to place punctuation and capitalization on a lower priority as i like to deliver faster answers, since it makes the communication appear more fluid which is my own preference.

[Peppermint]

Hi. I unfortunately also have to -1 this. I'm less concerned about the answers, but more feel you need to put some time into playing departmental characters away from just comedic value/quick gimmicks. Whilst your merchant is a step in the right direction, still got a 'lil bit to go.

[Yaku]

2 minutes ago, Lemei said:

Hi. I unfortunately also have to -1 this. I'm less concerned about the answers, but more feel you need to put some time into playing departmental characters away from just comedic value/quick gimmicks. Whilst your merchant is a step in the right direction, still got a 'lil bit to go.

All good this is all very valuable feedback ?

[Desven]

13 minutes ago, Yaku said:

@Desven is it the way Bill (Merchant) talks or is it generally the punctuation and capitalization? I tend to place punctuation and capitalization on a lower priority as i like to deliver faster answers, since it makes the communication appear more fluid which is my own preference.

Unfortunately it is less than a preference and more of a server rule. We all do our effort to keep a good spelling ICly, you shouldn't be exempt of this and especially not if you wish to play an important role on the round.

[Yaku]

Edited these two questions as there was a confusion with one and further elaborated who this person is whos applying for the research director.

Could you give us the gist of what is currently happening in Tau ceti and how it affected your character and their career?

Characters you intend to use for command or have created for command. Include the job they will be taking.

[MattAtlas]

This application is denied. The reasonings here have been given in depth already, essentially. My main concerns is that the HRP mindset hasn't properly settled in for you and that your knowledge of the lore is unsatisfactory. I have doubts about your ability to drive a narrative forward as command as well.

I reccomend waiting a month or two before applying. Make sure to take the feedback that others have put on this thread to heart; it's accurate.