Tomkiel likes frogs so much, he wants to become one - Skrell App

[DatSamTho]

BYOND Key: Tomkiel

Character Names:

Species you are applying to play: Skrell

What color do you plan on making your first alien character: Light Blue

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

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: If I'm going to be entirely honest, it's due to how few Skrell I see, nowadays, as I always like to interact with Skrell, due to their specific blend of alien-ess, and strangeness, with their lack of visible emotions to other species often seeming, to me, at least, as a feeling of respectful supieriority above humans, and others.

Identify what makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a Human: So! The main thing, I'd say, is the stark difference in how they portray their emotions, as I've already stated before. Other than that, is the Srom, and the constant, unending pressure to comform to the standards of the Federation, and how that may affect their life and development, as well as psionics in general, which may lead to some interesting roleplay scenarios with other Skrell. And they can't slip, which is cool

Character Name: Xori'Videq Jiiruq

Please provide a short backstory for this character:

Xori was hatched on the island city of Oibush, Qerrbalak, being of Xiialt descent, and having a fruitful and happy upbringing, becoming interested in history and archeology, after visiting a nearby underwater archeological site on a class trip, leading to them eventually recieving their first college degree in Skrellian History, and their second in Linguistics. After earning their second degree, they signed up onto Videq-Volq Xiqru's field research team, focused specifically on archeological and geological research, in an attempt to find a possible precursor species, as per Videq-Volq Xiqru's hypothesis.

After decades of working under Xiqru, while performing research on an asteroid, a sudden meteor storm damaged the research ship they were operating out of severely, leading to it being unable to keep up with the asteroid, and while most of the team on the ground managed to evacuate back onboard the ship, Videq-Volq Xiqru remained, choosing to transfer the extremely valuable research data to the ship, inadvertently sacrificing themselves in the pursuit of science. After this incident, due to the intense respect Xori felt towards Videq, they adopted their name, into their own.

After Videq's death, their research team unfortunately splintered mainly due to disagreement between the main scientists onboard with how to continue archeological and geological work, leading to multiple leading figures in the research team leaving, making the rest of the team unable to effectively pursue research opportunities. With Xori believing that further evidence for Videq's theory of a precursor civilisation could be found in the area of at that time, the Sol Alliance and Tau Ceti, they left the team and headed for Sol, but the collapse of it lead them to eventually land a position as a xenoarcheologist in a stabler sector of space, onboard the NSS Aurora, at the age of 102 years old.

What do you like about this character? Xori definitely values research, leading to a heavy no-nonsense attitude, trying to work closely together with their co-workers, as to attempt to avoid a possibly shift in relations, as hapened to the their previous team.

How would you rate your role-playing ability? I've been getting a lot better over the time I've been on the server, getting from a virgin no-rp security officer, to chad multi-whitelist evil-villain monologue. So yes, I'd say 19/10, thank you very much. jk, 7/10

Notes: If you read this, you are stinky.

Edited September 20, 2021 by tomkiel

[RyverStyx]

Hey! I have a few questions if you don’t mind!

1. Living and growing up in Oibuish, how has the history of the Weilshi Sea Crisis affected Xori?

2. Has Xori always been a Jargon citizen or did they renounce their citizenship?

3. What is Xori’s opinion on the Jargon Federation?

[DatSamTho]

55 minutes ago, RyverStyx said:

Hey! I have a few questions if you don’t mind!

1. Living and growing up in Oibuish, how has the history of the Weilshi Sea Crisis affected Xori?

2. Has Xori always been a Jargon citizen or did they renounce their citizenship?

3. What is Xori’s opinion on the Jargon Federation?

Thanks for replying to the app so quickly.

1. - I wouldn't say that the Weilshi Sea Crisis affected them in any large way, seeing as they were born generations after it, and likely haven't met anybody directly affected by it, but that being said, they definitely don't hold any positive opinions on AI, and those would probably the one exception, to their policy of trying to work together with their co-workers.

2 - They still definitely retain their Jargon Citizenship, only leaving Jargon space, as they believe that their archeological work would best be continued in a different sector of space.

3 - Fairly positive. They believe that the Federation rightly strives to pursue the sciences, and they have not been slighted by them in any way.

[RyverStyx]

Hello! Just a couple more questions for you 🐸

1. How would Xori feel about Skrell who bad talk Jargon? Would they be able to work with them if needed?

2. Being a supporter of Jargon, Xori may face backlash in Tau Ceti. How have they handled any potential backlash?

3. Where will Xori be living?

Thank you!

[DatSamTho]

1 minute ago, RyverStyx said:

Hello! Just a couple more questions for you 🐸

1. How would Xori feel about Skrell who bad talk Jargon? Would they be able to work with them if needed?

2. Being a supporter of Jargon, Xori may face backlash in Tau Ceti. How have they handled any potential backlash?

3. Where will Xori be living?

Thank you!

It is Wednesday, my skrell  🐸

1. They would definitely not make friends with them, but for the sake of efficiency, they would most likely retain a neutral, if somewhat strained, depending on how anti-Federation they were, working relationship, trying to simply not get into arguments with them.

2. They'd probably just ignore it, being honest, seeing responding to any insults/backlash as below them, and most likely interact with the people that serve the backlash as minimalyl as possible.

3. The Odin, seeing as they are used to living for long stretches of time in space, due to the field research team undertaking a lot of their efforts with their ship as essentially their base of operations. That, and since the only reason they moved here is to pursue their research further, it's the closest to work.

[RyverStyx]

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