CoffeeToffee - Skrell app

[CoffeeToffee]

BYOND Key: CoffeeToffee
Character Names:
Species you are applying to play: Skrell
What color do you plan on making your first alien character: Ivory
Have you read our lore section's page on this species?: Yep

Why do you wish to play this specific race: I enjoy their history as well as their in game mechanics. Probably the most 'sophisticated' species available as they tend to have a more refined way of carrying themselves (with some notable exceptions). I also dont enjoy the odd streak of players playing them as these unsociable, irritable people who dont like to help unless they absolutely have to. Hopefully I can set a good example of a more inviting personality that lets people engage with them.

Identify what makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a Human: Being emotive as a skrell is a bit different, relying more on body language and sounds than facial expression. They also tend to be very hard workers (atleast if theyre raised within Jargon) as enforced by their strict society. Their long life and extensive educations might make them more capable and wise than your average human. While lazy skrell exist they are typically disliked by the greater whole of society, with mental jobs (sci/med) being preferred over menial labor (cargo/jani)

Character Name:  Ji'Juun Xorujii
Please provide a short backstory for this character: Ji'Juun was born and raised on the cold planet of Aliose. Both parents were esteemed biomechanical engineers working in Oqraxo. Stories passed down by their parents of Glorsh and their presence in Aliose struck them deep, feeling so close to the stage of such horror. Juun was fairly skilled in their educational endeavors, acquiring a full schollarship for the Aliose school of medical sciences to follow in their parents footsteps to become a biomechanical engineer themselves. While they worked hard and did their best to please their parents, they wanted to study and build things more grand than prosthetics. The vast mechanical ruins left behind by the Glorsh crisis fascinated them. Knowing full well that this would alarm them as well as deviating from the expensive education they had already received, they aquired a visa to work in Tau Ceti.

They quietly signed on for a less luxurious course on structural engineering while working off debts to pay for the travel, not enjoying the wealth of their parents as they felt they might spoil their child if they paved the way to success for them with nothing but capital. Having finished their primary courses, Juun now resides on aurora, having found the job through a xeno outreach program. They are now 68, working hard as an electrician to pay off student loans, every free moment being dedicated to their studies as they gun hard for the position of Chief engineer. They maintain an air of posture and eloquence, trying to stand out and make a name for themselves among the crowd of gruff, hairy knuckled engineers. They may sometimes come off as rambling when explaining complicated subjects to apprentices, finding it hard to articulate in laymen terms. Their uniform is always spotless, and perfectly ironed, with their tools well maintained to match.

While raised by their parents to follow the tenants of Qeblak, they find themselves straying towards Kir’gul after spending time in Tau Ceti. This rigid sense of individualism further fueled their deviation from the path set by their parents, choosing to study further into the more touchy subjects of engineering, such as robotics and artificial intelligence. The sudden presence of synthetics outside of Jargon had softened them to the terrifying stories of glorsh, which now seemed like some mythical threat. Their general interactions with them are that of curiosity and fascination.

What do you like about this character?: I think that theyre fun, especially their dynamics with IPCs and Stationbounds, being less (ew robot stinky). They are also a departure from the unga bunga attitude engineering typically has. I think them struggling to adjust to a less formal setting and fitting in with their co-workers could lead to some cool/cute scenarios.
How would you rate your role-playing ability? I think im decent, but I understand that I have room to improve, and I think the fact that i can recognize that is what matters 

Notes: I hope to eventually have them as a CE, if i can get the WL that is.

[RyverStyx]

Hello and thank you for applying! Some questions for you:

1. What is Juun’s social credit score? What about their parent’s?

2. Robotic prosthetics are not common inside the federation (they use cloned limbs and organs). Knowing this, would Juun instead focus their biomechanical engineering on cloning devices for cloned prosthetics at first?

3. Where is Juun staying at in Tau Ceti? I see you said they reside on the Aurora but did you possibly mean the Odin?

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[CoffeeToffee]

3 hours ago, RyverStyx said:

Hello and thank you for applying! Some questions for you:

1. What is Juun’s social credit score? What about their parent’s?

2. Robotic prosthetics are not common inside the federation (they use cloned limbs and organs). Knowing this, would Juun instead focus their biomechanical engineering on cloning devices for cloned prosthetics at first?

3. Where is Juun staying at in Tau Ceti? I see you said they reside on the Aurora but did you possibly mean the Odin?

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1. Their parents credit scores are very good, likley primaries as they are very traditional and are known to be highly dilligent workers and were allowed to reproduce. Juun’s score *was* good as well from their academic excellence but may have dropped to a secondary after leaving the federation for TauCeti, and adopting a faith not condoned by the jargon federation.

2. I think they would being following their parents footsteps and working on cloning tech then, yes. This can make their interest in mechanical engineering even more taboo as they deviate from their well-off job prospects for something they havent had an extensive education in, especially since robots in general probably arent something most skrell romanticize.
 

3. Ah yes, when I say aurora i simply mean as a place of work. They would be staying on odin like most of their coworkers.

 

side note: i know robotics is more of a research director thing but Juun is more interested in the infrastructure that the AI operates off of as well, such as their power and camera systems, telecomms, etc

[RyverStyx]

7 hours ago, CoffeeToffee said:

1. Their parents credit scores are very good, likley primaries as they are very traditional and are known to be highly dilligent workers and were allowed to reproduce. Juun’s score *was* good as well from their academic excellence but may have dropped to a secondary after leaving the federation for TauCeti, and adopting a faith not condoned by the jargon federation.

Something that the Skrell dev team plans to add to credit score: Higher education for primary credit score holders will likely be clarified to being free. I know that this may cause an issue with Juun's arc and how they are in debt because of their schooling. Would you be able to work around this possible change in the future?

[CoffeeToffee]

55 minutes ago, RyverStyx said:

Something that the Skrell dev team plans to add to credit score: Higher education for primary credit score holders will likely be clarified to being free. I know that this may cause an issue with Juun's arc and how they are in debt because of their schooling. Would you be able to work around this possible change in the future?

of course, I dont see any issues with tweaking backstories to conform to new and updated lore.

[RyverStyx]

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