[Accepted]Dekser becomes a slug-like plant entity[Diona Whitelist]

[DekserBecauseILostMyAccoun]

BYOND Key: Dekser

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Species you are applying to play: Diona

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

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:  
Diona are the most alien species on Aurora, I've had my eye on them for a while and gone from thinking about making a whitelist, to making one, to rescinding it to remaking it and then deleting it before even posting all out of fear of misunderstanding the mysterious lore. With their most recent lore updates though I feel more confident in my knowledge in them and generally find their mechanics interesting and fun.

Identify what makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a Human:

Biologically: Diona are a collection of Nymphs, ranging from two or three to upwards of several million. Different types or forms of Diona exist, each ranging with how many Nymphs make up a Gestalt, with the more nymphs making a Gestalt, the more intelligent it becomes. Diona learn unconventionally, typically requiring blood and DNA to gain knowledge and skills. While it is possible for Diona to learn without blood, the process is much much slower and allows them to form rather strange opinions on things.

Diona are almost entirely plantlike which means they feed on light and radiation but have some differences, they do not require carbon dioxide to breath and are immune to vacuum level pressure which means they can safely enter and drift through space. Diona can live for a very, very long time. It is estimated that Diona are potentially immortal, if not for their bark growing over them and thickening over hundreds of years. Eventually, it is possible for this bark to entirely encase the Diona and suffocate it of light.

Diona have a complex reproduction system, once every ten or so years, a Diona will attempt to return to their place of origin where they release spores to fly through solar winds. This can take the Nymphs to all corners of the galaxy and as such, it is very possible that clusters exist far beyond the Orion Spur. Diona are lastly able to naturally speak a language based on pure instinct, this assists with when they detach a nymph from their Gestalt and send it to explore, keeping contact with it via a very high frequency song, only audible to the Gestalt and its Nymph.

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Mechanically: Diona are able to split into their several nymphs and explore, being able to play as both the Diona Nymph and the rest of their Gestalt. They also also able to generate biostructures with some biomass they generate from light and from eating, these structures include a light bulb, flooring tiles and walls. Diona are able to consume the near atmosphere in an emergency situation where light or radiation is scarce, though it is rarely done.

Diona heal off of radiation and light and die in the dark, which is why their ability to consume the atmosphere can be dire to survival. Disgustingly, Diona can devour objects and even living organisms (WHICH INCLUDES PEOPLE BY THE WAY) to absorb their biomatter for the Gestalts own use. This is scarcely done as almost all Diona follow strict pacifism, only defending themselves when running away is not an option and even then, devouring an organism is not defensive at all.

When the mob HP reaches 0, or when a special verb is activated, Diona split their various nymphs from the Gestalt to flee. This process is incredibly painful and costly to the Gestalt, thus it is only ever used in emergencies. Lastly, Diona are incredibly, incredibly slow, with Coeus, the younger types being only slightly faster. Diona are completely unable to sprint and take their time with all things related to movement.

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Culturally: Diona have several different mindtypes which help dictate their actions. A mindtype is described as how the various Nymphs within a Gestalt communicate, these mindtypes can be Tyrannical, Harmonious, Chaotic to name a few. Each sets its own priorities as actions and can either delay or speed up how fast a Gestalt speaks and thinks. Apart from mindtypes, Diona have adapted to living in all corners of the galaxy due to their reproduction system, very few known celestial bodies have settlements including high populations of exclusively Diona.

There is one widely accepted religion of Diona, The Eternal. The religion entails the beliefs that in energy and essence exists a primordial being of which Diona embodiment of. The major goal of Diona who follow this religion is to reach the Titan form, a form so large it is comparable to small celestial bodies like moons or planets. It is believed that growing to this or beyond this point will make the Gestalt so dense that it will collapse in on itself and form a star, releasing light to feed and birth new Diona.

Diona have a unique form of art, while they can be traditionally good at painting or photography due to their vast capability for knowledge, their unique artforms, Artem and Vita involves taking various forms, either peacefully in the void of space free of restrictions or on the contrary, to mimick or create new visible forms of life competitively or otherwise. Those who lose the former competitive challenges become absorbed into the victors Gestalt, sharing knowledge and growing as a stronger collective.

Character Name: To Survive The Mistreatment of Aliens to Forgive and then to Explore a Vast Galaxy --- Shortned to: To Survive and Explore a Vast Galaxy (The one I use in-game)

Please provide a short backstory for this character:

Born hundreds of years ago within a reasonably sized gas giant in a small forgettable solar system, this small Colossus of a few hundred Dionae lived peacefully, absorbing radiation and occasional atmosphere. The collective thrived, gradually growing its number of Nymphs without interruption until, a strange alien vessel begin absorbing gasses from the celestial body. The Gestalt drifted toward the machine and latched onto it, growing around it for a few days. Eventually, out of curiosity, the collective agreed to peer inside. Doing this damaged the vessel, a strange arthropod-like being, a Vaurca, investigated and eventually attacked the Gestalt. Likely thinking it was a biohazard, the Gestalt, in an action of only self-defense, absorbed what they could of the Drone.

Several other drones arrived soon after and began to open fire on the Gestalt, damaging and eventually splitting it of its once beautiful collective. The many Nymphs scattered into the station, one of which, would survive and escape. This Nymph crawled into a small air-filled tunnel and began consuming the atmosphere around it while scratching around for any source of light. Eventually, coming across a strange humming machine used to power some part of the alien vessel. It produced radiation and so the Nymph hid there for a time. The vessel was cold and dark, the Nymph continued searching for light once enough radiation had satisfied it. Several days, possibly weeks passed before the Nymph located some more of its kind, those weak and suffering. They decided to form a small Cerberus for comfort in numbers. This did not last long, as eventually the collective was found and exterminated, the Nymph barely escaping into another duct.

Lost, lonely and now missing some of its own mind, the Nymph returned to the small radioactive room, terrified of and confused by the aliens. Time passed and the Nymph once again returned to the outside of its safe room, it located another Cerberus, though slightly larger than the last it had seen. This new collective happily accepted the Nymph and they began to form a Harmonious Hymn. All agreed under a vote that they had to leave this strange vessel as soon as possible, the collective jumped between various radioactive rooms, sometimes finding light, other times not. Rarely other of their kind.

Years passed, tens of years, Nymphs of this gestalt died or split off but two always remained together. These two bonded and despite caring for the many other Nymphs who found and joined them, they would never split apart ever. Barring the occasional death or splitting, the Collective almost always had about three or four within their gestalt Cerberus, When a routine had only just set into regular, however brutal the routine, something happened. A Drone located and began shooting at them. Two Nymphs split away in terror and what was left of the Gestalt, with no other option, fell atop the Drone and killed it with some loose panel on the floor.

Horrified at their own actions, all but the two originals of the Gestalt fled, these two Nymphs crawled into the corpse and in an act of desperation, begin to flood it with tendrils and essentially impersonate it. The two with much difficulty returned to the radioactive room, leaving their disguise and absorbing the radiation. They used this disguise for several weeks to tour the vessel and find other nymphs, growing their Gestalt over time and eventually reaching an acceptable six Nymphs.

The corpse had begun to rot and was no longer as useful, the collective found and airlock and thought they had found escape but not before being approached by other Drones, wildly flicking their antennae toward the rotting disguise. After a few moments of silence, the other drones raised their weapons and approached, the Nymphs forced the airlock with what little knowledge they had collected of this vessel and its machinery, they flew out into space and quickly split apart from the disguise. The vessel floated away from them. They were free.

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Time, time had passed, so much time. Nothing was happening, it was dark and cold. The sun was far away though radiation still plenty. The Nymphs had reached a stable orbit around another alien star. The Gestalt had no company but each other, they fought, forgave, hated and loved each other for so long in the abyss they wandered. A loud crash disturbed the Gestalt, they peered through and saw another large alien vessel, though this time, different. They drifted toward it as fast they could, eventually clung to it for all life, rooting into it. It was silent for a few moments and then it was blue and then it was dark. The Gestalt had entered bluespace and exited in far and distant unknown system, they were falling in a fiery blaze, unprepared and burning. The Gestalt crashed into a vast and large desert, all but two of the Nymphs had burned up and died. The original two of the Gestalt were in pain, dying but radiation restored them.

Hours of soaking radiation and blistering light from the star, only crawling across the sand weakly to find more radiation, the dying Gestalt struggled to find survival. Approaching eventually what looked like a derelict, rusting and rotting structure, half buried in the sand. The weak Gestalt approached the structure but was stopped by a visible oasis, water, trees, grass just over a dune. Mammalian bat-like creatures fly around it in circles, the Gestalt crawls closer and rests on some grass, absorbing the plantlife before going dormant. The two within the small Gestalt awaken to the pokes and prods of a large Reptillian humanoid, the Gestalt quickly skitters away from the alien, but is calmed and offered a fruit to absorb, the Gestalt cautiously accepts and consumes the small fruit.

Taken in by this Unathi and given an amount of blood, the Gestalt learns to speak the hissing language, the Gestalt learns of Unathi culture and basic customs. The two Nymphs understand the symbiotic relationship offered to them and refuse, the two cannot trust aliens, after what happened to them all those many years ago. The Gestalt discreetly raids Unathi crops for born Dionae podlings and merge them into their gestalt, they grow into a mighty amalgamation of a 500 year old Vaurca drone and a wastelander Unathi, absorbing radiation on their own accord and sharing the knowledge of how hostile aliens can be. 2459, December 2nd, they absorb a lost Nymph somewhere in the vast dunes. This nymph is different, sharing fragmented knowledge of caring aliens, protecting it and its gestalt from wild animals.

Long is the idea of joining aliens thought on, considered, rejected and then brought again to discussion. It was decided that life in these wastes are almost no different from their years of thriving in the radioactive void, the same. The Gestalt craved excitement, they needed something new. They would join the aliens only to shun Vaurca very audibly and to only use the aliens for new experiences. The Gestalt would make its way to Skalamar, greeting Unathi with open arms and arranging to work for them and absorb radiation. Six months of the same work, the Gestalt was not getting what they wanted, they explained their troubles to the clan leader currently sheltering and providing them radiation. Some negotiation later and the clan leader promised them a flight to a place where Dionae can exist peacefully, somewhere unfortunately quite vibrant with variety in aliens but with a high population of both Diona and Unathi, something the Gestalt was familiar with. They would fly to Tau Ceti.

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Forever scarred by the actions taken against them by aliens, the Gestalt arrives at the Tau Ceti border, without a citizenship and with no money for a work visa. Without speaking the language, the Gestalt unknowingly signs up to the TCFL and soon employs at a nearby station, as soon as it is understood that the Gestalt us unable to event speak the language, blood is granted and basic information is given on galactic history and current situations within the system. The Gestalt was shaken and confused by all the politics but understand mostly, they decide to name themselves as they realized most aliens had just been calling them by the name dubbed their species.  To Survive The Mistreatment of Aliens to Forgive and then to Explore a Vast Galaxy. Otherwise shortened to To Survive and Explore a Vast Galaxy.

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Working aboard various vessels, preforming patrols and making friends with some aliens, the Gestalt kept its distrust for Vaurca and often refused to work with them, creating minor issues while out working. One of the Gestalts Nymphs disagreed with the hate toward Vaurca, despite all of the anger and outrage loudly sang toward it by the other nymphs, this one, having been protected by Kataphract Vaurca and Unathi loved both species dearly and called what happened a misunderstanding, this overtime erupted into a re-occurring argument which eventually led toward the mindtype being called into question and eventually changed to somewhere between a Chaotic Cacophony and a Singular Sound, three of the six nymphs disagreeing about opinions on aliens and three acting together to hate Vaurca collectively and ignore all other aliens.

A year into their Tau Ceti Foreign Legion service, they were called to respond to a distress signal, the team arrived to a derelict overgrown with Dionae. The TCFL soldiers prepared the Gestalt who was the only active Diona within their unit to attempt to speak out, all questions and greetings were met with incoherent ramblings, this Diona was a Scarlet Score. Suddenly its Nymphs lept down to bite the crew who were forced to open fire. It took twenty minutes to kill almost every Nymph as part of this Gestalt, To Survive and Explore a Vast Galaxy almost all immediately agreed to settle their differences, lest they devolve into something as aggressive and mad as this, horrified by their own actions against another of their kind. Deciding to return to their Harmonious Hymn.

The Gestalt applied for a citizenship a year later, with the end of their deployment being fairly unremarkable, they drifted between jobs relating to farming but never landed anything strong. With a desperate need for an income, they signed to work as a Security Cadet, training to work as a Security Officer aboard a NanoTrasen station. Their past time in the TCFL helping them to land the position.

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What do you like about this character?: To Survive and Explore a Vast Galaxy is a very scarred collective, they've all experienced some trauma with two of their Nymphs being upwards of 520 years old and their current gestalt around fairly haphazardly placed at 450 years old as there was no definite number recalled. Torn between despising aliens and loving them, they often disagree on concepts relating to Vaurca but try their best to be more civilized.

How would you rate your role-playing ability?: 8/10

EXPECTED QUESTIONS:
"What religion does To Survive and Explore a Vast Galaxy believe in if any?" - They follow the belief of spirits but not far enough to be th'akh, they are attempting to learn new cultures before deciding anything.

"What do they think about other aliens not including Unathi and Vaurca?" - They stand viewing most other species neutrally, though believing that Humans are often greedy. Because of how divided they are on Vaurca though, they attempt to stay away from them to avoid disputes.

"How many Nymphs are there now in the Gestalt?" - 8, a standardly filled Cyclops.

"How do they feel about synthetics?" - Because of their basic knowledge absorbed on Moghes, they all agree that synthetic beings are soulless equipment, while not upset or opposed to the idea of synthetic freedom, they do not work to ameliorate it.

Edited January 21, 2022 by DekserBecauseILostMyAccoun
Reason for edit: A lot of grammar fixes, spacing and spelling.

[Gr33d]

Yes!! More titan prime dionae! I loved the backstory personally. This gets a nice cool plus one from me. Also, Holy moly that donner looks cool.

Edited January 21, 2022 by Gr33d

[Lmwevil]

On 20/01/2022 at 21:25, DekserBecauseILostMyAccoun said:

EXPECTED QUESTIONS:
"What religion does To Survive and Explore a Vast Galaxy believe in if any?" - They follow the belief of spirits but not far enough to be th'akh, they are attempting to learn new cultures before deciding anything.

"What do they think about other aliens not including Unathi and Vaurca?" - They stand viewing most other species neutrally, though believing that Humans are often greedy. Because of how divided they are on Vaurca though, they attempt to stay away from them to avoid disputes.

"How many Nymphs are there now in the Gestalt?" - 8, a standardly filled Cyclops.

"How do they feel about synthetics?" - Because of their basic knowledge absorbed on Moghes, they all agree that synthetic beings are soulless equipment, while not upset or opposed to the idea of synthetic freedom, they do not work to ameliorate it.

How dare you read prior apps, this is like half of my job to ask my standard array of questions. ANGERY 

I don't have many questions to be honest, good luck Dekser. 
 

[Yonnimer]

Overall your app is really well done and answers almost every question we could've had, we'll be accepting your app.