Omicega Posted February 10, 2022 Posted February 10, 2022 BYOND Key: Omicega Character Names: Alicia Parker -- Security Guard Azhara Shas'kui -- Security Guard IRU-Joyeuse -- Investigator Suraya Al-Zahrani -- First Responder and a lot more... Species you are applying to play: Vaurca What color do you plan on making your first alien character? A toothpastey whiteish-blue (Mouv's brood) 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? The Vaurca are a race that have slowly grown on me over my time here on Aurora. At first I wrote them off as being far too weird and wacky to really catch my interest, but now having had a lot more experience with many Vaurca characters across many departments I have a new appreciation for how fun they might be to try playing for myself. The new PRs and lore supporting them that have come up over the past several months have slowly helped build up this interest as well, and I'm finally biting the bullet and applying out of a desire to really get into the species lore and have some fun with it. Identify what makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a Human: Other than the many gameplay differences which I'm not gonna get into, I like the idea of their hive hierarchy as something to play around with. It's not a true hivemind in the traditional sci-fi sense, since even the Bound act independently, but the way in which their society functions with a rigid and immoval hierarchy spanning down from a Queen to each member of her individual brood is something I think is going to be fun to dive into. For the most part, Vaurcae I've seen in game have a really unique flavour of interaction compared to other characters as well -- they're simultaneously ignorant about many things and intensely curious about others, and can often tend to be really blunt as well. Character Name: Ka'Akaix'Xepp C'thur Please provide a short backstory for this character: Born in 2461, Xepp is an unbound of Mouv's brood, and one which immersed itself in the knowledge of the Xakat'kl'atan Vezaz throughout its initial stint in VR. It developed an interest and even a fixation on the broad subject of computing at large, eventually focusing more tightly on positronic intelligences and the underlying code that makes them tick. This inherent fascination has lent itself well to its later work in the field of cybernetic augmentation, although balancing its role in the hive with pressure from the Jargon Federation to minimise the use of augmentations, particularly among the Bound of its brood, proved tricky to reconcile. As a result, Xepp found itself dispatched abroad to Tau Ceti, where it could more easily pursue its work -- and in so doing, act as an ambassador for the hive. Xepp is very interested in the opportunity to interact more closely and at length with positronic and synthetic lifeforms, and tends to view its other alien co-workers with something between dismissiveness and disinterest. As one of Mouv's brood, it maintains a key awareness of the value of the great Sol credit, and finds itself covetous of amassing enough money of its own to begin pursuing projects outside of its work hours. Although it's as yet un-Avowaled and unable to pursue its calling aboard the Aurora (soon Horizon...) to the degree it would like, it impatiently awaits the opportunity to hop over this bureaucratic hurdle and embark on its work without further delay. What do you like about this character? I like the single-mindedness that a Vaurca character can approach things with. I think Xepp would be very fun to play on account of its marked level of determination, focus, and drive -- and I think employing an awareness of just how important money is in this new multi-species society it finds itself in can only help add to the possibilities. How would you rate your role-playing ability? I've been around, both on SS13 and on other games with roleplaying scenes. I think I could stand to emote a lot more -- there are some roleplayers here and elsewhere that still manage to blow my mind in terms of the inventiveness and overall quality of their roleplay as well as the speed with which they can come up with it. I don't want to put a number out of ten on what I think my ability is, but I've been roleplaying for upwards of a decade now and feel as if I have a pretty good grasp on building and playing new characters as a whole. Notes: I found some of the Vaurca lore a bit hard to apply to a character concept at first glance, and I wrote this application entirely from scratch & in about an hour or two at most in a burst of creativity, so I'm expecting to have questions thrown my way. That said, I think I've managed to create a rough idea for a Vaurca character that's solid enough to build off of.
Desven Posted February 10, 2022 Posted February 10, 2022 Thanks for applying. I understand your sentiment, it's sometimes a bit hard to come up with a full character concept when dealing with Vaurcae, especially since many of us like to play younger ones with little personal history. That being said, I really like your concept. 1. Will Xepp be a machinist/roboticist? Just to clarify. 2. What does Xepp think about the other two Hives? 3. Does it follow a religion? 4. The recent lore events have made the C'thur hive take somewhat of a fall in public image. As a result, it's become more evident they rely on Jargon more than ever before. How has all of this affected Xepp?
Omicega Posted February 10, 2022 Author Posted February 10, 2022 10 hours ago, Desven said: 1. Will Xepp be a machinist/roboticist? Just to clarify. Yes, that was my intention, although I completely forgot about the job reshuffling for Horizon when I was writing this. I had meant to slot Xepp in as a lab assistant and look for an Avowal to move up to roboticist, but with the Horizon I'm not sure if machinists will start 'pre-Avowed' due to having no learner position? One way or another, though, that's where I'd like for them to end up. 11 hours ago, Desven said: 2. What does Xepp think about the other two Hives? Xepp is standoffish at best towards the K'lax, and takes a fairly condescending/pitying view towards their status as outright vassals to the Hegemony. This is only exacerbated by the already existing cold relations between C'thur and K'lax, and Xepp will be more likely to take opportunities to verbally belittle or walk over them if any of them were to make themselves a target. The Zo'ra are a hive Xepp views on more equal ground, and maybe even as something of an underdog. It views the Zo'ra with more of a rivalry-centred attitude, especially after the Bulwark debacle. It will be quick to try and outmanoeuvre and outwit its Zo'rane counterparts and prove itself more intelligent, but ultimately it holds more of a grudging respect for the Hive as a whole than it does for the K'lax. 11 hours ago, Desven said: 3. Does it follow a religion? Yes. It follows the Classical Pantheon, which to my understanding (as a C'thur) entails a more active split in 'loyalty' or 'worship' between Mouv, its progenitor Lesser Queen, and the still-present C'thur herself. Either way, it still views both of them as individuals worthy of a sort of veneration. 11 hours ago, Desven said: 4. The recent lore events have made the C'thur hive take somewhat of a fall in public image. As a result, it's become more evident they rely on Jargon more than ever before. How has all of this affected Xepp? The Bulwark theft is something about which Xepp obviously sides with its Queen -- it views the whole affair as an outrage, and privately contests the legal ruling handed down by the courts even if it publicly shares the same begrudging acceptance that Mouv has fallen in with. It will undoubtedly show a sort of snide curiosity towards Bulwarks of other hives, and when given the opportunity it will be quick to talk at length about how the genetic pattern is a product of C'thur ingenuity, even if the other hives have won out with the right to make legal use of them. I'd say in general that the whole pattern of events have split Xepp, along with maybe the C'thur as a whole, further away from their fellow hives and the SCC and further towards the Federation and Einstein as more reliable allies/partners.
Roostercat Posted February 12, 2022 Posted February 12, 2022 Hi. I know you are a competent roleplayer and I'm satisfied with the answers given to the questions. App Accepted!
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