Zantix Dionae App

[Nekonyan123]

BYOND Key: Zantix

Character Names:

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1. Joel Woods
2. Laika Tupulev
3. Feng Huang
4. M.A.U.L.E.R.
5. Wrench

and more

Species you are applying to play: Dionae

What color do you plan on making your first alien character: Dionaea & IPCs exempt

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:

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I find the effort and lenght of Dionae lore admirable. I always look forward to new RP challenges and interesting chars to RP as and I tought that Dionae can be something fresh I have been looking for in SS13 HRP. I like this idea of a plantoid creature with vastly different biology and culture, this seems like something challenging to roleplay as and really sets the tone apart from the usual human character I am confident to play as. The emphasis on experience is the thing I appreciated more about this race, because it means that my Dionae characters will be vastly and deeply molded in their way of interacting with the crew based on their backstory and shift experience. I look forward to experience something like this. Other than that, I also like the in-game mechanics that Dionae have been equipped with, expecially the biological abilities that can spice up the gameplay.

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

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I'd say that role-playing as a Diona is vastly different than humans in many way: in first place, that is because Dionae are a collective and this means that they are bigger in their internal systems rather than humans. They are a collection of experiences and something that transcends unitary monad life that most humans experience. They can spend most of their lives in great clusters, floating in space and eternal communion. Or they can't, maybe because someone severed them for a particular reason. But the most interesting factor that sets Diona experience aparts from humans to me is the idea that even between each Diona there can be very different interactions and dynamics based from their form and personal history. They can have a very personal relation and opinion of almost each part of the lore setting based on their experience and when you as a player are given such freedom you should always be thankful.

Character Name: Void Of Peace Struck By Misfortune

> Please provide a short backstory for this character

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They are a 500 year old Diona of dark bark that was part of a cluster that engulfed almost a whole meteorite belt orbiting around a deserted rock planet just outside the borders of the Jargon Federation. Life was good for the cluster back then, when they could be in a peaceful communion to eachother and contemplate the marvelous sight of the void and that lone rocky planet. But we know that happy stories like those can be destroyed by destiny. And this is exactly what happened  when a Jargon Fedeation's exploration probe arrived to the system, quickly noticing the cluster. Back then, they really never interacted with any intelligent species, having just brief and remote sightings with the rare traveling ship. They were a grand and peaceful Harmonious Hymn, and they could remain like that forever, if they had the chance, but this time, it looked like visitors wouldn't limit themselves on mining the engulfed meteors, but they wanted to do something else. The Skrell, as usual, wanted to observe, wanted to learn, and that they did, building an observation post and coming to bother the cluster all the time.

That was what eventually caused the Harmonious Hymn to collapse, when it was learnt that the cluster's existance might have been in danger, given that they were sitting over precious Phoron deposits. The Skrell would not have destroyed them, but someone else? It was known that greedyness can destroy even the most united intent, and a cluster, if large like this one, wouldn't be different. The cycles that followed were full of discussion, full of toughts, some darker than the other, and the gestalt started to suffer. This external change, the idea that they might have suffered in a remote future, all for that purple crystals they were sitting on was too much to handle. And the cluster degenerated into several fractures. Some part of them wanted to remain Harmonious, others tought that in dire times like those, a firmer leadership was needed. But eventually, the differences of opinions were too much to handle. And in a dark space afternoon, the cluster violently erupted, fragmented, dissolved. The Skrell observation post recorded everything, and they quickly activated the rescue operations, while millions of Nymphs joined or separated from eachother forming new Dionae. Void of Peace Struck By Misfortune was once one of them, and following the violent end of the cluster, they became a Seasoned Song in time. They spent a couple of centuries as a refugee from the Skrells, first, as a research subject, then, as a worker. They learned how life works for them, and shortly, for the other species too. With a grim past like this, it's understandable that they are trying to keep going aboard the ship.

> What do you like about this character?

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I like the idea of a violent birth given by a culture shock. A cluster that was isolated for centuries is really an interesting starting point for the character to me, and I think that such a calamitous beginning can be relevant when explaining why they became a Seasoned Song. I also like that the Diona is very old because it can yield a slower yet more experienced character, someone that should provide interesting challenges and opportunities in terms of roleplay. I avoided a Chaotic Cacophony, even if perhaps that would be more natural for a violent detachment of the cluster, because I think that over time, the trauma of the gestalt might have been partially healed by the Nymphs.

How would you rate your role-playing ability?: I like to think that I improved over the past years, but really there is always room to grow more as a player.

Notes:

If confused by the username/ckey difference, check here.

[Yonnimer]

Hi, we have a few questions to ask, as well as one major thing we do need to bring up, namely that the Federation does not have any phonon deposits in it, and having your gestalt originally be sitting on one wouldn't work with the current lore. You don't have to rewrite the entire backstory or paragraph mentioning it, just respond with the changes you've made and how it'd affect them.

Also the questions:

• How'd they feel about the Federation and skrell in general? Did either have any major impacts on them after they split?
• Why did they move to Biesel? 
• How do they feel about other species, humans? IPCs? Other Dionae?
• Any opinions on Biesel and the megacorps/the SCC?
• What do you plan to have their job be on the station? What megacorp do they work under?
• Any religious beliefs or opinions on the Eternal church?

If you have any questions or concerns feel free to dm me or any other member of the Dionae team over on discord.

[Melariara]

Application denied due to administrative action.