[Accepted]hollyhock's Dionae application!

[hollyhock]

BYOND Key: hollyhock
Character Names: Katerina Nepovimova, Lucia Accardi, Julia Bury
Species you are applying to play: Dionae
What color do you plan on making your first alien character: Dionae-colored! Specifically, default color.
Have you read our lore section's page on this species?: Many times.

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:
     I absolutely love the Dionae; their inherently social-mindedness from being made up of multiple minds, their slow pace, and aversion to violence. The diversity of mindtypes makes each Dionae fundamentally unique, both with how they speak and interact, and how they think, what roles each Diona plays in the gestalt, the individual memories and personalities combining to make a person more than the sum of their parts. The way they inherit memories through drinking blood and eating bodies, and how they might be seen by other sapients for this, is also extremely interesting to me. Overall, Dionae have been my favorite species since I first read about them, and I'd love to get to play the part of one.

Identify what makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a Human:
     Depending on the Dionae, there might be more or less. A Dionae that fits the Singular Sound, for instance, would have an internal monologue essentially like any other sapient species. Many Dionae, however, would have more of an internal dialogue, talking to themselves before they speak. This is, I think, the biggest difference between Humans and Dionae: the multiple beings in one gestalt. They also, of course, photosynthesize and absorb DNA to obtain memories.

Character Name: Distant Howls of Rusted Winds Heard From Our Sanctuary, Now Lost to the Flames of Hubris
Please provide a short backstory for this character
     Grown in a small Dionae garden and solar farm in a settlement just outside Vonnegut after multiple lengthy application processes, the seven nymphs that would make this gestalt up were raised by older Dionae communally. The Gestalts also took care of a Penuma in the center of their living space. The nymphs would always follow the examples set by the gestalts teaching them, often mimicking their deliberations and democratic way of making decisions among themselves. When it eventually came time to be examined for sentience and merge into a gestalt, they kept this behavior, and currently have a Harmonious Hymn mindtype, and are a Coeus today in 2464.
      The gestalt moved offworld in order to attend Solis Cognito University, partially funded by their family on Mars. Graduating with a Masters in Robotics in 2462, they had signed on with Hephaestus Industries a few weeks before the Violet Dawn incident. Most of their 'family' managed to make it off the planet with the Penuma soon before the destruction of Vonnegut, but were now refugees in orbit of Mars. Distant Howls of Rusted Winds requested a transfer to the Republic of Biesel, while the survivors from the garden found employment in Crest Olympia. On a work visa and sponsored by Hephaestus, the Dionae signed on to serve aboard a Hephaestus vessel repairing cyborgs, sending as much of their wages that they could back home. Over a year later, they requested a transfer to the SCCV Horizon.
What do you like about this character?
     I want to play Distant Howls of Rusted Winds as being deeply convicted in the importance of democratic choice and in regular change and adaptation, if that makes sense. They want to see things from multiple viewpoints, and find synthetics fascinating for their diversity in how they think and see the world.
How would you rate your role-playing ability? 7?

Notes: I hope I did alright. Thank you for reading!

Edited August 30, 2022 by hollyhock
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[JormungandrButCooler]

(Just some new player coming through don't mind me)

I know alien race whitelists is about lore team approval, but I do want to admit that while I was scrolling through this forum, this person summarized Dionae so well, they made me stop what I was doing and just start reading every wiki article on them. Good on them!

[Yonnimer]

Apologies for the delay with this, overall your app is fairly solid and covers most points i'd ask, so i'll be accepting your app.