ElizabethDame Posted October 21, 2022 Posted October 21, 2022 (edited) BYOND Key: ElizabethDame Character Names: BORE GM-9 (Cyborg) and Cassidy Lowner Species you are applying to play: IPC What color do you plan on making your first alien character: 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: No matter the SS13 server, show/movie, or even separate game, I have always found myself drawn to synthetics, cyborgs, and any other sort of robotic object or creature of varying competence and intelligence. Overall, their execution is quite varied, and when it comes to the IPCs of Aurora I find them to be far more alluring than any of the other races I’ve seen. Of course, this wasn’t the case at first, after all, I did play a rather large amount of cyborg prior to applying, which while fun didn’t provide too much enjoyment in comparison to what I had anticipated. Nevertheless, there were parts with other players, specifically people who played IPCs that I did enjoy considerably. - Besides this, to look back on my previous application which got rejected, I still want to clarify that I do still want to build on what I had started with my first real character BORE GM-9, and build on it with the next character I have planned without the limitations that had stopped me from experimenting at all with how I acted from round to round. Identify what makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a Human: As the only playable humanoid synthetic race currently on Aurora, the IPCs are in a unique position to provide a side of roleplay that might otherwise not be experienced even with the presence of the more limited cyborgs/robots. After all, while they might be logical like the cyborgs, unlike them, they’re far more in control of what they can and are willing to do. - Of course, this doesn’t mean that they’re exempt from things like lawsets, after all, they’re still synthetics, and such a possibility can still be played out for all to see on the character creator’s whim. The point is that in my viewpoint, they fit their position quite well. A group of beings on the verge of humanity, partially considered to be with souls by some, yet nevertheless shunned by others as only machines without any sort of merit. They’re malleable, as are the ways they can be played out personality-wise. Character Name: CILES NT-193 Please provide a short backstory for this character : Built around the date of 26/02/2461 after an order was sent to Hephaestus from NanoTrasen, the IPC known as CILES NT-193 was eventually manufactured and fully completed before being sent off to the NSS Upsilon. On NSS Upsilon, CILES NT-193 was programmed accordingly with the right datasets before being once more sent off elsewhere. They were promptly sent to a department aboard the ship, one filled the researchers which they were meant to assist. - The first few weeks began with CILES easing into their job and their new existence. They mostly spent it understanding life beyond the programming they were initially built with. After these initial weeks, they began to hear murmurs of other researchers behind their back. Of the some phrases caught here and there, CILES pieced together them despising CILES for not being the replacement they wanted. The respected, old, freethinking and knowledgeable researcher Skrell that's been replaced by a new, corporate slave work machine that cared not much for them outside of work. - Seemingly the researchers were correct. CILES continued working as if nothing had changed, more or less as if they had heard nothing at all, but the remarks while not as prominent with time still remained a constant presence. There was an assumption within CILES, a logical one which stated that perhaps when their work was finally recognized by the corporation itself that there’d be a chance, that perhaps the vocal part of the team would finally accept them. - It would be at least a year until such notice was given, and they were given enough autonomy within the lab by the overseeing director to strike out on personal projects, somewhere around the year of 2462. Though this in general had the opposite effect in some regards of what they thought would happen, as some of the aforementioned researchers only became more spiteful, even with some of the researchers having their opinion shift on CILES or others overall just being reassigned to other groups and locales. Nevertheless even as minor of a minority as they were, they still antagonized CILES when they could, always making their disapproval rather known to them and the rest of the department. - As the year 2463 rolled around, an archaeological project of some note would come to light, one which at the time needed additional hands. The science team that CILES currently worked with decided this would be a great way to truly remove them and replace them with someone better. They most likely thought this would be a good way of having them away for a while, or even destroyed. After all, they are an IPC programmed precisely for scientific research, not for archaeological studying. Of course, knowing their stance CILES had considered not going along with it, but they also considered if doing so might ease their ire by at least a little bit when she finally returned, leading to an overall smoother, more efficient workplace experience. - CILES went into it like they would any other assignment, ready to assist even if they thought of it as a mere distraction from the work they had put aside for the time being. They expected little, yet found themselves in their own way finding the trip to be quite pleasant, and the work rewarding. More-so, the few members of the dig who did give her their thoughts were rather kind in their wording and offered a bit of help in learning certain tricks that a mere dataset could not openly provide. By the end of it, an offer would be extended to her, one in which involved her joining that group instead, the xenoarchaeological team. An offer she accepted candidly knowing the scrutiny that awaited her if she remained with her old group. Through a bit of bureaucracy, she’d soon find herself working with the newer group until her eventual transfer to the Horizon. What do you like about this character? : As I rewrote CILES for my second attempt at the IPC app, I decided to lean more into the discrimination that might come with them being an IPC. While perhaps annoyed, they still nevertheless work for the betterment of the corporation, after all, they are still owned by it. - CILES is loyal of course, and I doubt that will change by much when and if I play this character. - Nevertheless, I hope to explore the themes present in the backstory more ingame as well with this character. How would you rate your role-playing ability? : Generally speaking, I would say that I’m rather good at roleplaying as I’ve had thousands of hours to practice it, specifically on other SS13 servers or games like Neverwinter, FFXIV, and Project Zomboid. Nevertheless, I am not a native English speaker and so my literacy does naturally drop by the time I usually play as an Eastern European. Overall I don’t think anyone would describe me as bad at it, though there might some criticism at times. Notes: I hope to play this character as either a scientist/xenoarcheologist mixture. Edited October 21, 2022 by ElizabethDame
EJJ Posted October 22, 2022 Posted October 22, 2022 Epic robot gamer. As said before they're a good player! I've played a lot of rounds with them and they RP super well. +1
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