[DENIED] Sniblet's Skrell Application

[Sniblet]

BYOND Key: Sniblet

Character Names:

Iphigenia Konstantinou, Liiri Alie, Karen Stahl, Natascha Marikova, Anahi Avalona, Lilija Larsdottir, Ayla Shanae, Kalini Shanae

Species you are applying to play: Skrell

What color do you plan on making your first alien character:

Not white? I don’t think there’s a complete list of options written down anywhere outside of character setup and the code, only one of which I can access. I guess purple, super provisionally.

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

Most of them! My eyes hurt.

Why do you wish to play this specific race: 

No one else does. I'm on my way to trying every job on the Horizon at least once, and this is the obvious Best Species to use for a psychologist. Maybe a surgeon too.

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

Synthetics are terrifying. Your face doesn't move. You're constantly aware of your government standing somewhere behind you, watching. Conforming to all expectations is the only way you can get anywhere in life. The air is always too dry. Nobody but your own kind really gets you. You allegedly get a sense of what other people are thinking before they've expressed it, but this isn't mechanically supported.

But you’re used to it.

Character Name:

What even are Skrell naming conventions? All that’s written is that an apostrophe in the surname represents a “marriage,” and a lot of their names and words (and Nral’Malic ingame) look similar to slime language. It looks like the Qu’ prefix means “of,” but I haven’t seen it used in a name anywhere that I can recall. Who’s to say it couldn’t be, though?

Qu’aqea Qualia

This can be shortened to QaQ, or Quack, convenient and fun for a medical Skrell.

I’m imagining here that Qualia is a Solarian loanword that means what it does in English, so the first name means “Of-aqea” and the surname means “Quality.” I’ll then pretend that aqea means “what,” so the full name is the question, “Of-what quality?” “What are you?”

Please provide a short backstory for this character:

Surgeon main, answers to Zeng-Hu. Axiori, from Tresja’s submerged area. 4'8". ~84? years old, two degrees, one in international culture (Human culture track, because I don't know anything about any others lemao) and one in medicine. Seeking a holistic understanding of all organic life, intending to start outside the Federation and move inward over decades. SCS of 6.4~~~ish?, limited by her age. She’s a model citizen, mostly.

QaQ has interacted with humans enough in her education that she’s, firstly, taken on a pronoun, but also put together a means of expression that lets her overcome the firm hands-behind-their-back straight-postured mastermind image that most humans have of the species. She speaks with heavy use of emphasis, pitch, and volume, her body language blurs the line with dance, and she likes to throw around nicknames and weird unconventional slang. She’s probably gonna call Aelia “the baroness,” or something. She calls most humans sparks.

What do you like about this character?

Another new job and personality archetype to try out, and a new species, but the mechanics don’t seem particularly significant seeing as doing anything with the Srom is a crime. I think there’s a lot that can be done with an 80-year-old that acts like, and by her nation’s conventions is, basically a child.

How would you rate your role-playing ability?

Always developing? I’d like to emote more. Skrell, and QaQ particularly, having unique means of expression might push me to do it.

Notes:

Imagine: your surgeon is almost an entire foot shorter than you, calls red-alert situations "riptides" for some reason, dances while she talks, and is a squid. Now imagine that that's not a surgeon, that's your CMO.

Someday.

Edited December 30, 2022 by WhatsUpBrotendo

[WhatsUpBrotendo]

Hi, thanks for applying.

I want to point out some things said in the app.

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Not white? I don’t think there’s a complete list of options written down anywhere outside of character setup and the code, only one of which I can access. I guess purple, super provisionally.

Skrell can be pretty much any colour thanks to modern technology (spa treatments), but we expect players to not be silly with it. For natural colourations that's covered under the Skrell ethnicities page.

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What even are Skrell naming conventions? All that’s written is that an apostrophe in the surname represents a “marriage,” and a lot of their names and words (and Nral’Malic ingame) look similar to slime language. It looks like the Qu’ prefix means “of,” but I haven’t seen it used in a name anywhere that I can recall. Who’s to say it couldn’t be, though?

There aren't really any naming conventions, but I know Cael takes inspiration from Maori and similar languages for locations when he's made maps for our planets. As for "Qu" it's usually translated to "light" or "star", like the Qukala and its now dissolved Lukala (star enforcers and void enforcers respectively). I don't see an issue with it being used in a character's name, but I don't accept the nickname "quack" for a medical professional.

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Backstory

This backstory isn't acceptable. It's meant to be your character's background and showcase how your character has interacted with the lore for the species. While you've mentioned SCS and other things, it mostly appears to be out of character ideas.

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Another new job and personality archetype to try out, and a new species, but the mechanics don’t seem particularly significant seeing as doing anything with the Srom is a crime. I think there’s a lot that can be done with an 80-year-old that acts like, and by her nation’s conventions is, basically a child.

80 year old Skrell are definitely not considered children in Federation society, especially those with degrees.

 

I'll be denying this app, but I encourage you to ask questions on the lore discord and look at other whitelist applications to get an idea of what we expect. You can reapply in three days.