Provenance's Custom Jacket

[niennab]

BYOND Key: niennab

Discord Username: Laowra#3847

Character Name: Z.I. Provenance

Item Name: Double-Breasted Cropped Jacket

Item Function(s): This item is a jacket, and should only be able to be worn on the suit slot. It should have a buttoned and unbuttoned state as well as the standard pocket slots of any jacket. It would be equally neat if this and the public variants below had reduced heat values but I understand if that’s not possible.

Item Description: Styled after the latest fashion trends on Konyang, this hybrid leather and polyester mesh jacket was built with the planet’s humid climate in mind. This particular jacket appears to be emplematic of Konyang's stylings but hand-made, sporting a distinctive fur collar.

Why is your character bringing this item to work?: While on duty, the jacket serves as something to throw on in between repairing the station. It also gives Provenance a more ‘off the clock’ appearance when not running from one fire to the next. However, and where I suspect most of its use will come from, while off duty, the jacket serves as a unique fashion item.

How did your character obtain this item?: Ravna Surtaeva personally tanned the leather, bought the materials, and sewed the jacket for Provenance. The process has been slowly roleplayed out via the Relay’s lounge channel. If it needs to be said, Provenance has a few personal items that she stores in a locker acquired by one of her handler's, Jae-hwa Ryoo.

What value does this item have to your character, and what story does it tell?: Provenance, a displaced synthetic from Konyang, represents the fragility of an IPC’s place within the system and the losing battle so many of its kind are thrust into. Being the outdated synthetic in an oppressive megacorporation, Provenance is greatly shaped by and heavily relies on the crew around it.

The design of the jacket is meant to be a fashion item but styled around the Konyang heat. For both synthetics and organics alike, the mesh design keeps the wearer cool in the humid climate. Equally, by Ravna making the jacket, it has taken on a mixed identity to the design. Ultimately the coat in her possession is meant to represent her withdrawal from Konyang, her ties to it, as well as the impact a multicultural ship has to offer.

Below is more or less the concept and reference that went into the jacket’s design.

Sprites: provenance.dmi

Additional Comments:

I tend to have a more, at least personally, liberal view on custom items and so with this jacket, I wanted to offer a few variants for public use on the server. Because a lot of the existing Konyang sprites are brightly coloured, I thought the designs may benefit from a more muted palette.

Item Name: Double Breasted Konyang Jacket

Type:

Pale Beige

Deep Black

Iridescent Blue

Item Description: Styled after the latest fashion trends on Konyang, this hybrid faux-leather and polyester mesh jacket was built with the planet’s humid climate in mind.

Fluff Description: Only recently entering the larger Coalition scene, Konyanger fashion has taken the frontier by storm, owing to its unique blend of durability, waterproofing, and breathability. This innovation in clothing was only accomplished due to Konyanger fashion brands utilizing the fabrics and textiles unique to their planet.

[Sycmos]

Provenance is without a doubt one of the most well-developed, nuanced characters currently active in the community and has been incredible to interact with since day one. My experience with the transition to the SCCV Horizon would not have been half as engaging or enjoyable without Nienna's excellent execution of how a corporate synthetic can experience trauma and change as uniquely as a synthetic in our setting could.

Putting aside obvious bias I feel that there's a distinct lack of synthetic-oriented apparel that isn't tied to a faction in our lore and having some representation of how culture and its influence on apparel may adapt to the living conditions of synthetics would be a great start in potentially shifting the precedent in how we represent our chrome companions visibly in game.

+1
 

[BoryaTheSlayer]

I would love to see more fashion like that for Konyang - as much as we already have a good bunch of representation for the planet's culture in the loadout, it does feature a lot of bright colours and I would appreciate an alternative - especially if it comes in the form of pretty sprites like these!

But putting my wishes aside, even if none of it becomes public and remains Provenance's item, Nienna definitely deserves the item and I hope to engage with the character more.

+1

[Roostercat]

I like this item, and think it fits the character well. 

 

Accepted.