[Accepted]Fluffyghost would like to have some Ammonium Nitrate... To grow (Diona Application)

[Fluffy]

BYOND Key: Fluffyghost

Character Names:

 

Species you are applying to play: Diona

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:

The concept of an union of nymphs, essentially immortal in their plurality, on a quest to acquire wisdom and knowledge is interesting, and I'd like to expand my narrative avenues. It's time to scratch that itch again.

 

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

Diona are usually played in a gestalt form and represent a group of nymphs, which can either have one or more nymphs delegated to do some specific task (eg. talking, moving/being an arm, take decisions) or they can talk all at the same time; being a group of nymphs, there is also an often diverging view on specific element, as each nymph forms opinions and display biases independently of each other (cognitive obstacles), diona can also separate and rejoin together, learn by drinking blood, eat to generate biomass, are very nomadic and conditionally pacific, variably discriminated in some form across the galaxy, feeds and heals off radiations (light or otherwise).

 

Character Name: Eternal Cataloguer and Observer of the Sufferers

Please provide a short backstory for this character

ECOS is a Gestalt Cyclops form in their Geras stage consisting of six nymphs with a scholarly song mind type who was assembled in Biesel in 2405.

ECOS spent most of its early days in Biesel, unemployed and homeless, roaming the streets in the most impoverished locations to talk to people at the margins and lower classes of the Bieselite society, cataloging their experiences for (hopefully) eternity, and learning about their lives in doing so, often via blood sampling. This gave ECOS a pluralistic slew of viewpoints, which in turn gave it a moltitude of perspectives that, in turn, gave it an accentuated epistemic humility, preferring a poststructuralist approach to the matters rather than an essentialist or imperative one.

As with Coeus for Geras and Penuma, ECOS during their Coeus phase tried to provide relief for said people by working menial day to day jobs inside Biesel and using whatever funds it could grasp to help said people, usually with food, clothes and medicines.

It eventually joined the TCFL for a year and half when it was formed in 2459, in order to obtain citizenship, working low-level non-combat position due to its Coeus stage, where it ended up mantaining and cleaning the armory; it eventually obtained citizenship in 2460.

ECOS went back to try to help people by joining the Interstellar Aid Corps and, in 2461, was present on Adhomai's Northern Harr'masir in the PRA territory to provide aids to civilians in the area.

When the New Kingdom attack on the western section near Baltor engaged with artillery, while ECOS was trying to run away from the zone and bringing injured civilians towards safety, a sharpnel hit ECOS's "Luminescent forthcoming" nymph, gravely injuring it and causing a potent echo chamber effect across the Gestalt.

While the rest of the Gestalt have more or less recovered from it completely, except from Gestalt-wide uneasiness when absorbing emotional information related to said events, Luminescent forthcoming developed a cognitive obstacle similar to Tourette syndrome, sometimes using foul language at seemingly random moments. The rest of the Gestalt is very sorry for that, apologize often about it and is very protective towards Luminescent forthcoming.

Upon turning into a Geras in 2463, ECOS soon made peace with the need for treatment to preserve mobility and, partially reluctantly, took the job of being a Warden, first in a prison and then aboard the SCCV Horizon, where it works today.

 

What do you like about this character?

ECOS is a tragifun ambivalent type of character, who navigated in the often-invisible social strata of Biesel first and (briefly) Adhomai after, a character that tried to help out against the fallout of a systemic, basically insormontabile, obstacle. It can perhaps be considered an iteration on the metanarrative notes of Pontmercy, while the backstory can be seen as serving the same purpose of the book.

Luminescent forthcoming serves as an humoristic relief expedient of an otherwise grim narrative, perhaps attributable to an antihero.

The combination of the two elements renders an expanded range of possible interactions and representations, allowing a great degree of narrative freedom.

 

How would you rate your role-playing ability?

Average, but I think that's usually a question better suited for others to answer, not the person himself.

 

Notes:

The title joke is that Ammonium Nitrate is used both as a fertilized and to make explosives.

[Boggle08]

We're close to a positive verdict. In retrospect, I have concerns about this part here.

On 31/05/2023 at 16:44, Fluffy said:

While the rest of the Gestalt have more or less recovered from it completely, except from Gestalt-wide uneasiness when absorbing emotional information related to said events, Luminescent forthcoming developed a cognitive obstacle similar to Tourette syndrome, sometimes using foul language at seemingly random moments. The rest of the Gestalt is very sorry for that, apologize often about it and is very protective towards Luminescent forthcoming.

Could you go further about how this would look like ingame?

[Fluffy]

1 hour ago, Boggle08 said:

Could you go further about how this would look like ingame?

Sure, it would basically be Luminescent forthcoming swearing at random moments (technical jargon would be coprolalia), the rest of the gestalt reprimand it, and apologize; coprolalia is associated in the popular culture to be the main characteristic of Tourette, in reality it's a relatively uncommon symptom (<10% of cases), though it's supposed to be fun in the context.

Why do the rest of the gestalt do not expel Luminescent forthcoming? Because they are protective towards it.

[Boggle08]

After conferring with others, we've decided that we can accept you, but only on the condition you either rework the tourettes analog to have a more subtle tic, or design a different cognitive obstacle. We believe you did your research on both fronts, but a dionae that haphazardly tosses out profanity is not how we want to see the species represented.

 You can let us know what you rework it to in this thread.

[Fluffy]

Sure, I will then make that specific nymph a racist instead, towards Tajara (and especially NKA ones), as a cognitive obstacle.

[Yonnimer]

Hello! Outside of the previously mentioned thing we needed changed, the app is overall fairly solid so we'll be accepting it