Casgam1 Dionae Application

[CasualMemer]

BYOND Key: Casgam1

 Character Names: Most notable characters: Darin Vidal, Marvin Overstreet, Jameson Mepst, Gina Vidal,Nathan Horvath.

Species you are applying to play: Dionae

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

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: Dionae have always caught my interest due to not seeing a lot of them a lot in-game. I also like their lore due to the fact that they have been mostly helping everyone they come across (except Titan Prime,but that was just a misunderstanding).

Identify what makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a Human: A ton of things,including them being multiple creatures with their own thoughts connected as a gestalt, the diverse mindtypes,their conditional pacifism and the ''echo chamber'' effect,their theoretical immortality,them being able to come from alien nations, human nations or unknown asteroids and planets.

Character Name: Ambitions Of Song And Efficiency

Please provide a short backstory for this character: A group of spores travelling across the galaxy that has found a place to grow on an asteroid in an unknown system. The pods were eventually found by a mining group from The HMS Narrows and taken onto the ship to become members of society. The gestalt agreed that they wished to be a part of The Narrows, and voted on becoming an engineer for hephaestus. (They are a Harmonious Hymm) During the time in wich they were an engineering apprentice at The Narrows, they always tried hard to be as efficient as possible while doing repairs.

Eventually, they formed a passion for writing songs to preserve the knowledge they gained from their travels, as such, they asked if they could be relocated to an exploration vessel and the Overseer of Maintenance sent them to the SCCV Horizon as an engineering apprentice.

What do you like about this character? I feel like harmonious hymm is my favorite mindtype, so yeah that counts.

  How would you rate your role-playing ability? 6.8 And slowly improving.

Notes: Might also make a federation-grown once i feel like i've read enough skrell lore.

Edited September 3, 2023 by CasualMemer

[dessysalta]

Honestly, I trust Casgam to play a Diona gestalt so long as they pay extra attention to how they act/etc., the only issue I need to point out is you barely have anything written about what makes them different, why you want to play them, etc. it's very barebones. Remember, it's a paragraph for each question at minimum, so you'd be better off doubling or tripling everything you've written so far. Remember not just to regurgitate wiki content or explanations; really, truly think about how a nymph or gestalt would act as opposed to someone like a human.

+1, just remember what I said. Also, you better not have given up on your Vaurca app. 👀

 

Edited September 4, 2023 by dessysalta
minor pronoun/pov fix

[Caelphon]

Hi there! Thank you for your application. It’s a bit short, but hopefully with some questions we can get to know some more.

1. How does your character feel about Hephaestus Industries?

2. What was their experience like in C-block? How did they discover they enjoyed song-writing?

3. Why did they seek the SCCV Horizon, why not a lesser well-known exploratory vessel? 
4. How does their initial wildness, or rather having been voidic, impact them today? How did they integrate with C-block? 
5. How does the Harmonious Hymn impact their decision making? How will this impact their personality?

6. How old is the Gestalt? Were they all voidic, or did some from the Narrows join them? 

Thank you! 

[CasualMemer]

1: Due to the large amount of older dionae on The Narrows being Hephaestus employees, the younger dionae who look up to them with respect will follow their path of working with Hephaestus and will grow to like the corporation for giving them their home (The H-Z-63's construction)

2: Ambitions sees The Narrows as their home, the older dionae were always keen on teaching the younger gestalts and nymphs. They have made a lot of friends there and generally enjoyed having been found on that asteroid. When they were learning basic ship maintenance,there was another gestalt that made wonderful songs about the potatoes in the botanical section of the ship, this inspired them to also partake in music-making.

3. They didn't specifically want the Horizon,they asked the Overseer of Maintenance to be relocated to any exploratory vessel as they wished to travel the galaxy. The Overseer of Maintenance checked for open positions that matched Ambitions' engineering skill level and found a perfect fit as an engineering apprentice on a phoron-locating ship known as the SCCV Horizon. Most of the other lesser-known exploration ships had enough engineers staffed, leading to the Horizon being a good choice.

4. They have lived on the asteroid for a total of two years, leading to the voidic psychology not having enough time to set in. Thus, their integration into society was easy, tho they will gaze out to the stars for hours at a time. Them having grown for two years in space was enough to make them grow a dark bark.

5. Harmonious Hymm is a mindtype that makes every nymph in a gestalt vote on decisions. A gestalt will take long pauses between sentences or words for when the gestalt is deciding what to say. This will make their personality more centralised on the majority of nymphs instead of a single social nymph. The left arm nymph could like painting while the right arm nymph likes playing the piano. Every nymph can have a different personality, but most of them just have similar personalities.

6. Three nymphs from the asteroid that lived 2 years in space, with the addition of another 4 nymphs from The Narrows. They have spent 19 years learning on The Narrows to become an engineer, making them 21 years old (a coeus).

[Caelphon]

Do you mind expanding in what makes this species different to roleplay than humans? The team will assess following that! Thank you!

[CasualMemer]

Dionae reffer to themselves as ''We'' due to them being made up of multiple nymphs, compared to humans wich are a single creatures.

Dionae with the singular sound mindtype are the closest to a hivemind, due to the only nymph with thoughts being the social nymph.

Dionae with the Harmonious Hymm mindtype (Harmonious Hymm is my favorite) take all actions with democracy.

Dionae are very diverse, they can be raised by skrell, unathi, humans or other dionae. Or they can roam space for hundreds of years.

Diona gestalts are very different from humans due to their vastly different biology, psychology and them being the oldest creatures in the galaxy.

Their pacifism makes hostile situations require more RP instead of fighting, as they will try to talk down a violent situation.

[Caelphon]

This application is accepted!