[Accepted] Dreamy's Vaurca Application

[Dreamix]

BYOND Key: Dreamixpl
Character Names: Shpresa Maglina, Zuleika-Varushka Xrimqil-loix
Species you are applying to play: Vaurca
What color do you plan on making your first alien character: RGB 130, 150, 20 (yellow-green) (Vedhra brood)
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:
I think Vaurca are very cool, and I think their lore is very well written. I really love how integrated they are in other species and nations lore, and do not just exist in a vacuum.
There is so much story potential or conflicts that are possible due to the way Vaurca are set up.
Vaurca from the three hives can compete with each other, but could also cooperate despite their differences, now as they have found themselves in the Spur. There are also the queenless, love them, or hate them.
At the same time, pretty much everyone that is not a bug, should have something to say about the bugs.
Whether it's a Bieselite weirded out by Zo'ra bounds being full citizens of Biesel, a Sinta Kataphract fighting for honor of the Hegemon alongside a K'lax, or a Skrell who was arrested by a C'thur serving in the Nlomkala.
Or even just about any human, either hurt by the Lii'dra invasion of Tau Ceti, or generally just disgusted by the weird bugs taking their damn jobs for dirt-cheap.

 

Identify what makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a Human:
Unlike most organics, and similarly to synthetics, Vaurca are designed and pre-programmed.
Generally, a Vaurca does not really choose by themselves, who it should be, what should they do, where, when, and who it should be loyal to.
If the Queen or Breeder tells you to go there, and do that, you do it. Otherwise, you may just be recycled.
This of course applies mostly to unbound Vaurca, and bound are entirely different matter, closer to lawed borgs than people.
Vaurca also do all kinds of things, that non-Vaurca do not: augmentations, biological engineering, the hivenet, even if these are not really extensively represented in-game, they are all very cool.
There is also the discrimination, monetary and the like. Cannot be hired by SCC at all, neither by Idris.

 

Character Name: Za'Akaix'Yska K'lax
Please provide a short backstory for this character:
Yska is supposed to be of Vedhra's brood. I would imagine Yska to be hatched not too long ago, a few years or the like, on Tret, the capital of K'lax.
Yska would have been made and designed to learn the ways of Unathi, learn their weapons, tactics, with the ultimate goal of preparing to fight against the Lii'dra, should they ever come again.
At first, Yska would train in VR, and because of their good performance, would be granted the opportunity to travel around Moghes, and get actual real-life experience with the Sinta.
Both to learn their culture, but also to get on better terms with them, do some PR work, and the like. Everything for the hive, and the hive is loyal to the Hegemon.
After a while, Yska would be transferred to Ve'katak Phalanx, first rented out by some rich Hegemonic merchant to provide standard private security work, like guarding against pirates.
And lastly, would be transferred over to Horizon, after getting consent from their Lord, still working under the Phalanx, to show the other hives how a real K'lax warrior should look like.

 

What do you like about this character?
I've only ever really interacted with Vaurca via my Federation Skrell chars, but that's kinda been a long while ago.
I think a K'lax would be very cool, to get a lick of Vaurca and Unathi lore, both at the same time.
I would love to interact with Vaurca from the other hives, as well as with the non-Vaurca, being all honorable and proud of being a Hegemonic K'lax.

 

How would you rate your role-playing ability?
I think it's alright.

Notes:
It is illegal to deny a Dreamy Vaurca.

Edited October 3, 2023 by Desven

[dessysalta]

First of all, I despise Maglina as a character, and now that I know you play them I can tell you to your face how much I hate them /pos. +1, very well written.

Secondly, I feel like you should add a bit more personality to this bug in the background. Why would it choose work aboard a corporate vessel instead of a naval or military one? What does it think of being bred for combat and forced into it most or all of its life? Does it have any goals beyond serving as a premier k'laxan example, like seeking a greater understanding of the world around it?

[Wigglesworth Jones]

Hi, thank you for applying. I have some questions I'd like to ask:

1. Besides money and employment, how are Vaurca discriminated against?

2. How do unbound Vaurca think, and how are they affected by things like VR and augmentations? 

3. How does Yska view the other hives? What about other species?

3. What does it see as the traits of a "real K'lax warrior?" 

[Dreamix]

On 27/09/2023 at 02:42, Wigglesworth Jones said:

Hi, thank you for applying. I have some questions I'd like to ask:

> 1. Besides money and employment, how are Vaurca discriminated against?
I think it's kinda, they're generally not really integrated into society. Like the average Vaurca can't go out and buy a house and live in it, or make investments. Like yeah, it's both because they live in hives and a Unbound has to listen to its Ta and Queen and the like, but also because the nations that host them wouldn't really allow that freedom, as they don't trust the Vaurca. A C'thur will be heavily monitored by the Federation, a K'lax even if living on Moghes will not really be able to live with Sinta together and will have to congregate in their own Vaurcan settlements. Also while it's not exactly strictly discrimination, but it's kinda related concept, Vaurca are generally considered "different" and "alien", and so are distrusted but other species, who may have very little or no actual contact with any Vaurca. Like when/if we go visit Konyang, it would be believable that Vaurca could be denied entry into shops or bars at all, for example 

> 2. How do unbound Vaurca think, and how are they affected by things like VR and augmentations? 
I find augmentation and VR to be a very interesting subject. It is typically bound Vaurca who are the most augmented, and even then, unbounds on Horizon would have very little augmentation. Oxygen filtration, limbs, but most importantly, the neural socket. The neural socket allows for interfacing with the hive network communications, as well as accessing the Virtual Reality at any time (even if not represented in-game), and the ability to have the Vaurca's consciousness uploaded to VR after death. VR itself influences Vaurca life on every step. Training, learning, entertainment, research, art. There are Vaurca who are not happy about being taken out of VR and into the "real" world (though VR is very much real to them, and not "virtual"), while other Vaurca do not leave VR at all in their life. Every realm of every Queen is going to be different, too, with Vaurca taking different roles in each, some more abstract, some more utilitarian.

> 3. How does Yska view the other hives? What about other species?
I would think Yska would see K'lax as superior to the other hives, but try not to boast or brag, and treat the other hives respectfully. It would be aware that K'lax have their strengths and weaknesses though, and would know the situations of the other hives. If other Vaurca from different hives were to be fighting, Yska would try to defuse the situation. Yska would see Sinta as on the same level as K'lax, that being a necessity to ensure survival of the Hive, and to maintain good relations with the Hegemony.
I don't want to say Yska would be "brainwashed" to think like it does, but the character is supposed to have been only just recently introduced to non-Vaurca non-Sinta society on Horizon, and like, I would like to see how the relations with Vaurca from the other hives and species develop over time. Initially though, I would imagine Yska to think the other species like Humans or Skrell are strange, in how they're very different from Yska have seen and been used to so far, but I don't think it'd be distrustful or disliking the newly met people. More just, curious, to learn new things, and try to adapt to new situations.

> 3. What does it see as the traits of a "real K'lax warrior?" 
I would imagine it would be to, first and foremost, be loyal to its Hive, its Lord, and the Hegemon. It would never try to compromise its own Hive, would always try to take care of its Ta and other K'lax Vaurca. It would also try to follow the Sinta Warrior's Code, having learned theirs ways in VR and on Moghes - be honest, protect the innocent, and if it failed in being a "real warrior" it would rather submit to the punishment than run (and become Guwan/di... but most likely just be deemed defective and culled).

Edited September 28, 2023 by Dreamix

[Desven]

Accepted.