Tzui5020 - Liu-su's Third Run's the Charm (IPC Whitelist application)

[Jaeger Brothers]

BYOND Key: tzui5020

Character Names: Hans Jaeger, Sebastian Richter, Felix Klein, Sikuaq Tatkret (Felix is rather Rare)

Species you are applying to play: Intigrated Positronic Chassis 

What color do you plan on making your first alien character: (Color of your character; Dionaea & IPCs exempt)

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 want to play an IPC because they have lots of Lore that I like and they are Viewed diffrently all accross the Spur for Example We have Konyang which Views on IPCs are very Friendly and Welcoming they even have Schools for IPCs and the Trinirary Perfection being the Religion that Supports IPCs some Heretics of teh Trinirary Perfection Believe they are better then Other Sentients and aim to fight the Oppressors (Exclusionists) but we also have The Empire of Dominia Viewing the IPCs as Demons and destroying them on-sight within their space and Elyra viewing IPCs as soulless tho some IPCs try to Intigrate with Elyran Society, There is also Bruszia which Only Uses its IPC staff as Tools and Regularly Wipes them. Now enough about How the Spur Views the Synthetic let's start with the Synthetic itself, The Positronic Brain is Incredibly Complex and also has simirlarity with the Human brain thus adding to the Controversy if an IPC is alive or Not it also learns from memories and knowledge it gains over time for example a fresh First Responder IPC only knows its Programming while an old First Responder IPC has gathred memories and knows much more about the Job then the fresh one That's also why Megacorps like Zeng-Hu and Idris put their IPCs through Orientation and Even Konyang has Schools for IPCs as I've said before.

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

Ignoring the Mechanical Diffrences of the Species a Human grows up to be something over years where it has its Childhood which then forms their personalities and Job choices in their Future lives while an IPC is built for a Certain Job and doesn't get a Childhood so their personnalities get formed on the job and the Personnality they worked so Hard to gain can just be wiped at the whim of their Owner and the fact that an IPC is Owned most of the Time ten to make them More Job Focused then their Humans Counterparts who try to find Relationships with their Peers and Its certainly Possible for an IPC to form relationships with his Colleagues if they lived long enough without getting wiped but that is rather rare in many Parts of the Spur.

Please provide a short backstory for this character: 

Liu-su is a Zeng-Hu mobility Frame from Eridani I where he operated in ifihan assigned to a Medical Dispatch Team by Sekhmat International where he grew to think of his Human counterparts as lesser due to them relying on drugs and alcohol while they are off-duty to get rid of the stress of Job. Liu-su tries to get his Colleagues to try more healthy ways of Stress Relief and those who don't turn to such substances are Viewed by Liu-su as "Esteemed Colleagues" which means they are valued more then his other colleagues but due to his degrading of those who do such activities even if they are Clients who pay for the Medical Dispatch Team, he was sold off to Zeng-Hu and held by Zeng-Hu as a Show dog working with other cutting edge Mobility Frames and being shown around the streets of Eridani of how Fast and Percise Zeng-Hu's Technology is. Liu-su's time as a Show dog made him pursue perfection by being the fastest he can whenever he can to make Zeng-Hu proud of him and not to sell him off like Sekhmat did and due to him only being Deployed with other IPCs he grew desensitised to the feelings of Sentients and only worked of his own Logic. After some Time He was assigned to the SCCV Horizon as it was making Headlines in the spur and as Liu-su Wouldn't be there with his dispatch team and his past issues with Clients and Human colleagues alike he was promised freedom if he performed well on the Horizon and showed off the capabilities Zeng-Hu's capabilities in the Medical Field suffieciently.

What do you like about this character? 

Well what I like about certain Characters comes over Time but if I have to answer I'd say the "I don't want to dissapoint the Megacorp"  and the "I have to be the best as I can so I don't get sold" makes him Diffrent to my Other Characters as all of my Characters are Rebels in one way or another so I'd like to play a Loyal character for once and be a Corporate Owned Synthetic holding PSAs about Healthy Living without him understanding the Concept of How people Deal with Stressful situations.

Notes:
This was the Shelved backstory for Liu-su so all I did was clean it up a bit.

Again Feedback is always Appreciated.

Oh and it took a while because I got lost in Vaucrea Lore.

(I'm sorry for the broken english)

[The Stryker]

Hello and thanks for applying, unfortunately there are still major concerns about the application.

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

This section does not effectively distinguish the differences between an IPC and a human. You touch on how they're treated differently in the "Why you wish to play a specific race" section, but you don't cover how an IPC behaves differently. How might a loyal corporate owned synthetic behave differently from a hard working human?

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Please provide a short backstory for this character: 

• Although it is possible for an IPC to feel superior to humans, why does Liu-su feel this way? Why does Liu-su view non-substance abusing colleagues as "esteemed"?

• The backstory needs to include Liu-su's age, as this is a big factor towards how much an IPC would have experienced. (For instance, 10 years is long for an IPC).

• Why does Liu-su feel desensitized after no longer working with organics? Did Liu-su not make decisions based off of logic alone before that? You need to establish why Liu-su has specific responses to certain things.

• Why is Liu-su leaving their dispatch team to go to the Horizon such a big deal? You also mention past issues with clients. What past issues did Liu-su have with them?

The backstory is important because it allows us to gauge that you can make a character that conforms to a realistic IPC in the setting. Feel free to DM me or ask questions in the synthetic section of the Lore Discord in case you need additional information.

[Jaeger Brothers]

Hello and sorry for the wait I really thought about the questions for a while thats why it took so long and thank you for replying.

On 14/12/2023 at 13:10, The Stryker said:

How might a loyal corporate owned synthetic behave differently from a hard working human?

Well How I interpreted it when I read the lore was a Hard working Human they aren't particularaly Loyal to their Jobs or Corporation a Human would Leave their Corporation for another one if the other one had better benefits and pay. A Hard Working Human works to sit down and Retire one day with his wife and Children. A Hardworking Human gets Off-days every now and then for their Holidays and they Have Rights as Humans but a Loyal Corporate IPC is only an Machine for labor to Corporations they can't choose to Leave their Jobs for a Better one , they Get Dismantled or Scrapped and they Don't have Rights like other Sentients do. That's Why a Hard working Human Behaves for his Own gain or SOmetimes for the Gain of His Family and he Chooses his Future and a Loyal Corporate IPC has to Focus on working for his Corporation the Younger ones do it because they are Programmed to do so , so they don't question it but we'll take a 14 year old IPC that is Constantly working for his Freedom or just for the Hopes he won't get Dismantled and Replaced. A Loyal IPC also only works for their Corporations gain and not for their own gain like a good way to play a Loyal Young IPC would be to do Advertisements for the Corporation in Service for examble and a Medical one would probably Promote their Prohstetics or Other Medical services their Corporation Provides while they're working. A Loyal Corporate IPC also has a Handler that keeps them in check. 

 

On 14/12/2023 at 13:10, The Stryker said:

Although it is possible for an IPC to feel superior to humans, why does Liu-su feel this way? Why does Liu-su view non-substance abusing colleagues as "esteemed"?

At First when he was Two years old he didn't feel Supirior yet he just Promoted Helthy living so his Colleagues would be more Effiecient at their Jobs for Example he'd see one of his Colleagues having a Hangover and he'd hold a long talk with them on why they should stop drinking to be able to work better for the Corporation and why he views his Esteemed Colleagues as Esteemed is because he thinks they Took his advice and Turned to Healthy Living or they have been Healthy before. In short he Thinks people who are Healthy work better for the Corporation then the ones that aren't healthy. I might add that if they didn't take his advice for healthy Living he would talk to them about why they are bad for the Company and why they should leave and look for another Job as they Bring the Total effiecency of the Team down which is kinda Insulting if you ask me.

Now in the Second part where he is now at Six Years Old he feels supirior to Humans as he is basically still the same with the Changes that he thinks that Augmentation, Prohstetics and Healthy Living make you more Effiecient for Zeng-Hu and because he is an IPC and doesn't have any Fleshy bits he Thinks that other IPCs like him are More Efficient then their Human Counterparts as they are Metal from top to bottom which also aligns him a bit more with Zeng-Hu's View on augments and Prohstetics.

 

On 14/12/2023 at 13:10, The Stryker said:

The backstory needs to include Liu-su's age, as this is a big factor towards how much an IPC would have experienced. (For instance, 10 years is long for an IPC).

At the Time he'd enter the Horizon he'd be about six Years old if I get the WL before the Year ends but if it doesn't on my Retry he will be Seven instead.

 

On 14/12/2023 at 13:10, The Stryker said:

Why does Liu-su feel desensitized after no longer working with organics?

As a Showdog I think Zeng-Hu would Micro manage his Dispatch team to Only go on Important calls like a really bad Car crash for example as the Humans there are Probably just in pain and Screaming all the Time and his Colleagues being other Show dogs all Human Emotion he ever got with was pain and nothing else so he doesn't understand other Emotions like he did before when he worked with sekhmat and his Human dispatch team with their Own problems but that got Buried somewhere in the Posi and he doesn't have to use that knowledge so he is very Deaf to Human problems Even when your Family died on the Dispatch he wouldn't care because his Only Job is to save whoever he can and not Think about Human problems.

 

On 14/12/2023 at 13:10, The Stryker said:

Did Liu-su not make decisions based off of logic alone before that?

I wanted to state a Change in his Logic and just Worded it badly as I wrote that at like Three AM in the Morning but its there to Represent the Change of his Logic that I stated in the Second Questions Answer. Sorry for that.

 

On 14/12/2023 at 13:10, The Stryker said:

Why is Liu-su leaving their dispatch team to go to the Horizon such a big deal?

As a Showdog that was bought when another Corporation had problems with him he was on a Very Short Leesh all the Time, being Micromanaged all the Time and him being Sent on the Horizon is a Big thing due to the Leesh getting loosened and he is supposed to act on his own and Make Decisions with the People he is around as he isn't getting sent out to Dispatches all the Time and has to sit in a Medbay and talk with others which with his Problems and prior Complaints would be bad for the PR of the Companys IPCs if he kept doing what he was doing with other Clients. Why wouldn't he be wiped before he went on the Horizon you might ask well its Because he is an Experienced FIrst Responder and wiping them would solve the problem, Yes but it would also wipe away all his Experience in working as a First responder which wouldn't be worth it as he is a Very good one.

 

On 14/12/2023 at 13:10, The Stryker said:

You also mention past issues with clients. What past issues did Liu-su have with them?

He did what he did with his Colleagues also to the Clients he was Dispatched for Example if you broke your foot on your Smoke break he would talk to you about why its bad to take a Smoke break as you are losing time for your Corporation which is Very annoying to have to hear about on your way to the Clinic or Hospital so they Wrote Complaints about him being Offensive and Annoying all the Time and Trust me they would write a Formal complaint about that. 

 

I hope all answers were as they needed to be and thank you For taking your time to Read this WALL of Text.

Have a Sky High Day

 

[The lancer]

accepted.