[Approved] Never back down never give up! Casgam1 Vaurca WL app

[CasualMemer]

BYOND Ckey: Casgam1

Discord username: RandomBeaver

Character names: Darin Vidal, Gina Vidal, To Sleep Beneath Winds Of A Wandering Star In A Dream Of Greed, Forgotten Glimpse Of A Rusted Leaf, Akio Isamu, Dreams Of Fortune In Ancient Sands.

Species you are applying to play: Vaurca

------------------------------ General Whitelist Requirements:

What colour do you plan on making your first alien character?:(RGB 61, 0, 0)

  Have you read the lore pages for the species you wish to be whitelisted for?: Yes, and i'll keep them open whenever playing. (just a me thing)

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 species?: Vaurcae have fascinated me since i started playing. Mainly them being different, very different from humans. I have also seen many great roleplayers playing vaurca, my main inspirations are Nangaren (Nangeren? I keep forgetting) and Pleig. The hivenet is a community, communities require members. By another vaurca player existing, the hivenet becomes greater. This is what hole i wished to fill when i applied for diona. There is a significant amount of customisation available for vaurcae, and even subspecies made for specific things. A mining bulwark is often a great example, due to their sheer strength they can use a larger range of kinetic accelerators. Vaurcae are alien, and aliens are cool, but vaurcae have an interesting history and diverse stories.

What makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a human?: Being one of the 2 most different (most alien) species, they are quite different. A vaurca's speech is dependant on what translator they could have afforded, a vaurca's struggles are incredibly different than one of a human's. They require k'ois, a fungus lethal to most species, but necessary for them. Vaurcae think differently, look differently and are the most discriminated against in the Spur. Being born ready (literally) makes them not experience childhood as other species. Born with a chosen role, straight into the world. Having hives instead of regular nations, they operate differently politically. Due to the immense discrimination, they have more financial struggles than most. The life of a vaurca is not an easy one nor a happy one. (Well, except if you take VR into account.)

------------------------------ Character Application Character Name: Ka'Akaix'Zhiil Zo'ra.

Write a backstory for your character. This may include their origin, education, personality and how they arrived to the SCCV Horizon. (2 paragraphs minimum):

Ka'Akaix'Zhill Zo'ra of Ta’Akaix’Vaur’skiyet’sca Zo’ra, born on Mendell Flagsdale (Or otherwise called: District 9) as a detective ( Through imagotis, modified not to fear blood like other the workers do.) due to the crime rates of Flagsdale, he was handed over to a Biesel government police station. In his childhood (theoretically? he had a few year's worth of VR training when being born) he was ridiculed and often discriminated against by the human police officers he worked along with.

The only thing about his life that isn't miserable was VR, which he used as an escape from the seemingly endless repeating cycle of solving ever-happening crimes for an incredibly low amount of money. Because he often doesn't have enough time for VR, he has turned to toothpasteolism (alcoholism, but toothpaste!) to cope with life. K'ois was becoming more expensive by the day because of robberies.

Zhill lived in a tight room with a few other vaurcae working at that police station. It was more of a closet than a room, it did not even have a lightbulb. His home was the office in which he worked in, countless hours spent studying evidence for multiple cases. Zhill managed to save up enough money to buy a tiny potted plant to put in the corner of his office.

One fateful night, he was investigating an alley for a murder case when a member of Ak'riix (The Venom Mandibles) ambushed him from behind a dumpster with a baseball bat, shattering his entire left leg. Zhill's assistant managed to land some shots on the assaulter, but it ran away. After being rushed to the local hospital, he received a prosthetic leg (No robocop?) and had his last straw.

He did not want to do this anymore, he did not want to live like this anymore. Zhill knew that solving crimes is useless against the large amounts of crime in Flagsdale and so he put it that 2-week notice, after 14 hard days, he was free. Zhill was leaving Flagsdale, caught a taxi and headed for the nearest shuttleport (An airport, but due to Mendell's cramped nature, they only use shuttles.), scheduled a flight to district 3 (Xinghua Prefecture).

Shortly after arrival, people were giving him the looks, that did not stop Zhill from renting an apartment with what little money he had and seeking a job as fast as he could. Due to the mostly-human population of district 3, discrimination was a lot more common. Strolling around the city, he found a billboard advertising job offers for a large corporation, Zavodski Interstellar. Called the number on the billboard and went to the designated interview location.

They were looking for someone with experience. And Zhill was exactly what they were looking for.  He was assigned to a large zavodski research ship, used for testing new weapons. He was there as an investigator because of the likely chances of corporate espionage. In his time working there, he managed to catch a total of two corporate spies from Einstein Engines. 

This managed to catch the attention of Zhill's superiors, who relocated him to the flagship vessel of the Stellar Corporate Conglomerate: The Horizon. Due to Zhill now being financially stable, he sends a portion of his salary back to the Zo'ra hive every month.

How has the recent events of the Orion Spur impacted your character? Events such as the Phoron Scarcity, the Solarian Collapse or even the Invasions of Biesel for interstellar-wide affairs, while region-specific events such as the Peacekeeper Mandate, The Titan Rises or even Cold Dawn may impact your character:

Due to vaurcae needing phoron to breathe, the phoron scarcity was quite a bother, but k'ois was better than regular phoron. The Court Of Queens arc (Specifically the ''Violence in Flagsdale!'' article), a few cases about bulwarks that he helped solve.

 

How does your character view the megacorporation they work for?: Zhill saw Zavodski as the only way he could escape from Biesel. They saved him from having to live on the streets in a cardboard box, they got him to the flagship of the SCC, where life was much better than in Flagsdale.

Edited January 24 by Desven

[Desven]

This is a significant improvement from your previous app. I just need you to agree to something before I can approve it. A Vaurca can't really "quit" a job if they don't like it. We can muse over if they can actually feel miserable or not, but for the sake of simplicity, I'm leaning towards yes, a Vaurca can grow to hate its job, especially after a traumatic event. What we can do with your backstory is, instead, say that Zhill requested a reassignment to its hive-cell Ta. The other reassignment, from the Zavodskoi ship to the Horizon, would require Ta approval as well.

While this might significantly change your backstory, it's important that you understand that Unbound, while having free will, can't really just pick up their hat and quit their jobs. They're still completely dependent to the professional decisions their hive-cell Tas make.

[CasualMemer]

Thank you for telling me. I will use this information to make other vaurcae's backstories better. However, I don't exactly think it will significantly change the backstory that much. I do believe that getting Zhill on the SCC Flagship would be a good decision because of the pretty large pay raise, allowing Zhill to send more money back to his hive

[Desven]

1 hour ago, CasualMemer said:

Thank you for telling me. I will use this information to make other vaurcae's backstories better. However, I don't exactly think it will significantly change the backstory that much. I do believe that getting Zhill on the SCC Flagship would be a good decision because of the pretty large pay raise, allowing Zhill to send more money back to his hive

Just another observation: Vaurcae don’t really get paid that much. The Hive does make money with their wages, but they also exploit the amount of Vaurcae they have available to offer cheap labor. Zhill will likely be underpaid and live in a tiny room in the Horizon.

[CasualMemer]

Yeah but vaurcae don't really care if they live in a cramped room. Thank you for telling me about vaurca wages.

[Desven]

I'll accept this application, but please ask any more questions you have to either my team, me, or other Vaurca players.