[Accepted] Flpfs Vaurca Application

[Flpfs]

BYOND Ckey: Flpfs

Discord username: thefloppafan

Character names: Claire Tarson, Qu’ke Ti’ri, Felix Diniz

Species you are applying to play: Vaurca

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General Whitelist Requirements

What colour do you plan on making your first alien character?: 11, 84, 31

Have you read the lore pages for the species you wish to be whitelisted for?: 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 species?: I find the species concepts interesting, and I think that interacting with other Vaurca players will be fun as one myself.

What makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a human?:

Firstly, their biology, which makes their behavior and thought process different from a human’s. They also have different religions, cultural expectations such as roles to be fulfilled within their brood and the wider hive.

Many human concepts are totally alien to the Vaurca, as they organize themselves in a radically different way. The notion of castes, hives, social organization and how they experience reality itself (the idea of time, feelings, concepts) due to their biology and cultural perception.

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Character Application

Character Name: Ka'Akaix'Dugi K'lax

Write a backstory for your character. This may include their origin, education, personality and how they arrived to the SCCV Horizon.

Dugi was created approximately 6 years ago, to serve as an Unbound Worker in the industrial construction of the northern pole of Tret, shortly after the hiveship’s landing.

Taking on a great obsession with Virtual Reality, Dugi was inspired by Ka’Akaix’Yix K’lax’s labors, particularly in the attention to throughput, efficiency and absolute elegance that its designs had shown. Aspiring to become a Weavemaker within the brood, Dugi decided to spend most of its time on the Terrestrial Fabricator experience, endlessly toying with both pragmatic and wildly theoretical designs, from foundries to theoretical vessel powerplants.

As Dugi’s work progressed, it was soon seen that its designs were too idealistic and hard to implement, involving costly or time-wasting solutions in search of perfectionism, leading to them losing popularity and renown. Due to this, Dugi was part of a reassignment of workers from Tret to the wider Spur, as a move from Vetju to strengthen relations with Hephaestus Industries in spreading their holdings. Because of its experience on construction, maintenance and industrial design in VR, Dugi was assigned as an engineer on the SCCV Horizon.

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.  

Besides their relocation due to Vetju’s plan to strengthen relationships with Hephaestus in the short term because of the current scarcity, my character has been most affected recently by the War in Heaven.

As Queens Tupii and Zkaii clash, this has in turn caused Vetju’s relationship with Zkaii becoming even worse. Hating both sides, as it sees Vetju as the true heir, the War in Heaven has polarized my character’s opinion, giving it a bitter feeling in the workplace as they encounter K’lax from other broods.

How does your character view the megacorporation they work for?

Seeing Hephaestus as a stepping stone for other, greater projects to be undertaken by Vetju, my character is happy to work for them in the present, although certainly without blindly trusting megacorporations and their supposed benevolence.

Edited May 25 by Desven

[FearTheBlackout]

Floppa's characters are all sovlful, and he has a great way of roleplaying well without going "against the grain". I don't have a doubt that he'd play a good Vetju bug.

[goolie]

Bloody loveleh RPer... deserves to muck about as a vaurca! He even reached out to get some advice, which shows he's really wanting to play the race properly. 

[Desven]

Hi. This app is good, albeit short. I have some questions:

1. How was Dugi trained to be an engineer? Vaurca characters are still expected to have qualifications.

2. Dugi left Tret for the first time in its life. How has this affected your character? Has it gotten used to interacting with other species?

[Flpfs]

Most of Dugi's training was in the Foundry, Vetju's realm. It consisted of topics in civil engineering, such as tunneling, demolition and general construction of structures in orbit and land. After their failed bout in the Terrestrial Fabricator and reassignment, they were giving additional training by Hephaestus to standardize their knowledge for a spaceship specific environment, as part of a wider workforce programme in retraining individuals due to the phoron crisis affecting the Hegemony.

Due to working with Unathi and a few humans employed by Hephaestus on Tret, they are accustomed to the presence of these two. Besides that, my character would view the Tajara and Diona as the most distant from it. Differently from the Skrell which are well-documented by the C'thur, my character would never have bothered to search more about these two species as it views them as mostly irrelevant due to their low level of technological innovation. They have no qualms in working alongside these two, but view them mostly as a curious sidenote in the wider history of the Spur. About IPCs, they view them simply as work tools akin to Bound, mirroring Hephaestus' treatment of them.

[Desven]

Application accepted.