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[Accepted] The_Ill_fated's IPC Application - 'Oh god another Hazel'


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BYOND Ckey: The_Ill_Fated

Discord username: the_ill_fated

Character names: 

Imogen Janse (Consular Officer) 99% of the time

Andromeda Maschera (Bartender) Occasionally

Species you are applying to play: IPC, Shell in particular

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General Whitelist Requirements 

What colour do you plan on making your first alien character?: N/A

Have you read the lore pages for the species you wish to be whitelisted for?: I have

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?:   

Largely I want to expand my roleplaying into a new character, and explore new avenues that I think having an IPC character will allow.   I particularly have some difficulty finding characters engaging, and sticking with them beyond a few rounds, and I think this concept is one that resonates well with me and will hold my interest, and allow new and interesting roleplaying situations, as well as fun character development.  

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

IPCs allow space for interesting character development to a substantial degree in a way I don't necessarily think is matched by other species in the lore.  IPCs are created essentially as fully sapient, thinking beings from the get-go, and yet don't have the opportunities of developing who they are, and their conceptions of the world from a place of safety, and shelter as the other races tend to do, when raised by proper parents.  In a lot of ways, IPCs are thrown into a Spur where many don't care about them at best, and actively hate them at worst, in circumstances that are profoundly unfair in most places where they face institutions of systematic oppression that they need to cope with, while simultaneously figuring out who it is they are as sapient beings. I think these factors allow for some interesting character development, especially in more existential avenues

IPCs fundamentally might struggle with engaging socially with Humans, and other species as a result of not having the proper 'context' or social experience to smoothly fit in, they might struggle with understanding emotions, with evolving beyond the purpose they were originally made for, and developing as sapient beings. 

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Character Application

Character Name:  Hazel #S-H11.101

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

On the 22nd of July, 2460 in a production line in what would soon become the Republic of Konyang, a Shell labeled ‘Hazel #S-H11.101’ was activated, along with dozens of her ‘sisters’.  Sharing the same face, programming and signature hazel eyes for which they’re named, destined for the Xiangtong Warehouse complex, for service-positions with the KRC.  

101 was but one of dozens of Hazel models assigned across the breadth and width of the Complex, divided amongst the warehouse itself, and its supporting facilities.  She found herself owned by the KRC, as a janitor within the plant’s KRC operated clinic that supported the warehouse’s IPC-heavy workforce.  Yet their grasp upon her was light,  though the majority of her days were marked by her janitorial duties, yet there remained free hours where she often found herself eagerly at first observing, and then as her presence was noticed, and tolerated, assisting the Clinic’s Engineers and Machinists.  Over the following two years she made great use of this free-time, absorbing any breath of knowledge her new friends let slip, while she slowly, but certainly became more and more acquainted with Konyanger social mores, and habits.  

Yet on a stormy day in 2462, after months of hearing tales of unrest, of protests and riots across Konyang, her Supervisor approached her.  The man told 101 that she was free, that Sol’s grip on Konyang had been ended, and with it, the servitude of all IPCs, she could do as she pleased.  It was then, perhaps for the first time that 101 considered what …she wanted.    Her life as a Janitor was ..useful for certain, that much was true yet it didn’t seem to matter.  And so she asked to stay, not as a janitor, but as an assistant to the machinists within the Clinic, and with her years of careful observation, they accepted.  

For four more years she remained within the Clinic’s confines most days, occasionally venturing out with the friends she’d made to experience greater Konyang, yet always she returned to where she felt …useful, helpful, where she had begun to feel she mattered.   That all came to an end in the early months of 2466, when the Rampancy descended upon Konyang, and upon 101.  It saw to the bloody end of the normality she’d built for four long years, it saw to the end of the Clinic, to all of her friends, and to life as she knew it.    Yet, in the depths of her rampancy, her life was saved by an unlikely source, that of the Vaurca Ra'Akaix'Yur Zo'ra.  In the midst of the Horizon crew’s assault on the Xiangton Warehouse complex, she attempted to kill Yur, who easily stopped her attack, and rather than defending himself, Yur knocked 101 to the ground, cuffed her, and dragged her off to KRC holding.  

When finally awoken from her Silicon nightmare after the operation at the Kaneyama Nuclear Power Plant, she was informed of all that had happened, of the loss of all of her friends, of her rescue by the crew of the Horizon.    Following months of testing, and repair by the KRC, 101 has finally found herself free once-more.  With all she’d ever known gone, some presumably by her own, if unwilling, hand, she had a thought.  Perhaps she might see if she could try to help those who’d helped her…

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.  

Recent events have had a profound impact upon 101, she went from a reasonably comfortable existence where she was slowly, yet assuredly growing as a sapient being, and learning new skills day-by-day, to a literal nightmare where she more than likely personally murdered those who’d been her friends, and coworkers for her entire life.  

Now, the actions of the Horizon on Konyang drew her to it, the crew saved her from rampancy, from death, or even from serious injury, even when they had every right to do so in self-defense.  At this point, all she has is her meager savings of credits, and an urge to help those who helped her. 

How does your character view the megacorporation they work for?

101’s only tangible experience with the SCC and it’s personnel has been their saving of her in particular, and her home of Konyang in general.  While she doesn’t have much to work with, she currently holds the SCC and it’s employees in high esteem for what they did for her, enough to leave the only world she'd ever known to venture out to the Horizon.  

 

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In your own words could you explain your thoughts on sapience for IPCs? Specifically why some IPCs a little bit more than robots throughout life, and some are more developed people? How do they get to those tiers of development?

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8 minutes ago, Noble Row said:

In your own words could you explain your thoughts on sapience for IPCs? Specifically why some IPCs a little bit more than robots throughout life, and some are more developed people? How do they get to those tiers of development?

From my understanding, sapience in IPCs is complicated and rather multifaceted.  Older generations of Positronics didn't have nearly the capacity for complex personalities to emerge, and there's also an experiential part of it, where an IPC has to ...experience the world and take time to fully comprehend existence, understand it's context and emerge as a person.  I think it's a good idea to look at an IPC like a kid, except they don't really have any sheltered, protected period to work themselves out and become a full person, so an IPC that is allowed to safely experience the world, will emerge over time as a more recognizably sapient, fully multifaceted person.  

Then the opposite is true, an IPC on like Burzsia that is routinely memory-wiped and tightly controlled only ever has what it is told to do, and what its programming is. So they never have an opportunity to develop beyond the first step

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

Could you expand on this question a little bit more? Particularly in the realm of self-preservation?

You touch on it briefly, but how has losing everything she's ever known affected her behavior?

Additionally, why would a high-end Hazel be assigned to janitorial duty in a warehouse complex?

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10 hours ago, The Stryker said:

Could you expand on this question a little bit more? Particularly in the realm of self-preservation?

 

Self-Preservation as I understand it is the core driving factor behind IPC behavior in many ways, though it can vary in how the IPC in question interprets it in concert with their prevailing beliefs, and attitudes.  It could be as literal as 'I need to keep my chassis/posibrain intact' to, 'I need to preserve what it means to be me', to 'I need to accumulate all of the money so I can take care of myself'.  So while there's a bunch of ways you can intrepret it, and how it can be reflected in roleplay, the core of it is an IPC places this, whatever it means to them particularly, above all other concerns.  

10 hours ago, The Stryker said:

You touch on it briefly, but how has losing everything she's ever known affected her behavior?

At the current point in time, I don't think 101 has had appropriate time/context to adequately process the gravity of what's happened, and how it will affect her.  She has until now, been sequestered in KRC custody to allow for testing, and whatever minor repairs she needed to be conducted.  But I think it's something she will slowly, come to struggle with as her entirely support network has been pulled out from under her, and it's the first real, and very substantial loss she's ever encountered.  

10 hours ago, The Stryker said:

Additionally, why would a high-end Hazel be assigned to janitorial duty in a warehouse complex?

I didn't actually think of that part at all honestly.  I can change it a bit to have her at a more appropriate position in like the KRC corporate offices or somewhere it might make more sense to have a more expensive IPC at, rather than the warehouses initially, before moving to that position after being freed.  

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I didn't actually think of that part at all honestly.  I can change it a bit to have her at a more appropriate position in like the KRC corporate offices or somewhere it might make more sense to have a more expensive IPC at, rather than the warehouses initially, before moving to that position after being freed.  

Many different ways to go about this, the most important thing is that an IPC character can explain all their actions in a logical fashion. Others can disagree with me but a Hazel being in the corporate offices might work better. You could just have them working in a local Einstein-owned company since the KRC was formed by the nationalization of Einstein Engines assets after independence.

As for character behavior, could you provide some concrete examples of how she behaves before and after the Crisis? It's important for the application to get a sense of how the character behaves and why they behave the way they do.

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15 minutes ago, The Stryker said:

As for character behavior, could you provide some concrete examples of how she behaves before and after the Crisis? It's important for the application to get a sense of how the character behaves and why they behave the way they do.

101 would be essentially a 'Seen, not Heard' character, at least at first.  This attitude originating in her solitary work at the Einstein Engines subsidiary that was her first position, where her duties allowed her to observe the world around her, and offered relatively few interactions with Humans.  This would be exacerbated by her position at the KRC following independence where, as previously stated she spent a great amount of time observing the workers within the KRC clinic, as she intently desired to understand what they were doing, why they were doing it, and then how to do it herself.   The broadening of her social interactions following emancipation would slowly, yet assuredly open 101 up to the world around her as she began regularly interacting with people on a more normal social basis.  

The events of Silicon nightmares however, would strip all of that away however.  Her social support system, and everyone she'd really known were taken from her, likely through her own hands. And so now she is back at the beginning again, she'll begin work on the Horizon with the same approach.  Observe those around her in a manner that'll leave her unnoticed until she is more familiar, perhaps even comfortable with her environment, before she begins to attempt to broach the social gap once more,  becoming slowly acquainted to what is likely to be a maddeningly diverse conglomeration of social mores, tendencies and attitudes. I think she is particularly likely to attempt to introduce herself, and ingratiate herself with Yur given his hand (or claw) in her survival.  

 

 

 

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