ShadowedEnvy - Dionae Application

[ShadowedEnvy]

BYOND Ckey: ShadowedEnvy

Discord username: x9atyce9fe

Character names: Kathryn Poddar, Nirai Shevchenko, ISAIAh

Species you are applying to play: Dionae

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General Whitelist Requirements 

What colour do you plan on making your first alien character?: Medium brown

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'd love to be able to play a species that doesn't think like humans do - and dionae especially have a wide variety of mindtypes that can give characters more variety in motivation. Their long potential lives also mean that characters can have a much wider variety of experience than other species.

What makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a human?: 
Every gestalt is a collective, and every action has to make sense through the logic of its particular mindtype, which can vary substantially depending on the type. A human, for example, would never need to pause to consider the desires of another personality within them - Or at least not one that gets hired on the Horizon.

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Character Application

Character Name: Bright Thoughts Die In Darkness

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

Bright Thoughts were 'born' from the destruction of the Rueltab Titan. Their first coherent memories come from the aftermath its destruction, knowing little beyond a deep sense of loss and guilt for what the Titan had done. One nymph in particular (hereafter 'lost nymph') lost so many connections it could not remember anything, even itself, and gained a deep fear of forgetting so much again, which would later greatly influence the development of the gestalt.

Bright Thoughts would spend the next couple of decades (until 2399) sorting through Solarian garbage, learning as much from the scraps as they could. Most of the gestalt enjoyed the process of learning and felt it was right to serve the Solarians, but the lost nymph's obsessive fear of forgetting pushed Bright Thoughts to seek better conditions. To this end, the gestalt would attempt to ingratiate themselves with the Solarians, with another nymph taking on the skill of socializing through both experience and genetic assimilation where possible.

After managing a combination of paying off their debt and convincing the Solarians their debt was paid off, Bright Thoughts joined other dionae on Biesel in the Eternal Gardens. There, they would take part in the early days of centralized Eternal religion, debating the nature of existence and the lessons to be learned from the Titan's destruction. Through these debates, both among other gestalts and within Bright Thoughts themselves, they would join the Iron Eternal faith, believing that genetic memory is transient, but outside records may provide a more enduring memory of the past. 

In their quest to provide such records, while also 'paying back' those they felt they had harmed as the Titan, they would spend the next nearly six decades (2405-2460) working with the support of the Eternal Temple as a journalist in the Eternal Gardens and eventually around Biesel, even off-planet. Decades of increasingly successful integration in human and greater spur society, however, could not keep at bay the lost nymph's worsening obsessive fears of another loss of the magnitude of Rueltab, especially after the Solarian invasion in 2459. After decades of saving , Bright Thoughts would consider themselves secure enough to strike out into the greater spur, to record and leave records as far and wide as possible.

How has the recent events of the Orion Spur impacted your character?: 

The invasion of Biesel and dictatorship of Frost in 2459 greatly accelerated Bright Thoughts' departure from the planet. Subsequent worries include phoron scarcity potentially slowing the spread of knowledge, and disasters like the one on Konyang destroying it entirely. The SCCV Horizon's current mission to the Lemurian Sea specifically interests Bright Thoughts: There may be lost knowledge there, and they want to be there to ensure nothing is forgotten if so.

How does your character view the megacorporation they work for?:

Bright Thoughts do not work for a megacorporation; However, they would not ideologically opposed to it, if only they would not be forced to record untruths or suppress records of the truth for the sake of an employer. Currently, they work for a minor Biesellite news outlet - The Mendell Examiner - looking for early coverage of any potential discoveries in the Lemurian Sea. Bright Thoughts considers it only a necessary evil to restrict any knowledge gained to their employer in exchange for the funds to travel and spread knowledge, so long as they may freely report on it after the period of exclusivity.

Other Notes: 
Mindtype is a mix of Competence Choir, Tyrannical Tune, and Scholarly Song: The lost nymph specializes in interfacing with technology, specifically for the purpose of writing down or otherwise recording knowledge, but its constant obsessive thoughts have slowly molded the rest of the collective to accept its desires as their own when it decides they are not acting 'correctly'.

[Arbiter_Ambrose]

Hello, I had a few questions regarding your application, I hope you will not mind!

What is Bright Thought's opinion on the young fledgling republic of biesel? How do they feel about the political climate?

You note that Bright Thoughts worked from 2405 to 2460 within the eternal gardens and the eternal temple, but it was not founded yet, how do the other sects of the Eternal feel to the gestalt?

How does Bright Thoughts feel about the Xrimic dionae in the federation and their conflict?

Admonition of Temporal Transgressions is a Rueltab Survivour and current Champion of The Primal Echoes of The Void Before Time, how does Bright Thoughts feel about them and their views?

Feel free to contact us if you need clarification on these questions.