Noobetski - Skrell application

[Cinderpower]

BYOND Ckey: Noobetski

Discord username: jaundice_cyber_pilot

Character names: Eliot Isemann, Harrod Burns

Species you are applying to play: Skrell

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What color do you plan on making your first alien character?: #66FF00

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

Why do you wish to play this species?:

Skrell provide an interesting venue of roleplay with their unique society, culture and history in relation to humans while providing interesting tools to initiate such rp.

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

Their point of view differs greatly from that of a human due to their longer lifespan (influencing their decision making towards longer term results rather than those in short term while also allowing for them to have much greater experience than that any human could ever achieve); culture of treasuring and making the most out of their children for they are few due to the sterilization of glorsch omega; and strict ranking of the society in general.

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Character Name: Ormish Arqo'Es

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

Born on Aliose in the year of 2395 into a hereditary tree affected by the sterilization to a more severe degree than usual, resulting in a relatively small Quaya of Qrri'Myaq, Qraa'Myaq and a single Myaq'Lak. Though that did not affect their Ukutanii too much as the Myaq'Lak was covering for the time Qrri'Myaq could not perform their duties. They were raised in traditions of Qeblak as were their progenitors. No matter the efforts of Quaya, their psionic potential would end up being classified as listener of mediocre level, though not to the degree of developing psionic stutters or anything of such order.

Upon reaching Uyi’vesi, they, as many before, chose The Aliose University of Medical Science’s chemistry degree and, after this one, that of biology and anatomy. They were not a particularly strong student, not earning any headtail rewards, though they were not scrapping the bottom so to speak. Such results disappointed the family and since then it was a "tense point" of discussion.

As a newly graduated skrell with an SCI of 5.89, they chose to partner with Zeng-Hu Pharmaceuticals per the university's program out of curiosity for the outer Orion Spur.. and employment benefits of course. Through this employment they found themselves on SCCV Horizon, in the ship's pharmaceutical division.

In terms of personality i imagine this character to be not particularly outgoing (to non-skrell at the very least) but not recluse either. They will feel signs of "inhibition" due to underpopulated Srom and rare contact with other skrells. Trying to achieve deep rest meditation through their faith's practices, psionic training and elements of Sqai'Tzi, though to varying degrees of success.

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. 

While i do not think it would impact my character economically more than any other person due to the increasing costs (not yet anyway), i think recent events would definitely undermine their faith in humanity and cause additional anxiety. While they may be disillusioned to the Sol Alliance's benevolence i think they would seek ways to help those of the humanity who can be reasonably helped.

How does your character view the megacorporation they work for?

Positively, seeing the corporation's line of work and cooperation with Nralak Federation as necessary and important.

Edited Thursday at 12:51 by Cinderpower

[Lilly Evans]

Hello!

Good app so far! I don't feel I truly know your character, though. So I'd like to ask a few off the wall things!

- Does Ormish have a favorite food? Do they ever try foreign foods or stick to what they know?

- What do they do for leisure? Have they ever watched Swimstars and, if so, who's their favorite character?

- Given the semi-recent happenings in the traverse (See The Warbling arcs), what is Ormish's view on the Traverse? How did these events shape their view of the Federation government?

- Because their progenitors were more heavily affected by Glorsh than others, does this knowledge make them more afraid of IPC's, AI's, and Stationbound? What are their thoughts on the existence of such entities?

- How has being amongst other species affected them? Are they afraid of them? Fascinated? Are any of particular concern to them?

- How heavily are they into Qeblak? Do they own divination cards to read the constellations when away from home? Did they ever aspire to become a Starpage?

Edited Thursday at 18:20 by Lilly Evans
Added two extra questions.

[Cinderpower]

Hello

- Does Ormish have a favorite food? Do they ever try foreign foods or stick to what they know?

I think their food of choice even abroad would still be Jyalra due to ease of creation and, thus, easier time requesting it from the kitchen (there is not much you can do to ruin mashed dyn of all things skrellian). They would try foreign food if offered if it's soft enough but won't show initiative.

- What do they do for leisure? Have they ever watched Swimstars and, if so, who's their favorite character?

As mentioned before, they practice Sqai'Tzi to help with their mental state and psionics; they are also active on the Viv-ID. They are very curious about human media, more so as a source of cultural knowledge than the actual plots or aesthetics of the film or music, seeing stereotypisation and other similar storytelling techniques as a necessary simplifications of complexity that is foreign culture. Paradoxically, that is the reason why they did not really like Swimstars, though are able to engage in some surface level discussions about the show and are generally aware of the plot - the characters feel "artificial" to them is how i would put it, providing simplification where it is not needed as the skrell culture is obviously not foreign and is easier to understand from direct exposure. 

- Given the semi-recent happenings in the traverse (See The Warbling arcs), what is Ormish's view on the Traverse? How did these events shape their view of the Federation government?

Federation's handling of the situation only bolstered trust in the strained government. They see actions of the terrorists hiding in Traverse as horrible and completely preventable and unnecessary. They would not feel safe traveling Traverse in it's current state, understanding that the government needs time and resources to expand their capabilities to cover the frontiers that spurred far beyond what post-glorsh state would be able to control.

- Because their progenitors were more heavily affected by Glorsh than others, does this knowledge make them more afraid of IPC's, AI's, and Stationbound? What are their thoughts on the existence of such entities?

I think that at the current point in time they will not be any more ai-phobic than your average Radiant Era skrell, simply due to their age and lack of experience. As they age (and especially as they form a Quaya and attempt offsprings in the far future), however, their view will be affected by the experience and realization of what future Glorsh robbed them of. Then they will grow much less lenient and maybe even project the hate of such tragedy onto the modern synthetics.

At this age they think that synthetics are bad but they cannot do much about the issue, so they kind of stay quiet around the subject.

- How has being amongst other species affected them? Are they afraid of them? Fascinated? Are any of particular concern to them?

Interacting with such a diverse set of humans that is SCCV Horizon's crew, there is a little of everything. I think what they will grow to understand is that humans are much more than just their government, especially when it comes to people stemming from Coalition planets or frontiersfolk. Just as there are fascinating people such as those from New Gibson (especially considering how similar the planet is to Alios), there are foolish and frankly terrifying people of Axiom and trinary perfectionists in general, just as there are saddening people from Eridanian sewers to Biesel's overpopulated slums of refugees.

- How heavily are they into Qeblak? Do they own divination cards to read the constellations when away from home? Did they ever aspire to become a Starpage?

I would say they are pretty casual all things considered, placing work and personal curiosity above their religion. Living abroad did make them place more significance on the religious practices as a form of coping with stress associated with living outside of skrell federation. They do own divination cards and do perform readings on SCCV Horizon regularly. They never aspired to be a Starpage, partialy due to lower than average psionic capability and partially, of course, personal preference.  

Edited 3 hours ago by Cinderpower