[Denied]Bedshaped - Dionaea application

[Bedshaped]

BYOND Key: Bedshaped

Character Names: Andrew Barnes, Matt Dalmer, Edmond Holloway, Leon Marsh, Kajika Tsosie

Species you are applying to play: Dionaea

What color do you plan on making your first alien character (Dionaea & IPCs exempt): N/A

Have you read our lore section's page on this species?: I have read it in full.

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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 specific race: I think the Dionaea are the most interesting of the custom races. Mysterious and obscure; nobody really fully understands them yet. This gives players a chance to play around with their characters a little bit and gives some creative room for roleplay. This would also be my first application for a custom race and I think that Dionaea are the least energetically active so they could serve as a suitable starting off point; giving the player more time to emotive responses and talking.

Identify what makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a Human: Dionaea are slow and methodical, both in movement and in how they communicate. While their intelligence is quite advanced, their physical limitations makes it so that to an ignorant observer they would appear to be slow or stupid. They have a completely different naming scheme to humans, entirely doing away with the FIRSTNAME LASTNAME system and adopting descriptors which represent moments in time or experiences that they are fond of. If attacked I would expect them to behave quite strangely; standing there and perhaps asking "What... are... you... doing?" as they have very little self-preservation instinct and do not feel pain. I think they should be limited in the jobs they can have; obviously you wouldn't have a Dionaea Security Officer or Head as their physical speed would make it very difficult to apprehend threats to the station or maintain managerial productivity.

 

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Character Name: White Crow going over the hill

Please provide a short backstory for this character, approximately 2 paragraphs This Diona began life as a Nymph in the Venter's Satellite. Like all Dionae in his collective, he was imbued with advanced technical knowledge of Atmospheric system and technical efficiency in managing crisis of structural breaches. The gestalt became separated from the satellite when they came into contact with a research ship from the Sol Alliance. He would be part of the Satellite's rendezvous party send to greet the Alliance's researchers.

While they did their studies, he became particularly enamoured with one of the Scientists; a Native American man by the name of "Kohkahycumest". He showed to the Dionae the great hills in Oklahoma; the ancient tribal lands of his people. The beauty of the great rolling hills and greenish/red landscape could not escape the Dionae and, in reverence, the gestalt took the translation of the man's name "White Crow" with an imagining of the animal in it's native landscape. "White Crow going over the hill" used his connections with the Scientist to travel outside the confines of the Sol Alliance, but rather, to find himself employed with the NanoTrasen Corporation in Tau Ceti. White Crow knew he would find few from his cluster as he became assigned to the NSS Aurora, but nevertheless, his unique experience could greatly nourish his satellite and lead to an enriched Dionaea.

What do you like about this character? Something I like is how this character is influenced by a desire to learn and research the social intricacies of species aboard the Aurora. I like how I can use some knowledge from another character who is native American to influence my knowledge of this one.

How would you rate your role-playing ability? I would rate it as moderate. I try my hardest to make decisions using empathized emotions or logic however sometimes OOC emotions can influence IC decision making. It is inevitable. But I am getting better the more I play.

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Notes:

[Guest Complete Garbage]

Wow, that is very red! Anyway, I'd say it's a good app, and I don't recall any bad interactions with you. +1.

[Zundy]

As Garbage says, seems like a good app and I also have had no bad interactions. The only ones have been with Barnes and that was a-ok. +1

Red's a bit over the top though fam.

[Bedshaped]

Ignore anything DatBerry writes here. He's just trolling.

[DatBerry]

This guy's RP is top notch, not only does he play his characters perfectly, he improves your immersion, with realistic and tasteful RP of Ex-Convicts

this guy is exactly what we need as a dionae player.

-1 from me

he blackmailed me into doing this, help!

[Player PM]Bedshaped/(Bedshaped)(?): I won't make a staff complaint and get you kicked off the team as long as you +1 my Dionaea app: http://forums.aurorastation.org/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=5991

[Jennalele]

he blackmailed me into doing this, help!

[Player PM]Bedshaped/(Bedshaped)(?): I won't make a staff complaint and get you kicked off the team as long as you +1 my Dionaea app: http://forums.aurorastation.org/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=5991

 

...Yeeeah. This actually happened. I was there.

Anyways. Personally? -1. You struggle with concepts of what is and is not acceptable ICly as a human character. You have gone after security or their effects for no valid reason several times as a non-antagonist. You've shot up departures for the lulz, and generally been pretty headachey to deal with. This isn't the kind of behaviour I want to see in a whitelisted player.

[Bedshaped]

How would you rate your role-playing ability? I would rate it as moderate. I try my hardest to make decisions using empathized emotions or logic however sometimes OOC emotions can influence IC decision making. It is inevitable. But I am getting better the more I play.

 

I feel like I addressed some of the historically questionable stuff I've done with this section.

I have a bad habit of letting the OOC troll inside me come out every now and then. But 99.99999 ... % of the time I am a very good roleplayer who, I fully believe, enhances the experience of the players around me.

I'm not asking to be made a moderator or for any kind of position of power (this would be disasterous). I'm asking for a chance to play an Alien character; one that I know I can roleplay effectively and that anyone who observed me play this game in-character would immediately recognize I have the ability to play excellently.

[Killerhurtz]

Hello hello!

I've been reading through your... ahem. Very red app.

The character itself is okay - not extraordinary, but it has some foundation to it.

However I feel that maybe you have a somewhat limited view of the Dionaea.

Then there is that quote you chose which GREATLY irks me - especially with the combination of the two negative comments (one from an administrator no less - which confirms that you blackmailed someone and THEN goes on saying you tend to chucklefuck).

You have to understand - no, you're not a moderator or anything. But your behavior as an alien species reflects against all of the species and it's lore, and thus I can't have someone whom I can't KNOW that they won't make terrible things happen.

So denied for now. You are free to re-apply on May 30th. PM me if there's anything else.