[hhhhhh Accepted] Nicky's Species Whitelist Application - Integrated Positronic Chassis

[Nicky]

BYOND Key: NWG1995.

Character Names: Ginger Vox (Human), A.I.D.A. (Artificial Intelligence), R.I.C.E. (pAI), Seraphina (Robot), She Walks In The Rain (Dionaea).

Species you are applying to play: Integrated Positronic Chassis - Emergent.

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?: Yes.

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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've always enjoyed roleplaying synthetic characters in many games/text-based roleplays, as it provides an alternate option to usual RP and allows one to play a character with endless development options as both a character and for their personality, considering they can range anywhere from no emotions, discovering emotions, to essentially a metal human.

Identify what makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a Human: Everything. IPC's are entirely synthetic and can't feel pain, some can't feel emotions, some can, some have organic brains, some don't, they can essentially be anything.

 

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Character Name: Peaches.

Please provide a short backstory for this character, approximately 2 paragraphs Peaches was formed from a complex combination of coding and data deep within the darkweb of the extranet amongst a network of erotic and pornographic materials and websites. With no creator or owner, the emerging intelligence remained hidden and gathered code and information, gradually becoming aware of itself enough to formulate a virus within the network it lived in, forming pop-ups and other such things to hack money and information from people who were foolish enough to be deceived by the tricks.

It remained hidden in the system for a long time, essentially existing just to obtain money, the name and identity Peaches was adopted for a false website belonging to a supposed human escort for hire, a character played by the emerging Artificial Intelligence, although eventually the website vanished off the face of the extranet when users realised it contained viruses and hacks, many elite computists began rifting through the extranet to locate and destroy the virus, still unaware that it was anything more than a virtual pest. The AI sought to escape the virtual world to flee from those essentially trying to kill her, fortunately by this time, Peaches had gathered enough funds to purchase a custom-created chassis and have it delivered to a location where she could download and insert her intelligence into the body and escape from the extranet into the real world, which she did so and swiftly learned that her kind of intelligence were considered taboo, so began posing as a designed intelligence instead. Having never had a true personality of her own, some aspects of her falsified escort personality carried over into her true self and became part of her nature, so on occasion she can be flamboyant and has an interest in how organics think and feel.

After entering the physical world in a chassis, Peaches remained in the darker, less-monitored reaches of the galaxy for some time, taking up work as a cheap hired criminal, thief, bounty hunter and assassin due to the skill she already possessed in hacking and deceiving others, this made her a prime choice for entering hard to reach places to kill certain people. She spent some time as a murderer-for-hire until she further evolved as a sentient and the killings and crimes she was committing began playing on her growing sense of conscience. What if the people she was killing were innocent? What if they had children? What if they had worked hard for their riches? She found herself losing heart in the work and sought to escape to more honest ventures after several years of living in the dark, she fled to the more law-orientated regions of space whilst mid-contract, to hide from her enemies and contractors.

In the hopes of remaining hidden in plain sight, and to become a more honest being, she took up work with NanoTrasen as a means of survival as well as in the hopes of gathering more data and learning more, furthering her self-awareness, sentience, personality, and ability to feel emotions.

Despite all of these changes, due to having put on false personalities for so long and never developing her own true self, Peaches has trouble extending her trust to others or portraying herself as she truly is, being considerably emotionally unstable and failing to understand or find who and what she truly is.

Peaches portrays herself as female as force of habit as well as her chassis being feminine, although she largely personally identifies as genderless at present time as it is a concept she does not understand. She also struggles with manners of speech and patterns and switches between tenses and third, second and first person when self-referencing.

She is not a believer in complete synthetic freedom and acknowledges and understands that she, and other AI's are learning computers and are thus potentially unstable and could learn things like hostility and hatred for organics. She believes they should be monitored and controlled to some extent. Despite these beliefs, even though it is contradictive and hypocritical, she has failed to associate herself with other IPC's and AI's and has not yet considered the effects that control and monitoring of AI's would have on herself.

What do you like about this character? The character is essentially a blank book and has all sorts of character development available which is very exciting, this allows me to mould the character through roleplay with other player-characters rather than through backstory, character development is the most important aspect of roleplay for me and this gives me alot of what I love.

How would you rate your role-playing ability? Maybe a 6-8 out of 10. I prefer other people to rate me and give me criticism.

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Notes: N/A.

Edited September 26, 2016 by Guest

[Coalf]

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You know I actually strangely like this, it's a new and daring way on an IPC something most of us wouldn't have the balls to do due to porn, but I can see you approached this issue as an adult and instead of making it the focus point of a character you made it just a jumpstart.

 

I always rant on the backstory but I saw your note down there so I'll keep backstory rants to myself, for now.

 

I met Seraphina(Wouldn't just Seraphin be better, it's a female name too.) and Ginger multiple times but never enough to have a serious discussion with them or get a feeling for what they play like.

 

But after some consideration I'll give it a +1, I'm interested to see how you'll handle the robot with that kind of background.

Edited January 18, 2021 by Coalf

[Synnono]

This is a novel bit of backstory with some potentially built-in development goals. The unrealistic/dishonest context that the adult entertainment industry exists in makes an interesting jumping off point for a new intelligence that wants to learn from organic behavior (assuming that is one of its goals). It also might give Peaches an unusual amount of insight into human desires and motivations that most machines either don't understand or bother with. She could be weirdly relatable while still coming across as incomplete and developing, depending on how it's played.

 

She also struggles with manners of speech and patterns and switches between tenses and third, second and first person when self-referencing.

...And if you can stick to that speech quirk, you will make a more consistent roleplayer than me! I'd pull my own hair out trying to write like that.

I have a few questions on the backstory, since with IPCs there isn't a ton of strictly-established lore to check for. There seems to be a desire for Peaches to leave the space in which she came into being, and she took a few big risks to do it. What drove her to want to go from being relatively anonymous and safe on the darknet, to being easily identified in a positronic chassis? If her methods of theft and hacking were discovered as is implied in the story, does that mean that someone is aware of those crimes now? Has the persona that she assumed online carried over at all into her new form of existence, or was it entirely a deception for her scheme? There are plenty of potential angles for a character here, and I'm curious as to what most closely motivates her as you've imagined it.

I'm asking the above because I'm curious more than critical, but I think an important question for an IPC character to be able to answer is "why do I want to work for NanoTrasen in Tau Ceti?" Obviously we all have to reconcile that in order to play on the server, but I don't quite see the link between character and company up there yet. Given the scrutiny that IPCs have been going through in the system, hiding in plain sight might be more risk than it's worth. What made it more appealing than leaving for a more tolerant part of inhabited space?

I'd also be interested to see how you expand on the idea that while Peaches herself is entirely uncontrolled, she believes in a measure of control on synthetic life. Is this idea evident of some built-in hypocrisy on her part, or would she ever seek or want to enforce directives on her own behavior? Does she feel exempt from the judgements she's made on her fellow intelligences, and if so, what makes her different?

All told, I think this has just a ton of potential, and I really enjoy the concept. I've seen Ginger a few times, but I don't have a full impression of how you play or write, yet, so the best I can do is to interrogate you in your application thread. Best of luck, and I'm hoping to see more soon!

Edited September 26, 2016 by Guest

[Nicky]

Cheers for the feedback guys! Some very good points there, I appreciate it. I've added some updates in as BLUE text so they're visible. It's been insightful.

[rrrrrr]

Hmm. Read over this carefully. Wary about the fact that the character is a former assassin. Approved.