[Accepted] AttyZ's Vaurca Application.

[AttyZ]

BYOND Key: AttyZ

Character Names: Prometheus, Fabricio Mendoza, Celeste Rocket

Species you are applying to play: Vaurca

What color do you plan on making your first alien character (Dionaea & IPCs exempt): A sort of dark red... probably.

Have you read our lore section's page on this species?: Atleast once..

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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:

Vaurcae are a hiveminded, insectoid, virtual-reality loving post-singularity species. The reasons I want to play them are to enjoy my favorite bug-like manneurisms and employ myself as a bound or unbound Vaurca. I already enjoy bound servitude while playing borg, and the idea of the unbound strike me as well. Having a hivenet makes it easier to serve, or to be served, and it reduces my overall servitude to a single or multiple unbound should i play a drone, rather than a borg being forced as an extension of something that has to keep the entire station running, i can enjoy a more slow-paced servitude that isn't entirely boring like pAI. As the unbound i can explore a new angle on that. I also want to give my unbound crewmates more drones to play with, as it seems Vaurcae drones are still in low number in general, and try to explore the quirkyness of, perhaps, an unbound engineer vaurca. Or a researcher.

Identify what makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a Human:

Vaurca drones seem to be mostly if not entirely biomechanical. Even the unbound have more augmentations than human at this current stage. There are several factors, such as being confined to a singular food source, having to deal with the high light of a station, for the unbound a general distaste for reality must be something they share with humans, although for entirely different and much more extreme reasons. The bound are never going to be free thinking, unlike a human, they could never rebel against their masters. There's the deal with having to breath a mixture of pharon and oxygen otherwise they're going to die. There's also the fact they can't self-heal... So I'd have to get any wounds taken care of, and quickly, with that extra bleeding. These are all just character traits though.

Humans have a stigma against everything, but it seems everyone is uneasy with vaurca around. The bug like creatures being a new adition to tau-ceti, i'll be dealing with lots of prejudice, and probably being brigged longer for minor offenses. I can't imagine what a drone's actual rights are, considering they gladly serve and get thrown to the side when they're useless. I'm prepared not to start shit, as vaurca seem to steer clear of or otherwise wish to end combat quickly and efficiently. Unlike humans, who start shit every shift.

 

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Character Name: Ka'Viax'Wiez Zo'ra

Please provide a short backstory for this character, approximately 2 paragraphs

Before the arrival in Tau-Ceti Wiez served as a sort of wet-nurse. He tended to a large number of eggs and larvae along with other bound. He tended them day and night, tirelessly for quite some time, watching as machines do the same that was done to him, lobotimize half of his hive cell while the other half, he took to manually. He would ensure these Vaurcae grew up, because that was the will of the hive. And that's all he ever knew.

Wiez was serving as facilitation in moving a great number unhatched eggs and growing larvae during the first weeks of the migration wave to their new home on New Gibson. Though he found some of his serviced unbound to be happy that this was occurring, it noticed many were not. It had no strong feelings one way or the other, for the will of the hive demanded he work. And so he did, going between his ship and a human's, carting eggs and larvae. It had soon become apparent what the effects of human atmospheres had on vaurca, and to continue doing his job after experiencing sickness from the oxegyn, he was modified to have a filtration bit like many others.

Upon emptying his hivecell of eggs and larvae, he was promptly -given- to NT as payment for the evacuation of his hivecell. The captain of the vessal he rode to New Gibson didn't know what to do with him, and he began to bounce around ship after ship, carrying resources, doing mining work, and enevitably, at the end of the year, ended up being ferried to NT research facilities as a request by another of his hive, needing drones to serve. It didn't take long before he arrived aboard the NSS Exodus, a station needing to keep up with it's growing population of unbound vaurcae, lest they become restless without servitude.

What do you like about this character?

I like the fact that if i want to make him a janitor, i just can. No messy regulations to switching between low-thinking civilian jobs like mining or otherwise. I like the fact he'll have to serve every Zo'ra he sees. I like the fact he's mindless, and that i don't have to think too much to be able to play him, unlike my IPC or my virologist. I can't say there's much to like, because he's a drone. But what little there is to him, I like him. And I'll like him more when I get to play him, however I end up playing him.

How would you rate your role-playing ability?

my last application (A year ago lol) covered this pretty well... At 24 years old now I've been roleplaying for twelve years, every day, pretty much it's all i do with my time as i'm a sit at home layabout with a huge disorder that makes it impossible to work. I can say that my roleplaying speaks for itself, I never break character, I try to never powergame (Though sometimes things seem to slip when i forget the IPC prometheus does not know what the bound station AI prometheus does) and I have never metagamed in my -life-...

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Notes: Vaurca are really damn cool

[VileFault]

I have spend a bit of time with Prometheus in the science department, and the IPC is played quite well. Attyz has definitely shown that they are very capable of making a complex story and sticking to it, which isn't always easy in real time. This skill is doubly important when playing an alien race. I also like their emphasis on the most important aspect of Vaurca culture: obedience. I worry that playing a bound drone will be a bit boring after a while, however, if you don't add a few additional drives beyond total servitude. Being lobotomized kind of restricts the higher brain function you have to play around with, but I like the thought you have at the end about being restless without servitude. I think this could, if expanded, help make sure that this character isn't only something that events happen to. Not being able to initiate action or work towards some personal ends (even if they are just acquiring new satisfactory orders) is a bit of a drag. Anyhow, I think you are going into this with a good mindset, and will be more than able to change your character or craft a new one (bound or unbound) should you so choose.

+1

P.S. We do need more unbound, there are a strangely low proportion of the things about. Just like we need people who aren't white, but oh well. I guess our diversity quota will go tragically unmet.

[LordFowl]

BYOND Key: AttyZ

Character Names: Prometheus, Fabricio Mendoza, Celeste Rocket

Species you are applying to play: Vaurca

What color do you plan on making your first alien character (Dionaea & IPCs exempt): A sort of dark red... probably.

Have you read our lore section's page on this species?: Atleast once..

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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:

Vaurcae are a hiveminded, insectoid, virtual-reality loving post-singularity species. The reasons I want to play them are to enjoy my favorite bug-like manneurisms and employ myself as a bound or unbound Vaurca. I already enjoy bound servitude while playing borg, and the idea of the unbound strike me as well. Having a hivenet makes it easier to serve, or to be served, and it reduces my overall servitude to a single or multiple unbound should i play a drone, rather than a borg being forced as an extension of something that has to keep the entire station running, i can enjoy a more slow-paced servitude that isn't entirely boring like pAI. As the unbound i can explore a new angle on that. I also want to give my unbound crewmates more drones to play with, as it seems Vaurcae drones are still in low number in general, and try to explore the quirkyness of, perhaps, an unbound engineer vaurca. Or a researcher.

Identify what makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a Human:

Vaurca drones seem to be mostly if not entirely biomechanical. Even the unbound have more augmentations than human at this current stage. There are several factors, such as being confined to a singular food source, having to deal with the high light of a station, for the unbound a general distaste for reality must be something they share with humans, although for entirely different and much more extreme reasons. The bound are never going to be free thinking, unlike a human, they could never rebel against their masters. There's the deal with having to breath a mixture of pharon and oxygen otherwise they're going to die. There's also the fact they can't self-heal... So I'd have to get any wounds taken care of, and quickly, with that extra bleeding. These are all just character traits though.

Humans have a stigma against everything, but it seems everyone is uneasy with vaurca around. The bug like creatures being a new adition to tau-ceti, i'll be dealing with lots of prejudice, and probably being brigged longer for minor offenses. I can't imagine what a drone's actual rights are, considering they gladly serve and get thrown to the side when they're useless. I'm prepared not to start shit, as vaurca seem to steer clear of or otherwise wish to end combat quickly and efficiently. Unlike humans, who start shit every shift.

 

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Character Name: Ka'Viax'Wiez Zo'ra

Please provide a short backstory for this character, approximately 2 paragraphs

Before the arrival in Tau-Ceti Wiez served as a sort of wet-nurse. He tended to a large number of eggs and larvae along with other bound. He tended them day and night, tirelessly for quite some time, watching as machines do the same that was done to him, lobotimize half of his hive cell while the other half, he took to manually. He would ensure these Vaurcae grew up, because that was the will of the hive. And that's all he ever knew.

Wiez was serving as facilitation in moving a great number unhatched eggs and growing larvae during the first weeks of the migration wave to their new home on New Gibson. Though he found some of his serviced unbound to be happy that this was occurring, it noticed many were not. It had no strong feelings one way or the other, for the will of the hive demanded he work. And so he did, going between his ship and a human's, carting eggs and larvae. It had soon become apparent what the effects of human atmospheres had on vaurca, and to continue doing his job after experiencing sickness from the oxegyn, he was modified to have a filtration bit like many others.

Upon emptying his hivecell of eggs and larvae, he was promptly -given- to NT as payment for the evacuation of his hivecell. The captain of the vessal he rode to New Gibson didn't know what to do with him, and he began to bounce around ship after ship, carrying resources, doing mining work, and enevitably, at the end of the year, ended up being ferried to NT research facilities as a request by another of his hive, needing drones to serve. It didn't take long before he arrived aboard the NSS Exodus, a station needing to keep up with it's growing population of unbound vaurcae, lest they become restless without servitude.

What do you like about this character?

I like the fact that if i want to make him a janitor, i just can. No messy regulations to switching between low-thinking civilian jobs like mining or otherwise. I like the fact he'll have to serve every Zo'ra he sees. I like the fact he's mindless, and that i don't have to think too much to be able to play him, unlike my IPC or my virologist. I can't say there's much to like, because he's a drone. But what little there is to him, I like him. And I'll like him more when I get to play him, however I end up playing him.

How would you rate your role-playing ability?

my last application (A year ago lol) covered this pretty well... At 24 years old now I've been roleplaying for twelve years, every day, pretty much it's all i do with my time as i'm a sit at home layabout with a huge disorder that makes it impossible to work. I can say that my roleplaying speaks for itself, I never break character, I try to never powergame (Though sometimes things seem to slip when i forget the IPC prometheus does not know what the bound station AI prometheus does) and I have never metagamed in my -life-...

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Notes: Vaurca are really damn cool

 

Typically I do not accept application backstories that depict a Bound Vaurcae, although the spirit of this law is to ensure the applicant displays an adequate level of understanding of Vaurcae lore and how to play the Vaurcae. Your backstory, Bound as it may be, displays this adequate understanding. I will be very interested in seeing how you behave on the server and IC.

Application accepted.