[Approved] ParadoxSpace's Diona Application

[Snakebittenn]

BYOND Key:

ParadoxSpace

Character Names:

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?:

Of course.

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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:

It's mostly the lore, really. While originally I came to Aurora and had some reservations about the Diona lore, after giving it a deeper purview I honestly think it's super interesting with how slightly sinister gestalts come off as (constantly growing onto things and having the crew disappear.) I'd like to see just what I could do to explore this race. Not to mention, of course, their mechanics are both unique and quite interesting.

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

Mostly, the fact that they're nothing like humans. They don't require much food or drink, just gasses, light, or radiation. They don't have a singular conscious perse, more just a collective of mini-intelligences. They don't have much of a culture, just mindsets either gained from the gestalts they came from, or information they absorbed as a nymph.

 

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Character Name: Betrayal Comes (In Many Forms)

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

Born from the annual seed ejection from the Reade Colossus, a small swarm of nymphs, no more than seven, began to explore the surface of the barren world. These nymphs, thankfully enough, were picked up by a group known as the Hydro Brothers, an illegal smuggling operation taking place out of a hollowed out cavern. These nymphs were placed together in an enclosure, under a floodlight, until they got together. They were then given the somewhat fresh corpse of a young female only known as Vex, for 'reading material.'

For the next handful of years, this Worker form gestalt was used, well, to work. The group actually utilized the mostly-hollow innards of the gestalt in order to carry around illicit substances, high-technology weapons, and other contraband. No one would suspect a gestalt. Customs and patrol would never pull over a gestalt. This gestalt was also used for more sinister purposes. Its' secondary purpose was the removal of bodies. Evidence would simply be consumed by them.

It was on their fourth year of existence, day three, that the rough-and-tumble life of the gestalt would change. A group known as The Dividers had come. The gestalt was told these were not people to worry about before, that they were 'smugglers just as us.' They came asking two very specific questions. Where had Crewman Vex gone, and where had their last shipment went? After plenty radio silence, after the barricading of windows and airlocks, gunfighting had broken out. No one suspected the gestalt that left the scene, instructed to go as far away as possible. Frag-throwing raiders would never pull over a gestalt. No one stopped it from entering a cargo shuttle and waiting for the gentle hum of thrusters.

Later, the shuttle docked, at a NanoTrasen facility. After several inquiries by the local security team, they were given to an HR worker. They were given an ID reading 'Betrayal Comes', and a job as a low-wage supply worker. They still had the mindset of a smuggler, even the slang, but 'hopefully, they'll adjust.'

What do you like about this character?

I like this character because I'm hoping to make them somewhat act as if they were still living the pirate lifestyle, but over the course of rounds I hope that they'll be taught to act like a person. I also enjoy their backstory, which I don't think has been done before.

How would you rate your role-playing ability?

8? I'm getting there.

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Notes:

will answer questions, pls ask them

[LordRaven001]

+1 Paradox is a great guy. He isn't too serious but he isn't too wild, I've played with his characters in game as-well and some are troublemakers but others are extremely serious.. I also like the character, Its an interesting breed and not many Dionae have resorted to crime like this and it reminds me of my first Dionae, the one who went on a robbing spree eating all the bodies in the morgue.. Overall I am heavily in support and I think he would be a great addition to our humble forest of trees. Good luck my dude. o7

[AllyBearsley]

Alright Para, ya know I like ya. I like your chars and general attitude. Plus your RP is pretty on point, it almost always seems like you're playing a genuine character and not just something that's an excuse to do certain things. I'm not the best lore junkie here, but I'm liking what I'm seeing. However, gotta say the backstory gets a little hard to read toward the end since you repeat a lot of words and need to just kind of proofread/edit the last couple paragraphs. Still neat seeing a Diona "born" in such conditions.

+1 from me.

[Killerhurtz]

Approved. Rustle softly and go far.