[Accepted] Incog's IPC Application

[incognitojesus]

BYOND Key: incognitojesus

Character Names: Senri Ishikawa, Damian del Prado, Javier Ortiz, Hiroto Sato, Joey Luna, Nate Parker, and a few I haven't played yet.

Species you are applying to play: IPC

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 would like to play this specific race because I have spent a long while observing other IPCs and the thing that separates them from other species in a way that appeals to me is the great variation. Unlike species like Unathi, Tajara, etc., there is more opportunity to branch out and a larger diversity. This is a great plus, and I feel as though it would definitely allow for me to explore a new facet to roleplay. Synthetics in general have a focused history in our lore with an emphasis on past events, and I would like to be able to engage in that aspect from the inside. Lastly, I'm interested in seeing how a post-Sol Invasion IPC would play a few months removed from the end of the last antag contest. While that storyline has been tied up, I'm sure Cake has something planned for the future.

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

As I mentioned previously, IPCs have a great deal of variation in the way that they are played, similar to humans, however, they don't enjoy the social position that humans do on a galactic stage. In many ways, this is a great area to create characters in because you have IPCs that are very pro-synth, IPCs that don't want or care for synthetic rights in general, IPCs that are ambivalent, and then IPCs that are simply programmed to do one function. Something I enjoyed about the old Vaurca lore is that there was a great emphasis placed on the unbound vs bound mentality, and you see a similar thing in IPCs. Obviously there are mechanical differences for playing an IPC versus a human, but they're well balanced and grounded in the idea that at the end of the day, the IPC is a synthetic being, and that's really it.

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Character Name: ISU-6672

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

Hephaestus Industries Internal Security Unit number 6672 was activated on 13 March 2440 aboard the HRS Sidirourgeío where it would proceed to fulfill its duties as a security unit, patrolling the halls and maintaining order aboard the research station for ten years before a tragic accident involving a fall into a crusher during a fire at the facility. As a result of this accident, the IPC had its espionage-sensitive components removed and the positronic brain rendered inert. Due to the obsolete nature of the IPC's model, HIISU was stripped for parts and the remaining parts were sold to a scrapyard on Biesel.

Three years would pass as the defunct and obsolete IPC laid in a scrapyard in Phoenixport before being sold to a mechatronic engineering student at the Hongsun Engineering Institute, Pyotr Anton. Pyotr would work alongside his classmates and close friends for the next year to reconstruct the chassis and posibrain. On 2 October 2454, HIISU-6672, or "Iso" as it was lovingly referred to by its makers, was re-activated, and promptly attempted to begin cleaning the room it was within, sacrificing Anton's sweatshirt to wipe up a stain. Dropping the HI- part of its designation, the IPC was then officially designated ISU-6672. Over the next six months, the club worked together to attempt to repurpose ISU for mining operations, and were able to accomplish this, however, ISU's vocalizer was never completed, Anton instead focusing on trying to solve the issue of the capacitor being drained too quickly by the industrial chassis. He would never find the solution before finals overtook his life for the next few months. Anton doted on ISU during this time, viewing it as a great creation, however, his financial situation would require Anton to begrudgingly sell ISU to Nanotrasen in order to pay his way to completing his doctorate. ISU knew how to do only two things: how to mine, and how to wield a mean bottle of space cleaner. At first, ISU swabbed the decks of the NCV Armstrong for three long, laborious years. During this time, it perfected the art of waxing on and waxing off, before being reassigned to plasma mining due to the robust chassis it possessed. Over the next year and some change, it would find itself aboard the newly commissioned NSS Aurora due to the perilous nature and the already-climbing number of human shaft miners who suffered egregious injuries from falls down the shafts.

What do you like about this character?

I had fun writing the backstory up, and honestly, I enjoy the incomplete vocalizer and the almost thrown together feel that ISU brings. In fact, I'd say that's the strong point of ISU, it exists only to serve its purpose because its owner sold it off. It doesn't view Nanotrasen as its owner because it has no real concept of ownership in the sense that it doesn't really care. I like the backstory I've constructed for ISU. It reminds me of those battlebots people make today where it's because they enjoy doing it. Also, ISU is old and really obsolete with how fast the technology has progressed since the AI boom of humanity.

How would you rate your role-playing ability? This question is always difficult, and I can never come up with an answer. I'd say I'm relatively decent, but there are definitely people who are better at it. I've been here for quite a while, and have seen some great roleplayers come through here so if I judge myself against them, I'd lose every single time. I like to think I'm an average roleplayer. I like to have a bit of fun which may break my own immersion at times, but it's usually harmless. I'm definitely willing to hear out anyone who has any concerns about that ability to roleplay.

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Notes: I may not keep the name of ISU-6672 simply because it seems like a mouthful and I'm sure I could come up with a cooler designation, perhaps with a few less letters. I would like to make it only two letters, honestly. I wrote this application on like two cups of coffee so excuse any irregularities or bring attention to them, whichever really.

[Wer6]

Why do you want to become such an infernal machine i will never know, but i can safely say that Senri Ishiwawa is perhaps one of the more enjoyable to (E)RP with, mostly on the fact that he seems like the standard human male in a suit, which in this time and age is just so enjoyable to be around when compared to the furred masses.

I'd be glad if Incog joined the Clanking Masses of the IPC Whitelist.

[KattenHatten]

Lots of text, well organised and served. "This question is always difficult, and I can never come up with an answer."- is kinda kinky, on my mind.

[Butterrobber202]

Incogs p-cool about my memes and a good RPer,

Sure he'd make a fine Sssoullessss Machine. +1

[ReynTheLord]

-1 for stealing the boogaloo part of my ipc app name, +2 Because in general, this guy seems decent enough to get the application approved, plus he's an admin. so overall, +1

[CakeIsOssim]

Application accepted.

You, specifically, should enjoy this considering the majority of the interaction I had with your characters that I recall, they were pretty anti-synthetic.