ClearThoughts Posted August 15, 2017 Posted August 15, 2017 (edited) BYOND Key: ClearThoughts Character Names: Qimul-Omal Tju'Yullra - Security Officer Hidashi Toda'keri - Researcher Manirin Satari'Noran - Research Director Joseph Ward - Radio Host / Journalist Gwali Gesska - Janitor Nil'Opga Otyk'Qlalua-Ellu - Chaplain James Beckett - Head of Security Inaaya Vihaan - Chief Engineer Elor'orus Sarnorin-Peiros - Librarian Liwish-Malai Gobi - Captain Species you are applying to play: IPC/Synthetic/Shell 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?: Ye. 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: Well, I've always been intrigued by the idea of an independent synthetic construct operating on a neural network or some algorithmic logic that developed its own personality, or rather had a pre-installed personality that it interacted with others with. Out of the four races that I've yet to get a whitelist for (Diona, IPC, Catbeasts, and Bugs Life cosplayers), IPCs seem to be the most interesting to me, or rather, the ones that both Interest me and are understandable enough that I wish to play them. (Damn you dionae, I will understand you yet!) Identify what makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a Human: They. .Aren't human at all? Difficult to answer, but my best explanation is that they are the products of humanity. Something that the Skrell would verily wish destroyed, but humans seem to soldier on despite countless warnings and bombed-out Skrellian cities, and despite these warnings the humans continue to produce them ANYWAYS. . Off track. The point being is that each IPC was created for a purpose, unlike humans or other organics that were simply bred for the sheer desire to copulate or for a continuation of lineage. Synthetics, including IPCs are purpose-built, as seen in the station-bound cyborgs, androids, and even industrial frames occasionally seen taking occupation aboard the Aurora in various usages. They can range anywhere from a beeping, blooping stack of circuitry and hydraulics that make indistinguishable noises to the human ear, to fancy, human-like shells that could very well be the next evolution in cybernetic-organic infiltration. Scary. Or erotic? Character Name: Jennifer Quark Please provide a short backstory for this character, approximately 2 paragraphs "Jackson.You're assigned for the Elektro project. The shell study. We expect that you will provide us with a likeable and realistic product that will surprise the board. . Understand?" Seven years ago this was the highest order of magnitude ever to shake up Lyle Jackson's life. One line issued to a major project, an undertaking to build a new kind of Shell, based around the standardized positronic brains that had become a staple of the integrated chassis world, and only but a single requirement: It must be marketable. He had thought long about what exactly he would consider marketable, and found nothing in his head. As if all his life had been full of ideas, but the one moment that it all came together, his head remained empty. . Day after day he worked and toiled, organizing the pieces. Synthskin, check! He chose wisely, the prototype would maintain a cocoa-butter complexion, brown eyes and seamless plating, a stout form with long legs and.. Perhaps he got a bit carried away in design, but his overall idea was coming together. She'd have a short blue mohawk and.. Holy moly, this was looking familiar. Jennifer Quark?! That ancient comic book? Did. .. Did I really just make a. .An entire prototype without seeing this?! The matter became true enough as he looked on at his creation, half-finished and unprogrammed, but as he looked down to his PDA, flipping through his collected digital copies of comics until it landed on the front page of The Daring Adventures of Jennifer Quark!:Prime Investigator "Oh Jeez." Lyle said aloud as a gut reaction, looking back up to the conundrum of his that was only a missing hair away from an exact copy of the illustrated heroine, "How am I going to explain this?" Perhaps a large waste of company resources and fabrication, but something sprang into his mind, "..I have more. I have more of these, right?" He began flipping furiously through his various comics, finding another suitably human-looking character, one of Jennifer Quark's arch-nemeses: Indomitable Barbaritron, a rogue industrial machine that grew its own desires and feelings, corrupted then by the dark energies of the nether dimensions. It modified itself with industrial equipment, becoming quite a menace to space stations everywhere. "These are possible.. Their d-designs need reworking but.. Holy cannoli, we can make these heroes a reality!" And so began Lyle in renewed fury, working himself to the bone over the coming weeks, day and night, rarely stopping for food, water, or sociability in his passion to complete his work. It all came down to that one moment he'd been waiting for, the on-switch. . Figuratively. The initial boot and verification was a success, followed by the personality imprint. Easy enough, he figured, uploading possible dialogue from a collection quips, quotes, and scenes in which Jennifer Quark was being. . Herself. //BOOTING Ms. Quark opened her eyes, standing up out of her assembly chair and right into action, "You won't get away with it, you beguiled beguiler, you crooner of chaos! Barbari-. . What?" Lyle was starry-eyed and awestruck, "Holy shit." Perhaps the first curse of his life, and well-deserved. It seemed like his creation had really come to life. A short, confusing (and perhaps gleeful from Lyle's point of view) briefing later, Ms. Quark was issued her costume, and the two went to present her in front of the board. The Elektro Hero series became a smash hit as entertainment, their egos and personalities on stage or in performance became the stuff of magazines and news everywhere, until one day, the mysterious Ms. Quark disappeared from underneath watchful eyes, gone in a flash of light from inside of her dressing room to god-knows-where, and. . Oddly, Barbaritron meeting a similar fate. What do you like about this character? I've never been much into Actual DC vs Marvel comics because of their style, but having been really into a bunch of community-made comic series and smalltime artists making their go at a comic, I've been infatuated with the idea of comics-to-reality. I feel like Quark would be fun as an antag, perhaps, but I'm not sure she could fall completely into a role aboard the station. Wizard, perhaps? The whole story, whether used or not, is simply a measure of the thought I try to put into my characters when I make them. It starts off as a feeling. A vibe, or otherwise generality of what I want to make, and base a character Around that vibe, expanding it until I'm either satisfied or the person listening has simply become bored of my lore. Eheh.. How would you rate your role-playing ability? 8/10, I can always learn something. Notes: None, really, just excited for the prospect to play an IPC. Edited August 18, 2017 by Guest
AmoryBlaine Posted August 15, 2017 Posted August 15, 2017 I RP with Qimul-Omal Tju'Yullra a lot and I have to say they are one of my favourite characters by far- overall, not just amongst Skrell. I think ClearThoughts would be quite good at RPing an IPC.
Espa Posted August 19, 2017 Posted August 19, 2017 Though I've never interacted with them personally, I've seen them in action as Annika as well as Ghosting. Really decent Captain. . I'm more than sure they can pull off an IPC. +1 <3
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