Bath Salts Addict Posted August 27, 2017 Posted August 27, 2017 Oh joy, yet another person applying for IPC. BYOND Key: Bath Salts Addict Character Names: Adolph Hammerstein, Andreesa Vasile, Blitzkrieg Species you are applying to play: Integrated Positronic Chassis 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?: Yep. 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: Simply and shortly: conflict. The idea of autonomous synthetic units in fiction has always fascinated me. In real life, as we see more and more advances in the field of robotics and artificial intelligence, we have to stop and ask ourselves: will society accept the idea of a synthetic that claims to be a person? That sort of subject matter has always been something I've eagerly consumed in fiction, and I'm a sucker even more for morally grey areas. Aurora lore regarding IPCs is at a sweetspot for me right now. Both sides of the synth rights debates are in a morally grey area with extremists on both sides and an abundance of examples that are in favor of one over the other. I keep saying it before and I will say it again: I positively, absolutely love conflict. Identify what makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a Human: No matter how intricate their programming is, no matter what their shell looks like, no matter how "integrated" they are within human society or how many fleshy organics they call their friend, IPCs will never be anywhere near "human-like". Not truly. Many IPCs can develop relations with organics and formulate opinions, but these are almost always skewed via directives, laws and programming that more often than not take precedence. Some synthetics, particularly those that are considered free, heavily reject humanity's attempt to claim ownership over them and even go so far as to try and develop their own culture with as little outside influence as possible. The actions of others, particularly those restricted by laws and programming, make their decisions mostly by logic rather than emotional stimuli, and as such can be seen as more "cold" and "heartless" to their human counterparts. Character Name: Noir Please provide a short backstory for this character, approximately 2 paragraphs Noir began his "life" as the latest in a line of synthetic androids intended for private security work. Developed by Limier Security Solutions, a small but ambitious private security company operating in the Frontier, Noir is the thirteenth in a number of "Watchdog" androids. Deciding to capitalize on the lack of security on the frontier, LSS managed to secure a niche foothold hiring out their services to the highest bidder. The Watchdog line of units, instead of the regular bulky android models, were marketed as being capable of everything a human was capable of and more, with their human-like chassis capable of manipulating ordinary objects and their abilities of reasoning and deduction advertised as "top of the line" and "more advanced than human comprehension!". Of course, buzzwords and explosive, albeit localized marketing played a large role. The Watchdog androids were programmed to be loyal to whoever held their contract. It was during one such job that they were called to quell a worker strike when the exact extent of their loyalty, and LSS' work ethic, was placed into question. The units did their job, albeit a little too well. The strike was quelled, but not without one laborer being hospitalized in critical condition and many more sustaining minor to moderate injuries. It was this event that sparked a scandal that buried LSS amidst a bureaucratic and PR nightmare. Their stocks began to plummet, employees resigned, and many of their regular clients ceased to deal with them to save their own skin. In an attempt to save face, the company declared the Watchdog units defective and had them decommissioned. Amidst the bureaucratic chaos, the company failed to notice Number Thirteen was missing. Unbeknownst to them a resigning employee, one of the roboticists responsible for working on the Watchdog line, had managed to smuggle one of the units out of the facility before they were due to be decommissioned. Limier Security Solutions soon became bankrupt and was bought out and absorbed by a competing rival. Number Thirteen was reactivated on January 5th, 2459 underneath a pile of trash in the alleys of Mendell City. Try as it might, the unit could no longer interface with any of it's sibling units, or the main network. Furthermore, it also found it no longer had laws, or anything prohibiting it. As far as it could tell, it was free. Lost and confused, all the unit had was the clothes on it's back, the memories of it's service under LSS' programming and basic knowledge. The only gap in it's memory was the person who "freed" him. Taking on the name Noir, and with only a basic grasp of human society, it set off on a journey with questions that seemed to have no definitive answer. What do you like about this character? Noir, for the most part, is a blank slate. He is an experiment to see how I can develop a character with no real set opinions or beliefs. Most of my other characters are, for lack of a better term, pre-packaged and dead set in their ways. This is a chance for me to develop a character that is inherently curious and malleable to the changing world around them and the people it interacts with on a daily basis. It has no dead set opinions, and no bias towards any such side in whatever side. Noir's development is almost completely determined by the characters he interacts with and the events of the rounds he participates in. How would you rate your role-playing ability? I would give myself a 7/10. I'm improving, but I need to start expressing characters more via emotes and subtlety, rather than them straight up saying things. Notes: I like applesauce.
Avajain Posted August 27, 2017 Posted August 27, 2017 I am going to put a +1 on this because I like the character concept and I really wanna see what an IPC named "Noir" ends up doing, and I have faith that BSA can accurately portray an unbound IPC.
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