[Approved]AttyZ's Diona race application.

[AttyZ]

BYOND Key:AttyZ

Character Names:Holly Owens, Prometheus, Fabricio Mendoza, Lui Xun, Ayako Kitoma, Celeste Rocket, Ka'Viax'Wiez Zo'ra.

Species you are applying to play:Dionae

What color do you plan on making your first alien character (Dionaea & IPCs exempt):

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:

The Dionae appeal to me because they're giant hulking collectives of intelligence, that their physiology and psychology are so different. They appeal to me because they can be vastly intelligent and distant emotionally beyond the extent of a human but not in the same way as, a robot. They can have aspirations and ideals, but they don't necessarily need morality. They can appreciate technology, and society, but they don't care for it. They can create a self contained ecosystem within their own forms. They can become goddamn living ships. That's what makes them interesting to me.

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

The mentality of a Dionae seems increadibly passive and observant. Curious, intelligent, but not as active. Slower to move and react. The impersonal nature of the self in dionae's existance, that it fuses itself into larger parts at the pure promise of increased survivability, may mean that they are either detached to the preservation of others, or might mean they are more concerned with the continued existence of another system of memories-- of another person. A dionae seems to have a high intelligence, with a casual view on life. This might mean they react indifferently to things that would offput someone else. Matters of morality may be less important to a Dionae. Higher intelligence, detachment to singular-identity and the lack of a moral compass could lead Dionae to be less emotional, less irrational creatures than humans. They might follow laws simply because they're in place, rather than it's the right thing to do. They might see certain emotional attachments as frivolous, even while holding a great attachment to their own memories. They probably don't value personal things, as much as they do, experiences. And they probably don't value currency, they have no need for things, or food, or to trade materials. They can survive in almost every environment, as long as there is light. The only thing they have to worry about is harm to their personal collective. They might not even necessarily care about each other, unless they're attached, and beneficial to the rest of the living organism.

 

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Character Name:Supernova Scattered Stardust

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

As a young nymph, Nova was grown on a human research station near an unstable binary star combination. Here, scientists were studying the the properties of a near, collapsed star with another smaller dwarf orbiting it. Nova was allowed to skitter around the station and do as he would. Many of the crew actually liked his presence. As an early nymph he called himself 'Burning light above the clouds in a blue sky', thanks to the memory someone had of an earth-like planet they lived on as a child. It was the person who grew him, who encouraged him to explore their outpost and gather memory and knowledge. Certainly a few of the crew avoided Nova, but the most of them encouraged, fed, and took care of the little nymph just like they did with their test subjects.

As it was, the star was due to explode sometime in a hundred years, and the outpost was at safe distance from the stars to observe this event. The station went dark as it was projected electromagnetic pulses may reach as far as the asteroid belt observing the event. Thankfully, Nova was allowed into a windowed area. The radiation would not bother him, and he watched as the second star was vaporized in an instant as the larger collapses, at first shrinking before growing to a massive degree and then sputting outward, the star breaking apart from the inside as it's bonds appear to fail to condense into a dwarf or a black hole. The dust spews out in every direction, cooling slowly and creating a massive hot sea of particles which flood the area where there used to be a pair of stars. The force of the detonation had blown apart the star, and eventually all those particles may condense into a new star.

As the station had served it's purpose, Nova had slowly matured into the next stage of life. It would spend it's time in transit seeking out other nymphs, consuming them. By now they had changed their designation. Upon collecting into a group, this Dionae looked fondly on it's time in the station. They decided it was their new favorite, and so they adopt it as their name. The glowing stardust became an imprint of how this collective viewed the intent of the universe, the intention to change. Considering the universe an everchanging element, Nova decided they must learn more about the nature of the universe, and so it takes the knowledge of the researchers they have, and joins society, enters into school, and begins learning about things that introduce rapid change... explosions... chemicals... viruses. Supernova fills out the gaps in thier knowledge, with the schools that society provides.

What do you like about this character?

Supernova's conglomerate has a few distinct nymphs in it. I am planning to develope these nymphs as time goes on, and I like the idea that I could occasionally write them changing. I want to morph their personality and allow them to take different positions that i havn't reached with my humans yet. They'd probably hold a few 'learned' positions that i just havn't gotten around to nailing the mechanics yet. I was also going to have them value the transfering of knowledge, So I'd love to engage in more mentor-apprentice rping with this character while i've 'discovered' my humans are more concerned with just doing their own damn jobs and don't like teaching...

How would you rate your role-playing ability?

I employ roleplaying techniques I learned a long time ago, When noone's around, sometimes I will still do things like emote or take my time interacting with an object. I will balance character traits in favor of negative effects. In combat I've typically attempted to do the least amount of 'mechanical' damage to someone, rather opting to use grabs to stop someone and gain an opportunity to interact, or intentionally missing shots fired. I will try to keep characters in line with typical realism for a setting, researching farther into a subject than is neccisary. I try to use these things, passive roleplay, negative character traits, shoot to miss theatric combat, and realistic backstories, to make my roleplay interesting. I hope these things work well together, and I think they make my roleplay good.

 

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Notes:Applications are like torture to me. I only want to make like two more but it took me a year to want to finish this one. God damnit i hate half these questions. That is all.

Edited September 8, 2017 by Guest

[Conspiir]

TREE!

I mean. I accept the high amount of effort put into this application. This is well thought-out and I've had contact with Holly Owens for a bit. I find it funny that you take to combat the same way I do. It actually works really well with Dionaea. Just walk at them slowly and grab 'em by the balls, bud!

+1

[Chada1]

As a young nymph, Nova was grown on a human research station near an unstable binary star combination. Here, scientists were studying the the properties of a near, collapsed star with another smaller dwarf orbiting it. Nova was allowed to skitter around the station and do as he would. Many of the crew actually liked his presence. As an early nymph he called himself 'Burning light above the clouds in a blue sky', thanks to the memory someone had of an earth-like planet they lived on as a child. It was the person who grew him, who encouraged him to explore their outpost and gather memory and knowledge. Certainly a few of the crew avoided Nova, but the most of them encouraged, fed, and took care of the little nymph just like they did with their test subjects.

As it was, the star was due to explode sometime in a hundred years, and the outpost was at safe distance from the stars to observe this event. The station went dark as it was projected electromagnetic pulses may reach as far as the asteroid belt observing the event. Thankfully, Nova was allowed into a windowed area. The radiation would not bother him, and he watched as the second star was vaporized in an instant as the larger collapses, at first shrinking before growing to a massive degree and then sputting outward, the star breaking apart from the inside as it's bonds appear to fail to condense into a dwarf or a black hole. The dust spews out in every direction, cooling slowly and creating a massive hot sea of particles which flood the area where there used to be a pair of stars. The force of the detonation had blown apart the star, and eventually all those particles may condense into a new star.

As the station had served it's purpose, Nova had slowly matured into the next stage of life. It would spend it's time in transit seeking out other nymphs, consuming them. By now they had changed their designation. Upon collecting into a group, this Dionae looked fondly on it's time in the station. They decided it was their new favorite, and so they adopt it as their name. The glowing stardust became an imprint of how this collective viewed the intent of the universe, the intention to change. Considering the universe an everchanging element, Nova decided they must learn more about the nature of the universe, and so it takes the knowledge of the researchers they have, and joins society, enters into school, and begins learning about things that introduce rapid change... explosions... chemicals... viruses. Supernova fills out the gaps in thier knowledge, with the schools that society provides.

 

I haven't played with you yet, but I do like this application. I think like all of the questions are hard to get wrong, but I feel you aced them. I'll focus on the stuff that I can actually speak on, though, your background story. Most of it seems solid, and the lack of a specific date for this story, makes it more easy to fit into the Lore. But I did notice you phrase joining with other Nymphs a little oddly, it's far from consuming them persay, it's more like they're just joining together and exchanging information between themselves. Nymphs only 'Consume' dead Nymphs in a literal sense. Just clearing up that incase it was a misconception, but it could've easily just been a very creative choice of phrasing.

I really like the effort you went into to tell a story, and how you didn't focus only on your character, probably not the best choice for a character background, but it was entertaining. And i'd say you did succeed in telling a decent story in it. I'm unsure what profession they'll have from the background, but do be careful about balancing out their skillset, though they may know more than usual, they still have limits. (This is also me lowkey asking what you plan to play them as, or if you're still deciding)

I noticed two typos in the background. A typo near the start. 'The the properties', second sentence, first paragraph. The very last sentence, "thier". Though, these have nothing to do with what I think, just meaning to help you refine the app a little more.

I +1 this, hope to see Nova's Gestalt shambling around the Station, in the future.

[Killerhurtz]

I see no reason to not approve this application. Approved.