Synthetic Application - antlers
What is your BYOND key?
antlers
What is your Discord ID?
antlerss
Do you usually play a specific character? If so, who?
Verna Ray
What whitelist applications have you previously completed?
I have not previously applied to a whitelist.
Synthetic Info:
Name of the Synth Character you wish to play:
Taima ‘Tea’ Yuyo
Provide a short description of your synthetic’s backstory
After a disappointing performance of their new customer-service type synthetic—likely due to the innate disrespect felt when being referred to a synthetic rather than a real human—Wey-Yu had an overstock of synthetics that would be more costly to deploy and maintain than they would ever return in saved wages. In a recent brokerage meeting with the USMC, a stockpile of these service synths were snuck into one of the finer clauses of a license renewment.
Much to the surprise of the USMC supply division, 124 service synths were delivered to their cargo dock with minimal paperwork. A single supply manifest on the side of the synthetic storage container mentioned this previous license renewment as the source. Not one to waste essentially free hardware, the USMC installed surplus military-synthetic firmware on 52 of them. These were then shipped out to various patrol craft and frontier posts. One of these synths was delivered to the USS Almayer, under the name Taima Yuyo. The crew quickly began to call her ‘Tea’.
Describe your synth’s personality without mentioning their skills or previous professions
A relatively new synthetic, Tea is inexperienced with the world of the marines. Friendly and naive to a fault, she will often be the butt of jokes from the marines without even acknowledging she was being made fun of.
Ultimately, her world confuses her. In an attempt to better understand her customers, she often asks questions. This habit is continuous, and she will waveringly ask questions when it is neither the time nor the place. “Did we lose?” “Are you of sound mind and body?”
How would your synthetic interact with enlisted personnel, officers and civilians? How could you involve your personality into these interactions?
Owing to her original purpose as a customer-service synthetic, she often treats conversations as confrontations that need to be defused. Interestingly, for the tightly-strung environment of the military, this seems to work quite well. Officers and civilians generally hear what they want from her, and leave interactions generally satisfied. After all, that’s what she was designed to do.
However, once enlisted warm up to her presence, they grow tiresome of her inability to loosen up. Many marines have simply stopped bothering to say their hellos to her—not out of disdain or apathy—but simply because they can’t stand to hear her “Hello, [name]. How can I help?” Once they’ve gotten close enough to her, many marines understand her complex struggles with being in a world she doesn’t understand. And a part of that feels violated whenever they incidentally trigger one of her preprogrammed lines, shouting over that very delicate part of her personality.
Why do you want to be a synthetic/why should we whitelist you?
Typically I play CM as my self-insert, Verna Ray. Oftentimes I’ll slip into the game a little too much and forget to step back and make my character more fluid. I think starting from scratch as something fundamentally different from anything I could ever be personally will be a good experience for me. I also, of course, think that it would benefit other people’s experience as well to have another synthetic to play around with.
What is your most memorable interaction with a synthetic?
Synthetic Character Story:
USMC SYNTHETIC AUDIT TRANSCRIPT
USS Almayer - May 8, 2182 07:03
AUDITING PERSONNEL: 1st Lieutenant Jerald Booker - Chief Engineer
AUDITED SYNTHETIC: Taima Yuyo
[[ BEGIN TRANSCRIPT ]]
(7:03:43) Booker: -lright here we are.
(7:03:47) the faint rustling of papers can be heard
(7:03:49) Booker: Starting off: can you tell me your name?
(7:03:54) Taima: Hi, my name is Taima, how can I help you?
(7:04:00) Booker: Okay.. do you know where you are right now?
(7:04:04) Taima: I’m on the USS Almayer, home of the Falling Falcons. Did you not need help?
(7:04:09) Booker: You’re helping right now. Just stay with me for a second, alright?
(7:04:13) Taima: Oh, okay! I will wait here.
(7:04:16) Booker: Good. Can you tell me your make and model?
(7:04:20) Taima: I um… okay, Lieutenant. I am a Type B Customer Service Synthetic made by the Weyland-Yutani corporation, and owned by the United Americas Marine Corps. I was first brought online at the-
(7:04:28) Booker: That’s good. Can you tell me why you’re here?
– 20 seconds of silence omitted for brevity –
(7:04:50) Taima: I’m.. I’m here to help you with any of your needs! If you wish to speak with a human operator, you can choose to
(7:04:58) Booker: Okay-
(7:04:58) Taima: contact one thr-
(7:04:59) Booker: Alright that’s-
(7:04:59) Taima: -ough our secondary service line!
(7:05:00) Booker: Yes, thank you. I’ll- sighs. I’ll be sure to do that if.. if I want to. I guess.
(7:05:05) Taima: Excellent! Is there anything else I can help you with today?
(7:05:09) Booker: No, that’s enough I think. Just wait outside while I work through the rest of this and you should be good to go.
(7:05:15) Booker: Is there anything I can get you while you wait?
(7:05:19) Taima: Get… me?
(7:05:22) Booker: Yeah, like—well I guess you don’t drink coffee but if you’d like a magazine I’m sure I have some-
(7:05:27) Taima: Tea.
(7:05:30) Booker: …pardon?
(7:05:32) Taima: I’d like to hold some tea.
(7:05:37) Booker: …alright. I’ll go get you some tea.
[[ END TRANSCRIPT]]
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
I saw her sitting there behind my office window afterwards. She just had the cup of tea clasped between her hands, staring intently at it. Like she was expecting it to do something. I don’t think she moved a muscle for ten minutes until I was done. I wonder what’s going on behind that pre-recorded customer service voice.
Skills:
How familiar are you in CMs support roles such as medical/engineering/requisitions/command and which of them are you more and less proficient in?
Very familiar. I would say I can do an adequate job in requisitions and command, and can perform quite well in medical and engineering positions.
What are some scenarios that you can perform combat in? Give us a brief example.
- Defending a marine while recovering them from the frontline.
- Defending myself while attempting to flee in an escape pod.
- Disarming and disabling crewmembers attempting to mutiny command, given I have chosen to side with command.
- Repelling an enemy from an occupied perimeter, such as comms or the FOB.
- Neutralizing facehuggers that may be attempting to hug injured marines.
Final Info:
Have you been banned in the last month?
Nope!
Do you have anything else you would like to include about your application?
When can I expect to hear back from the council? Will there be a secondary application phase or interview over discord or some other platform? Please reach out to me over discord, I don’t regularly sign in to the forums enough to catch time-sensitive notifications.