Synthetic Application - HappyCrow
What is your BYOND key?
HappyCrow
What is your Discord ID?
tinker01
Do you usually play a specific character? If so, who?
Reid “Lucky” Gardner
What whitelist applications have you previously completed?
This will be my first whitelist application.
Synthetic Info:
Name of the Synth Character you wish to play:
Dier
What is your Synthetic’s Personality?
Dier’s are old school frontier robo-docs build to perform medical services in places where injury was expected but the expense of a full medical staff couldn’t be justified. Dier’s are designed with more vim and vinegar than spit and shine creating a hardly, albeit not the most professional synth. At the heart of a Dier model is soul of a cowboy more accustomed to frontier colonies, and way ward ships than board rooms and call centers. Friendly, rustic charms are a hallmark of a Dier, as a well developed bedside manner is handy for both keeping patients calm and keeping moral up in those far flung places humanity has forgotten.
How will they react to the different ranks of the USCM, what would they talk about in a one on one conversation? What are their interests? What is an advertisement logline that could be written for them?
Like most synth’s Deir’s are support “equipment.” When not actively engaged in medical work, Deir’s attempt to bond with the humans they are stationed with in order to maintain morale and head off any personally conflicts, interpersonal disputes, or to managed psychiatric illnesses.
Little would change between interaction with Command staff, NCOs, or squaddies as all three groups despite their rank or human and suffer from the same issues. In the Almayers case, namely stress, anxiety, and separation. That said, terminology regarding whom a Dier is addressing would change with commanders refereed to as Boss, Bossman, or Augar. If a rank is requested then it will of course be utilized instead. For NCOs, Jefe and Cowboss are the rule of the day. The lower enlisted are buddy, chum, and friend and pardner.
As for topics of discussion, that will generally revolve around who the Dier is interacting with. If it a chef, cooking, a mechanic, the ship, or doctor, medicine. Ideally the conversation would pivot to discussion about home, friends, family, and the person’s favorite food. Anything to remind the individual that there is more to life than their current predicament and that one day they will get back to one they left behind, providing they work hard enough of course.
Why do you want to be a synthetic/why should we whitelist you?
I am a support main at heart so much so that I have both my platinum in Combat Technician and Hospital Corpsman. Synths seem like a natural evolution of that love, plus synths are pretty awesome and some of my best memories are because of synth players. I’ll also admit I’ve had a lot of people tell me I should submit and application and well, I figure its time.
What is your most memorable interaction with a synthetic?
There have been so many great moments with synths ranging from silly accidents, to the hero I needed, and to the down right hilarious.
There was an incident on Kutjev where poor River accidentally sliced off my hand during surgery. Not their fault they got shoved while operating, but still hilarious.
One round on Chance’s in which I was on the receiving end of an incendiary mortar and Holiday without skipping beat came to my rescue braving the flames to save me.
A strange event on Trijent led me to investigate the sound of a broken window to find Phelan fighting a private war against a lesser drone. Phelan won, both the lesser and the window did not.
Synthetic Character Story:
Skills:
Engineering:
I do have my platinum as a Combat Tech, and there is little I feel that I cannot do from repairs comms to cading. Replacing APC, fixing APCs, installing new cameras and fixing broken synths. All and more fall within my wheelhouse.
Command:
I’ll admit, I’m never going to be an XO or CO but I am confident in my SO role. I’ve been rolling the position quite a bit in the last couple of weeks to make sure that I’ve refreshed my self on how things function.
Medical:
I think you’d be hard pressed to find someone with more medic hours than I. That said, I’ve put the time in to learn surgery. I have the major surgeries memorized it the weird things like monkey cube removal and eye surgery that I still look up whenever the situation calls for it.
Requisitions:
I have begrudgingly rolled Req more than a few times. CTs are vital part of any successful operation and anyone who picks up the role is a hero, I however realized, just like running a ship, Req isn’t for me. That said, I understand that a synth made need to step in and help our in Req, which I can and will do. Just don’t weld the doors and keep me in there. I’ll probably go insane.
What are some scenarios that you can perform combat in? Give us a brief example.
Generally combat as a synth is a none starter. However, should a marines life be under threat say by a crusher I can attempt verbal controls to make it leave or even attack it just long enough to get the marine to safety. However, should multiple xeno arrive I should retreat to preserve my own life and attempt recovery at a later time, ideally with marine support.
Against human’s I should act to preserve my own life and ideally disable the attackers. Say I get attack by CLF in Temple on LV. I would first attempt to exfil from the situation, failing that I would engage using verbal controls to deescalate the situation. Should the CLF escalate their hostiles to combat I can and should defend myself by disarming them. Once disabled and disarmed I would then treat the CLF fighters as I still have a Duty of Care for the CLF.
At the end of the day I am not a combatant. A synth should not be hunting down injured spiters or running down lesser drones. However, if a drone is attacking Dier and I cannot escape, then that drone’s gonna meet the business of my hammer. Gotta make sure I preserve my own life.
Final Info:
Have you been banned from CM in the last month for any reason? Do you have any active jobbans?
I have not
Are you currently banned from our Discord?
Nope, feels like you gotta go out of your wat to do this.
Let us know why you were discord banned.
N/A
Do you have anything else you would like to include about your application?
Just that I appreciate y’all taking the time to give me a fair shake. I’ll happily take any critiques and advice people have to offer. Let me know if I need to go into more detail in any section or clarify anything. Thanks again.
Edit Added an updated link for my synth story. Hopefully this helps those who were having issues.
