Synthetic Application - Tallfission
What is your BYOND key?
Tallfission
What is your Discord ID?
nusixx
Do you usually play a specific character? If so, who?
Keaton Howard
What whitelist applications have you previously completed?
Tallfission - Commanding Officer Application - #28 by Lagomorphica Commanding Officer (Accepted)
Synthetic Info:
Name of the Synth Character you wish to play:
Cecelia
What is your Synthetic’s Personality?
Cecelia’s personality very much morphed to fit her line of work. She was initially created to work as a logistician and general organizational mastermind for anything from working on military supply lines and cargo haulers operating in deep space, to acting as a secretary - or more aptly put, a display of one’s wealth for businessmen and politicians. She is generally warm and therapeutic in her speech to people she interacts with, often staying calm and collected, while also being very analytical of them (or really anything) in her own thoughts - discerning everything she can about them to better understand, fit, or work with them.
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?
Cecelia, as previously stated, is required to have some level of social skills with her line of work. She’s the kind of person that would comfort and encourage her co-workers, even if they weren’t as kind or welcoming, to try and get them working towards a shared goal again. Where an officer may feel uneasy about their subordinates, she will do her best to restore their faith in the men - even if it’s not particularly warranted - to better smooth over operations and communications. Where a survivor of an XX-121 outbreak may be absolutely freaking out over their new predicament, Cecelia would be there to try and comfort them, to at least get them to a state where they can function again and fight to try and ensure their survival. Her ‘interests’ can very much change on a whim to ensure that someone feels safe and comfortable in her presence, though, at all times Cecelia shows an even greater interest in two things. Biology, human or otherwise, and (predictably) military logistics and organization. This tends to shine through a lot in her work, especially when she’s talking with other people.
Why do you want to be a synthetic/why should we whitelist you?
It’s a multitude of different reasons.
I’m a support player at heart. In any game you’ll probably find me playing a role that helps others. It’s fun, it’s satisfying, and I can’t get enough of it. Sadly, on CM, I’m mostly relegated to one or two things - playing a corpsman means I’ll see a really shitty or damaged cadeline, or some poor PFC who’s entire body is one big fracture, and be helpless to fix it. Playing a combat engineer means I’m going to have to watch and die a little inside as the medics get swamped and people start going perma because there’s not enough competent doctors personnel deployed. I think and am told that I’m fairly competent in all support roles, from requisitions to engineering to medical to command, and would love to get access to the job partially dedicated to helping others.
I love to write and roleplay. It’s something I’ve done for a good while now, I have a passion for it, and I’m confident in my ability to do both. Particularly, though, I’ve had an affinity for synthetic or artificial characters - I often gravitate towards them in other servers. I find the idea of any artificially created intelligence or sentience to be very fun to play around with - whether or not they’re really able to be considered ‘alive’ is still up for debate most times, and the synthetics of the ALIENS universe blur that line in the most interesting way possible to me. CO has also been great for roleplaying - I really, really love the whitelist, but unfortunately it can be very restrictive at times. Deployment isn’t something that should be done too often (at least in my opinion) and that deprives me of about 2/3 of the server’s population to be able to effectively interact with outside of comms.
Lastly, and arguably less importantly, I NEED the drip.
What is your most memorable interaction with a synthetic?
I don’t have any one most memorable interaction, though I do have one story, of a time where I was accidentally spawned as a synthetic during an HvH event.
The first time I got to play a synthetic - and really the only time unless you count playing as Ivan, which was mostly a joke - was about a year or so back. During an HvH event I saw that one of the freed mobs was just a synth, and was a little confused. I took it but wasn’t told off for it (a little evil) and continued about my duties, figuring out how to play this new and interesting role. The general gist of the event was something along the lines of, ‘The UPP have intercepted the Almayer and are preparing to board.’ where all of the UPP forces would pile into ERT shuttles and then transport themselves over to the ship. I was one of the people in the first wave, where immediately upon exiting the starboard docking port, we were opened up on by the USCM. I took to dragging all of those I could back using the absolutely busted synthetic durability to run into the line of fire, quickly choke-grab people who’d overextended, then throw them back to cover where I could treat them. Sadly, I did not have surgery tools (and didn’t know that toolbelts were effectively surgery kits as well), so my treatment was limited to reviving them and sending them back into the fight. This was probably the most fun I’d had on CM in a while. Eventually we’d managed to push out of the ports, and I had gone off towards the briefing area to go support some men that were fighting there. I was sadly cut off from the rest of the force, and found myself at the portside escape pods
What nobody seemed to account for was the fact that there was almost nobody on the upper levels, as the fight was primarily centered around the hangar and medical bay at that time.
I was about halfway up the staircase, going to make my way over to the opposite side of the ship, when a PFC rounded the corner, and clearly did not account for me being there, much as I had not. I simply pointed at him, menacingly, and he started to speak, and the conversation went something along the lines of,
“Put your fucking hands up, I’ll kill you!”
To which I promptly responded with,
“I’m sorry, I think you’re mistaken of who’s at a disadvantage here.”
There wasn’t much interaction beyond that, so he instantly pulled out his rifle and started firing on me. Synthetics are, unsurprisingly, absolutely, 100% busted in CQC though, and I knew this. With better and lighter armor I was quickly able to outrun him and started pushing and pushing him over, disarming him, soaking up round after round. The poor guy actually started to scream and panicked when I threw away his rifle. He pulled a sidearm which was quickly ALSO dispatched to the other side of the hall, before I finally managed to pin him down. I got him in a chokehold, reached into my bag for some cable coil that I’d had for a while, and tied him up before hauling him on my back all the way back across the ship, over the stairs, by the AI core and then to the UPP shuttle that I’d come from. While on-board, he actually started to chat with me. I don’t remember exactly what was discussed, but we were going on about the ‘morality’ of what was going on. Where he’d be sent after he was captured, how the USCM had come to perceive the UPP as mostly faceless, godless bastards - combat synthetics, like myself, even moreso. It was fun, and a nice talk. Sadly, shortly after we parted ways and I had convinced the USCM to let me do surgery on the wounded conscripts right in front of them in medical using THEIR TOOLS, (yes, somehow, this worked) a PFC ran in and gunned me down, killing me and leaving me at the upper-aft of the ship for the rest of the round where I remained unfound. This was still some of the most fun I’d had on CM in a LONG time, and is a contender for one of the best rounds Ive had at all. I’m very, very sad I didn’t save the logs from it.
Synthetic Character Story:
Cecelia has a conversation with an officer.
Skills:
Engineering:
Incredibly familiar! I’ve played a lot of comtech recently, way back when I got really good at disassembling walls as an MT, I’m pretty much able to discern almost every problem with a power grid and I believe I can effectively place barricades when the time is right to entrench the marines and stop them from getting steamrolled.
Command:
As a CO whitelist holder and 50% command main, I can confidently say I am (in)competent.
Medical:
Very familiar. I have most surgeries (including the limb removal & face reconstruction to an extent) down to muscle memory and believe I can preform them incredibly quickly and while under pressure. I know a lot of different tricks involving medical kit, revival, and triage. I’m also confident in my abilities to handle mass casualty incidents caused by bad OBs or CAS. I am a little less familiar with chemistry & research, but I do know how to preform both of these at an acceptable level.
Requisitions:
I’ve played a fair bit of RO. Sometimes, I may not be the best with the budget - I primarily focus on getting defensvie materials & weapons before offensive - but I’m usually very attentive to communications and it’s very rare for me to miss an order. I know how to get (almost) free ammunition, and have some pretty good multitasking skills as well.
What are some scenarios that you can perform combat in? Give us a brief example.
To quote the programming almost directly, you cannot engage in combat unless it is in the effort of preserving yourself or the life of another marine. Some examples,
A runner is consistently running up to a marine that I’ve revived in hydroponics on LV624, and I’m unable to pick them up to move them to the frontlines or FOB for protection and I’m alone. I will defend myself until the threat disengages, is disabled, or dies, by any means necessary.
A UPP conscript has me backed into a corner, and after multiple attempts to talk him down, he refuses and starts to shoot me. I’ll defend myself by completely disarming them and/or beating them into critical condition or until they surrender.
Final Info:
Have you been banned from CM in the last month for any reason? Do you have any active jobbans?
No, and No.
Are you currently banned from our Discord?
No.
Let us know why you were discord banned.
Do you have anything else you would like to include about your application?
I’ve put a lot of time into this application, and I hope it shows. I’ve done my best to make up for my awful note history - which, I’ve tried to stray away from in the past year. I think I’ve done well in it.
