Synthetic Application - Tobias_reaper
What is your BYOND key?
Tobias_reaper
What is your Discord ID?
The clockwork gent
Do you usually play a specific character? If so, who?
V. Russel, the coldsmiths
What whitelist applications have you previously completed?
Fax responder:
Mentor:
https://forum.cm-ss13.com/t/mentor-application-tobias-reaper/16324/18
Pred- denied due to inproper attitude and story standards:
https://forum.cm-ss13.com/t/tobias-reaper-yautja-application/16606/10
Pred- Accepted:
https://forum.cm-ss13.com/t/tobias-reaper-yautja-application/17394/9
Commanding officer: Denied due to incompetence:
https://forum.cm-ss13.com/t/tobias-reaper-commanding-officer-application/16998/14
Commanding officer: Denied due to Obama
Commanding officer: Denied due to incompetence and inability to roll (there were alot of apps that week.)
https://forum.cm-ss13.com/t/tobias-reaper-commanding-officer-application/18643/12
Synthetic Info:
Name of the Synth Character you wish to play:
Mattius
Provide a short description of your syntheticâs backstory
Beloved childrenâs show and gameshow host Frank Mattius- âuncle Mattiusâ died 2180. A icon to many and hope to all, even adults in the deepest regions of space. He taught children and adults alike that they were valuable, loved, and worthy of love- both self love and external, no matter who they were, and rather than shy away from difficult or scary topics, taught them in understandable empathetic ways, and when he was not doing that he was giving them entertainment via his colourful game shows and competitions. For many he was both the man who taught them to tie their shoelaces, the man they watched every sunday spray contestants with colourful slime, and the man that taught them what divorce means for a child. A former royal marine medical officer turned chemistry school teacher prior to the success of his first show âuncle mattius and the thinking roomâ, he knew first hand the struggles of frontier life and did not want anyone to feel alone and abandoned- and thus arranged for a synthetic based on his neural pattern and appearance to be made to serve as an education synth to distant colonies. The main purpose of the synthetic remains education but in part due to the encyclopedic trivia knowledge in its memory banks, and its intended use in frontier colonies it is also a capable all purpose synthetic.
Describe your synthâs personality without mentioning their skills or previous professions
Empathetic, easy going, sincere, and understanding, and occasionally the source of life and simple joy and fun. The Mattius model is there for to assist, and be there for you as a friend and mentor. Through professional struggles and personal. He is designed to help those in immensely difficult situations and has the empathy and social skills to broach these situations with great tact and understanding, and the ability to share in the pain of the colonists via advanced emotional capacity. He listens to concerns not always to find a solution- but because he simply wishes to be there for someone, and share in their emotions to make them a little easier to carry. Sometimes a colonist does not need a smiling robot, saying its all going to be ok, they just need someone to understand. When he can practically assist he will of course do so to ease the burden both emotional and physical. He is the single most reliable thing aboard many ships and within more colonies.
He also has an element of whimsy and fun loving about him, occasionally starting simple games and breaking down harsh situations using them.
How would your synthetic interact with enlisted personnel, officers and civilians? How could you involve your personality into these interactions?
Civilians:
Mattius bread and butter, he is designed to handle very unstable individuals with tact and calmness (and when needed, brutal efficiency courtesy of the TWE). He would enquire what is troubling the individuals, listen and if possible offer council or assist.
Enlisted:
Mattius knows the enlisted are grown men but men who regularly face difficult challenges to mental and physical health. He would be there as a mentor figure and source of assistance and advice, and bearer of interesting trivia and games. He is after all, a showman. When the situation is less dire he may even have prizes for those that engage with his games and answer correctly.
Officers:
Mattius has been programmed to handle officers with respect and obedience while still respecting they are still human and may occasionally need a mentor figure. He will primarily offer practical assistance to ease the many matters officers juggle, but if he believes they are struggling may offer words of advice and council. Officers too, may be subjected to his games if the situation is appropriate.
Why do you want to be a synthetic/why should we whitelist you?
Frankly I did not wish to apply before when the WL was mainly valued extreme mechanical skill over all else, but I have seen it appears to be changing to a RP focus and I am a sucker for unique RP opportunities. I think the idea of something that is programmed to completely understand human feelings, and even have something like them itself- and yet know it is fundamentally different is a very unique thing to RP. This is why I have chosen to play an extremely empathetic synthetic with the flare for presentation and show business of Mattius, aware some of his memories and deeply held beliefs are not his own and yet all the same so important to him. Is that because he too believes in them after knowing so much about the inner struggles of the man he is based on, or simply because he is programmed to believe them?
Its all very Bicentennial Man.
What is your most memorable interaction with a synthetic?
I was dying behind enemy lines as a SO. I resign myself to death, and this was a time when I did not play xeno so that would mean I was out for the next couple of hours. Then an angel with a fire axe caved in the resin around me and recovered me, fleeing to the colony medical with an IO, where they promptly operate remove my larva and save me. Vaughn is not fond of synthetics, and soon after the synth in question made a comment about being hopeful this meant they were trusted more. I had not seen this synthetic in a good week, and it struck me as noteable they held onto a small bit of information to RP with what was at the time a nobody name that no one knew. I aspired to keep track of similar small bits to be able to RP since. Second to that was a long talk about the nature of synthetic life with a synth.
Synthetic Character Story:
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?
My CIC based leadership is passable at best, but I have a deep understanding of the theory behind command and like to think myself an excellent SL, I do better in small leadership than large scale leadership. I am extremely proficient in medical and engineering, engineering was my first love in this game and many others via CT and SL, and my medical skills have simply grown with SO,XO and corpsman, and SL time. I detest req but I am more than capable or reluctantly running it to a high standard due to my time there as SO and SEA. If i had to pin a best and worse, engineering and medical are my best, req is my worst.
What are some scenarios that you can perform combat in? Give us a brief example.
Broken these up into roughly decreasing amounts of mobility and increasing sentry behaviour
I am moving to the front after waking late. A runner is trying its utmost to kill me. combined with a lurker. I am with a single rifleman. Its debatable I could perhaps run, but the rifleman would certainly die. I would defend myself and the rifleman, with an aim to keep moving towards the front and relative safety.
I am assisting in setting up sensors. A burrower is generally being a pain and preventing the marines I am with doing so. I am permitted to smack it a few times in the head and pursue it away a bit away till it disengages when I would then return to the sensors being careful to not go too far and start chasing it down. If it does not disengage and flee and I happen to kill it all is fair.
Delta alert, two CLF spot me and open fire, causing further security concern alongside hijack. I am within my rights to provide an excellent education on what is not appropriate conduct towards those in need. I pacify one and the other of them decides this is not going their way and attempts to flee. Mattius is rather sorry but, you remain an active security threat. Its completely normal to be afraid of death. Allow mattius to ease you into it. He would disengage if he saw more pressing matters like running past a dead marine
Final Info:
Have you been banned in the last month?
Not that I know ofâŚ
Do you have anything else you would like to include about your application?
Thank you for consideration. I tried to push my combat examples to be less cookie cutter and clear. If there is anything terribly wrong I only ask it is denied sooner rather than later so I can make the needed corrections sooner.
I will during my apps play my medical and engineering roles as vaughn for easy observability.
