Gahn'tha-cte Halkrath (Ruthless Shadow)

[Rustarus]

Byond ID:Rustarus

Marine Name (so we know who you are, if you play alien mostly, state that here): Max Terry

Name of the character you want whitelisted (The name your predator will use. This must match your in-game predator name): Gahn'tha-cte Halkrath (Ruthless Shadow)

Are you familiar with the Predator Code Of Honor? Of course I am! Not only am I familiar, I also read a shit ton ABOUT to code of honor from otherwise used links.

Character background (A very BRIEF description of your predators background): Gahn'tha-cte Halkrath stands at 7,4" and was the son of a father who was an elite. Gahn'tha-cte Halkraths father would frequently push him towards training, for he wanted his son to become a strong Yaujta, with little flaws. Gahn'tha-cte Halkraths body type was slick, allowing him to attack and move fast, and make little noise when attacking. This benefited him during training and sparring, and he would frequently notice that he could use this to his advantage greatly. Gahn'tha-cte Halkrath was not only slick, he was clever too. He constantly figured out counters to attacks that would normally put other young-bloods off guard, and whenever he was not resting in his chambers, sparring and or training, he would watch carefully what the elites were doing during training. He learned things fast, and noticed the moves of which the elite used. This heavily went to the advantage of Gahn'tha-cte Halkrath, but this did not make him perfect. Oh, no. Gahn'tha-cte Halkrath was determined and persistent, sometimes... a bit too much. He wanted to get the most honor out of prey, for his father was elite he made sure that Gahn'tha-cte Halkrath was trained well, and understood that honor was an important part of his life. This made it so weapons such as the plasma caster or anything else, that would heavily injure prey rarely used, if at all. This would only be used if during emergencies, such as prey interfering during a duel, or some other emergencies, such as a downed Yaujta not activating the self destruct mechanism, and having to do it for him, when the prey is still around. Sadly, Gahn'tha-cte Halkrath was never able to test this weapon, only observed its use for it was restricted to young-bloods. Gahn'tha-cte Halkrath sadly never met his mother... which made it much more difficult for his father to care for the pup. This is why he pushed and encouraged lots of training for Gahn'tha-cte Halkrath. This was the point where his father was not retired yet, where he still went on hunts, which allowed him to tell his pup, Gahn'tha-cte Halkrath about different types of prey, such as serpents and oomans, which greatly intrigued Gahn'tha-cte Halkrath to further train. Sadly, though... Gahn'tha-cte Halkrath never to this day figured out what happened to his mother.

The day before Gahn'tha-cte Halkraths father was about to retire, from an Elite Gahn'tha-cte Halkrath was sent out, along with 2 other young-bloods to become blooded. Gahn'tha-cte Halkrath landed on the planet, bringing gauntlets, his bio-mask, and a combi-stick. The air was hot, seemingly perfect for a hunt... but something felt off. He jumped on a tree, switched his bio-mask to thermal and heard rustling bushed to his right. Was this prey, he wondered quickly, muscles becoming tense as his mandibles twitched with a sensation he never felt before... looking over at the area of the bushes that the noise came from, and switching to EM vision... he could see a serpent. A red one, blending into the soil and darkness of the dense jungle environment. He had the sensation to attack it... but this being his first serpent after lots of training, he wanted no mistakes made. Cloak was turned on, and a gust of wind flew in the air. The red serpent kept moving forward, with haste and caution. Gahn'tha-cte Halkrath climbed down the tree he was on, cloak still activated and watched from still, a far distance but good enough to observe. The serpent was on all fours, crawling fast along the ground. Gahn'tha-cte Halkrath was eager to attack, but kept watching... slowly getting closer as it walked along, scouting the jungle area. Gahn'tha-cte Halkrath made a very.... obvious sound right then and there, and quickly bursted away in the other direction, where if the serpent would go towards the noise made... Gahn'tha-cte Halkrath could be right behind it. Little noise was made, and under the loud sounds of the wind, he was hard to notice. The noise was a sharp click from the mandibles, and sure enough, the serpent fell for the trap. Gahn'tha-cte Halkrath ran as fast as he could, this time making lots of noise... and launched at the serpent with gauntlets reaching towards its hind legs. Sure enough, with the surprise attack, it hit but barely affected the serpent as it moved, for it detected the noise. They were now facing each other, and they both launched at themselves with their weapons ready to go into their enemy. The gauntlets of Gahn'tha-cte Halkrath dug into the serpents underside, giving a swift tear the serpents armor and protection a quick shred... acidic blood splashed over Gahn'tha-cte Halkrath, burning him... but made little of an effect. The serpent was wounded, and gave an honorable fight. Gahn'tha-cte Halkrath stood up straight, and swiftly thrusted the combi-stick right into the serpents neck, whilst it got up once again. To that day... Gahn'tha-cte Halkrath was blooded, and learned a lot about what he was facing in the future...





How do you intend to play your predator (as in, describe HOW you will act/play your predator. This will weigh HEAVILY and frequently breaking from this MAY result in removal)?
I intend to study the oomans and the serpents, without showing myself. I want to make noises, flip tables... and try to spread them out. At first, I will not show myself, to see if the oomans or serpents will react to the noises made, and then I will show myself after a while of watching and stalking. If the oomans/seprents react to the noise I can take note that they can easily be spread out, and want to find me and that whatever they were doing beforehand was not focused on as much as figuring out who I was. If I do get attacked, by at least one of the two, I will surely attack back, but only if they are in small numbers. If I am attacked whilst they are in a large group, I will instead try to lure them and spread them out. If they attack me again, I will attack them back, this time making them prey.

Why should we whitelist you?
I LOVE the AVP universe, and always admired the preds. Whenever it WAS a pred round, and I was dead, and there were actualy preds I will almost always study their movement, and see what they do. I have been doing this for basically every time I knew that there were indeed preds. I LOVE to RP as well, it is actually one of the main reasons I love SS13 so much, because you can make your own story. Do you want to be a dick this round? Go ahead! That fully makes up for the lack of RP on some severs, but now that I notice that there is a role purely for RP, I will try my dearest to show off what skills I have. I understand fully the aspects of RP, and I do love it, assuming you have not gotten that message some how!

Have you been banned from CM in the last month for any reason (we will check, and lies may result in immediate denial)? Nope!

Are you currently banned from any other servers and if so, why? Sadly, as some of you may know... I have been perma banned (FALSELY) from yog, I made a toxins bomb, put it in my bag, it randomly exploded and I got perma banned. Tried making an appeal, but they would not believe me and the facts I have given them.

Do you understand that any player - donor or otherwise - can have their whitelist status revoked should they break our rules or disobey the Predator Code of Honor? Of course!

[Sarah_U.]

Before I comment on this, I'd like you to raise as much as you can your activity so that you raise from that small 20 posts to something more reasonable; Furthermore, you did post your application around the 1-month mark so that makes my review a bit harsher for it.

Please get to know the community more, I'll do my things and try to remember to review this at a later time.

[Rustarus]

Before I comment on this, I'd like you to raise as much as you can your activity so that you raise from that small 20 posts to something more reasonable; Furthermore, you did post your application around the 1-month mark so that makes my review a bit harsher for it.

Please get to know the community more, I'll do my things and try to remember to review this at a later time.

Ah yeah, of course. I've been here for a LONG time before I made the forums account, because I am more about playing and less forums unless I get a good grip on the community. I have well... a good grip on the community now, of course, and I am starting to get into the forums a lot more, which I plan to stay with. Of course, I understand where you are coming from. It is my bad for posting so quickly... but yeah. I know the community pretty well, but I can assure you I will post a LOT more.

[NoahKirchner]

Ah yeah, of course. I've been here for a LONG time before I made the forums account, because I am more about playing and less forums unless I get a good grip on the community. I have well... a good grip on the community now, of course, and I am starting to get into the forums a lot more, which I plan to stay with. Of course, I understand where you are coming from. It is my bad for posting so quickly... but yeah. I know the community pretty well, but I can assure you I will post a LOT more.

I can attest to this, he is a very very common player, one of the most recognizable imo (and has been since I started)

[Rustarus]

Now, I quickly wanna just point out two mistakes I have made, as to not make it look like I am bumping my app since people are sorta posting on it now. 1. In the honor code I wrote "ABOUT to" ignore the to 2. I wrote bushed instead of bushes when my pred found the serpent in the bushes. My bad...

[MrMafioso]

I'm ganna stay neutral as of now but it seems like me and you bud have made the same mistake on being in the Colonial Marines community for ages but only recently joining the forms. Myself have been here since the good old Nostromo day and Logistic lines. Either way I wish you luck on the application but won't be putting my opinion on it as of now.

[Rustarus]

I'm ganna stay neutral as of now but it seems like me and you bud have made the same mistake on being in the Colonial Marines community for ages but only recently joining the forms. Myself have been here since the good old Nostromo day and Logistic lines. Either way I wish you luck on the application but won't be putting my opinion on it as of now.

Damn, long time player eh? Yeah... I hope my forums age wont fuck me in the end, but I do want you to understand, I am gonna be VERY active on the forums. Dont get me wrong!

[MrMafioso]

Damn, long time player eh? Yeah... I hope my forums age wont fuck me in the end, but I do want you to understand, I am gonna be VERY active on the forums. Dont get me wrong!

Sure am a long time player been on with multiple accounts, and yeah you tend to hope that the forum age won't screw you over in applications but it sometimes does for a short while, either way good to hear your ganna try and get active such as I tried too when I first made my account.

[Nick123q23]

I don't have much to say about your actual application, but, now that I've seen Max Terry ingame for awhile, I can say that you're not a baldie, and that he's a decent character, if a bit quick to jump on command for what he perceive as mistakes.

I wouldn't mind seeing you have a shot at playing Gahn'tha-cte.

[Boltersam]

You informed me that you had twelve posts when you made this app. I'm prefacing the review and saying that the shit forum activity already got you on the road to a -1.

The story boils down to your character being smarter, faster, sneakier, and tougher than the other youngbloods. After establishing that, you go on to say he's not perfect, by using a manufactured flaw that isn't really a flaw. He's dedicated to getting honourable fights. So? EVERY Predator is! Cherry on top, he lost his mother at an early age! We've got the makings of a great and powerful warrior of legend here, indeed! I'm sorry, but the lost mother cliché is badly used in general, and somewhat worse here, when Predators after mating do usually separate anyways unless it's clan tradition to have a single, permanent mate. And, midway through the story, I forgot that his father was an Elite that could offer special training and make him even MORE perfect in combat! Whoopdey doo. Onto the hunting part, your character has psychic senses because he can apparently have spidey-sense. Yeah, I'm going to make a point about that, because you say that he FELT SOMETHING WAS OFF. I'd almost prefer it if he didn't notice the ambush and was taken by surprise, at least then we'd have some natural flaw that was ironed out during his first Serpent hunt! So, after he magically notices a hidden Xeno, he SOMEHOW, despite the fact XENOS SEE/SMELL/OTHER BULLSHIT THROUGH CLOAKS AND HAVE INCREDIBLY ENHANCED SENSES, SNEAKS UP ON A XENO. Then, in open combat, he effortlessly slays the Xeno and only gets hurt by its blood in the process.

I'm sorry, but I'm forced to say that this story is the snowflakiest I've ever seen. Yeah, I said snowflake. Sue me. It's just that bad. You need to actually be able to suspend my disbelief in the character existing somewhat. But this? This is just making your character flawless and perfect. You're not supposed to be the Predator that subdues entire hives with only his GLISTENING MUSCLES.

The playstyle is honestly the only part of the app I can say I kinda like, but hate at the same time. You be sneaky, make noises, and see if people will go investigate, as well as operating on only self defence, from what I understood. It's just, the first three steps are something that Predators do anyways, all the time, and the last bit was just ridiculously passive. Predators aren't passive. They go out and hunt people. That's their schtick. They don't walk up and go "Hey, I'm gonna sit here and make spooky noises. If you hit me for it, I'll remove your head."

-1. (IT'S FUCKING RAW.)

[Rustarus]

Ah, but of course. I do wanna answer all the flaws you pointed out. He felt something was off because he noticed something was making noises, of course. The area was mildly windy, and my pred has DECENT hearing, for which he can sense bushes being rustled. The flaw with my pred is that it is too much of an observer. It still kills, but it wants to experiment, it wants to gain more knowledge about his hunt, before he kills. This can easily get him killed if he takes it too far. None the less, my pred also has a flaw that was not mentioned as much. He WILL NOT USE PLASMA. Unless he is being interfered with whilst doing something VERY important, he will never. He feels it is horrible to do such a thing. I didn't want to focus on the fight seen as much as anything else, for it would is annoying to see purely a fight scene take up most BACKSTORIES. None the less, my pred was at a far distance when observing, and up in the tree tops. Even, when he got down it was far enough. Sure, it may have been cooler to make my pred get ambushed, but that was my own mistake. The mother part was that even when born he NEVER saw his mother. Not even one single memory, and his father never told anything about him. It was to make less of the story of his parents, and more of him. Sure, now that I look at it, it may be a bit cliche but it was just a way to explain what happened to his family, and then move on. This barely affected him life wise. Oh, and also about the "Honorable fights" part, he wants the MOST HONOR out of a fight. You can fucking trap a human then let him slice you with a knife once, and then call that honor, but it aint for my pred. He actually wants to do more duels, and give the prey a fair chance.

None the less, he aint that perfect. He trained a lot, and was fast and sleek. He knows moves... so? By far, the does not mean he is anywhere near perfect, and by far did I ever mention that people were never better than him. It may seem closely like that, but I must say, he is not the most powerful predator. Almost all predators train every day, but this one not only trained, but learned from the elites to get some better moves. Nothing about muscles. Though, thanks for the feedback

[Boltersam]

Okay, and I completely forgot about this until I found it, but this exists.
https://gyazo.com/2bfc394de9c704a2b390acb20f9968ce

You made a terrible mistake that day.

[Rustarus]

Okay, and I completely forgot about this until I found it, but this exists.
https://gyazo.com/2bfc394de9c704a2b390acb20f9968ce

You made a terrible mistake that day.

It was a joke I made when Jay was joking about trying to get a human to honor duel, and everyone else was joking about him trying to erp with them. Just a joke I decided to add in, and spoony decided to take a pic of it. Fun.

[Feweh]

Denied.

Youre not ready for Predator yet.