Skarne Synthetic Application

[SkarneCanius]

Byond ID: SkarneCanius

Marine Name (so we know who you are; if you play alien mostly, state that here):Jacky Canius (recently renamed as i used to random alot)

Name/Designation of the Synth Character you’re requesting to use (Follows common naming rules, and requires a first name with no last name):Cassian
Examples of acceptable names: James, Mason, Xavier, Felix, Otto, Allan, Jessica
Examples of unacceptable names: Obama, Jesus, King, Dragon, Godly, Snyper, Circuits

Are you familiar with the Synthetic Programming and Guidelines (viewtopic.php?f=57&t=14417)?: I am.

Synthetic Character Story (An ADEQUATE description and story of your Synthetics actions and involvement in a previous mission onboard the Almayer): Cassian's pale blue eyes lit up as he came back online, turning his head to greet his usual mechanic Sarah, his tone deadpan, his programmed sarcasm in full force as he looked over at his still yet to be attached arm. "Oh dear" he muttered. "You've disarmed me with your charm once again." Sarah clapped him upside the head, a familiar ritual between the two of them these days. He closed his eyes, reviewing his logs of the moments before he went offline, seeing one of the crew fumble their pistol, the shot flying wide to strike a nearby fuel tank, He remembered placing himself between the recruit and the blast, and a variety of error messages as various systems went offline, the last logged image being that of the horrified recruit holding him up to eye level. Oh bother. He rather liked working for that crew, being found out was...less than idea.

Sarah's torch clinked as she set it down, and he reopened his eyes to look at her, simulated disappointment coming from him as he spoke. "I assume i'm being transferred again Sarah?" Strange, her shoulders appeared to be shaking, and she was refusing to meet his gaze, this was unlike her. He spoke a query. "Sarah, Are you.." She cut him off, smacking him across the face. The crack of bone filled the air, and her curses shortly followed. "Sarah, you do realize that my face is harder than your hand right?" Odd that this only made her shake more, until within approximately two seconds, she was clinging to his torso, crying. This was...wrong. He had no experience with her doing this, and could not appropriately react to this situation, without further data, so he simply sat there, waiting for the sobs to pass. Eventually, they did, and her tone was seemingly a mixture of sorrow and rage as she spoke. "No Cass, they aren't transferring you...they intend to take you offline, faulty product they say, Its all bullshit, they just want to get rid of you because their experiment failed and they don't want records of it..."

That was...Different. Normally when he was discovered they'd simply mark it down and move him to another crew, with sarah being sent along as the only one in the know besides the higher ups. Why would they dismantle him? Sarah's torch lit once more as she began to reattach his arm. This made him curious, if he was to be dismantled, why was she reconstructing him? He voiced this to her, and she let out a bitter laugh. "Because cass, You're a synthetic...but you're the closest thing i have to a friend, I wont let them dismantle you and replace you with a shitty old working joe..I'm getting you out of here, we both are." That was...Wrong. That would be disobeying orders, wouldn't it? But then, Weyland yutani hadn't actively ordered him to let them dismantle him, he was informed he was to BE dismantled, but...Would that count? His logical processor went over this for a few cycles before concluding that no, No order had been given, and sarah was currently his highest authority, if she said he was leaving with her, that was, essentially, an order, and one he wouldn't bother trying to examine. It was odd but...He actually felt...touched.. by her concern for his well being. Once he was fit for movement a few hours later, she hurried him along the engineering matinence tunnels, to the nearest escape pod, But as they reached the pod, sarah did something odd, she claimed that as Yutani corp had invested a decent amount in their experiment, they'd naturally seek them out for retrieval when they ran, and their best chance was to split up, and meet on one of the stations later, she handed him her PDA, telling him she'd contact him when she got to safety, hurrying him into the pod, she then wrapped her arms around him. was this..a hug? He had never recieved one before...it was...pleasant. The last he saw of her was her waving goodbye as the doors closed.

Weeks later he was joined with a new crew, under his old name, sarah having recommended the best way to hide was in plain sight, and it would let him still help people as he was programmed. As he stepped inside the ship for his first day on the job, he had a feeling he wasnt going to see her again for some time.

How do you intend to play your Synth (as in, describe HOW you will act/play your Synth and what support roles you’ll mainly focus on, what is your synthetics quirk)?

Cassian will be sarcastic and a bit snarky at times, but will be very awkward socially, as he is a young synth, with not much experience with people beyond sarah and the few brief times he was with the various crew.

How familiar are you with support roles? (ie; Medical, MT, Science, SO)
Familiar with medical intimately, combat and basic, and fairly competent with science.

Why should we whitelist you?
I feel like i could bring a lot to the rp of the server given this chance.
Have you been banned from CM in the last month for any reason (we will check, and lies may result in immediate denial)?
No

Are you currently banned from any other servers and if so, why?
As far as i know, no, I mainly play on yogstation and paradise, as well as here.

Do you understand that any player - donor or otherwise - can have their whitelist status revoked should they break our rules or the Synthetic Programming Guideline?
Yes.

[Sulaboy]

Alright I have some problems. Random naming makes it hard to find out if you can roleplay or not, and that's a very important part of this role. Your forum account is a year old with this being your first post.

For the section about your knowledge of the roles a synthetic could be taking up you gave some very plain answers. Do you know how to work overwatch consoles? Do you know construction and how to set the engines up? Do you know marine law and how a synthetic is supposed to work with marine law? Do you understand how requisitions works? Do you know how to treat injuries, issue medications, or perform surgeries? Also you do realize that there is no science system in CM.

Your story isn't bad, I'll leave someone more suited to critique that. Your quirk is not very original, but original quirks are hard to come up with.

Overall, not having seen you ingame and from the responses here. I'm not sure if you understand all the mechanics a synth needs to know. -1

[Karmac]

Making a whitelist application as your very first post is the number one way to get auto denied

true fact

[SkarneCanius]

I don't tend to comment on others posts and the like, due to being forum banned from yogstation for that, i'm hesitant to ever speak up on the forums, sorry

[Karmac]

your kind of expected to be an actual active member in the community for this sort of thing, stuff like being known for ingame niceness helps but usually forum activity and just being seen in general is what'll matter

[SkarneCanius]

got it, guess i'll just have to try to be more active on here.

[Lukey111]

Ignoring the activity...

Didn't highlight the questions in any color so it is easier to read (Minor)
Story looks a little bit short (Also minor, as it is close)
You say that she doesn't have much experience because she is a young synth, but aren't synths already programmed to be social.

With all these, I would have gone with a -1. But, along with the activity counting now, it is solid.

[Jakkkk]

-1, low forum activity, no idea who you are, and the story is not appealing to me grammatically or structurally.

[Sambalu]

Extremely low forum activity, I'm going to have to give this a -1

[Kavlo]

You haven't been active both on the forums and ingame to start this off.
Like others have said the story is a bit short, grammar ain't great, and synth knowledge ain't great.

-1.

[Sargeantmuffinman]

The backstory only tells us of one incident and how they served on another vessel that isn't the Almayer.
It only describes the emotions of the synthetic rather than actions and events they took part in.

The name I've probably rarely seen to be honest so I can't make a proper judgement on your character and actions.

Additionally for a gameplay perspective, you're gonna need a robust knowledge on all support roles, this includes: Medicine, Engineering and Overwatch.
All can easily be learned but difficult to master, you should have a mediocre understanding of all 3.

For now. -1

[Aceluke123]

Low forum activity, low game activity, and overall community feedback are negative.

Your story is a bit blunt and has bad spacing, the general aspect of being able to tell your quirk is difficult with how you set it out and the entire scenario is not something I would like to see in an app. As sargeant said you'll need to be able to quickly adapt to any job, so knowing them all and practicing them is something I would want to see. Something all synthetics are expected to be able to do so that is already a concern.

-1, but I do hope you get more active in the future.

[Solarmare]

Another issue not mentioned is your synth actually feeling anything at all, which helps highlight your lack of knowledge about synths as well as seemingly ignoring the fact that it should be on the almayer at all.
You should be more active in general and read up on how synths actually work, there isn't such a thing as a "young" synth as they're outright programmed with their personality. I'll give this app a -1, for now you don't seem to understand what the whitelist is asking for.

[Emeraldblood]

Resolved - Denied; you can try again in two months.