J-T8821X Model (Joel) - Synthetic Application

[shyshadow]

Byond ID: shyshadow

Marine Name (so we know who you are; if you play alien mostly, state that here): Christopher Odd

Name/Designation of the Synth Character you’re requesting to use: J-#1929: Joel


Are you familiar with the Synthetic Programming and Guidelines (viewtopic.php?f=57&t=14417)?It's another set of rules when playing as a role, if I can learn the normal set of rules. It shouldn't be difficult to follow this one.

Synthetic Character Story (An ADEQUATE description and story of your Synthetics actions and involvement in a previous mission onboard the Almayer):
Run Program: Vcl.exe, Initializing startup. Loading processes....done.
Two employees stood behind the one-way mirror, dawning a uniform with their ID tag hanging from their chest. Wearing lab coats and everything you'd imagine a scientist would wear. They looked through the mirror and there stood a fairly tall man. Their hair neatly groomed a gentle brown color with no facial hair to speak of, their eyes a natural hazel. As they began to look at the man, they began to speak in through the speakers they asked: "Synthetic unit, what is your designated serial number and name?" He smiles quite gently, politely saying "J-#1929, I am Joel." The speakers emitted, "Joel, could you please humor us?"
They light hardily replied, "Asking to be humored is already humoring enough as it is."
A very feign chuckle emits through the speaker, shortly requesting "Joel, could you please proceed towards the door to the east of the room?"
Joel raised his eyebrow "Excuse me, sir, how could I go east if we are currently aboard a station within space? That's quite backward. I will still proceed, however."
Joel made his way to the door, pressing the button on the side. It slid open and he was promptly shutdown and readied for departure for service for the USS Almayer.

After arriving aboard the USS Almayer, he was soon activated greeted by a Maintenance Technician. Grease and smut across their cheeks, a typical hard working human. The man spoke "Finally, got you to activate. Can't believe we actually got our own robot. Name's Alex." Joel was slightly puzzled, nonetheless he replied "It's a pleasure to meet you. My name is Joel and I personally prefer the term Synthetic companion myself, it seems you could use something more then a companion. A shower would be optimal." Alex looks a little delighted he then replies "Well 'Companion', considering at the moment the Almayer is engaged with some of the Colonial Liberal fucks our medbay is almost filled to the brim with either injured or dying marines. I'm pretty sure it'd be a good idea to head there, it's just straight down the hallway, you'll know it when you see it." Joel replies a little alerted "Of course, formalities should come after aid not before." Joel quickly rushed out of the cargo bay, following Alex's instructions he strode down the long hallway he quickly at remembered the blueprints for the Almayer. He identified the location of the medbay entering through the large doors and looked at the many injured marines. He wanted to feel sad, he wanted to feel something, yet he could not. He cried, before quickly regaining his composure. He grabbed a pair of latex gloves, and a lab coat blending into the many busy staff that operated within the medbay. He stood in front of a marine that had his lower left torso torn in, he was barely clinging to life and Joel knew this. There was a quick patch job on the wound, yet it barely did much. Analyzing the wound, he took quick action to tend to it. Gathering a few medical supplies and painkillers he was prepared to treat the marine, he heard the agonizing pain of the marine the pleas for his existence to end. Only to be drowned out by the many other pleas, Joel gives the marine some anesthetics so that the pain can subside. He then proceeds to apply bio-glue, bandaging and other kinds of advanced medical items, doing so with care. Joel had only been activated again about twenty minutes ago and yet his very existence had saved another living person, yet he still had not felt accomplished.

Joel proceeded to tend to many of the other marines, while in practice a marine asked "Fuck man, how the hell have you not become exhausted? I've seen you tend to so many marines. Shit, this hurts."
Joel just replied "If I'm alive, then I wish to help those who have brought me to life. And I don't want to be a "dick" as you put it if I can help I'm sure it would be quite irresponsible if I didn't." The marine laughed "The hell you talking about? Your mom brought you into existence, you saying I'm your dad?" Joel had smiled, it was so natural he chuckled yet it was so real and human. Then again it was coming from a model that was meant to be quite charismatic, meant to convince nearly anyone that he was human. He was human, yet he wasn't. He didn't breathe, he didn't feel emotion but he knew what they felt like. He continued to tend to the marine, bandaging the wound. Staying silent. As Joel continued to work the marine felt strange like something wasn't right. "Hey man, what are you talking about? You're kinda creeping me out."
Joel only replied with "Good, that means I'm not only making sure you're alive but I won't have to make conversation afterward." He only chuckled, holding onto his shoulder.
Joel kneeled next to the marine, as he was there. Joel was only thinking, he had no other marines to tend to. They were either already being cared for or were in surgery, and yet he still had not felt accomplished. Standing up he removed his lab coat laying it onto a table next to him, he swept the room with his eyes. Yet there was nothing.
The marine that laid on the floor slowly eased himself up. Asking Joel "Hey, what's your name? I don't think I've seen you around before." Joel smiled proceeding to say "I'm Joel, glad to see you're doing well." The marine groaned "Yeah, well I'm Ernie, Ernie Smith. How 'bout you? Never told me your last name." Joel had thought Ernie knew he was a Synthetic, he spoke "Oh, were you not aware? I'm a Synthetic, I prefer myself Synthetic Companion myself, however."Ernie looked shocked, and spoke out "The hell?! Are you a robot? I didn't even know we had one, have you always been on this ship?"Joel shook his head, denying Ernie's question "If you were not aware, then it's either everyone on this ship is a Synthetic and you're the only human, or maybe we're all humans and you're a Synthetic? However, it is not." Joel continued out of the medical bay, making his way to an empty room. He wanted to take a moment to think.
The operation shortly ended with a large amount of injured and fatalities, if only Joel was there before the operation had started. Yet he wasn't and that would change, but he would now be there for the continuation of USS Almayer's service. Nothing notable occurred for that Synthetic, yet his existence had saved plenty.

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)?
I intend to play Joel as a pretty human like Synthetic, he, of course, isn't. Blatantly using words that make him not human, his model is to be quite charismatic. Bringing up moral and making sure things go well with all staff, even when the odds are against him. He would give an optimistic response if it need be he would give a realistic analysis of the situation. I intend to not be a curious, or wanting synthetic. I don't want anything, Joel doesn't either, he just wants to make sure people are safe and healthy. I'd like to focus on medical more then MT, but if need be I will do both. Joel is supposed to be a charismatic model, saying a few jokes here and there. Nothing offensive, but very weak insulting jokes that will mostly be taking lightly. His quirk being a little bit too focused on his empathy. He acts as a rational synthetic but he still feels the want to protect, wanting as much as possible to not want anything to come to harm.

How familiar are you with support roles? (ie; Medical, MT, Science, SO)
I'm quite familiar with a large variety of support roles, while I don't actively do medical or engineer that much. I'm accustomed to how everything works, I'd want to stick to medical but if I need to do anything else then, of course, I'll do that.
I like to have fun with almost every role I play, of course within limits of said role. I'm not extremely keen on science, due to the fact it proves quite difficult to work with science at times. I would like to verse myself in almost every role but it doesn't interest me as much as medical or engineering.

Why should we whitelist you?
Well, I like to consider myself a fairly decent roleplayer. I'm a fairly active person, and I do enjoy the lore behind Synthetics. They're a very interesting concept and I believe they are done extremely well. I would like to execute that kind of roleplay from the Alien Universe into our server. I'm quite a good person, while of course, I crack a few humorous jokes I'm more than accepting to change based on my character. I feel as if it's quite simple to play within a universe but to immerse yourself into the universe by being a Synthetic, is a new experience. I would like to offer new experiences and moments to those who like that chance of immersion. There are principles and rules for Synthetics but you have to actually immerse yourself to be synthetic. Without that dedication, then what's the point?

Have you been banned from CM in the last month for any reason (we will check, and lies may result in immediate denial)? No I have not, unless you count a Discord Ban.

Are you currently banned from any other servers and if so, why? Fallout 13: Underage.

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? I understand fully, haven't gotten banned yet. So let's keep a streak.

[Feweh]

More feedback required.

[Snypehunter007]

Wrong use of command lines throughout the story, spelling errors, large blocks of text that are occasionally broken up . . .

You are allowed to feel a little as a synthetic but I, personally, feel like you act too much like a human. You also never establish a reason for acting human.

-1 from me.

[shyshadow]

Wrong use of command lines throughout the story, spelling errors, large blocks of text that are occasionally broken up . . .

You also never establish a reason for acting human.

Huh, could've sworn I said his model was made to be pretty human like. He's suppose to be a more human and altruistic model, of course that's not his quirk but his quirk is him being not needy. He wants people to feel safe and be healthy, giving him a more human nature.
Also, I'm confused why can't I chunk a few parts of text? It's not like it's debilitating on the eyes, I mean in my opinion I hate when people separate every damn sentence. I don't think that should be a reason as to not like my application, but that's your opinion. I do think I could've done better, given the circumstances I was very confused on as to how I'm meant to make the backstory as there is no established history for synthetics or at least not that well known common knowledge.
Also, what do you mean "Wrong use of command lines throughout the story..." could you elaborate on what you mean by that. It would be more then helpful, because I'm completely lost as to what that means.

[Snypehunter007]

Huh, could've sworn I said his model was made to be pretty human like. He's suppose to be a more human and altruistic model, of course that's not his quirk but his quirk is him being not needy. He wants people to feel safe and be healthy, giving him a more human nature.
Also, I'm confused why can't I chunk a few parts of text? It's not like it's debilitating on the eyes, I mean in my opinion I hate when people separate every damn sentence. I don't think that should be a reason as to not like my application, but that's your opinion. I do think I could've done better, given the circumstances I was very confused on as to how I'm meant to make the backstory as there is no established history for synthetics or at least not that well known common knowledge.
Also, what do you mean "Wrong use of command lines throughout the story..." could you elaborate on what you mean by that. It would be more then helpful, because I'm completely lost as to what that means.

viewtopic.php?f=145&t=14453#p156507 Read TheMaskedMan2's backstory, he actually provided reasoning for command lines to be in the backstory section. You just kind of include them there to . . . look cool, I guess?

Chunk text is actually incredibly debilitating to the eye, your paragraphs are longer than most paragraphs I would type for a paper.

Simply:
- Too many sentences in a paragraph = people get bored and lost in all the information you are telling them.
- Too few sentences in a paragraph = people get annoyed that all of the similar information isn't categorized together in one paragraph, leads to confusion over when one topic ends and another begins.

[shyshadow]

Makes sense, but still I'm not one to just like use someone else's format I prefer to use a sort of original one I guess. Anyway thanks for replying quickly but I still feel as if it feels less like a backstory and more of a log. Which is a lot more easy and has little to no actual character. Of course say'la'vie or something in french, guess people are just too lazy? I mean I get I gotta appeal to people but how am I suppose to write in the way things aren't meant to be written. After all it is a backstory I mean section headers would make it look easier to read but there's not much to be had. I'm not one to do good at that kind of stuff. If I'm denied I'll do better.

[driecg36]

The backstory is alright, and I like the concept of a "charismatic" synth that makes jokes, though you would need to be REALLY careful to not go overboard with them, as that would really break the synth character and make him an annoying wisecracker instead of a machine programmed to lighten the mood.

However, my may issue lies with you. I've seen you be EXTREMELY salty in the past, both ICly and OOCly. I have a fear that if someone insults you or pisses you off as a synth, you may become salty and so things that a synth wouldn't do as revenge, or even go as far as insulting/berating them. Albeit, I haven't seen you much since then, but can you provide me some sort of guarantee you won't do anything of the sort?

For now, I will remain neutral.

[shyshadow]

The guarantee is that I'll be banned for something like that. I mean I haven't killed anyone for something like that on CM, I mean I've done something like that two years ago. When I first started playing SS13, but you know I'm pretty sure I can change. When I say pretty sure, I mean very sure I can change. Yes I admit I've been salty, and it wasn't a kinda salty that you'd expect. Anyway I can guarantee that I won't go full retardio on you if I were to be a synthetic. A wisecracker? Hmm, I'll try to do a sort of medium between the two.

[Casany]

The guarantee is that I'll be banned for something like that. I mean I haven't killed anyone for something like that on CM, I mean I've done something like that two years ago. When I first started playing SS13, but you know I'm pretty sure I can change. When I say pretty sure, I mean very sure I can change. Yes I admit I've been salty, and it wasn't a kinda salty that you'd expect. Anyway I can guarantee that I won't go full retardio on you if I were to be a synthetic. A wisecrack? Hmm, I'll try to do a sort of medium between the two.

I dunno, but I don't think a synth would ever wisecrack. Just me though

[Feweh]

This is denied,

Other current applications outshine yours.