Alky - 'Cynthia' | Synthetic App

Alky · Post by **Alky** » 05 Apr 2018, 09:14

Byond ID:
Alky

Marine Name (so we know who you are; if you play alien mostly, state that here):
Ritona 'Misfit' Sterling

Name/Designation of the Synth Character you’re requesting to use (Follows common naming rules, and requires a first name with no last name):
Cynthia

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

Synthetic Character Story (An ADEQUATE description and story of your Synthetics actions and involvement in a previous mission onboard the Almayer):

► Show Spoiler

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'd like to attend to department needs and fill roles where they are needed only by orders of higher ups, Cynthia would act like royalty or at least a polite noble person.

How familiar are you with support roles? (ie; Medical, MT, Science, SO)
I'm familiar with my Medical, Science, SO roles, with MT being catching up.

Why should we whitelist you?
I've been slowly progressing as CM player, and I've always wanted to fulfill all roles with a reason, numerous times have I found where a lacking in the shipside staff where it would lead me to needing to fill in that role. I've always liked to multi-task and take care of the minuscule things that marines really worry about. Having medbay in need of assistance, to the ship needing a CT or RO, or the lack of power for medbay, REQ, or CIC. I find it more often that I want to attend any and all roles I can in order to have the marines run effectively.

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 never been banned that I know of.

Are you currently banned from any other servers and if so, why?
CM has been my main place, so I haven't been able to get banned on other servers.

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?
Understood.

dadols · Post by **dadols** » 05 Apr 2018, 10:44

Thanks to you, I learned how to play Medic-
I'd enjoy seeing you around as a Synth;
Also the story is well made.

+1

Gnorse · Post by **Gnorse** » 05 Apr 2018, 11:13

I've had my fair share of RP with Ritona. I think she'd do great as a synthetic.

+1

edda · Post by **edda** » 05 Apr 2018, 11:49

Surprised you aren't already a synth. +1.

Jakkkk · Post by **Jakkkk** » 05 Apr 2018, 13:52

>another synth bowing instead of Mortimer
>banned

+1.

JennerH · Post by **JennerH** » 05 Apr 2018, 15:30

Fun player, great app, terrible choice of weapon attachments. +1

Artemis111 · Post by **Artemis111** » 05 Apr 2018, 17:58

We dont really talk and im not sure if you even know I exist, but people generally like talking to you. That and youre very active in CM.

+1

Adralimas · Post by **Adralimas** » 08 Apr 2018, 19:52

Definitely +1, Solid player!

Rohesie · Post by **Rohesie** » 08 Apr 2018, 22:08

I have mixed reactions. On one hand you do great at support roles, you are a top tier RO and a good doctor. I do think you get a bit too much into combat as a corporal, but you are robust, so in general you can pull it off. On the other hand, however, you tend to perform more poorly on leadership duties. The only time I was your overwatch you decided to ignore my call to return with your squad as SL, turned your comms off (according to a marine, unverified), and got yourself and the portion that followed you massacred. You tried to play the insubordinate hero and it ended badly.

Why would this be relevant? Mainly because of the story. In it the synth acts as a commando combat engineer, not as a synth: it hacks and engages in CQC. It does not support such as you say your synth will.

I believe if you do with your synth as you do when RO and the likes, you'll do great. But if there's something I'm wary of is about combat synths. I'm sure yours won't fail to follow orders, but proactively engaging in combat is very tempting, and it seems to something you do already. Any thoughts on this?

JennerH · Post by **JennerH** » 09 Apr 2018, 00:02

IMVader wrote: ↑
08 Apr 2018, 22:08
I have mixed reactions. On one hand you do great at support roles, you are a top tier RO and a good doctor. I do think you get a bit too much into combat as a corporal, but you are robust, so in general you can pull it off. On the other hand, however, you tend to perform more poorly on leadership duties. The only time I was your overwatch you decided to ignore my call to return with your squad as SL, turned your comms off (according to a marine, unverified), and got yourself and the portion that followed you massacred. You tried to play the insubordinate hero and it ended badly.

Why would this be relevant? Mainly because of the story. In it the synth acts as a commando combat engineer, not as a synth: it hacks and engages in CQC. It does not support such as you say your synth will.

I believe if you do with your synth as you do when RO and the likes, you'll do great. But if there's something I'm wary of is about combat synths. I'm sure yours won't fail to follow orders, but proactively engaging in combat is very tempting, and it seems to something you do already. Any thoughts on this?

To add to this, I've seen you do super good with SL and medic, and I've also seen you completely ignore the right side of your screen to the point where you go silent for 10 minutes at a time. Now I completely understand, IRL stuff happens all the time at the worst moments but you shouldn't be playing important roles when you're gonna be busy all the time. Still a +1 but try to fix that please

Alky · Post by **Alky** » 09 Apr 2018, 00:21

IMVader wrote: ↑
08 Apr 2018, 22:08
I have mixed reactions. On one hand you do great at support roles, you are a top tier RO and a good doctor. I do think you get a bit too much into combat as a corporal, but you are robust, so in general you can pull it off. On the other hand, however, you tend to perform more poorly on leadership duties. The only time I was your overwatch you decided to ignore my call to return with your squad as SL, turned your comms off (according to a marine, unverified), and got yourself and the portion that followed you massacred. You tried to play the insubordinate hero and it ended badly.

Why would this be relevant? Mainly because of the story. In it the synth acts as a commando combat engineer, not as a synth: it hacks and engages in CQC. It does not support such as you say your synth will.

I believe if you do with your synth as you do when RO and the likes, you'll do great. But if there's something I'm wary of is about combat synths. I'm sure yours won't fail to follow orders, but proactively engaging in combat is very tempting, and it seems to something you do already. Any thoughts on this?

I kinda figured that would happen, but the whole Combat synth isn't my style. I won't have a gun therefore I won't be able to engage like I regularly do as a marine, sure Synths may have amazing CQC stats, but that doesn't mean I'm good with CQC, I'm more over a gun at CQC overall than melee combat. As for the story, regarding that scenario, I wanted to introduce all elements a synths could go through while incorporating my synths way of things.

I made 3 different story scenarios and compared them to other synth apps from failed to approve. I found this one to be entertaining to read while incorporating a lot of situation based on the Synth. I was worried that if a story was too long it would deter people from reading it, so I tried to make a story short while as said making it entertaining. This led to the lack of character building for the marines and the avoidance of briefing and medbay to have a mention rather than the somewhat average operation. I also wanted to incorporate a more visual novel-esque format with important sentences that I find that would define my character.

As for that situation as the SL, and you being the SO, I felt bad for doing that. I was merely stressed out at that time due to the lack of marines, frankly too many marines have not been following orders. Though you did insubordinate me and from my beliefs, I found it unfair as I have been following orders and found that the FOB order that was not needed as it would've ruined the entire game then a xeno found me and I shot them only to realise my gun wasn't on burst and I died due to the tackle/pounce. After my death, I did my occasional rage then continued on ghosting and talking to other dead deltas who were 50-50 on the whole SL is right and SO is right to falling asleep since it was 4 AM.

I hope I fulfilled your curiosities.

Lukey111 · Post by **Lukey111** » 09 Apr 2018, 08:07

You are one of the veterans and do not act like you are above everyone. You can RP, I've seen you everywhere. You have good answers. I couldn't 1+ more. Good luck.

CaptainYankee · Post by **CaptainYankee** » 09 Apr 2018, 20:21

You do a fantastic job in support roles. +1

Rohesie · Post by **Rohesie** » 09 Apr 2018, 22:52

Alky wrote: ↑
09 Apr 2018, 00:21
I hope I fulfilled your curiosities.

It did. Hope to see Cynthia around! +1

ValGarilovich · Post by **ValGarilovich** » 11 Apr 2018, 18:17

Alky's a good player and good at RP ect. I just have one issue and thats the name... 'Cynthia' the Synth... It just seems kinda bad for lack of better words, that being said I will still support this app but remain neutral voting wise. Its like if a marine was named Mahrine its just weird.
Either way good luck! I have no doubts that you can do great as a synthetic

Sulaboy · Post by **Sulaboy** » 11 Apr 2018, 19:19

Ritona is a good player. She also has one of my favorite backstories for a marine. She's active, and knows the mechanics of the game well. +1

Omicega · Post by **Omicega** » 11 Apr 2018, 20:11

The story is kind of awkward. I don't like the format and the constant switching between third and first person really, really lost me.

That aside, I have mixed feelings about you as a player as well. I know you're a highly capable medic, but when I've seen you in command you've been uninspiring, and as an SL you've often bordered on being mute for far, far too long at a time. I'm not convinced you communicate enough and have a wide enough breadth of knowledge beyond just medical to pull off playing synthetic. To me, it speaks volumes that I've seen you around so much and yet never managed to form an opinion of you beyond "pretty good medic" and "needy when it comes to req and medbay pill handouts". To expand on that last point, some of the behaviour I've seen when it comes to getting denied req toys (back in the HPR days) or things like dermaline and alkysine hasn't been very compelling either, and I worry the same mentality of "try to be prepared for anything" might carry over to you playing this role as well. I don't like the idea of a synth player getting stroppy about not getting their way.

Neutral, leaning towards negative, unless you can convince me otherwise. I just find it alarming that I have such a little ability to get a handle on your character and playstyle, even when I've been deployed right alongside you so many times. I'm sure many of those commenting on the quality of your RP have the experiences to back it up, but I'm curious if it's something you only really let show when you're shipside or something.

Alky · Post by **Alky** » 11 Apr 2018, 22:08

Omicega wrote: ↑
11 Apr 2018, 20:11
The story is kind of awkward. I don't like the format and the constant switching between third and first person really, really lost me.

That aside, I have mixed feelings about you as a player as well. I know you're a highly capable medic, but when I've seen you in command you've been uninspiring, and as an SL you've often bordered on being mute for far, far too long at a time. I'm not convinced you communicate enough and have a wide enough breadth of knowledge beyond just medical to pull off playing synthetic. To me, it speaks volumes that I've seen you around so much and yet never managed to form an opinion of you beyond "pretty good medic" and "needy when it comes to req and medbay pill handouts". To expand on that last point, some of the behaviour I've seen when it comes to getting denied req toys (back in the HPR days) or things like dermaline and alkysine hasn't been very compelling either, and I worry the same mentality of "try to be prepared for anything" might carry over to you playing this role as well. I don't like the idea of a synth player getting stroppy about not getting their way.

Neutral, leaning towards negative, unless you can convince me otherwise. I just find it alarming that I have such a little ability to get a handle on your character and playstyle, even when I've been deployed right alongside you so many times. I'm sure many of those commenting on the quality of your RP have the experiences to back it up, but I'm curious if it's something you only really let show when you're shipside or something.

Well, sorry for the story formatting, I find it easier for me to read it that way since I'm more left aligned for most of my reading, so I end up cutting the second half to make my dossier readable for me as for my times as SL or any roles in fact that are related to staff, I tend to become tunnel focused. As I said to IMvader, I wanted to make the story shorter to keep people interested and not deterred to the massive amount of text. I'm sure that you've seen me play SO in my early days, but those times are over in fact it's the total opposite of my focus. I just find that anything regarding command is just white-noise nowadays when pilots are talking about CAS or the CMO asking about unrelated topics though I did mention on my dossier that she's pronged to long periods of not talking even if that's an excuse. My role as SL really only expresses itself when the others in my team can follow orders without going off, so I'm just stuck in the front not being able to RP due to the marines just spreading out and not listening despite constant warnings, where I adopted the abandonment rule even though I disobey that rule and run off to save the marine. Not to mention that whenever I am placed into SL and/or Command staff roles, it's mostly because I didn't roll spec:

I roll all of command roles at Low along with RO and CMO. My Doctor and Marine roles are all on medium with Spec being high. I find that if I wanted to be a CO or a SO in a round, I have to mentally prepare myself for it, it's not some role that I can just call it on medium and be ready for anything.

Do you really have to say "Hey! You're a good medic!" or "Thank god REQ has Ritona or Medical has Ritona!" stuff? To be honest, I don't actually know about much of your character(s) asides from Alicia Parker, and that your a moderator. I find that medics or doctors like Emily Strauss or Finnier Cottier to be better than I am though that's just modesty. Most of my psyche as Ritona is explained in my dossier too even if you won't accept that as an excuse.

My RP moments happen mostly on ground while my robust moments happen on the ship in fact or it's really a blur between the two. Ironically, most of my RP happens either when I'm SL, Medic, RO or SO. I'm also trying to find a middle ground of my character since she's biologically 19 years.

Frankly, I haven't seen you lately in delta though I'm not sure if it's because of mistiming or because I get roles putting me in other squads. As for my character and playstyle, she's a an aggressive type that shows empathy in the sidelines similar to the tsundere if I'm to be honest (Now that I'm thinking about more too...) and she finds that close quarters is better with a fast way in. She'd follow the best plan of attack than follow the good plan. In fact, I had this entire situation where the SL died and we were sent to flank though due to some misfire, a marine was injured and we pulled back. Though I had an idea to flank the attackers since the marines on the frontlines had begun a retreat, the entire RP was based on whether or not we'd save this marine, either we save one person or save the battalion; it was a real RP situation that really frustrated me. I also rely on characters like Sam 'Green' Greene who really starts off RP with me or characters like Alan Jones or good friends like Iridium to RP with, I'm not much on making an actual conversation unless I'm driven to do it.

I can't really convince you other than coming up with bland excuses. Sorry for disappointing you Alicia.

NethIafins · Post by **NethIafins** » 17 Apr 2018, 18:53

Right, so Ckey is known, good rp is known, "powergaming" history addressed. As long as you promise to use your best role play style, I can see you as a synth.

So+1 from me

adrenalinetooth · Post by **adrenalinetooth** » 17 Apr 2018, 19:46

When I close my eyes and try to imagine alky as a synth, I can see him pulling it off quite well. From what I've seen from other synths, I believe Alky can match their efforts and fit in nicely as a synth. Whenever Ritona is under my command, I can count on her to get things done. Sure, responsiveness and attention to comms is an issue, but when I play medic I am guilty of doing the same thing. When Ritona isn't playing a burdening role like medic ( which everyone else seems to be using as an example), Ritona communicates sufficiently.
+1 from me.

LordBanshee · Post by **LordBanshee** » 18 Apr 2018, 16:45

I have seen MisFit around, and I haven't had a single bad experience with her. If you play your Synth at least half as well as your other character, I'm certain it will be a blast for the people around you. Firm +1

Karmac · Post by **Karmac** » 23 Apr 2018, 04:47

Your grammar and wording leave something to be desired and the ye olde noblemen talk falls flat when I try to make any kind of sense in regards to what your saying, though it does at least solidify the whole "pretends to be a nobleperson" quirk, the backstory is a bit long but nothing horrible. I only know the name Ritona 'Misfit' Sterling because I remember disliking them but I can't remember much more than that, gonna go with neutral, it's not bad.

awan · Post by **awan** » 24 Apr 2018, 09:04

This will get a +1 from me. I think synth should be an easy whitelist and a way to prove yourself. So you get a +1 with my hopes of you doing well and helping everyone.

Wubs4Scrubs · Post by **Wubs4Scrubs** » 25 Apr 2018, 23:54

Most things that I would comment on have already been addressed, however I'm officially sick of the record or log style of backstory as they are incredibly bland and uninteresting. Additionally, it seems that half of the synth quirks on pending applications are similar which is ironic given that quirks are in game to let players make their synth unique. I'm genuinely curious if synth players who do the whole 'old english' or in your case nobleman style of speaking get sick of it. If I had to have a pretty bland quirk like that to play as every round I would get tired of the role very fast.

I recognize your name however I don't have any strong feelings one way or the other. I know you to be a solid medic which is certainly a plus, however it isn't enough to just know medical roles. However since nothing really stood out to me in regards to either the story or quirk I really have no desire to +1 or -1.

Neutral +1 See further responses for updates.

If I had to give any advice it would be to pick a more fun playstyle. It'll spice up your rounds and those of the people you interact with.

Alky · Post by **Alky** » 26 Apr 2018, 00:36

Karmac wrote: ↑
23 Apr 2018, 04:47
Your grammar and wording leave something to be desired and the ye olde noblemen talk falls flat when I try to make any kind of sense in regards to what your saying, though it does at least solidify the whole "pretends to be a nobleperson" quirk, the backstory is a bit long but nothing horrible. I only know the name Ritona 'Misfit' Sterling because I remember disliking them but I can't remember much more than that, gonna go with neutral, it's not bad.

Yeah, I'm really bad at english even if I like writing. Most words that I write tend to be straight from my head without a second thought even a reread pass through it. As for the noble-person talks, I hope to surprise you whenever I get to see you. I'm sorry to this message, it's more of a reply than an attempt of persuasion.

Wubs4Scrubs wrote: ↑
25 Apr 2018, 23:54
Most things that I would comment on have already been addressed, however I'm officially sick of the record or log style of backstory as they are incredibly bland and uninteresting. Additionally, it seems that half of the synth quirks on pending applications are similar which is ironic given that quirks are in game to let players make their synth unique. I'm genuinely curious if synth players who do the whole 'old english' or in your case nobleman style of speaking get sick of it. If I had to have a pretty bland quirk like that to play as every round I would get tired of the role very fast.

I recognize your name however I don't have any strong feelings one way or the other. I know you to be a solid medic which is certainly a plus, however it isn't enough to just know medical roles. However since nothing really stood out to me in regards to either the story or quirk I really have no desire to +1 or -1.

Neutral

If I had to give any advice it would be to pick a more fun playstyle. It'll spice up your rounds and those of the people you interact with.

Well, nothing more I can do about the format and such, it's pretty much a reskin of what it could be, tried to do something different with its formatting of the story however. Though I guess log files are abit different. As for more reading into my nobleman case, I look to be more of a rude-style, trying to act noble and the like such as peasant or serf in order to rile the marines to continue on. As for the recent trend of Synthetic quirks, I didn't really read everyones quirks and I was thinking of this synth quirk for a long time since I became a medical person.

As for my medical roles, I've done my fair share on other duties throughout the ship albeit I'd say my weakest would be engineering, though that does not make unable to do the job. Since this character is different the usual "Make a character!", I'd try my best to stick to that role due to it being a high RP role. We could be just seeing each other at wrong times or not at all, but I do play other roles that are either behind or in the front in the Almayer like REQ or CE.

With you advice, it's seems more as of an opinion than an advice as *you* find that your specific playstyle is fun. It's fun to play and gets along with other marines, and I can understand that. Many synths focus on being more obedient with a fun-loving attitude or a happy attitude as those attitudes tend to have easier results to have marines listen to you. I aim to be rude to where marines may be dismissive of my presence but appreciates my being there, it may sound nonsense. Synths tend to act happy to where any actions are seen sociopathic or dull in the atmosphere of what's to come. My quirk aims to be rude to the marines yet act as a "big sister" or "parent" like a noble person, rude on the outside but they aim to please others. Not a direct role, but that's how I hopefully become as a synth.

If you want more eye appealing stuff, I would've made more story, but I believed it would be too long for a synth story comparing. Though having someone make that comment when I made the story to be more standing out really striked me, I hope to make a story to your tastes if this doesn't go through

Good day!

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