#PLAPP
PERSONIFICATION LIFE
CHARACTER APPLICATION
PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS
Character Name: Venla the Bold
Character Gender: Primarily female
Species (nation personification, human, alien, etc): Huvidu-Zaan
Age: 60 Solar years(35 Huvidan years), just out of young adulthood.
Appearance: The mammalian part is reminiscent of something mixing a bear and otter, with large, triangular pointed ears that come from the sides of her head. A short and expressive snout with a purple tinted nose, and bright inquisitive eyes. The fur is brown, thick and slightly oily, obviously built for an oceanic or marine environment rather than an existence solely on land. She stands about 8.5 feet tall, though most of the length is her body rather than limbs much like an otter, and despite the size she still seems sleek and is obviously a strong swimmer and able to lift quite a heavy load of needed. Her hands and paws are built for swimming, webbed but with wicked claws meant for rending flesh. Her teeth are that of an omnivore, with forward sharp teeth and more hidden grinding ones.
The most distinctive feature that would set her apart from simply being a giant alien bear/otter is the fungal look to what seems like an infestation, but at the same time normal. It is especially thick over the left side of her head and down her neck then shoulders, though most of the ‘infestation’ was hidden internally. The whole thing had a slight purple glow and coloration to it, even tinting her fur a slight purple due to its prevalence over her form. Tendrils of the fungal substance are able to come from her form through some natural way, and able to deftly manipulate things her normal limbs simply would be unable to reach or use. They aren’t nearly as strong and can be broken off, though it would hurt Venla and it would take a while to regrow the lost matter.
Like most her species she wears little clothing, only a loose sort of tunic to let her fur and fungal tendrils breath, as she like most her species would overheat easily in much more than that.
URL to Character Picture, if any: Something like this
Primary Objective: (What is your character's main goal? This should be the thing that drives their part of the plot.)
She wants to record as much of the multiverse’s cultures and inhabitants as possible, for the good of retaining said knowledge as long as possible and to document what she’s encountered. Might even write a book about it!
Secondary Objectives: (What other goals does your character intend to achieve? These should drive subplots.)
-Learn more about Galli and the multiverse
-continue her research if possible.
-work on her martial arts skill more, she’s really let it go slack over the years.
-Organize the people at the building more, or keep a record of all the people there to know whose on hand at any time.
MUNDANE SKILLS
These do NOT require points. These are the average, daily things your character can do. Examples are "drive a car", "speak a normal Foreign Language", "play a guitar", "write poetry". Some mundane skills come from your bio and are freebie. A soldier knows very basic training (shoot a gun, basic drill). Medic, martial arts or sniper would be a Specialized Skill or Talent.
List Mundane skills here:
Learned:
-Speaks Huvidu-Zaani, Human Standard Dialect, Qri-Tal Xo’Lokakoi (not fluent, enough to get by)
-Survivalism, she knows how to survive among primitive cultures, can start a fire and similar level.
-knowledge of basic Galactic history, Huvidu-Zaan history.
-Current politics for her galaxy.
-Academics and the normal things a scholar might know, such as writing papers.
-Random Trivia picked up from random sources.
-maintenance of things assigned to her for missions.
Natural:
-Claws on fingers
-deft and dexterous fungal tendrils, range about ten feet, though can’t lift much.
-strong mammalian limbs, able to lift much more than her
-faster than average human, especially on all fours. Slower walking speed.
-swimming speed is faster than speed on land by a good margin due to environment they grew up in.
-Zaan Healing: A natural ability of the fungal Zaan, they can engulf injured parts of their host to rapidly heal it, promoting the healing process through hormones and secretions. Can even promote regrowth of limbs and more minor body parts, though in any sort of combat it’s near impossible to use. If exposed again the process stops, and it is a tiring process as it uses a lot of body energy.
SPECIALIZED SKILLS AND TALENTS
These are specialized skills that set you apart from the average person. You have 7 points to spend here. Examples are swordsmanship, sniper, coercion, piloting etc.
Ability 1 and Points Spent: Xenology 4- She has a master’s degree in Xenology, and its her main discipline. She’s working her way to a master’s degree.
Ability 2 and Points Spent: Linguistics 2 – She’s focused on the linguistics of alien languages
Ability 3 and Points Spent: Huvidu-Zaan martial arts 1 – as a kid she started learning this like many of her species, but she’s rusty and skill is equivalent to that of a novice again.
OPTIONAL SUPERNATURAL CHARACTERISTICS
You have 7 points to spend here on supernatural skills or abilities. Sonic Scream, Levitation, Spell Casting, Shape Shifting etc. Superman MUST have his kryptonite, so Restrictions are what can't they do with their power or what balances it. They can only use it when they genuinely need it? They can't use it for more then five minutes without serious side-effects? Some things are allowed without points. A pegasus has wings thus it can fly. A raptor is fast thus no points are spent in speed. These "natural" abilities should be listed in the character's description, however.
None
MAGICAL OR SPECIAL ITEMS
List:
-Huvidu-Zaan Translator: A small specialized computer similar in design to a blutooth device that goes into a Huvidu-Zann’s ear, that processes and translates languages for them if the user doesn’t know said language. It can learn new languages they encounter over time, comparing to the grammar and linguistics of other languages to find patterns and piece together likely translations, it even has a small speaker to translate for the Huvidu-Zaan as well.
-Holodisguise: lets a huvidu-zaan or other user hide their appearance how they desire, though its only a hard light projection and easily disrupted if moved into, and can’t change the person’s overall size. It also is easily interrupted, if the person is touched for instance.
BACKGROUND
Education or Training: equivalent of Bachelors in Xenology and Linguistics
Character Background/Biography:
Huvidu-Zaan rose on a watery world in the outer rim of their galaxy, far from the rise and fall of stellar empires. Sometime a million years before the rise of the Huvidu-Zaan Stellar Collective, some sort of disaster ended up reducing these powers to remnants along the edges of the galaxy, with new races slowly taking up the mantle as they reached for the stars. It was from their homeworld of Huv that this species arose, and eventually the individual known as Varla Karlenian. Largely free of large predators, the planet would to most be considered a paradise. It is largely covered in water with only archipelagos forming the landmass of the world, leading most life to be oceanic or amphibious in nature.
A Huvidu-Zaan is a composite being, made up of a mammalian host body (termed the Huv), and a fungal symbiote(the Zaan). Separately, both are moderately intelligent, though not sapient organisms. Together though, their intelligences commingle and create a singular sapient individual. This is partially a result of countless years of evolution on their watery homeworld, and the fact their physiologies have become so closely linked that they even share a reproductive cycle, each Huv born with a Zaan already growing and spreading through its host. It’s a symbiotic relationship, the two uniting into one individual. Huv are strong and long lived hosts (Many last into two centuries of life going by Solar years), and Zaan dexterous and protective of their bodies. A Zaan’s tendril may be severed by the core is housed within the brain of a Huv. Indeed, the Huvidu-Zaan never even realized they were born of the union of two organisms until they reached their industrial age and began unlocking the secrets of their homeworld Huv.
Huv are strong, fast, and resilient by themselves, and long lived. Their exposure to Zaan created a longer lifespan and nursed their intelligence to bloom. They do the manual labor of the Huvidu-Zaan, the fungal tendrils not strong enough to lift the heavy things required for industry and logistics. Since they are the more mortal part of the body, most of the intelligence ends up being housed in the Zaan as they age, as well.
Zaan can, however, outlive their hosts. As the Huv body begins to decay and wither the consciousness slowly is transferred entirely to the Zaan. The downside of course is that they lose their mobility and strength. The Huvidu-Zaan have taken to using these leftover fungal tissues to construct biotic computers and systems which they can interface with directly. Most Huvid-Zaan colonies have a large mass of central Zaan working as one unit (usually with a single dominant personality), acting as colonial administrators. Huvidu-Zaan colonies as a result are usually named after the Zaan running the systems of the colony, for example Baldarak’s Freehold in the Wyltshyr system.
The Huvidu-Zaan named Venla happened to be born on that planet. It was a kind of world termed a Gaian world by humans, one fit for species of all types to reside on comfortably. As a result the multispecies Huvidu-Zaan Stellar Collective has increasingly moved governmental structures from the homeworld to it, and multiple species call it home with Huvidu-Zaan making up the Majority.
Venla grew up in the city of Balman’s Chain, a set of islands off the main continent with a large human population, with a mix of cultures that proved to surprise Venla. One species having so many differences even into the space age was largely unheard of, but the individualistic humans refused to give up their old cultural and tribal ties. The Huvidu-Zaan by contrast had a largely unified culture, even as they spread across the galaxy.
Her exposure to such varied culture lead to her later interest in learning about them and exploring the galaxy. She also showed aptitude at learning language, so after her education at the University of Baldarak’s Freehold she ended up working in Linguistics for the Collective, recording languages and dialects for their later records and use. But Venla was not really cut out for desk work of that kind, and applied to work at one of their observation posts above primitive worlds. This would be for a doctorate in Xenology, which she was just starting to work on.
She got her wish, and was sent to Xo’Lokako to study aliens known as the Xo’Lokakoi, who’ve recently proven to be antagonistic against attempts to enlighten them, so the program had recently been scaled back. The primitives, whose technology was late Iron age, and approaching a medieval society, had previously shown to share the same ideals as the Huvidu-Zaan roughly, so it was a surprise when approached with the opportunity to bring them up to galactic level of technology to be met with weapons. The delegation barely escaped. Luckily the natives only assumed they were some kind of demons, though a shift in culture to the species has led them as a whole to become increasingly xenophobic for some reason.
Venla’s been assigned to find out why, given the opportunity to go to the surface of Xo’Lokako to the Empire of Qru-tali as it seems to be spearheading this shift after the ascension of a new ruling family. It’s a very dangerous mission, as any unknowns in their society tend to be executed or lynched.
OTHER GAME MECHANICS
URL to Apartment Picture: (What's the inside of their apartment look like)
Link to RP examples: (this MUST be a DIRECT LINK to your IC post in an RP, NOT a link to the RP thread itself. If you don't have examples, make your biography good.)Something Like this
IMPORTANT:
One paragraph that sums up your character. This paragraph is what we'll use on your player tab on the first page of the thread. This MUST be brief. Your tab will contain a link to your application so people will have full details
Character Name: Venla the Bold
Brief Description: A Huvidu-Zaan Xenologist and Linguist whose goal in life is to learn as much about other species and cultures as she can.
PERSONIFICATION LIFE
CHARACTER APPLICATION
PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS
Character Name: Venla the Bold
Character Gender: Primarily female
Species (nation personification, human, alien, etc): Huvidu-Zaan
Age: 60 Solar years(35 Huvidan years), just out of young adulthood.
Appearance: The mammalian part is reminiscent of something mixing a bear and otter, with large, triangular pointed ears that come from the sides of her head. A short and expressive snout with a purple tinted nose, and bright inquisitive eyes. The fur is brown, thick and slightly oily, obviously built for an oceanic or marine environment rather than an existence solely on land. She stands about 8.5 feet tall, though most of the length is her body rather than limbs much like an otter, and despite the size she still seems sleek and is obviously a strong swimmer and able to lift quite a heavy load of needed. Her hands and paws are built for swimming, webbed but with wicked claws meant for rending flesh. Her teeth are that of an omnivore, with forward sharp teeth and more hidden grinding ones.
The most distinctive feature that would set her apart from simply being a giant alien bear/otter is the fungal look to what seems like an infestation, but at the same time normal. It is especially thick over the left side of her head and down her neck then shoulders, though most of the ‘infestation’ was hidden internally. The whole thing had a slight purple glow and coloration to it, even tinting her fur a slight purple due to its prevalence over her form. Tendrils of the fungal substance are able to come from her form through some natural way, and able to deftly manipulate things her normal limbs simply would be unable to reach or use. They aren’t nearly as strong and can be broken off, though it would hurt Venla and it would take a while to regrow the lost matter.
Like most her species she wears little clothing, only a loose sort of tunic to let her fur and fungal tendrils breath, as she like most her species would overheat easily in much more than that.
URL to Character Picture, if any: Something like this
Primary Objective: (What is your character's main goal? This should be the thing that drives their part of the plot.)
She wants to record as much of the multiverse’s cultures and inhabitants as possible, for the good of retaining said knowledge as long as possible and to document what she’s encountered. Might even write a book about it!
Secondary Objectives: (What other goals does your character intend to achieve? These should drive subplots.)
-Learn more about Galli and the multiverse
-continue her research if possible.
-work on her martial arts skill more, she’s really let it go slack over the years.
-Organize the people at the building more, or keep a record of all the people there to know whose on hand at any time.
MUNDANE SKILLS
These do NOT require points. These are the average, daily things your character can do. Examples are "drive a car", "speak a normal Foreign Language", "play a guitar", "write poetry". Some mundane skills come from your bio and are freebie. A soldier knows very basic training (shoot a gun, basic drill). Medic, martial arts or sniper would be a Specialized Skill or Talent.
List Mundane skills here:
Learned:
-Speaks Huvidu-Zaani, Human Standard Dialect, Qri-Tal Xo’Lokakoi (not fluent, enough to get by)
-Survivalism, she knows how to survive among primitive cultures, can start a fire and similar level.
-knowledge of basic Galactic history, Huvidu-Zaan history.
-Current politics for her galaxy.
-Academics and the normal things a scholar might know, such as writing papers.
-Random Trivia picked up from random sources.
-maintenance of things assigned to her for missions.
Natural:
-Claws on fingers
-deft and dexterous fungal tendrils, range about ten feet, though can’t lift much.
-strong mammalian limbs, able to lift much more than her
-faster than average human, especially on all fours. Slower walking speed.
-swimming speed is faster than speed on land by a good margin due to environment they grew up in.
-Zaan Healing: A natural ability of the fungal Zaan, they can engulf injured parts of their host to rapidly heal it, promoting the healing process through hormones and secretions. Can even promote regrowth of limbs and more minor body parts, though in any sort of combat it’s near impossible to use. If exposed again the process stops, and it is a tiring process as it uses a lot of body energy.
SPECIALIZED SKILLS AND TALENTS
These are specialized skills that set you apart from the average person. You have 7 points to spend here. Examples are swordsmanship, sniper, coercion, piloting etc.
Ability 1 and Points Spent: Xenology 4- She has a master’s degree in Xenology, and its her main discipline. She’s working her way to a master’s degree.
Ability 2 and Points Spent: Linguistics 2 – She’s focused on the linguistics of alien languages
Ability 3 and Points Spent: Huvidu-Zaan martial arts 1 – as a kid she started learning this like many of her species, but she’s rusty and skill is equivalent to that of a novice again.
OPTIONAL SUPERNATURAL CHARACTERISTICS
You have 7 points to spend here on supernatural skills or abilities. Sonic Scream, Levitation, Spell Casting, Shape Shifting etc. Superman MUST have his kryptonite, so Restrictions are what can't they do with their power or what balances it. They can only use it when they genuinely need it? They can't use it for more then five minutes without serious side-effects? Some things are allowed without points. A pegasus has wings thus it can fly. A raptor is fast thus no points are spent in speed. These "natural" abilities should be listed in the character's description, however.
None
MAGICAL OR SPECIAL ITEMS
List:
-Huvidu-Zaan Translator: A small specialized computer similar in design to a blutooth device that goes into a Huvidu-Zann’s ear, that processes and translates languages for them if the user doesn’t know said language. It can learn new languages they encounter over time, comparing to the grammar and linguistics of other languages to find patterns and piece together likely translations, it even has a small speaker to translate for the Huvidu-Zaan as well.
-Holodisguise: lets a huvidu-zaan or other user hide their appearance how they desire, though its only a hard light projection and easily disrupted if moved into, and can’t change the person’s overall size. It also is easily interrupted, if the person is touched for instance.
BACKGROUND
Education or Training: equivalent of Bachelors in Xenology and Linguistics
Character Background/Biography:
Huvidu-Zaan rose on a watery world in the outer rim of their galaxy, far from the rise and fall of stellar empires. Sometime a million years before the rise of the Huvidu-Zaan Stellar Collective, some sort of disaster ended up reducing these powers to remnants along the edges of the galaxy, with new races slowly taking up the mantle as they reached for the stars. It was from their homeworld of Huv that this species arose, and eventually the individual known as Varla Karlenian. Largely free of large predators, the planet would to most be considered a paradise. It is largely covered in water with only archipelagos forming the landmass of the world, leading most life to be oceanic or amphibious in nature.
A Huvidu-Zaan is a composite being, made up of a mammalian host body (termed the Huv), and a fungal symbiote(the Zaan). Separately, both are moderately intelligent, though not sapient organisms. Together though, their intelligences commingle and create a singular sapient individual. This is partially a result of countless years of evolution on their watery homeworld, and the fact their physiologies have become so closely linked that they even share a reproductive cycle, each Huv born with a Zaan already growing and spreading through its host. It’s a symbiotic relationship, the two uniting into one individual. Huv are strong and long lived hosts (Many last into two centuries of life going by Solar years), and Zaan dexterous and protective of their bodies. A Zaan’s tendril may be severed by the core is housed within the brain of a Huv. Indeed, the Huvidu-Zaan never even realized they were born of the union of two organisms until they reached their industrial age and began unlocking the secrets of their homeworld Huv.
Huv are strong, fast, and resilient by themselves, and long lived. Their exposure to Zaan created a longer lifespan and nursed their intelligence to bloom. They do the manual labor of the Huvidu-Zaan, the fungal tendrils not strong enough to lift the heavy things required for industry and logistics. Since they are the more mortal part of the body, most of the intelligence ends up being housed in the Zaan as they age, as well.
Zaan can, however, outlive their hosts. As the Huv body begins to decay and wither the consciousness slowly is transferred entirely to the Zaan. The downside of course is that they lose their mobility and strength. The Huvidu-Zaan have taken to using these leftover fungal tissues to construct biotic computers and systems which they can interface with directly. Most Huvid-Zaan colonies have a large mass of central Zaan working as one unit (usually with a single dominant personality), acting as colonial administrators. Huvidu-Zaan colonies as a result are usually named after the Zaan running the systems of the colony, for example Baldarak’s Freehold in the Wyltshyr system.
The Huvidu-Zaan named Venla happened to be born on that planet. It was a kind of world termed a Gaian world by humans, one fit for species of all types to reside on comfortably. As a result the multispecies Huvidu-Zaan Stellar Collective has increasingly moved governmental structures from the homeworld to it, and multiple species call it home with Huvidu-Zaan making up the Majority.
Venla grew up in the city of Balman’s Chain, a set of islands off the main continent with a large human population, with a mix of cultures that proved to surprise Venla. One species having so many differences even into the space age was largely unheard of, but the individualistic humans refused to give up their old cultural and tribal ties. The Huvidu-Zaan by contrast had a largely unified culture, even as they spread across the galaxy.
Her exposure to such varied culture lead to her later interest in learning about them and exploring the galaxy. She also showed aptitude at learning language, so after her education at the University of Baldarak’s Freehold she ended up working in Linguistics for the Collective, recording languages and dialects for their later records and use. But Venla was not really cut out for desk work of that kind, and applied to work at one of their observation posts above primitive worlds. This would be for a doctorate in Xenology, which she was just starting to work on.
She got her wish, and was sent to Xo’Lokako to study aliens known as the Xo’Lokakoi, who’ve recently proven to be antagonistic against attempts to enlighten them, so the program had recently been scaled back. The primitives, whose technology was late Iron age, and approaching a medieval society, had previously shown to share the same ideals as the Huvidu-Zaan roughly, so it was a surprise when approached with the opportunity to bring them up to galactic level of technology to be met with weapons. The delegation barely escaped. Luckily the natives only assumed they were some kind of demons, though a shift in culture to the species has led them as a whole to become increasingly xenophobic for some reason.
Venla’s been assigned to find out why, given the opportunity to go to the surface of Xo’Lokako to the Empire of Qru-tali as it seems to be spearheading this shift after the ascension of a new ruling family. It’s a very dangerous mission, as any unknowns in their society tend to be executed or lynched.
OTHER GAME MECHANICS
URL to Apartment Picture: (What's the inside of their apartment look like)
Link to RP examples: (this MUST be a DIRECT LINK to your IC post in an RP, NOT a link to the RP thread itself. If you don't have examples, make your biography good.)Something Like this
IMPORTANT:
One paragraph that sums up your character. This paragraph is what we'll use on your player tab on the first page of the thread. This MUST be brief. Your tab will contain a link to your application so people will have full details
Character Name: Venla the Bold
Brief Description: A Huvidu-Zaan Xenologist and Linguist whose goal in life is to learn as much about other species and cultures as she can.
I finally got around to finishing this now that I'm back. I have some ideas for things involving her world,though I don't know if they'd be interesting to anyone but me
If I need to tweak anything tell me!
