Hello Hermertions! Don’t worry about me – your criticisms are welcome, needed, and I am unperturbed.
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your avid disregard for our "rules" (in quotation because we don't have a rule set in stone) seems to me to be an almost strange rebellious quality you have.
- Gimpy III
That was my first thought as well. The controversy about my application so far exemplifies one element of my character: that I’m a persecuted author. Often communities don’t like me. I ask questions like, “Hypothetically could I blow up the protected spawn with a TNT cannon?” My intentions are always good, however. I am misunderstood, though, because I don’t try to conform, and I have an unrestrained individuality.
I have actually been diagnosed with Oppositional Defiance Disorder, although in my opinion that was a mistake. To tell you more about that story, however, I would need to tell about my two-week, involuntary commitment to a psych ward. (Kind of dark!)
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Stop being hostile, Sam. ( ಥـْـِـِـِـْಥ)
- Sevrys
Sam was being hostile, Sevrys. He essentially rejected my whole application, telling me to rewrite it. I can imagine and hope, however, that his longer response, which he lost due to a computer crash, was less terse and thus gentler.
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you aren't entirely convincing us that you are the kind of player we are looking for.
- Sam
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I'm not completely convinced that you are the type of player we are looking for here in Hermertia
- King Arjen III
Maybe I’m not a perfect applicant, Sam and King Arjen III. What I am looking for in a server, mainly, is a mature, friendly, and collaborative community. The RPG/lore of Hermertia goes beyond that. But I am willing, even excited, to embrace RPG/lore, even though I’ve never done it before.
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when we create our characters we don't normally play as them in game. For certain events yes we role play but when on the server and just building and stuff it's more just friends hanging out.
- Gimpy III
That is nice to know, Gimpy. That makes me more eager to produce my lore, and less overwhelmed.
All that said, however, there are some things that I need to apologize for. Sam, I did not mean to “refuse” your request for more lore. I’m sorry that it came across like that. I will, in fact, give you the lore that I think you are looking for, in a moment. I just didn’t want to delete what I had already written and worked on. My back-story, about being an ambitious but failing youngster, and then about being a wandering sage, I believe will be easy to incorporate into Hermertian history, and, like I mentioned, I will only modify it if it somehow contradicts already-existent Hermertian lore. (I highly doubt it would, because it’s so simple.) My desire to preserve my work shouldn’t be too mind boggling, Sam.
Also, I must admit that I was a bit overexcited about my own job as a bookkeeper, and, for that reason, I may have neglected Hermertian lore. I am sorry that I put my agenda before yours.
Now, here is my lore. (Look, Sam and Arjen!) I expect that there will be many historical inaccuracies that will need to be fixed, but, together, we can massage it into real, Hermertian lore, like y’all are accustomed to doing with other, normal applicants.
I’m interested in the pale race that lives in caves (I can’t remember what they’re called), and I have an idea for weaving them into my already-existent history, expressed in the OP.
I am a pale creature. Us pale creatures have been persecuted for generations. We were believed to be humans with leprosy, in the past, and we were often quarantined in harsh ghettos. There have been several genocides, in which many pale creatures have been murdered. Our race retreated and hid in its birthplace, the underground caves. That’s where most of us are now. We are happy there. We like the caves, and they keep us safe.
But modern scholars and historians have pointed out that our current condition is unjust, and that we deserve to enjoy the land and the sunshine, like all other creatures. Personally, I like the caves – I’m like a bat, and I’m used to them - and I avoid the sun because I easily get terribly sunburned.
Despite my love for caves, however, I am a pale creature who spends a lot of time on land. I love the land. As long as I’m wearing a full suit of armor, I can exit the caves and bear the sun. I am a social justice worker, writing muckraking novels about the ill treatment of pale creatures. My books are controversial, and governments who don’t tolerate my species have banned them. Recently, the government of my homeland persecuted me with hatred for one of my books, and I was torn from my family and made to relocate, and now I am seeking haven in Hermertia. My life’s work is to move more of my brethren onto land, erase the bigotry toward them, and, in general, make the world a safer place for them. Also, I want to move the rest of my family – two dads, a stepsister, and a pet slime – to Hermertia, if that ever becomes safe and possible. I’m a role model for other pale creatures, being brave enough to build many of my buildings aboveground, and brave enough to write whatever I think. Apart from my life’s work – doing social justice, being a pale creature role model, and writing muckrakers - in my free time I also enjoy writing in many other genres, from the perspectives of many races and often uni-race (no race mentioned). This is possible because all of us races are really the same, at our core and in our hearts. Also, I am adept at many other Minecraft jobs besides writing.
I have a dream that one day, little pale boys and little pale girls will run hand-in-hand with little human boys and little human girls . . .
You may have noticed that I was born from two, pale creature fathers. Our reproductive systems are known for sometimes doing strange things like that. I’ve known a man with two heads and two personalities! Unfortunately, these reproductive anomalies, although really existing to promote diversity, are used by many to support the belief that pale creatures are mutants. Not much is known, scientifically, about our reproductive system, although many inhumane experiments were conducted on my brethren during genocides. I’m 17, and I was born in Doree City, a large, pale creature city mostly underground in a massive cave (Doree Cave).
I hope that this post alleviates any ill feelings toward me. I’m sorry that it took so long for me to reach this point. I retract my earlier statement that RPG/lore is not worth the effort: I’ve found that it’s fun.
I may change my Minecraft skin, so that I’m paler.
Also, because I want it to be known, I will repeat this: The history I expressed in my OP and the lore I expressed in this post are
both true (at least after y’all have massaged them into Hermertian lore). But, if you don’t like my first history – which implies IRL details and other Minecraft servers - you can safely ignore it. As a matter of fact, I think that, to make this application go quicker,
everyone can just ignore it. After all, I would actually need to edit it a little, for it to completely fit my new lore. So, how is this post? and how’s my pale creature lore?
-Snout, applicant
P.S. I wrote this response while offline, before I had seen the new posts by Biakko, Sevrys, King Varahein, and Celestine. I’m just going to post what I’ve written, as is, without the new input, because I think it will still answer their concerns. Biakko and King Varahein, your explanation of lore on Hermertia was very helpful and very true. I feel selfish and stupid, coming to Hermertia and expecting to add my own work, but without fitting in. I think you both will be happy, however, after you read my lore about the pale creatures. Celestine, please don’t review a book you haven’t read, just because you saw the word ‘rape.’ First of all, it is, actually, a romance . . . but I’m not in the mood to explain that to someone that flies off the handle with assumptions, criticizing my taste. Fifty Shades of Grey is more disturbing than my book, IMO. Also, I was amused at the speculation that I might be a troll (although I was also somewhat offended); I promise that I am not a troll and that I really do want to join this server. TBH though I did not know what I was getting into when I started applying!