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Anything you wanna say about Zoey, good or bad.

She's an angry, Corsair-supporting, hormonal, Kusari-loving crazy lady with guns.

Things Zoey is not; A Lesbian, a furry, an orphan, seeking revenge, a super-soldier, an evil saturday morning cartoon villain, a cliche terrorist, a cannibal, insane.


I opened this as I already got some good feedback via-PM, though that is also a method you can use if you don't wanna post here :s


April 818 - July 818

Stories:
Princess of the Skies - General Zoey story, mostly her Diary
Zoey and Steve's night in - Steve and Zoey's drunken night on the Battleship Hood (Finished)
How to plan the perfect getaway - Zoey plans a heist involving a Liner...
Accidents can happen - Zoey gets in an accident, and it saved by an unlikely passer-by
Dream a Little Dream of Me - Zoey has some odd dreams, insight into her past, and missing boyfriend

Other RP:
Zoey and Steve - in the bar at the Battleship Hood.
To: Zoey Sakura - A message from Vixen.
Zoey's Photoshoot for the 'Girls of Sirius Calender'.
Paving the Way - Zoey shows her feelings for Steve when he's critically wounded (posts 9 & 12 most relevant).
Wedding Invitation - Zoey confirms her attendance of the Yuka and Lumire wedding.

Request for a Black Dragon - Approved
Request for a Mamoru - Approved
Request for residency in Baffin - Denied Q_Q
Request for Corsair Guns - Approved

Zone of Influence

Primary - Kusari (quasi-legal), Bretonia (unlawful), Taus, Omicrons
Secondary - Omegas, Sigmas, Edge Worlds, Nomad Worlds

Zoey-Ships

Zoey.Sakura - Griffin (scrapped)
Zoey.Sakura - Black Dragon
Zoey:Sakura - Mamoru


August 818 - November 818

Stories:

A Timely Meeting - Sakura Kai of the Kusari State Police makes Zoey and offer

Other RP:

Kusari State Police Recruitment - Zoey signs up for the KSP
Kusari State Police Message Dumps - Zoey's reports for the KSP (8th August - Present)

Zone of Influence

Primary - Kusari, Taus, Sigmas and Independant Worlds.

Zoey-Ships

[KSP]Zoey.Sakura - Wyrm
Purinsesu|KPT - Chimaera


November 818 - Present

Stories:

N/A

Other RP:

Various Bounty Board Stuff.

Zone of Influence

Everywhere except Rheinland and Gallia.

Zoey-Ships

Zoey.Sakura - Chimaera


Sometime between 4.85 and 4.86

War Stories - Gallic Invasion of the Taus - Zoey's contribution to the KNF vs GRN war

Zoey-Ships

KNF-Zoey.Sakura - Chimaera (for the KNF vs GRN battle in the Taus event)
KNF|IKN-Purinsesu - Kusari Gunboat, Zoey took over as main pilot for some of the battles


Other Stuff in General

Wikipage for Zoey - Partial Diplomacy, History etc
Wikipage for Zoey's Reps - Full Diplomacy

Height - 5ft 6in (1.70m)
Weight - 106lb (48kg)
Eye color - Hazel
Hair color - Brown

Default amount demanded during piracy: 500,000

Zoey Desktop Wallpaper

Zoey's ingame infocard.

Proposed possible future ID rules (see here):

Quote:Price: Boobs - Zoey Sakura ID

Pilot carrying this ID is Zoey Sakura, who :

Can escort neutral and allied traders/smugglers,
Can demand credits or cargo from traders and unallied smugglers or factions,
Can engage unallied ships within her Zone of Influence,
Can engage Bretonian Corporations, Synth Foods and smugglers carrying Slaves/Cardamine at will,
Cannot ally with any lawfuls except Kusari lawfuls,
Cannot attack Samura, KNF or KSP ships,
Can fulfill allied bounty contracts, against hostile targets,
Can and will fraternize with the enemy.

Allowed ships: Black Dragon, Mamoru
Carrying unmounted IDs in your ship, as well as not equipping an ID, is a serious crime.

Recruit IDed Titan mistakes me for a girl and tries to get a Yahoo Address off me. xD

Special Thanks to:

mang109 and the Artisan Farmers Alliance,
Pipboy and the Black Dragon Society,
The Corsair Council of Elders,
Espi and the |Sails,
Marburg, Nauticus, Col_Lodden and the Natures Last Hope,
The Kusari Naval Forces and Kusari State Police,
Denelo, Heraklion and Ryummel,
Amelia:Zoa (Awesome wingmate)
The Kempeitai,
Anyone else who has helped make Zoey so awesome.

Glad to see this. Kudos to you for opening it. After our little encounter over Leeds, though, I do think some feedback is in order. Bear in mind that the below is only my entitled opinion, I'm not sparing your feelings, et al, and I hold nothing against you as a person.

Now, that said...

"Psst" "How about you cough up two millions eh?" (four seconds pass) "Like... now" "*pewpew* "Best hurry up" and "I'm a Kusarian Gaian, I hate Junkers" is anything but stupendous RP, especially when you knew I was RPing with someone else at the time and most likely typing. I got the impression that you - the player- simply wanted to lolPvP me, and find the best excuse you possibly could to do so. While this may not have been the case, that was the impression you made.

Other than what is previously mentioned, the only things you said during that whole two-hour encounter were "No." when another Gaian begged you to stop shooting, "So?" when the panicked Junker started yelling about how she was going to tell on you - which, by the way, was the single best piece of RP from you in that whole encounter - a death threat as you were running away, and "Stop dodging and fight, whore" after Suzume'd made it abundantly clear that she hadn't the faintest idea how to activate her weapons. While I understand that your character hates Junkers for some weird unknown reason - presumably because her background is stereotyped into hating Junkers, and that only because of a secret underground political war going on between the Junkers and Hogosha - I wasn't under the impression that she was supposed to be stupid or incapable of speaking. I also understand that she's supposed to be hormonal or something, which is why is surprised me that she gave very little in the way of heated or at all emotional responses when Suzume and Ritsuka danced around her totally dodging her shots and taunting her the whole time.

Unless of course you think hormonal means horny?

Anyhow, that encounter told me little to nothing about your character. You need to work on telling less and showing more. Even if your character is a quiet type - and based on your threads, I'd say she isn't - you can easily RP well anyways, especially if you limit your replies to short, terse, single- or double-word sentences (as opposed to no replies at all).

So yeah. More in-game RPing - esp. emotion, actual speech, and overall character development - and less pewpew and horniness.

As for the RP stories... well, the nicest way to put it is that you really need to play more male characters. Seriously.

To sum up my general feedback: either play a girl or play a guy, not something in between; try to play something different for a change (all your characters that I'm aware of are evil, horny, genocidal madmen/madwomen who don't talk much other than to threaten to kill people and when you have something that smells strangely like a pre-written script); and work on character depth and development and in-game RPing.

Well the Junker hating is definately programmed in through Kusari brainwashing, spending most of your life in the company of Hogosha and Farmers means she hates Junkers with rage and death.

That mostly comes from my time in the Phantoms, as Phantoms will relentlessly hunt down and execute Junkers, it's just an aspect of characters I like, violence towards a group who generally don't know why they're being attacked.

If you'd have paid up, she would have most likely gotten angry and shouted at you anyway, but at least she wouldn't have shot you. xD

It was more, that the experience went on from about 1am onwards, I was tired and it was obvious I wasn't shooting straight, so I didn't feel much like blabbering on with Dessie patrols and the BS about.
And nuke mines, and screamers.

Just that, Zoey was so determined to break you, she only stopped shooting to defend herself from the other four people that attacked her.


If you aren't a target, you're polite conversation. Infact, she often talks alot with people she's supposed to be shooting at, especially if she is outgunned.

I suppose I could have talked a little more, I'll work on that in the future, but you have to understand, she really hates Junkers, even if she doesn't know why.


For female characters, I find male ones to be... too much like myself. All of them blend together and eventually I have the same guy, with different ships and different names.
With female characters, I can make em all different, because they aren't anything like me.

Currently I have like... six characters I think:

Anna 'Sofiel' Price - Not exactly aggressive, unless she's fighting crime. A bit of a justice freak, but sane.

Amy Masako - Aoi Iseijin, she just does her job with a Nomad in her brain, not exactly evil, she just gets things done. This character was an accident, never really planned it out.

Ashley Dairaku - Another accident of the 101st, calm, follows orders, often talks to her opponants like she would anyone else. Rather docile, not very aggressive.

Georgia Brown - Another accident, my favourite, again, not very aggressive, not exactly insane, just bad things happen to her, alot.

Jack Riley - The only male character I have left, normal guy, totally flies a cruiser to shoot Rheinlanders and Outcasts. Okay, he's a bit of a cowboy

And finally, Zoey Sakura - Aggressive, violent, is sexually attracted to forbidden fruit (Whatever she's supposed to be shooting at, BAF, Outcasts etc), faithful to Kusari. Supports the Corsairs to the grave.

5/6 of those are... girls... wow, you're right.

I think your main problem is that you're playing stories, not characters. That is to say, you're making backgrounds and building characters based on those backgrounds. Am I right?

I know I, personally, find making the character (that is, personality, followed by major traits, followed by beliefs, etc.), and then later building the background based on that character to be much more enjoyable.

Zoey, now. My point on the Junkers was that she may hate them, but unless she's totally ignorant of politics of any kind, she'd realize that most Gaians depend on the Junkers for purified water, ship parts, and the like, and that angering them could make other Gaians angry at her. This could be made more concrete by the fact that another Gaian actually attacked her for attacking a Junker. I mean, sure, she can be brainwashed to believe a certain thing, but that doesn't mean she's suicidal (and yes, attacking a neutral party whom your fellows depend upon over a war-torn House planet with several enemy capital ships and dozens of enemy fighters nearby, not to mention one of aforementioned fellows, is suicidal, particularly when the neutral party has such an advantage equipment-wise) about fulfilling the demands of those beliefs to the extreme. The point at which you are suicidal about fulfilling the demands of the beliefs is after you've questioned those beliefs, which, from the way you're talking, Zoey hasn't.

Anyhow, I literally couldn't have payed before she started shooting. You gave me four seconds. Suzume may or may not have payed, depending on how well Zoey argued her case, but the moment you start shooting at her, you lose her (again, you may have noticed she was slightly loopy while you were firing at her; that's one of her three main reactions to fear).

Also, why does Zoey so faithfully support the Corsairs? Think about it. Far as I, as an outsider to the RP, can tell, the only reason she does it because she happens to be strongly tied to two factions that you, the player, know are strongly tied to the Corsairs, and because she happens to be against the Corsairs' primary House enemy. Seems to me that you're just trying to align her with one of these new, overarching "mega-alliances", whereas the beauty of Freelancer is its complex web of diplomacy. The Hessians hate the Corsairs, but that doesn't mean they automatically like the Outcasts. Rheinland dislikes Liberty, who happen to like Bretonia, who happen to dislike Kusari, but since when is "the enemy of my enemy's friend is my friend" true? Particularly when the enemy of your enemy's friend is an age-old rival who supports a group that destroyed most of your fleet in the first actual major war in Sirius, ever? So yeah, I'd suggest not trying to tie Zoey to a "mega-alliance".

Of course, there could be some other reason for it that I don't know, but that's what I see.

Sorry for the delay on the response.

' Wrote:Of course, there could be some other reason for it that I don't know, but that's what I see.

Well funnily enough, I didn't make Zoey because I wanted to make a Corsair-aligned character, I made her after watching an interview that just happened to be on TV, same way Georgia got her personality.

Thing is, she's based off Sasha Grey, the real life... 'adult actress'. The reason I chose such a personality, is because Sasha is a very odd girl to say the least.

She's uninhibited in her career, she jumped right into the business at age 18, and surprised me because the way she views the industry and her part in it.


Zoey is the same with Piracy, she knows she's violent, and that if god exists, she's going to hell, but she doesn't care.

She doesn't justify her violence and terrorism by hiding behind idealistic goals, she just gets on with it. Point made about the Gaians is that not many of them like her, because she's more cushy with the Corsairs, and she doesn't give a damn about the environment.

Her future won't always be with the Gaians though, she just uses them as a front to personally hurt Bretonia as best she can.
It's mostly because of her Kusari background that she supports them so strongly, including the zero tolerance on Junkers. This is due to the fact her mother is Bretonian, and she hates the fact she isn't pure Kusari.

Infact, her hatred towards Junkers won't last forever...and saying that, I have an idea. I'll contact you on Skype.

>.< , When i first saw your chasrater in Leeds i was expecting another " GIVE ME YER MONEY " Pirate, oh wrong i was, just a few seconds of RP with you i could tell you weren't a average lolwut, and after spending some time on forums looking at your diarys, i was inpressed with the amout of RP you put into this charater. It seems this charater seems a very interesting one. I have even moved one of my main RP charaters to come and RP with you, as well as " see the sights" hehe.

See you in space

' Wrote:>.< , When i first saw your chasrater in Leeds i was expecting another " GIVE ME YER MONEY " Pirate, oh wrong i was, just a few seconds of RP with you i could tell you weren't a average lolwut, and after spending some time on forums looking at your diarys, i was inpressed with the amout of RP you put into this charater. It seems this charater seems a very interesting one. I have even moved one of my main RP charaters to come and RP with you, as well as " see the sights" hehe.

See you in space

Yay! Thank you, I look forward to it. Find me on Skype if you can't find me online, and we'll arrange something.

You were awesome too by the way ^_^



As a sidenote, I wrote a wikipage for her, Character Infobox and Diplomacy so far:

http://discoveryfl.com/wiki/index.php?title=Zoey_Sakura

Finally finished Zoey's Wiki Page, taking suggestions, comments and critisism on improvements etc.

Should have everything anyone would ever need to know about Zoey there.

vary entertaining.

As in the storys and antics.


especially the furry racism.

Thanks, I'm not sure exactly what you're referring to, but the idea is to entertain and to be entertained.

So thank you.

' Wrote:especially the furry racism.

I loled.

That sentence made my day.