Steam ID: STEAM_0:0:81990998
Discord name: rick#8008
For how long have you played on CG SCP: 1 week 6 days in game, joined about a month ago.
Age: 21
In what country are you located?: United States
Time zone: CST
Character name(s): Doctor Meow Pavlov
Civilian name: Meow Pavlov
What server are you applying for? (SCP-RP UK or SCP-RP USA): SCP-RP USA
Do you have a mic?: Yes
List all whitelisted, MTF, or CI roles that you hold or have held: None.
Have you received any kicks/bans/warning? and why?: One warning for metagaming, as I misunderstood ID checking rules when I first joined, and one for combat crouching, which I'm set to appeal as it's a dubious warn at best.
What makes you the best candidate for Ethics Committee Assistant?:
As a person, I enjoy writing in all forms, as it's what I most spend my time doing really. I'm usually always a stickler for the rules, whether I'm in or out of character, so being able to join alongside and assist the ethics wing of the foundation would be something I'd find very interesting in all honestly. Even as lower level research and medical positions I just sit around doing paperwork and writing up psychiatric documents, as I find it much more enjoyable than playing a combative role most of the time. I'm keen on writing this application as I love the actual field of ethics, as I've taken ethics courses before and loved them. They forced me to think on a level I really hadn't before, examining different situations that are morally dubious, but completely ethically sound. I could finally explain in words the weird half-right scenarios that just didn't sit right with me in terms of calling them good or bad as if it's just as simple as black and white.
These are akin to some of the questions I loved debating within the course I took, which I'd like to believe gave me a proper ethical mindset to think with on most issues anyways, something I'd love to try and bring in as an ECA.
For more non-personal reasons I think that I would fit the role, I'm active and I enjoy RP-heavy scenarios, two things that the role of an ECA outright requires. I know I haven't been around as long as most others here, so I can only hope my application and reputation make up for that.
What are the responsibilities of Ethics Committee Assistants in RP?:
Ensure all members of the site are adhering to the rules set forth within the Foundation Legal Codex.
Assist the Ethics Committee to the best of their ability. You're an assistant first and foremost, so your orders aren't to be ignored. Report writing, watching over others, basically any sort of paperwork or menial tasks an Ethics member shouldn't be doing while they take care of the more important business.
Report on the daily events and actions of higher level personnel while members of Ethics aren't present on site, and fill in when it comes to giving orders to MTF O-1. From what I have gleaned from reading up on ECA responsibilities, this could be from designating which important members of personnel they should be protecting, ordering various raid-related missions to be completed, riot, and general authorizations like sweeps and AA. Though it's likely impossible to completely fill in for a member of Ethics while they're off site, it's an ECA's job to try to the best of their ability to do so.
Ensure foundation members are properly educated on the legal codex. While ignorance isn't excusable in most cases, it's our responsibility to make sure these materials are easily available and fully understood by junior personnel.
All in all, operate properly and professionally as the eyes and ears for our ethics department, fill in for them while they're off site, and make their jobs easier.
Please give some lore about your Ethics Committee Assistant character and what storylines they would be involved in:
My Ethics Committee Assistant character is Meow Pavlov, also known as SCP-MEOW. (Link: A more in-depth character description.)
It was with a long, belated sigh that the cat-headed man placed his service rifle back into the consultation room desk he kept it locked up in. Another day, another shift spent filling-in for the security staff that didn't feel like properly keeping order. Who the hell decided to place our medical wing right next to the prison cells anyways? A man could only have so much compassion for the soulless, and the depths he'd been delving as of late had only shown him the true faces of some of his colleagues. Mad captains killing prisoners actively surrendering to them, sergeants dragging D-Class' with more bullet holes than you'd need to take down an elephant into the medical wing, you name it, Meow was getting tired of it. He was a medic first and a combative second, a psychiatrist at that, but all that assisted in was helping him over-analyze as his mind began to wander. Should we really be slaughtering prisoners like this? I'm well aware that they've done heinous things to get in here, and there's the obvious cases when they pull a knife on researchers or reach for a weapon where they're probably better off dead, but the blood caked into my fatigues is something I can't simply continue to ignore.
It's mostly a security problem though, I think. I mean, using the foundation's prisoners for research is okay though, right? I mean, most of the tests we run could totally be justified through a.... utilitarian lens? The role the foundation serves in protecting the world cannot be understated after all, and I've never deliberately gotten a member D-Class personnel killed myself, though... I can't lie to myself when it comes to the others. Purposefully slamming the desk-drawer shut he'd been rifling through; he clicked a new pen to life as he continued his notes. Writing was his thing, and if writing out his frustrations like this could lead him somewhere brighter than where he'd been going, it'd have to work... and yet his penmanship faltered.
One after another, just feeding them to the dogs like slabs of mincemeat, Pavlov could vividly remember their screams... and the mocking wails as they made lunch out of the pleasant enough man he'd been speaking with mere minutes before. He was set to best him in checkers again this week, having smuggled a board into his consultation room to lighten the mood for some of the more stable prisoners he was looking after regularly. The researcher he'd been escorting decided to provoke the disgusting, gnarled red beast without reason, an action that has yet gone completely unpunished, the murderer's reputation as squeaky clean as his own. It was a mistake getting into the security business, as it had given him a chance to investigate the testing work done by others here in the foundation, an opportunity to peak beyond the veil and see the true horrors of our testing initiatives, not just the echoed murmurs of broken men fed through his psychiatric meetings and wellness checks. Hearing it was one thing, but actually being their to witness what took place within the deeper halls of the foundation was an itch he just couldn't ignore, a curiosity he just couldn't scratch, a gnawing hunger he'd need to sate in ways beyond simply writing notes to himself like this one, useless scribbles only he would ever care about.
He'd get to the bottom of these questions himself. No amount of talking could sate Meow's incessant rambling, and as much as he spoke with members of Ethics, he craved the cold, physical validation of finding out for himself whether what we're doing here is worth it or not. He always tried to do right by himself and the people around him, and if he could help on a much grander scale than he'd been doing as of late, that'd be nice too. Even if he was a little rocky on the specifics, he'd print out an updated copy or two of the foundation's legal codex and start digging, examining it close as he did any other testing documentation or psychiatric evaluation, picking out the little pieces he could use to inspire change in the faces around him, hopefully for the better... and learn what'd help him better serve the Ethics Committee of course. They were nice enough to let him roam about the site freely and continue his work as a doctor after all, so it was only natural he offered his assistance if they wanted it.
Discord name: rick#8008
For how long have you played on CG SCP: 1 week 6 days in game, joined about a month ago.
Age: 21
In what country are you located?: United States
Time zone: CST
Character name(s): Doctor Meow Pavlov
Civilian name: Meow Pavlov
What server are you applying for? (SCP-RP UK or SCP-RP USA): SCP-RP USA
Do you have a mic?: Yes
List all whitelisted, MTF, or CI roles that you hold or have held: None.
Have you received any kicks/bans/warning? and why?: One warning for metagaming, as I misunderstood ID checking rules when I first joined, and one for combat crouching, which I'm set to appeal as it's a dubious warn at best.
What makes you the best candidate for Ethics Committee Assistant?:
As a person, I enjoy writing in all forms, as it's what I most spend my time doing really. I'm usually always a stickler for the rules, whether I'm in or out of character, so being able to join alongside and assist the ethics wing of the foundation would be something I'd find very interesting in all honestly. Even as lower level research and medical positions I just sit around doing paperwork and writing up psychiatric documents, as I find it much more enjoyable than playing a combative role most of the time. I'm keen on writing this application as I love the actual field of ethics, as I've taken ethics courses before and loved them. They forced me to think on a level I really hadn't before, examining different situations that are morally dubious, but completely ethically sound. I could finally explain in words the weird half-right scenarios that just didn't sit right with me in terms of calling them good or bad as if it's just as simple as black and white.
Sure it's weird for a journalist to trespass or photograph something macabre, but was it done to better society as a whole? Perhaps the barrier they vaulted allowed them to uncover some sort of injustice, or the photographs of a drowning they took from afar were used to promote real, positive change within their community once released in the morning paper? Sure these things are morally bad, but ethics isn't about morals, it's about what's right ethically, something that matters more anyways. It's a journalists job to photograph, so you can't really fault them for following orders and doing their job regardless of what reasonable, or even somewhat unreasonable lengths they had to go through to do so, as they're fulfilling their role related responsibilities. In the second scenario it'd only really hurt the family, friends, and any potential news-readers who know or don't know them to see such images, but is this mental suffering justified from the noted observable lowering of future drowning-related incidents in that community?
For more non-personal reasons I think that I would fit the role, I'm active and I enjoy RP-heavy scenarios, two things that the role of an ECA outright requires. I know I haven't been around as long as most others here, so I can only hope my application and reputation make up for that.
What are the responsibilities of Ethics Committee Assistants in RP?:
Ensure all members of the site are adhering to the rules set forth within the Foundation Legal Codex.
Assist the Ethics Committee to the best of their ability. You're an assistant first and foremost, so your orders aren't to be ignored. Report writing, watching over others, basically any sort of paperwork or menial tasks an Ethics member shouldn't be doing while they take care of the more important business.
Report on the daily events and actions of higher level personnel while members of Ethics aren't present on site, and fill in when it comes to giving orders to MTF O-1. From what I have gleaned from reading up on ECA responsibilities, this could be from designating which important members of personnel they should be protecting, ordering various raid-related missions to be completed, riot, and general authorizations like sweeps and AA. Though it's likely impossible to completely fill in for a member of Ethics while they're off site, it's an ECA's job to try to the best of their ability to do so.
Ensure foundation members are properly educated on the legal codex. While ignorance isn't excusable in most cases, it's our responsibility to make sure these materials are easily available and fully understood by junior personnel.
All in all, operate properly and professionally as the eyes and ears for our ethics department, fill in for them while they're off site, and make their jobs easier.
Please give some lore about your Ethics Committee Assistant character and what storylines they would be involved in:
My Ethics Committee Assistant character is Meow Pavlov, also known as SCP-MEOW. (Link: A more in-depth character description.)
It was with a long, belated sigh that the cat-headed man placed his service rifle back into the consultation room desk he kept it locked up in. Another day, another shift spent filling-in for the security staff that didn't feel like properly keeping order. Who the hell decided to place our medical wing right next to the prison cells anyways? A man could only have so much compassion for the soulless, and the depths he'd been delving as of late had only shown him the true faces of some of his colleagues. Mad captains killing prisoners actively surrendering to them, sergeants dragging D-Class' with more bullet holes than you'd need to take down an elephant into the medical wing, you name it, Meow was getting tired of it. He was a medic first and a combative second, a psychiatrist at that, but all that assisted in was helping him over-analyze as his mind began to wander. Should we really be slaughtering prisoners like this? I'm well aware that they've done heinous things to get in here, and there's the obvious cases when they pull a knife on researchers or reach for a weapon where they're probably better off dead, but the blood caked into my fatigues is something I can't simply continue to ignore.
It's mostly a security problem though, I think. I mean, using the foundation's prisoners for research is okay though, right? I mean, most of the tests we run could totally be justified through a.... utilitarian lens? The role the foundation serves in protecting the world cannot be understated after all, and I've never deliberately gotten a member D-Class personnel killed myself, though... I can't lie to myself when it comes to the others. Purposefully slamming the desk-drawer shut he'd been rifling through; he clicked a new pen to life as he continued his notes. Writing was his thing, and if writing out his frustrations like this could lead him somewhere brighter than where he'd been going, it'd have to work... and yet his penmanship faltered.
One after another, just feeding them to the dogs like slabs of mincemeat, Pavlov could vividly remember their screams... and the mocking wails as they made lunch out of the pleasant enough man he'd been speaking with mere minutes before. He was set to best him in checkers again this week, having smuggled a board into his consultation room to lighten the mood for some of the more stable prisoners he was looking after regularly. The researcher he'd been escorting decided to provoke the disgusting, gnarled red beast without reason, an action that has yet gone completely unpunished, the murderer's reputation as squeaky clean as his own. It was a mistake getting into the security business, as it had given him a chance to investigate the testing work done by others here in the foundation, an opportunity to peak beyond the veil and see the true horrors of our testing initiatives, not just the echoed murmurs of broken men fed through his psychiatric meetings and wellness checks. Hearing it was one thing, but actually being their to witness what took place within the deeper halls of the foundation was an itch he just couldn't ignore, a curiosity he just couldn't scratch, a gnawing hunger he'd need to sate in ways beyond simply writing notes to himself like this one, useless scribbles only he would ever care about.
He'd get to the bottom of these questions himself. No amount of talking could sate Meow's incessant rambling, and as much as he spoke with members of Ethics, he craved the cold, physical validation of finding out for himself whether what we're doing here is worth it or not. He always tried to do right by himself and the people around him, and if he could help on a much grander scale than he'd been doing as of late, that'd be nice too. Even if he was a little rocky on the specifics, he'd print out an updated copy or two of the foundation's legal codex and start digging, examining it close as he did any other testing documentation or psychiatric evaluation, picking out the little pieces he could use to inspire change in the faces around him, hopefully for the better... and learn what'd help him better serve the Ethics Committee of course. They were nice enough to let him roam about the site freely and continue his work as a doctor after all, so it was only natural he offered his assistance if they wanted it.
