John Carlson's Awesome HoS App (not posted accidentally this time)

[bladethrower]

Usual character name: John Carlson
BYOND username: Bladethrower
Discord username (if you are on our discord): bladethrower
Recommended by (if applicable):
Goon servers you play: Goon 4 Sylvester

• Reason for application:
  

After playing for a year and some change playing as both security and command I wanted to try something different but familiar and what seemed better than HoS? It's a welcome upgrade of a challenge and I would like to think I'm robust enough to not let any joe schmo take the big gun. It's not all about the gun and status though, it's also the respect of my fellow officers and wanting to be an example someone uses when they talk about good security interactions they've had in the game. 

• Security experience (300 word minimum):
  

When I first started to play security I thought I didn't have it in me to keep the peace to, keep the round flowing, but as time has gone on I've found myself talking more with the people I've arrested and expanding the interactions beyond just catch and release with the brig.
Learning how long to actually hold crimers for or knowing when to just let people off with warnings was always a struggle for me, too lenient and people may question your ethic, too harsh and you risk ruining the round for someone. So I've had to adapt my usual round. start out giving tickets, blowing my whistle running after people, swirlying clowns and building a rapport of the current ne'er-do-wells. Slowly moving to brigging for 1-2 minutes if they had done serious crimes and eventually going to exile if they've been a constant pain to security. Other times it's chasing crimers down the halls and maybe letting them give me the slip if they haven't done anything terrible or even letting beepsky do the chasing. Some rounds I take it slower and talk with random crewmembers setting up shops, moving junk around, or lending a hand when someone asks for help over radio and walking into their elaborate death traps. When I get there I have to make that decision of if i play dumb and go along with it or call for backup and shut it down if its late into the round or just been quiet enough to not warrant any suspicion in character.
As time has gone on I've found myself enjoying the trials of security and wanting to not carry all the best things on me to catch criminals. I can admit I used to carry robust-eez or min-max cells for equipment but as I play I've found it not to be fun. Every round I find myself leaning more to RP and crew interactions rather than just sitting inside security waiting for John Crime™️to show up and get things rolling. I like to think I've been there to help people escalate their conflict with the station and with security.
Answer two or more of the following:

• What advice would you give to other sec players?
  

Some advice would be to keep it light! Sometimes you do your best you use all the tricks and your book and you still lose, that's just how it is sometimes and you gotta be ready to roll with the punches, learn from your mistakes, and move on to the next big thing. Sometimes the best officer is the one who decides they don't go investigate that weird noise in maintenance

• What was one of your favorite security moments?
  

Doing some teaching with a Security Assistant and when it was time to introduce beepsky a bunch of us started getting goofy with the whistle and started to play around trying to see who would be the last one standing

• Describe any differences in your playstyle when part of a full security team and when being the only security officer.
  

[*]When I'm with a team of others I like to position closer to the back and be on support dragging injured officers back for healing, keeping away aggressors, strategizing our next plan, or when I'm going around the station making I'd be calling in odd sounds I'm investigating, making sure my team would know where I last was if something happened versus if i was alone I'd typically only radio it in to maybe the captain if i thought it was something real dangerous.
Answer one or more of the following fun questions (because it's important for the HoS to be fun):

• Draw a picture!
  
  

(Answers in Comic Sans for extra fun)
Previous bans (while this will not affect your application lying about it will): N/A