Destiny & RP on Goonstation

[Dastardly]

"I can do open heart surgery because back in space nam' it's the only thing I could do to save my fellow jarheads life"
"I can do construction because my dad thought me before he was killed in a custard related accident"
"I strip off and play the sax because it's the only way I can express myself"

What's wrong with these. Like I get heart surgery is a little extreme, but you're playing a game about space nerds on a space station, I feel like people having esoteric skill sets is appropriate. You just retroactively justify your skill with a one-liner, not an elaborate backstory about your tragic life or whatever.

Absolutely defer to someone else if it's not your job, but I feel that it's lame to be unable to solve easily solvable problems because your character "doesn't know how" when you the player clearly do. Not having an arm or leg is debilitating. Not being able to set up the engine when everyone else has fucked off/is absent doesn't make the game more interesting (doubly so when there is a piece of paper with explicit instructions for doing so).