User:Studenterhue/Mime

"The art of silence speaks to the soul, like music, making comedy and tragedy, involving you and your life. . . . creating character and space, by making a whole show on stage – showing our lives, our dreams, our expectations"

-- (Marcel Marceau)

The quiet counterpart to the Clown. Equipped with a snazzy striped suit, suspenders and beret. You can find this outfit as well as an alternative set of dungarees, scarf and bowler hat in the chapel.

As a Mime, you're unable to speak, use this to your advantage by finding fun ways to communicate with the crew! Try emoting, writing on the floor with crayons, or passing letters to your crew-mates to get your point across.

The Mime is available as a gimmick job on all days, with an extra slot on Mondays. Go forth and entertain!

Speaking without Talking

While you could communicate through PDA messages or machine talk implants like a player monkey, you're missing out on the core experience that makes miming, both in SS13 and in general, so fun, and that's creatively expressing yourself without using words at all. After, why bother putting on the mime mask and garb if you won't act like a mime artist? Luckily, Goonstation gives you many tools for communicating besides speech. Some of them are more ambiguous than regular talking(as if verbal communication can't be just as unclear), but that's what makes it beautiful--and entertaining.

The Art of Custom Emotes

how to custom emote
don't use them to talk, i.e. "Silence the clown is a changeling" should be avoided
things like "Mime vomits in disgust of your incompetence" are okay, but can be improved
embrace ambiguity 

The Writing on the Wall

By using a crayon on the floor, you can draw a variety of shapes and pictograms to suit your inner visual artist. How about a portrait of the Head of Security? What does "Captain smells" look like in simple geometric shape? Can you depict the conditions of Medbay as modern abstract art? (Don't worry about your art skill--you don't need any for that one!) A picture can say a thousand words--and you don't have to actually speak any of them.

Note, S'il Vous Plaît

While you can just write what you want to say on a piece of paper and hand it to someone, and it's alright and fine, why not have a little fun and mischief? Translate your messages into French through Google Translate and watch the crew attempt to piece together what little French they know, or, better yet, reply with equally bad French. Or, instead of words, put ASCII art--the worse you are, the funnier it'll be! If the visual arts aren't your thing, try carefully describing a picture or making word puzzles. The pen is mighty indeed when it comes to miming. Don't forget about the Guide to writing.

The Clown and You

On some servers, the Clown and Mime are canonically enemies, or at least rivals. You may wonder if this is the case on Goonstation. The short answer is: if it makes things more interesting/entertaining, they are!

The long answer is that the clown-mime dynamic can be whatever you want it to be (as long as it's within the Rules, obviously). You have that artistic freedom! What if, for example, you and the Clown joined together to amuse the crew? After all, sometimes, the best response to a honking wise-guy/gal's wacky jokes and antics for a straight-man/woman to accept them as perfectly normal...or maybe even join in them!

The enemies relationship alone has many different variations. Perhaps you and the clown are interservice rivals, like branches of the armed forces; you and the clown may throw highly colorful insults at each other, every time, all the time, but at the end of the day, the two of you are working together to put on a good show. Maybe it's like Spy vs. Spy, in that you two are mortal enemies, but are deliciously over-the-top and cartoonish (sometimes literally); perhaps the clown likes to suplex you when you pretend there's an invisible wall, so you piss in their balloons when they aren't looking. Foes come in many different forms, and the resulting conflict make for some truly fun stories!

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