Traits

A small-to-medium-sized organic-looking splotch, sometimes shaped.

• Birthmark is an organic splotch, and should not be overly sharp or geometric. It can be shaped like something, but it should look like a marking the Rixixi could be born with, not stamped or tattooed on. A somewhat asymmetrical shape or roughed-up outline can help with this.
• Birthmark must be lighter or darker than the base coat, including black and white. It may have a gradient, but it must be within a similar hue, not heavily two-toned.
• Birthmark should be hard-, textured-, or lightly soft-edged. It should not be heavily soft-edged or blended out.
• Birthmark should be no larger than 10-15% of the entire Rixixi.

Examples:

Parts of the fur appear grey due to age.

• Must be a shade of light gray or white.
• Should not cover more than 30% of the body. There is no strict range, but it should generally stick to areas where fur would be thinner - or start in one of these areas and expand out from there.
• Can appear as blended-out sections of grey, as pale tick marks, or both. Aahtar in the examples displays both.
• Should not be used to make faux Pangare. It's legal to use it on the underbelly, just don't overuse it. Thanks!

Examples:

Creates patches of color in a pattern similar to a tortie cat, patches can be any base color. Dominant Tortoiseshell patches can take on two different alternate base coat tones!

• Tortie patterns do not have an edge hardness restriction, but are typically textured.
• Dominant Tortoiseshell can have two different base colors included in Tortie patches instead of just one if the designer so chooses - both must still be picked from base coat swatches! Different colors should appear in different patches - multiple base colors should not appear in the same Tortie patch.
• The patches can appear anywhere on the body and should not cover more than roughly 50% of the Ixi. It shouldn't mimic other markings!
• Other markings can display above or below tortoiseshell.
• If the markings appear above tortoiseshell, they can be color-shifted where they touch the patches - it must still follow the marking's color rules, however! With modifier markings like Glitter and Lunar, this can result in an entirely different modifier color being present on the patches than the color present on the main body.

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Range:

Appears as blobs of color glowing from inside the Rixixi. Can also present as blobs and/or streaks in blood color-altered zones, including skin, fins, etc. Dominant Lava Lamp can display any amount of colors, and can cause the entirety of skin/frills/blood color/etc to glow.

• Lava Lamp can be any color. It can have a gradient, and while it cannot be made up of two entirely different colors in recessive form, the gradient does not have to be subtle as long as the colors making it up are vaguely related. Shading the marking is allowed and recommended!
• The marking is made up of random, medium-to-large blobs around the body, typically based in shape on the floating wax mixture in actual Lava Lamps. There is no restriction on edge hardness as long as the shape can still be made out. It should also have a soft-edged glow around the marking, this should not stray too far outside the linework of the Ixi.
• Due to originating from inside the Rixixi, Lava Lamp can appear partially in the blood of the Rixixi, allowing streaks or blobs of the Lava Lamp color to appear in any marking or mutation altered by the Rixixi's blood color (eg. Daggerstabbed, Wide Vents, E. Porphyria), as well as the skin, frills, etc. Will always be visible inside the Rixixi when paired with Translucent/Partial Translucence.
• Lava Lamp should be translucent when it appears over fur, markings below it should appear at least slightly through it. Lava Lamp markings on skin, frills, and the like can be at full opacity.
• Recessive Lava Lamp (nLamp) creates Lava Lamp blobs of one general color, and also cause streaks and spots of glow in the Rixixi's blood/skin. Dominant Lava Lamp (LampLamp) can create Lava Lamp markings with any amount of colors and also any amount of glow in the Rixixi's blood/skin.

Examples:

Can present as a gradient of any base color on the base OR any marking. Dominant Horizon can modify multiple markings or modify marking(s) and alter the base color.

• Horizon is effectively a hybrid of the markings Gradient and Glitter, and as such, its rules read similarly to a mixture of the two:
• Recessive Horizon (nHz) can modify the base coat by adding a gradient taken from any base coat swatch OR one marking by altering it to a gradient taken from any base coat swatch. Dominant Horizon (nHzHz) can modify the base coat AND/OR any amount of markings. Dominant Horizon, if modifying multiple markings, should have all colors picked from the same base coat.
• If altering a marking, Horizon covers the entire marking. The original marking color should not be visible.
• Horizon overrides the color rules of any affected marking(s), but keeps the edge hardness rules.
• If altering the base coat, the original base color and Horizon color should both be visible.
• Much like the marking Gradient, the gradient caused by Horizon can be between any colors from either of the swatches from the chosen base coat.

Examples:

Can present as random speckles of any base color, OR modify a single marking to any single base color. Dominant Glitter can modify multiple markings or modify marking(s) and create colorful speckles.

Range:

"Glitter Spots" are often not be much larger than Minimum Inkblot, generally around Snowflake size, though it can reach a size a bit smaller than Fawn.

• Glitter follows the range and edge texturing rules of the marking it modifies. The only thing that changes is the color.
• Glitter overrides the color of the modified marking, making it the color of any other base coat.
• Recessive Glitter (nGlt) can create Glitter Spots OR modify one marking. Dominant Glitter (GltGlt) can create Glitter Spots AND/OR modify any number of markings. Dominant glitter, if modifying multiple markings, can present in multiple colors, so long as the colors are all picked from the same base coat.

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Causes a marking to change color into an alternate color scheme. If no other markings exist on the Ixi, can modify free markings. Dominant Chameleon can modify multiple markings on the Ixi, or cause one marking to have into 3+ color schemes.

• You must supply both the original color scheme, and the altered color scheme. One must be the actual import, and one can be a sta.sh file. This can be linked near the Personality section of the import if you like (see Old Dog in the Examples)
• One of the color schemes must follow the marking's original color rules (examples: Unders must be lighter/darker than base, Ticked must be darker than base).
• One of the color schemes can be any color if the designer so desires.
• Dominant chameleon can modify multiple markings on the Ixi, or cause one marking to change into three or more colors. If you choose the latter, the additional color schemes follow the "any color" rules.
• Flesh/Nails/Frills/etc (and mutations that follow the Flesh, Nails, and Frills rules) can be a color from the alternate color scheme on both versions of the import! They can also change colors between versions (whether or not a marking is being affected)!

Examples:

Old Dog, with Chameleon modifying Groundbreaking


Raiiax, with Chameleon modifying Poison Dart. Note that the tail tuft is eyedropped from the alternate color.

Can present as random speckles of glowing lights, OR modify a single marking to a vibrant, glowing color. Dominant Bioluminescence can modify multiple markings or modify marking(s) and create glowing speckles. Can also cause the skin of the Ixi to glow.

Range:

"Speckled Bioluminescence" spots have the same range of size as Inkblot, but most commonly remain small, more like Fawn or even Snowflake. It may cluster together to create larger areas of glow as well.

• Bioluminescence follows the range and edge texturing rules of the marking it modifies. The only thing that changes is the color and that it can glow.
• Bioluminescence overrides the color of the modified marking. It should always be bright, saturated, or pale colors; dark bioluminescence is fairly unheard of, but it can be desaturated (or even white) if it is pale.
• It should also have a soft-edged glow around the marking, this should not stray too far outside the linework of the Ixi. Skin, fins, and the like may also glow.
• Recessive Bioluminescence (nLum) can create Speckled Bioluminescence OR modify one marking. Dominant Bioluminescence (LumLum) can create Speckled Bioluminescent AND/OR modify any number of markings.

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