Traits

Creates crackles across the body of the Rixixi, in any color, including bright ones. Can be two-toned.

• Groundbreaking can be any color, and may display up to two colors within the marking, which may be blended together.
• It should appear as a streak of color that branches off, as if making a "crack" or "lightning bolt" shape.
• It should be hard or textured-edged.
• Groundbreaking has no minimum, and can appear on multiple places on the Rixixi's body. It should not cover more than roughly 50% of the Rixixi.

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Allows the base coat to show as a gradient. Gradient must be between colors that exist on the assigned base coat's sliders. Dominant Gradient can alter markings as well.

• Recessive Gradient appears only on the base coat, and should appear somewhere on the base coat - amount does not matter so long as it is visible.
• Gradient can between any colors from either of the swatches from the Rixixi's associated base coat. For instance, if your Rixixi is Skyburn with Gradient, you are allowed to take the hot pink from the bottom swatch and the orange-red from the top swatch and blend them together! You can also go for a subtler gradient and choose colors on the sliders that are closer together.
• Take care not to make Gradient too closely resemble pangare, sable, or other similar markings!
• Recessive Gradient must be locked to the base coat, but Dominant Gradient can also alter markings to have a gradient in them, either using the Rixixi's base coat swatches for gradient colors, or basing the gradient colors off the marking color rules (such as 'lighter or darker than base coat' or 'any colors').

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Causes spots lighter than base coat, should be somewhat uniform in sizes/shapes.

• Fawn causes spots in a small-medium size, typically clustered together in a few separate areas. All fawn spots should be around the same size range - some minor size discrepancy is fine, and most often occurs on the outside of a cluster. They should be in a somewhat uniform pattern, the uniformity ranging from the spots on a fawn's back to more scale-like patterns.
• Must be lighter than the base coat.
• Edges should be hard, and not heavily textured. Light texturing is okay, but take care not to go overboard.
• Fawn can appear anywhere on the ixi. It is most commonly found on the back, but this is not mandatory!

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A cluster of pale, soft spots on the body, often shaped like stars.

• Edges should be soft, and can be textured. They can be simple spots, or can be shaped more like 'stars'.
• Must be lighter than the base color.
• Can be fullbody or in clusters covering partial sections of the body.
• At minimum, the marking should at least cover part of the torso, and can expand out from there.

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Thick bands, lighter than base coat, that wrap around the body. Can have a dark border around them.

• Clownfish presents as thick, pale bands that wraps around various parts of the body. Unlike Hood, the bands can be broken, but take care to not break them up so much that they begin to resemble spots!
• Clownfish must be a lighter shade of the base coat, including white. Optionally, it can have a dark border around the marking. It may have a gradient, but it must be within a similar hue, not heavily two-toned.
• Edge may be hard, textured, or somewhat soft. It should not be fully blended out.

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A dark, hard-edged marking featuring geometric stripes, looking fairly like a 'maze'.

• Labyrinth must be darker than the base coat. It is typically hard-edged.
• Labyrinth features 'geometric' stripes forming a maze-like structure - bold lines, squares and hoops interlocking together. The gene is based on the markings of the Barred Sorubim and other similar Pseudoplatystoma catfish, as such, referring to them as examples may be more helpful than text descriptions.
• Other good real life examples include circuitboard patterns, literal mazes, and ball python morphs with thin patterns such as pinstripe and super blast
• It has no maximum and can cover the full body if desired. It has no minimum, but should be noticeable on the design.

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A gradient of any base coat that blends into one marking. Dominant Splash can modify multiple markings.

• Splash should blend fully into the other marking while still showing part of the original marking's color. Small markings like Snowflake or Ticking do not have to show the blend perfectly but should still show both the original marking color and the Splash color.
• The gradient in Splash can be between any colors from either of the swatches from the chosen base coat.
• If no other marking exists on the Rixixi, Splash can create a Pangare-like marking in a gradient of any base coat.

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Similar to a leopard, snow leopard, jaguar, clouded leopard, or other similar animal's spots.

• Rosettes should mimic the rosette/spot pattern of the above big cats. It can also mimic non-rosette patterns from the same cats, such as the face and tail markings on Sezzeqh 0002. The design must contain spots, no matter what other markings are referenced. If mimicking non-rosettes, please make sure to link a reference. If mimicking the spots of a big cat not listed above, please link a reference.
• The outer ring of rosettes must be darker than the base coat.
• Rosettes can be hard-, textured-, or lightly soft-edged, but should not be fully blended out.
• Rosettes can appear anywhere on the ixi, and commonly appears over a large portion of the body.

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Abstract blocks of color, much like the markings on a poison dart frog. Can be any color, and can be two-toned.

• Poison Dart can be any color, and may be two-toned.
• It is typically hard-edged.
• It has no maximum and can cover the full body if desired. It has no minimum, but should be noticeable on the design.
• There may be cutouts in the marking, and the shape of the markings can be abstract or even somewhat geometric. Poison Dart frogs can be referenced - the marking does not have to be directly copied from a frog, as long as it brings them to mind, it should pass, but if you'd like to link a specific frog you referenced then that works as well!

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Thick, serpentining stripes that one might see on some morphs of ball pythons. Cutouts and/or sudden keyhole-shaped curves with spots inside are allowed and recommended!

• Mojave is based off the markings found on Mojave and Arroyo ball pythons, mainly, but as long as it's fairly recognizable as the same basic shape, it's fine!
• Mojave must be darker than the base coat. It can have a gradient, and the gradient can be made up of two fairly different colors, as long as those colors are still darker than the base coat.
• It is typically hard- or textured-edged. It should not be blended out, but can be somewhat soft-edged.
• It has no maximum and can cover the full body if desired. It has no minimum, but should be noticeable on the design.

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