Traits
Stamped (nStp/StpStp) (Common)
- Stamped causes simple shapes to appear. There are some restrictions on these shapes - both due to previously-existing genes, and to keep the gene properly shaped and simple. These will be listed a bit later in the guide.
- Stamped should be lighter or darker than the base coat.
- It can be hard-edged or lightly textured. It should not be soft-edged or heavily textured.
- It has no minimum, but should be noticeable on the design.
- The shape can repeat, but it should be the same shape throughout the design. It can be solid or hollowed out, and you can use both of these presentations in the same design.
Shape restrictions:
The following shapes are not allowed:
- Quadrilaterals - Squares, rectangles, diamonds, and the like. These can be made with the Squared gene.
- Pentagons, Octagons, Hexagons, or similar shapes. These can be made with the Hexagon gene.
- Shapes that are solely made up of lines. (This does not mean shapes that are hollowed out - those are fine, and in fact, are an important part of this ruling!) A shape used for Stamped should be thick enough to hollow out.
Additionally, shapes should not be overly complex:
This fleur-de-lis is considered too complex. Each piece parses as a separate, unique shape of its own due to the spacing of the sides and the shape/distance of the bud from the rest of the shape.
This fleur-de-lis can be considered the maximum complexity for stamped. The shape is nice and compact and parses as a unified shape. The bud flows into everything else.
Examples:
Raptor (nRpt/RptRpt) (Common)
Range:
- Raptor should appear similar to the barring on the chest of any sort of hawk. Reference image is appreciated but only required for unusual and lesser-known hawks.
- The edge should generally be hard, unless the reference hawk is different (please provide reference hawk in design approvals if not hard-edged)
- Raptor barring should be darker than the base coat.
- A patch - either lighter-than-base or a light tan - is optionally allowed under the barring. It has no restriction on hardness, and additionally may have feather-like texturing at the edges. This has the same range as the barring.
Examples:
Sprinkles (nSpk/SpkSpk) (Common)
Tick marks in any color - up to three colors - flecked around the Ixi's coat.
- Sprinkles can be any color, and may be up to three different colors. These can be separate colors on separate tick marks, or gradiented together.
- It should always present as small tick marks clustered together, whether in portions of the coat or covering the full body. It has no maximum and can cover the full body if desired. It has no minimum, but should be noticeable on the design.
- It is typically hard or lightly soft-edged.
- It can also cause barring at the limbs, tail, neck, and face - as seen on some cats, particularly the Singapura.
Examples:
Quail (nQu/QuQu) (Common)
- Quail may be any color, and may display up to two colors within the marking, which may be blended together.
- Quail does not have a restriction on edge hardness.
- Quail should, at minimum, create a visible ring around the neck.
- There can only be breaks in the marking if it's creating multiple rings around the neck. The shoulder and/or head region, if present, must consist of a single unbroken marking.
Examples:
Unders (nUn/UnUn) (Common)
- Unders may be a lighter or darker shade of the base coat, including black and white. It may have a gradient, but it must be within a similar hue, not heavily two-toned.
- Edge must be hard or textured.
- Unders should at least appear visibly somewhere on the torso.
- There can be some breaks in the marking, but they should appear as natural separate pieces. Cutouts are allowed so long as they are natural shapes.
- While markings typically should not resemble each other too heavily, if Unders is on a base such as Latte, Woods, or Sunbeam, it may resemble Tan (though should still simply be lighter/darker than the base coat).
Examples:
Ticking (nTk/TkTk) (Common)
Tick marks, darker than base, flecked around the Ixi's coat.
- Ticking should be darker than the base coat, and can have some variance in color.
- It should always present as small tick marks clustered together, whether in portions of the coat or covering the full body. It has no maximum and can cover the full body if desired. It has no minimum, but should be noticeable on the design.
- It is typically hard or lightly soft-edged.
- It can also cause barring at the limbs, tail, neck, and face - as seen on some cats, particularly the Singapura.
Examples:
Tan (nTn/TnTn) (Common)
Range:
- Other than the color, Tan follows the same rules as Unders:
- Edge must be hard or textured.
- Unders should at least appear visibly somewhere on the torso.
- There can be some breaks in the marking, but they should appear as natural separate pieces. Cutouts are allowed as long as they are natural shapes.
- It may have a gradient, but it must be within a similar hue, not heavily two-toned.
- While markings typically should not resemble each other too heavily, Tan can, in some cases, look identical to Unders on a Sunbeam, Woods, or Latte base.
Examples:
Sun (nSun/SunSun) (Common)
Range:
- Must be lighter than base coat, tan, or gold.
- Edges should be hard or textured-edged.
- It should be a mostly abstract or fully abstract shape - if it's a recognizeable shape (heart, actual sun, star, etc), it should appear as if it's a marking rather than a tattoo.
Modifying other markings:
Squared (nSq/SqSq) (Common)
- Squared must be lighter or darker than the base coat, and can be black or white.
- It should include squares and/or rectangles, which can be solid or hollow. It can curve naturally with the body, but the geometric shape should still be easy to make out.
- It can be hard-edged or lightly textured. It should not be soft-edged or heavily textured.
- It has no minimum, but should be noticeable on the design.
Examples:
Snowflake (nSn/SnSn) (Common)
Tiny light speckles scattered around the ixi.
- Snowflake should be lighter than base coat.
- It should always present as tiny specks of light color scattered across the Ixi.
- It is typically hard or lightly 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.
Snowflake should remain around this size range:
Examples:
Skunk (nSku/SkuSku) (Common)
- Skunk must be a lighter shade of the base coat, including white. 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.
- It should form stripes on the side (in which case it should "cut out" in the middle of the back) or on the back (in which case it should not be a thick enough stripe to cover the entire side). It can display on the back and side (with a gap in between them) as well.
Examples:
Scaled (nScl/SclScl) (Common)
Creates scale-shaped markings of any color anywhere on the body. Can be two-toned.
- Scaled can be any color, including bright ones, and may be two-toned.
- It should be shaped like a pattern of scales, and can vary in size and shape - a single scale can be large or wide, but if so, should be visibly representing something like scutes or ventral scales. Scales can also be very small, so long as they are still visible.
- It should be hard or textured-edged.
- It has no maximum or minimum, but if covering the entire body, it should be below other markings, translucent, have enough space between the scales to show the other markings clearly, or otherwise not fully obscure other markings on the Ixi.
- Scaled is allowed to have a shine to it.
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Points (nPt/PtPt) (Common)
- Points must be darker or lighter than the base coat.
- It has no restriction on edge hardness.
- Points should cover two specific points at minimum - the points include the head, the tail, the front legs, and the back legs.
- The points should touch the very end of whatever zone they're in. They should at least reach up to the ankles if covering the legs.
Examples:
Accents (nAc/AcAc) (Common)
Range:
- Accents can be any color, and may display up to two colors within the marking, which may be blended together.
- It has no restriction on edge hardness.
- Accents has no minimum, but should be clearly visible on the Rixixi.
- Accents should not heavily resemble most markings (though being distinctly its own marking with its own rules is typically enough to get it to pass - e.g. a striped, procyonid-like tail can pass if paired with other Accents), however, Accents can resemble Unders, Tan, or Pangare with no issue.
Examples:
Okapi (nOkp/OkpOkp) (Common)
Range:
- Okapi should be hard-edged.
- It must be lighter than base, and can be white.
- Okapi must at least visibly appear on one pair of limbs. It does not have to appear on the face.
- All points should be striped, including the face. There can be solid patches, especially near the ankles and wrists. The face marking can be a solid patch with stripes cut into it.
Examples:
Merle (nMer/MerMer) (Common)
Large, desaturated patches on the Rixixi's body, often containing dappled patches of the original base coat within.
- Can be translucent to show the markings underneath! Markings dislaying on top of Merle can be desaturated or display normally.
- Edges can be textured, soft, or blended. If blended, the entire marking should not be blended out and should still have a section that registers as a solid patch.
- Must be more desaturated and/or lighter than the base coat.
- Can be fullbody or covering partial sections of the body. Should contain holes in the marking or spots of the base coat.
- Should appear, at minimum, on 30% of the design. Can appear in multiple patches.
Unlike in Earth dogs, there are no known health problems for Rixixi caused by homozygous Merle.
You can go against this if you like for your own personal characters' lore, this note is just here to let folks know that it won't result in negative effects and rad sicknesses when bred for.
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Inkblot (nIn/InIn) (Common)
Causes spots darker than base coat, can be asymmetrical and of multiple sizes.
- Inkblot must be darker than the base coat.
- The spots should be of multiple sizes throughout, and may be irregular and asymmetrical.
- It is typically hard or 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.
The above image displays the minimum and maximum size for Inkblot spots. Please note that Inkblot should not solely be made up of spots at the maximum or minimum, but these sizes may be scattered about as accents.