Traits

Creates patches of color in a pattern similar to a tortie cat, patches can be any two base colors. Dominant Tortoiseshell patches can alter the entire base coat as well!

• Tortoiseshell is most commonly textured at the edge, but can be hard-edged or somewhat soft-edged. It should not be fully blended out like Sable, Pangare, and so on.
• Tortoiseshell can use two different base colors in the same patches, but unless altered by markings, should still be taken from base coat swatches. Different colors should appear in different patches or be separated cleanly by hard or textured borders within the markings.
• Dominant Tortoiseshell can optionally take on a presentation considered "Inverted Calico". The base coat can be changed to any other base coat as desired, with free Unders allowed, with the caveat that the free Unders marking must be white. (Having the Unders marking in the genotype along with Dominant Tortoiseshell freely grants access to Dominant Unders presentation and removes the color restriction.) The Unders-like mark acts as a typical 'white mark'/color mutation only to the Tortoiseshell markings: They have to layer over the altered base coat, but under the white mark. Any other markings on the Rixixi can layer over the free white mark.
• Regardless of "Inverted Calico" presentation or just normal Tortoiseshell, Dominant Tortoiseshell allows for any color to be used on the Tortie patches and any amount of colors to be used, from one singular flat color, to a rainbow in patches along the back of the Ixi.
• 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.

Examples:

A hard shell protects the Rixixi's back.

• Markings in the area can extend to this mutation.
• The shell itself can take on the color of any base coat.
• The rim of the shell can be any color lighter or darker than the base coat, can be any marking color on the Rixixi, can be any natural skin tone color, or can be any color on the base coat swatch.

B-NOMALY Trait:

ANARCHIE: Body Traits

A hard armor over the back of the B-NOMALY's body. Cannot be applied to the wings, Shield Wings is what you want for that.

Most commonly takes the form of a turtle shell, but can take the form of any shell or armor, such as isopods, armored dinosaurs, armadillos, or even fantasy shells.

Examples: