Traits

Evidence of having come across something wicked.  A small, dark, and cloudy mark clings to your bab. It almost looks like it's alive with the way it's edges seem to blur and crisp. 

•  A Touch of Wickedness

  Allows you to apply a single dark wisping mark onto one part of your bab. 
  🔹This mark should look cloudy, or as though a small burn mark has started to appear on the bab, a dark bit of smoke can emanate from it.
  🔹This mark can change shape at times, and it's edges seem to shift often, though the placement stays the same.
  🔹 A bab with this mark may experience fatigue or ache where the mark rests, exacerbated by physical or magical exertion.
  
  ❗ The mark must be kept small and mostly connected, with a few flickers or specks surrounding. 
  ❗  The mark should stay featureless, with no patterning or speckling directly on the mark.
  ❗ Smoke emanating from the mark can be dark, or saturated with a darker base as it touches the mark.

• On Hair: 

  🔹 A mantibab whose hair has been affected may display this trait as multiple dark points or a thick, single lock that bleeds into the natural hair color. 
  
  

•  On Eyes: 

  🔹 See: A Gaze of Wickedness

A pair of delightfully lax ears that range in length depending on what species it is adorning! Lop ears are soft and give a gentle air to the Crederian that bears them. 

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•  Sweetheart Ears:

  🔹 A heart shaped tuft of fur magically appears in the ear. The rest of the ear is softly lined in velvety fur.
  
  ❗ Hearts must follow all species color rules.

While labelled as "horns", Basket horns are typically one singular horn with two connection points on the skull. This singular horn curves over the head in a smooth or twisted fashion, reminiscent of the handle of a basket! Basket Horns may have a swirl at the end of their points if applicable, and must be striped like traditional bab horns if adorning a bab's head.

More species examples tba...

A festive horn type that displays itself as colorful egg shaped horns that gain a strip of color each subsequent year of a bab's life until the design is completed. No two patterns are alike, so it's always a spectacle come each babling's birthday.

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•  Velvet Antlers:

  🔹 A set of impressive, rounded antlers adorns your crederian's head. These antlers are soft and covered in a thin layer of velvet. 
  🔹 They may be thick and dense with squatter branches or thin and delicate with more curved branches.
  🔹 Antlers may be depicted with short or long branches that can protrude from any part of the main horn. A general limit of 5 - 6 additional branches is applied. 
  🔹 Velvet antlers may point forward or back and should mirror each other.
  🔹 Antlers appear with a two-tone, monochromatic gradient that can apper in any species-appropriate color (Mantibabs and Kantis are significantly affected)
  
  ❗ Kanti with this trait must have the entirety of their conduit points reflect the color and pattern. You will gain the Banded Conduit trait by applying this one.
  ❗ If applied to a mythical or ancient set of horns, may include amount or orientation of original horn sets as though it is transformed into velvet antlers. The Crederian will retain both traits. 

Examples 

Note: On skullcrackers, you may keep the horns separate or apply the striped gradient to the helm! If kept separate, the helm and armor can be any other colors. If connected, the helm and all armor pieces must share the same striped pattern.

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•  Sweetheart Horns:

  🔹 Heart shaped horns are adorned with diagonal stripes.
  🔹 Stripes may be textured like satin ribbon.
  
  ❗ Horns must follow general Mantibab color rules.

A soft style of horn delicately composed of thin, petal shaped rounds wrapped tightly together to create a solid structure. These horns are a popular style to attempt to achieve, with many coming out with shattered horn scraps needing urgent care to reconstruct back together. Their floral bud like shape gives them their moniker. 

•  Budding Horns:

  🔹 A set of small horns that look like flower buds, with "wrapped petal" shaped pieces of horn creating the iconic shape.
  🔹 Horns may be squatter, or thinner than depicted but should be simple in shape, with a thick base and thin tip. 
  
  ❗ Budding horns should not look like a mature flower.

Below is an example of the general size!

Note: This trait is currently limited to: Mantibab, Skullcracker, Leloko, Pawbird, Poffee

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• Trait:  

  🔹 Adds a set of seashell-like horns to your Crederian
  🔹 Seashells should follow classic shell patterning and colors. 
  🔹 Icons should all be 1 color, with the exception of "sprinkle", which allows for a multicolored pattern.
  
  ❗ Mantibabs with this trait should still have striped horns and follow standard color rules. Their horns may not be purely white but may gradient to it.

Note: This trait is currently limited to: Mantibab, Skullcracker, Leloko, Pawbird, Poffee

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• Trait:  

  🔹 Adds a set of straw-shaped horns to your Crederian
  🔹 Straws should be diagonally striped and end in a swirl at the center of their flat ends. 
  
  ❗ Mantibabs with this trait should still have striped horns and follow standard color rules. Their horns may not be purely white but may gradient to it.

Note: This trait is currently limited to: Mantibab, Skullcracker, Leloko, Pawbird, Poffee

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• Trait:  

  🔹 Replaces your Crederians horns with a set of sea stars!
  🔹 Stars may be smooth with 1 - 3 simple nubs or have 1 - 3 spikes along each arm.
  🔹 Stars may resemble real-world 5-pointed starfish to an extent (thinner or thicker arms, slightly longer, slightly shorter)
  🔹 The stars are firm, with slight give if you were to press a finger against it.
  
  ❗ The seastars are neither alive nor made of the normal component of horns, it's a strange in between. 
  ❗ The stars cannot move. 

Note: This trait may not be used on Kanti but are applicable to any other Crederian species.

A pair of horns resembling twisted candy in both shape and banding. A trait so similar to the actual candy that Crederians bearing it might find some younglings attempting to snack on them! 

•  Trait:

  🔹 Two white "candy cane" shaped horns apper atop your Crederian's head covered in stripes that may come in 1 - 3 vibrant colors.
  🔹 The curved portion of the horn may face any direction.
  
  ❗ Stripes may be thick bands or an alternating thick + thin banding. 
  ❗ Horns may be composed of thin banding on non-mantibab species. 

Examples

Note: This trait is currently limited to Skullcrackers and Pawbirds.

A series of horns sound off over the horizon... are we in danger? No! It seems the festive cavalry is in town. Noel offers the gift of song (or sound for the less musically inclined).

•  Trait:

  🔹 Two metallic instrumental horns appear at the top of your skullcracker's head. 
  🔹 Horns may have a mouthpiece, valves, or metallic "caps" where those pieces would normally lie. These optional features may be functional (i.e. you blow into the mouthpiece and can play the horn)
  🔹 Horns may be colorfully decorated on the inside and may have etchings or paint-like markings on the outside.
  🔹 Decorative rings or other simple metallic embellishments are welcome
  
  ❗ Horns should be simply curved and cannot coil (akin to a french horn)
  ❗ Horns may be gold, rose-gold, bronze, brass, silver, or copper.  The insides may be painted any colors!
  
  

Examples

Note: This trait is currently limited to Skullcrackers and Pawbirds.

Noel's coat is covered in bells of all sorts, and  from time to time a lucky Skullcracker might find one offered to them as a token of gratitude for a good deed done. "Make a wish and it might just come true, this token will bond with you once you do."

•  Trait:

  🔹 A pair of metallic horns adorn your skullcracker's head. These horns have bell-like cut-outs along them that whistle melodically when it's windy and give off a jingle when shaken. 
  🔹 The jingles range from twinkling to clanging depending on the SC and though most are unobtrusive, may be muffled by tying a ribbon or other soft cloth around them
  🔹 While most holes must be connected with a line, a few "decorative" holes are allowed.
  🔹 Holes may be circular, clover-like, oblong, square, diamond, or triangular in shape. Please avoid intricate shapes.
  
  ❗ All connecting lines should be straight and featureless (i.e. no zigzagging, swirling, stitching, etc)
  ❗ Horns may be gold, rose-gold, bronze, brass, silver, or copper. 
  ❗ Skullcrackers bearing this trait may include cut-outs (mirroring the ones on their horns) on their helm!
  ❗ Pawbirds bearing this trait may include cut-outs on their faces in the same metallic texture as their horns. (As though the cut-outs were reserved and placed onto their faces)
  
  

Examples

"Apparently, this peculiarity seems to only be peculiar to non-pawbirds, which is interesting... Let's see here. 'A shimmering, transluscent covering wraps around the neck, with'- Is that fruit? Ahem, with fruit, it specifies 'whether cut or whole' floating within. My word..."

Think of the refreshing zest of lemon lime, the sweet snap of a peach, an apple, a grape. Now imagine that delicious bite of fruit is floating withing the neck of your pawbird friend. Would you take a bite? Well no worries! This delightful ruff is regenerating, with a bite only lasting about an hour or so before it seemingly mends itself. Pawbirds are aware of how alluring their ruffs can be (it's a point of pride for many) and will gladly share with a friend! (Many find this strange anyways.) 

• Trait:  

  🔹 Adds a ruff made of colorful jelly around the neck of your Pawbird!
  🔹 Jelly may be mostly opaque or transluscent, with stripes or rings commonly allowed.  
  🔹 Fruits may be included into the jelly, either cubed, shaped, or whole. The fuit may be mixed and matched or fall into a single type all throughout.
  🔹 The shape and texture of the ruff must follow classic large jelly mold shapes and can be placed anywhere along the neck. (smooth jelly is always ok) 
  
  ❗ Jelly should not be fully transparent or colorless. 
  ❗ Jelly can have "cutouts" at the base or top where flesh meets jelly to make it feel more natural, but the jelly should otherwise not have cutouts. 

A tail known most for its peculiar metallic swirl giving the tail a cinammon bun-like shape. Festival goers often buy Lere's special frosted buns for a chance at obtaining it for themselves! You are what you eat, right? 

•  Cinnaswirl Tail:

  🔹 A large, round, swirling tail sits upon your rump! The tail is tightly wrapped by a thin, metallic stripe that gives the tail its iconic shape.
  🔹 The metallic stripe is smooth, and can come in any appropriate color for the species, including traditional gold, copper, and silver.
  
  ❗ Metallic stripe cannot be black, or "platinum" white. 

Below is an example of the max size!

Old Version:

An extremely large variant of the cotton tail! Some people like to say all the spring cheer filled you up so much you had to store it somewhere, but most think it's an unusual growth spurt (others just consider it inconvenient...)

•  Jumbo Bun Tail:

  🔹 A large, round tail sits upon your rump. 
  🔹 Tail should resemble a cartoon depiction of a "bunny tail" in size "jumbo". 

Below is an example of the general size!

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• Trait:  

  🔹 Transforms the flower on a Lelokos tail to take on the appearance of a Sun Bloom, or 'Sunflower'. 
  🔹 The Sun Bloom has a center composed of tightly packed seeds, but may have a ring of fur around the mouth instead. 
  🔹 The Sugar Weaver Sun Bloom, affectionately called the 'Pincushion Bloom' is available to use for this trait. 
  
  ❗ To apply a sunflower to your leloko anywhere aside from the main tail flower you will need a separate trait for each application. 

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• Trait:

  🔹 A winter-themed plant replaces the flower of your Leloko's tail.
  🔹 Available plants include: Mistletoe, Holly, and Pointsettia 
  
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Examples

Mistletoe

May Astrael guide you. 

•  Trait:

  🔹 An assortment of stars have laid themselves across your coat, pulsing in soft beats of light that twinkles gently in the dark.
  🔹 Winter stars are composed of multiple lines or points intersecting a center point. These should not be confused with seeing star spots.
  🔹 This trait allows for smaller stars smattered around the coat, or a single large star with sparse little ones elsewhere.
  
  ❗ Stars may not be connected by lines, dots, or be depicted as constellations. 
  ❗ Stars give off a soft glow. This glow may be any soft color regardless of the stars own color.

Below is the max coverage!