Applying for a Breeding:
-> If you're ready for your SoA to have cubs/pups, post here with the form below filled out. Make sure this breeding thread is Open before you do so, and please post using their specific form found bellow or your breeding will be ignored. Also: I really like to have uncerts available! Please link an uncert with your form, if possible.
-> About the 'pride' section: The SoA must already be part of the pride and have (or be eligible to have) the pride cert. If you do not yet have the pride cert, but you already have the joining RP, you may post the joining RP.
-> You must post a log (or links to threads in the guild) of at least five complete roleplays done by each parent who is breeding. If this is not a rogue breeding (a breeding that has an NPC father) then at least one of these roleplays must be between the two characters, so we at least know they've met ICly. All breeding rps must be at LEAST 10 posts long (5 per character) and decently sized (no one-liners, people!). If you opt for doing self-rps, the rps must be at least 1000 words each.
-> Breedings for regular SoA cost 30k total. Each parent normally sends 15k (though you may divide this up however you wish) to the colorist to pay for the breeding after the roll but before the cubs are colored. If there is only one cub in the litter, the price is cut down to 15k. If this is a rogue breeding, the single parent's owner only pays 15K. Familiar breeding is 10k total. Please send trade(s) to Dark Fire Angel
-> Each time you breed your SoA, you need entirely new roleplays. You can't use any roleplay(s) from the breeding before.
-> As an incentive for roleplaying, anyone who sends in ten roleplays for each parent will be getting an extra cub besides the one(s) rolled.
-> Rolls will be done either in the Staff subforum or within this thread.
-> I can do normal SoA, hybrids, and familiars. I can also do lineart edits, if one of the parents has inheritable edits. While I can do gods, those are handled via the monthly breeding raffle, not through this thread (unless they are breeding with a mortal).
Special Terms
-> Throwbacks: Throwbacks: If you say yes, there's a possibility you'll get throwbacks to an actual SoA somewhere in the cub's heritage. This means that the colors and markings of your litter will not only look like the parents, but they could be taken from any blood relation you link with the form. Please post all images that you can/want of your SoA's ancestors (grandparents, great-grandparents, great-great-grandparents, etc; siblings, aunts and uncles are also fine). Saying yes does not guarantee a throwback and I will never use throwbacks to an unlinked relative. At no time will an SoA look exactly like his/her ancestor; this is only possible through customs, and you must get permission from both the colorist and ancestor's owner to do this. An offspring may look very similar, but it must have enough differences to make it unique.
-> Randoms: If you say yes to randoms, the colorist has the option of throwing in markings/colors/traits that may not appear in the lineage. This is often used to saturate or desaturate existing colors within the lineage to help colorists with designs. Although some colorists prefer to make randoms similar to existing colors or markings, please remember that this option does give them the right to design something completely random. They could throw a lime green cub into an all natural litter if they so wished. Also, please note that in a rogue breeding (a breeding with a rogue/NPC father) you are automatically giving the colorist the right to use randoms - they get to choose what the father of the cubs will look like.
-> Customs: Each litter now comes with two automatic custom slots; you still pay full price of a cub custom to do this. You may only get one custom every month this way (if you get one in January, you need to wait until February to custom another cub through a breeding slot). Custom slots obtained via normal means do not count against these slots, nor do pet trades. This option only remains open for 24 hours after you receive the litter - you must post in the colorist's thread to claim the custom slots before this time is up . In lieu of a custom, you may also pay 500k to keep one of the cubs already in the litter if you've kept a cub from that SoA before, but this will count against the two custom slots. Please send custom cub payment in gold, not items! Marketplace = annoying, so please sell your items before sending off the trade to me.
-> Hybrid Customs: You can custom hybrids into litters (this is the ONLY time you may custom hybrids; you still cannot get them from regular custom slots). However, there is only one custom slot per hybrid litter. If you take a hybrid custom slot, you may not get a custom slot in any other litters for three months (it takes up your slot for the month you get the custom in, plus the next two months). Like all other hybrids in the litter, it runs an equal chance of being fertile/infertile (which means that it's most likely going to be infertile).
Getting the Cubs:
-> Both of the parents' owners will be pmed the litter when it arrives, so make sure your PMs are not friends only. When you get the information gathered, have one of the parents' owners post in DFA's certing thread found in this subforum. Required information includes the cubs' names, owners, current and future ranks if they are in a pride, and any extra information required by some prides. After this you are free to say the cubs are born and may do a birthing rp if you so wish, though they are not required.
-> If you own an SoA, and you breed him/her, you may only ever have one of their offspring to keep ever. If you breed two of your own SoA together and keep a cub, this cub will count towards both SoA. However, you may custom cubs from your SoA as many times as you like provided you can obtain and pay for the slots.
-> You may not sell any of the cubs/pups, nor do pet trades for them. You may give them away to friends or newbies or hold a free contest for them. If, for whatever reason, you only wanted X number of cubs for a plot, you may pretend that a cub died at birth - please inform the colorist of this so that they don't continue growing him/her. If those options don't appeal to you, you may always give the cubs/pups back to the shop (please inform the colorist of this) and we'll run a free event for them within the thread itself. Please remember that it will still be related to your SoA and you might have to interact with whoever wins.
Related information:
-> Gods and mortals can mix and have offspring. The children of such a pairing will always be mortal, but will have seer abilities. It is your choice how strong or weak these powers are..
-> Females must wait for their current litters to grow to adolescent before they can breed again. They're busy taking care of their babies, they can't have more!
-> You may not roleplay a female as pregnant until the couple has landed a breeding slot.
-> Males can breed at any time with multiple females if you so choose. But you still need five different RPs every time you breed!
-> If you have a female and you don't have any male to breed her to, you can say that she mated with a random rogue. In this case, you'll get a surprise with the color and patterns of the offspring (since the father is unknown). However, you can only have 1/2 of the total number of cubs/pups available to the mother's species. For example, a normal lion-lioness pairing can have up to six cubs maximum, but if that lioness bred with a rogue, she could only have up to three cubs maximum.
-> Adolescents can breed and have offspring, but since they've not reached maturity, they can only have 1/2 the maximum number of offspring for their species. If an adolescent female has also mated with a random rogue, she can only have 1/4 the maximum number of offspring for their species.
-> Hybrids are available! Leopard x lion, lion x cheetah, and cheetah x leopard crosses are all possible. These cubs have a 1/10 chance of being fertile; the rest will be sterile and may not produce any offspring.
-> There are instances where you can pick between new lineart and old lineart. Please refer to our lineart guide, located IMAMISSINGLINK to see which lines these are and their differences. Each colorist will have a set of lines they will automatically default to use unless the parents of the couple specify. DFA's Defaults are on the next post!
-> You may also convert from old rogue to new rogue lines (and vice versa) on the last stage of the SoA's growth by notifying your colorist prior to them growing to adult.
Edited breedings
-> I MAY in fact, do edited breedings.
-> The list of SoA that can pass down edits is located here. If your SoA is not listed here, they will not be able to pass on their edits. There's two types of SoA that pass down edits; those that always pass them down (all their offspring will have some type of edits) and those that only have a chance to pass them down (these have a 1 in 3 chance to pass down edits).
-> The chances of passing down edits will diminish down the lineage/generations. The children of SoA that pass down edits 100% of the time will have a 1 in 3 chance of passing edits, and the children of those SoA will not be able to pass down edits at all.
-> There are different categories of edits; expression, item, hair, etc. Breeding an SoA with a ">8/" expression edit will produce children with expression edits, but not necessarily the same one the parent has. The same idea applies to the other categories.
-> You can now custom into an edited litter. However, customing into these litters comes with restrictions. The only ways to do this are by buying one of the offspring from the litter, or by asking the colorist to make you a random cub (you have no say in how it will look). If the parents have a chance to pass down edits, the custom will also have to be rolled to see if it will get edits. Your custom is not guaranteed edits unless it comes from a parent in the 100% edit passing category.
A few notes about how I do things:
-> I like uncerts. Please give me uncerts. Uncerts make me very, very happy.
-> Randoms and throwbacks are AWESOME, and I promise that I won't abuse them. When dealing with colour I will, most likely, edit the brightness/saturation of an existing colour to make the offspring look a little better than if I used the exact colour from the parents. For markings I will again, at most, take some liberties with the style of marking (or expand upon a theme) in order to create the prettiest kiddos possible. When I open breedings in this thread, entries MUST allow throwback (whenever possible) AND randoms. Otherwise they will be skipped, guys, sorry! I work better with these.
-> Because of the way I do natural markings (spots and stripes) I can't guarantee that they'll be exactly the same at each stage. I will take some artistic liberty to make each growth stage of your SoA look its best, which means that some markings may shift around a bit. Specific markings (heart-shaped spots, facial markings, etc.) will maintain high fidelity through all stages, of course. Please keep that in mind when requesting natural-patterned customs from me!
-> Slots will be made available mostly through raffle style in this thread. I may only open one, or I may open up to four. I probably won't remember to post any advance warning when I open, either, aside from a little heads-up in the main shop thread and an "open" post inside this thread.
-> I will NOT give unnaturally-coloured sclera (eye whites) to cubs, even in customs. Slighty off-white is fine, black/bright yellow/red/etc. is not.
-> I will not use an overly-dark base colour, even in customs. If I cannot see the black lines against the base of the SoA, then I will not do it.
Breeding Form:
Father's name, image, and owner OR "Rogue":
Mother's name, image, and owner:
Pride: Pride name here OR "Rogue"
Roleplay Links for Father (if not a rogue): Link #1, Link #2, Link #3, Link #4, Link #5
Roleplay Links for Mother: Link #1, Link #2, Link #3, Link #4, Link #5
Would you like having a throwback? Yes/No
If so, please list images of those ancestors (or aunts/uncles) here:
Would you like having a random?
Mother's name, image, and owner:
Pride: Pride name here OR "Rogue"
Roleplay Links for Father (if not a rogue): Link #1, Link #2, Link #3, Link #4, Link #5
Roleplay Links for Mother: Link #1, Link #2, Link #3, Link #4, Link #5
Would you like having a throwback? Yes/No
If so, please list images of those ancestors (or aunts/uncles) here:
Would you like having a random?
Custom Cub form:
[b]Name: [/b]
[b]Owner: [/b]
[b]Species: [/b]
[b]Pride/Pack: (Please only put a specific pride/pack if this character is being born into that pride/pack. Otherwise, please put 'rogue.')[/b]
[b]Gender: [/b]
[b]Age: [/b]Cub
[b]Parents: [/b]
[b]Description: [/b]
[b]Reference Images: [/b]
[b]Owner: [/b]
[b]Species: [/b]
[b]Pride/Pack: (Please only put a specific pride/pack if this character is being born into that pride/pack. Otherwise, please put 'rogue.')[/b]
[b]Gender: [/b]
[b]Age: [/b]Cub
[b]Parents: [/b]
[b]Description: [/b]
[b]Reference Images: [/b]
