man im so sorry i suck at backgrounds lolol
major wip....please bear with me!
Ever shifting forces push and pull the various elements, metals, and energies, and form celestial bodies. These divine bodies litter the cosmos endlessly. One binary system in particular is the birth place of the Seasonal Spirits. These Spirits form from the cosmic chaos influences upon the primordial soups. Boiling, bubbling, and misting, all sorts of Spirits take shape and in return, shape the planets. They cause their own bouts of chaos as they learn their new roles, being inquisitive creatures.
Hello! This is an experimental species inspired by the seasons. They are equine based, with each season representing a different subspecies. Of course, I am American based so the seasons will reflect our own. But, since this is a fantastical planet, I may jump around the hemispheres ^^
Each season will have its own set of Original Spirits. You can think of them as the gods, if you'd like. Essentially they create lesser spirits that carry out the Original Spirit's vision. These will be the "adoptables". We'll start with spring, so our first Original Spirit is Yagiuma. Her creations will always resemble the snow melting in the mountaintops, and the creatures that help melt the snow among them. They appear as goatlike, but they may create new creatures entirely.
The next Spring Original Spirit will be one that bestows flora in the lands, and will give way for a Summer Original Spirit...As the seasons go on, you'll find that they are all intertwined. The energies that sweep these lands may also create entirely new lesser spirits, that have minimal influence from the Originals.
Since they are more Spiritual than Organic, breeding is a bit of a loose term. Flora ponies will plant seeds, but they can fuse their energies together to create new, lesser subspecies. Yagiuma uses the mountains themselves to make her creations. Perhaps the first breeding will make a new force, called love. Who knows what creatures could be created through it? Or what genetics can be discovered?
This is the main Oekaki hub for the species. Announcements and general information can be found here.
So far, there are no announcements.
maculata wrote:
✦ world ✦ species background ✦ seasons ✦ original spirits ✦ creations ✦ cycles ✦ ownership✦
✦⋆✦ main ✦⋆✦oekaki ✦⋆✦ events ✦⋆✦ items ✦⋆✦ breeding ✦⋆✦ archive ✦⋆✦✦ ownership ✦
and MYO information
Since humans do not exist in this world, that makes you a bit of anomaly, doesn’t it? For this species I did not intend for users to be in any particular perspective, but I would like to reiterate that the official world and lore will have nothing to with humanoid or anthropomorphic characters and ideas. How you write/imagine/create with your spirits is up to you of course! Just note that as a species they are intended to be more abstract and artistic than anything.
With that being said, this section will focus on ownership from a Chicken Smoothie Player perspective, and the rules regarding that.Forum Rules
1. For ALL official topics (as linked at the top of each section of this thread), you must adhere to the lore and overall atmosphere of the threads. Any fake lore you have written or non-official spirits you own, etc must be kept OUTSIDE of these threads. A main hub for such creations may be made in the future. (fake as in, meant to not follow the lore closely enough)
2. Do not mention other species when relating to lore (as in, do not involve other CS communities. This particular main thread is fine to discuss other species, assuming its relevant to my species somehow.)
3. Please always check if a thread is okay to post in!
4. Please refrain from comments such as “mark” or “marking” etc. I consider them spam.
5. Do not use other player’s spirits in any capacity unless given permission, including my own. The original spirits however, are more than welcome to be used in stories, art, etc as long as credit is 100% given and linked back to my profile here on Chicken Smoothie and please understand that the original spirits are not freebies, but more akin to mascots.
6. Do not take the species and ANY of its art (including MYO/fully custom/etc) offsite! This includes ToyHouse and other storage sites. They must stay within Chicken Smoothie. (If USD is ever involved with this species, or enough people disagree, this rule may be subject to change)Oekaki Rules
7. Whatever art you make with the MYO lines CANNOT BE SOLD UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE, INCLUDING FOR CHICKEN SMOOTHIE CURRENCY/ITEMS/PETS. EVEN if you edit them heavily.
8. Please refrain from comments such as “mark” or “marking” etc. I consider them spam.
9. Do not use other player’s spirits in any capacity unless given permission, including my own. The original spirits however, are more than welcome to be used in stories, art, etc as long as credit is 100% given and linked back to my profile here on Chicken Smoothie, and please understand that the original spirits are not freebies, but more akin to mascots.
10. Do not take the species and ANY of its art (including MYO/fully custom/etc) offsite! This includes ToyHouse and other storage sites. They must stay ON Chicken Smoothie. This includes buying art offsite.
11. Feel free to use the MYO pages as regular editables!
12. Feel free to change the lines and art as much as you want.
13. BUT DO NOT REMOVE, EDIT, COVER, OR SHIFT MY SIGNATURE IN - ANY - WAY.
14. Do not, under ANY circumstance copy or heavily reference any other spirit, official or not. This includes the original spirits.Adoption Rules
A. You may own as many as you want.
B. You may apply for multiple, but it does not necessarily increase your chances. Try to keep your tryouts to less than 3 spirits at a given time.
C. Please adhere to any adoption requirements and do not partake if you can’t commit.
D. Feel free to reuse your decorated forms, assuming said form didn’t win you a spirit already.
E. When using decorated forms, please stick to free stock and your own personal resources. In the future I may provide my own stock images, if enough have interest in that! (do not order or steal any art or code)
F. Also when using decorated forms, feel free to create a thread in the adoptions try out forum to store and link to your forms. Just please make sure your comment on the adoption’s page links to the right adoption form.
G. Do not copy or trace art and stories from other players.
H. For official adopts, you MUST follow the species rules in and outside of the forum and oekaki threads.
I. You must follow any rules and artist (or myself) have laid out for individual adopts.
J. Do not try out for any adoptions for other players. You may gift one you already obtained, but forms need to be done by the potential owner, not someone else.Making Your Own Spirits
Since this is a semi-open species, you are welcome to make your own spirits! They won’t cost you anything and you’ll have access to the official lines for each season. They will NOT be considered official in any way, and cannot be used in the main threads. You’re welcome to use any officially made spirits you own with your fake ones, in your own spaces, but do not count it as lore-friendly. Even if they’re intended soulmates, you cannot order an official breeding between them and you cannot use fake spirits in adoption try-outs at all. If you breed fake spirits with real ones, this is fine granted both owners have given explicit permission. However, the offspring will NOT count for the official spirit.
In other words, non-offical spirits and adjacent creations will be treated as non-existent here in the main threads. They may as well be considered another species.
That being said, while following all previous rules as well as artist’s rules, you’re welcome to write up your own lore and what not for any official adopts you obtain. But again, fake lore and offspring will not actually count and must be temporarily ‘reversed’ if you use said spirit in any official capacity. Please do not breed real spirits together, and leave it up to me/the breeding artists. Or if you do breed them together, again make sure you have explicit permission and know the breeding will be counted as fake even if both parents are official.
If you wish to breed them to another fantasy species please make sure its possible within that species’ community!Please ask me any questions you may have, either here in the forum or PM!
