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What are Seraphillons?
Pronounced ser-aff-ee-yon, Seraphillons are a special subset of borzoi blessed by angelic beings. Unique to this species is a fur tail that grows in the shape of butterfly (or moth) wings. These tails may take on the Lepidopteran species’ colorations as well, but not necessarily. This shape is also not confined to currently discovered Earth species but can be any possible imagined lepidopteran. Papillonidae or Swallowtail is the most commonly occurring tail shape.
Seraphillons, or Phis (pronounced fees), have at least two or more sets of wings. It is possible for them to have more, and they may be attached to any area of the Seraphillon. Wings instead of ears is most common, as well as one set being on the torso. These wings may be birdlike, insectlike, batlike, or other fantasy wings, such as dragon-like or fish/fin-hybrid.
As a species, Seraphillons are quite small in size. They are no more than 5 inches tall and long (~13cm) and weigh around 5 lbs or less. They are extremely fast and have a high metabolism akin to hummingbirds, but prefer to primarily eat honey, flowers, tree sap, and baked sweets left by humans on windowsills. They are opportunist feeders and can eat just about anything sweet and sugary, even chocolate! Seraphillons can be found most commonly hiding in well-maintained botanical gardens, either in flower bushes or in dense ground cover.
It is said the best way to communicate with a Phi is through their Seravice, which is a mysterious piece of technology that appears whenever a Phi draws close to humans. Some say it resembles a Tamagotchi. It functions as a translator for the Phi’s angelic language. Sometimes, if a Phi is less trusting, you may have to earn the right to this device.
Some claim that Seraphillons have their own realm, beyond a gate in the Seraphillon Woods, where their deities come to visit. If you are lucky enough, you might be able to meet a Phi Deity yourself and befriend them for life.
trait rules
Most modifications are allowed, within reason.
You can add essentially anything you want to a Seraphillon. However, they must have at least 2 pairs of wings. They must also be a Borzoi or recognizably Borzoi-like.
Acceptable example for wings; A seraphillon’s tail is moth or butterfly-shaped. They also have wings for ears.
Acceptable wing example 2; The seraphillon has 1 wing per foot, for a total of 4 wings.
Acceptable body mod; Borzoi skull or a mask in place of normal head
See below for a list of example traits.
If you would like trait approval to ensure no changes are needed, the Discord is the best place to ask. You may also PM ophanimera on ChickenSmoothie.
Excessive body horror is not allowed.
While I want to cultivate a community that is as creative and free as possible, I would like to avoid most graphic horror and themes. Please contact ophanimera privately to request permission for the use of horror concepts.
Character-based-characters made with identical, one-to-one accuracy to characters within pre-existing intellectual properties (IPs), such as television shows, comics, books, video games, et cetera are not allowed. If a pre-existing IP is used as inspiration, the adopt must look remarkably different from the original character design. Users found to be breaking this rule will be banned from the species.
Pre-existing IPs may not be used for paid adopts by official staff, nor used in a paid commission for a custom design. To conform to this rule, we suggest to only take loose inspiration, such as sampling from one or two aspects, such as color palette, symbology, clothing or hairstyle(s), but not multiple aspects at once. Any pre-existing IPs must be Safe for ChickenSmoothie in order to be sampled from.
semi-custom roll list
To make it easier for artists and give an example list of traits, the following list may be used for randomly-generated Seraphillons.
1. secondary tailany non-sentient tail from any species; does not replace butterfly tail
2. chimerasentient second tail, can be snake, tailmouth, etc., does not replace butterfly tail
3. animal earscan be of any species, artist's choice, no roll needed for species; phi must have 2 sets of wings elsewhere on the body
4. 1-5 horns
5. scalescan be of any scaled species and cover up to 50% of the body (fish, lizard, dragon, bird legs, etc)
6. halocan surround any body part, multiple ok
7. gem embedcan be located anywhere on the body in one centralized part
8. hairany length or style, including mane change
9. companioncan be any creature or inanimate object given sentience
10. floral or plant growth
11. extra sets of eyes (up to 6 eyes)
12. extra set of legs (front or back)
13. sleipnir (8 legs total)
14. elemental powers/morphsecondary roll: 1- fire, 2- water, 3- electricity/glitch, 4- earth/rock, 5- metal, 6- ice, 7- darkness, 8- light/stars, 9- blood, 10-wind, 11-combustion/explosion
15. transparent body partssecondary roll: 1- neck, 2- chest, 3- vapor tail trail
16. mermaidlegs and tail only, caudal fin must be butterfly shape
17. multiple heads2-3 maximum
18. exposed boneany body part ok but must be located in one part
19. alternate feetcan be of any species but does not include scales more than the feet (hooves, rat, bird, raptor, etc. ok)
COMMUNITY GUIDELINES
Seraphillon Adoption Center is a safe place for all people.
Bigotry and poor behavior are not allowed. Bad actors will get two strikes on the first infraction and a ban with a second infraction.
All rights to Seraphillons reserved.
I understand there could be similar species. I, ophanimera, reserve the sole right to ownership of the lore and all content produced for the use of Seraphillons. Ophanimera, until further notice, will be the sole lore writer, with potential use of suggestions by the community, with permission. Seraphillons and ophanimera do not claim ownership of any fan-produced content, such as art made of characters within the species.
3 strikes and you're out.
Breaking the rules will result in a warning, a strike, or if severe enough, a species ban. 3 strikes result in a species ban.
No COPPA users.
Because COPPA users' posts have to be approved by site staff, this may create undesirable results when judging competitions. Additionally, our species utilizes Discord and you must be 13, as per their Terms of Service.
You may make your own Seraphillons for personal-use only.
Paid premade Seraphillons adopts may only be made by official staff. You may commission users to design custom Seraphillons for you and add the value of the commissioned design to the character's value. Please see the last category labeled "Staff Perks" for more details on paid, pre-made adopts.
Trade and Ownership Rules
You may not sell Seraphillons for more than you purchased them for, excepting added art value.
Art of your adopt is allowed to increase its value. Commissioned art’s purchase value can be added with proof of commission. If you produce the art you are adding to the value of the character, please be reasonable and proportionate to the effort you put in. Premade Seraphillons may also be traded for other species, Seraphillon items, Sundew, c$, CS pets and so forth, in accordance with the character’s value and any other species’ rules.
If you receive or win an adopt for free and it has no art, it should be traded only for other premade characters.
You may use the #seraphillon-market thread in the Discord or the approved thread on the ChickenSmoothie Forums to negotiate any transactions.
Sundew and items may not be exchanged for real currencies. With v2 updates, MYO tickets are no longer needed and cannot be sold for real currency.
You can edit designs you own as long as the design stays recognizably similar to the original (at least 70% similar to original design) AND you have the artist's permission.
All changes to the designs must be approved by the original artist, as well as myself. Participation in species lore is optional as well: you can choose to adopt a design and not participate in the species/world, if you so choose. However, there are incentives planned for species participation.
If you are no longer interested in your Seraphillon, you may readopt them out to the community, gift them to someone else, or sell them in accordance to their value, so long as the intended recipient is not banned from the community.
If you are banned from the species, you are allowed to keep your adopts but will no longer be able to participate in species spaces, such as the fanclub or Discord Server.
Seraphillons are tradeable from the moment you are awarded one or it is posted to Oekaki. Seraphillons cannot be bred until at least one week from ownership. Additionally, they are only capable of breeding once every 3 months.
I reserve the right to make changes to the rules at any time, as needed.
Last edit: April 23rd, 2025
Last edit reason: Edits for v2 edition
strikes and warnings
none yet! let's keep it that way
staff list
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staff perks
ONLY OFFICIAL STAFF MAY MAKE PAID PREMADE ADOPTS.
At most, out of every four official adopts, one can be for sale via offer to adopt, auction, or flatsale.
In other words, for every 3 free adopts created, 1 paid adopt may be created. It is up to the individual artist as to whether they will accept USD, other offsite forms of payment, or art, in exchange for their designs and whether or not they value other forms of payment more highly and preferentially to ChickenSmoothie payments.
Staff may save up these paid slots and do paid gacha batches, etc. with them. In example of calculation, say ophanimera makes 6 adopts. It has earned two paid slots to create, which may be sold at any point after these adopts are made.
MYO tickets have been retired with v2, as anyone may make their own personal-use-only Seraphillons.
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