Designing Your Willow
Welcome to the design guide! Featuring our favorite, friendly non-canon Willow, Leaf! They're going to be our example when designing our Willow step-by-step.
Before starting, please note:
You must pick the orientation of your Willow! You can have BOTH a feral orientation and an anthro orientation later, but that requires the use of an Orientation Ornament. Please pick what you're comfortable with for the initial design of your slot, as Willows can stand either feral or anthro on inital upload!Furthermore, we do allow CBCs (character-based characters)! However, Willows designed in this way must not be one-to-one copies of the media they're inspired from.
Physical Traits
The traits you can use depend on your MYO slot's rarity. The lowest rarity slots are common, and highest rarity ones mutation. For example, if you have a rare MYO slot, then you can use any traits that are rare, as well as any traits in lower rarities, such as uncommon or common. Therefore, make sure you reference the traitlist when designing your willow!
Leaf is a common, Standard Willow, so we went ahead and used the following common traits:
Of course, to fit your Willow, you don't have to use Leaf's traits listed here!
Body types, expressions/poses, eyes, etc., are completely UNTRAITED! Feel free to express your Willow however you'd like.
Amputations, missing limbs, etc. are also completely untraited. Feel free to do so on your own accord. Prosthetics may go onto the masterlist as long as it's unfuturistic!
About blinding a Willow...
A Willow can be blinded freely. Willows are often born blind in the pairing process. However they would be at a disadvantage. You can link a companion to a Willow or give them the trait Suspended Sight to waver the penalty.
Stylish!
Subspecies & Chymos
Chymos is the most important substance to any creature in Willanova. Each Willow subspecies has their own distribution of Chymos across their body. Additionally, each species has their own set of required phyiscal traits that make them, them!
Chymos is also the most delicate and extensive step when designing a Willow. There is a set number of colors you can choose when designing, as chymos only reflects certain colors of light. Chymojewels however, can take any shape at all! Whatever fits their personality! But, make sure you follow our guidelines when it comes to image on our website.
Although a Willow will normally only have two chymojewels, they can have a maximum of ten total on their body, through the use of the following traits: Multiple Chymojewels, Multiple Tails, Halo Horn, and Any Horns!
Species Wide Required Traits:
- Four (4) claws
- Two (2) chymojewels; one floating on their chest and one floating at the tip of their tails.
- Forked tongue
- Horns (unless you have the No Horns mutation)
- Ears (unless you have the No Ears genetic mutation)
- Howveer, Arroyos, Mangroves, and Acacias have this trait as lower rarities, exclusive only to their subspecies!
- Tail (unless you have the No Tail mutation)
Species Wide Optional Traits:
- Paw-pads (can be any shape, including mimicking the chymojewel shape of the Willow)
- Chymos inner-ears, claws, teeth, and tongue
- Whiskers
- Slit noses
Completely Off the Table:
- COMPLETELY Chymos tails. They must, at a minimum, be interlaced with Chymos through the Unique Formations Tail trait.
- Elayah would be a good example of what you could do!
- An exception would be Pinyons, who's backhalf are made of Chymos. But they can also have furred tails!
- COMPLETELY Chymos neck fur (Mangrove croakers and Siberian chest chymos are only found on the front part of their bodies).
Leaf with optional paw-pads, regular claws, Chymos inner-ears ears!
Click the tabs below to view species specific requirements!
Required Traits:
- Chymos up to thighs/top of leg
Required Traits:
- Fur/fuzz over legs
- Tusks (chymos or not, can be on the upper or lower jaw)
- Chest chymos
- Hooves
- Rabbit noses
- Fluffy/Furred texture chymos
- Chymojewel sits on/floats on the middle section of the tail
Required Traits:
- Arm feathers/wings
- Plated texture chymos
- Bird-like, clawed feet
Optional/Free Traits:
- Beaks
Required Traits:
- Centaur back legs
- Chymos hooves
Required Traits:
- Fins (opt. chymos)
- Scaled texture chymos
- Croaker
- Gills
Optional/Free Traits:
- Webbed fingers
Chymos Colors and Textures
Finishing Touches
Free to Add:
- Body/Fur Markings: Willows can have as many markings or colors as you want, in any shape!
- Colored Lineart: As long as everything is visible, we encourage you to color your lineart
- Accessories: Ribbons, hair ties, prosthetics, you name it
- Hairstyle/Mane: Any texture, size, or shape
Please Do Not:
- Give them a full outfit
- We want to see their full design!
- Add animals to their design
- Add sparkly effects or anywhere near. That can be added later!
- Add items other than handheld gear
Trait + Mutation Exceptions
Some traits also disregard some of the base characteristics of Willow species. Willows should never look outside of their species completely, and should still be recognizable to their original traits.
- For example: We allow the use of items to add mutations and other unique things to a Willow, however a Siberian Willow shouldn't ever have fins.
