How to grow up?
You're looking to grow up your fae? Well this is the guide just for you!
Faes follow the same basic rules as all other kels when it comes to growing up!
1. Your kel must have 5 different deviations of them in the current age they are. Applications do not count!
2. Your kel must be of the minimum age required for the right growing up.
3. You cannot skip a stage (baby straight to adult), even if they are past the minimum adult grow up age.
4. You cannot add upgrades on growing up approvals. Do it before or after.
5. You must use the right template.
6. Do not edit the approvals unless asked by a moderator.
7. When filling out your template, both reiterations of the character must face the same way and be posed in a way that doesn't hide markings (think boring, just standing there poses).
8. You cannot change the gem shape or colours/placements of your kel during the growing up approvals.
You can find the templates here, along with examples of filled out templates (click to access the sta.sh):
Looking to grow up your baby? Well, it will be really easy to do!
A quick reminder, you do not need to grab all the baby upgrades you want before growing up your kel! Teens can still access baby upgrades!
In order to grow up into an akeling, your keling must be at least 1 month old.
How do we calculate that month? Well, if your keling is born on May 9th, they will need to wait until June 9th! Next month same date is how we do things!
Unlike other teens, who gain some sort of choice upon aging, faes are pretty straight forward. There is only one stance and there are no special effects to choose from. That being said, this is when a fae's magical prowess shines!
Like all other akelings, fae teens gain the ability to independently learn magic. However, unlike other subspecies of kel, they can only learn spells of their bound element, or the other element they share a type with. You get to choose the element upon faeling creation. It is nearly impossible for a fae to change their element from the one they were born with... Nearly.
While they cannot learn other elemental spells, fae are extremely adept with their birth element. Fae only need to do one (1) prompt per spell to master it. The only exception is if the fae has a colour mutation that impacts their element, in which they will have to do the normal two (2) prompts per spell learned independently.
Example: An albino fire fae would have to do two (2) prompts per spell. An albino water fae would only have to do one (1) prompt per spell.
For the shared type element, they will require the regular amount of prompts per spell.
Example: A fire fae can learn light magic by doing two (2) independent prompts for the spell! Or alternatively, they can also join in a light magic class!
Element Types
A refresher on the elemental types, they go as follow:
Vibrant type -> Air and Energy
Calm type -> Water and Ice
Bright type -> Fire and Light
Root type -> Earth and Dark
Remember, one of your keling's baby spots will fade upon reaching teen age. They should have exactly one baby spot!
Akeling faes are considerably taller than their keling height but are shorter than standard bipeds!
1 - All around they grow bigger
2 - Their baby proportions become less noticeable
3 - Most importantly, they start walking on half their foot.
They are no longer flat-footed like faelings but do not fully stand on their toes like standard bipeds
Now that you have picked which stance you want, you can start filling your form!
Here's a few things to keep in mind when filling them:
1. Use the right form.
2. Only one of the baby spots fades away!
3. Both drawings have to face the same way! Makes it easy to check the placements.
4. Both drawings have to be boring poses of fullbodies.
5. You cannot apply upgrades during the growing-up approval!
6. Any placements/markings that might be difficult to see should be drawn separately.
Here are examples of well and poorly filled templates!
In the description of your application, you need to fill in this form!
ID:
Name:
Birthdate: Write out the date AND link to keling approval
Base Magic:
Base Gem Shape:
Upgrades:
Link to 5 Deviations:
Once you have filled your application, you can then upload it to DeviantArt! Then, you can head on discord and fill the form found in #teen-approval channel.
Once you have submitted your approval there, a moderator will get to it as fast as possible. They will create a thread, letting you know if anything needs to be changed, added or if it has been declined for one reason or another.
Once your kel's teen growing up approval has been accepted, they are now officially an akeling!
Once your kel has joined the teenage club, you might be wondering what comes next.
Other than growing them up again into an adult, there are new things your kel unlocked!
Akelings can start learning basic magic! Check out how to learn magic here!
NOTE: Faes can only learn their elemental magic (1 prompt per spell) or the element they share a type with (2 prompts per spell)!