The prompts below are a way to develop their pokemon within the ARPG and get some love-letters 💌 while doing it (or other special items!)
Additionally, some of these prompts can be completed for specialized reasons. These prompts include the Lovebug Prompt for the daycare and then the Evolution and Preevolution Prompts for evolving/preevolving your pokemon without the use of evostones.
All of these prompts must be submitted with their respective forms into #pixies-prompts to be properly redeemed (Explorers Guild prompts should NOT be submitted under this channel!). Evolution Prompts & Lovebug Prompts are also found under this document and need to be submitted in the same channel for approval to use. The forms can be found in the #pixies-prompts channel pins.
⚠️All writing/art made must be unique to that piece and cannot be copied. All pieces of art should be custom lined unless otherwise stated that bases are allowed to be used.⚠️
#chus-challenges is not associated with Pixie’s Prompts and is its own thing. Chu’s Challenges prompts should be posted under their respective channel when a new prompt is pinged for that day/week.
It is suggested that users post their evolved pokemon designs (that are being completed with prompts) into #design-check first for confirmation that the evolution looks good for approval! Due to the fact that some prompts may require you to draw their newly evolved form for approval, it’s best to check that they can be approved design-wise in the first place through that channel OR save your files just in case they need to be edited at all.
If your pokemon happens to be one of the few to have a g-max, mega evo. etc., you are free to complete the prompt to add that evolution too. There are no additional special prompts you need to complete to evolve into these forms. Fusions who have one or more pokemon that are at stages where they can mega or gmax evolve etc. are able to evolve as well! (IE: Pidgeot x Gogoat can evolve into Mega Pidgeot x Gogoat OR Mawhile x Gengar can evolve into Mega Mawhile x Gmax Gengar.)
** If a pokemon can both gmax AND mega evolve (IE: gengar, etc) you must complete the prompt PER form like a normal evolution if you want them to evolve into both at some point.
You can use a mix of writing and drawing if you wish for any prompts (if you’d like to do extra) as long as ONE of the minimum requirements are met. Due to these prompts being used to evolve your pokemon, you do not get Loveletters for completing these.
Complete the prompts below to evolve your pokemon without an Evolution Stone. ALL prompts must be completed to be properly approved without the use of an Evo. Stone.
What caused your pokemon to evolve?[min. 200 words.]
Draw or Write a scene of your choice with them being evolved. [min. 300 words or flatcolor fullbody with objects that portray a scene IE: Them using a move w/ no bg]
Have a pokemon that you wish you could draw in its previous evolution? Complete the prompts below to give them a de-evolved reference without the use of an Evolution Stone! ALL prompts must be completed to be properly approved without the use of an Evo. Stone.
What were the earlier stages of their life like? Did they live somewhere else? Who were their parents? [min. 200 words] (The writing given MUST be different from the ‘history’ prompt in Unlimited Prompts)
Draw or Write a scene of your choice of them pre-evolved. [min. 300 words or flatcolor fullbody with objects that portray a scene IE: Them using a move w/ no bg]
Have a pokemon who has more than one form that they can change into at will? (IE: morepeko, oricorio, etc). Fill out this form to add onto their current ref! You must complete this form for every new variant given. This is not the same as giving them a Mystic Gem for multiform or color-changing designs, as this is considered canon for pokemon like that. A list of all pokemon who are allowed to complete the prompts below are TBA.
Why do they change their form? Is there a reason for it? [min. 100 words]
Draw or write a scene of your choice with their new form [min. 300 words or flatcolor fullbody with objects that portray a scene IE: Them using a move w/ no bg]
This is a special prompt you can do to give you a boost in the daycare! This prompt must be completed per couple if you breed them in the daycare to receive the boosted roll benefits. (Gives a second chance roll for all multipliers in the breeding batch regardless of other items added, etc.) ** only needs to be completed once per pairing
Due to this prompt being an additional reward for breeding and getting extra rolls, you do not get LLs for completing this prompt.
You do not need to wait for this prompt to be archived to use it in #daycare!
What is this couple's relationship like? How long have they been together? How did they meet/what is their history? OR Draw ship art of them together. (Min requirement: 500 words OR x2 fullbody clean lined/colored ship art piece)
What is your Pokémon looking forward to most about their new egg? What lifestyle changes have they made that led to this decision? Do they plan on raising this egg alone? What does their eggs nest look like? (Min requirement: 250 words OR x1 fullbody clean lined/colored art piece w/ their egg!)
You must post the completed love-bug prompt in #pixies-prompts and save the message link to use it in your daycare form when a daycare opening is pinged OR to be used in a self-breed.
These prompts are rotated out on a monthly rollover. The new prompts will be pinged in #pixies-prompts with the @prompts-ping when new ones are posted for the month and pinned in the channel pins. Typically these are themed based on the season or holidays within the month at the time. We try not to make these prompts repeat each year but some may accidentally be the same.
Each prompt rotation will have 3 new prompts per month and will have different requirements for the minimum amount required to complete them. Generally though, there will be one ‘big’ writing/art prompt, one ‘simple’ writing prompt, and one ‘simple’ art prompt.
All 'simple' art prompts are typically ones associated with an "allusion to the character" aspect. Due to how we now price art for LLs, these allusion-to-a-character pieces are a flat rate of 100LLs as a reward when calculated to ensure fair calculations for other art pieces.
These are static prompts that never go away and can be completed once for each approved pokemon you own (unless otherwise stated). It is best to personally track who you’ve completed each prompt for so you don’t accidentally post the same pokemon with the same prompt multiple times!
📌RE: "Can only be completed once per pokemon": This rule is in place to avoid users mass-reusing pokemon for prompts. That being said, if it has been OVER 6 MONTHS since you've finished this prompt for a pokemon; you are allowed to reuse/redo that prompt for said pokemon. The newly completed prompt MUST be different from your original prompt. Art must be remade completely AND Writing must be completely revised/rewritten/added onto.
All prompts have a loveletter reward that is redeemed when posting the prompt for approval. Staff goes through the #pixies-prompts channel once a week (or when available) to hand out the allocated loveletters for completing the prompt.
Every 100 words = 100 loveletters
(Users who are within 20 words of the next 100 word goal will receive that amount of LLs)
Art pricing is based on what is drawn. Quality is not taken into account past extra addons like shading, highlights, background aspects, etc. The pricing guide that staff use is currently located in the discord server.
You are free to go beyond this though and It's absolutely encouraged to do so for unlimited prompts. You cannot “mix and match” these to meet the requirement as it gets hard for staff to draw the line on what the baseline would be. You are allowed to complete one of the requirements (ie: a fullbody) AND also addon writing if you wish, but at least one of the requirements need to be met for approval.
Prompts 1-12 can only be done once per pokemon*.
Prompts 1-10 must be at least 100 words OR one colored clean-sketch fullbody minimum to count!
Prompt 13-16 can be done as many times as wanted with any pokemon you want; as long
as it meets the requirements.
1. Draw or Describe this pokemon doing their favorite move/s. Is this move one they currently know or is it an old one? Why is it their favorite? When did they learn it? What is their full move-set?
2. What/Who does your pokemon believe in? (Take this description as wild as you’d like. You can answer this morally, religiously, literally, etc.)
3. What was your pokemon’s history/life like before where they currently are in their life? Where did they come from?
4. Draw or Describe what your pokemon’s pokeball looks like. (They do not have to be traditional pokeballs by any means! Some users took this as their actual house looking like a pokeball, or just making the pokeball design not-canon and only inspired by the pokemon’s design, etc.)
5. What is your pokémons personality?
6. What does your pokemon do? Do they have a job? A trainer? A guild?
7. What are your pokemon’s relationships with others like? (Can be in a list format as long as it reaches the word minimum!)
8. Draw or Describe what your pokemon’s favorite place is. Why is it their favorite place? Is it even a place or is it someone?
9. What is a mistake or something that your pokemon wishes they could change? Was it something they did or others did?
10. What is something your pokemon never wants to change? Was it something they did or others did? Was it positive?
11. OC Challenge Questions! (This is a list of 25 random questions to answer for your pokemon! There is no min. word requirement for this and can be answered in 1 word responses even OR no response at all if it is not applicable to your lore.) Inspired by old Tumblr "describe your OC" lists. CLICK HERE FOR THE LIST OF QUESTIONS
12. Create a "Pokedex" Entry for your Pokemon! (There is no min. word requirement for this. A list of questions below must be answered to meet the requirement. This does not need to be canon to your own lore. You may use a fake Pokedex Base or TH Code to fill this out if you wish as well!) CLICK HERE FOR THE LIST OF REQUIREMENTS
If you are using Toyhouse Codes to submit this prompt. A screenshot of the fully filled out pokedex with all answers must be provided OR a link that permanently shows the filled out pokedex information on the TH page.
Click here for a Pokedex Sheet Base you can use for your prompt!
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13. Design a custom PKMN Game Sprite for your Pokemon! (minimum colored art piece) (Using official PKMN game sprites/bases IS allowed! This includes sprite assets from any gameboy, DS, switch, etc. game) -- This is meant to be a very vague prompt! You may take this as you wish for inspiration. Examples of what some have made for this prompt include: PKMN Mystery Dungeon Icons, Full sprite sheets, Animated DS-Game style sprites, Physical Grid-Board Pixel art, PKMN Rumble-Inspired Game 3d Sprites, and more!
14. Draw or Describe your pokemon in an AU (100 words or 1 sketchy fullbody min). -- This is a very open-ended prompt and can be completed as many times for a pokemon as you wish as long as they are in different Alternate Universes each time. You should state the AU they are in when you post your form.) (AU submission example: Drawing your pokemon as a pony from MLP and what they would look like in that AU. OR Describing what your pokemon would be named and what they would do in a warrior cat AU, etc.) Designs drawn for this AU prompt are not canon by any means in HC and cannot be used in other art.
15. Draw/Write about a scene of your choice. (500 words min. or 1 colored scene (can be sketchy as long as there are scene aspects & a minimum of a halfbody shown) -- Can be completed unlimited times with whatever pokemon wanted.
16. Free For All (100 words min.) — Allows you to submit stories/writing not already related to a prompt that you’ve made. Can be completed unlimited times with whatever Pokémon as long as the minimum required is met. This includes generic lore for your personal region. Any random art you make of your pokemon not related to prompts should go into #art-redeeming.