Visual Application Guide

🌟 Remember to check the Basic Guidelines for Character Creation here! 🌟

This is a Gijinka group, which means that your character should be a humanoid with Pokemon attributes. Gijinkas can have elements such as ears, tails, eyes, hair, teeth, and claws inspired by the Pokemon they are based on. Your character cannot be an anthro/furry.

For example, a Charizard gijinka could be a person with Charizard's wings, horns, and tails but is otherwise primarily humanoid with a human's face and proportions. As a baseline, we recommending making your gijinka roughly 75% human(oid) and 25% Pokemon.

These percentages are not strict and are merely a place to start!

Fantasy Skintones

Characters are allowed to have fantasy skintones, however depending on the level of detail, the design may require a Potion or other transformative item to be allowed.

A general rule of thumb is if the only thing "strange" about your character's skin is that it's of an unconventional color (i.e. no glowing marks, no translucent skin, not made of material and has no material add-ons such as plants or gemstones, etc.), it is permissible.

Ghost / Skeletal Body Parts

Ghost Pokemon may have ghostly / wispy limbs, limited to only 2!

With a Potion or Juice, you'll be allowed to modify of your character's body, however for base designs, we require that they are still mainly corporeal and cannot be visibly showing bones, organs, or other gorey elements.

Characters may have exposed bones or see-through body parts only if there is no gore or internal organs visible! A good example of this is shown on the character Melinoë from Hades 2.

Multiple Eyes

Gijinkas can have up to 1 additional set of eyes (up to 4 eyes maximum) only if it makes sense with the Pokemon they are based on and only on their face! Eyes in strange places such as on hands or stomach are not allowed.

Extra eyes cannot be grotesque or horror-inspired or otherwise deliberately meant to be disturbing to others.

For example, a Joltik may have an additional set of eyes.

Setting-Appropriate Clothes, Prosthetics, & Gadgets

Attire, accessories, prosthetics/disability aids, and additional gadgets that visually fit within the loosely Victorian Era time period of the setting are allowed. Anything more modern-looking, futuristic, or cyberpunk-inspired may require a Potion or Accessory Pack depending on how advanced it is!

Any object-based aids created with magic are allowed such as an enchanted scarf that acts as a "hand" for a character who does not have the ability to use their own.

Revealing Attire and Bare Chests

When it comes to what is and is not allowed in terms of characters with bare chests and/or other revealing attire (or lack thereof), the group follows a loose set of guidelines regardless of gender. Designs will ultimately be checked case-by-case by moderators.

However, as a rule-of-thumb, ask yourself...

✦ ...if the character's appearance would be considered public indecency in the real world

✦ ...if the character's application art will need a warning applied or to be hidden when uploaded to your art site of choice

(i.e. DeviantArt, Toyhouse, Unvale, etc)

If the answer to one or both is "yes", then the character should have an outfit that covers their skin appropriately -- at least for the visual application.

Members are allowed to depict nudity in works that are submitted for Poke as long as it is not sexually explicit. If you wanted to have an alternate look for a character who doesn't quite work with the above questions, you are free to use that version of the design in future submitted work -- even if it's a different look from their application art -- as long as it's been appropriately tagged.

Special/Fantasy Body Types

Some gijinkas are also allowed to have builds like mythological creatures such as centaurs, mermaids, and satyrs -- as long as it suits the Pokemon.

Explanations of what is and is not allowed for each fantasy body type are below.

Potions and Juices are not a catch-all solution however, and there are still limits to what you can do with them if you are aiming to achieve a specific fantasy body type with a specific Pokemon. It is always best to ask the staff if you are unsure about anything!

A few examples of what is and is not permitted are as follows:

Along with the humanoid / gijinka forms that characters have, characters in this world also have a feral form, which is their base Pokemon form! They are transformed into their feral forms when entering Mystery Dungeons and potentially in other areas around the world.

Characters cannot freely transform between their feral and gijinka forms however.

Silhouette Preservation

A major rule of thumb used when approving designs is that the design must have a distinct silhouette that can be recognized as the Pokemon's original design.

For example, if you were to look at the silhouette of a Pikachu, it would be immediately obvious what species the Pokemon is. There is leeway allowed when it comes to this rule as there are things to account for such as art style, accessories, pose, etc. but it's important to keep in mind when designing your feral!

Currently, the only way to make major silhouette breaks is to use a transformative item like a Potion or Juice or to use the Hair Accessory Pack. Regardless of item usage however, designs will still be judged on a case-by-case basis and so it is not guaranteed than an item will allow certain silhouette breaks!

Minor Color & Anatomy Alterations

Feral designs are allowed to have minor changes such as small palette changes, patterns, and physical differences or interpretations are allowed as long as they stay close to the original design of the Pokemon.

For example, a normal Zorua's red markings could be a slightly darker red but you would not be able to turn them pink without the use of a transformative item. Another example is the popular interpretation of Sigilyph as a bird-like entity being allowed.

Large-scale changes to a Pokemon's color and / or anatomy such as adding wings or horns or changing the size of its claws will require the use of transformative items like Potions, Juices, or a Form Modification Pack.

For simple color or pattern changes, you may want to use a Hue Berry or Deco Berry.

 "Hairstyles" for Furred and Non-furred Species

Pokemon with fur or hair on their head(s) are allowed to have it somewhat stylized. While you are allowed to do things like give your Eevee bangs or have your Kirlia with pigtails, anything that would drastically break the silhouette of the Pokemon or make it difficult to make out the shape of its head cannot be used on unaltered Pokemon designs. Non-furred species may also not have "hair" by default.

There is an item to allow you to break these conventions however, letting you give your feral full on ponytails and styled hair and allowing non-furred Pokemon to have styled "hair" with materials that match its body. If you want to do this, you need to have a Hair Accessory Pack.