Stuff to Avoid

This is a handful of things to avoid that will help you speed up your character approval process. I will discuss common problems that come up and how they can be avoided in this essay. At times it might seem overly direct and somewhat in your face, but it's geared to address the most common issues we see in character sheets, things that drive Kitsufox and Willow up the walls.

Powerplaying

Characters with sheets littered with powerplaying will not be approved. It's banned in the general rules and there is an essay about how to avoid it. I will mention this until there isn't rampant powerplaying on many of the sheets listed to review.

Read the general rules and the corresponding essay; don't tell people how to view your character and what to think about them.

Impossible Genetics

When I say impossible genetics fail I'm not talking about the people who get a shady description called because it's fuzzy or otherwise unclear, I'm talking about outright impossibilities like cats with white bodies and colored feet, or cats who are white with colored stripes, or cats with black and tan dog markings. These things do not exist in real-world cat genetics. If you want a color of cat that you've never seen before, do a few Google searches for pictures to see if it really exists. Research will speed your approvals.

You can find a great deal of information about feline genetics in the genetics documentation section. If you're ever unsure about genetic possibilities test them on Kitsufox before you submit it for approval.

Disrespecting Our History

Often, new users makes up an imaginary leader to have their character descended of or handling the naming of said character. CoSC has been around since late 2005, and we have a long, solid canon history; disregarding it is condescending and disrespectful. We even have our history of leadership and rank pretty well documented so that players can know what characters they'd have gotten their characters' names from.

Respect our history, do your research (at the Canon Page), and if you're not sure, please ask. We love to talk game history here. In fact, if you talk to people beforehand you might be able to have siblings or cousins for your character. We love in-character family!

Excessive Abnormality

The more abnormality in the way your character looks, acts, or was brought up for its group the more Kitsufox will expect from you. For one bout of unusualness add a paragraph. For every additional trait beyond that, add another half of the starting requirement for minimum length of the overall character sheet.

Things Kitsufox Considers Abnormal

• An abnormal number of any body part
• Lacking any body part considered "normal" (excludes lack of reproductive organs in non-clan cats)
• (Clan only) Any marking other than bicolor or non-bicolor, mackerel tabby, or classic tabby
• (Clan only) Any base color other than black, blue/gray, red, cream, tortie, dilute tortie and their tabby variations
• (Clan only) Any physical trait associated with a specific purbreed Breed (tufted ears, hairlessness, variant hair textures such as rex, curled or folded ears, ect)
• Any mental challenges or development issues (example: severe mental handicap)
• Any psychological abnormalities (example: obsessive compulsive disorder, attention deficit disorder, amnesia; bear also in mind that these are typically human issues, not feline ones)
• Currently belonging to a group they were not born to (excludes shifts between domestic, feral, and semi-feral)

Repeating Errors

Unless Kitsu specifically includes a note with the point in a decline stating otherwise, you're expected to fix it before resubmitting your character. She will even openly admit that seeing the same problems sent back makes her harder on the sheet she's looking at. There are few things that Kitsu considers as disrespectful as the implication that seeing something a second time will make her like it more.