Potion Sippers (species) (Special Feature Sets)

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As shapeshifters, sippers are capable of changing their appearance in ways that are not common ('natural') for their species, these are classified as special features. These unusual traits usually only appear on the sipper's 'true' form after an event significant enough to change their core identity. For example, let's say a sipper spends years learning how to cook and eventually becomes known far and wide for their food, they may identify so much with their craft that it manifests on their physical body as food. 

Depending on the setting that you're using your sipper in, special feature sets are treated with different rules/guidelines:

World Setting (In-Game)

Due to a shortage of magic during the events of the game, a sipper's abilities are more restricted to conserve energy. They mostly stay in their true/neutral form and as a result, features that aren't 'natural' (i.e. special features) need to be unlocked through in-game quests before they can be officially applied to the sipper's true/neutral form.

A sipper who was originally created as an official adopt or custom with special features included, won't need to earn the special features that they came with. They will still need to unlock special feature sets that they didn't come with, however.

MYO sippers, by default, won't  have any special features unlocked, they will need to be earned in order to apply them to a sipper's in-game appearance. (even if they're drawn with special features during MYO approval)

When a sipper does have access to a special feature set, it will be listed on its masterlist entry!

World Setting (Post-Game/Non-Canon)

After the events of the game (post-game), sippers are no longer quite as magically restricted and may develop special features more easily.

For this reason, sippers that are drawn in a post-game setting, as well as any non-canon setting in general, may freely make use of the special feature sets as they wish!

It isn't necessary to unlock special features in order to use them in this case, please go wild and have fun!

Once unlocked, a sipper has access to that entire category of features (not one at a time)

It's fine to:

• unlock the set without actively using anything from it (having it on stand-by)
• use any amount of features within a set as desired, you can use all at once or pick and choose whichever you want, at a given time
• mix and match features from different sets that you have unlocked
• create 'forms' that your sipper temporarily uses to suit different situations, such as a form when your sipper swims, when it's too hot or cold, during special occasions (like a dessert-themed form for parties), etc!

Details (such as the contents of each set) are subject to change!

No changes will ever be made that takes a feature away from a sipper owner (ex: if scales were to be moved to infernal, any sipper that is actively using scales would then have access to the infernal set in addition to keeping access to the aquatic set)

Celestial:

• Brightly glowing markings of any kind (very faint glow from markings drawn on with sipper magic are considered regular)
• Mist/clouds emerging from the body, or body parts replaced with it
• Lightning/electricity emerging from the body, or body parts replaced with it
• Halos of any kind
• Feathers of any kind, on the body or wings (please note that normal wings can still look vaguely like these types of wings in silhouette and still be considered regular sipper wings)
  
  

Infernal:

• Horns, enlarged fangs, enlarged claws, and spikes of any kind
• Leathery/bat/demon/dragon wings (please note that normal wings can still look vaguely like these types of wings in silhouette and still be considered regular sipper wings)
• Fire emerging from the body, or body parts replaced with it (can include smoke, though it should always have some amount of fire alongside it so that it doesn't get confused with celestial's mist/clouds)
  
  
  
  

Faerie:

• Insect antennae and wings of any kind (please note that normal wings can still look vaguely like these types of wings in silhouette and still be considered regular sipper wings)
• Nature features of any kind including plant growth, petals, flower crowns or wings etc. that are growing from the body (nature features that're simply laying on the body are considered to just be accessories and not a special feature)

Aquatic:

• Fins of any kind including wings (please note that normal wings can still look vaguely like these types of wings in silhouette and still be considered regular sipper wings)
• Scales of any kind
• Moist/slippery/slimy skin texture and webbed hands/feet of any kind
• Water/liquid emerging from body, or body parts replaced with it
• Mer-sipper tail (overtakes part of the body, can overtake the whole body up to the neck, overtake the hips and bottom legs, simply have a fish tail in place of a normal one, etc)
  
  

Corrupted:

• Non-mammalian facial features (example shown is a bird-like beak)
• Limbs that aren't paws (examples shown are hooves and bird feet)
• Features in general that aren't normally shown on sippers and aren't categorized in other feature groups (example shown is tentacles)
• Normal body parts duplicated and/or in places they normally wouldn't be (examples shown are multiple limbs, tails, and extra eyes/altered eye placements)
• Non-food related slime features (slime coming from body, replacing limbs/body parts with opaque or even transparent slime that shows bones and/or guts etc)
• Unhealing wounds with or without blood/gore/viscera (includes protruding bone, like a skeletal limb for example) although please apply proper filters with gore present when posting

Decorated:

• Fabric body or body parts (including patches) and stitching
• Inanimate object body parts (examples shown are buttons and jingle bells)
• Faux crystals (non-magical stones/jewels emerging from the body, or body parts replaced with them) They can effectively look identical to real crystalline growths, but don't possess the same immeasurable magical power) 
• Body stuffed with cotton, feathers, etc.
  
  

Edible:

• Food grows from or replaces parts of the body (limbs, blood, hair, etc) or the entire body itself (edible plant materials such as fruit should either look prepared for consumption (chopped, cooked, etc) or come alongside other food related things (example, strawberries with whip cream) or otherwise might be considered a faerie feature)
• To clarify, this encompasses any kind of food, the example shown just happens to be a dessert
• Ice emerging from the body, or body parts replaced with it