⭕ Jump to: Hatchling, Young, Youth, Adult
🌱 A keke must be created at the hatchling phase
🌱 Regular MYOs are free and unlimited! No need to ask if you can make one
🌱 You can submit up to 3 drawings to the approval folder per day. Each approval image can have a max of 2 keke on it
🌱 A Snakekey must meet the requirements in this guide in order to become official. Unofficial keke can't earn stars, upgrade, or use other group functions
🌱 If you use shading or brushes that make design colors difficult to make out, please put color swatches off the the side somewhere for ease of approval
🌱 Submit your design to the approval folder once you're done and wait for it to be reviewed by a mod. You may be asked to make a few changes, so be sure not to delete your files yet!
🌱 Don't delete an approval image - it's an important record and the timestamp may matter!
🌱 Approval submissions expire after two weeks, so be sure to work to get your image approved before then! If you run out of time, you're welcome to resubmit
🍃 Snakekey babies hatch from eggs, as implied by the 'hatchling' phase
🍃 The eggs regular hatchlings come from are often called "typical eggs" since they're just your average. They're vaguely oval-shaped and hard-shelled once fully developed
🍃 Keke eggs must be placed in water to hatch. Typically, they hatch in shallows, but just in case, they are born with a fin to help them swim out of deeper waters and onto the surface where their belly scales can activate. It's recommended that eggs be set in shallow containers such as a bowl or maybe a puddle...
🍃 Eggs are not required for approvals! This is just info
🌿 Hatchling 🌿
🍃 Hatchlings have disproportionately floofy manes and ears compared to adults as well as chubbier, shorter bodies, very rounded teeth, and a baby fin
🍃 For a short time, hatchlings can breathe water. Since eggs are heavy and sink, they can't exactly get a good lungful before heading for the surface. This ability fades after two to three days
🍃 After hatching, keke can care for themselves in the sense that they know they like chewing on things, hiding in holes, and things that want to chew on them are bad. They can move around fairly easily, but aren't exactly fast. It's possible that a hatchling can survive on its own, but it's not advised... Keke will take in loose hatchlings if they happen to see any
🌿 Hatchling Creation 🌿
🍂 1: Lines > Draw the base for your new Snakekey. Be sure to look at the anatomy examples above!
🍂 2: Base > Pick a base color. It can be any color as long as it's solid. Hatchlings don't have markings yet
🍂 3: Accent > Any solid color. This goes on the cheek pouches, paw pads, and blood. Hatchlings may have it on their baby fin
🍂 4: Belly scales > Goes on the belly scales and mouth/tongue. Hatchlings may also have it on their baby fin. This can be any pure grey, white, or black (besides pitch black). "Pure" means it's not tinted any other color and is totally desaturated! Keke with white scales are warm-blooded and black scales are cold-blooded. Middle of the road greys can be either blood type - you can pick. In addition, a hatchling's face, tail tip, and/or limbs can be tinged the belly color. This can carry as far as halfway up each area and is an optional feature.
🍂 5: Eyes > Eyes can be any color, but only one. By default, Snakekeys do not have visible pupils.
🍂 6: Description > You're ready to post your Snakekey! Please be sure to locate the form below, fill it out, and put it in the description. Approvals count for stars, so make sure you count those in the description, too!
🍂 7: Submitting > Submit your finished MYO to the approval folder, which can be found here
Name:
Blood type: (Warm or cold)
Type: Regular
🐍 Optional base 🐍
🌱 Snakekeys go through five phases of growth: hatchling, young, youth, adult, and elder
🌱 It is not required that they grow at all nor are there any deadlines, but each phase has a new element to it
🌱 Phases cannot be skipped. If you wish to get to the youth stage, that keke must have also gone through the young phase.
🌱 Multiple phases can be done in one approval image, however must be separate from the original MYO approval art, as these things go in different folders
🌱 You can submit up to 3 drawings to the aging folder per day. Each image may have a max of 2 keke on it
🌱 Designs can stretch some to accommodate the change in shape, but should generally remain the same otherwise
🌱 As long as it's been unlocked, they can be drawn at any age at any time for stars
🌱 Don't delete growth approvals - they're important!
🌱 Submissions expire after two weeks, so be sure to work to get your image approved before then! If you run out of time, you're welcome to resubmit
🌱 We are more lenient with programs that do not allow for color dropping/traditional art. If you're unable to pick belly colors or some such, let us know!
🌿 Young 🌿
🍃 "Young" is a very broad term, but this happens to refer to Snakekeys who have graduated from being toddlers, but aren't in those teen years yet.
🍃 Their baby fin's for sure fallen off by now, but hey, their teeth are getting sharp! Also, some of them are falling out, but they're getting sharp, too! Young kekes may lose some "baby teeth", but they'll grow back later. They're still looking pretty chubby, but are much more active, bigger, and can do more stuff now. Belly color tinging will have faded away if they had any. Ears and mane are less silly puffy, but still pretty big
🍃 Now that they're beginning to think for themselves, a Snakekey will begin to seek its artistic calling! They may be a late bloomer, but art has many forms. They're sure to find something. The keke community is always eager to see what the little guys will come up with and many are willing to help teach them what they might need to know
🌿 Young Creation 🌿
🍂1: Lines > Start by drawing the base image for your keke. Be sure to follow the anatomy examples shown here
🍂 2: Base > Snakekeys get their bases as hatchlings - this step is done and you can move on!
🍂 3: Color method > Choose a coloring method. Keep in mind that "variations of your base color" must appear to be in the same hue as the base. This means you can move the color slider say, from light orange to dark orange, but do not touch the slider you would use to change orange to blue much!
🌼Method A: 0-3 variations of the base color
🌻Method B: 1 variation of the base color, 2 of any color you like! Note that this method requires the use of 3 colors total
🍂 4: Design > Design your Snakekey with the colors you've chosen! Markings generally need to cover a lot of area. This can mean they are large in size or are very long. Smaller markings are okay as long as they're connected to a bigger marking of the same color. Spots generally should be no smaller than the entire hand and thin markings no shorter than arm's length. Do not use gradients on designs. Be sure you've removed belly color tingeing if your Snakekey had any - they've grown out of it!
🍂 5: Description > You're ready to post your Snakekey! Please be sure to locate the form below, fill it out, and put it in the description. Note that your keke doesn't have to have an art type picked out yet. Don't worry about getting stuck with it either, it can be changed at any time
🍂 6: Submitting > Submit your finished image to the aging approval folder, which can be found here
Name:
Hatchling approval:
Color method used: (A or B)
Art type: (The keke's, not yours)
Upgrades: (List what the keke has applied)
🍃 The big kids. Keke this age can officially be considered teenagers, but this status has consequences and those consequences happen to be puberty. This consists of a poor kid's body freaking out because it is going to morph soon. They don't know when it's going to happen but when it does, they're going to be ready thrice over! It's totally unnecessary and generally just inconvenient
🍃 They're bigger than young, though how big can vary widely. Their teeth will have sharpened up and begun to stay put. Overall, a keke youth will start to look more mature with a slightly longer face and (supposedly) less chubby. Mane and ears should be correctly sized now
🍃 Somewhere along the line, the upgrade-spawning belly scales get confused. It's unclear if they're trying to help out or just trying to revert back to when things were not weird. Either way, they're going to spawn stuff on a youth. These upgrades could be hints at what a Snakekey will grow into, resurfacing baby traits, or just...useless things....
🌿 Youth Creation 🌿
🍂 1: Lines > Start by drawing the base image for your keke. Be sure to follow the anatomy examples show here
🍂 2: Design > We've already done this and you're ready to go!
🍂 3: Upgrades > Keke youth are required to have at least one of the upgrades listed below. They can either keep or remove them once they reach adulthood. Once the approval's over, they have full access to these any time they wish (excepting on younger stages, of course). Note that a youth will always have to have a minimum of one of these and it can't just be removed after the approval process
🍂 4: Description > You're ready to post your Snakekey! Please be sure to locate the form below, fill it out, and put it in the description
🍂 5: Submitting > Submit your finished image to the aging approval folder, which can be found here
Name:
Hatchling approval:
Young approval:
Youth upgrades: (Youth ones only)
Upgrades: (List what the keke has applied, ignoring the youth ones)
⭕ Open spoiler to see youth upgrades! ⭕
💫1: > Bedhead - Youth
An enhanced version of head fluff that looks worse and is generally terrible. Grows on the top of the head and doesn't heed your mortal laws. Sticks up wherever it pleases and can't be tamed no matter how hard you try. Sometimes, this can form in small amounts on the chin or right above the mouth. Unlike regular head fluff, bedhead can go to the base of the neck at its maximum (excepting the bits on the muzzle, those stay short)
💫 2: > Blotches - Youth
It looks like sores, but it's just little dots of the accent color appearing on the face. Scaled keke may try and pick off the affected scales, but this isn't a great idea, please don't pull scales out of things
💫 3: > Chubby - Youth
Maybe one day, this'll convert into a fae morph's figure. Until then, you've got a bit of a belly going on. Note that this shouldn't be a dramatic change - just noticeable. Can be on the torso, naga tail, or both
💫 1: > Color points - Youth
A.k.a. the belly color tingeing that hatchlings have is either resurfacing or appearing for the first time on your Snakekey. Same rules apply: it can be on the face, arms, and tail, going a max of halfway up each. However, it can now be any color
💫 2: > Drowsiness - Youth
Bags under your eyes because no, mom, you weren't up late last night
💫 3: > Fin shreds - Youth
Is your baby fin trying to grow back...?! How embarrassing... Small bits of fins on the end of a keke's tail. Must be the color the baby fin was originally.
💫 1: > Growth spurt - Youth
Typically a sign of an oncoming reach morph. Allows a keke to be taller than average for their age. Nothing crazy, though!
💫 2: > Missing teeth - Youth
The teeth attached to your face are falling out again.... Hopefully they all grow back
💫 3: > Puffball spikes - Youth
The mane returns to a hatchling-like length - it's way too big for your body! In addition, is seems like it tried to carry down your back, but there are large gaps in between the fluff. Odd tufts of evenly placed fur that go in a line anywhere from the head to the tail tip
💫 1: > Short stature - Youth
Your keke doesn't seem to have grown much...a common sign of an oncoming goblin morph. Allows them to be shorter than average for their age. Nothing crazy, though! This "upgrade" has a tendency to make them look a stage or two too young via underdeveloped face, body, etc
🍃 The keke is fully grown! They should have reached their maximum height and lost that baby fat by now (supposedly). Besides that, they'll look a bit different from younger stages in another way: they'll adapt into a morph. Each morph has slightly different physical traits
🍃 Besides obtaining new upgrades, their form should be stable now. No teeth moving or "youth upgrade" weirdness. Well...that's the goal, anyway
🌿 Adult Creation 🌿
🍂 1: Lines > Start by drawing the base image for your keke, choosing their morph in the process. Be sure to follow the anatomy examples for whichever one you end up picking! (Written description)
🍂 2: Description > You're ready to post your Snakekey for the fourth and final time! Please be sure to locate the form below, fill it out, and put it in the description
🍂 3: Submitting > Submit your finished image to the aging approval folder, which can be found here
Name:
Hatchling approval:
Young approval:
Youth approval:
Morph: (Joey, fae, reach, and goblin are the defaults)
Upgrades: (List what the keke has applied)
🐍 Optional Base 🐍