❧ Relationships | 

➳ Kits cannot form relationships.

➳ Apprentices may have crushes, but can only date other apprentices, with the exception of if they were already dating
    an Apprentice when they became a Warrior (maximum 2 moon difference).

➳ A Warrior may not have a relationship with or feelings for an Apprentice.

➳ Characters cannot apply for a mate until their character is at LEAST 16 moons of age. Any RPs that took place before
    the character turned 16 moons will NOT count towards the amount of RPs required to become mates. 

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❧ Cross Clan Relationships and Litters | Will both have their own separate Ban and must be approved of. Cross-Clan relationships have a chance to be discovered by rolling a dice every month and have a potential for either or both members to be exiled from their Clans at the Leader's discretion. Litters will automatically be evenly divided between the families. 

➳ Approved Ban

➳ Role-Plays: 2 Complete RPs

➳ Art/Literature: 1 Piece (with both characters visible/interacting)

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❧ Mateship Requirements | To be formally recognized as mates within the Clan. Meeting these requirements is necessary to have a planned litter of kits. 

➳ Role-Plays: 4 Complete RPs (with at least one discusses them being mates)

➳ Art/Literature: 3 Pieces (with both characters visible/interacting)

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❧ Second Litters | A couple that has completed their requirements to be mated and has already had their first litter will have their litter requirements permanently lowered, however, the new requirements must feature their family.

➳ Role-Plays: 2 Complete Couples RP 

➳ Role-Plays: 2 Complete RPs between the parents and the children of the previous litter (one per parent)

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❧ Dual Siring Litters | Dual Siring is when a polyamorous relationship has a Queen that will be having kits from two different fathers. This litter will be treated like any other litter for the most part. The base number of kits will be two (2) altogether and can be a max of six (6). The parents of the litter may choose if they want their kits to be split up by an admin or if they want to choose for themselves how many kits are from which father. 

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In the event of two kits being rolled they are automatically halved.

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❧ Accidental Litter Requirements | Accidental litters of the same Clan are not a ban, however, they are carefully tracked by the Admins so that it isn't constantly happening and to monitor the growth rate of the Clan. Just because you meet the requirements for an accidental litter does not necessarily mean that Admins will automatically be approved by an Admin.

➳ Role-Plays: 2 Complete RPs

➳ Art/Literature: 1 Piece (ft. some aspect of the Queen discovering the pregnancy/telling their partner/visiting the Medicine Cat, etc)

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➳ A character may only have two accidental litters or flings before they are required to take a mate for their third litter.
➳ The accidental litters must be at least 6 moons (or 3 months) a part.

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❧ Polyamorous Relationships | Poly relationships between characters of the same Clan are not technically bans but they are monitored heavily by the group to avoid overcrowding. For example, it would be unfeasible for an entire Clan to be in a poly relationship or for the Clan to consist of only poly relationships. That being said one polyamorous relationship may consist of up to four (4) cats at a time. However, not all of these characters have to be in a relationship with each other as poly relationships consist of many different types of dynamics. 

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(Please watch)

Here's a video of relationship examples.

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Keep in mind that polyamory often requires more work and communication than your average relationship and should be treated with respect. The following information below only pertains to characters that are polyamorous that want to become mates with multiple partners.

 

Note that you do not have to mate to multiple partners in order to be in a polyamorous relationship! You can be dating multiple people, mate to one while dating others, or be mated to everyone! That being said the requirements for Polyamory Mateship are below.

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❧ In the event that two polyamorous characters within a three or four partner relationship are becoming mates the requirements are the same as a normal mateship. This makes the two character a couple or dyad.

➳ Role-Plays: 4 Complete RPs (with at least one discussing them being mates)

➳ Art/Literature: 3 Pieces (with both characters visible/interacting)

 

❧ In the event that one character is not dating just one other character but is instead dating a mated couple (2 characters) the mateship requirements are below. When becoming mates with a couple you are bonding to both partners. This will now define the relationship as a triad.

➳ Role-Plays: 6 Complete RPs

+ 4 Complete RPs : must be 2 RPs per mate and the new partner

+ 1 Should be all three characters interacting

+ 1 Complete RP should be a discussion of the three coming together as a triad.

➳ Art/Literature: 3 Pieces (with all characters visible/interacting)

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Ex. ROSE and CLOUD are mated (a dyad). They are both dating MOON.

In order for all three (3) to become mates:

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ROSE, CLOUD and MOON must all RP together 2 times & be drawn/written about together 3 times.

ROSE and MOON must RP together (without CLOUD) 2 times.

CLOUD and MOON must RP together (without ROSE) 2 times.

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❧ In the event that one character is not just dating a couple (2 characters) but is dating a triad (3 characters) the mateship requirements are below. When becoming mates with a triad you are bonding to all three partners. This will now define the relationship as a quad.

➳ Role-Plays: 8 Complete RPs

+ 6 Complete RPs must be 2 RPs per mate and the new partner

+ 1 Should be all four characters interacting

+ 1 Complete RP should be a discussion of the four coming together as a quad.

➳ Art/Literature: 3 Pieces (with all characters visible/interacting)

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Ex. ROSE, CLOUD, and MOON are mated. They are all dating SUN.

In order for all four (4) to become mates:

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ROSE, CLOUD, MOON and SUN must all RP together 2 times & be drawn/written about together 3 times.

ROSE and SUN must RP together 2 times.

CLOUD and SUN must RP together 2 times.

MOON and SUN must RP together 2 times.

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❧ Surrogates | If your mateship is in need of a surrogate here are the rules regarding the surrogate below.

➳ NPC Surrogacy: An NPC character within the Clan is chosen by the couple. 

+1 Complete RP with the NPC character (controlled by an Admin)

 

➳ Non-NPC: If someone wants to offer their active character as a surrogate;

+1 DM from parents and chosen member (separately) to prove consent.

+1 Complete RP with the chosen character

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❧ Kits | Owners of kits can post in the chatrooms right away however one real life week must pass before kits are able to speak with the speech gradually increasing in skill as they age. However fast or slow that happens is up to the roleplayer! 

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In the Discord server both Kits and Apprentices will have a set of skills that need to be completed via interacting with another character in the Sharing Tongues channel that are as follows.

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[ Kits ]

➳ Speech: 0/3 (kits speaking/learning to speak with another character, etc)

➳ Motor: 0/3 (kits learning to crawl/walk/run)

➳ Intellect: 0/3 (kits learning about their environment, themselves and their Clan)

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[ Apprentices ]

➳ Hunting: 0/3 (apprentices talking about their hunt or training)

➳ Fighting: 0/3 (apprentices talking about their training or sparring)

➳ Stealth: 0/3 (apprentice talking about their training or practicing with someone)

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Litters can occur once the couple has completed all the requirements to becoming mates and successfully rolled for them! Litters have a higher chance of being successful during March-September and lower chances during the months October-February. All Medicine Cats can have mates, however, each Clan will handle their litters differently.

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Kittens will be rolled for by the Admins including the size of the litter and sexes. All litters will have a base of two (2) kits but your character(s) can have up to six (6). Any kits that are not adopted will be considered stillborns. You also have the option of rolling for miscarriages by marking yes or no on your character Application sheet.

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Note on Birth Traits: These traits will come in the form of a ban and two genes that you choose your cat to carry when you joined the group. By picking these ban and birth traits as genes there's the possibility that none, a few, or all will be passed onto your kids so choose carefully! Admins will roll for the one ban chosen in addition to one-two unknown bans. Here are the following;
 

➳ Ban: 1 (one) Chosen from the group's ban list.

➳ Physical Traits: 2 Distinctive Traits from the parent.

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Planned litters will take precedence before litters that are the result of flings; if there are several litters planned your request may be put on a waitlist. There will be a four (4) moon [two (2) month] cool down before your character can have another litter provided you have the requirements needed to have another. With frequent litters back to back, your litter request may get postponed or rejected at the admin’s discretion. 

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❧ Adopting | FotC has a longstanding history of allowing characters to adopt other existing characters into their family and adding them into their history. With this re-opening we are going to allow this to continue with new characters, however, there will be some rules to who can and cannot join the family.

 

It is highly suggested that instead of canonically adopting everyone into your family that fostering take place or that you refer to those close to your character as ‘unofficial sister/brother/sibling/parent/etc’. More on this down below.

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[ Requirements ]

➳ Your character must already be a Warrior.

➳ Your character may only adopt a maximum of two (2) characters into their family.

➳ Your character cannot adopt anyone older than them.

➳ The other party must be an Apprentice or Kit at the time of being adopted.

➳ In the event that the Kit or Apprentice has siblings then they are adopted by extension as well and will count towards the two (2) character maximum.

Ex A. Your character WHITENOSE adopts FIREKIT who is sibling to PUDDLEKIT and BREEZEKIT; despite being three kits and thereby over the threshold of the two character maximum all three can be adopted, however, your character may not formally adopt any other characters after.

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➳ The Kit or Apprentice cannot already have a biological family that is active in their lives either as NPC’s or active members.

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Ex B: You join with FIREPAW who has loving and caring NPC parents, Snowfeather and Olivetail, but change your mind and decide to have another member’s character WHITENOSE adopt your character.

> This is incorrect because Firepaw already has Parents.

Ex C: You win FIREPAW from a group adoption try-out with active members playing Snowfeather and Olivetail but decide down the line you want WHITENOSE to adopt FIREPAW as their child.

> This is not acceptable because Firepaw already has parents and the parents are active members.

 

EXCEPTIONS may be given on a case-by-case scenario with consent from all parties.

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❧ Fostering | In the event that kits enter into the group without parents or someone to care for them they will automatically be cared for in the Nursery either by an NPC, an active Queen and her litter, or by the entire Clan. In this scenario whoever is closest to the kits, likely a Nursery Helper or Queen, will automatically be given the option to foster the kits but adoption is not required.