General & Role-Play

• Treat others with respect. Try to respect their boundaries and opinions. If you are having issues with another member, please contact admins privately. Public displays of aggression will not be tolerated.
• Please be understanding to others' needs and feelings. This includes a desire for space!
• We will attempt to solve all disagreements through discussion. PMA does not have a strict penalty system in place, however this means that if a member does cause a lot of problems, chances are they are likely to be booted from the group.
• Though it is acceptable to use foul language in In-Character roleplays, please keep in mind that there are people of all ages on dA and PMA, and be mindful!
• No God-modding: It is no fun when a character is over powered. Be careful that your character is incapable of losing.
• No powerplaying: It is rude to take control of another character's actions or to make assumptions about other character's feelings.
• No Metagaming: Be careful that your character does not have knowledge they shouldn't know because you as a roleplayer know it already.
• Roleplays that occur in avenues of public interaction outside of deviantArt (twitter, tumblr, etc) are generally considered non-canon with the exception of mutual mun agreement or privatized interactions. Unofficial characters may be roleplayed, but all interactions with them should be considered non-canon until they are approved and in the group. Non-members should keep this in mind! Roleplaying is allowed before acceptance, however please keep in mind that unapproved characters may have alterations made before acceptance and this might create complications. Regardless, all group rules (no god-modding, no power playing, no harassment) are still applied, and though you may not be banned without having initially been accepted, you will be blacklisted for unruly behavior or noncompliance.
• When role-playing 'relationship' scenarios please be sure that the member you are role-playing with is comfortable with rather intimate role-plays especially in couple scenarios. Also, please keep NSFW roleplay private!

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Other Rules

Here is a list of additional guidelines for PMA not explained in this journal:
Behavior Announcement - we do not tolerate harrassment or drama
Twitter - twitter information
Twitter Rules - twitter RP rules

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Art and Submissions Rules

• All application art must be 100% original work. No tracing, heavy referencing, or bases. If you are caught doing any of the above, you and your app will be removed from the group.
• Tracing, heavy referencing, and bases are okay in some scenarios.  1) The reference must be credited properly 2) This is not allowed in reference images for apps, but allowed in certain scenarios for submissions (ex: tracing a screenshot of a movie for a meme, for example, with clear credit).
• Members are free to use adopted designs for their characters, as long as said designs are realistic within PMA's premise.
• We are pretty lenient concerning maturity, however we expect members to censor pieces with nudity/gore/etc accordingly.
• Only post submissions that are related to the group.
• Surprise fanart is fun, but please use judgement when it comes to how you portray others' characters! If you are unsure if it is okay, it's probably best to ask.

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Chat Rules

• When roleplaying in the roleplay chat, please separate out of character speech (OOC) from in character text. Use brackets such as (), (()), [], and {}.
• Refrain from spamming of any sorts. This includes a ton of emotes or icons crowding the chat window.

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Relationship Rules

• Pokehumans should only be in relationships with other pokemon/pokehumans. Romantic relationships should not form between a human and pokehuman, because pokehumans technically do not exist.
• NSFW decisions are up to the members, however please refrain from posting intimate sexual content in the group itself.
• It is possible for two pokemon in the same egg group to create an egg if actively intimate. Please note the group to notify admins of such an event, including the mother and the father. The child's gender, species (of either mother or father), and appearance are completely up to the parents. Dittech cannot function on multiple life forms, so pokemon are stuck in pokemon form when carrying. Pregnancy lasts 1 week, after which an egg is laid. Eggs hatch after another week. The owners of the parent characters can choose whether to have 1-2 children per pregnancy. There is a 2 month cool down to this event.
• As pokemon are hatched fully functional in the canon of the pokemon world, offspring (unless specifically a baby pokemon such as Pichu and Azurill) when hatched can assume Dittech form from anywhere between 4-9 years of age. Within 2 weeks of announcing pregnancy, an app should be made for the child character. The parents can assume the character as their own, or they can choose someone else to roleplay the child for them.
• Intimate sexual relationships should only happen between characters who are of legal age. This rule applies to pregnancy as well.
• Adoption is completely viable. Single characters can adopt (paying attention to the 2 month character creation cool down), and coupled characters can adopt 1-2 children at a time. Adopted children do not have to share the same species as the parents, but must be pokehumans.

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Death/Withdrawal of a Character

• It is possible for a chracter to die in PMA (through battle, accident, illness, old age, etc), however members should refrain from killing off their characters simply to replace them.
• Characters cannot be killed in roleplay without their owner's permission- such events will not be considered canon, and the offender will be guilty of power play and possibly kicked out.
• You must have had your character for 2 months before allowing them to be killed off.
• Please notify the group if you decide to kill off your character.
• Characters can be withdrawn from the group instead of killed. If you only have one character and wish to replace them, your character must have existed for 2 months.

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Leaving

• Please note the group of your departure. You don't have to tell us why you're leaving, just that you are.
• Please remove all of your character's art in the group. Art for others can remain if you so choose.
• If you've left and you'd like to return, you may! However you must wait until the next opening.
• Ex-members reapplying may apply with their old character or a new one altogether.