Blaze
Examples
Basics
Blaze creates a marking that spreads across up to half the Ketucari’s body, starting at either the tip of the nose or the tip of the tail. It may have an accent color creating a pattern inside the marking.
In your ketucari's genotype, blaze is denoted by the letters "nBlz" (heterozygous) or "BlzBlz" (homozygous).
In its heterozygous form, blaze has a pass rate of 25%. Homozygous blaze has a 50% pass rate.
Color and Shape
Blaze is a marking that covers a quarter to a half of the ketucari starting at the muzzle or tailtip. It does not have a restriction on edge hardness - it can be a gradient that blends out to the base coat, starkly hard-edged, or textured. Small, natural-looking cutouts may be present both at the edge and throughout the marking.
Blaze may optionally have an accent color that can create patterns within the marking. These patterns should typically be more natural than Stamped allows, and should not mimic another marking, but otherwise can be most any shape. Small, singular shapes may appear, but so as to not mimic stamped, should appear alongside larger clusters of shapes. Multiple shapes can appear on the same ketucari. The accent color can touch the edge of the Blaze marking, but may not go outside of it. The accent color can take up 50% of the marking at maximum.
The base of blaze can be a lighter or darker color of your chosen base, with a minor deviation in hue. It can also be a fully desaturated color of the base, as long as it is lighter or darker. Blaze may never be pure white or pure black.
These colors would be acceptable for this base color. They are either a lighter, darker, or desaturated version of the base. Notice that this small change is not overbearing.
The accent color may be any color, and can gradient to a second color of an analogous hue.
Range
Blaze must start at either the muzzle or tailtip of the ketucari, and spread towards the middle. It must cover 25% of the ketucari at the very least, and can cover 50% at the very most.
In the following guides, green is the minimum range for blaze and blue is the maximum. You may not use both ranges at the same time.
Interaction with Other Markings
All markings can be layered under or over blaze.
Blaze can be modified by colorize - it can either allow the base to be any color, or the pattern to have two colors.
Blaze can be modified by Segment and Unnatural Segment. This only affects the base of blaze.
If a ketucari has both Blaze and Intensify OR Blaze and Bleaching, the base of the marking may have a gradient - this gradient can be fairly strong, as opposed to a subtle accent gradient. This gradient may include a slight hue shift, regardless of whether the ketucari has the Vivid gene.
If a ketucari has the Blaze, Intensify, AND Bleaching genes together, the base of the marking may have a gradient, and this gradient may display as a modified version of the ketucari’s original base coat. Any base coat modifier may be used. If the base is already modified, however, the unmodified version of the color should be used for this gradient.
Bronze to Plum Bronze.
Blaze may be affected by the Flow mutation in two ways:
- The combination allows Flow to pull from mutations instead of its typical color groupings.
- Blaze itself is an entirely different base coat. This base coat must be pulled from the legal base coats available to this ketucari for the flow gene. This only applies to the base of blaze, the pattern may still be any color.
Luminary to Yellow
Flow and Blaze can appear together even when combined in either of these ways.
Glacier to White to Blue
If a ketucari has the Blaze, Intensify, AND Bleaching genes together, AND has Flow:
First off, the Blaze marking may be a different base coat legal to Flow.
Second, the Blaze marking may also have a gradient. This gradient may display as a modified version of the new base coat displaying on the Blaze marking. Any modifier may be used. If the base is already modified, however, the unmodified version of the color should be used for this gradient.
Accents
Here are some small accents you can add to your designs to make them more unique!
Blaze may have a subtle gradient on its own. This should be notably subtle, as opposed to the gradient allowed by blaze combining with intensify or bleaching.