The Pound
Bubbles & General Information
Bubbles are the currency we use here at the pound! All characters here cost a flat price of 50 Bubbles. These can be earned in one of four ways.
- Surrendering pre-existing characters to the Pound
- Creating new characters to donate to the Pound
- Creating gift art (minimum of a clean halfbody) for other users and submitting it to the Bonus Bubbles prompt
- If you are a first-time owner within this group, you can claim a FTO bundle in Sudsy’s Shop containing 50 Bubbles – essentially giving you a free character to start out in our group with!
Submitting a character to the pound will earn you 30 Bubbles, both in creation and submission. If you're not interested in adopting a character, you can also visit the Bubble Shop!
If a character has been unsold for a while, they will have an additional value of 700 Duckies added to their worth. This means they can be purchased for either Duckies or Bubbles! These values are added irregularly, so patience is appreciated!
Surrendering Toyhou.se Profiles:
- If you are surrendering a character and they have a pre-existing Toyhou.se profile, please transfer it to our admin account, Soapuppies, and mention it within your surrender.
- If you are submitting a new design for the pound via the Pound Submission prompt, or the character you are surrendering does not have a profile, please do not create one. Profile creation will fall on the user adopting your design!
Claiming Toyhou.se Profiles:
- If you've adopted a character, check this folder our admin account to see if they have a Toyhou.se profile. If they have one you would like to have transferred to you, please file a claim or ask in our Discord server!
- All profiles on this account are public, so if you don't see your character there, they do not have a profile in our possesion, and you're welcome to create one yourself.
- If a character was newly created for the pound (The majority of characters with codes that start with PND-), they do not have a pre-existing profile. You are welcome to create one.
Rules:
We do have a few rules in place to keep things fun and fair for everyone! The pound is moderated, and any repeated instances of deliberately breaking the rules may result in an infraction or ban.
- Please only purchase characters you want from the pound. We strongly discourage purchasing characters for the sake of trade fodder.
- Purchasing characters for three-way trades & gifts for others is fine!
- Characters from the pound may still be traded, but purchasing characters exclusively to use for trades is strongly discouraged.
- Any exploits or loopholes to earn more Bubbles or pound adoptions – such as multi-accounting, havings friends register for the sole purpose of adopting characters on your behalf, or exploiting MYOs and/or redesigns to bypass the monthly limit are strictly prohibited and may result in removal of your Bubbles and a ban from the pound or species, depending on severity. This is very easily catchable on our end, so please be fair!
- All MYO slots, adopts, giveaways, etc. have a two month ownership cooldown period in which they cannot be surrendered to the pound.
- Any created designs must have clear effort put into them. Base designs must have some level of editing or personalization done to the base, and all designs must have several colors with clear markings and distinctions.
- Pound submissions made using traditional media must include a digital color palette on the image.
- We do not have any restrictions regarding chibis, sketchiness, etc. so long as they are clean and readable! (Show Example)
- Characters adopted from the pound are free to be redesigned and used as any other characters.
Surrenders:
Surrendering a character is to put a character you own into the pound. This completely forfeits your ownership and puts them up to be purchased by someone else.
General trade rules apply, meaning if the character has other forms (i.e. other species), you are forfeiting the entire character and all their forms that may exist as other species.. If the character has a Toyhou.se, please make note of it in the surrender and transfer it to the Soapuppies account on the site. From there, it will be transferred to the new owner by us.
CBCs are freely allowed to be surrendered to the pound. You may surrender up to two characters per month.
Creation
Creating a design does not require any MYO slot, but there is a limit of two designs per month per user. To submit a created design, simply visit the prompt here, or at the bottom of the page, and follow the instructions from there!
These can use any traits from common to uncommon. Rarer traits may be added, but you must use your own items for them. (i.e., a design with two rare traits can be submitted, but two Little Loofahs must be attached within the submission.) You do not get any bonuses from using items to gain more traits!
CBCs are not allowed to be submitted. Music and media-based designs may be submitted, but they must be disclosed within your submission as per usual.
