Original Post Date: 2024-07-10
Default AC Name: Space (Dog) or Dark (Cat)
Hexed From: Great Dane (Dog) and Desert Lynx (Cat)
Reasoning: I love the vibes of a pet with pitch black irises, and wanted to get a pet I could use to pass them down, but it’s a ridiculously rare mutation in Petz 5, and when it does happen it’s never inheritable! So I made a pet that has black eyes, as well as black fur purely for the Careful What You Wish For aspect. Are you willing to take the chance of completely screwing up your pet’s look for the sake of a bit of aesthetic pleasure? I know I am!
Variations: A whopping sixteen for each! (Black, yellow, red, and violet eye colours, with every possible heterochromatic variant.)
Ivy's Fave: Black-244 and purple-5 heterochromia
Other Notes:
If I remember right, the dog in my logo is a Voiddog, lol.
These guys were inspired by Kuro here, a dog I had who had black-244 eyes. I spent so long trying to pass down his eye colour, but I couldn’t do it. Turns out black-244 eyes are uninheritable if they’re a mutation! So I decided I was going to darn well do it myself.
I made the Voiddog from a Great Dane for the lanky proportions, and the Voidcat is a Desert Lynx hexie purely because the ear tufts are my favourite cat feature. Looks like they kept their breeds’ personalities.
(I remember the Voidcat being more finicky to hex for some reason? Probably a Pet Workshop glitch to be honest.)
As you can see here in GenePoolz, Voids don’t pass down perfect red-249 or yellow-251 or purple-5. Instead passing down ginger or sandy or steel eyes. But black works perfectly! (Heterochromia also isn’t passed down – only the right eye is used when genetics are determined.)
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