Mon is your spendable balance in Pokimono: extra character slots after three months of membership, extras from the Mon Shop, item catalog trades, village job pay, level exchange, and other rewards mods announce for the season. Creative rewards use the tables below so totals match your Profile → Wallet.

Mon also moves between members. When your OC pays another character for a service, buys from a fellow villager, or hands over a gift in a scene, use PokiBot's /gift or /trade so the exchange lands in both wallets — see Gifts & trades.

Boosting the Pokimono Discord server earns 3,000 mon every month — see Booster blessing.

Art and writing submissions use the tables on this page so finished pieces earn rewards that match the effort you put in. You can compare any payout to your wallet the same way you would for the Mon Shop.

18+ art and writing earn mon the same way. Tick This piece is 18+ / NSFW when you submit and add content warnings — the piece then appears behind a warning on the site until someone chooses Show.

Digital and traditional artwork — illustrations, comics, and animation frames.

How mon is calculated for art

• Base × type multiplier × product multiplier + add-ons = intermediate visual total (one ceil on that whole sum).
• Subject types count per subject: every character or Pokémon in the piece gets its own type from the type multiplier list. Two humanoids means Humanoid ×2. At least one type stays in the math for each visual submission.
• Special visual works (comics and animations) add on top: comic or animation mon + visual total = combined piece total (then optional group meme ×1.5 applies to that combined amount).
• More characters or more base categories counted in one submission means more base mon multiplied through.
• Collaborators split the combined visual mon before quest bonuses or collab bonuses are applied per person.

Base categories (mon each)

Count each character or Pokémon by how much of them shows in the piece — two full-body subjects in one illustration count as Full Body ×2.

Type multipliers

Types are counted per subject — pick one type for each character or Pokémon in the piece, then add the multipliers together. Two humanoids means Humanoid ×2 (×1 + ×1); a humanoid with a Dragonite means Humanoid ×1 plus Complex ×1.

• Simple creature ×0.5 — Everyday-animal anatomy with simple shapes — e.g. Rattata, Magikarp, Pidgey, Wooper.
• Other subject ×0.5 — Small magical or non-humanoid subjects — e.g. Litwick, Flabébé, Fairy-types, glowing Bug-types. Separate from the base Other category.
• Humanoid ×1 — Human-shaped subjects — human-form gijinka and human characters. The baseline multiplier.
• Anthro ×1.5 — Upright Pokémon or portrayals with clear animal features — e.g. Lucario, Zoroark, Blaziken, Gardevoir.
• Complex creature ×2 — Large or intricate anatomy — e.g. Dragonite, Gyarados, Scizor, layered wings, or detailed Bug, Steel, and Dragon bodies.

Style / product multipliers

Pick the finish level of the piece — one finish per submission.

• Sketch ×0.5 — Rough or unfinished linework with minimal cleanup.
• Line Art ×1 — Clean lines only — uncolored, with no flat fills.
• Monochrome/Spot ×2 — Black and white, greyscale, or limited spot-color accents.
• Flat Color ×3 — Solid flat colors with little to no shading.
• Full Color ×4 — Fully colored with shading and depth.
• Pixel ×4 — Pixel art, isometric or not — sprite-style pieces count here.
• Painted ×5 — Fully rendered, lineless painted finish.

Add-ons (added inside the same ceiling as the multiplied base)

• Simple Prop +120 mon each — Basic held or worn items — a Poké Ball, Berry, scarf, or simple held item.
• Complex Prop +160 mon each — Detailed items with real design work — ornate held items, Key Stone jewelry, tools, or gear.
• Simple Background +160 mon each — A background with a few elements — an open route, a sky with light scenery, or a plain room.
• Complex Background +320 mon each — Immersive scenery — village streets, busy markets, dense forests, detailed interiors, or crowd scenes.

Comic panels and animation frames each go on their own submission — pick one special work type per piece.

🎞️ Animation frames

• Simple Frame +80 mon each — A frame with minor motion — blinking, ear or tail flicks.
• Complex Frame +160 mon each — A frame with a major pose, camera, or background change — attacks, run cycles, scene shifts.

📚 Comic panels

• Simple Panel +80 mon each — A panel with minimal elements or reused art.
• Complex Panel +160 mon each — A panel with full characters or detailed backgrounds.

Group memes

Group meme pieces earn ×1.5 on the combined art total. Check Group meme in the calculator on the Submit art & writing page.

Eligible for mon rewards

Writing is rewarded in two bands: a flat 10 mon per 100 words for pieces under 1,000 words, and for 1,000 words and up a curve that rewards longer pieces more per word. Everything rounds to the nearest whole number.

Examples:

• 900 words = 90 mon
• 1,000 words = 150 mon
• 10,000 words = 4156 mon

RP mon follows each person's own words. Every player earns mon from the word count they wrote in the log, using the same scale above.

• Example: a 575-word log — Player A wrote 300 words = 30 mon; Player B wrote 275 words = 28 mon.

How to submit an RP log (one submission for the whole group):

1. One player opens Submit art & writing and picks Writing or RP log.
2. Paste the log link and enter your own word count.
3. Under Collab partners, add each other player and enter their word count on their row.
4. Submit once. Mods review it, and each player's mon goes straight to their own wallet.

Partners do not submit the same log again.

Writing submission guidelines

Submit on the Submit art & writing page — pick Writing or RP log, paste your link, and enter your own word count.

• Paste a full https link mods can open and read — any hosting is fine.
• Clean, proofread, and finalized text.
• RP logs: remove chat timestamps from the transcript before you link it.
• 18+ writing: tick This piece is 18+ / NSFW and list content warnings so readers know what to expect.
• RP logs and co-written pieces: one player submits and adds everyone else as collab partners, each with their own word count.

✅ What writing is eligible

❌ What writing is not eligible

• RP focused solely on NPCs
• AU content unless mods approve an exception
• Hypothetical writing unless mods approve an exception
• Writing from other RP groups, including pieces featuring characters shared with Pokimono

🔞 18+ writing

Smut, erotic RP, erotic prose or poetry, and graphic gore earn mon like any other eligible writing. Tick This piece is 18+ / NSFW and add content warnings when you submit. Every submission follows the community rules.

“Oh... It looks like you may be infected with the Pokérus!”

Pokérus is a microscopic life-form that attaches to Gijinka. Each week one member carries it as the Pokérus host. PokiBot announces the new host every Sunday at midnight US Eastern, and the current host, their OCs, and the deadline are always on the home page and the Submit art & writing page.

🦠 Host bonus

The host earns ×2 mon on every art and writing submission they send during their week, including their share of collabs.

🤧 Ways you might get infected

The host is contagious! Interacting with them gives you a chance to become next week's host:

• Draw one of the host's OCs and tag that character when you submit. Each tagged piece is one entry for everyone credited on it.
• RP with the host in a tracked scene. Every scene where you and the host both post during the week is one entry.

Both count automatically.

When the week ends, PokiBot draws one entry and that member becomes the next host. A week with no entries passes the virus to the mods, one at a time.

⏰ Deadline

Weeks run Sunday through Saturday. Submit by 11:59 PM US Eastern on Saturday to earn the host bonus or an entry — pieces sent before then count while they wait for mod review.

“Hello. We discovered an odd thing. Apparently there's something called Pokérus that infects Gijinka! It multiplies fast and infects other Gijinka too. But that's all. It doesn't seem to do too much, and it goes away over time. I guess it's nothing to worry about. Bye!”

Mods feature new (and longtime) members as Gijinka of the Month (GotM), each with one of their OCs. While a member is GotM, interacting with them earns ×2 mon:

• Draw their featured OC and tag that character when you submit.
• Submit an RP log with them as a collab partner — everyone in the log earns the boost, the GotM included.

The boost applies automatically. A GotM drawing their own featured OC earns regular mon.