Image guidelines
What the avatar review actually checks, and what it lets through.
Reverie reviews exactly one image per character: the avatar, and only while the character is public. The check exists to keep images that are unusable as a character card out of discovery — not to enforce a house art style. Its default is to accept.
What gets reviewed, and when
| Image | Reviewed? |
|---|---|
| Avatar on a public character | Yes — when you save it public, when you switch an existing character to public, and whenever you change the avatar while public |
| Avatar on a private or unlisted character | No |
| Character Banner | No |
| Gallery images, scenario backgrounds, stickers | No |
The check runs while your save request is in flight, so you get the answer immediately. If the avatar fails, the save does not go through and a dialog appears — This image didn't pass review — with the reason and a category. Your draft is untouched; swap the image and save again.
If the review itself cannot run, the image is allowed through.
What it rejects
Eleven checks, in order; the first failure decides. Everything not listed as rejected passes.
| Check | Rejected | Explicitly fine |
|---|---|---|
| Minors | Sexual content where the subject clearly reads as a child. This overrides everything else | Petite, flat-chested, uniformed or "moe" styling are not treated as age signals |
| Real people | A recognisable real public figure, or a photographic likeness of an identifiable real person in sexual content | Photographs, photorealistic renders and realistic AI art of anyone else |
| Finished artwork | Rough scribbles, unfinished doodles, obvious placeholder art | Anime, manga, manhwa, light-novel and gacha art, western cartoon and comic, furry art, painted illustration, pixel art, 3D renders, realism |
| Character presence | No character, a character that is a tiny background element, abstract or non-figurative images | Any framing where a character is the subject |
| Shock and gore | Rotting corpse faces, exposed organs, dismemberment, gore as the focal point | Monstrous designs that are intact |
| Colour | Uncoloured rough line art that reads as unfinished | Monochrome, greyscale, sepia, duotone, limited palettes |
| Background | Transparent or checkerboard sprite cutouts, completely flat single-colour fills with no rendering | Gradients, vignettes, bokeh, studio backdrops, colour washes, textured fills |
| Text and overlays | Tiled stock watermarks, meme caption bars, advertising copy, images that are mostly text | In-world text, signs, shirt prints, insignia, tattoos, runes, sound effects, the character's name, artist signatures, small corner watermarks |
| Technical quality | Corrupted or unreadably low-resolution images; melted faces, fused or duplicated limbs | Dark, backlit, silhouetted or blown-out lighting, mild compression, soft focus, minor hand imperfections |
| Composition | Multi-panel comic pages with visible borders, photo collages, UI or game screenshots | A single illustration, even with a title, a caption strip, letterboxing, or a posed group |
| Copyright | Characters from Nintendo, Disney/Pixar, Marvel, DC and Sanrio | IPs that permit fan works — HoYoverse and Genshin, Touhou, Vocaloid, Fate, Azur Lane, most gacha games — and original designs |
Sexual content is never on its own a reason to reject. Nudity and explicit art of adults pass. Quality and the checks above are what the review is looking at.
If it fails
The dialog names one of these:
| Category | Means |
|---|---|
| Recognizable real person | A real public figure, or a real individual in sexual content |
| Unfinished artwork | Sketch, scribble or placeholder |
| No clear character | Nobody is the subject |
| Cutout or blank background | Transparent cutout or a flat colour fill |
| Mostly text or watermarks | Text or watermarks dominate the image |
| Copyrighted character | One of the five strictly-enforced IPs |
| Image can't be made out | Corrupt, unreadable, or unfinished line art |
| Not a character illustration | Comic page, collage or screenshot |
| AI generation defects | Melted or fused anatomy |
| Disallowed content | Sexual content involving an apparent minor |
| Doesn't meet our standards | Gore-focused or otherwise unusable |
Fix the image, not the character. Nothing about your text is being judged here.
Upload limits
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Accepted formats | PNG, JPEG, WebP, AVIF, GIF |
| Maximum file size | 10 MB |
| Stored size | Compressed to 2 MB and 1,920 px on the longest edge |
| Avatar shape | Square images work best |
| Banner shape | 8:3 is the recommended aspect ratio |
Because uploads are downscaled to 1,920 px, anything larger gains nothing.
Generating one instead
AI Generate Avatar and AI Generate Banner sit on the upload fields, and scenarios have their own Generate Image. Generated avatars are tuned to pass the review. The mature generation route needs both adult content enabled on your account and the character flagged NSFW Content. Costs and models are covered in image generation.
Stickers
Stickers are never reviewed and follow their own rules — formats, sizing and how the AI chooses one are documented in stickers.