The Sun God's Scorn is a marking that is automatically applied to any monkeys who have killed another monkey. It slowly fades in over the course of 24 hours after the kill. The Sun God began marking killers because he wanted them to be forever set apart from their community as traitors, to never get away with what they did - so the Scorn marking was designed to be very hard to hide. It is also applied to those who traumatized other monkeys so badly that their lives would never be the same again, or those who have significantly aided the Bloons. It is able to be completely hidden by fur dye, mostly behaving like any other marking, but still appears on monkeys with albinism (though with lighter coloring).
This is the Sun God's Vengeance marking. It is next to impossible to hide due to its full-body coverage. Good luck finding enough fur dye, much less hiding or explaining the coloration to your paws, stomach, and face. After a monkey kills, or severely and irreparably traumatizes, five monkeys, their existing red bands and rings will darken and swell over the course of the next 24 hours, as well as a few extra stripes appearing and their entire body gaining a black overlay. Monkeys with albinism will receive the markings at the exact same opacity.
A kill will not be counted, and a Scorn marking will not appear/a Vengeance marking will not be closer to appearing if:
- The perpetrator was under the age of 13 at the time of the kill.
- They were being forced or coerced into what they did.
- For any reason, they could not understand what they were doing at the time.
- The kill was completely accidental, with no intent for the action to result in death. Severe negligence, and mistakenly killing someone by inflicting a wound or condition that was never meant to be lethal, do not result in marking.
- Their victim had a Scorn or Vengeance marking (the Sun God does not punish avengers).
This process of marking killers with designated and complicated markings to try and point them out as killers, kind of backfired within the Legion. Some Legion members, especially those who are there to get away with evil and not to protect themselves from the Bloons, have deliberately tried to get marked, as it has become a status symbol in those parts of the Legion. Get Scorn marked and you're automatically cool, get Vengeance marked and you're automatically badass. Maybe the Sun God shouldn't have made Vengeance markings look so cool if he didn't want Legion members trying to get them on purpose. (I can guarantee you there wouldn't be as much murder if Vengeance markings would also write "LOSER" across your forehead in unremovable black print.)