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[stardust_rifle]

Kind of went down a rabbit hole on how Ao3’s tag system handles plural characters. Findings so far:

If the headmates are clearly differentiated in canon (having canonical names as separate identities seems to be the dividing line on this) they’re classed as completely separate character tags with as much relation as other characters from the same source. (Examples: Shu and Madmoiselle, Natsuki and Satsuki Shinomiya, Hallelujah and Allelujiah Haptism)

However, if the headmates don’t seem to have canonical names as separate entities, they all get synned to one character tag. (Examples: No differentiation between Bokushi and Oreshi in the “Akaashi Seijuro” tag, no differentiation between Aokoto and Akakoto in the “Kayano Mikoto” tag)

And a weird outlier appears to be the wrangling of Uendo Toneido’s character tag, as all the other headmates are wrangled as subtags of the main Uendo Toneido tag.

Comments

[feotakahari]

I don’t go here, but what do they do with Shiki and SHIKI?

[stardust_rifle]

Checked, and if you're talking about the Kara no Kyoukai Shikis, neither SHIKI nor Void Shiki have any kind of separate character tag (well, Void Shiki was tagged once, but it's not canonized.) Not surprised, it's a small fandom.