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[Fate] Question about 'default' costumes

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I'm slowly working through the Fate series characters to either adjust or create costume chartags for them, and I absolutely want to make sure of something before I begin working on Gilgamesh. In Fate/Stay Night he is depicted wearing biker-styled casual clothes (post #2647504), so it'd make sense to treat them as part of his sets of 'default' attire aside from his armor. In Fate/Extella however, this outfit is given the name Immoral Biker Jacket and made into DLC for that game. The same applies to Jeanne d'Arc's Girl From Orleans.

Yes, I know I made Astolfo (Memories at Trifas) (Fate) and Mordred (Memories at Trifas) (Fate), so I might be doubling back on myself with this question. I made this tags due to them being alternate character skins in FGO, so they're more well-known. I'm just not 100% certain about how much I should go about creating costume chartags for designs that were released as DLC in the Extella games. I only want to know because I've already gone through Jeanne d'Arc and will work through Gilgamesh soon, and I don't want to sift through all of these posts and make these tags if they're ultimately not necessary.

I guess what I should be asking is, what defines a character's "default" attire, and should it get the chartag treatment despite being a "default"?

Imo their base outfit in FGO is definitely a safe choice for a default outfit because it tends to depict the way they're most commonly shown or their first depiction. For example Jeanne, it makes sense to give her casual outfit a chartag because it follows the same logic as Mordred or Astolfo - their defaults are their armor, the casual stuff is an aside. For Gil I'd probably treat it the same. The default also should not have a separate chartag imo.

Astolfo said:

Imo their base outfit in FGO is definitely a safe choice for a default outfit because it tends to depict the way they're most commonly shown or their first depiction. For example Jeanne, it makes sense to give her casual outfit a chartag because it follows the same logic as Mordred or Astolfo - their defaults are their armor, the casual stuff is an aside. For Gil I'd probably treat it the same. The default also should not have a separate chartag imo.

Yes, I absolutely wasn’t going to make chartags for their default armor, but I am dubious about their casual attire if they’re commonly depicted in it. This isn’t really an FGO problem (for once), but more about retroactively tagging older series. I sort of felt there was some value in tagging casual attire if it’s given a name (thank GOD there isn’t anything for Saber’s white blouse and blue skirt, or I’d go utterly mad), but I’m not 100% positive unless I know what the consensus is.

It's obviously very helpful to finding images of those outfits, so I'm in favor of specific tags. At the very least, they should be consistently tagged casual, but these are characters with a high tag count and many different casual outfits (both official and imagined by fans) so it would not be as good of a search option.

EB said:

It's obviously very helpful to finding images of those outfits, so I'm in favor of specific tags. At the very least, they should be consistently tagged casual, but these are characters with a high tag count and many different casual outfits (both official and imagined by fans) so it would not be as good of a search option.

Sounds good. I got Jeanne d'Arc (Girl From Orleans) (Fate) started, but I got majorly sidetracked, of course. I'm trying to clean up Jeanne d'Arc Alter Santa Lily posts after the big Jeanne BUR was approved to remove Jeanne d'Arc (Fate) from them where applicable. Now that the three Jeanne variants are going to be treated as separate characters, such a clean-up is going to be necessary to avoid future confusion.

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