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Sword Art Online different character appearances and naming issues [warning: many spoilers]

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Hillside_Moose said:
Which tag will identify which Asuna design? Will we go by order of appearance in the anime?

Yeah, order of appearance: "1" for the navel-baring outfit, and "2" for the blue/aqua-haired form.

Hillside_Moose said:
If she isn't referred to as Titania in the anime

She is, though I think only by Oberon. Still the name is definitely said in-series, so it isn't something casual viewers wouldn't know.

I really don't like titania_asuna because that combines two different first names for her and makes it look like "Titania" is actually her last name or something.

If we want both names in one tag I'd strongly prefer asuna_(titania), despite complaints about excessive qualifiers this tag conveys the information most appropriately: her actual name is Asuna, and her persona/appearance as shown in the pic is Titania. The only alternative I can think of which also conveys that would be something like asuna_as_titania, but that's basically inventing a new syntax for qualifiers for no good reason.

Otherwise, I like using two tags as suggested earlier, asuna_(sao) for the person and e.g. titania_(sao) or even titania_(cosplay) for her (seemingly involuntary) "cosplay" of Titania. As far as the game logic seems concerned, nothing requires linking the "queen of fairies" to Asuna's character other than that she was chosen to be the first one to represent her. This also opens the possibility of using that tag for other characters cosplaying Titania.

piespy said:
I really don't like titania_asuna because that combines two different first names for her and makes it look like "Titania" is actually her last name or something.

That was pretty much my feeling on it, which is why I was inclined to go with something else. Any more opinions? I want to start tagging (some other SAO-related stuff I might be looking for, after starting the hardware tags, and I can get this at the same time) but doesn't seem we've had an agreement yet.

That's been covered in the first page of this thread. Since SAO avatars look like their real-life player, there's no great need for separate tags.

I don't think a large amount of real-life art is going to appear anyway, the main interest is still their online presence.

Yeah, there is inconsistency with the characters original to ALO, but it makes more sense with them as they have a distinctly different appearance from real life. There should be a way to isolate the "real-life art", though (not having a large amount of it just makes it more difficult to find). Proper use of clothing tags (particularly casual and school_uniform) will work for the most part but there is no catch-all solution. Perhaps it should be OK to tag both their SAO handles and real-life names in those instances.

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