Nomination queries

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Nominations continue until 29 June!

First up, when nominating, please follow the nomination guidelines, including the disambiguation at the end of the tag.

Secondly, I have nominations for The Last of Us and The Last of Us Part I. I know that Part II came out a couple of days ago - how do you want to do this?

Thirdly, I'd like to know in terms of Assassin's Creed whether it should be split or grouped together. If it is to be split, how should it be split?

Finally, I have a nomination for Pokemon - AMT with nominations for Black and White, X and Y, and Sword and Shield. Are these all in continuity with one another?

Queries remain open until the the 27th, so please if you have a view about issues 2 and 3, let me know. Anonymous comments are screened unless your AO3 name is included in the comment, but I do read all comments.

Comments

Re: Assassin's Creed

[tkodami]

I agree with these splits! I would be fine with splitting it any of the above ways, though I think these would be my preference:

1) Via the main character of the (historical part of the) game. Therefore: AC 1, Ezio Trilogy, AC3, all of the rest of the games separately

2) Via the main character of modern storyline. Therefore: Desmond storyline (AC1, AC2, AC:Brotherbood, AC:Revelations, AC3), then all of the rest of the games separately*

*note: I haven't played later AC games aside from AC: Origins, so I don't even know if any of the future games share overlapping modern protagonists! My apologies if I've made a mistake anywhere.

Re: Assassin's Creed

[thedevilchicken]

I'd probably go with splitting by main character in the historical part. This is mostly because:

a) 1, the Ezio Trilogy and 3 are pretty different games, only really linked by Desmond

b) the modern main character in Unity/Syndicate is an unnamed "Initiate" who doesn't appear on screen and is presumably the player, and the modern MC in Origins/Odyssey is Layla (who appears for about 30 minutes combined over both games, if that) - linking Unity and Syndicate, and Origins and Odyssey, would feel really weird!

The questions I have are: how would people want to treat crossovers between games, and where would you nominate modern day ships?

Re: Assassin's Creed

[asymptotically]

Oh those are good questions.

I would definitely want the modern pairings to be kept with their games. Splitting them off adds too many questions, especially since it's pretty popular to ship the modern character with the historical character of that game. There's only a few pairings that would affect anyways (and only really in the Desmond era games) so splitting it out would probably make more issues than it solves.

I think crossovers should go into Crossover Fandom. If you look at the current tagset, most of Crossover Fandom is currently Final Fantasy/Final Fantasy. It wouldn't seem fair to give AC a special crossover fandom when crossovers for other games of the same series are in Crossover Fandom.