Nominations are open!

[press_start_mod]

Nominations are open! You may find the tagset here! Sorry everyone for the delay, I went down with a migraine and words were hard.

Before we start nominating, some preliminary information.

Character Nominations
You are able to nominate characters and character combinations! This means the following:

• Character A (video game title) - A fanwork where Character A must be the focus;
• group: Character A & Character B (video game title) - A fanwork where the gen relationship of Character A and Character B is the focus;
• group: Character A/Character B (video game title) - a fanwork where the shippy relationship of Character A and Character B is the focus. You are also free to nominate group: Character A/Original Male Character or group: Character A/Original Female Character.
• group: Character A/Character B & Character C (video game title) - a fanwork where the shippy relationship between Character A and B, as well as their gen relationships with Character C are the focus.

The above examples are for two-three characters, but there is no maximum for how many characters can fit into a relationship tag (outside of the character limit in the nomination form itself). 

Matching is "OR", meaning that you match on a tag. If you want Character A and Character B in your gift, nominate them as a group. If you nominate each of them separately your creator only has to include one of them. Please keep that in mind when nominating!

Putting the video game title in brackets after your nomination is essential. This is to aid me in identifying wandering tags and in cases where some fandoms are synned to each other in weird ways I can force the tags to go where they need to. Do not nominate without it! You also can shorten the prefix of "Group" as required, but please do not remove it entirely. We are doing our best to limit the use of canonical tags so that tags don't wander, hence putting a prefix in front of a relationship tag.

Crossover Fandoms
Crossover character combinations are eligible.

There are some basic rules.

• When nominating a crossover, the fandom is Crossover Fandom. I have already nominated Crossover Fandom into the tag set so please use that spelling. Not nominating a crossover into this fandom will mean that nomination will be rejected;
• Nominations can be for gen fic or ship fic;
• Nominations are to be written like this: Group: Character A (Video Game 1) & Character B (Video Game 2) (or group: Character A (Video Game)/Character B (Video Game 2) though, as above, "Group" can be shortened as required;
• There is no limit of the number of characters that are in a tag set, short of AO3's character limit;
• All characters in the crossover combination must be video game characters.

Series of Games
The test for whether a game is part of a series and should be nominated as one is as follows:

1. Is the game marketed as being part of a series (i.e. a trilogy, games set in the same world etc etc);
2. Are the games that make up the series part of the same continuity or different continuity;
3. Is there a significant crossover of major characters between the games?

At the moment:

• Dragon Age (Video Games) is the correct tag for any nomination for Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age II, and Dragon Age Inquisition;
• Mass Effect Andromeda is a separate game to the Mass Effect Trilogy;
• Final Fantasy games are separate to one another, except for the ones that are explicitly in continuity with each other (so, Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2 are one nomination, but Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy X are not);
• Kingdom Hearts is a separate continuity to Final Fantasy;
• The Star Ocean games can be nominated separately;
• The Kiseki/Trails series can be nominated as individual series (i.e. Sora, Sen etc etc)
• Fallout can be nominated separately.
• Final Fantasy VII should be nominated by timeline (original timeline, Remake timeline) - I am taking suggestions about how these groups should be named. I am willing to explain why I want separate nominations if anyone is curious.
• Assassin Creed games are by individual subseries.
• Danganronpa is to be nominated into Dangan Ronpa (Hope's Peak Arc) and Danganronpa v3. Hope's Peak Arc includes Danganronpa, Danganronpa 2 and Ultra Despair Girls.

If you are considering nominating a game that could be a series, or could be a tie-in, please drop a comment below so that I can hash it out with you first.

Eligibility of Games
For a game to be eligible it must:

• Be released by the time that signups close; and
• Not be heavily dependent on another, non-video game canon.
• If it is a game that is coming out in instalments, one instalment must be released.

Finally, a reminder: if you defaulted after the no-penalty default deadline in previous years, you remain ineligible to participate in this round until you complete your penalty gift. If you don't remember what you need to do, please email me and I will let you know what you need to do!

Otherwise, happy nominations! Noms close 11:59pm on 29 June.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Does the rule at the end "For a game to be eligible it must Not be heavily dependent on another, non-video game canon" mean that Star Wars games are not eligible because of how they depend on the non video game part of the Star Wars canon?

[press_start_mod]

No, the Star Wars games with original content (Knights of the Old Republic, Fallen Order etc) are all eligible because they tell a standalone story with new characters. The rule is intended to capture circumstances such as tie in games to non-video game franchises such as the Naruto games.

[somecallmemichelle]

Does the rule towards tie-in still apply to games which are retellings of the entire media? I'm thinking of, for example Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot which tells the story of Z and yet has "Never before seen content" on characters that Toryama didn't include in the manga releases (or anime) such as Launch actually being in it.

Or under this rule something like Dragon Ball FighterZ' original story mode, which is something entirely new would be acceptable but something like Xenoverse 2 (which is a bunch of what ifs), Kakarot or the Legacy of Goku games wouldn't?

(I'm likely not requesting any of the Dragon Ball Z games myself, just wanted to clarify the rules as it might impact the fandom I request).

[press_start_mod]

It's difficult to make a call on an edge case like that without knowing the game in question. May I ask the title you're considering nominating?

[somecallmemichelle]

I ended up just nominating mainline games in the series I was planning to nominate for simplicity sake.
But thank you! (I totally missed this comment the last time. OOPS)

[(Anonymous)]

Can I just check: are nominations meant to be visible? I'm getting the "The moderators have chosen not to make the tags in this set visible to the public (possibly while nominations are underway)." message on the tagset.

[press_start_mod]

They should be now! Thanks for bringing that to my attention - the migraine's still frying my brain.

[stillturningout]

Hi! I saw you approved The Witcher - All Media Types but from my understanding they should be The Witcher - Video Game? I didn’t see any notes in regarding to nominations so let me know what I should nominate under ^_^

[thedevilchicken]

Just noting for the mods that the two ships currently approved under Witcher AMT are both mine, and I could've sworn I nominated the games instead of the umbrella tag. Whether this was AO3 weirdness or just me misclicking...not sure - sorry, mods!

[press_start_mod]

I also could have sworn that I approved it as the video game! Not a problem, I'll move it across to the video game.

[lielac]

Hi! I'm nominating Dwarf Fortress, which doesn't have specific named characters hardcoded into the game, only groups/types of characters, since it's all procedurally generated. What's the protocol for that? I'm imagining something like nominating "Original Dwarf Character(s)", "Original Elf Character(s)", "Original Dwarf Character(s) & Forgotten Beast(s)".

[press_start_mod]

That's correct!

[lielac]

Cool, thanks!

[rubylily]

I found a duplicate under Octopath Traveler:

Primrose (Octopath Traveler)
Primrose Azelhart (Octopath Traveler)

There's also a duplicate under 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim:

Group: Kisaragi Tomi/Ogata Nenji (13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim)
Group: Kisaragi Tomi/Ogata Nenji (13 Sentinels)

[press_start_mod]

Those should be fixed now!

[rubylily]

I found another issue: under Chrono Cross, Crono (Chrono Trigger) and Marle (Chrono Trigger) are wandering over from Chrono Trigger.

[press_start_mod]

Those should be fixed now!

[rubylily]

While Crono is fortunately staying put under Chrono Trigger, Marle, however, is now showing up only under Chrono Cross.

[pegasus143]

Just a heads-up that a bunch of the characters from Danganronpa V3 are showing up in the tagset under Danganronpa 3 instead.

[press_start_mod]

May I ask you to identify which ones have migrated?

[pegasus143]

Here's the list copy-pasted from the tagset (not my nominations, btw, just pointing it out since I noticed it):
Gonta Gokuhara (Dangan Ronpa)
Himiko Yumeno (Dangan Ronpa)
Kaito Momota (Dangan Ronpa)
Kokichi Oma (Dangan Ronpa)
Rantaro Amami (Dangan Ronpa)
Saihara Shuichi (Dangan Ronpa)

[press_start_mod]

Ah, I see - the problem is that they were nominated under the wrong fandom. That's been fixed now!

Extra Nom

[neosaiyanangel]

Heya! I just noticed that Auron/Lulu from Final Fantasy X are in the noms twice.

Re: Extra Nom

[press_start_mod]

That should be fixed now!

[tildytwo]

Stay healthy, mod! No worries on the delay--we all understand if you need to take time for yourself. :)

[rubylily]

A number of group nominations don't have "Group:" in front of the relationship.

Final Fantasy VIII:
Rinoa Heartilly/Seifer Almasy (FFVIII)
Rinoa Heartilly/Zell Dincht (FFVIII)

Final Fantasy X Series:
Auron & Jecht (FFX)
Auron/Lulu (Final Fantasy X Video Game) (this one is a duplicate of "Group: Auron/Lulu (FFX)")
Belgemine & Braska (FFX)
Lulu & Yuna (FFX)

Frostpunk (Video Game):
Original Child Character & Original Male Character (Frostpunk)
Original Male Engineer Character/Original Male Refugee Character (Frostpunk)

Hitman (Video Games):
Agent 47/Diana Burnwood (Hitman Video Game Series)

Killer7:
Dan Smith/Coyote Smith (Killer7)

Lunar (Video Games):
Alex & Dyne (Lunar: Silver Star Story)
Althena & Ghaleon & Dyne (Lunar: Silver Star Story)
Hiro/Lucia (Lunar: Eternal Blue)
Ronfar/Mauri & Leo (Lunar: Eternal Blue)
Ruby/Nall (Lunar: Eternal Blue)

[press_start_mod]

Those should all be fixed now!

Into the Breach Nom Typo

[(Anonymous)]

Aw nuts, I borked noms for Into the Breach (they're correctly grouped, but the parenthetical identifier after each nom reads "Enter the Breach," because I'm an idiot). If this isn't easy for the mod to clean up, feel free to throw out those noms and I'll resubmit them correctly. Sorry! :(

Re: Into the Breach Nom Typo

[press_start_mod]

If it helps, the disambiguation really does not matter! It's put in there in case your tag gets unassociated from the fandom either by wandering or because AO3 loses the connection with the fandom when it gets approved, so that I know where to put it on the admin console. As your nominations are correctly grouped, I'm okay with leaving it as is.

Utena noms

[kanna_ophelia]

Hi,

I am shamefacedly confessing I forgot part of the guidelines when nominating.

The Revolutionary Girl Utena nomination is mine. The characters I nominated (Protagonist/Chigusa) are exclusive to the visual novel, but I understand if it runs foul of the no tie-in rule. Sorry for not checking here first!

Re: Utena noms

[press_start_mod]

In my (admittedly very limited) googling, it looks like it's set between episodes 8 and 9 of the TV series. Does the game stand alone or do you need to have watched the anime as well?