As previously mentioned in forum #347077. With the exception of Artoria Pendragon and Tamamo, a whole bunch of these servant implication hierarchies are vaguely nonsense. Specifically the ones I plan to eventually dissect are Nero Claudius, BB, Mordred, Jeanne d'Arc, Jeanne d'Arc Alter, and Elizabeth Bathory.
These top-level tags and their sub-tags are serving two conflicting approaches—a hierarchy based on "servant class" and a hierarchy based on "costumes". For the example with Artoria, they are easily distinguished from each other and identifiable as separate characters; Saber is not Salter is not Castoria is not MHX is not Titoria. However, with many other characters the differences are literally just costume. Which brings me to my first and relatively easiest tag to tackle: Jeanne d'Arc Alter.
Now as white woman of the year Jalter should definitely not share an umbrella tag with Jeanne since she significantly outnumbers her in post count. That aside, there are only 4 main variants of Jalter at most—Avenger, Swimsuit, alter santa lily (which I also have no problem with keeping in a separate tag), and lancer (who is currently implicated to Jeanne instead which I have gripes with, forum #319316).
Unlike Artoria, there isn't really a meaningful difference outside of costumes for 3 of these designs (Avenger, Swimsuit, Lancer). So it's extremely silly that our current tag hierarchy is:
- Jalter
- Jalter Avenger
- Ascension 1
- Ascension 3
- Holy Night Supper
- New Beginning
- Shinjuku
- Bikini Jalter
- Mystery Treasure
- Festival Outfit
Her swimsuit version doesn't even have separate ascensions cuz she's a welfare! We don't really have any good reason to maintain 3 levels of implications here, the distinction between "bikini jalter" and "not-bikini jalter" is pedantic at best. believe me i love being a pedant but even i know when to quit
There's no reason the Jalter implication tree shouldn't look like this instead:
- Jalter
- Ascension 1
- Ascension 3
- Holy Night Supper
- New Beginning
- Shinjuku
- Bikini Jalter
- Mystery Treasure
- Festival Outfit
(The two under bikini jalter have enough connection to warrant that level staying but i can see it going the other way.)
Similar problems exist with most of the other tags I listed above, since they generally primarily consist of "normal char" and "swimsuit" with a few exceptions which is flimsy. But for now I'm starting with Jalter because this one is the easiest, thanks to her not having swimsuit ascensions. Plan to submit a BUR later when I'm not on phone and about to conk out unless someone beats me to it.
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