So, this question came about from looking at some recent touhou images, and sort of developed into it's own question here.
The Shikigami tag is used in several ways, somewhat inconsistently.
- In most series "Shikigami" means the paper talismans/manikins used to represent them (e.g. Kancolle, post #6445121)
- In certain series, like Jujutsu Kaisen and onmyoji, however, it's instead used as a species tag to represent when a given monster is a shikigami (post #6554773)
- Then in third cases, like Touhou, there is Shikigami with real forms and paper talisman shikigami, and it's used as an object tag only, not a species tag. (like, if the second case applied, posts like post #6613563 should absolutely be tagged, but they're not.)
- Moreover, there's unique cases where certain shikigami papers have incredibly unique designs, and are at least part of the form of specific characters, but whether those images should be tagged with the character is another question entirely, as the talisman itself is inanimate (chen's talisman in post #6706255 is what started this whole line of questioning.)
So, my proposal is this:
- The existing shikigami tag applies both to shikigami with paper and non-paper forms, essentially being both a species and object tag.
- A new tag, shikigami_talisman, is created to indicate the paper forms specifically. Shikigami in other forms don't get that tag.
- In cases where there are animate talismans with known identities, like shiki_taishou, those keep their character tags.
- In cases where there are unique talismans with known identities, but the character has a different main canon form, those are tagged with a character tag x_(shikigami_talisman). So Chen's paper talisman form would be tagged Chen_(shikigami_talisman), and standard alt-form implication rules apply.