Danbooru

square_halo should imply halo

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GreyOmega

Is there a specific need for square_halo and triangle_halo instead of a broader polygon_halo? All but 4 posts under square_halo are of Aris, and even including her only 2 of the actual posts are specifically a square and not a composite of multiple squares/rectangles.

Triangle halo is nearly entirely Kotori and Omega Alpha, with only 5 posts not being either of these two characters. 4 posts if not including any Blue Archive characters. In this case though, all the posts do have a central singular triangle shape.

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7HS

Bougaiteuil said:

Both square halo and winged halo are virtually just a different tag for one character, Aris and Mashiro respectively. Despite being 500 and 400 post tags respectively, they both have under 10 not-BA posts. Doesn't seem so useful.

winged halo applies to four BA characters, Hinata, Hifumi, Koharu and Mashiro (though Hinata's halo in particular is poorly tagged as such.)

square halo technically applies to <Key> as well as Aris.

That said, I won't argue that these two tags are ever likely to apply to anything other than a handful of BA characters in significant numbers, though BA gets new characters at a frequent enough clip though the chance of these tags being applicable to a new BA character in the near future is non-zero.

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user 893647

When I first made square halo, it was for Nanami Yachiyo (Historia ver.). I didn't go out of my way to populate the tag, I just put it on two posts of her I was tagging. I also didn't make a wiki, so acting like I have any direct say in how the tag is used would be wrong, but...

Looking at Aris' halo, this is not really what I had in mind. Maybe my opinion would be different if I had any BA knowledge, but to me, even though it is a halo made out of squares (rectangles), it's not really a solid shape like what I had in mind.

If we make polygonal halo or whatever, I'd love to see it limited to simple shapes like ◁◇⬠⬡, maybe even symettrically doubled ones like ⟁, but not ◰ like Aris. (Though I wouldn't be opposted to a separate tag like that).

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7HS

Personally I feel we could go broader and create a tag called something like "non-circular halo" (defined as something like "a halo that, absent any embellishments it may have, is not based on the traditional circular or disc shape of halos") with the other tags like square halo and rectangular halo aliased to it.

All halo tags are doomed to be dominated by BA characters, but this definition would pull in several other ones like Kanna and Misaki. Possibly Amane Kanata too (currently she's tagged star halo, but I guess she could have both tags?)

(Note, I am definitely not suggesting that non-circular halo should coexist as an umbrella over any tags other than possibly star halo (which contains the edge case of IRyS, whose halo could be argued to be both starry and circular.) I am questioning whether the exact geometric shape of 'weird' halos really matters enough that we need to be precise in how we tag them. Especially when some of them like Aris's defy any simple description.)

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user 893647

If we have a character with a circular halo that consists of floating stars, there's technically nothing stopping anyone from making the same but with squares. Or triangles. Or anything, really.

I really dislike nuking/aliasing away tags like that just because we currently have (presumably) no posts of it.

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