@yuudo: Thanks for the additional information about...

yuudo
2024-08-03T22:08:07-04:00

Thanks for the additional information about Samus! I just wanted to respond to a few points people made:

Login_to_view said:

If this BUR passes, it won't be possible to filter artworks of Firefly and SAM appearing together anymore. (And no, filtering out 1girl would remove artworks with other characters such as post #6585449).

Yeah, that's why I was saying that you'd have to establish a different tag like dual persona to make that work, but of course there's the issue of tagging consistently as there is with anything like that.

Login_to_view said:

My exposure to HSR is secondary at best, however I just want to say that, as far as I know, Samus has never been referred to as a guy, her identity has always been pretty straightforward, and she never spoke with a male voice. SAM is much more akin to an alternate identity.

Small bit of trivia, don't think this should majorly influence the decision or anything, but Samus was actually referred to as a guy in the English NES manual for Metroid 1, making her gender reveal at the end of the game a reward for players who completed it quickly. Ever since then, yes, she has always been referred to as a woman and basically anyone who knows anything substantial about the character is aware of that.

Ashaci said:

If we follow HSR lore, I would prefer to keep separate as there is many type of SAM (example: post #7708774) with different people and gender, and I don't know if we going to get another SAM in the game, so yeah my opinion is we keep it seperate.

I believe that the character tag for Sam is meant to refer specifically to "Stellaron Hunter Sam", the established in-universe character associated with the Stellaron Hunter faction, which exclusively refers to Firefly. How we choose to reconcile this is up for debate of course, but in my opinion it makes more sense to either make a general tag or new character tags in the event of a hypothetical future introduction of additional SAM suits.