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Nominations are open!

You can nominate eight fandoms and eight characters from each. Nominations will be open until Tuesday September 8, 23:59 Zulu time.

All traditional fandoms are eligible. RPF has a few special rules that you can read about in the faq. Fanworks as fandoms will be determined on a case by case basis.

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[we_protect_each_other]

Hi! I have a question about nominating characters from two different series with an overlapping character.

The Fate/ franchise is a very complicated, convoluted series. However, there are two recent anime that are the main thing I'm interested in that have a few but not very many fics, so I was interested in nominating a set of characters from both. While these two shows (their show-specific tags are 'Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works (Anime 2014)' and 'Fate/Zero' respectively) are within the same continuity, the latter is a prequel to the former. The stories take place ten years apart, and the character overlap in most cases is more like continuity-nod than it is two different shows about the same set of characters. The "main player" casts are very different in terms of composition and dynamic, hence why I'm hoping that both can be nominated rather than lumping them all together. If allowed to nominate both in their separate categories, three of my four characters for each would be different.

But then, there is this character tag: Arturia Pendragon | Saber

She is one of the very few characters who plays a significant, primary role in both anime. (Some time-weirdness and magic are involved.) If it's possible, I'd like to see her in both categories (if you allow them to be separate) because the characters she would be nominated with would be completely different in that case. However, I know that a technical limitation on AO3 doesn't allow me to nominate her twice.

I did not know if this was something you didn't like the sound of, didn't want to deal with, or if there was anything you could say on the matter.

If you only want the whole Fate/ franchise nominated once instead, there are TWO options for that, I think: 'Fate/stay night & Related Fandoms' and 'Fate/stay night - All Media Types,' and I know that we generally hate "All Media Types" for exchanges.

I know this is a weird judgment call most people wouldn't ask you to make, but I just wanted to check.

Thank you!

[pumpkinkingmod]

I'd prefer they be separate fandoms. Saber can be in both, just put the fandom name in parenthesis when nominating her.

[we_protect_each_other]

I got my nominations finished (I'm user failsafe in case reference helps when you get around to reviewing it) and it would seem that some other people have already nominated several of the characters under "Fate/stay night & Related Fandoms" but I still nominated them to try to disambiguate which they were from. However, I'm not really sure which way you'll want to go with that when you get to the disambiguation process (which is why I'm making this comment in case it's helpful) because some of the characters appear in both Fate/stay night from 2006 (which has a different plot, parallel universe type thing) and some from the 2014 anime which I'm nominating for.

I also noticed that it says that "Arturia Pendragon | Saber (Fate/Zero)" is not a canonical tag which is something it's not flagging for the others I had to disambiguate so I just wanted to reiterate that she definitely is in Fate/Zero.

I feel so bad for making you sort through something that is as convoluted as this so if there's any way I personally can help you with knowing where people go (since they have repeat appearances in quite different things) once you decide what to do, I'll be glad to try to help.