Specifically de implicate hadou.

For the same blatantly obvious reason that we don't tag characters as species, duh, and in case no one noticed, fan_characters makes precisely that assumption for 99% of the cases it's used for.

Hadou is often drawn by his owner as a scalie belonging to no canon (e.g. post #1119737 as a salamander, post #844522 as a gecko), in which case he no longer has any sort of connection to any specific canon and TWYS goes haywire because fan_character cannot be reasonably tagged to these images any more than "hedgehog" can be tagged on a humanized sonic.

i thought fan characters get the _(fan_charcter) suffix. though i have seen some pics with the fan character tag but no character name(s) before.

forum #218606 - Fan character macroforum

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It seems like a solid case, but it's weird with ones like that, because the artist seems to basically be drawing a couple of different characters and just giving them the same name, and people are tagging them based on the label on the page. Kind of tough to deal with if someone were to just claim, say, every one of a hundred totally different characters they drew were just one shapeshifter or something. In this case at least, it seems like this one has sort of a "base form" that's obviously a pokemon. For just a strange one-off, I'd think it's a problem worth accepting, but if one character commonly had a few repeated forms, it might just be better to tag them with some form name in the character tag, like PersonThing_species1variant, PersonThing_species2variant.

notnobody said:
It seems like a solid case, but it's weird with ones like that, because the artist seems to basically be drawing a couple of different characters and just giving them the same name, and people are tagging them based on the label on the page. Kind of tough to deal with if someone were to just claim, say, every one of a hundred totally different characters they drew were just one shapeshifter or something. In this case at least, it seems like this one has sort of a "base form" that's obviously a pokemon. For just a strange one-off, I'd think it's a problem worth accepting, but if one character commonly had a few repeated forms, it might just be better to tag them with some form name in the character tag, like PersonThing_species1variant, PersonThing_species2variant.

While it's an accurate description of what kaptcha or felino do (and in the former case I don't even tagging the character forms separately anymore @_@), Hadou's nonpokemon salamander form at the very least is definitely recognizable as the same character.

Circeus said:
While it's an accurate description of what kaptcha or felino do (and in the former case I don't even tagging the character forms separately anymore @_@), Hadou's nonpokemon salamander form at the very least is definitely/i] recognizable as the same character.

Tag What You See: We can assume it's not the same character, no matter how alike it looks, simply because it's a different species. Wouldn't that solve it?

Furrin_Gok said:
Tag What You See: We can assume it's not the same character, no matter how alike it looks, simply because it's a different species. Wouldn't that solve it?

Wouldn't that strictly speaking invalidate alternate_species across the board?

Circeus said:
Wouldn't that strictly speaking invalidate alternate_species across the board?

Ah, but there's another answer: He's a fancharacter for Pokemon, but as an alternate species.