Self-insert/OCs tagged as protagonist

While looking through the doctor_(arknights) tag, i ran into deathalice's self-insert(?).
Looking through the artist's posts, i noticed said OC is always tagged as either commander_(azur_lane) or female_commander_(girls_frontline), depending on the game.

My point is: should they, along with other similar instances, be tagged as the protagonist or not?
Their design is, most of the time, nothing alike the canon or "generally accepted" design. For example, in post #3835590 there's nothing about her clothes resembling the official clothes.

I could also make some complaint about female_doctor_(arknights) and female_commander_(girls_frontline), since they don't have a male counterpart, and in the Doctor's case they do not have any canon gender.

Mysterious_Uploader said:

I could also make some complaint about female_doctor_(arknights) and female_commander_(girls_frontline), since they don't have a male counterpart, and in the Doctor's case they do not have any canon gender.

As far as I know, the Kantai Admiral never had a confirmed gender or appearance, yet we have admiral_(kantai_collection), female_admiral_(kantai_collection), little_boy_admiral_(kantai_collection), T-head_admiral, I think there's a dog admiral that might have its own tag?

If Arknights and Girls Frontline can't have that, Kantai shouldn't either, and I'm not sure how good of an idea that is.

Edit: Also AK and GFL have doctor_(arknights) and commander_(girls_frontline) respectively that's usually used for male depictions.

I think it's fine having the different tags ala Kantai Collection.

blindVigil said:

As far as I know, the Kantai Admiral never had a confirmed gender or appearance, yet we have admiral_(kantai_collection), female_admiral_(kantai_collection), little_boy_admiral_(kantai_collection), T-head_admiral, I think there's a dog admiral that might have its own tag?

Their design is, most of the time, nothing alike the canon or "generally accepted" design. For example, in post #3835590 there's nothing about her clothes resembling the official clothes.

By "generally accepted" i meant it as "design multiple artists use", or at least have something distinguishing. deathalice's design fits neither, the character being a doctor is meta knowledge, not something shown in the pic itself.

blindVigil said:

As far as I know, the Kantai Admiral never had a confirmed gender or appearance, yet we have admiral_(kantai_collection), female_admiral_(kantai_collection), little_boy_admiral_(kantai_collection), T-head_admiral, I think there's a dog admiral that might have its own tag?

If Arknights and Girls Frontline can't have that, Kantai shouldn't either, and I'm not sure how good of an idea that is.

Edit: Also AK and GFL have doctor_(arknights) and commander_(girls_frontline) respectively that's usually used for male depictions.

Don't forget Touken Ranbu as well, we also have non-human variants for 3 of the copyrights.

Mysterious_Uploader said:

By "generally accepted" i meant it as "design multiple artists use", or at least have something distinguishing. deathalice's design fits neither, the character being a doctor is meta knowledge, not something shown in the pic itself.

I would call for example post #2530636 "generally accepted" either but it's tagged as non-human admiral anyway.

Unbreakable said:

would call for example post #2530636 "generally accepted" either but it's tagged as non-human admiral anyway.

non-human admiral has 2.7k posts, so even if it doesn't have a "specified design", it's a common trope.

Mysterious_Uploader said:

non-human admiral has 2.7k posts, so even if it doesn't have a "specified design", it's a common trope.

And female doctors will probably also become common enough.