Fixing NieR protagonist names

BUR #25764 has been approved by @nonamethanks.

create alias nier_(young) -> nier_(brother)
create alias nier_(old) -> nier_(father)

for context, NieR (2010) had 2 different versions, NieR Gestalt and NieR Replicant. the main difference between the two was the protagonist of Gestalt was a father with Yonah as his daughter. in Replicant (including the modern remake) the protagonist was a younger man who is the brother of Yonah instead

I don't like the current names for them since it makes it look the tags are for two different forms of the same character when they're really just two different characters that play a similar role based on game version (a la Pokemon box art legendary mons)

but more importantly the fanbase barely refers to them as "young" and "old". "Brother NieR" and "Papa/Father NieR" are what most people use to differentiate between the two. however I think the qualifiers I suggested above should be easily findable too

if this bur gets approved, "alias brother_nier -> nier_(brother)" and "alias father_nier -> nier_(father)" could be done for more utility though not really necessary

This always bugged me, to the point where whenever I was uploading I had to double check that young/old didn't just refer to the 2 time period ones in Gestalt (maybe we could use a tag for that though?)

I'm not sure if Father NieR has a significant appearance change after the timeskip (never played his version) but yeah I think a new character tag for Brother NieR timeskip appearance at least should be made

considering there's not really a clear "normal appearance" to base nier_(brother) + aged down / aged up on. unless we want to choose one and enforce it and write a note on the wiki

if this bur goes through I can populate timeskip Brother NieR with "nier_(brother)_(timeskip)", and then afterwards that should probably be made to imply "nier_(brother)". imo that should be a better approach

Maybe it's easier/more intuitive to just re-use the current terminology, so nier (brother) (young) and nier (brother) (old), one for each since there's not really a "real" or "default" one. Plus those implications, of course.

c_spl said:

I'm not sure if Father NieR has a significant appearance change after the timeskip

Not really? He gains an eyepatch. Not sure if there are any other changes.

The bulk update request #25764 (forum #278994) has been approved by @nonamethanks.