Multiple images of one character

I was going through trying to clean up images tagged as both 1girl and 2girls, and somthing came up that I'm not sure about; which way do these cases go (IE, are they tagged as 1girl or 2girls)?

Two of the same person: IE post #1727482

Two different personas of the same person: IE post #1732407

Daimakura: IE post #1730609

Zoom layer: IE post #1729377

Faceless non-detailed background characters: IE post #1541794

I take it it's common sense that posts like post #1564031 are tagged one girl since it's more like a comic, and we're not tagging 2girls if the same girl appears multiple times in the same comic page in different panels. I do wonder about post #1697279 though; it's parent is marked 1girl, and rensouhou-chan is neither marked as a girl or boy itself, but what about a character like that being represented by a girl like in this case?

Either way, the 2girls wiki mentions dolls but none of these other cases, and dual_persona only mentions that solo shouldn't be used but doesn't mention multiple_girls/multiple_boys.

Two images of the same person, like with many dakimakura, should be tagged 1girl but not solo.

It seems like we should have a specific tag for that situation. dual_persona seems to be used for it sometimes, but it's more for when there are two versions of a character and both are in the image, not when it's the same character just in different poses/outfits. Maybe variations? I don't see that tag used much but it seems to fit the definition.

I was very much thinking of something like that variations tag, didn't even know about it. And yes, it doesn't seem to get used much it appears.

post #1653209 is another of those border cases I was thinking about when I wrote this up; two characters, each with chibi personas of them inalternate forms/personas/costumes.

1girl+solo+collage.

lkjh098 said:

Maybe variations?

There's also multiple_views

Kikimaru said:

1girl+solo+collage.

solo shouldn't be added when collage applies. Read the wiki for solo:

These situations also do not require this tag:

• Single characters being depicted with multiple viewpoints (post #12904)

Variations is used for images where the character keeps the same posture but the clothing is different. I'd suggest to use that multiple_views tag, though personally I simply put 1girl tag without solo for such images.

I guess I can include solo in the discussion too, but the original purpose was to narrow down when to use 1girl and when to use 2girls more or less; The solo wiki is much more in depth frankly so I wasn't as concerned there.

If there's any question as far as solo goes in relation to all this it's cases the solo wiki doesn't mention. In particular does zoom_layer fall under the multiple viewpoints exception given in the wiki to not use the tag? And do comics like post #1731459 fall under the multiple viewpoint exception too? The comics in particular since there are literally thousands of images that are comic solo, with probably half of them being multipanel images featuring one character.

As far as I understand, zoom layer counts as solo and posts like post #1731459 do not. The solo tag is often misused I guess.

How about something like multiple_instance?

But why? We already have multiple_viewpoints, don't we?

MagicalAsparagus said:

But why? We already have multiple_viewpoints, don't we?

multiple_views*

The multiple_views tag would apply to dakimakura with two images of the same character (even if the pose or outfit changes), yes?

Edit: Added a basic wiki for multiple_views.

Why would the outfit change? (State of undress sure but the outfit itself?) That's for a single dakimakura.

Log said:

Why would the outfit change? (State of undress sure but the outfit itself?) That's for a single dakimakura.

It happens occasionally, e.g. post #1711273 or post #1699788.

So that's mutiple views, dakimakura, comic or collage with only one character who appears in multiple panels, then dual persona (and everything associated with it like multiple persona, time paradox, and clone) all out of solo. Leaving zoom layer as the only exception I can see so far to more than one body in an image and still being solo?

Does that sum everything up or am I missing anything? (the original point of this thread for the #girl/#boy tags being another issue)

Saduharta said:

Leaving zoom layer as the only exception I can see so far to more than one body in an image and still being solo?

Also stereogram and sometimes how_to.

lkjh098 said:

Also stereogram and sometimes how_to.

Why would how_to be an exception?

Toks said:

Why would how_to be an exception?

If it's different stages of drawing the same image, e.g. post #1079271 or post #1209902.

I could see the ilya_kuvshinov work_in_progress gifs being an exception as it's one image continually modified unless you extract the frames. The images linked indicate how-to with the virtually same image side-by-side isn't really that different from a dakimakura.

Well really, the same image with slight differences in those how tos kind of mirror how zoom layer works, just in different stages of being done rather than different size. But technically I agree it shouldn't be an exception, because the differences in the images is more pronounced and they're definitely separated.