Subject: I can explain this one
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Posted on: 2020-07-20 06:09:11 UTC

Most likely, what FFN does for character tags is give each character a number. For discussion purposes, let's say that Fem!Shep was character number 56. FFN then records every fic featuring her as featuring character number 56, which FFN knows means Fem!Shep. When she was deleted from the character tags, all of those old fics were still tagger as featuring character number 56, which FFN just ignored because there was no character 56. But when Andromeda came out, more characters got added and were assigned unused numbers. In this example, 56 was assigned to J Garson, so FFN read all of those old fics tagged with character 56 as being tagged to J Garson.

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