Subject: About the spelling...
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Posted on: 2014-05-07 00:11:00 UTC
I think if the names are used consistently, then they should be fine.
Mini-Abnormals...oh my....
I think it would be really funny if Colossal Titan minis were the smallest minis.
I found one the other day in this post (http://disc.yourwebapps.com/discussion.cgi?disc=199610;article=258385;title=PPC%20Posting%20Board) (help how do I hyperlink on a message board) that I think is the first, and have so classified it as a mini-Titan. Forget bacon and raw eggs, this bad boy eats live pig and screaming fangirls. (Unfortunately, as Titans don't have a digestive tract...yeah.)
The main issue here is the various different ways of spelling character names in English; Hanji(Hange), Yeager(Jaeger), Levi(Rivaille), and Krista(Christa), for example. How do we determine whether a certain spelling is just the author's preferred transliteration or an actual error? If someone misspells a Titan Shifter's name, are we gonna have to deal with a mini-Abnormal?
On a lesser note, I think it'd be kind of funny if mini-Titans came in different sizes to reflect their canon counterparts. (more flagrant/bizarre misspelling = bigger mini-Titan) How this would work given that most minis are about three feet tall and Titans are measured using meters is for someone with more patience than me to calculate.
What say you all? (Oh, also, have we confirmed a fanfic explosion?)
A new mini type can only be made from an OFU, or (if one doesn't exist yet) from a published PPC mission that discovers some in a badfic. More info can be found on the mini page of our wiki.
http://ppc.wikia.com/wiki/Mini#CreatingNewMini_Types
As to the confusion from different translations of a character's name, I would personally allow any officially translated name, as long as it was consistent within the fic. I do recall Teena and Wyldehorse being less lenient in one of their anime missions, however.
I basically tend to look for an "official" spelling too, and would accept any version with "official" usage (for example, Kyubey from Madoka Magica can be romanized also as Kyubei or Kyuubey, and Kyoko as Kyouko, so I tend to accept those. Things like Kubei or Kyuko are minis instead).
I also tend to ignore any re-naming the official dubs do - for example, one of "my" series is Cardcaptor Sakura, and the two dubs I know (Italian and American) both use different names.
Using the Japanese ones is the only way to keep things neat - some of my readers know one character as Yuki and some as Julian. However, while they might not be aware of the other dub version of the name, they're all very likely to know that the character's original name is Yukito.
I think if the names are used consistently, then they should be fine.
Mini-Abnormals...oh my....
I think it would be really funny if Colossal Titan minis were the smallest minis.