Arknights' Seaborn

Seaborn is a species of creature/monster from Arknights and a type of enemy in gameplay. Most of the individual monsters are gameplay enemy units with their own names, as well as a few boss enemies who are also lore characters. I recently identified and tagged a lot of the specific monsters. It's also used for human characters with seaborn contaminations but have not been assimilated, like the Abyssal Hunters.

What should be done to seaborn? Use it for unspecified seaborns only? Or as a catch-all tag? Any reference from other copyrights? Some series like Final Fantasy have species tags and tagged characters mutually exclusive, but they involve customizable avatars, does it apply here?

I removed seaborn from posts with fully identified seaborns for the moment, otherwise it's hard to tell which ones are tagged and which one are not.

See also forum #391545.

I'll first start off by mentioning that while adding the tags for the unidentified Seaborn was good, I think it was a poor decision to rush to remove the Seaborn tag from posts it was previous on when trying to have a discussion about how it's currently being used; it naturally makes forming an opinion on it more annoying when you've brushed away some of what is being discussed, forcing people to do a post versions search instead of opening the tag and seeing everything.

With that out of the way, here's my two cents:
Seaborn being used to describe characters such as Skadi the Corrupting Heart, or any other character which is primarily human is not helpful, I believe people who want to find them aren't thinking that searching Seaborn is a good way to find say Alfonso when it's a far more straightforward thought process to just look for a chartag.

In instances such as post #8224280, there's clearly, a Seaborn entity and Lumen, it's silly to not find a Deep Sea Slider in a Seaborn search when it's quite well depicted and displaying it's features plainly.

In the instances of assimilated Seaborn such as Martus, they've deviated enough from the human form that it makes sense to tag it as a Seaborn in my opinion.

In essence I think the best use of the Seaborn tag as an umbrella to find any of the eldritch sea monsters, personification of them and signficant assimilations from aegir so one doesn't need to do a 20+ tag search to find posts containing any seaborn creature.

Kawakijin said:

I'll first start off by mentioning that while adding the tags for the unidentified Seaborn was good, I think it was a poor decision to rush to remove the Seaborn tag from posts it was previous on when trying to have a discussion about how it's currently being used; it naturally makes forming an opinion on it more annoying when you've brushed away some of what is being discussed, forcing people to do a post versions search instead of opening the tag and seeing everything.

I said I removed seaborn for the moment because otherwise you can't tell which posts still have untagged seaborns.

If you want to see how the tag will look like with the implications:

These are eldritch seaborns: ~*sea_*_(arknights) ~nethersea* ~*brood*arknights) ~*cellular*arknights ~paranoia_illusion_(arknights) ~nourished* ~chest_seaborn_(arknights)

These are theroid and humanoid seaborns: ~the_endspeaker_(arknights) ~the_first_to_talk_(arknights) ~pathshaper_(arknights)

These are seaborn-assimilated humans and animals, excluding half-assimilated humans like the abyssal hunters, Mizuki and Highmore: ~martus_(arknights) ~quintus_(arknights) ~the_last_knight_(arknights) ~rocinante_(arknights) ~hyman_(arknights) ~garcia_(arknights)

All of them together: ~*seaborn_* ~ishar-mla_(arknights) ~sea_(arknights) ~nethersea* ~*brood*arknights) ~*cellular*arknights ~paranoia_illusion_(arknights) ~the_endspeaker_(arknights) ~the_first_to_talk_(arknights) ~pathshaper_(arknights) ~martus_(arknights) ~quintus_(arknights) ~the_last_knight_(arknights) ~rocinante_(arknights) ~hyman_(arknights)

The latter two have different degrees of monsterfications. The last knight and The first to talk are humanoid. Martus are Hyman are humanoid monsters. Quintus is completely eldritch. Quitus and Endspeaker also have two forms where one is humanoid and one is monster-like.

There is also Ishar-mla and Skadi's seaborn whose search results look almost identical.

And posts showing seaborn infections: post #7647984, post #9870889 or generic tentacles: post #8006424, post #9077040.

Might be worth discussing whether the hard versions (nourished_slider_(arknights)) should be implied to the normal versions (Deep Sea Slider (Arknights)) also though that's more of a general Arknights thing.