Brilliant! This perfectly demonstrates the silly Danbooru notion of taging Atoria as saber. Heroine X is an Assassin class but she calls herself a Saber. She is Atoria, but she denies it. Likewise Merlin uses Excalibur but he is actually a Caster.

The whole Saber tag should be removed. Saber isn't a name it is a class. yet it is used as a character name tag on Danbooru while tags such as "caster" isn't used on all casters.

At the very least, "Saber" should be removed from Heroine X as she isn't a Saber class and she already has a name that hides her identity.

Setsunator said:

Brilliant! This perfectly demonstrates the silly Danbooru notion of taging Atoria as saber. Heroine X is an Assassin class but she calls herself a Saber. She is Atoria, but she denies it. Likewise Merlin uses Excalibur but he is actually a Caster.

The whole Saber tag should be removed. Saber isn't a name it is a class. yet it is used as a character name tag on Danbooru while tags such as "caster" isn't used on all casters.

At the very least, "Saber" should be removed from Heroine X as she isn't a Saber class and she already has a name that hides her identity.

The issue here is simply that FGO is a spinoff while FSN / FZero the "main series". Which is why the naming convention of "Saber" from the main series and/or the origin take precedence over spinoffs.

Also FZero, FExtra, FProto and FApo Servants all also had their names primarily tagged by their designated class from said titles, not their true names, or whatever class change FGO decided to give them, so this hardly is the issue of "this class doesn't actually apply to this incarnation!" or "the character doesn't identify themselves with this class!" or "another character using a weapon that doesn't belong in their class!"

A pizza's a pizza, no matter what the topping is.

The other issue is that Nasu is a lazy son-of-a-bitch.

azurelorochi said:
The issue here is simply that FGO is a spinoff while FSN / FZero the "main series". Which is why the naming convention of "Saber" from the main series and/or the origin take precedence over spinoffs.

But her name isn't Saber... and she isn't even Saber-class. She shouldn't be tagged as Saber at all.

azurelorochi said:
Also FZero, FExtra, FProto and FApo Servants all also had their names primarily tagged by their designated class from said titles, not their true names, or whatever class change FGO decided to give them, so this hardly is the issue of "this class doesn't actually apply to this incarnation!" or "the character doesn't identify themselves with this class!" or "another character using a weapon that doesn't belong in their class!"

It still does not change the fact that she isn't a Saber. Also, all of the characters should be tagged with their real names... not their classes.

azurelorochi said:
A pizza's a pizza, no matter what the topping is.

Yes, but a Saber is a Saber. An assassin is an assassin. If Saber = Pizza and Assassin is Hamburger, then it should be tagged as Hamburger.

Is that issue not coming from having the true name treated as spoiler (when Stay Night is still new) and the convention stuck until now. So calling the FSN servants with their real name is a spoiler, despite it's been more than a decade since the anime ended.