Materia (Frame Arms Girl)

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gzb

BUR #65769 has been approved by @evazion.

create implication materia_shiro -> materia_(frame_arms_girl)
create implication materia_kuro -> materia_(frame_arms_girl)

Materia (Frame Arms Girl) is the base model while Materia Kuro and Materia Shiro are the variants. So far, there are 3 official variants: Normal Ver. (Materia Kuro), White (Materia Shiro), and White Ver. [Brown skin append] (which I made Materia (White) (Brown Skin Append) (Frame Arms Girl) for)

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World Funeral
gzb

evazion said in forum #465158:

On second thought, this umbrella tag seems wrong considering that they're described as sisters and the wiki says they're treated as separate characters.

https://frame-arms-girl.fandom.com/wiki/Materia_Sisters

They are sisters and two separate characters in the manga and anime but originally Materia was meant to be a base model with 2 versions and then later another dark-skin version based on the white version. Just think of the umbrella tag Materia as the base design where all other Materias are made from, you can technically have as many Materia as you want like post #2701652. The manga/anime just makes two specific Materia characters out of many possible Materias, each having one of Materia official design version.

Another way to look at it is if Fate released Saber and then Saber Alter first as action figures meant to be different versions of a single Saber's base design and then made visual novel/anime later with 2 separate characters based on the 2 design variants.

Or you can think of it as Materia being a "type" or "species".

There are arts where both Materia sisters are depicted with another different Materia like this or where they only way to distinguish the Materia is minor details like the "gloves" like here. It can be imagined that a monochrome lineart drawing of the Materia in the base design with no hairclip would make it impossible to tell which Materia it is and only the umbrella tag can be used.

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gzb

BUR #65906 has been rejected.

create alias materia_black -> materia_(normal)_(frame_arms_girl)
create alias materia_white -> materia_(white)_(frame_arms_girl)

I also just realized that the anime officially localizes their names as Materia Black and Materia White so maybe those names can be aliased too.

There is also an anime specific outfit for the Materia Sisters, their "civilian" form as seen in these:
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/frame-arms-girl/images/b/bc/Materia_sisters_human.png/revision/latest?cb=20241222152404
post #5190729
https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/119561226
https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/82876331
https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/119561226
https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/64877566
https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/64993198
https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/120009374
https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/132647650

I'm not sure what a tag for this outfit would be called, but they are supposed to be teacher outfits so maybe something like this: materia (normal) (teacher) (frame arms girl) and materia (white) (teacher) (frame arms girl)

Thankfully, there are more differences between the two than just color in this case or else fanart like this, which just makes up their own color scheme, would be quite problematic to tag.

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