i do not envy any person who attempts to wrangle the tags on this fic but i hope they do
you can imagine the combinatorics
for example it’s 7 tags just to minimally cover “joey & joey’s ratatta” if you are writing an AU where joey is a pokéfan not a youngster
relationship:
• joey & joey’s ratatta
• pokéfan & ratatta
character:
• joey
• joey’s ratatta
• pokéfan
• ratatta
freefrom:
• pokéfan joey
now suppose you also want to tag gender and form; better add to that
freeform:
• cis boy joey
• cis boy pokéfan
• ratatta ♂
now you’re at 10 tags just for 1 relationship between 2 characters
there’s a lot of duplication because first i give all of the characters then i give all of the trainer classes and then i associate all of the trainer classes with the corresponding characters because that has to be three tags in A·o·3 because characters and trainer classes are both Character tags but linking the two requires a Freeform tag