A few years ago there was a trend of drawing amy_rose wearing an alternate_costime/clothing_swap/cosplay of rouge_the_bat's clothes:

post #2482334 post #2649040 post #2328211

(At the time, someone else made a pool of all these images (see comment #5329471), but for some reason it got deleted at some point. Presumably it should have been a set and not a pool?)

Recently, I've seen a character tag called amouge. It looks like at first this was used for images that were a combination of the two characters, like these:

post #750842 post #572671 post #3472033

However the tag has also been applied to images that are just Amy wearing Rouge's clothes, like these:

post #2877549 post #3604398

My question is: should the Amouge tag be applied to all images where Amy Rose is wearing Rouge the Bat's clothes (and vice versa, as in post #3432988)? Or should it be used only for images that show a character who is a clearly a combination of both of their physical features (bat wings, larger ears, etc)?

For now I've started a set for all these types of clothing_swaps and character combinations of the pair:

set #48545

chemistrynoisy said:
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post #2600988
No one tagged this Rougecina

post #3822271
No one tagged this Rougedna

post #4001700
No one tagged this Rougeductor's Wife

post #4107572
No one tagged this Rougezaki

post #1689485
No one tagged this Rougeails

So why should Amy wearing Rouge's outfit be tagged Amouge ?

If a character A is wearing character B's outfit (or has features of character B), character B is tagged as well.

that tag should not exist. we shouldn't be tagging unofficial fusion results at all. with the only exception being when the fusion result is pretty much just a whole character with a consistent unique design, the only examples of this I can think of is off hand is like sonichu and maybe renimpmon_x.

this tag is just used on any amy_rose rouge_the_bat fusion post with no regard for having similar designs.

Is this even fusion or is it just cosplay?

justfortheapi said:
So why should Amy wearing Rouge's outfit be tagged Amouge ?

My thinking was that maybe there are certain fan communities where the Amy+Rouge combination/clothing swap meme had become widespread enough that it had got its own consensus fan name? Similar to what happened with Bowsette (but on a smaller scale).

But I've just checked, and now I see that even Bowsette doesn't have a character tag - just the copyright tag bowsette_meme.

darryus said:
that tag should not exist. we shouldn't be tagging unofficial fusion results at all. with the only exception being when the fusion result is pretty much just a whole character with a consistent unique design, the only examples of this I can think of is off hand is like sonichu and maybe renimpmon_x.

After I started this topic, I noticed that Argento's unofficial combination characters from post #750842 had been tagged with fan character and given character name tags that make it clear that they're Argento's characters. Is it appropirate to keep these character names as tags, similar to others that follow the "[character name]_([artist])" format?

• beryl_(argento)
• cherrie (argento)
• vio_(argento)

e.g. this one has the description "'Cherrie is the name I finally decided on for the tri-fusion of Rouge, Blaze, and Amy I made a whiles back. This is her. A slight redesign to keep it less “Amy like.”'"

post #935425

this tag is just used on any amy_rose rouge_the_bat fusion post with no regard for having similar designs.

Oh, thanks, I didn't notice the fusion tag on some of the images! That's given me a few extra pics to add to the set I started - I was focued on looking for them via the alternate_costume, clothing_swap and cosplay tags.