I just made some nominations for Return of the Guardians, and I wanted to make a case for the characters I nominated, as at first glance they might seem to not qualify.
When sorting for complete, English-language fics, North (which is "Nicholas St. North" in the tags) has 637 fics on AO3, while Toothiana has 661. However, both characters often show up as minor/side characters in stories, and I think that accounts for quite a few of those hits.
To make sure, I went through the first 100 complete, English-language fics for each of them, and read through the pairing tags and summaries in order to get an estimate of how many of those fics actually focused on them.
With North, the result I got was that only around two of the first 100 stories seemed to feature him as more than a side character in any way. (Which was around the result I expected, as I was 100% sure that he was a rare character in that fandom. ) That's about 2% of the stories he's tagged in, and 2% of 637 is 12.4, meaning that he should definitely qualify.
I was a bit less sure about Toothiana, but after looking through the results, I'm fairly confident that she also qualifies. Between seven to nine (the difference comes from my not being sure whether or not I should count the fics where she's only a main character in the sense that she's working on getting the main pairing together) of the first 100 complete, English-languages fics seem to focus on her. If only 7-9% of the stories she's tagged in are actually about her, then in total, there should be approximately between 46.27 and 59.49 fics that feature her.
I also checked on the number of fics there are for what I believe is the most popular pairing featuring her (Jack Frost/Toothiana), just in case. For that pairing, there are 69 fics in total, of which there are 44 that are complete, English-language fics. Judging by all of this, I think she should also qualify.
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Date: 2014-07-08 02:24 am (UTC)When sorting for complete, English-language fics, North (which is "Nicholas St. North" in the tags) has 637 fics on AO3, while Toothiana has 661. However, both characters often show up as minor/side characters in stories, and I think that accounts for quite a few of those hits.
To make sure, I went through the first 100 complete, English-language fics for each of them, and read through the pairing tags and summaries in order to get an estimate of how many of those fics actually focused on them.
With North, the result I got was that only around two of the first 100 stories seemed to feature him as more than a side character in any way. (Which was around the result I expected, as I was 100% sure that he was a rare character in that fandom. ) That's about 2% of the stories he's tagged in, and 2% of 637 is 12.4, meaning that he should definitely qualify.
I was a bit less sure about Toothiana, but after looking through the results, I'm fairly confident that she also qualifies. Between seven to nine (the difference comes from my not being sure whether or not I should count the fics where she's only a main character in the sense that she's working on getting the main pairing together) of the first 100 complete, English-languages fics seem to focus on her. If only 7-9% of the stories she's tagged in are actually about her, then in total, there should be approximately between 46.27 and 59.49 fics that feature her.
I also checked on the number of fics there are for what I believe is the most popular pairing featuring her (Jack Frost/Toothiana), just in case. For that pairing, there are 69 fics in total, of which there are 44 that are complete, English-language fics. Judging by all of this, I think she should also qualify.