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Note that if I did create an article for him, "That Guy" would be considered an unofficial name, since we've only heard it in the scripts.
==Major Character Articles==
Articles for "major" characters in Pandora's Tale follow a different format than articles for minor characters or TTMTTP characters. This requires a definition of "major character." I consider a named non-metafictional character to be a major character if they satisfy **any** of the following conditions.
#They are in the top $\lfloor\sqrt{\mathrm{Total number of named non-metafictional characters}}\rfloor$ named non-metafictional characters ranked by the number of chapters they appear in.
##In the case of a tie, more characters are included as major characters.
##As of Chapter Eight, there are 21 named-non-metafictional characters, so the top four would be major characters. However, there is a three-way tie for third through fifth place: Con, Ms. Fortuna, and Zero all appear in exactly seven chapters. Hence, five characters are considered "major" under this rule:Pandora, Isabelle, Con, Ms. Fortuna, and Zero.
#Any character who would haven been a major character under condition (1) when there were fewer chapters.
##As of chapter eight, no additional characters qualify under this rule.
###In Chapter 1, there are only two or three named characters: Isabelle, Zero, and possibly Pandora (if you count her name on the title page even though she hasn't actually gotten a name yet). Hence they would qualify as major characters.
###By the end of Chapter 2, there are six named characters, five of whom appear in both Chapters 1 and 2: Pandora, Isabelle, Con, Ms. Fortuna, and Zero. Hence, those five would qualify as major characters under this rule.
###The same five characters go on to appear in every chapter of Book 1, maintaining a five way tie on first place while there are less than 36 named non-metafictional characters. Hence, they shut out any other characters from qualifying under this rule during Book 1.
#The winner of a once-per-book Pandora's Tale Character Tournament.
##Doctor Shah won the Book One Character Tournament and hence she qualifies as a major character.
##By the time we get to the Pandora's Tale Book Two Character tournament, I'll probably have either changed my mind about the qualification rules for being a major character, or given up on the wiki entirely. On the off chance I do neither of those things, the winner of the Book Two Character tournament will become a major character if they don't already qualify through number of appearances.
===The "Relations" section===
Every major character article has a section detailing the character's relationships with every other major character. Characters in this section should be listed in a particular order: Pandora comes first, followed by Isabelle, followed by all other major characters in alphabetical order by first name.
If A and B are two major characters, and A comes before B in the given ordering, then the subsection of A's article about B should be transcluded into B's article (not the other way around).
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