Evidence post

[bridgetmkennitt]

While nominations are going on, if you feel your nominated fandom or characters might be difficult to verify for eligibility, please link evidence below in this post. Whether it is because the fandom eligibility is on a non-AO3/FFN archive or has a single fandom exchange, the name is different on FFN and may be difficult to find, the character name you nominated isn't canonical on AO3, the nominated character is only on a few episodes...anything that might potentially require clarification on my end, please post about it here.

Comments

[raktajinos]

:) Well it had never even occurred to me that we *should* be referring to them by the 'AU Living Witness Janeway' kind of tag (which *does* make sense. I'll use that tag in the future for clarity sake. It also never occurred to me that there would be any confusion over it.

Ohhhh, that makes sense. I thought you were one of those book-purists (so apologies if my above response felt snarky, cause when I thought you were a book purist it was meant to be snarky...but you're not so, whoops :) ).

It does point to a larger hole in the "recording" of fan activities. For the LW characters to not pop up as understood Mirror characters in the "official" fan record, is troubling. Probably most of the people who write/read them are like me, and never really think to edit those hahah. I wonder if its on the fandom wiki. Either way, I'll have to make time to try and contribute to it/those.

Mirror Tuvok and LW Tuvok are *really* similar though; I don't even think the differences would be perceptible in fic anyways. I've offered to write Mirror Tuvok in these exchanges for years (never gotten it though so hahaha). But I think you'd be safe to request him. I think most people would never think the tag meant the book character (unless it was in the literature section). If I had gotten that assignment, I would have rewatched the relevant DS9 eps and Living Witness before writing the character.

The fanon has *assumed* that LW was the unofficial official Voyager glimpse into the MirrorVerse. Sure, it was about some aliens getting it "wrong", but we've assumed that that was just their way of telling an interesting story (cause LW is an excellent episode) and there are too many similarities in the LW universe to the actual Mirrorverse. So unofficial official. haha. Though that does create some timeline issues for Tuvok. *waves hand at timeline issues*.

The really important thing is that we want more Voyager fic.

But I've learned a lot too from this discussion. I never knew that the VGR Mirror characters had been explored in the books at all.