I did read all the way through the Wrangling Guidelines to try to work out what format I was *supposed* to be presenting tags in and what side-effects different forms might have (despite the airy assurances that it was entirely up to the user and someone would be along to fix it behind the scenes presently if necessary), but by the fourth page or so I could feel my brain filling up and refusing to digest any more... I hadn't thought about the potential of auto-complete being available to present the 'preferred' tags first.
In the specific case of Raoul/Christine I can't think of any context *in this fandom* where it wouldn't be an absolute synonym of "Raoul de Chagny/Christine Daaé" (whereas "Erik Destler/Christine Daaé", for example, might well be something you might choose to differentiate from a general "Erik | Phantom of the Opera/Christine Daaé", since "Erik Destler" is a subset of all potential Eriks!)
There are 579 works tagged with some version of "Raoul de Chagny/Christine Daaé", of which around half are also tagged with some version of "Christine Daaé/Erik | Phantom of the Opera"
Yes, I came to the conclusion back at the start that there was more point looking for works that were *not* tagged Erik/Christine (given that 'Christine is with Raoul but comes to her senses and realises whom she really loves' is a common fandom trope) -- interestingly, that's about half the works in the fandom. Although, this being AO3, Erik/The Persian is more popular than Erik/Meg or Erik/OFC -- and, disturbingly, Erik/Raoul is more popular than either of them. Presumably goes with the increased popularity of Raoul in the fandom, since if you like a character you want to slash him with your favourites, right?
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I hadn't thought about the potential of auto-complete being available to present the 'preferred' tags first.
In the specific case of Raoul/Christine I can't think of any context *in this fandom* where it wouldn't be an absolute synonym of "Raoul de Chagny/Christine Daaé" (whereas "Erik Destler/Christine Daaé", for example, might well be something you might choose to differentiate from a general "Erik | Phantom of the Opera/Christine Daaé", since "Erik Destler" is a subset of all potential Eriks!)
Yes, I came to the conclusion back at the start that there was more point looking for works that were *not* tagged Erik/Christine (given that 'Christine is with Raoul but comes to her senses and realises whom she really loves' is a common fandom trope) -- interestingly, that's about half the works in the fandom. Although, this being AO3, Erik/The Persian is more popular than Erik/Meg or Erik/OFC -- and, disturbingly, Erik/Raoul is more popular than either of them. Presumably goes with the increased popularity of Raoul in the fandom, since if you like a character you want to slash him with your favourites, right?