[culytera]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Theoretically, it may be possible to do it with an exclude_metadate and a conditional, similar to this (mostly used for customizable video game player characters):

You'd need to be careful with the regexes though - an overly generic regex could go wrong and remove 'A & B' when 'C/D' is present.

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

Pretty sure you mean ships after the && not characters.

A conditional using the same key as the line is ignored.

Thanks for your suggestions, I managed to figure it out. It was a pretty simple solution.

Here's what I did:

add_to_extra_valid_entries:,redundant_ships
include_in_redundant_ships:ships


exclude_metadata_pre:
## Removes the character in Characters metadata if they are already included in Relationships metadata
 characters=~Character A&&ships=~Character A
 characters=~Character B&&ships=~Character B
 characters=~Character C&&ships=~Character C


## excluding redundant ships in post due to some replace_metadata stuff
exclude_metadata_post:
## Removes the platonic ship tag if ship is already mentioned in a romantic context
 ships=~Character A & Character B&&redundant_ships=~Character A/Character B

This does mean you'd have to add each character/ship that's redundant. My regex expressions might not be entirely correct, but it's working for me so far. I'll just fix them when I need to.