If I'd said "You don't need to include both characters", then sure, they don't need to include both.
But that's already true for main collection gifts. Why make this weird exception for Madness unless "they must have good reason to think" means something different?
Re: Gift Must Feature All Of My Requested Characters
It's so that fandom friend of yours who saw you being disappointed Erik wasn't nominated this year before you ultimately requested Charles and Bobby gen instead can still give you a Charles/Erik Madness gift they have every reason to believe you'll still love even if they can't find a good way to awkwardly wedge Bobby into it. Etc. Basically, prioritising leaving wiggle room for people to give good-faith gifts that they do have every reason to believe will be well-received rather than trying to block out the moving target of the "WTF why would you even give this to me?" people, who are probably not going to stop and rethink just because they had to do some awkward character-wedging to meet the technical letter of the request.
Re: Gift Must Feature All Of My Requested Characters
(Anonymous) 2024-10-28 10:42 am (UTC)(link)If I'd said "You don't need to include both characters", then sure, they don't need to include both.
But that's already true for main collection gifts. Why make this weird exception for Madness unless "they must have good reason to think" means something different?
Re: Gift Must Feature All Of My Requested Characters
(Anonymous) 2024-10-28 12:51 pm (UTC)(link)It's so that fandom friend of yours who saw you being disappointed Erik wasn't nominated this year before you ultimately requested Charles and Bobby gen instead can still give you a Charles/Erik Madness gift they have every reason to believe you'll still love even if they can't find a good way to awkwardly wedge Bobby into it. Etc. Basically, prioritising leaving wiggle room for people to give good-faith gifts that they do have every reason to believe will be well-received rather than trying to block out the moving target of the "WTF why would you even give this to me?" people, who are probably not going to stop and rethink just because they had to do some awkward character-wedging to meet the technical letter of the request.