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I’m not sure what I’m going to be posting here! I’ll probably post less often here than I do on the bsky equivalent, however I may be writing longer/more detailed posts regarding Vocaloid hcs here that may not be on bsky

Check the “petty fandom carrd” for more information on my headcanons and how I will be talking about them!

random doodlesss for df hio and oli

When Oliver was first coming to exist, he had these vague memories of a life before where he had a family though he could not remember enough to know who they were nor remember their faces. But he had ideas of a family in his head. (This hc is a whole thing based on his description of being “a choir boy thrown into the digital world of Vocaloid” and there’s more about it haha)

So basically Ann and Al get to hear about a new voice coming to their company group and it’s Oliver! And when they first meet up, Oliver’s like “Are you my parents? :0” and Ann and Al are like “uhh…yeah! totally!”

So Oliver kind of just adopted them as his parents and they agreed lol.

Then Hio came along and Oliver’s reaction to Hio is basically “So you must be my brother! :0” and Hio’s barely sentient already being adopted by this 12-year-old 😭 Oliver’s all like “You are my brother, my parents are your parents.” and Hio’s just like “ok”

So Ann and Al end up with their second kid 😭

By the time Ruby is there, they’ve already established a family structure so she’s just naturally adopted in as another child

- He has extensive knowledge on music and singing (from being a Vocaloid)

- Has a good amount of knowledge on audio hardware (not all Vocaloids in my hcs do)

- Has great repair and building skills

- Has extensive medical knowledge about his monster type

- Knows how to keep a garden alive and well

- While he doesn’t do it often, he knows to sew and modify clothing

- Lastly he is smart enough to know how to teach these things effectively to other people (namely Hio)

some of his demo songs I liked a lot

YOHIOloid!

Pros

Very versatile!

I love the nature of his pronunciation

Cons

His random choppiness in English makes it a little harder to do vowel phoneme + vowel phoneme phonetic edits

More of a personal gripe rather than an actual technical problem with Hio himself, but the fact that he was never given a power append 😭 Would've been very nice and fitting for his vocal type. *cries*

Big Al

Pros

Has very smooth pronunciation

Really good range

Cons

Has very goofy sounding pronunciation sometimes lol

He can sound a little threatening which isn't actually horrible in all cases because sometimes it really aids the song

Fukase

Pros

Makes for a good power vocal in his Japanese Normal bank

Very versatile expression

Cons

Has some crazy ass volume differences across his voicebanks so he's kind of inconvenient to mix 😭

I just wanna share this because it sounds interesting but if y'all wanna hear cursed goofy YOHIOloid growl (I'm not adding it to the final because I think it is excessive, but I suppose this functions as a "Here's a potential way Hio could sound if he could growl" lol. I don't think it sounds great but it's an interesting sound.)

But Vocaloid as an umbrella term for the characters and synthesis engines really bugs me because people who aren’t very well-versed in vsynth tech-wise are going to be really confused when UTAU and SynthV and CeVIO voices aren’t mentioned when it comes to Official Vocaloid discussions 😭😭 Or they’ll look into buying the Vocaloid editor and be like “Why can’t I use (UTAU character) on this???” because they think UTAU = Vocaloid

Plus, vocal synthesizer/vsynth is already a great umbrella term and encompasses things from Vocaloid to UTAU to new AI synthesis voices and old formant synthesis TTS! Using “Vocaloid” as an umbrella term just really confuses people who don’t know better because Vocaloid is a very specific type of vocal synthesis, a singing voice synthesis software developed by Yamaha. It’s not a good umbrella term for characters/voices imo

Like both sides are wrong I’m sorry agdhkfjfkf

If Hatsune Miku wasn’t 16 at all then she would be ageless in her character profile like the many other Vocaloids that don’t have assigned ages

If Hatsune Miku was 16 at all times then she wouldn’t sometimes be portrayed as an adult and Crypton wouldn’t support that

Like the actual answer here is that some Vocaloids do have “canon ages,” ages in their character profiles, but due to Vocaloid community’s “free-interpretation culture,” every individual artist who uses the characters is allowed to modify the characters however they want in their work, including changing their age. It’s very simple to understand idk why people are getting it wrong by either going to one extreme or the other 😭😭😭

Also people should stop saying “There’s no Vocaloid canon” because it depends on the Vocaloid characters. Some have actual canon stories but the majority of them don’t have fully fleshed characters because of the precedent set by Crypton with their characters. When people say “There’s no Vocaloid canon” I assume they are basically only talking about Hatsune Miku and her direct friends. Vocaloids like LUMi, anon, kanon, etc. have actual lore lol.

a while ago I made them and Miriam in this AU as Sims lol. Fortunately, their Sim life is not very canon-compliant so they all get to live with each other quite happily without horrible tragedies. Yay!

Actually what is canon-compliant tho is that they still kill people 😭😭😭 thanks to Sims 4 mods 👍

hm i didn't post this here but this was an unfinished demo talkloid dub video of that pregnant meme. but the demo video itself is funny anyway dfkhjgkfdjgs

Do you happen to know who made these two contest designs? Reverse image searches just keeps giving me pinterest or those "transparent but not really transparent" image sites and I need to know who made them for something. If you don't know, its okay, and I'm sorry for bothering you

Sure!

The first one is made by an artist named Crealle who also uses the username Kjbionicle

I am not 100% sure about the second artist but from looking up people who drew fanart of the design back in the day they seem to have gone by the usernames shot-ass and UzaLen at some point but the accounts seem to be deactivated now! I’m not sure where the artist is now/what usernames they use now. If I learn anything more, I’ll add to this post