弱音ハク//Yowane Haku (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
sakedrinking) wrote2011-05-06 05:37 am
sakedrinking) wrote2011-05-06 05:37 am
Entry tags:
.app. .Lifting the Veil.
OOC Information
∃ Mun Name: JeniOctavia
∃ Mun Email: jenioctavia@gmail.com
IC Information
∃ Character Name: Haku Yowane
∃ Canon: Original Character | Canon OC (Vocaloid)
∃ Character Age: 4 Chronologically | 25 Physically [DOB: November 21st, 2007]
∃ Timeline: May, 2011
∃ Background:
Earth, 2000’s. A new technological marvel had been created, and the whole world was sitting up to take notice. Cybernetic androids with the programmed ability to sing, dance, play instruments and perform had become a sensation over night with the release of VOACLOID Hatsune Miku, and everyone wanted a piece of the action.
The unfortunate fact was that not everyone could be a part of this amazing movement. Only one company, Crypton, had perfected the art so far. Sure others had come before them, some from over seas, but they were rough, barely holding a candle to the five that Crypton had made. MEIKO, Kaito, Miku Hatsune, and the twin units Rin and Len Kagamine were the ones everyone were all a-buzz about, and with good reason - they had something the others didn’t. Kokoro - artificial souls. This one little thing was what made them stand out from the rest, and it was this little thing that Crypton wasn’t giving up.
Some were just desperate enough to find a way to steal the secrets and begin the attempt at making VOCALOIDs for themselves, regardless of what Crypton wanted.
Sadly the same success was not to be had by these other companies. Blueprints, parts and plans were stolen, but they were missing several key components needed to make their creations as well as the first company had. They were taking a great financial risk, attempting to reproduce what had been done before with sub par equipment.
Yowane Haku was their first, followed by Akita Neru, both modeled after their predecessor and the one everyone wanted to have, Hatsune Miku. What they found was horribly disappointing. Neither girls had the clear, clean voice that Miku had, and no amount of tweaking or fiddling with their vocal systems seemed to help. They also seemed to lack decent performance skills as well. To make matters worse, their personalities were completely on opposite ends of the spectrum from perky, genki Miku. Neru simply didn’t care what her masters wanted, and Haku quickly fell in to depression at her inability to do anything properly, and was found more often than not at the end of a sake bottle, trying to drink her cares away.
Others were made in continuing attempts to get something better, but in the end all attempts failed. This one company so desperate to find the success Crypton had that they stole property to get it was beginning to hemorrhage money from their own failures. Their only real asset seemed to be that out of one, Dell Honne, they had a dedicated song writer and manager rathe than a singer, and that out of Haku they had, to put it bluntly, “fanservice”.
Haku had been designed with certain... assets in mind, and when music had failed the company completely, they turned to other means of obtaining money, including using Haku in ways that were not entirely kosher.
Thankfully this didn’t last long, as those failed attempts at VOCALOIDs and the thefts were later found out by the original company. After a lengthy lawsuit, the company was put entirely out of business, and the failed attempts were adopted by Crypton to be part of their line up. Even those that had no real musical skills were given a place, working in other departments in the company.
Meeting Miku for the first time was a terribly nerve wracking experience for Haku. She really didn’t know what the other VOCALOID was going to think of her, but she was pleasantly surprised to find that Miku’s hyper bubbly personality was more than just a public act. She was the kindest, sweetest person Haku had ever met, and instantly accepted the “younger” VOCALOID as her sister, instantly taking to calling her “Haku Haku-nee”.
It was Miku’s encouragement that started to pull Haku away from drinking away her depression. Miku wanted her to be a part of the family, on the road and in the company, and convinced her that she wasn’t nearly as bad as she thought she was. Miku insisted she start practicing with her, in dance and singing, and over time Haku’s skills slowly grew and became better, especially when she added in learning to play guitar on top of that.
She was never quite on par with Miku, nor was she ever going to be as popular, but she was good enough for fans to start taking notice, and soon enough people who once pegged Haku as ‘tsumanne’ (boring/useless) began changing their tune. She had enough of a fan following that Crypton offically changed her status from “variation” to “officially adopted”, and when she wasn’t with VOCALOID vocally she was often backing them up via guitar, an instrument she had become very good with.
Years passed, Crypton eventually allowed their technology to be released to other, legitimate companies for a price, and many other VOCALOIDs (and an off shoot- UTAU) were produced. Soon enough VOCALOID was everywhere, to the point where they even had video games based off of them made, along with commercial sponsorships with cars among other things. To keep up with the demands and the constantly growing technology, older VOCALOIDs started to get upgrades, starting with Miku’s “Append” upgrade. Haku never got one, but she didn’t mind, because she already had more than she could ever have asked for. For an android who had gotten such a difficult start after activation, Haku had family, friends, and even fans. To her, that was the good life, and she didn’t want anything else.
∃ Personality:
Once upon a time, Haku was an angst bucket to the ‘nth degree. Her way of dealing with existing was to try to find meaning at the bottom of a sake bottle, but that only ever resulted in drunkenness. Not that it mattered to her - being drunk was better than being sober and having to listen to her original creator do nothing but berate her and leave her in tears. There was really no complexity about it - from the first time she sang and her creator found out what he had made was NOT what he wanted, she was treated as nothing more than an inferior piece of equipment that was taking up space. Her first year of existence was the equivalent of twenty-plus years of verbal abuse of parent to child - she was told she was useless, therefore she believed she was useless.
Thankfully being rescued by Crypton, given a proper home, a proper family, and a chance to grow and hone her lacking skills at her own pace with encouragement rather than harshness has helped her a great deal for growing out of this. She’s still naturally quiet, a little on the shy side, not always open or big on conversation, but instead of being constantly depressed she’s simply an introverted contrast to her “sister”, Miku. She doesn’t trust new people very easily and takes a while to warm up to others, and if she had her way she’d let her guitar do her talking for her as that, to her, is an easier method of expressing herself than her voice is. She cries easier than Miku, is easier to hurt emotionally, has difficulty pulling herself out of sadness and heartache when it does occur, but she’s less likely to take solace in a bottle of sake and more likely to go to some one she trusts when it gets to that point.
Once she does warm up to others, though (and she will, it just takes time), they’re more than likely going to become like family to her. Haku is big on the concept of family, and people aren’t just close friends to her - they’re other brothers and sisters. She feels big, and she loves just as big. Once she opens up she’s warm, affectionate, caring and is the kind of person that would try to go the extra mile for some one she cares about just because she can. Unfortunately this means she also worries big, and she’s empathetic enough that when her family is hurting, she’s hurting, too.
She still lacks confidence. She hasn’t gained nearly as much as she would like, and often feels her skills “aren’t good enough”. More often than not before she performs, she’ll apologize for not being as good as her sister. Compliments make her blush, praise makes her flail, and trying to call her ‘cute’ or even ‘hot’ (‘cause, really, she really is) will just have her red-faced and hiding behind her hands.
Haku didn’t start out complex, but four years is a long time for an AI to learn and grow, and she’s fully aware she’s got a lot more learning to do.
∃ Items: Haku will be arriving with pretty much the clothes on her back, a wallet with a little bit of money (Japanese) in it, and her purple and silver Fender guitar with shoulder case.
∃ Powers: Aside from the standard “she’s a robot with a computer brain that can sing and play instruments, ect ect” Haku doesn’t have any powers. She’s just plain ol’ Vocaloid. Well, knock off Vocaloid.
∃ Communication Stone Preference:
Amethyst.
∃ Mun Name: JeniOctavia
∃ Mun Email: jenioctavia@gmail.com
IC Information
∃ Character Name: Haku Yowane
∃ Canon: Original Character | Canon OC (Vocaloid)
∃ Character Age: 4 Chronologically | 25 Physically [DOB: November 21st, 2007]
∃ Timeline: May, 2011
∃ Background:
Earth, 2000’s. A new technological marvel had been created, and the whole world was sitting up to take notice. Cybernetic androids with the programmed ability to sing, dance, play instruments and perform had become a sensation over night with the release of VOACLOID Hatsune Miku, and everyone wanted a piece of the action.
The unfortunate fact was that not everyone could be a part of this amazing movement. Only one company, Crypton, had perfected the art so far. Sure others had come before them, some from over seas, but they were rough, barely holding a candle to the five that Crypton had made. MEIKO, Kaito, Miku Hatsune, and the twin units Rin and Len Kagamine were the ones everyone were all a-buzz about, and with good reason - they had something the others didn’t. Kokoro - artificial souls. This one little thing was what made them stand out from the rest, and it was this little thing that Crypton wasn’t giving up.
Some were just desperate enough to find a way to steal the secrets and begin the attempt at making VOCALOIDs for themselves, regardless of what Crypton wanted.
Sadly the same success was not to be had by these other companies. Blueprints, parts and plans were stolen, but they were missing several key components needed to make their creations as well as the first company had. They were taking a great financial risk, attempting to reproduce what had been done before with sub par equipment.
Yowane Haku was their first, followed by Akita Neru, both modeled after their predecessor and the one everyone wanted to have, Hatsune Miku. What they found was horribly disappointing. Neither girls had the clear, clean voice that Miku had, and no amount of tweaking or fiddling with their vocal systems seemed to help. They also seemed to lack decent performance skills as well. To make matters worse, their personalities were completely on opposite ends of the spectrum from perky, genki Miku. Neru simply didn’t care what her masters wanted, and Haku quickly fell in to depression at her inability to do anything properly, and was found more often than not at the end of a sake bottle, trying to drink her cares away.
Others were made in continuing attempts to get something better, but in the end all attempts failed. This one company so desperate to find the success Crypton had that they stole property to get it was beginning to hemorrhage money from their own failures. Their only real asset seemed to be that out of one, Dell Honne, they had a dedicated song writer and manager rathe than a singer, and that out of Haku they had, to put it bluntly, “fanservice”.
Haku had been designed with certain... assets in mind, and when music had failed the company completely, they turned to other means of obtaining money, including using Haku in ways that were not entirely kosher.
Thankfully this didn’t last long, as those failed attempts at VOCALOIDs and the thefts were later found out by the original company. After a lengthy lawsuit, the company was put entirely out of business, and the failed attempts were adopted by Crypton to be part of their line up. Even those that had no real musical skills were given a place, working in other departments in the company.
Meeting Miku for the first time was a terribly nerve wracking experience for Haku. She really didn’t know what the other VOCALOID was going to think of her, but she was pleasantly surprised to find that Miku’s hyper bubbly personality was more than just a public act. She was the kindest, sweetest person Haku had ever met, and instantly accepted the “younger” VOCALOID as her sister, instantly taking to calling her “Haku Haku-nee”.
It was Miku’s encouragement that started to pull Haku away from drinking away her depression. Miku wanted her to be a part of the family, on the road and in the company, and convinced her that she wasn’t nearly as bad as she thought she was. Miku insisted she start practicing with her, in dance and singing, and over time Haku’s skills slowly grew and became better, especially when she added in learning to play guitar on top of that.
She was never quite on par with Miku, nor was she ever going to be as popular, but she was good enough for fans to start taking notice, and soon enough people who once pegged Haku as ‘tsumanne’ (boring/useless) began changing their tune. She had enough of a fan following that Crypton offically changed her status from “variation” to “officially adopted”, and when she wasn’t with VOCALOID vocally she was often backing them up via guitar, an instrument she had become very good with.
Years passed, Crypton eventually allowed their technology to be released to other, legitimate companies for a price, and many other VOCALOIDs (and an off shoot- UTAU) were produced. Soon enough VOCALOID was everywhere, to the point where they even had video games based off of them made, along with commercial sponsorships with cars among other things. To keep up with the demands and the constantly growing technology, older VOCALOIDs started to get upgrades, starting with Miku’s “Append” upgrade. Haku never got one, but she didn’t mind, because she already had more than she could ever have asked for. For an android who had gotten such a difficult start after activation, Haku had family, friends, and even fans. To her, that was the good life, and she didn’t want anything else.
∃ Personality:
Once upon a time, Haku was an angst bucket to the ‘nth degree. Her way of dealing with existing was to try to find meaning at the bottom of a sake bottle, but that only ever resulted in drunkenness. Not that it mattered to her - being drunk was better than being sober and having to listen to her original creator do nothing but berate her and leave her in tears. There was really no complexity about it - from the first time she sang and her creator found out what he had made was NOT what he wanted, she was treated as nothing more than an inferior piece of equipment that was taking up space. Her first year of existence was the equivalent of twenty-plus years of verbal abuse of parent to child - she was told she was useless, therefore she believed she was useless.
Thankfully being rescued by Crypton, given a proper home, a proper family, and a chance to grow and hone her lacking skills at her own pace with encouragement rather than harshness has helped her a great deal for growing out of this. She’s still naturally quiet, a little on the shy side, not always open or big on conversation, but instead of being constantly depressed she’s simply an introverted contrast to her “sister”, Miku. She doesn’t trust new people very easily and takes a while to warm up to others, and if she had her way she’d let her guitar do her talking for her as that, to her, is an easier method of expressing herself than her voice is. She cries easier than Miku, is easier to hurt emotionally, has difficulty pulling herself out of sadness and heartache when it does occur, but she’s less likely to take solace in a bottle of sake and more likely to go to some one she trusts when it gets to that point.
Once she does warm up to others, though (and she will, it just takes time), they’re more than likely going to become like family to her. Haku is big on the concept of family, and people aren’t just close friends to her - they’re other brothers and sisters. She feels big, and she loves just as big. Once she opens up she’s warm, affectionate, caring and is the kind of person that would try to go the extra mile for some one she cares about just because she can. Unfortunately this means she also worries big, and she’s empathetic enough that when her family is hurting, she’s hurting, too.
She still lacks confidence. She hasn’t gained nearly as much as she would like, and often feels her skills “aren’t good enough”. More often than not before she performs, she’ll apologize for not being as good as her sister. Compliments make her blush, praise makes her flail, and trying to call her ‘cute’ or even ‘hot’ (‘cause, really, she really is) will just have her red-faced and hiding behind her hands.
Haku didn’t start out complex, but four years is a long time for an AI to learn and grow, and she’s fully aware she’s got a lot more learning to do.
∃ Items: Haku will be arriving with pretty much the clothes on her back, a wallet with a little bit of money (Japanese) in it, and her purple and silver Fender guitar with shoulder case.
∃ Powers: Aside from the standard “she’s a robot with a computer brain that can sing and play instruments, ect ect” Haku doesn’t have any powers. She’s just plain ol’ Vocaloid. Well, knock off Vocaloid.
∃ Communication Stone Preference:
Amethyst.