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But of course, Haku, Neru and so on are officially recognized by Crypton, I even said two posts before. But they are not "avatars" for anyone. They are not supposed to be alternative Miku or anything like that, they are different characters altogether.

Roro and Kiku are not seperate characters 'based' on VY1 and VY2, because that would mean there was already a pre-existing design for each of them that someone could based their design for Roro and Kiku from. They were made precisely to represent VY1 and VY2. Not anyone else.

They can't be derivatives when there is nothing to derivate from. How can it be so hard see the difference between a fanmade character and fanmade design for a avatarless Vocaloid..