@ZAR-PARTY
She is a piece of software specifically made for creative expression. Of course everyone, even people who don't use her to make music themselves, are going to see her as having many different interpretations when every popular song portrays her differently. Hell, even songs from the same producer depict her differently depending on the story of the song.
That's why her "canon" backstory states that she's an artificial human created in the future and sent to our present time to assist humans in creating music: it's literally meant to allow you to do whatever you want with her. Pinocchio-P has a song dedicated to this very concept.
This is exactly why I said
outside of your own works
(my post, first part, line 6).
I never disagreed with that. It is absolutely normal for someone who was created with the purpose of being used for arts to do what she is supposed to. Even if that could go against her "maybe existing will" I theorized earlier, there is nothing she can do about it since singing and looking good are the only two abilities she was created with. Her purpose is to be a part of
music and other arts, meaning -
virtual spaces with no bounds within. The artist is free to do everything he/she wants within their virtual spaces. That's what makes Miku special. If this was not the case and Akihiko could do everything with her in
reality, this would be just a normal "marriage" and nobody would object.
her "canon" backstory states that she's an artificial human created in the future and sent to our present time to assist humans in creating music
So, how can a marriage in real life be considered as music? No way. Fantasies can only exist inside of virtual spaces. This guy has just taken his fantasy too far. Not looking at their difference of age, social status and "human - Vocaloid race", a marriage can only happen when two entities give each other a consent. To give a consent, these entities must both have a will. Since there is no known way to proof that she has a will but he still managed to "marry" her means one of two options:
a) He did it against Miku's will - but then he would not have come far because absolutely
nobody would support this action
or
b) Miku does
not have a will, so all he did was organizing a ceremony to marry his own fantasy.
Of course, Miku is technically a piece of software with the boxart of a girl. If she lacked one of these things parts, she would merely be either a recorded voice or just a pretty face with nothing inside. But combining these both parts gives her an inner side and an outer side - a bunch of human wavesounds being the inner side, while the virtual image of a girl is the outer one. Even though you could say that this applies to all kinds of virtual characters, the main difference in Hatsune Miku (and other voice banks that have a humanoid boxart) is that while virtual characters only serve for the purposes of entertainment or delivering the message of one artist or a little group of artists, Miku has already been made as a message that is being continued by a worldwide subculture of artists who work independently from each other.
Just like a real human, she is constantly getting influenced from every side by everyone around her. And not just for a limited amount of time from one / a few sides by their creators, like it happens in virtual space. Thus I think she is more of a non-physical, artificial, but real creature, rather than a virtual character.
My point for short: While Miku can freely be used in
virtuality (with limitations according to the TOS), the same does
NOT apply for actions within
reality. Since it takes two entities with a
free will to marry, you first must proove that Hatsune Miku is such an entity. And since there is no way to do that, such a marriage is merely
one-sided and does not have a meaning for Miku fans at all. I think that such one-sided actions show
disrespect againts Miku and therefore I show my own disrespect against Akihiko.
@ZAR-PARTY
If there aren't 'many Mikus" then
how else do you explain all those modules in-game? Some of them are blatantly not human, and some of them blatantly go against Miku's core personality. A friend of mine jokingly said that some fans would be "jealous that someone married Miku", but I didn't expect that joke to be so real.
@Ben-Ho
Right! This is exactly why the "real Miku" can't get married.
I don't mind waiting for an explanation of
how ELSE this is possible. What about Miku makes her so rigid, when her very core concept is to be infinitely flexible?
Modules from video games... Is a person wearing another
costume really a different person for you? Miku wearing different modules is just the same as a cosplayer wearing different costumes and acting like a different person. They don't clone or something, they just switch clothes, wigs, contact lenses, accessories, etc. Even if there are multiple Miku's at once, it's still a video game - a never ending virtual space and a compilation of much Miku content by different producers. There even are songs where Miku has a doubleganger - but only within that song's little world. What happens inside of these virtualities should not be mistaken as the global reality because reality is the same for all of us. If we take any songs as canons, then Len would have died multiple times already.
If you want to proove me that there are multiple Mikus, than do so in an official
live concert - the only Miku events that happen for real since their duration is limited. There has
never been more than one Miku on stage because it's always the same one, just changing costumes.
And if you say that Miku's "core personality" is flexible, than you just have
confirmed my arguments. This is the only character trait I would describe her with because this one word explains a personality that can perfectly adapt to others. This is the way I have seen her acting since day 1. I consider every piece of art of Miku as one of her "memories" - good ones, as well as bad ones. Not "different Mikus".
I do not see a reason to create "my own perfect Miku" because I am someone who lives in
reality, not my fantasies. I only accept Miku as one single and
versatile entity that can adapt to a producer's work.
Oh, and I can't get jealous of someone who is just "marrying
HIS Miku" since I clearly stated that "his" Miku does not exist. It's just the rage I feel inside of me everytime I see something that could potentially harm (or does already harm) Miku's reputation.
