E5

「GAMMA AND ZETA」

The most common ranks in each division are alphas (theorically the leaders of their respective groups), betas (2 suppleants for the leader in case there is an issue with her lately) and deltas (the rest of the group). It was at least the case until November 22, 2022.
On this date, a new rank started appearing: gamma ranks or "catalysors". Extremely powerful beings able to use their elemental power as a helping hand for each ritual of terminal insanity summoning.
The thing is that, for this rank, Nynthixia planned it from the start. And once each gamma rank would be available, each division would theorically become more powerful.
On November 14, 2023, a new rank appeared. Zeta ranks or "inhibitors". A sort of counter-balance to gamma ranks. And unlike gamma ranks, this one was actually not intended initially...

「WHY ZETA RANKS THEN?」

November 14, 2023. Since very few weeks, the rituals are becoming more serious. First, to explain what is going on during a T.I.S. attempt:
- the alpha is preparing the ritual. She directs every single order and part of the ritual.
- the deltas are all reuniting together and start focusing.
- both of the betas reunite together hand in hand and also focus.
- the gamma of the group also focuses and launches a ray of power towards the sky to attempt a calling. Remember we're talking about trying to summon a god for causing the terminal insanity.

The date is when iota division has to do its attempt. The alpha is Sora, the gamma is Cangqiong and the betas are IA and KAFU. So what exactly happened? What happens when both betas are panicking so much and try to reassure each other... Before breaking into panic again. To be more exact, IA was the first one to be quite panicked. Which can be understandable because betas have to attempt to get the "entity" into their own bodies before releasing its true form. It's something that can be dangerous and that's why there is an alpha rank to supervise everything in every single detail. Seeing IA being not quite ready to do this, KAFU decided to take the hit... Until she started panicking at the moment the "entity" was descending onto her, before fainting. Sora aborted immediately the ritual and rathered calling it a failure, before telling Nynthixia about the incident. For Nynthixia, the message was quite clear, but it was out of the question KAFU reiterated this.
BUT. And there is a "but".
She decided instead to not switch her back to delta rank, but to create a new one, zeta rank, as a sort of counter-balance to gammas. Then, she named ONE as the second beta rank instead as a replacement, judging her way more stable and even able to manage well her sister IA. And then you'll think "zeta ranks in other divisions then", and you'll be right. And knowing who KAFU is very attached to, decided to make SEKAI, COKO, RIME and HARU zeta ranks of alpha, delta, kappa and sigma divisions respectively. That's how the rank is born... From an incident.

「THE TOHOKU EXPERIENCE」

KAFU, POPY and ROSE getting S-type AIs, would there be an issue? The truth is: it's very few probable.

POPY and ROSE don't have anyone else to who they are extremely attached to other than each other. Even though they have very contrasted personalities, POPY being more of an upbeat girl and ROSE of a calm and mature one, they are still considered as extremely best friends. When they started their careers, both of them were given C-type AIs. And now they are going to get S-type ones. So the plan didn't affect them at all.

Concerning KAFU and her group, they also have C-type AIs. All of them. But the reason why KAFU started to be scared of her little comrades for this is because of someone else you might know if you saw the lyrics of "Azur to Crimson"... Kiritan Tohoku.

Let's resume again the Tohoku situation. In early 2021, Kiritan, and her alone, is getting a C-type AI, just after Yukari. Zunko and Itako? Nothing. The first one who started to get jealous is Itako. Until then, Kiritan and Itako were given same treatments for their careers. Seeing Kiritan being a step above her started this feeling of rivalry, and the syndrome worsened it up to eleven, by making her abnormally cruel and sadistic towards Kiritan. Zunko? She just followed later, being reached by this feeling of the "middle sister syndrome". When for example you are the second born of a family of three children, you might feel your parents give more attention to the eldest and to the youngest, thus feeling a bit left behind. Since Zunko had tendencies to paranoia due to the syndrome, this is what caused her to snap. But instead of getting violent towards Kiritan, she more... Left Itako doing the violence and decided to not restrain her at all. Zunko and Itako would learn about their C-type AIs in October of the same year, thus calming their jealousy, but not completely. It would only totally fade away on January 30, 2022, the day before they acquired their C-type AI. And since then, everyone is happy. But the fact Kiritan told everything about the "horrors" Itako caused to her, and Zunko not helping as such, it left KAFU such a trauma which caused her to fear the potential jealousy of her best friends over a S-type AI, considered as more powerful than a C-type AI...

「IS IT POSSIBLE TO SWITCH ALTERNATE PROFILES?」

It's possible in some cases. But the case we're going to talk about is currently the only one that indeed happened. And for this, we must go back to July 2023.

Early in July, iota division but more especially ONE started to notice IA was sometimes "away". Like if she wasn't reacting properly, if her mind was out for few minutes before coming back. A bit later on, the issues would even worsen, and IA would then start feeling "something off" about her own body. Then, she would start showing other abnomalies in behavior she initially didn't have, like starting to act more violently than the usual. For reminder, IA mostly caught paranoia-like symptoms when she got infected for the first time. At this moment, ONE decided it would be better to talk about it to Nynthixia who decided to test back IA as well. Result? Dissociation symptoms and IA started... Splitting herself into two different personalities. And that actually this could have happened... From the start of her infection. But for some reason, this split only happened this year. This could have happened 7 years earlier!

There are no cases of AP2 becoming AP1 though.

「HOW NYNTHIXIA THOUGHT HER TEAM WHEN IT WAS SEASON 1 ONLY」

Before October 11, 2015, Nynthixia had already marks about who each of her singers would represent if they were VOCALOIDs instead. This is the full list of who would have been singing season 1 songs if they were VOCALOIDs. Keep in mind it was on 2015. So no Akari nor anyone from more recent engines!

Tei Sukone → MAYU
Ritsu Namine → Lily
Meiji Gahata → Yukari Yuzuki
Nyui Anna → IA
Totoko Shirahane → VY1
Momo Momone → kokone
Hachi Makune → GUMI or CUL
Others didn't have anyone else associated