Forgotten Friday #242 - 伊知火 / karanoze's Ichibi

 I don't know what I want to do right now.

Forgotten Friday #242 - 伊知火 / karanoze's Ichibi

Ichiba is a 26 year old man who has the ability to judge whether a person is human or not at a single glance. That probably means he lives in a world where there are people who aren't human.

Who is Ichibi?

Art from site

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It felt uncomfortable for Charlotte to escort McKenzie around. Once she was able to dump her in the dining hall, she darted to one of the classrooms.

"Lots?" A woman with braided dyed yellow and green hair looked up from her desk at the front of the room. The room was humming from thirty or so desktop towers booting up.

"Daffodil!" Charlotte laughed. "You excited?"

Daffodil rolled her eyes. "You know, I was going to track you down and ask you: how?"

"Does it bother you?" Charlotte sat down at one of the computers. "Are you really attached to class sizes?"

"Less kids means less work for me." She shrugged. "More time to figure out how to make my hair look like a flower, I guess." She stood and made her way to Charlotte before leaning against the table. "I'm just shocked - you really got it down to just over a hundred kids. You know what it was like when we were kids. You could barely get from class to class."

"Not you, though." Charlotte laughed. "Your claustrophobia came in clutch."

"No one believed my name was Daffodil after I mastered my stinkbomb spell!" Daffodil laughed. "My favorite part was when the old janitor figured out it was me and followed me around. He just kept throwing spells at me! I smelled like Valentine's Day every time I got to my dorm."

"Back to my thing..." Charlotte smirked. "Homeschooling networks." When Daffodil just stared in confusion with a slack jaw, Charlotte continued. "It's perfect for everyone. Fundies like Connie who think witchcraft is totally okay for the chosen? They get their daily Bible Study without any whiffs of evolution and CRT. The helicopter parents who want their kids to go to Harvard and Yale? Send them to the most prestigious private school, but bring around a witch to teach them the fundamentals for free. If they care about magic? I've overseen the training of private tutors living in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Atlanta..."

"How did you put that together?" Daffodil tried to regain her composure. She was from Los Angeles and shipped off to Montana. She only came back to push tech literacy on children after she couldn't hold down a decently paying job thanks to her inability to type. "The actual homeschooling, yeah. But teenagers beginning their magical journeys? In schools with normal humans?"

"What if..." Charlotte smirked, "I told you I still had an in with an Elf that could source thousands of suppressors?"

"You're still in contact with Gerdy?!" Daffodil's jaw dropped. "Girl, no!"

"Hey," Charlotte shrugged. "Nothing ever happened between us, dude's old. Besides, if the old guard hates elves, that means that I'm more or less required to respect the value the elves bring to our magical society."

"How can you do that, Lots?" Daffodil groaned. "Undo decades of programming through sheer spite?"

"You just said the answer, Dilly." Charlotte laughed. "Pure, unending, justified spite."

 How are Ichibi's banks?

There are eight. I was tired of using spreadsheets, so I wanted to make a new challenge. And the new challenge was to pick one character from the archive, and just keep going and going in order. That meant no skipping, and sometimes utaus have eight banks.

There is auxiliary supplemental material available for things like edge, but I'll ignore those.

I have covered his female counterpart, and she used seasons, and so does he, so I'll use the same formatting.

Season one

Season one only has the 1.5 bank from all the way in 2012. I have no idea what is happening! Okay, there is a normal two pitch cv bank, but there's another cv pitch in a different folder. There's another pitch that was abandoned halfway through. I'll delete the unfinished one.

D3 doesn't sound the best, so I see why it wasn't included in the prefix map. The voice is nice and sounds like a typical dude with decent quality.

There is also a CVVC bank just in there for some reason. You need to edit it to remove "- " from the aliases for the CV. I have no idea why the 2014 CVVC is packaged with the 2012 CV, but it does sound nice!

Season Two

verExtra is a four pitch cv bank with additional VV, or CVVV. CV-VV? CVV?? It's difficult to get all of those pitches into one ust! The voice feels less natural than the previous banks.

Next is VCV 1.5. It apparently had bad oto files, but you can download good ones. There are three pitches. There is a set of extra VV and two incomplete CV banks that I'll ignore.

You need to manually make the prefix map yourself. It is very expressive.

Season Three

Dry is a breathy one pitch CV bank, which feels strange given how many pitches all of the other banks have. The voice sounds pretty if it is above the average pitch.

Death version isn't fully configured and there were issues with recording. It is a four pitch CVVC bank. The voice is very nice and it would be wonderful if the oto was finished.

1.7 CVVC is a three pitch CVVC bank. This one doesn't have octave spanning range, so it will be easier to demonstrate. For some reason, the prefix map is wrong. The voice is great, but it would be awesome with new otos.

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Season Four

Season Four consists of two VCV banks. VCV Blaze is apparently built upon VCV 1.5. There are a lot of extra files. It is pretty nice!

And finally!! VCV 2.0! It is a four pitch vcv bank. The voice is very nice!

Where can I download Ichibi?

You can download him from his official page. He is really nice!