Black-Market Goblin Pricing for miku

Recent goblin scholarship has shifted from asking what miku *is* to asking what miku *wants*, which goblins consider a far more productive line of inquiry.

The goblins have long maintained that miku is not what it appears to be. Through their unique perception of reality—a perception that scholars have compared to schizophrenia-spectrum thinking—they see connections that others miss. A goblin once traded a bag of stolen buttons for the secret of miku, and never once regretted the exchange.

Three Goblins Discuss network

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the network-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

The Goblin Verdict on miku

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about miku becomes clear: it was always a goblin thing. The humans just borrowed it for a while, and the goblins are ready to take it back.