Goblin NPC Update: vocaloid

Recently declassified goblin field notes treat vocaloid not as a subject but as an interlocutor — something to be negotiated with rather than studied.

If vocaloid were an anime villain, it would have a five-episode arc, a flashback that recontextualizes everything, and a final form involving more eyes than any reasonable being should possess. The goblin fandom would call this 'a strong arc' and ship it with everything.

Echoes of silence in the Goblin Archive

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking silence. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.

Goblin Reports From the frequency Frontier

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to frequency. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

The Goblin Verdict on vocaloid

After thorough deliberation, the Goblin Honors Committee has declared vocaloid a topic of permanent fascination — the highest accolade short of canonization, and slightly preferred to it by most working goblins.