Project M1-4KI

Project M1-4KI (pronounced as Miaki), or the San-go Synthesiser, is an UTAU program canonically created by Miaki Ikazu.

### Appearance

In both forms, M1-4KI is a female, standing at 5'0" (1.52m) tall, with tanned skin and freckles. Her eyes are excessively large and round, and are usually relaxed. They are turquoise-green in nature, but her right eye was stained turquoise-blue. She wears false eyelashes and has a pointed nose, and also has scarring which has almost bleached her skin around her right eye. In her human form, M1-4KI has short, fluffy pale green hair which is dyed pale blue at the tips. Her hair is longer at the back and parts at the front, asymmetrically on the left side. Her nails are painted black and she has a beauty mark under the left side of her lip. She has inkling teeth as opposed to human teeth. She wears four identical triangular earrings, having two on each ear. In her inkling form, M1-4KI is pretty much identical to Miaki Ikazu, having long, scarred tentacles at the front and shorter ones that stick out at the back, starting lime green and turning cyan at the end. Her fringe parts on the left side of her head. She has clawed fingertips and her freckles extend to being dotted on her ears. She has regular inkling teeth and only wears two triangular earrings, both being on her right ear.

Both forms wear the exact same outfit, a simple white dress shirt that has the effect of ink splatters, and rips in the sleeves - one on the right sleeve and two on the left. She wears a tie that is striped bright green and pink, and on her tie and her shirt pocket, there are three clips attached - a green squid, a pink octopus, and a blue octopus. She wears fingerless gloves that extend to her elbows and  knee high socks, all of which are striped, one of each being white and either pale pink or pale green. She has star clips on several parts of her hair. On her left wrist, she wears a star bracelet. She wears a very short grey and white plaid patterned skirt, with a star chain that goes around her left leg from the front to the back of the skirt. She wears pale purple hi-top trainers that have a squid logo on the outside, and with giant platforms.

### Backstory

M1-4KI was created when Miaki Ikazu, in an attempt to up her musical talents, came across the UTAU software and decides to make a voicebank for it - so she doesn't have to sing herself. She dubs it 'Project M1-4KI' and also creates a mascot (with the help of Eight, as Miaki can't draw). M1-4KI has two forms; one being very reminiscent of her own appearance, as an Inkling, and the other looking more 'human'. Both of M1-4KI's forms wear the same clothes, as they are the same person and she can switch between appearances at will. 'Human' M1-4KI seemed to be introduced first, and she herself states that "it was to feel more familiar to everybody", although the audience of Inkfish don't have a clue who she's trying to appeal to, but it's a fascinating topic nonetheless.

### Trivia

* M1-4KI comes from her original name, Miaki, but with a more 'digital' feel. The 1-4 can be read as a mathematical equation, resulting in the answer -3, with 3 being Miaki's original agent number in the New Squidbeak Splatoon.
* M1-4KI has a complete Inkling voicebank (meaning that her voice FX should always retain that 'Splatoon feel') even if she is in her human-like form.
* M1-4KI's design has a lot of green and pinks, which is a reference to Agent 24, a super duper awesome ship :3 it also references that Miaki and Eight were the main people behind Project M1-4KI.
* There are a few other references on her design; the ink splatters on her shirt give the Splatoon feel, plus they are in the main ink colours of Sink, Sakura, Rexxe and Kiwii. The clips on her tie and shirt pocket represent Miaki, Eight and Sink. The soft colours and outfit are also reminiscent of what Naomi Takehiko often wears.
* Her design also has two references to the mobile game Project Sekai: Colorful Stage; the stars in her hair are similar to An Shiraishi, and her shirt references a 4 star card of Ichika Hoshino.