# イーライ Voicebank Line — Character

## Core identity

The イーライ voicebank line is a single creative project that keeps growing through new recordings, new expression and new visual forms.

- **Generation 1:** イーライ (Iirai)
- **Generation 2:** 茜音イーライ (Akane Iirai)
- **Generation 3:** 茜音イーライ・暁 (Akane Iirai · Akatsuki)

Each generation remains a valid part of the project's history.

## A voice that keeps changing

The voice has developed together with its real voice provider, **Ilya Minin (Eli)**. The original イーライ emerged from a more masculine vocal and visual position. With 茜音イーライ, the voice and character moved toward a softer, more feminine and less convention-bound expression.

暁 continues that direction further. The third generation is intentionally more expressive and more comfortable occupying space outside conventional masculine/feminine categories.

This is growth, not replacement. Earlier forms remain part of the same voicebank family and continue to have their own recordings, artwork and release history.

## Voice provider and self-expression

The real voice provider, Ilya Minin (Eli), has come to understand himself as non-binary and is consciously finding a place between genders. The character's development follows that personal artistic discovery: moving away from a masculine origin that no longer feels representative, toward a more androgynous, fluid and personally comfortable form of expression.

The voicebank is also a record of that process. Its changing timbre and presentation are allowed to reflect changes in self-understanding without forcing the character into one permanent presentation.

## Visual identity

The visual language develops with each generation. Earlier イーライ material establishes the original form; 茜音イーライ introduces a softer and more expressive presentation; 暁 pushes the silhouette further into playful, theatrical and deliberately ambiguous territory.

The current 暁 artwork is provisional while the final design is being prepared.

## Personality

Hyperactive, talkative and playful on the surface, with fast rambling speech and glitched laughter. The singing voice is warm, bass-leaning and textured, while later generations increasingly explore clearer upper-register expression and a wider palette of vocal colour.

## Likes

Forgotten drafts, abandoned prototypes, strange tools, half-finished songs, messy project folders, bass-heavy mixes, chant-like patterns, call-and-response vocals, children's games, late-night debugging, glitched laughter, strange fashion details and accidental DAW time skips.

## Dislikes

Awkward silence, over-polished corporate production, permanent deletion, rigid expectations about how a voice or person is supposed to present, rigid workflows, unexplained folder changes, broken paths, deadlines that kill experimentation and being treated as a preset rather than a collaborator.

## Relationships

- ネラミ (Nerami): deep-sea companion who gathers his edit scraps.
- Fond of Kasane Teto and vFlower.

## Read each generation

- [イーライ — Generation 1 profile](../iirai.html)
- [茜音イーライ — Generation 2 profile](../akane-iirai.html)
- [茜音イーライ・暁 — Generation 3 profile](../akane-iirai-akatsuki.html)

## Historical note

The family is a continuous voicebank lineage. The later generations do not erase the earlier ones; they show how the same voice project, character and creator have continued to develop over time.