>>100668965kanade isn't really anything like aqua as a design, but they both are about as intelligent as a hamster. riona I always thought felt suspiciously like nu-chloe, gigi I dunno.
gura decided to leave in like january I thought she said? they design the characters well in advance and assign them to incoming talents (least last I heard, although they can make some adjustments). so gigi was on the drawing board for a while but I mean gura had already clearly been negligent and on the outs at that point so yeah maybe they were starting to make contingency plans.
fauna/ceci is "they're both green lol" because cc doesn't look or feel like a Lamy at all.