I designed Noir, Solo, and Telly as commissions a few years back. I recognized the similarities but made them distinct enough from my own characters to be comfortable. At the time, their story proposal seemed fairly unique and detached from Audience - at least, the parts they explained to me. They were really kind and I thought they'd moved past their phase of too-similar OCs since they were just a kid when they originally wanted to try to reboot Audience. I'm sad to see that they fell back into that even years later, and worse, caused so much emotional distress.