I don't know if anyone else has thought of this, but after the animated trailer, it really made me think that Zoe might exist in the project universe, I just wanted some confirmation for or against, but if she is, could that mean she exists outside the system as a hacker? Do project hunt her?
PROJECT is a pretty bleak future, one with technology that borders on magic to us and revolves around control and belief. For Zoe we wanted to try something more upbeat and connected to our own world; urban fashion, near-future tech, bright graffiti colours, fun! I used a mood board similar to DJ Sona's for the pitch and the general idea was 'If DJ Sona is the world's most popular DJ, Zoe is the one stealing her stem files and distributing free Neil-Cicierega-esque mashups.' Having said that, DJ Sona is not really canon in any universe yet so they aren't officially connected, just saying she's not PROJECT Zoe. Ekko is a hacker in the PROJECT universe, so if we did do that skin she might look similar.
With that type of thought process you could then argue that there could potentially be multiple systems in said world therein tying all the tech/game based skin lines together.
Now that could effectively link program, project, battlecast, and mecha. Hell if you wanna get technical the Video game based ones could even be in that universe as playable characters by said out of the system champs as fun propaganda entrenched video games.
Meh...maybe....Star Guardian Zoe makes more sense though
I guess an extension would be: do we know if there are still full organics in the project era? Cyberpop Zoe is certainly not a robot from what I can tell, maybe you could argue her hair is like... Wires?
Project reminds me a lot more of Samurai Jack. Cyberpop of Splatoon.
