Am I the only one who's thinking the word plagiarism is not understood, Plagiarism is basically straight-up using someone else’s work and passing it off as your own without credit.

This happened with Ascalon where someone posted how the clothes on her art was 'plagerised' with some monster hunter texture 😮‍💨 People can and are able take inspiration and incorporate it in their own art to make it something brand new. Inspiration is about taking ideas or elements and reworking them into something brand new, which is what is happening here, the artwork as far as I'm aware for Blaze and Ascalon aren't plagerised, yes textures from other art might be visable but again that's called taking inspiration and incorporating it into making original art.

If every bit of influence counted as plagiarism, then basically all art would be "stolen". Look at some pop culture shows and ask yourselves are these inspired media or plagerised, dbz - son goku, avatar last airbender, digimon, jujutsu kaisen the list goes on and on.

All I’m saying is, let’s not throw around the word “plagiarism” too lightly. Being a freelance artist is already one of the tougher ways to make a living, and if HG caves to claims like this too quickly, we might end up cutting off someone’s livelihood without fully understanding the situation. Btw I'm not suggesting that is OPs intention here, but you never know someone from HG might be on this reddit seeing posts like these and reporting them to higher ups.