Thread:HarmonicaPony/@comment-26453713-20160709042540/@comment-5135298-20160709054344

I don't fully understand the similarity between your first comparison, though your second is understandable. Both melodies share the same rhythm, both ascending in the first half, then descending in the second half of the melody. But they're not the same. The similarity in Alphys and Determination is in them being in 3/4 time, and sharing the same rhythm. But the melodic motion isn't close enough for one to consider it a quotation.