It's not the characters they stole, it's costume and pose. That costume is not the original character costume from SK (I think). TN probably was INSPIRED by the thing.It wouldn't surprise me. TN is lazy. They might just pull a cosplay out of their ass.
I'd rather they steal a shitty character from a shitty game like that than steal a character from a good game like Tales of or Persona. That would ruin those games. But that... I mean. Psh. If they want to go through the hooplah of licensing it. Though I doubt that. Licensing is VERY expensive.