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The Friends Who Never Hang: You are far more likely to see members collab outside of this generation than within. Choco with Mel, Flare, or Polka, and both Ayame and Subaru with GAMERS are the most common examples. Case in point, all five didn't do a group collab until two years after their debut.
Our Monsters Are Different: Choco, Shion, and Ayame have this theme going on and would be the closest thing to a "themed" generation before GAMERS, Fantasy, and -Myth-.
True Companions: Much more downplayed compared to the later gens. Gen 3 would serve as the prototype for the "debut as a group" format with Gen 4 polishing the format that future generations would model after (all members debuting within a one-week time frame, getting to know each other and bonding with one another months before debut). Gen 2 was not modeled after this, so as a result, you are less likely to see members participate in "full-generation" streams/events like the later gens or the international branches.

Minato Aqua

Minato Aqua [JP: 湊あくあ; CN: 湊-阿库娅]

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"Kon-aqua~!"

Debut date: August 8th, 2018
Birthday: December 1st
Height: 148 cm
Fanbase name: Aqua Crew
Illustrator: Matsui Hiroaki/Gaou

, とぴあ

(New Year kimono), ordan

(Idol costume)
Live2D modeler: fumi

(formerly), rariemonn

(current), Tou Ilie

(Neko Aqua)
3D modeler: paint002

, schwarz

(2nd Live concert costume)
Channel: Youtube

Social Media: Twitter

Alias: Akutan, AKUKIN, Baqua
Age: Eternally 5

Affiliation: AKUKIN Construction (formerly), NEGI☆U, UMISEA

, StartEnd (Apex Legends squad with Suisei and Towa)
Occupation (bar idol): Gaming

Maid, Founder and Former^note CEO of AKUKIN Construction (in Minecraft)

I want you to love me more
I don't always have to have my way
So I won't let you take your eyes off of me
Look, I'm going to make you crazy for me! Ah~!
I want you to love me forevermore
To dye your body and soul in my palette
So keep looking my way, darling?
Ah~, I'm not letting you go
Not ever!
Never, ever
Forever
It's a promise!

— Aqua-iro Palette

Abhorrent Admirer: She's incredibly fond of Okayu, wishing that they would get married and generally becoming a giggly, lovestruck mess whenever in her presence. For the most part, Okayu just uses it as a way to tease her or bait her into pranks.
Affectionate Nickname: She is called "Ateshi" by a few of the other members, due to this her personal catchphrase, being a variant of atashi/watashi the Japanese word for me "I/me".
Aggressive Submissive: She has called multiple fellow idols with the express purpose of having them tease her and talk to her sadistically, with varying results.
Ambiguously Gay: Her relationship with Shion is very genuine, and many of the other members ship the two because of their relationship with one another, which both of them enjoy. In addition, when she went onto Kiara's Holo Talk show, she talked about her love for Sword Art Online and especially Kirito. Aqua then says that Asuna is her ideal wife, to which Kiara asks why she wouldn't marry Kirito instead if she's such a huge fan of his. Aqua tells her she'd much rather have a cute wife than a husband, to which Kiara very excitedly agrees, saying she feels the exact same way.
Angrish: Sometimes delves into screaming and/or unintelligible gibberish when playing rage games like Jump King, or when other players in an online game are annoying her like in her Super Mario Maker 2 streams.
Ascended Fangirl: It's no secret that Aqua is one of the biggest Sword Art Online fans in the entirety of hololive, and eventually she would receive appreciation back.
- For Kirito's birthday in 2021, she tweeted out an edit of herself in Kirito's outfit, and was shocked when Reki Kawahara the author of the light novels replied back and followed her.
- During 2022, Aqua became the official PR ambassador and a beta tester for Sword Art Online: Variant Showdown. In other words, she became a Beater for real, just like Kirito.
- Then in 2023/2024, Aqua would get added as a playable character for Sword Art Online: Last Recollection, making it as close as possible to get meeting Kirito and Asuna for real!
Beleaguered Boss: In the 2020 Minecraft Sports Festival, she is the leader of White Team A (Suisei, AkiRose, Subaru, Rushia, Okayu). Unfortunately for her, her own teammates see her as this, and when their team was losing during the item gathering event, Suisei comes to her, armed with two carrots, and starts beating her up for her incompetence.
Berserk Button: Don't even think about doubting her authenticity as a maid, because she will shout at you if you do.
The Berserker: As a part of Team Startend for what is likely her first and last APEX Legends tournament participation in April 2022, Aqua's experience as a player who climbed up to Master rank on her own on stream is made clear by her incredibly aggressive and reckless solo plays, in contrast to Towa's more weighed callouts. Towa and Suisei subsquently described her as a mad dog that they barely keep in check.
Brown Note: Fans often joke that the background music she uses for her loading screens rapidly drains the brain cells from her viewers, thanks to the monotonous way on how the recorder is played on the song over and over. They also joke that this also affects Aqua herself, justifying her "Baqua" behavior.
Butt-Monkey:
- She seems to have a huge habit of ending up the butt of a joke in some way, be it by performing terribly poorly on a common knowledge quiz from Choco to falling to her own traps on a surprisingly regular basis.
- The UMISEA Specials take this even further, by having her forcefully get recruited by Hoshou Marine and getting herself involved in all sorts of unpleasant situations.
- Come 2022, Aqua has been impersonated increasingly often. Whether it's her chat doubting that she's the real one during a stream or on Twitter or her fellow members impersonating her to her face, she cannot escape it.
Calling Parents by Their Name: Ever since she accidentally leaked her mom's first name on a Ring Fit Adventure stream, Aqua and her fans started occasionally referring to her as "Kumiko".
Cat Girl: During her 3rd 2D outfit reveal stream, Aqua is shown to be able to sprout seemingly real cat ears and tail at will. Since then, she has posted several videos where she acted like a cat, and is almost always seen with cat ears and tail whenever she is using her 3rd 2D outfit.
Character Catchphrase: "X/She loves me too much!", which she says whenever someone wants to hang out with her or mentions her in a positive light.
Character Tic: Aqua has a tendency to keep her mouth open when she's become focused on gaming, especially if it's Apex Legends.
Clingy Jealous Girl: She's very attached to Okayu, comfortably sitting in her lap for one stream, and the revelation that the latter's a regular Chick Magnet causes her some distress.
Competition Freak: Put her in front of any remotely competitive online game and she will turn into the epitome of a stereotypical salty gamer. She's even once chewed out her opponents for supposedly having McDonalds Wi-Fi.
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: She's actually really good at many of the games she plays, though her air-headed nature and many moments of hilarity can overshadow it.
- Her performance can vary a bit in online games, where it all hinges on her mental state, creating a sort of Unstable Equilibrium scenario: When she gets an early disadvantage, she becomes a Sore Loser prematurely and ends up spiraling into defeat. On the other hand, when she gets an early advantage, she'll probably win off of the good mood she gets.
- In singleplayer endeavors, she's very much a Determinator who has tackled some notoriously difficult games under challenge conditions, such as when she and a few other members played Dark Souls around the same time. Aqua took it a step further than the rest when she managed a three-hour speed run with only a few retries.
- A more extensive list of her gaming accomplishments up to early 2020 has been compiled here.
- On Minecraft, she's often the victim of traps set up by others (or even her own) and will comically scream to her death. However, on FPS games like Apex Legends, she has incredible reflexes, being able to get first place in match despite not having played for 80 days prior.
- Some consider her to be the best Mario Kart player in all of hololive, outright named as such alongside Suisei by Towa when she was putting together the brackets for the 2022 New Year tournament.
The Cutie: Due to her ditziness, excitableness on camera, shyness off-camera, and her short stature, many fans and fellow idols have described Aqua as adorable in every sense of the word.
Cuteness Proximity:
- She's basically putty when it comes to Okayu's pet cat, Temari.
- Aqua triggers this in the other members, who love to fawn over her because of how cute she is.
Didn't Think This Through: Is a frequent victim of this whenever she doesn't make any plans in hindsight. Her most prominent one is when she decides to trap Marine in her house with a small prison with a bed , a "toilet", and a chest with food and a book that says Doujinshi18+. Marine wasn't angry that she trapped her in the prison, but was absolutely livid when she was a provided a book with literally nothing on it, and she makes her anger so known that Aqua cowers in fear.
Disappeared Dad: Played for laughs. After formally accepting her status as Marine's "daughter", Aqua admitted to never knowing who her father was, to which the pirate responded by asking her to view the Ichimi as her Parental Substitute instead.
The Ditz: Tends to be easily fooled and usually doesn't think most of her schemes through, causing them to backfire on her. She also got the lowest score on Choco's quiz with a score of 1. There's a reason why some fans like to call her 'Baqua'.
D-Cup Distress: She wasn't too fond of the fact that her artist, Gaou, kept drawing her breasts larger and larger with every piece of art he made. He eventually toned it down for her 3rd 2D outfit. Unlike most examples, it's more of her being upset that he's focusing so much on that part instead of making her taller.
Evil Laugh: Of sorts, particularly when something bad happens to a friend in-game or something really good happens to her.
Fangirl: Of Sword Art Online. She always brightens up whenever it comes up in discussion, to the point of overcoming her shyness when she's with other people.
Fanservice Pack: It's been remarked upon that Aqua's character model's breasts have grown. Aqua states Matsui Hiroaki has been drawing them bigger for no reason and she's embarrassed by it.
Gave Up Too Soon: In the final race of the Winners' Cup for the 2021 New Years' JP Mario Kart tournament, Aqua lost track of which of the two Waluigi players was Luna and which one was Suisei.^Importance She then guesses that the Waluigi ahead of her was Suisei, which led to her, on the final lap, slowing as she exited onto the track's front straight, thinking she would never catch up, leading to Fubuki making a last-second pass on Aqua and crossing the line in third place in her stead. However, Suisei was actually behind Aqua, and that one point difference meant that, despite Suisei losing multiple places before crossing the line due to getting hit with items multiple times, ultimately finishing in 8th, she was able to hold onto her points lead by that amount and winning the tournament outright. Had Aqua held on to her position and finished 3rd, this would've resulted in both her and Suisei being tied for both points overall, and average finishing position across all 4 races^note, and had finishing position for the final race been used to resolve both ties, Aqua would've been the winner instead.
Girlish Pigtails: Her hair is styled in pigtails, which fits her bouts of childish behaviour.
Guest Fighter: Aqua is one of the six members chosen to represent hololive during a 2019 collaboration event with Azur Lane, taking on the role of Submarine gameplay-wise.
Height Angst: According to herself, she's 148 cm (about 4'10") and the word "small" feels like "a punch to the gut" to her. Even Shion made light of this when they first met in real life despite being apparently not much taller. She also doesn't take it well when Noel points out their height difference, with Aqua insisting she's 180 cm and it's just her 3D model making her appear short. It does not help her avatar is only 142 cm (about 4'8"), as shown here, the only other girls shorter than her is La+ at (139 cm or 4'6.7"), Luna at (140 cm or 4'7"), and Gawr Gura of the English branch (who is 141 cm or 4'7.5").
Idiot Hair: She has a small teal-colored strand sticking out from her forehead. It usually blends in with her maid bonnet, but is easier to spot in her 3D model or when she's wearing costumes without any large headwear. According to herself, it's actually an antenna of sorts to allow her to detect enemy players in Apex Legends, in the same vein as the Spider-Sense.
Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: She falls into this when she tries to pull pranks or outsmart her fellow idols, as more often than not things backfire on her for one reason or the other.
Insistent Terminology: She claims to be a maid even after Shion pointed out how she couldn't perform the tasks that actual maids are expected to be able to, like cooking and cleaning, and will not accept otherwise. More precisely, she refers to herself as a "gaming maid", and retorted explosively when Shion referred to her as a maid cosplayer.
Kaleidoscope Hair: Some depictions of her (including some included in thumbnails and made by her artist, Gaou) have her hair look far more pinkish than purple. Her casual outfit introduced in late September 2020 has her hair look more pinkish.
Kimono Fanservice: Debuted with a pretty kimono outfit in 2020 that she wears on some of her streams.
La Résistance: Tried to form one during her early days on the hololive Minecraft server with the intent to knock Sora out of the spotlight. It didn't end well.
Leitmotif: "Kawaii Aqua", a rather comfy theme that tends to play on a lot of her streams, generally afterwards. The song that plays before her stream starts is actually a Public Domain theme — albeit strongly associated with her.
Meido: Her outfit is one of a Marine-style maid.
Mundane Made Awesome: In her 24 hour stream, to much of her dismay, her chat got excited when she was about to dry her hair and wanted her to do it on stream, despite how loud the hair dryer would be.
Not a Morning Person: According to the 17th episode of HoloTalk featuring her, Aqua's daily routine consists of sleeping all morning, waking up at noon, then playing games for the rest of the day, rinse and repeat.
Not Good with Rejection: Seeing Okayu propose to Korone during hololive COUNTDOWN 2024 causes Aqua to go quiet with tears slowly streaming down her face, before she ends up completely breaking and bawls over getting dumped.
Not Me This Time: After their neighborly war in Minecraft, Shion's house gets struck by lightning and loses a considerable amount of her top floor, when Aqua sees this and reports what happened, Shion (not unreasonably as Aqua had blown up part of Shion's house before) believes Aqua did the deed and kills her before and after the two repair the damage.
The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: As Shion cheekily points out, Aqua cannot cook or clean, which are two things maids are expected to do at the very least. This causes Aqua to hastily declare she's a gaming maid to save her image. This becomes a Plot Point during the UMISEA specials, where it becomes painfully apparent that she lacks any useful navigational and survival skills to be of any use whether on a ship or in Robinsonade type of scenarios.
The Prankster: She plans many pranks to pull on her fellow idols, most commonly in Minecraft, however, the success of the prank varies greatly. It's with surprising regularity that Aqua falls for her own trap, or gets outwitted by someone seeing through her thinly veiled plans and mess them up. The latter of situations happen most often with Okayu, who is a fellow prankster. That said, she has had some successful pranks against those who didn't suspect them.
Red Baron: "Mad Dog" Aqua. So named due during the VSaikyo 2022 scrims because her playstyle is so aggressive that Towa describes her as a mad dog who she can barely keep in check.
Retcon: Her height. As noted above under Height Angst, her avatar appears to be shorter than Rushia's and Shion's and the latter even called her "short", but her official bio does list her at 148 cm as of late 2021.
Screw Yourself: She outright lusts after her Azur Lane self. She also uses herself as a "boyfriend" for hypothetical dates.
Shot in the Ass: At one point during the 2020 Minecraft Sports Festival, she had an arrow in her ass. Suisei took notice.
Shrinking Violet: In real life, Aqua reveals she's incredibly socially awkward that she has trouble talking to others, even vtuber friends of hers.
- Once Aqua went to dinner with Mio, Shion, Okayu and Marine, she admits she kept quiet during the entire meal when the others were chatting and when she wanted to order something she would tap Shion's shoulder, since they were sitting next to each other, then lightly ask Shion to order it for her. She outright states she can't talk to waiters when eating out.
- Subaru once reminisced on an occasion where Matsuri overwhelmed Aqua with her Cuddle Bug tendencies, with Aqua shooting Subaru a "please save me" look, as Subaru describes it.
The Shut-In: Is described as being shut-in outside of her streams. This becomes a Plot Point during the UMISEA Specials.
Signature Laugh: Her laughter has two modes: One is likened to a tea kettle sound where it sounds like she's inhaling and the other is a laugh that slowly accelerates like the Devotion light machine gun from Apex Legends.
Sitcom Arch-Nemesis:
- Has this dynamic with Shion, mainly in the hololive Minecraft server.
- She also has this dynamic with Korone. Due to the two being in a Love Triangle with Okayu, they frequently fight with their words for her affection. When the two get left alone during collabs, she and Korone end up struggling to come up with things to say to one another due to their mutual animosity.
Something We Forgot: When hololive EN takes a tour of JP's Minecraft server, they accidentally end up forgetting completely about Aqua due to being caught up in the experience.
Sore Loser:
- She's fairly decent at playing Super Smash Bros. Ultimate online, but often loses her cool if the match so much as slightly swings in her opponent's favor. Ironically, this usually causes her to actually lose the entire match, further souring her mood. She's similarly not very good at handling her losses on Super Mario Maker 2.
  Aqua: [to one of her opponents] Do you really have such an obsession with winning? Huh? I-- I'm an adult... I could care less.
- During Hololive's 2021 Mario Kart 8 Deluxe collaboration, she was easily winning the Winner's bracket until the last race where Fubuki screws her over to the point that Suisei ends up winning the Winner's bracket, and she was one point behind (43 vs. 42 between Suisei and Aqua respectively). She ended up crying for almost 10 minutes out of frustration. She eventually gets over her loss and strives to do better next time.
Stealth Hi/Bye: During Roboco's 2022 birthday stream, Aqua's call-in lasts a mere second before immediately leaving, prompting Roboco to call her back due to the suddenness of the birthday wish.
Token Human: At first, she and Subaru were both the only human idols from Gen 2, but after Subaru went on to embrace her fandom identity of a duck (though Subaru will maintain identifying as a human even after that), Aqua was the only one left from Gen 2 who still identified as a normal human.
Too Kinky to Torture: She's a masochist and enjoys being bullied, ganged-up on, or scolded.
Took a Level in Badass: She has always been a capable Apex Legends player, but her return to streaming it in January 2022 after a year saw marked changes and improvements to her performance. Of note are that she has adopted a more aggressive fighting style and she has broken out of her shyness to communicate with her team better.
Trademark Favorite Food: Korean seaweed. She seeks it out whenever she eats out with any of the other members and it's so well known to her Korean fanbase that "Korean Seaweed Woman" has become something of a Fan Nickname.
Tunnel King: In the hololive Minecraft server, she dug a network of tunnels she called the Aqua Line.
Vitriolic Best Buds: With Shion. They love to tease each other a lot, but as noted by Marine, while she becomes incredibly shy even among other members, Shion is one of the few people that she feels comfortable being herself around.
Weight Woe:
- During the first string of Ring Fit Adventure, she had attempted to obscure her age, height and weight statistics (for obvious reasons) in order to start playing the game properly for her body type and level of fitness. The image she had used was transparent and didn't cover up the inputs entirely, leading people to very easily find out her weight (44.5kg, or 98lbs). Since then, a few members as well as her audience would troll her by bringing up the number 44.5 without any context to the point that Aqua would see it all the time.
- At one point of her 3rd 2D outfit reveal, she points out that her face in the new outfit looks more "puni", then she reacts as if that detail means she got fatter.

Murasaki Shion

Murasaki Shion [JP: 紫咲シオン; CN: 紫咲诗音]

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"NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!"

Debut date: August 17th, 2018
Birthday: December 8th
Height: 145 cm
Fanbase name: Shiokko
Illustrator: Tam-U

, ordan

(Idol costume)
Live2D modeler: rariemonn

(2.0 main), keffiy

(New Year kimono & Neko Shion)
3D modeler: Hinoichi

Channel: Youtube

Social Media: Twitter

Age: Ageless

Place of origin: Makai

Affiliation: School of Magic

, Makai Academy

Occupation (bar idol): Student

A-Cup Angst: Just like Rushia and Kanata, Shion is a frequent victim of being called flat and subsequently getting annoyed and defensive over it.
The Ageless: Zig-Zagged. When asked "How old are you now?" during her 2020 birthday countdown stream, she states that she "doesn't have an age because she's a magician", but it's still her birthday regardless. She then proceed to declare herself as 6 years old. On her subsequent birthday countdown stream in 2021, she initially answers that her age is 48, before quickly clarifying that she IS ageless after all.
Bratty Half-Pint: Her fans often call her a kusogaki (shitty brat) since she looks like a teenager and has a propensity for making fun of a lot of people (especially her more Otaku-leaning fans and Aqua).
Casual Kink: During a stream with Okayu, she confesses to being a switch between a sadist and a masochist, compared to the rather proud masochist the former is.
Cat Girl: Much like Aqua's 3rd 2D outfit that debuted a couple of months before, when Shion is using her Gothic Lolita outfit, she is is almost always seen with moving cat ears and tail.
Clingy Jealous Girl: She's very clearly interested in Okayu, even proposing that they get married more than once, and she becomes frustrated when other girls comment on their interest in her as well. It culminates in her charging Okayu to a trial for infidelity for being flirtatious.
Cute Witch: Her design focuses on appearing this way, with her hat and her fancy dress. Much of her time in the hololive animated shorts also involve her using magic to decidedly mixed results.
Dreary Half-Lidded Eyes: Her eyes are drawn with this style to emphasize her smug, bratty nature.
Everyone Has Standards: When one fan donated 40,000 yen, which is the rough equivalent to 400 U.S. dollars, her first reaction was to tell them not to spend so much on her and to take care of themselves first.
Epic Fail: She once tried buying an iPad online and thought that buying cards through the Apple Store would be the best way to purchase it, not realizing those cards were specifically for iTunes. However, once she recants her story and use her misspent money on gacha games, a fan refunded her the money lost.
First Kiss: With Okayu, who had given it to her in Minecraft after asking her what she wanted as a reward.
The Gadfly: Shion absolutely loves messing with her fellow idols for her own entertainment, such as when she wouldn't accept a kiss from Marine, but would accept one from Marine doing an Okayu impression. Particularly when she's with Marine and Aqua, both of whom are very emotional and prone to comically overreacting.
Guest Fighter: Shion is one of the six members chosen to represent hololive during a 2019 collaboration event with Azur Lane, taking on the role of Light Aircraft Carrier gameplay-wise.
Harem Seeker: Has a habit of giving marriage proposals to many of her fellow talents.
Identical Stranger: To gen 6's La+ Darknesss, who's also a white-haired, yellow-eyed Bratty Half-Pint that wears predominantly purple and black.
Meaningful Name: "Murasaki" means "purple bloom", and the kanji for "purple" by its lonesome is also read "murasaki". One possible definition of her given name, "Shion", is the Japanese name of aster amellus, a purple daisy. Fittingly, her outfits tend to have a lot of purple coloring.
Named Weapons: In Minecraft, her best diamond sword is "affectionately" named "go die sword lol". ^note
Noodle Incident: Marine has illustrated a short doujinshi as to what happened the night she and Shion overslept for their stream, to which Shion has repeatedly denied any memory of while Marine has vocally insisted that it's true. It's possible that Marine simply had a vivid dream, Shion is simply denying it for personal reasons, or she genuinely doesn't remember due to the fact they were both drinking heavily, they have both agreed to move past it and pretend it didn't happen.
Official Couple: With Gura. Notably one of the few couples who got mutually married and stayed together. After exchanging love letters, Gura and Shion had their first Minecraft collab together where they went on a date and proposed.
Person as Verb: Noun in this case, but oversleeping and being two hours late for her debut lead Fubuki to christen a "Shion" as two hours.
Put on a Bus: Around the same time as Haato's announcement of going on an indefinite hiatus in June 2021, Shion took a break from streaming to tend to her physical and mental health, citing swollen tonsils and the emotional turmoil of learning of Coco's graduation. She eventually got better and returned to streaming.
Shrinking Violet: Though she has a cheeky attitude while streaming, she is shier in real life. Miko tells of the time they went to a movie screening with a number of the other members and Shion came with her manager and was hiding behind her before Miko drew her out of her shell.
Signature Laugh: She has a rather powerful laugh that sounds both squeeky and like she's inhaling.
Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: Has this dynamic with Aqua, mainly in the hololive Minecraft server.
Sleepy Head: One of her defining traits was oversleeping, she even once overslept by two hours for a stream. Humorously, when she and Marine did their first offline collab with one another, they both oversleep by four hours. Happened again on during the second generation's first offline collab when she fell asleep just before leaving causing the other four to visit her house and she slept through Choco continually ringing her door bell as Aqua was calling her. Shion eventually woke up to find Aqua had called her 60 times that Aqua decided to spread Shion's number to the rest of the second generation in case this happens again.
Smug Smiler: Basically her entire hat, her personality and design revolving around her being a cheeky little brat who acts in a smug, almost playfully condescending manner. She's commonly referred to as kusogaki for this reason.
Tareme Eyes: Shion's eyes have a very pronounced droop to them. However, she completely averts all of the personality traits associated with this art style (quiet, kind, fragile, etc.).
The Tease: She likes to ask other idols if they'd like to get married, cuddle them, and will occasionally flirt with them off stream.
Took a Level in Kindness: Second Generation's first off-line collab with all the members has the other members state Shion has calmed down in the two years since she debuted, originally they felt like Shion was a wall and disliked listening to anyone.
Tsundere: Pretty much exclusively to Aqua.
- During one Minecraft collab stream, Aqua stepped away from the keyboard to get something to drink, but ended up coming back while Shion was slinging insults at her. Aqua kept her mic muted and told her chat to ask Shion what she likes about her. She sincerely replied that she's grateful she has Aqua as a friend, only to start slinging insults again once she realized that Aqua's probably listening in.
- She repeatedly attempted to buy a ticket to Aqua's solo concert and was bummed out the first few times she couldn't get it. When she finally got her hands on one, she jokingly told Aqua that she was going to resell it, but she ended up going to her concert anyway.
Verbal Tic: A high-pitched "Neeeeeeee!" (ねえええええええ!), usually when frustrated or annoyed.
Vocal Dissonance: She has a significantly deeper voice than her appearance would lead one to believe.
Wizarding School: She has mentioned on many occasions that she's attending "magic school". Considering that she has also mentioned that she's attending Makai Academy, this "magic school" is most likely a faculty within Makai Academy that teaches magic to its students.

Nakiri Ayame

Nakiri Ayame [JP: 百鬼あやめ; CN: 百鬼绫目]

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"Kon-nakiri!"

Debut date: September 8th, 2018
Birthday: December 13th
Height: 152 cm
Fanbase name: Nakiri-Gumi
Illustrator: Kagura Nana

, ordan

(Idol costume)
Live2D modeler: Tou Ilie

, 7name

(New Year kimono)
3D modeler: yuuji777

& schwarz

Channel: Youtube

Social Media: Twitter

Alias: Yo (余)
Age (at debut): About 1500

Species: Oni
Place of origin: Makai
Affiliation: Makai Academy, OKFAMS
Occupation (bar idol): Student

Sing, dance, come forward arm-in-arm
The ditziness is part of the charm
Raise hell until night turns to dawn
For the lovely oni in the house
In hordes and hordes, we arrive and cheer
Marching to the beat of this drum
With loads and loads of style and panache, I dance
Capricious am I, give me an aye for 'tis I here tonight!

— Yoi no Yo Yoi!

Associated characters: Poyoyo (mascot)

Afraid of Needles: Averted. Ayame shared how, when she once had her blood sampled via a syringe, she was staring at the injected arm and watching her own blood fill up the syringe. It apparently made the nurse uncomfortable, which Ayame found odd.
Animal Motifs: Though not as much as the actual animal people, Ayame is associated with dogs. Her facial expressions were drawn by her artist with a puppy in mind, she has ghost dogs as familiars, and her general disposition has also been compared to a puppy by fans and by Fubuki given how often she giggles and ends up panting like one.
Apologetic Attacker: When she and Suisei play as Traitors, she immediately apologizes to their victims while killing them, contrasting Suisei who laughs while murdering her friends and apologizing to them.
Attention Deficit... Oh, Shiny!: She once shared how she got dizzy due to playing with her phone for too long while bathing. It apparently happens so often Ayame scolds herself for doing it over and over again without herself being aware of it.
Awesomeness by Analysis: She really likes to observe people, and after a while starts picking up a lot of clues on how they usually act and can quickly notice if there's something wrong. In her own opinion, that's why she's so good at Among Us. On the other hand, that also means that sometimes she gets caught just... intensely staring at people without saying anything, and according to Marine that can look really weird.
Carry a Big Stick: Appropriately for an oni, Holo no Graffiti occasionally depicts Ayame with a kanabō.
Character Catchphrase: "Yo dayo!"
Competition Freak: Not as much as Aqua, but Ayame is quite competitive when streaming first person shooter games. This extends to even people she doesn't expect to encounter in-game, as seen here.
Cultural Rebel: Oni are almost invariably described as violent, brutish and evil. Ayame is roughly the complete opposite of that. Also, despite oni being consistently cast out of shrines for bringing misfortune, she's obsessed with shrine culture, keeping a collection of goshuin stamps, and even being friends with some shrine maidens, including Miko and Kiara.
Cute Little Fang: Sports one in all of her models, which is especially visible when she slightly opens her mouth.
Cute Monster Girl: She is an oni, a type of demon-like creature in Japanese mythology, but this doesn't change how downright cute and wholesome she is.
The Cutie: One of the contenders for the premiere cute girl of hololive.
Dual Wielding:
- Ayame possesses a pair of nodachi swords (a type of Japanese sword longer than the more well-known katana, but similarly designed), strapped by her back. According to her concept art◊, her swords are actually named; "Asura" for her blood red sword, "Rasetsu" for her black one.
- The fused form of her familiars from the Hololive Alternative PV also wields twin blades.
Dynamic Entry: Her first appearance in Holoearth Chronicles Side:E ~Yamato Phantasia~ is a Diving Kick that knocks Fubuki back in the air until Mio catches her.
Familiar: She has two Will-o'-the-Wisp ghost dogs accompanying her as her familiars in her concept art, named "Karma" and "Shiranui". They (or, atleast, what appears to be them) fuse together in the Hololive Alternative PV, forming a humanoid figure wielding a pair of swords, not unlike its master.
The Friends Who Never Hang: Discussed with Mio. For how well they get along, they've only had two 1-on-1 collab streams together before May 2021 and they're not sure why that's the case.
Guest Fighter: Ayame is one of the six members chosen to represent hololive during a 2019 collaboration event with Azur Lane, taking on the role of Heavy Cruiser gameplay-wise.
Hidden Buxom: Downplayed. It can appear as though Ayame is completely flat if you take into account her default and casual appearances, but as the rest of her outfits reveal, she's a B-Cup at most. IRyS herself thought that Ayame herself was flat chested until chat corrected her.
I Call It "Vera": Her two katanas each have a name; the red one is called "Ashura", while the black one is called "Rasetsu". She keeps the names even in her guest appearance in Azur Lane.
Insistent Terminology: She repeatedly reminds her fans that she is not an otaku.
Meaningful Name: "Nakiri" (百鬼) roughly means "hundred ghosts/spirits", which is another reference to Japanese mythology, as it could refer to a collective group of spirits, or a slayer of a hundred spirits depending on the context.
Nice Girl: She is most consistently portrayed as one of the nicest idols in hololive, to the point she was Beneath Suspicion as a traitor in Project Winter.
Not a Morning Person: On multiple morning stream collabs, Ayame is typically the last to wake up, and even when she does it's very clear she will take some time for her to be fully awake. Case in point.
Not Evil, Just Misunderstood: In the story Hunting the Oni of the Oeyama Mountains, she is accused of kidnapping children by Fubuki and Mio, leading to a fight. It eventually turns out that she had nothing to do with the kidnappings.
No Sense of Direction: Ayame has a poor sense of direction and often gets lost when she tries to reach the houses of her fellow streamers for off collabs.
Odd Friendship: With Miko. With her being an oni and Miko being a shrine maiden, the two basically serve directly conflicting roles to one another, which they lampshade, yet the two love calling each other adorable and giving each other head pats.
Ojou: Referred to as such by her fans, which she sometimes acknowledges. She doesn't quite fit the stereotypical potrayal of Ojou characters in Japanese media, however.^note
Oni: Her shtick.
O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Downplayed since it's part of her character, but Ayame becomes eerily silent and laser-focused when she decides to get serious in a gameplay, as shown here in Apex Legends and here in Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout. Ayame personally does not like doing it very often, because she wants to converse with her listeners.
Pintsized Powerhouse: She has revealed that she once got into a brawl with her father, whom she describes as well-built and tall, and managed to retaliate after getting knocked down by him by taking him down. Bear in mind that by her own admission when she sits in her gaming chair her feet don't touch the ground. She said her father was most likely shocked at his small kid able to grapple him to the ground. By all accounts it's very surprising for her given she gives off a rather timid and serene aura on stream, making it hard to imagine her really fighting someone let alone pulling off a feat like that. she's not an oni for nothing.
Plague of Good Fortune:
- Once had a Minecraft stream where she said she'd keep fishing until she catches an enchanted book at which point the stream ends. She got one first try. And then another one 12 minutes later. ^noteThe stream went on for an hour anyway
- On another Minecraft stream, she decided to make an endurance stream out of mining for diamonds, planning on streaming for an hour and hoping her luck doesn't cut her adventure short like with her book fishing stream. Sure enough, she finds five diamond blocks 10 minutes after she starts mining.
Playful Cat Smile: A subtle one. Ayame's upper lip has a slight cleft to it, but this is usually hard to notice in her Live2D sprites, though the Holo no Graffiti shorts do show it in better detail.
Really 700 Years Old: She's about 1500 years old. It is unknown how old she is in human age.
Shrinking Violet: She needs a lot of time to warm up to people before she can properly interact with them in person. Marine has shared that it's taken about five real-life interactions before Ayame could even talk to her properly, and a lot of those were done with Ayame hiding behind Mio.
Silk Hiding Steel: Normally known to be a Nice Girl and an Ojou, her Among Us collabs showed that she's a frighteningly accurate interrogator when she's a Crewmate, and a highly efficient assassin when she's an Impostor.
Student Council President: According to her official description, Ayame is one for Makai Academy. However, it isn't brought up very often.
Supreme Chef: When Ayame helped make breakfast with Choco in the first offline collab with all the members Aqua stated she now wanted to marry her just to continue eating her food.
Tempting Fate: During a "stream ends if I get 7th place or below" Mario Kart 8 challenge stream, right before the race started, she said her goal for the stream is to last about half-an-hour, and "There's no way this will end in one minute, right...?". She got seventh place in her very first race. The best part is that she most likely wouldn't have failed if it weren't for the shell hitting her just shortly before the finish line, which dropped her from second place to seventh.
Token Heroic Orc: Red oni are depicted as the baddest of the bad in Japanese Mythology, but Ayame is a total sweetheart who wouldn't wish harm upon anyone.
Verbal Tic: Second Generation's first off-collab with all the members revealed that she repeats "eh" a lot. Ayame didn't even realize it till they pointed it out to her.
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: She'd like a pet reptile, but the thought of feeding them bugs grosses her out too much to go through with it.

Yuzuki Choco

Yuzuki Choco [JP: 癒月ちょこ; CN: 癒月巧可]

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"Good evening, my cute students. Choc-on~"

Debut date: September 5th, 2018
Birthday: February 14th
Height: 165 cm
Fanbase name: Choco Mate
Illustrator: Masuishi Kinoto

, ordan

(Idol costume)
Live2D modeler: Tou Illie

, Taniya Raku

(New Year kimono & 6th costume)
3D modeler: Tomitake

Channel: Youtube

Social Media: Twitter

Alias: Choco-sensei
Age (at debut): About 1,000,000 (actual age); 26-27 (Human years, converted) ^Source
Species: Demon

Place of origin: Makai

Affiliation: Makai Academy
Occupation (bar idol): School Nurse

Affectionate Nickname: Called "Chiyoko" by Subaru and Luna - and only them, as the pair have expressly forbidden anyone else from using it.
Ambiguously Bi: In addition to shamelessly flirting with both guys and girls alike, she's also been known to have absolutely no issue kissing Mel on the lips repeatedly, nor does she have any issue making rather intimate ASMR videos with her fellow idols, her often taking the lead.
ASMR Video: Choco's preferred content, which she is quite skilled with. However, since her channel was demonetized in October 2019 (supposedly due to sexual content), Choco deleted or privatized all of her ASMR videos (the only remaining ones in Youtube are ones posted in the channels of other Vtubers) in her bid to regain monetization. She has since resumed making them, but keeps them members only to avoid issues.
Better to Die than Be Killed: Played for laughs. When confronted by an upset Suisei for presumably letting her home in Rust decay, a terrified Choco opted to hit the suicide button and respawn rather than opening the door and facing the former's wrath.
Butt-Monkey: When it comes to Mario Kart 8, she unfortunately doesn't fare well, losing the Hololive tournament at least three times that she's considered to be the "Zako King/Loser King", as in placing last in even the Zako cup.
Character Catchphrase: "ガｱチｲ/Gachi?", which is an expression of doubt. Said roughly with the feeling of "I wonder if what you said is true."
The Caretaker: For any of her friends that ask for it, and especially for Shigure Ui. The artist has said that demon nurse regularly checks up on her and ensures that she goes out of the house once a month at the absolute minimum.
Casual Kink: She has revealed a fondness for the works of doujin arist Crimson.
Cleavage Window: Her avatar's default outfit has this, which bothers her to no end during the period when her channel was demonetized. It's to the point where Choco purposefully keeps her avatar's chest and below off-screen in most of her streams. During the New Year celebration streams, Choco's New Year outfit doesn't have this, something which Choco herself requested of the artist of her avatar. The update to her base Live2D model allows her to cover her chest with her arms and also has an identical model with an undershirt. Her maid outfit (4th 2D outfit) has a mesh part that partially obscures the cleavage that it shows.
Cool Teacher: Not only is her character a teacher and referred to as such, but she frequently hosts quiz shows based on general knowledge where she tests other vtubers.
The Dreaded: When it comes to competitions where the winner has to be treated dinner by the loser as her tastes in food are infamously expensive compared to most.
Determinator: There are times when she goes on Korone-esque marathons, particularly when she's doing challenges on APEX Legends.
Engrish: Downplayed. Her English pronunciations aren't the best, but she understands grammar and tenses enough to form and reconstruct English sentences, which is more than what can be said for nearly anyone else in hololive.
Enraged by Idiocy: Whenever a member takes Choco's test, she begs them to increase the Hololive's average score and is noticeably suffering whenever the members answer a question incredibly wrong.
Even the Girls Want Her: Various women in and out of Hololive have mentioned that Choco is the kind of woman they would like to marry.
The Gadfly: As nice as she is, Choco-sensei rather enjoys getting reactions from other idols, especially if they get embarrassed, as her punishment games are often in the form of intimate lines and then asking for it to be clipped afterwards.
Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Despite being a demon, Choco is very playful and nice to others, treating them with respect even if they fail her questions based on general knowledge.
Hartman Hips: According to Shigure Ui and Inuyama Tamaki, Choco's butt is peach-shaped, very well filled out, absolutely amazing and full of vitality.
Heavy Sleeper: Infamous for being able to sleep for an entire day without realizing. There was even one time where Mio had to wake her up and Choco still sounded like she wanted to sleep, only to realize a day had passed.
Hero Shooter: Choco is absolutely obsessed with APEX Legends. Streaming it takes up nearly a third of her produced content. While passionate, she isn't the best player, though playing with Roboco and Astel has improved her game.
Hollywood Tone-Deaf: Downplayed, she's not extremely bad at singing, but sometimes she sings noticeably off-key and/or off-rhythm for someone ostensibly in an Idol Singer group. It's most clear in Karaoke streams as her concert/live performances don't have such issues.
Hot as Hell: She has pointy ears, bat wings at her back, and two prominent horns sprouting from her head, as is often found in Western depictions of devils and demons. She has stated on many occasions that she's NOT actually a succubus though, but simply a demon, albeit a very attractive one.
Human Disguise: The music video for "SecretClass/癒月ちょこ" showcases Choco without her outward demonic features (horns, wings and tail), implicitly a magical glamour used to appear perfectly human in a normal class setting.
Insistent Terminology: Whenever someone calls her a succubus, she will insist that she is not one and that she is a demon.
The Leader: For ChocoSubaLuna, seeing as she's the most organized and the one with the best suggestions. Subaru says she takes charge whenever they get together IRL and for collab ideas.
Level Grinding: She is well known for doing this in Minecraft, regularly farming experience until she gets to high triple digit numbers.
No-Sell: Despite Matsuri's overly aggressive flirtations normally succeeding in at least causing the other idols of hololive to fumble a bit, Choco simply flirts back and puts Matsuri on the defensive without batting an eye.
Otaku: A self-professed one for all manga, and one who is actively trying to entice Subaru to join her in her interests.
Reluctant Fanservice Girl: Played With. On one hand she enjoys making ASMR content and teasing both fellow idols and her viewers alike, but on the other she isn't the fan of the cleavage window her model has, often moving to hide or obscure it in some way. She eventually got a new model that has a shirt cover up her chest which she had been wanting for a while. The roots of this lie in how said cleavage has gotten her into trouble with monetization.
Romantic Wingman: In a non-romantic sense, like Iofi, Choco was the one responsible for getting Shigure Ui and Inuyama Tamaki to meet for real and break the ice between them.
School Nurse: Her character setting portrays her as a demon who works as a nurse-teacher in Makai Academy. While she breaks out of the setting just as often as the other hololive members, she also often plays up certain aspects of this kind of character in anime quite a lot.
Shameless Fanservice Girl: She has absolutely no problem playing up this role, as she won't hesitate or even kiss other members (she often ends her streams with a kiss), her ASMR streams are often more sensual to this point. However, she's a bit conscientious of the cleavage window her model has, and often covers it up in some form or the other, though that's more due to the issues it caused her than real bashfulness.
Shipper on Deck: She's a big Suburu/Luna shipper and loves pushing them together during offline collabs.
The Smart Guy: She is set up to be one of the more intelligent members of the group: she has several collabs with various Vtubers (both in and out of hololive) about academic tests and trivia quizes, whose questions are personally written by her. Justified, since her character is supposed to be a teacher, and the other hololive members usually call her 'sensei' for it. One of the best showcases of her intelligence can be seen in the English telephone game hosted by Haato and Coco, where after the other members butchered the original English phrases, Choco manages to deduce the proper sentences on intuition alone.
The Social Expert: She is a veritable social butterfly with legions of friends across the VTubing scene and then some. She is practically guaranteed to appear should anyone in Hololive hold a totsumachi unless she's busy or asleep, and many streamers from the other agencies will have her calling in too. When she held her own totsumachi for 2022 New Years, she had so many people call in that their profile pictures buried a third of the screen and would've had more had they not been busy with their own scheduled activities for the holiday.
Supreme Chef: Choco has done a few cooking streams that results in food that looks edible unlike Haachama's. Apparently her food is so good Aqua now wants to marry her just to keep eating her food after the first second generation offline collab.
The Tease: Her primary form of communication, in fact. If given the chance, Choco speaks with a flirtatious manner to both her listeners and anyone she happens to collab with; this gets exaggerated for her ASMR Videos such as her collab with Matsuri, who cannot do much to resist Choco's playfulness.
Treacherous Advisor: Attempts to play this role to Korone in the anime short "What If You Were King?". She doesn't get far since Korone jails her on sheer intuition.
Uptown Girl: This is the general impression Choco gives off to the other members as shes very good with money, has a good bearing and rather refined tastes.
Yaoi Fangirl: Said she likes "boys love" in the biography she wrote for Marine.

Oozora Subaru

Oozora Subaru [JP: 大空スバル; CN: 大空昴]

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"Shuba shuba shuba shuba shuba!"

Debut date: September 16th, 2018
Birthday: July 2nd
Height: 154 cm
Fanbase name: Subatomo (general), Ahijo ("hardcore" fans)
Illustrator: Shigure Ui

, ordan

(Idol costume)
Live2D modeler: Tou Ilie

(2.0)
3D modeler: Yatsurugi

Channel: Youtube

Social Media: Twitter

Age (at debut): 17, aging at the rate of 0.1 per year

Species: Human

/ Duck (Dawn of the Breakers, [2]

, [3]

) / "Humanish Duck"

/ Swan

/ Bird God (?)

Affiliation: Oozora Construction, Oozora Police, NEGI☆U, HoloTori, OKFAMS, SMOK
Occupation (bar idol): MMA club manager, E-sports club manager, CEO of Oozora Construction (in Minecraft), Chief of Oozora Police
Languages Spoken: Japanese, English (learning)
Associated characters: Subarudo Duck (mascot), Subatani Subao (Spear Counterpart)

Accidental Misnaming: She seems rather prone to doing this, as she sometimes gets the reading of someone's or something's name wrong and the chat has to correct her. In fact, Tanigo Motoaki's nickname of "YAGOO" was coined during such a moment.
Ambiguously Human: If the "species" heading at the top of this section didn't clue you in, she's unsure if she's a human, a duck, a god of birds or something in-between.
Animal Motifs: Ducks, due to a long-standing Running Gag courtesy of her audience: her usual speaking voice is very coarse with a somewhat "squawking" sound to it, and her whispering voice in her initial attempts at ASMR has been infamously and repeatedly described as "Donald Duck with severe throat cancer". That said, she will still maintain that she is not a duck, even after eventually taking up the duck motif.
ASMR Video: One of the more popular recurring types of content on her channel. Although it initially began as a typical whispering-type video, where Subaru made all kinds of bangs and bumps, as well as Donald Duck-like guttural noises, except for actually whispering, she had since moved on to reading messages and letters in a surprisingly soft and feminine voice, much to the delight of the chat.
Awesome, but Impractical: Her grapple hold on Watame was actually used by Great-O-Khan, a professional wrester. The hold requires the grappler bending their opponent while supporting their weight at the same time. Subaru however, has no problem putting Watame on that hold despite requiring the user to support the opponent's weight.
Bad Impressionist: Try as she may, she's not good at doing impressions of her fellow members, which they often tend to lampshade by collectively booing her.
Be Careful What You Wish For: When she found a purity VS impurity/intelligence VS stupidity alignment chart without her on it she demanded the audience add her. One fan compiled and submitted it for Subaru's guest appearance on Coco's Shitposting review. She was happy to see she was depicted as one with high purity and decent intelligence... only for Coco to scroll down and show some of her less-than-pure and intelligent comments that slowly lowered her further and further down the chart.
Becoming the Mask: Her nasally speaking voice and hilarious attempt at ASMR led to a running joke of being called a duck. After nearly 2 years of this running gag, she eventually started thinking "maybe I am a duck".
Big "SHUT UP!": Practically a Character Catchphrase for her. Whenever someone gets on her nerves or speaks too loudly, she'll retort by shouting, "Urusai!"^Translation"Too loud" or "shut up"
Big "WHAT?!": She expresses this after finishing Final Fantasy VII Remake when she finds out that Zack is alive.
Bilingual Backfire: Despite her rather limited English, she understands enough of it to respond indignantly when Baelz remarks how her computer is capped at 720p.
Subaru: [indignantly, in English] I am not good at English. But, I can hear you! I can hear-... hear what you say!
Birds of a Feather: A bit on the nose, but she considers Kiara her bird comrade since they both have bird motifs. She had also since found a "motherly" figure in Reine for similar reasons.
Boyish Short Hair: She acts much less feminine than the others, and has notably shorter hair than most of the cast. The short hair part became somewhat averted in her new casual outfit, which has an option to either extend it to waist-length or put it up as twin tails.
Breakout Character: Between her collabs with members from multiple generations (oftentimes related to the Oozora Police), to her frequent projects made with the ever-popular Hololive GAMERS generation, Subaru has become one of the most recognizable idols in all of Hololive, to the point that a majority of merch is designed after her brand.
…But He Sounds Handsome: She's tried recommending Oozora Subaru from hololive to her real life friends without giving away her identity, only for them to move to Ayame's streams instead.
Butt-Monkey:
- Probably the most notable example in all of Hololive. When even the angelic Towa and the literal 0 years old Luna make fun of you, you know you are the bottom of the chain.
- She gets the worst out of it in the animated shorts where she gets frequently picked on by the plot of the short. The worst of which was probably the time Noel shoved a mace way up her butt.
By-the-Book Cop: Played for comedic effect as Officer Subaru, where she would interrogate a given cast member for their recorded shenanigans and put them in the slammer by the end of an episode. "Officer Subaru" notably cannot be bribed, as Marine has tried and failed to, and has near-perfect arrest rate, regardless of if the wrongdoer is a mere human, an all-powerful phoenix, a necromancer, or a 3,500-year-old dragon (although Coco would later be exonerated by the chat while Okayu is locked up in her place).
Character Catchphrase: "Ajimaru!" which is shouted quite loudly.
Character Tic: During streams with a 3D model it was quickly noticed that when not otherwise engaged in doing anything she has a habit of putting her hands on her hips and shaking them side to side.
Country Mouse: She also came from the Japanese countryside and, in her off-collab with Iroha, bonded with the samurai over the particulars of country living, like the dearth and distance of any establishments from home and the lack of trains running by their areas.
Custom Uniform of Sexy: At least three of her outfits completely expose her stomach, one of which is her summer costume, which is basically a swimsuit anyway. In fact, her stomach and navel became popular enough in her fandom to earn a spot on Coco's Shitposting review.
Cute, but Cacophonic: She has a very endearing personality and appearance, but her speaking voice is often compared to ducks and she has No Indoor Voice.
Dark and Troubled Past: Prior to joining Hololive, Subaru's house burned down. For real. She even has to slightly Break the Fourth Wall when telling this to people, as a way to drive home that this did actually, genuinely happened to her in real life, and isn't just a bit in her character's backstory. She joined Hololive as a means of making some extra money to help out her family, on top of a part-time job, and all the while being in her final year of high school. When recounting all this, invokedshe doesn't seem the least bit troubled, and is evidently pretty much over it, being her usual upbeat self.
Delicate and Sickly: As an infant, she was born with heart problems and was told by doctors she would die by the age of 14 if she didn't have surgery. She had to be hospitalized up until kindergarten.
Disproportionate Retribution: When she finds out Miko and Pekora had been vandalizing her Shubagelion while off-camera on Minecraft, she not only completes it, she makes both of their heads on each hand. And for context, when Miko first saw it, she creates her own head on top of the Shubagelion, and called it a day. Pekora makes the Miko head as of she's throwing up, as well as automatic fireworks which damages the large structure. Subaru's response to this is to not only repair her Shubagelion, but that she'll declare war on both by building said heads on each hand.
Do I Really Sound Like That?: Okayu once did an impression of her (read: a lot of shouting and screaming) that was so spot-on that Subaru couldn't help but cringe in embarrassment.
Drives Like Crazy: Ironically is one, despite sharing a name with a car manufacturer. During her Grand Theft Auto V playthrough, Subaru spends most of her time in "Franklin and Lamar" crashing the car into the surroundings and sliding it uncontrollably.
Easily Forgiven: She accidentally burned down Pekora's house in Minecraft, and she was on edge for a few days during her busy schedule and attending off-collabs, and was worried Pekora might be pissed at her. Pekora however forgave her and laughed it off.
Fangirl:
- Guilty Gear, as noted below.
- Of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. She's a huge fan of Hawkeye in particular.
- She's also a fan of The Walking Dead and mentions that she owns a couple of tank tops IRL because she likes Michonne.
- She has liked Botan since her first appearance and can be considered the most senior of all SSRB.
Fashionable Asymmetry: The right and left leggings of her base outfit are orange and white, respectively. The hem of her shirt is also tied into a knot on the left side with a clip for what appears to be a plastic cheering horn.
The Gadfly: Despite not handling horror games very well, she'll tease anyone playing such games, like on her Stigmatized Property playthrough with Mio or Emily Wants To Play VR stream with Luna.
Genki Girl:
- She's loud, hyperactive, and admits she can't stay silent for more than three minutes. This shows especially in her 3D videos where she's constantly bouncing around. She has so much energy that Coco, Kanata and Towa were intimidated by it and could barely talk to her at first.
- She's often been compared to the sun due to her radiating energy and limitless positivity. Fittingly, her first original song was named "Taiyou Shoujo" (lit. "Sunshine Girl").
Has a Type: She seems to have a thing for dark-skinned girls with large chests. Naturally, this grants her a very strong attraction to Sana of the EN branch, admitting as much during the latter's first birthday stream.
Head Pet: The July 2023 Live2D update added her associated duck as a head accessory option.
Hey, You!: One thing Subaru is known for is her liberal usage of the word omae (a very informal form of "you"). All of the other idols do actually use it, and use it often, but the fandom at large attributes it to Subaru the most.
Hidden Buxom: Her original club manager outfit made her appear somewhat modest, but her idol uniform revealed that she actually had a pretty decently-sized bust. The buxom isn't really so hidden anymore as the outfits she's gone on to wear more often don't really hide her bustline.
Hidden Depths:
- Surprisingly, she's a fan of Guilty Gear, having gotten into the series with Xrd, making her one of the few (if not only) members of hololive to show any interest in fighting games. One of the YouTube comments puts it best:
  Commenter: I never expected someone to namedrop Guilty in my time in this hole. Daisuke is still one of my biggest influences in life. She just jumped up several places on my list.
- She's versed in both martial arts and traditional Japanese dance, the latter due to her mother's tutelage. These are also why she has a rather refined way of sitting when seen in 3D.
The Hyena: Befitting her Genki Girl personality, Subaru will laugh her ass off at anything and everything. In fact, most of her on-stream activity is struggling to complete her sentences in between fits of laughter.
I Am Not Weasel: Subaru has been likened to ducks countless times, and she even integrated the duck as part of her character. Even so, Subaru will insist that she is not a duck, like when Baelz and Mumei were feeding Subaru some steak and bread like they would a duck, and Subaru quickly put two and two together.
Subaru: FEED?!
[Baelz and Mumei laugh and reply in Minecraft]
Mumei: iiiii ducky (good ducky)
[Baelz laughs writes in chat]
Baelz: subaru san no ie de nani ga attann desu ka? (Did something happen at your house?}
Mumei: yoshi yoshi (There, there)
Subaru: i am not dack!!!!!!!!!
Identical Stranger: Some of her fans on Twitter have pointed out that the blue hair ribbon she wears in her swimsuit outfit makes her look almost identical to Ruka Sarashina from Rent-A-Girlfriend.
I'm Standing Right Here: Said almost word for word to Choco during a round of "bad Holomem voice impressions" after the former mimicked her Pokémon Speak in an exaggeratedly hoarse manner.
Subaru: Wait, that's me, isn't it? Like, I'm right here next to you.
Inspector Lestrade: In "Going For Broke", she keeps thinking that all of Lui's business pitches are actually a nefarious scheme, and that Aki is being hypnotized by her. However, while holoX normally wants to Take Over the World, all Lui is trying to do in the short is get their finances out of the red, which Subaru doesn't buy at all.
Like a Duck Takes to Water: Incredibly Lame Pun on her Animal Motifs aside, Subaru became wildly successful as a Vtuber thanks to her boundless energy and positivity and being a natural-born comedian, despite having auditioned out of desperation in an attempt to make ends meet, with zero knowledge of vtubing, content creation, the entertainment industry in general, or the fanbase she would be interacting with. This comment on YouTube sums it up nicely:
Subaru signed up to be a gaming v-tuber idol without knowing how to be a gamer, a v-tuber or an idol. Needless to say, she's succeeded in all fields.
Like Father, Like Son: She says that she got her boundless energy and enthusiasm from her dad.
The Mentor: She trained her mama, Shigure Ui, in the main idol activities of singing and dancing in preparation for the latter's 3D debut stream.
Muscles Are Meaningless: Despite her athletic background and character theme, Subaru isn't anymore visibly fit or muscular than any other talent.
Naïve Newcomer: Subaru was this starting out. After the first generation, background in content creation became a requirement for auditioning, so it is notable that she was hired despite having no prior streaming experience and little knowledge on content creation in general. She even mentioned that she tried and failed to fake proficiency during an interview. When she asked YAGOO about why she was accepted despite these, he (and the hiring manager) said it was because she had passion.
No Indoor Voice:
- Her volume is close to "yelling" almost all the time, which makes for particularly hilarious attempts at ASMR. This is so much the case that when she measured her voice with a machine to measure decibels, she discovered that her voice is 80-95 dB. ^note When under studio conditions, it gets even crazier: During one particular recording, her voice apparently penetrated the walls of the sound-proof room she was in and the staff could hear her in a room across the hall. The other members also enlist her help in testing out their own sound-proof rooms.
  Subaru: Kanata said that things in this world are too fragile. For me, it's "Sound-proof rooms in this world are too thin."
- Typically, Hololive streamers often use a heartbeat counter whenever they play horror games. When Subaru played The Radio Station, she used a decibel counter instead. The counter shows her going up to 108 db at certain points.
- Choco has also gone on to describe how she always has to reserve a private room whenever she and Subaru go out to eat, due to the latter's recognizable voice being loud enough that it's easy to pick up even in a crowded restaurant.
- With her typical recording setup, Subaru still has to sit some distance away from her mic to maintain an acceptable speaking volume. If she's to speak directly into her mic, it would be loud enough to potentially cause hearing damage.
Only Sane Man: Tends to play this role in most Holo no Graffiti shorts, constantly exasperated at the others' antics.
Open Secret: Several people she interacts with in real life (such as friends and doctors) have been dropping hints to her that they're aware of her online identity, causing her to feel awkward whenever they bring up topics such as virtual Youtubers.
Our Gods Are Different: Possibly. Subaru once claimed that a crow they met in-game is her ^note and that she is called the "god of all birds", supposedly being able to sense the worries and synergy of birds of all kind. Whether this is actually true or not however is unclear.
The Paragon: Some of the other members have referred to Subaru as an inspiriation, the bright sun they strive to be like. This includes Noel and Gura, who were starstruck after her 3rd 3D Live, and Bae, who was pulled in by the same passion that got Hololive to hire in the first place.
Parental Abandonment: A recurring gag in some of her collab streams is her search for a motherly figure, having been "disowned" by her illustrator (Ui Shigure). When she tries to call Mio "Mama", the latter can only respond "I don't remember giving birth to you!". When she presses the issue on to Kiara, the latter admits she wouldn't feel comfortable calling Subaru her child since Kiara's children are chicken, while Subaru is, well, a duck.
Perpetual Smiler: Subaru is always cheerful and excitable, and is almost never seen with an upset expression on her face. Even when scared out of her wits, she's still grinning from ear to ear.
Pokémon Speak: "Shuba shuba shuba shuba!"
The Pollyanna: Despite the fact that Subaru is one of the most outgoing members, her childhood was rough, to put it mildly. She has a congenital heart defect that, if left untreated, would have been fatal (it was stated that she would only last until puberty if it wasn't operated on), was hit by a car hard enough to be sent flying about 5 meters, and had her house burn down (that last one was the catalyst for her applying to join hololive). She has explained all of these incidents very casually and is able to laugh at them to some extent.
Principles Zealot: According to "Gawr Gura - Shark'd", her first meeting with Gura involved Subaru finding her on the beach, completely naked due to her then-recent human transformation, and still attempting to arrest her for public nudity despite the circumstances.
Proportional Aging: The title of this stream on her 2nd birthday since her debut roughly translates into: "[#OozoraSubaruBirthday] Investigation of everyone's impression of Oozora Subaru [17.2 years old!]", implying that she ages at a different rate and that a human year is equivalent to only 0.1 year for her.
Quacking Up: While her original character was just a generic Tomboy, her voice being oddly reminiscent of Donald Duck's — especially during her ASMR streams — led to the Running Gag that she is actually a duck. Eventually, Subaru integrated the duck as part of her character, though even after this she will still insist that she is a human, not a duck. Weirdly enough, she actually sounds relatively normal and much more like a tomboy when she's too engrossed in a game that she "forgot" to put up her usual voice.
The Scream: Subaru is known far and wide for her shrill screaming. Put that together with No Indoor Voice and you can expect some burst eardrums whenever she fires up.
She Cleans Up Nicely: While never unattractive, her May 26, 2021 New Outfit Reveal had her put on a dress and two new hairstyles (Long Hair and Girlish Pigtails). General audience reactions range from her looking more conventionally pretty to her looking beautiful.
Signature Headgear: Her Tomboyish Baseball Cap is one, having been made extremely recognizable by her duck mascot despite its seemingly mundane design.
Singing Voice Dissonance: Her speaking voice is exactly as squawking as you'd expect a duck to sound like, but her singing voice is silky smooth to the point the fanbase calls it her entering "Swan Mode".
Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: Has this dynamic with Pekora. In projects related to the Oozora Police, Pekora tends to be a repeat offender, with her often being interrogated in her prisoner outfit that's unique to her. Outside of that, she and Subaru have a rivalry in Minecraft where they sequentially attempt to prank each other, which culminated into being the named the "PekoSuba War".
Sleeps in the Nude: During the HoloTalk episode featuring her, one of the questions in the speed quiz asked if she sleeps naked or with clothes, and she answered — after a few moments of indecision — with the former.
Spider-Sense: In a collab stream with Marine, she claims to have some kind of "molar sense", in that her molar teeth will start aching when she detects something sketchy is about to happen.
Squee: While she never got to directly interact with them, Subaru was overjoyed at Usada Construction Summer Festival to finally see both Ina and Gura in person.
Straight Man: This is a large part of her dynamic with the other members of SMOK ^*(Subaru, Mio, Okayu, Korone) , as well as just in general. She's often considered by fans to be Hololive's premiere tsukkomi. She lampshades her role when Haato invites her to her cooking stream, saying that she's pretty confident she'd go insane tying to play the straight man there. The first off-line collab between the second generation members reveals that she isn't an otaku at all but has grown more interested in anime and manga since working at Hololive.
Strange Minds Think Alike: During a game of Among Us, Miko gathered with her and Polka, and started to sing that they were the "Ponkotsu Squad".^* During a later game some weeks later, Miko found herself as a ghost alongside Subaru and Polka, and took the opportunity to shamefully confess that she did that. Subaru then stated that during that exact same situation, she thought to herself that the three of them were the "Ponkotsu Party", which caused all three to laugh up a storm at how much of a Contrived Coincidence it was.
The Team Normal: Aside from her non-supernatural theme, she is viewed by the Hololive fandom as the one non-otaku in the ranks.
Toilet Humour: She's known in the hololive Minecraft server for placing burning piles of Netherrack that look like giant pieces of poop. She's since embraced this by calling the type of structure "the signature of Oozora Construction."
Token Human: Of the HoloTori subgroup, as she's the only member who was not originally designed with an avian motif in mind, but gained one later as part of an Ascended Meme instead. Even so, she will maintain that she is human, not a duck.
Tomboy: The main theme behind her original character design. She looks boyish, has short hair and her initial outfit was a sporty athletic shirt with a whistle accessory that when viewed from the waist up can trick people into thinking she was a boy. Her other outfits are much more traditionally feminine, eventually even getting long hair and Girlish Pigtails.
Tomboy and Girly Girl: The tomboy to Luna's girly girl, who she's rather close with.
Tomboy with a Girly Streak: Despite her tomboy aesthetic and on-screen behavior, she's actually pretty feminine IRL: Choco has both mentioned that her room and accessories are all pretty girly and well-coordinated, she slips into using atashi when sufficiently distracted and some of her mannerisms in 3D streams, particularly the way she sits, are rather feminine and refined.
Tomboyish Baseball Cap: Has one as part of her original outfit. While she doesn't wear it that often, it's still strongly associated with her since her duck mascots do wear it.
Tomboyish Voice: Two different variations, no less. While her normal speaking voice is what gave her the duck motif, she can also do a "handsome" voice that is almost a complete 180 from her normal voice. Fans often dub it Ikemen Subaru, due to her tomboyish theme, or Subatani Subao according to an episode of Holo no Graffiti.
Vocal Dissonance:
- Her ASMR streams has her speaking in a hoarse whisper that sounds more like it's coming from Donald Duck than an idol.
- Whereas Botan, Luna and Choco pull off convincing child-like voices in a collab stream (with Luna being a given), the same can't be said for Subaru herself, who's attempts at a child voice being just her normal duck voice, except far more rough and squeakier.
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: She's very afraid of insects. Although she was fine with butterflies and dragonflies when she was young, the way they shed their scales and hairs onto her hands grossed her out, and the one incident that cemented this fear of insects was the one time a cockroach landed on her back in class. As such, if there are large insects in the games that she plays, Subaru's first order of business would usually be to exterminate them in the most extreme way possible.
Wrestler in All of Us: In one Holo no Graffiti short, she performed a Boston Crab and a backbreaker hold on Watame, the latter of which inspired a real professional wrestler to implement it into his moveset.
"You!" Exclamation: See Hey, You! above.

Characters / hololive Japan - Generation Two

2nd generation

Minato Aqua [JP: 湊あくあ; CN: 湊-阿库娅]

Murasaki Shion [JP: 紫咲シオン; CN: 紫咲诗音]

Nakiri Ayame [JP: 百鬼あやめ; CN: 百鬼绫目]

Yuzuki Choco [JP: 癒月ちょこ; CN: 癒月巧可]

Oozora Subaru [JP: 大空スバル; CN: 大空昴]

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Minato Aqua [JP: 湊あくあ; CN: 湊-阿库娅]

Murasaki Shion [JP: 紫咲シオン; CN: 紫咲诗音]

Nakiri Ayame [JP: 百鬼あやめ; CN: 百鬼绫目]

Yuzuki Choco [JP: 癒月ちょこ; CN: 癒月巧可]

Oozora Subaru [JP: 大空スバル; CN: 大空昴]

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