Princess Bao at her most normal.
Bao the Whale, more commonly shortened to just Bao, is a Vietnamese-American whale girl VTuber.
She is a whale goddess born from seafoam and is apparently the last of her kind. Throughout her long life, she had already explored every single nook and cranny in the Earth's oceans, and she became increasingly isolated and yearned for someone to listen to her voice once again.
She is infamous for having the hots for all things ''wolf men'', as well as being the residential class clown.
You can find her Twitch channel here
, and her official YouTube channel featured here, and you can also follow her on Twitter.
Do NOT confuse Bao the Whale with the Pixar short Bao.
Tropes applying to Bao herself:
- A-Cup Angst: While not to the same level as Yuzu and despite always stating that "medium is premium" whenever the topic of breast size comes up, she sure gets incredibly envious of the more well-endowed VTubers, as can be seen here.
- During the stream where she had Twitch chat roast her before she went to Japan someone joked that Giri would have an extra cutting board invoking a response..."C-CUP BY THE WAY!!! C-CUP BY THE WAY!!!!!"
- During the stream where she had Twitch chat roast her before she went to Japan someone joked that Giri would have an extra cutting board invoking a response...
- Ascended Fangirl: Bao's perverse sexual lust for Blaidd is responsible for the now infamous YouTube video of Blaidd's VA, Scott Arthur, refusing to read one of the tweets. However, he eventually relented and gave Bao a tweet, re-enacting her thirsty tweet in Blaidd's voice. Bao's reaction to this was...well...we will leave it to your imagination... And don't even get us started on her reaction to an animation of the previous incident.
- Beautiful Singing Voice: Bao is a pretty good singer, all things considered.
- Berserk Button: She is very unfond of being called a pillow princess.
- Bestiality Is Depraved: Bao saw screenshots of Yuzu impersonating her and claiming she likes wolves and dogs. With that, Bao immediately steps in to clarify that she is into anthropomorphic wolves and dogs and draws the line at bestiality.
- Big "WHAT?!": Bao was a clip of Yuzu showing her mother, Mamagi, some VTubers and asking her which ones she would smash or pass. She says one after Mamagi candidly states that her first relationship was with a girl, and she has another, shriller one after Mamagi not only decided to smash Lord Aethelstan, but also, upon learning that Nyanners is his girlfriend, suggested that he bring her along.
- Brain Bleach: Bao has cherished her ''infamous'' inflation art much to the horror of her friends and colleagues. If anything, Bao is often the source of most of the deranged shit that happens between the Bottom Queens.
- Breakout Character: Bao is one of the more prominent indie VTubers, with her
Memetic Loser and sex fiend reputation becoming an online hit in the VTuber sphere. - Butt-Monkey: Bao is often the center of some absolutely embarrassing takes. Like...holy shit.
- Can't Hold Her Liquor: Bao has proven that she can't hold her liquor at all, reverting to a 5-year-old as a consequence. It has to be seen to be believed.
- Casual Kink: Bao is very open about her depravities. In addition to having the hots for anthropomorphic wolves and dogs, she enjoys getting zapped by the shock collar, likes the feeling of helplessness that goes with sleep paralysis, and has openly embraced the "Baoberry" inflation fanart, to the point of scarring Vienna with her California Girls-inspired Baoberry song and the rest of the Bottom Queens with her Baoberry cosplay.
- Character Catchphrase: "ARF! ARF! ARF! ARF! ARF!" She tends to devolve to barking whenever she comes across an anthropomorphic canine she finds hot.
- Characterization Marches On: Bao at her debut was very painfully shy and (more or less) wholesome. As time went on, Bao shed her wholesomeness and eventually became the wolfman-lusting maniac we all know. The contrast is effectively like night and day.
- Cool Aunt: She definitely thinks she is when she brought her niece and nephew along.
- Cringe Comedy: Bao's most comedic moments typically tend to be embarrassing or cringe-inducing, from her takes to chat harassing her for laughs to her cry-whinging on her destroyed dignity.
- Cute But Psycho: Bao resembles a cute anime whale girl with an equally cutesy high-pitch voice, but the things that come out of her mouth are utterly unhinged, and her lust for wolfmen goes borderline Yandere.
- Cute Monster Girl: Bao is an anthropomorphic whale goddess. Her design is cute. Her personality on the other hand...
- Dude, Where's My Respect?: Bao constantly complains about her ruined dignity and reputation, which is self-inflicted.
- Electric Instant Gratification: Numi placed a shock collar on Bao during a spin-the-wheel challenge. Bao went from being terrified to oddly enjoying it.
- Embarrassing Nickname: She dislikes being called the "Pillow Princess", which largely owes to her reputation as part of the Bottom Queens. On the other hand, she outright approves "Blueberry Bao" (A nickname for her infamous inflation fetish art).
- The Empath: She has the ability to connect with her audience on an emotional level, provide comfort and support, and empathize with their experiences.
- Epic Fail: Whenever something messes Bao up, it is always an accident on her part.
- Everyone Has Standards:
- Bao draws the line at bestiality, clarifying that she likes anthropomorphic wolves and dogs after seeing Yuzu impersonate her.
- Bao was hesitant to show the Baoberry fanart when Henya raided her and only did so because the HEN隊 persistently asked her to.
- Bao draws the line at bestiality
- Extreme Omnisexual: Bao's an utter horndog, having the hots for anthropomorphic wolves and dogs like Blaidd, men like Ghost and Konig...
- Fan Community Nickname: Her fanbase is sometimes called the "Baobuddies".
- Fun with Foreign Languages: As a Vietnamese-American, Bao can speak in fluent Vietnamese (as well as Japanese) and is known to have entire Vietnamese-based streams.
- Fun Size: Bao is relatively short, at around 152 centimeters tall. While not 'dwarf-sized' like Shylily, she is on the shorter end of the scale for the Bottom Queens. At least Bao is considered 'average' size for Vietnamese women.
- Genki Girl: She has an energetic and lively personality, as well as enthusiasm for her hobbies and content creation.
- Gorgeous Period Dress: Bao's florist model has a dark blue modernist dress with a 1910s Art Nouveau design and floral designs over a long transparent skirt. She carries a handbag with even more flowers inside while her hair is tied in a neat braid. She would almost be a Proper Lady, but of course, this is Bao we are talking about.
- Girl Posse: Bao is sometimes part of what some may unofficially call the "Big Six" Indie VTubers (They are called that as they are the most famous Indie Vtubers with pretty large fanbases of their own). With the other five being Numi, Shylily, Juniper Actias, Yuzu and Trickywi, and are often the ones Bao most likely collab with. Collectively, the "Big Six" is best known by their nickname as the "Bottom Queens" due to their...shared behaviour...
- Hates Being Touched: She dislikes being referred to as a pillow princess and will react strongly when people refer to her as such.
- Hidden Depths: Bao's proficiency in instruments, knowledge of animation and motion graphics, and her love for the film "5 Centimetres Per Second".
- Irony: She did a mini-series with fellow Bottom Queen Juniper Actias called Cringe Cops, where they read the most embarrassing stories from their chat. The irony given Bao's reputation is not lost here.
- Kinky Role-Playing: There is a reason why Bao is called the Pillow Princess.
- Kinky Spanking: There was one time when Numi spanked Bao during a spin-the-wheel challenge.
- Last of Her Kind: To Bao's knowledge, she is the last remaining whale goddess.
- Lingerie Scene: Bao's entire 2.0 model is this trope on speed dial.
- Little Bit Beastly: As a Whale goddess, Bao's hair resembles blubber, and she has a whale's tail.
- Lovable Sex Maniac: As part of the 'Bottom Queens', this is to be expected. Bao has been pretty open on her perversions, but she is best known for her absolute hard-on for wolfmen like Blaidd from Elden Ring and Lobo from Puss in Boots: The Last Wish. Seriously, she is just too far gone...
- Lord of the Ocean: According to the lore, she is a whale goddess born from seafoam and, to her knowledge, the Last of Her Kind.
- Meaningful Name: Her name "Bao" is Vietnamese for both "storm" and "bun".
- Medium Blending: Bao has occasionally done real life videos and regular livestreams in addition to VTubing. Interestingly, she seems to be much more restrained when making real life content.
- The Napoleon: Despite being the second shortest Bottom Queen, Bao is every bit as aggressive and upfront whenever something bad happens to her friends. As Numi attests.
- Nightmare Fetishist: Whether it is a shitpost or genuine, the things that Bao thinks of are utterly deranged, especially when she has quickly accepted the Baoberry fanart. Her fetishes can even make Numi, the wall-kissing, 20-sex-toys-possessing extraordinaire, the Straight Man of the Bottom Queens by comparison.
- Our Mermaids Are Different: She is a whale goddess born from foam.
- Perverse Sexual Lust: Bao is known to lust over wolfmen, with her tweet about her desire to have Blaidd's puppies being one particularly infamous instance. Here is the entire tweet as written:"I WANT BLAIDD TO BREED ME I WANT HIS PUPPIES PLEASE I WANT THE LEASH I WANT THE COLLAR I'M DROOLING WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF BARK BARK BARK"
- The Prankster: She has a love for puns, and her content has become progressively more unhinged over time.
- Pretty in Mink: Her 2.0 model spots a large, thick white fur jacket.
- Promoted Fangirl: She usually watches Max0r's videos on her stream. At some point, she manages to play with Max and is featured in Max's Helldivers II video as the "mentally ill girl" screaming.
- Red and Black and Evil All Over: Her 2.0 model has a Yandere mode and adopts this color scheme, with her white hair and tail, black outfit, and the red glowing symbols on her hair.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Especially when her sister, Nemosis, is involved, Bao is the lively, up-forward red to her blue.
- Ridiculously Cute Critter: Her mascot, Pestonini, a dog-whale hybrid.
- Sadist Show: Frequently does "Punishment Wheel" challenges. She also set up a "roasting stream", where she herself was the victim, and her audience did exactly as the rules said... to extreme degrees.
- Signature Laugh: Bao has a very shrill, staccato laugh.
- Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: Of the Bottom Queens, Bao humorously has a very combative relationship with Numi as they try to roast one another.
- Solo Duet: When watching her debut stream, specifically the part when she sings "52 Hearts", Bao sings along with her past self.
- Stripperiffic: Given her horniness, it was bound to happen for her 2.0 model debut as she wears nothing more than white lingerie with even bigger boobs.
- Squee: Her reaction when Scott Arthur finally read her infamous tweet in Blaidd's voice."Blaidd:" [after reading Bao's tweet] Hm. Well... what can I say, Bao? Umm... [smiles] I'm ready when you are.
[Bao shrieks with joy while falling off her chair.] - Toilet Humour: Bao is a source of this. Her own sister exposed her for laughing at her own farts. And of the Bottom Queens Numi constantly accused Bao of constantly "breaking her toilet", and Bao herself admitted to Juniper that she is a "Bitch that Shits". She once destroyed Giri's toilet to Chernobyl levels.
- Too Kinky to Torture: Bao used to be afraid of sleep paralysis demons, but she hit puberty and came to like this feeling of helplessness.
- Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: Mentions how she used to get scared of sleep paralysis demons until she hit puberty and realized she likes "that feeling". She suspects she ended up creeping out her paralysis demons since she did not experienced any of them since puberty.
- Tsundere: She's shown some aversion towards Michael Reeves and her dislikes, such as apartment sink water and cold showers.
- Water Is Womanly: Bao has blue accents, and she is a whale-like creature and deity.
- White Hair, Black Heart: Bao's 2.0 model comes with a Yandere mode and suggests this, given that her blubber hair turns white and that she has gone mad after watching Blaidd pass by her and kiss Renna's hand instead.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: Despite the combative nature of the Bottom Queens, Bao is close to Numi, as well as Shylily, Juniper, Yuzu, and Trickywi. Outside the Bottom Queens, she frequently works with Oni Giri, Vienna, and Shoto.
- Yandere: Bao already spots characteristics of this, given the stuff she spews and how obsessive she is to wolfmen and military commandos. Her 2.0 model goes full throttle with a Yandere mode, establishing that she snapped after being invited to the royal ball by Blaidd, only to see him pass by her and kiss Renna's hand.
Nemosis:
"Sup"
Bao's IRL younger sister.
- Brain Bleach: Nemosis definitely does not appreciate her sister's....vast collection of horny fanart on Twitter.
- Girlish Pigtails: Has these, in addition to lighter hair, to differentiate from Bao. Ironically, she's quite a tomboy.
- Please, I Will Do Anything!: Bao will occasionally threaten Nemosis if she doesn't do what she wants by withholding her Christmas presents or any sort of gifts she planned.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Is the blue to her sister's red, being more laid back.
- Signature Laugh: Like her sister, she has a staccato laugh but a much deeper tone.
- Tomboyish Voice: Her voice is noticeably much deeper than her older sister's.
- True Blue Femininity: Subverted. Like her sister, Nemosis has blue hair (albeit a lighter shade), although she is more tomboyish in terms of personality.
- Vocal Dissonance: She occasionally comes on stream, but you wouldn't know she is the younger one given her very deep voice.
