Filian, seen moments before attempting to do a backflip and landing on her face.
Filian is a Virtual YouTuber active on Twitch. Unlike most VTubers, she always streams in 3D with full body tracking, and her streams are based on finding creative ways to humiliate herself, The Three Stooges-style. She runs her streams primarily in VRChat, using it to conduct collabs with other streamers, host variety shows, and react to videos. While she started off as independent, she is now a member of the company Mythic Talent.
In June 2023, she announced her plans to host an award show for the VTubing community with the help of Mythic, aptly named The VTuber Awards; with the inaugural show airing on December 16th.
Her Twitch channel can be found here
, and her YouTube channel (which is primarily for Twitch stream highlights and shorts) can be found here.
Tropes applying to Filian herself:
- A-Cup Angst: She is very insecure about her chest size. For instance, Projekt Melody revealed that Filian is like a "flat flat table", and Henya even called her "pettan" before teaching her what it means. Both times ended up with Filian storming out and screaming in angst.
- Amusing Injuries: Watching Filian slam onto the floor while cry-laughing in pain is half her humor. The other half is watching her get dunked on by her chat and collab partners.
- Animal Motif: A Chihuahua. She is short, feisty, and energetic, and she also suffers from a height complex and tries to act tough. She even sounds like one.
- Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!:
- THE poster child of the VTuber sphere. Filian herself admitted that she has ADHD (which she calls "HDMI"), specifically the hyperactivity-variant of ADHD.
- To wit, her main criticism after "watching" the pilot of The Amazing Digital Circus was that she thought it was, "a bit slow at times".
- Berserk Button:
- Do not call her a furry.
- Nor should you say that she has a flat chest.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Though Filian is odd by nature (making her a match with the likes of Projekt Melody), she is a very non-confrontational person and likes to joke around with others in a very mischievous way without it being at someone else's expense or applying unnecessary sarcasm. It's also notable that, whenever she is reminded that she may have said something incredibly uncharacteristic of her in the past, she genuinely seems to regret it. Of course, this also means she isn't harmless when she's truly angry with someone, especially those in her chat, as she will call them out for it and perhaps even punish them for it. Most of this can be attributed to her attempt at being a child-friendly VTuber alongside her unrelenting energy.
- Blatant Lies: Filian brands herself as a "vtuber in training" despite having over 3 million total subs and followers across Youtube and Twitch, putting her in the top of the top among content creators in this space (as of March 2024 she was the third most popular vtuber in the world by combined subs/followers). One wonders what will happen when she finally finishes her training.
- Brain Bleach: Filian reacted adversely when she saw an AI do a cover of CPR in her voice.
- Butt-Monkey: She gets emotionally abused by her chat and collab partners during streams just as hard as she gets abused physically by her stunts. Case in point, her punishment streams tend to be among her most popular.
- It's to the extent that commenters have joked that Filian is at the bottom of the VTuber food chain, given how even Nice Girls like Henya the Genius will often playfully tease and bully Filian when they collaborate or how other Butt-Monkeys like Numi are able to easily throw shade at her.
- Cat Girl: Her character essentially.
- Catchphrase: Outside of the frequent "frick-bombs", she has:
- "Mother-truckers!"
- "Let's start this junk!"
- "Whabam, whazam."
- "T-ruuuuue!"
- "Three, two, one... no laughing."
- "CHAAAAAAAAAAT!"
- She's also very fond of "deez nuts" jokes.
- Caught with Your Pants Down: Filian's "Pool Jerker" story from her teenage years. Her family was hosting a pool party, and at one point, Fillian accidentally cannonballed a kid who happened to swim into her trajectory, and she was sent to her room as a punishment. As Filian was... venting her frustrations in a way expected of a hormonal teenager left alone, her uncle entered her room to assure her that she was not in trouble and that she may rejoin the party... and then he sat on the bed, right next to her, with only the blanket covering everything. As her uncle stood up to leave, Filian asked him to close the door on the way out. Her uncle said yes, but he didn't close the door.
- Contortionist: Subverted. Due to how her VR model behaves whenever she does her acrobatic gymnastics moves, sometimes the model cannot follow her body and spazzes out, creating some spectacular model fails that look like it is ripped straight out of Garry's Mod.
- Cringe Comedy: Much of Filian's streams are centered on ways she can humiliate herself; the "Pool Jerker" story is one of those moments.
- Cuckoosnarker: Filian's general personality is that of a well-intentioned oddball who can occasionally use a snarky tone depending on her situation.
- Cute Clumsy Girl: A cute anime Catgirl who's well known for injuring herself on stream doing silly acrobatic stunts. She is an interesting case in that she's easily one of the most athletic VTubers out there. Otherwise, she wouldn't be able to pull off even half of the stunts she does, much less shrug off the impact when they inevitably fail.
- Determinator: Eating Lil' Nitro: The World's Hottest Gummy Bear, the spiciest thing she has ever eaten, and being on the verge of vomiting, does not stop this girl from pursuing a "You Laugh, You Lose" challenge.
- Does Not Like Spam: Mott's Fruit Snacks are apparently so intolerable to Filian that they can outright lead to her dying upon their consumption.
- Embarrassing Nickname: She gets annoyed when she is called a "Filipino Boy", a nickname originating from an Accidental Misnaming by Neuro-sama.
- Face Fault: She demonstrates that a realistic take on this trope is much more painful than anime would have you believe.
- Fan Community Nickname: Snackers. Fans/moderators who have more of a lewd aspect to their interactions with Filian are refered to as "Smackers" instead.
- The Gadfly: Every single thing she does is some form of humorous provocation thanks to her high energy attitude.
- Genki Girl: She's never lacking energy, even when she's mercilessly humiliated.
- Go to Your Room!: In Filian's "Pool Jerker" story, she recalls an incident from her teenage years when, in a pool party her family was hosting, she cannonballed into the pool, but she accidentally hit a kid who was in her trajectory; she was sent to her room as a result.
- Gosh Dang It to Heck!: Filian consciously tries to avoid swearing, even if it means half of her dialogue is some variation of "frick", especially when she falls flat on her face. This doesn't extend to her collab partners, though.
- Height Angst: While we don't know the full details, we do know that Filian is short, with her stating that she is just barely over 5 feet tall and needs a step ladder to climb up her counter shelf. We also know that she takes issues at people making fun of her height. Given the sheer number of acrobatics and gymnastics she practices on stream, it isn't that surprising she is just that small.
- Her Own Worst Enemy: Her Sadist Show segments usually have her fail due to one of her own personal flaws rather than the actual content she's challenging herself with, which marginally involves her attention problems.
- Hidden Depths: She knows enough about playing chess to give Neuro-sama a run for her money, and as she plays, she verbally explains her thought process in a way that makes it pretty obvious she's had some experience playing the game in at least a semi-serious context.
- Hiding from Embarrassment: Given how prudish and shy Filian is, this is to be expected whenever her Sailor Fuku disappears due to technical issues, revealing her leotard to everyone.
- High Heel Hurt: Invoked with her "You Laugh, You Flip in High Heels" challenge. She doesn't like wearing them, which is specifically why she uses them for a challenge.
- I Just Want to Be Special: When rewatching a clip based on whether or not Pokémon is racist with her other online friends with her reacting to it (while reacting to her reaction), Filian reacts the exact same way to her saying the exact same "evenish or oddish" joke in both prior instances, to which she laments that she isn't an original person after all.
- I Meant to Do That: Being one of the most vulnerable of VTubers to be abused by her audience, when she falls for the more elaborate tricks of her trolls, she tries to claim falling for the trick was intentional in one way or another.
- Innocent Fanservice Girl: Filian is among one of the most prudish and innocent VTubers out there, yet she is a regular source of accidental ass-shots she gets.
- Large Ham: Filian is well-known for taking up her commentary with her unstoppable energy and faux dramatic speeches.
- Lethal Chef: Filian is so bad at cooking that multiple different fans sent her cookbooks for her first PO unboxing stream.
- Leotard of Power: A subtle one, but beneath her Sailor Fuku, Filian wears a black, turtle-necked, high-cut gymnastics leotard. Given her profession, this isn't surprising.
- The Lightfooted: Averted to oblivion and back. You would expect a VTuber that does gymnastics to be graceful in her feats, right? Nope. Due to the number of VR sets she wears, when she messes up, she messes up bad. As in, as graceful as a falling hippo bad.
- Living Lie Detector: Self-proclaimed, that is, though it partially holds up. As someone who's so energetic that they can't lie themselves, Filian is usually the type to bluntly call someone else out as a liar, be it her chat or her friends. As for if she's accurate, that depends on if she's saying the truth herself.
- Made of Iron: If the hits she takes while falling from a handstand or running face-first into a wall are even half as nasty as they sound, she must be this to shrug them off and keep the stream going.
- Mistaken Age: Her cluelessness, mass usage of Gen Z slang, short height, raspy teenage-like voice and general childish tomfoolery has made her be mistaken to be a kid for some first-time viewers.
- Motor Mouth: She is very talkative. A bit too much.
- The Napoleon: Short and sometimes likes to fight back against her chat when she gets really annoyed.
- No Indoor Voice: She is constantly shouting out her every word. Constantly.
- Older Than They Look: Remember. Filian isn't a perky young teenager; she is an adult woman who is old enough to have a Neopets toy.
- Le Parkour: Filian used to do genuine Parkour before VTubing, and it shows.
- Panty Shot: More like leotard shot, but given the short skirts her models have and her proclivity for doing handstands (and subsequently falling over), this is inevitable.
- Paralyzing Fear of Sexuality: Even putting aside her attempts to cultivate a family-friendly image, it's pretty clear Filian is reluctant to discuss intimate matters. This gets Played for Laughs when openly sexual collab partners like Shylily and Projekt Melody tease her with explicit topics, to Filian's indignant bewilderment. In fact, she did not even know what a urethra is, until much later, to her horror.
- Passionate Sports Girl: Filian used to do Parkour in real-life, making her one of the fittest VTubers known. It also partly explains her acrobatic or gymnastics moves and Made of Iron reputation.
- Potty Failure: In one of Filian's challenge streams, she takes four laxatives to see how long she can last. After getting jump scared while playing a horror game, she checks the back of her pants and abruptly ends the stream.
- The Pratfall: All the time, typically followed up by a loud thud and a cry of pain. It's practically her immediate response to hearing anything shocking.
- Public Domain Character: Zigzagged—while her character itself is original, her character models are derived from a stock VRChat model.
- Sadist Show: Her "Punishment Wheel" streams can sometimes border on this, especially when the punishments involve physical exercise or humiliation, such as being forced to watch exceptionally cringeworthy videos or making stupid statements in public VRChat servers.
- Sailor Fuku: Filian's default outfit is a typical high school girl's uniform covering a black sleeveless gymnastics leotard.
- Slapstick: It's hard to find a Virtual Youtuber who suffers as many Amusing Injuries as Filian.
- The One Guy: One of Filian's most well-known collaborators is ReksonGaming, one of her chat moderators; he's also known as "The Lotion Guy" from a video contribution to one of her streams. He specializes in roasting her (and any collaborators who might be present) live on stream, including diss tracks, and contributes material for fan submission events. He's practically the only (or at least most prominent) male content creator Filian regularly works with.
- Tomboy: Her behavior, mannerisms, and Passionate Sports Girl trope make her very tomboyish as a result. She even sounds like a teenage boy at times.
- Those Two Girls: Of all the people she collabs with, by far the most common one is Henya. Given how they're both short, flat-chested, incredibly prudish gremlins, their personalities complement each other to hilarious degrees.
- Tomboyish Voice: Filian's voice has a slight rasp to it. So it is not surprising that some first-time viewers may mistake her voice for that of a teenage boy.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Welch's Fruit Snacks. It's even the nickname she gave her fanbase ("Snackers").
- Virginity Flag: Her staggering fear of physical intimacy, her not knowing what a urethra is... yeah. Filian is not exaggerating when she says that she is a "turbo virgin".
- Vitriolic Best Buds: It's clear that she and Rekson (one of her chat moderators) are close, as they often collaborate...that said, he does love trolling the hell out of her for the amusement of himself and the chat.
- Walking Techbane: As one might imagine from a streamer with so much physicality, she regularly breaks VR goggles and trackers, with hilarious results when it happens during a stream.
- Wardrobe Malfunction: Is constantly at the mercy of this. Either bits of her outer wear just disappears or one of her skirts mysteriously lifts itself for all to see.
- Womanchild: With how much she acts like a Three Stooges character, her sheer cluelessness on certain subjects and how overly excited she can get. She ticks this trope in every category. She is such a giant 5-year-old with ADHD cracked up on speed that not even the likes of Giri or Bao could babysit her.
