History WMG / Hololive

As for the previous Ina from the ''[=holoweEN=]'' stories? She's a pataphysicist skilled enough to give the good Dr. Placeholder [=McDoctorate=] a run for his money. After all, [[spoiler:he needed a run-in with an eldritch being and decades of research to start harvesting our creative juices and translating it to quantum science. Ina, however, tied everything to the observer effect and got us to alter her reality and fuel a full-on RestartTheWorld plot in a tiny fraction of this time. And Place sure as hell never remade any worlds; it's actually implied his AlternateUniverse counterparts have a nasty habit of simply leaving them to ''die'' in silence. Ina's plot, on the other hand, doesn't exactly burn up her universe to make a new one, merely altering history]].

* [[spoiler:Confirmed. More specifically, Haachama separating from Haato in the sense that she's no longer her split personality, having [[https://youtu.be/LTcpdUrF4iM?t=1683 returned back to being her sister]].]]

Time traveller, prophetic dreams, very odd? It's kind of obvious.

After all, to ''control'' chaos would be un-chaotic. So she doesn't wield it the way the others wield their aspects - [[WeirdnessMagnet she ''attracts'' it.]]

Chaos is defined by constant change, so naturally the voice of its avatar would be constantly changing in some fashion.]]

La+ is basically in the same situation as [[ComicBooks/{{Watchmen}} Doctor Manhattan]]. She is all-powerful and yet more powerless than anyone. Simply knowing what will happen does not make her '''exempt''' from the rules. She cannot shape her own fate. She is a puppet very well aware of the strings, yet unable to do anything about them. Nothing but continuing to act out this play, all the while knowing exactly what she will do, and what everyone else will do, thousands upon thousands of years before they ever actually do it, knowing that she cannot possibly ever change the outcome. It's a boring and existentially crushing existence. Of course, the fact that she would eventually give up this power is something she foresaw too, eons before it actually happened.

La+ is basically in the same situation as [[ComicBooks/TheWatchmen Doctor Manhattan]]. She is all-powerful and yet more powerless than anyone. Simply knowing what will happen does not make her '''exempt''' from the rules. She cannot shape her own fate. She is a puppet very well aware of the strings, yet unable to do anything about them. Nothing but continuing to act out this play, all the while knowing exactly what she will do, and what everyone else will do, thousands upon thousands of years before they ever actually do it, knowing that she cannot possibly ever change the outcome. It's a boring and existentially crushing existence. Of course, the fact that she would eventually give up this power is something she foresaw too, eons before it actually happened.

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[[folder:Koyori Hakui]]
[[WMG: Koyori is a relative of [[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadrunner Wile E. Coyote]]]]
Hmmm, a coyote [[MadScientist supergenius]] with a penchant for using various hi-tech devices (which tend to explode on her)? Now where have we seen that before...
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[[folder:Lui Takane]]
[[WMG: La+ is not the true leader of holoX. Lui is.]]
The name of the secret society, [=holoX=], is pronounced not as it sounds, but rather as something like "horuks". This very wiki points out this is very similar to the Japanese pronunciation of "Horus". Horus is an Egyptian deity with the head of a falcon. The logo of the organization also closely resembles a bird with spread wings.\\

It's Lui, the BeleagueredAssistant who just so happens to be [[HypercompetentSidekick much more competent than her boss]] and effectively in charge of the organization because La+ is in no shape to actually lead anything, reducing her to the role of a fancy figurehead. Incidentally, she has a bird constantly sitting atop La+'s head and apparently refusing to leave... almost as if it were monitoring her on someone's behalf?\\

[[WMG: The caffeine incident concerning Mumei and Baelz]]
Mumei tried some of Baelz's coffee and the combination of high caffeine in whatever it was and Mumei's own high sensitivity to caffeine resulted in a caffeine high that had Mumei act very uncharacteristically, unnerving the chaotic rat girl.

[[WMG: Akai Haato is slowly undergoing SanitySlippage]]
While not immediately obvious, the nature of Haato's content has become more unhinged as time has gone on; this has generally been attributed to her frustrations at being unable to return home due to pandemic lockdown, and thus basically being stranded in Melbourne until travel restrictions are lifted between Australia and Japan. This has been most evident in the type of content she is now creating. Before she was doing what would be considered par for the course of a Vtuber, but gradually slipped into short Vine-like videos of her attempts to cook or singing songs in English, with her voice considered deliberately screeching as she does so.
* {{Jossed}}. Haato addresses this in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHtXI2PSvoQ one of her streams]], explaining that her life in Australia in previous years was much worse than it is now, due to a neglectful host family with rude kids, and difficulty making friends in school. Nowadays her life is much better; she has a good friend and presumably lives in a different home with better hosts, and her latest videos are actually a reflection of her being happier and more confident in trying different things and generally doing what she wants. Or in other words, Haachama was insane all along, and simply feels more comfortable in expressing her true self nowadays. Her shift into insanity on streams was [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Qz4FqrdCZM her realizing she had nothing to lose after the original demonetization she suffered]].

[[WMG: The Akai Haato vs Haachama arc is a result of fans' refusal to accept both Haachama and Haato as herself]]
At first, Akai Haato felt that her viewers were too distant compared to the viewers of her fellow Hololivers, and was frustrated by this, the same way that Tokino Sora is always expressing that she wants people to stop calling her "Sora-sama" or "a goddess". But, unlike Sora, Haato started changing a lot in order to achieve this. She told her fans they should call her "Haachama" instead of "Haato-sama" because it felt less distant. She also began to dive into some wackier territory for a self-proclaimed "seiso idol". During the boom of Hololive around summer 2020, her popularity skyrocketed. There were lots of new fans, especially from the English-speaking community, and many of them finding Haachama to be so entertaining simply because of how weird and eccentric her streams were. To keep up this momentum, she continued to just be a complete weirdo. \\
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But a lot of these newer fans and veteran Haatons alike noted just how much she had changed from debut. These changes were drastic, and different in nature compared to the other Hololive members. Most of the changes from debut consist of "seiso idol becomes screaming/crybaby gamer". They keep the same name and nicknames, same greeting and goodbye phrases, and so on. While some members switch up their BGM and intro/outros as time goes on, Haachama completely abandons her old themes and changes her greeting and goodbye phrases. \\
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When Akai Haato first resurfaced and streamed Minecraft, comments like "This is Haato's BGM!" would show up whereas if Korone uses her old BGM, people would comment "This is Korone's old BGM!". This supports the notion that people were separating the former Akai Haato and Haachama, rather than seeing Haachama as the evolution of the Akai Haato we knew from debut. Due to all these changes, memes about Haachama holding Akai Haato hostage or Haachama killing off Akai Haato and taking her place began to surface, as well as phrases like "RIP Akai Haato" or "Akai Haato in the basement". In light of this, Haachama officially brought the old Akai Haato back for a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTgFR1MSkWs Minecraft stream]], complete with her old BGM and old catchphrases. The next day, she posted a short video titled [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbEdlmzQftE "#FREEHAATO"]], seemingly in response to all the fans' memetic interpretation of her. For the next week, Akai Haato would be the one streaming. Her channel name was also changed to "Akaihaato" from "Haachama". Later, more clips were being posted on her channel, expanding on this "Akai Haato vs Haachama" lore, while the narrative of them being once inseparable is stressed often (which could very well be a metaphor for the both of them being the same person). \\
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Basically, this entire horror-inspired Akai Haato vs Haachama arc that's playing out is a result of her feeling as if no matter what she does, people will never be satisfied with her, and feeling as if no one will accept her for who she is. No matter what she does, the fans always want something different, while treating her as a trope who is either exclusively "sweet seiso idol" (Japanese preference) or a "crazy eccentric oddball" (Western preference), rather than herself, a real person with a multi-faceted personality. People don't want to accept that she is the same streamer they know and love, no matter which parts of her personalities she shows, and this arc will be a way of trying to confront this and easing the fans into accepting a version of her which consolidates both her "Akai Haato" personality and her "Haachama" personality.
* {{Jossed}}. As [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MtNLpWEhOc revealed in the finale]] of the HAACHAMA×Akaihaato arc, the entire arc is part of Haachama's "Secret Plan to Reach 1 Million Sub" project, where she [[https://twitter.com/akaihaato/status/1357252483114889218 stated that the plan for it is no-plan]]. She also explained that this holds true for the story where most of the development was done without much planning in advance, and that it was her own way of getting closer to her dream of becoming a seiyuu, indicating that there was no ulterior motive behind it.

[[WMG: Kiara Takanashi used Pekora's advice to get into Hololive EN]]
Back in February of 2020, Pekora had a Marshmallow reading, with one of the questions asking her for some advice on getting through the audition process, to which she responded with a genuine character break to talk about her own audition. Soon after, generation 5 had a round of auditions followed shortly by Hololive EN. The theory can be partially backed up by a supposed FreudianSlip by Pekora, who may have called Polka a phoenix by mistake, possibly indicating her knowledge of a soon-to-be-premiering phoenix character. Pekora had also stated that if the Marshmallow submitter ever made it, then they should say "I love you Pekora Senpai!" at the first chance they get, so she would know it was her. When Pekora showed up in the live chat for Kiara's debut stream and Q&A stream, Kiara would respond to them with variations of "I love you, Pekora!".
* {{Jossed}}. Kiara mentioned in a Superchat reading [[https://youtu.be/XrIxD9fX7jI?t=14324 stream]] that she never tried to audition for Hololive (Although for the 5th Generation of the Japan branch and not EN) and they were not open at the time she was interested in Hololive. However, she specifically shoots this theory down and is confused as to where it came from (Although she is aware of the Marshmallow and confirms she is not the sender).

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The name of the secret society, [=holoX=], is pronounced not as it sounds, but rather as something like "horuks". This very wiki points out this is very similar to the Japanese pronunciation of "Horus".\\

Horus is an Egyptian deity with the head of a falcon. And who's the one in [=holoX=] with bird of prey motifs? It sure as hell ain't [[TheAllegedBoss La+]].\\

It's Lui, the BeleagueredAssistant who just so happens to be [[HypercompetentSidekick much more competent than her boss]] and effectively in charge of the organization because La+ is in no shape to actually lead anything, reducing her to the role of a fancy figurehead... makes one wonder, doesn't it..?\\

Not to mention that in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0aSJdN3mVY the MV for her original song]], '''Lui''' is the one sitting at what is very clearly the leader's position at the table.

It's Lui, the BeleagueredAssistant who just so happens to be [[HypercompetentSidekick much more competent than her boss]] and effectively in charge of the organization because La+ is in no shape to actually lead anything, reducing her to the role of a fancy figurehead... makes one wonder, doesn't it..?

The name of the secret society, [=holoX=], is pronounced not as it sounds, but rather as something like "horuks". This very wiki points out this is very similar to the Japanese pronunciation of "Horus".

Horus is an Egyptian deity with the head of a falcon. And who's the one in [=holoX=] with bird of prey motifs? It sure as hell ain't [[TheAllegedBoss La+]].

[[folder:Hakui Koyori]]

Chaos is defined by constant change, so naturally the voice of its avatar would be constantly changing in some fashion.

Seeing as how some of her memories along with her powers have been [[PowerLimiter sealed away]], and how La+ contradictorily [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpOftUA_gqY wants to be both a hero of justice and a tyrant ruling over the world]], it's entirely possible she actually forgot what her objectives were, and the other four play along because one, they don't want to upset her, and two, it provides good cover for whatever their true secret objective is. [[DarkIsNotEvil It might be they're not even an evil organization after all]], but even good motivations are sometimes better kept secret.

[WMG: La+’s crow was sent to observe her by whoever had her sealed]]