Honorable Mentions
Moments, people, and milestones that shaped the journey.
The Choice
I had seen VTubers many times, like gawr gura, fuwamoco, ironmouse, but none of them truly made me want to be one myself, I don't have an idol, unlike most VTubers, I just wanted to be one!
The first idea
One thought, one design, and Areia stuck. I loved the idea, and I kept it around long enough to bleed into my VTubing dream. Three phases, finishing off with what you all know and love!
First Major Design Change
Thanks to copper for making my refined design of Areia to build off of. He pushed himself hard, and his style made Areia breathe a second time. Without him, my trajectory as a VTuber would be entirely different. Who knows, eldritch horror? lol! Either way, he is an awesome moderator and friend. As I would say on stream, he is PEAAAAAK!!!!!!
Debut Number One
After a week of advertising I had a debut, though it wasnt 24 hours, the 12 I did do was more than enough to reach from America to the EU! At least one person from each had watched, and to those first people, I thank you deeply.
Torture?
A very evil crustacean decided to smother me about a week later. He dropped so many I had to do a BRB JUST TO BREATHE! And that instigated every other person with a buck to follow, NOT A FUN STREAM. >:[ apparently for him, it was hilarious. From his words; "The crustacean approves of this message."
Team Building
People began to moderate for me, among them was copper, kroko, toast, gorou, catknip, siinon, and nebula! All of them, even now, have been poking in, assisting, and pushing to do more. They deserve to be loved for the work they do, and I am happy to have them around (Though they butt heads)
The Journey To My Next Debut
I went crazy—commissioning and collecting art of Areia, writing stories, and quietly preparing to surprise you all with well… ALL of this. A month of late nights, excitement, and care went into building something that felt alive, meaningful, and worthy of the community that made it possible.
A Pleasent Surprise
I now have a cute gift in the works... a model to comission. All you get to see? The sketch! Thank you to Emerald for bringing the polished design to life with her VTuber design skills, cutting up and creating those hundreds of painstaking layers for me to learn and rig. AND for having such cheap prices (I was honestly broke) for her models. She even designed the mech, how cool, right? She was super flexible with my pricing problems, and dropped cough OVER HALF of the mech outfit pricing. Her style is gorgeous, and her personality is great. PLEASE GO COMMISSION HER!!! She is flexible with pricing arrangements, whether it be kofi, or vgen, and she even is alright with someone else footing the payments (Honorable mention to Crabby). Can you believe these were just her sketches? How awesome... I shrieked when I saw!!