Shosan Rose

Shosan Rose is an English Virtual content creator who is primarily known for his humor, laid back streams, unique character design, his Chills (formerly Top15s) impersonations and his Podcast. He often collaborates with other VTubers within the English VTuber community, whether it's appearing on their streams or bringing them on his stream to play games or chat on his Podcast.

Personality
Shosan is cheerful, friendly, and upbeat while maintaining a level of realistic energy so as no to go over the top. His belief is live, laugh, love, indicating that he loves to bring a smile to people's face and believes in kindness first. He also has a unique sense of humor, often citing various quotes in an attitude that implies banter and joking.

Rose is generally a down to earth person, not afraid to be honest and express his thoughts, as he believes honesty is important while maintaining a sense of delicacy. Along with this, he's often willing to stop what he's doing to help others. He's been coined as the type of person to "give you the shirt off his back and his last $5".

On one of his podcast episodes, he shrinked his avatar, which everyone dubbed "Baby Rose". Rose has supported this concept and developed it alongside his friends as 'Mischievous smol boi and thief of Capri Suns.'

Before VTubing:
On episode 1 of his podcast, he explained that he has been creating content as early as 2006 on youtube, starting with poorly made movie maker slideshow AMVs, and gaming videos of equally poor quality. He pokes fun at this quoting his games "ran at like 10 fps, maybe less, but I don't really care". He started uploading gaming videos by recording with fraps, bandicam or console videos by facing his laptop webcam towards the screen and recording via google hangouts before uploading with no editing, as he usually did.

By the time he started his second channel in 2013, abandoning his original channel, he started putting more work into his videos and working on editing projects such as AMVs, Trailers, and miscellaneous projects created in his editing programs. He started by repeatedly using the demo version of Camtasia Studio 13 before moving to Sony Vegas 14 and later, Magix Vegas 16.

Along the journey, he learned to work on his video editing skills, as well as his graphic design skills, going on to make his own logos and banners. His current banner was also made by himself. He claims that everyone came from 'scuff' at the beginning, quoting times of using his phone to record audio for videos, and using a napkin as a pop filter.

His twitter lists a join date of April 2020, implying that he decided to become a VTuber around this time. He has explained that he loved content creation for what it is, not as a form of income but as a form of self expression and a fun hobby. Before, he wasn't too interested in VTuber things, although when COVID-19 forced everyone into quarantine, he dove into the VTuber rabbit hole, often watching people like Korone and Natsuiro Matsuri, whom he credits as his inspirations for becoming a VTuber, stating "it genuinely looked like a lot of fun".

Present Day
As of now, Shosan has abandoned his 'real life' channels on Youtube and Twitch in favor of his VTuber channel on Twitch. He has a Youtube channel as well, although he's only uploaded 1 video to this channel, he has stated he has plans to upload episodes of his podcast to youtube.

VCast
On August 8th, 2020, Rose started a podcast on Twitch titled "VCast", coined as an off topic conversational podcast running on Saturdays at 6PM CT. Unlike most podcasts, VCast doesn't have a predetermined time limit. The standard run time for each episode is between 60 and 180 minutes. Although the format differs from most podcasts, that hasn't stopped Rose from creating a set containing various props to the cast's interests, mics, drinks and chairs, giving the vibe of an actual set. Despite having forward facing mics, VCast has a man with a boom mic in the background, whom they've named "Jason". Rose often jokes that Jason is the fan favorite of VCast, due to personality traits the cast will describe him with, despite being a stock image off of google. The current cast of VCast includes @ShosanRose, @JackTW20, @OneTrueMitchYT, @_Sweaty_ and @BlankBlankAmaya. On top of this they will occasionally bring on guests.

Lore
Shosan is a Catboy residing in the Cyberpunk city of Serenity. The city is filled with Mega corporations, corrupt government officials and morally corrupt law enforcement. Rose often ventures out with his hood on, and toggles his jacket lights off as to not be recognized, as he often has run-ins with law enforcement due to his sabotage of corporate data and manipulation of stocks belonging to corporations doing the most damage to the city and environment. He runs an underground rebellion movement labelled the "Cyber Squad" against the mega corps and corrupt government. The activities of this group are unknown other than engaging in cyber warfare against corporations and government locations and officials, doing damage in the while remaining in the dark. While doing this in numbers is easy, resources do not come cheap. Rose has been known to meet with a friend outside his movement who sources him materials and supplies, although it is unknown how they're obtained, in exchange for decryption keys and valuable data from the numerous corporations and government. Because of this, he is described as an "Anti-Hero".

During his downtime, he streams from one of his many hideouts to Twitch, where he can relax and interact with people from all over the world, relaxing and just playing games and making friends despite being involved in shady activities, whether for good or not. Although the location of the set of VCast is unknown.

Catchphrases

 * Although a Catboy, he does not carry the same mannerisms of conventional Catgirls/Catboys, namely saying "nya" unless it is redeemed via his point redeem system, or with people he's comfortable with.


 * "Damn that's crazy" is his most used response to trolls and negativity before taking action against it.

Trivia

 * Rose named his first PC "The Gate Keeper." It is unknown why, other than it's a beefy PC with generous specs.


 * Rose in real life, has been a halo fan for years, and was once a part of amateur halo leagues.


 * While at first a joke, Shosan has noted that whenever someone goes "pspspspsp", he has an urge to report to them to see what they want, just as a cat would.


 * Shosan has a love for many games, but prefers FPS games like Halo, Apex and Overwatch.


 * Shosan's design was lightly inspired by Tron, Cortana, and RWBY.