Zentreya

Zentreya is a Female English-language VTuber who debuted in 2017. Initially an independent streamer mostly known for VRChat roleplaying. Zen joined VTuber group VShojo in November 2020 alongside Nyatasha Nyanners, Ironmouse, Projekt Melody, Froot, Hime Hajime, and Silvervale. She is noted for the use of a speech-to-text-to-speech system to produce a synthesized voice.

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Commander
She was often called the Red Devil, who commands the most powerful military power and often seeks war, whether that's by disputes or because of Lewdest territory. She is considered violent yet conniving, but beneath the cold and manipulative exterior is something warm-hearted.

She is sassy with her community and enjoys a consistent back and forth banter with them. Both chat and Zentreya are known for trolling one another, often throughout an entire stream with the use of voice clip redeems and comebacks. Zentreya has been known to brag about her gaming skills only for the results to go horribly wrong on stream.

Dragon
Compared to other members of VShojo such as Projekt Melody and Nyanners, it is atypical for her to display risqué tendencies while streaming, even in coincidence with her sullen image, acting somewhat more virtuous and open to her community. During streams, she occasionally intervenes with something risqué but brief, usually under the awareness that there are people in her community who will indulge in it, avoiding being upfront on a constant. This is a stark contrast to how she acts while not streaming in that she is more willing to regularly apply these tendencies.

Appearance
Her current form is a cyborg in a red skin-tight catsuit with black and mint green armor around her neck and hips. She has a black jacket with her name embezzled on the sleeves, spine pattern on the back and helmet. Underneath the helmet is her normal face with yellow eyes that can change color and short white-grey hair. Zentreya’s helmet is a call back to her dragon form and shows that she is a cybernetic-dragon with interchangeable parts. Her helmet to resembles a dragon with the mouth and the antennas resemble horns of the dragon. She also is said to have interchangeable legs with either anti-gravity boots as well as heels.

Prior to that, her form was that of a red dragon in humanoid form, with long red hair and yellow eyes. She wears her hair in a ponytail, and has horns, small wings, pointed ears, and a very thick tail. She wears a black leather jacket and jean shorts to complete the outfit. Her 2D model appears to trade out the jean shorts for a black leather skirt. This same look would be transferred to her new 3D model.

In her previous human form, she wore her hair down, often with a black hat, a black overcoat/cape with a white fur trim, a black suit, and a red tie. She had red hair and yellow eyes in this form.

Content
Zentreya would mostly stream on VRChat, with her channel being usually for uploading clips from her VRChat streams, but she made her YouTube debut when she partnered up with VShojo. She would also dance to music clips and short songs. She also streamed games such as DOOM Eternal, Dead by Daylight and Cuphead.

Zentreya's streams are still varied and often consist of chatting, meme videos, games, collabs with other VTubers or content creators, showing off fan art and more. She sometimes calls up her friends on Discord randomly to plays pranks on them. Her content is streamed mainly on Twitch, and her streams always start off with a "Just Chatting" section then she jumps into a game later on.

Zentreya's youtube content consists mainly of edited highlights from her streams, sneak peeks at upcoming projects she is working on as well as comedy shorts and skits.

Zentreya also hosts her own version of Dnd called Guild's & Gecko's, which started off as a mini series in her streams and has developed into a fully fledged campaign, in which the chat is in charge of their own character and guests RPR, Projekt Melody, CottontailVA and Apricot (Froot) on their journey. In previous sessions, chat was joined by Geega and Onigiri as NPCs.

Every year around September and October, Zentreya loves to host two months dedicated to Halloween, where she will watch spooky videos all month during 'Spooktember' and then in October she plays horror and spooky games as well all during the month of 'Shocktober'.

Background
Zentreya originally came from the VRChat roleplaying community, where she was the founder of a group called the Anti-Lewd Army. She began as a mute streamer (one who streams without voice), and created primarily VRChat-based content. Zen's decision to remain mute was inspired by a desire to protect her real-life identity.

Zentreya's Twitch channel was created on 3 July 2016

2017
On 30 March, Zentreya's YouTube channel was created

On 30 November she had her first Twitch stream which was a one-hour VRChat Her Twitter account was created shortly after, on 2 December 2017. Although Zen was a streamer who represented herself with a 3D avatar, she did not yet consider herself a VTuber.

2018
On 26 March, due to losing her position at work, she decided to pivot from video production to livestreaming. She revealed a new VRChat avatar the following day, having long red hair, yellow eyes, and a military style outfit with a red armband representing the Anti-Lewd Army. She began streaming regularly on Twitch on 23 April, with some livestreams on YouTube.

On 14 May she announced a return to producing videos on YouTube, with livestreams now taking place exclusively on Twitch. She continued to produce YouTube videos throughout 2018, consisting mainly of Twitch clips of VRChat streams.

Zen's Twitch content in 2018 consisted primarily of VRChat (675 hours), making up 51.7% of all hours streamed; followed by Destiny 2 (137 hours).

2019
Zentreya streamed on Twitch throughout 2019. On 18 May she first used the term VTuber in a stream title. This year marked a pivot from streaming primarily VRChat.

Zen's Twitch streams in 2020 consisted overwhelmingly of Just Chatting (783 hours, 64.9% of stream time). VRChat was now only her 13th most streamed category, with 11 hours.

2020
On 1 August, Zentreya formed the Twitch Team Virtual Streamers Worldwide in an effort to bring Virtual streamers and vtubers together, the emote "ZentreTogether" (Two hands holding together with white sleeves and a red heart in the background) was created to represent this and bringing the communities together.

On 6 August, Zentreya revealed her now iconic feature where she gained the ability to speak using text-to-speech. The system used the Tatyana IVONA Voice software, with a Russian accent. This replaced Zentreya's existing system which would use speech recognition to display text in a speech bubble. She credited Com Dos for help setting up the system. Zen clipped the announcement for YouTube on 25 August in the video VTUBER GETS A BIG UPGRADE!!!

On 21 September, Zentreya appeared on the 7th and last Episode of Lost Pause’s game show “Weeb Wars”, where she went up against Susu. She would lose the game only racking up 270 points, against Susu’s 430.

On 25 September, Zentreya officially disbanded the Anti-Lewd Army and retired from the VRChat RP community.

On 1 October, Zentreya debuted her new dragon form with a 3D model, retiring her previous commander outfit. The new model featured Zen with her classic red hair in a ponytail and two horns, with the outfit in the style of old punk rock with a cut-off jacket with Halo patches on it, red top and cut-off denim shorts with red tail and wearing canvas hightops.

On 24 November, Zentreya re-debuted as a founding member of the VTuber group VShojo. She stepped down from her previous affiliation with the Twitch Team Virtual Streamers Worldwide, which she previously founded, though as of 22 May 2022, she remained in the rotation of streamers online on the team page.

2021
On 24 January, Zentreya debuted her first 2D avatar created by Yuniiho. This being a step up of dragon form with a new style, now wearing a new hairstyle of her ponytail and bangs, red vest with leather straps and spikes. For the bottom, Zen features a black leather skirt, metal choker and black high heels all with crosses attached to them.

On 27 January, Zentreya appeared on the 13th episode of Lewdcast, which also acted as an abrupt season finale, due to schedule conflicts as VShojo was beginning to expand.

On 1 February, Zentreya reached 100,000 subscribers on YouTube, with the following day, also she reached 100,000 followers on her Twitch channel.

On 1 April, Zentreya made a gag reveal of her "true dragon form". In truth, all the transformation did was turn her into a 3D gecko-like reptile wearing her attire.

On 20 April, Zentreya revealed an upgraded 3D avatar of her dragon form from the previous dragon form, this outfit being the same one to resemble her 2d model.

On 28 September, Zentreya announced that she would take an indefinite hiatus to recover from severe mental breakdown. She resumed her activities on 11 October.

On 24 November, Zentreya began to tease a new project, named "Project Z3N" along with a new look, which would be revealed in 2022.

On 28 December, as a joke, Zentreya introduced a secondary animal motif to her main dragon form and became a wolf but because the reception was so well received she decided to keep it around for a little bit longer.

2022
On 20 May, Zentreya went through a rebrand, retiring the dragon model and transforming to the new version of Zen, beginning the new era of "Project Z3N". To introduce this new version, in her lore video was said to have been sent back to the present from the future to stop "Melware" (Melody's alter-ego character). Zen's look and new attire features her with a new silver short hair color in a jacket with her name on the sleeves, a skin-tight catsuit, metal armor around her neck and hips. Anti-gravity boots and a new visor in resemblance of a dragon face, which opens to reveal her face. This Zen is said to have cybernetic parts and that her part are swappable.

On 21 May, Zentreya appeared on episode 21 of Ironmouse's talk show Speak of the Devil. On this episode, Zen speaks more about the idea behind the motif of her new cyborg looks and what inspired here to make it. She explained that ever since she started using her STTS, it gave her the idea of the cyber idea before the dragon idea as she felt it would fit better but she did not have the money at the time to make it a reality until later on after she went full time on twitch and her streaming career. Also in this episode, she spoke about her love for horror movies, Tokusatsu and Kamen Rider. She also spoke about her music interests as well as that she's still practising drumming, guitar and piano.

On 31 July, Zentreya debuted a new 3D model of her cyborg form, which from her previous 3d models, had new tracking capabilities with hand tracking.

On 27 October, Streamy Awards nominated Zentreya in the VTuber category, along with her fellow Vshojo members Ironmouse, Nyanners and Veibae. On the same day Zen tweeted that she has “already put my withdrawal in for the Streamy Vtuber category so that someone more amazing can get their moment to shine”.

On 28 November, VShojo celebrated its 2 year anniversary by releasing their cover of DECO*27 - Zombies, which features Zentreya alongside Nyanners, Projekt Melody, Ironmouse, Froot, Silvervale, and Hime Hajime.

2023
On 25 February, Zentreya released a video titled "Dragon Zen Comes Home To Twitch" on her Youtube channel announced that Dragon Zen was coming back to Twitch as a community idea where she can switch from Cyber Zen and Dragon Zen at will, whenever she wishes to.

On 15 May, Zentreya's Twitch channel reached 400,000 subscribers.

On 20 May, Zentreya debuted her 2D 2.0 Cyber outfit as a part of her birthday stream. She revealed a little funny skit video where all the members of VShojo try and help Zen find an outfit that helps her not stand out as much. This new model features two new hair styles, long high up in a messy ponytail or in a short shoulder length hairstyle, with a red visor which reacts when she talks and two red stripes on her cheek. For her outfit, she wears a red white and black jacket, a white bodysuit with her name on her chest, red accents and mesh catsuit with tights. This outfit is fitted with skulls, black and red leather straps, with red white and black shoes to tie it off.

On 16 June, Zentreya did her first Kick stream, though due to backlash from the community as well as the dislike for the platform, she decided she wanted to remain on just Twitch for the time being.

On 25 June, Zentreya debuted her new 3d model "Cowgirl Zentreya", this outfit being themed around her hometown of Texas and cowgirls. This outfit features Zen as her dragon form with long red hair or pigtails. She is in an bikini in the colors in the American flag with leather brown cut-off jacket, thigh high brown boots and denim shorts.

On 18 August, Zentreya debuted her latest update to her 3D cyborg model with new features added, such as new facial tracking, lips, a new hairstyle resembling her hair form her dragon form and new cybernetic legs.

On 26 August, Zentreya was featured during VSHOJO's first 3D Concert "Candy Pop Explosion", singing in three songs as well as a comedy skit with Apricot (Froot)

On 22 September, Zentreya debuted a new "comfy" themed outfit. On the same day, her first song cover was released on Youtube "I Really Want To Stay At Your House" along with the music video.

On 6 October, Zentreya debuted a new 3d model "Wolftreya" for Halloween, new tracking features have been added and outfit.

On 29 October, VShojo released of “This Is Halloween” which features Zentreya, Apricot, GEEGA, Henya, Ironmouse, Kuro, Kson, Matara and Projekt Melody for Halloween, along with a music video.

On 31 October, Apricot, with Zentreya collaborating on vocals, released a song cover of "Rainy Day" along with a music video (which Zen also makes a cameo in the video).

On 17 November, Zentreya debuted a new her new “RTX model” with hyper realistic face, hair, expression, armour and lights. This model was actually a fan made model by G-Kaida and turned into an official model by Baffler.

On 26 November, for her 6 year anniversary Zentreya debuted her 2d version of her new Dragon Zen model, she also debuted a new song cover of Face My Fears. She confirmed the Dragon and Cyborg Zen will remain the main characters of the channel.

Events
2021: 2023:
 * On 14 February 2021, Zentreya raised over $42,069 for St. Jude's Children's Hospital.


 * On 30th October, Zentreya took part in a charity stream alongside Ironmouse and Melody for DoNotPeekEntertainment and GamersOutreach’s Spooktacular Streamathon 2023, a one-shot dnd Halloween campaign – total raised was: $27,475.64

Quotes

 * "I need to make this clear as I fear people have gotten the wrong idea of me. I've never claimed any disability. I am not "Mute IRL". I'm "Muted". I would not and never will take advantage of a disability. I sincerely apologize for not clearing that up. And if you feel that I've wronged you or deceived you in this way, I'm truly sorry. I did hope to show even without talking, you could do so much. I should have stated this sooner with my growth. It is my fault. I chose TTS in today's times cause I'm absolutely scared of someone recognizing my voice. Of being stalked or doxxed. I wanted to live my IRL life without fear of someone recognizing me. I love what I do and making people laugh, but at the same time, people are also unpredictable. I'm sorry if there's been any confusion at all and again, wish I had stated earlier, what's done is done. If you choose to not support me anymore, I understand, I by all means wish you such an amazing life. Thank you for watching and I will be going in a new direction with this."
 * "Yeah, I-I was just scrolling on Twitter and somebody said I was... super lewd....I'm-I'm not sure how we got to that point. Apparently they also think I am one of the lewdest members now.... So listen, if they're saying that, then they haven't watched the fucking stream, dude. I-I don't know what the fuck to tell you, man. I guess... making sexual jokes every 30 to 45 minutes, counts as, incredibly lewd? I-I don't know."
 * "Stay safe, stay strong and as always, Rock On. Adios"

Relationships

 * Zentreya has a strong friendship with her fellow VSHOJO members and often appears in collabs with the girls frequently. She's often referred to as the 'Mother' of the group as she likes to help them with tasks or issues they are having. Even Matara has referred to Zen as Mama Zen.
 * Zentreya is one of Haruka Karibu's wives, though tends to deny this very often.
 * Zentreya has a really strong friendship with Geega, so much so that on her VShojo debut, she unveiled a t-shirt titled "Tee of Friendship". Dedicated to Zen, this t-shirt is plain white with the words "Zemtraya Sucks" on the front in big bold letters.
 * Shortly after Froot's debut, Zentreya declared Froot to be her waifu and Froot reciprocated. FeFe tweeted back that she was ready to fight Zentreya for her.
 * Zentreya is good friends with many people in the VTuber community, often arranging collabs with them regardless of audience size or popularity.
 * Zentreya is in an eternal conflict with one of her VIPs named Fatman (previously a mod for Zentreya) and often plays it out on stream.

Fans

 * Zentreya's fans are currently known as the Geckos, during her streams where they often tease her and make fun of her but know their place and are very supportive of her. On occasion, she pretends to shake or hit the camera because they tease her. While there is a lot of bantering in her streams, she also makes them aware that it is all in good fun as well as insisting that they do not act this way in other streams or channels.
 * During stream, Zentreya usually will have a little red gecko in the corner of the screen or near her that talks, this is powered by a TTS similar to Zen's own and when will talk when twitch bits are donated with a message. This red gecko is the same one that Zentreya used as her plushie concept but after she found a way to use it, thus it became the chat. It had 2 main outfits, a spacesuit and a dinosaur onesie, though Zen will often dress it up and give it new hats. The gecko's name is Chad, due to a mistake when trying to say "Chat", her TTS program will often change it to "Chad".
 * Zentreya's fans are formerly known as the Soldiers
 * Zentreya's fans were formerly known as the Red Knights.
 * Zentreya's fans were formerly called the A.L.A., aka the Anti-Lewd Army, in reference to a group she created in VRChat.

Likes and dislikes

 * Zentreya loves horror, games, RPGs, MMOs and drums, music, memes, strawberries, halloween and anime.
 * Zentreya really loves mechs, Tokusatsu, gunpla/gundam, Godzilla/Kaiju monsters and Warhammer 40K, she is also a huge fan of the Armoured Core franchise.
 * Zentreya loves to challenge her friends and sometimes her chat to various games, she can often be seen challenging her chat to games of Connect 4 or Mario Party with Haruka and Geega
 * Her favorite genres of music are rock, metal, screamo, and death metal, and dubstep
 * She hates horror, the banana suit, broccoli, Mario Party, mustard and losing.
 * Zen is a big animal lover, she's especially a big lover of Dogs, Geckos/Lizards and Penguins.

A.L.A.

 * Zentreya was the leader and founder of the A.L.A, the Anti-Lewd Army. She officially disbanded the A.L.A. in September 2020 and retired from the VRChat community.
 * Zentreya has a close connection with the VRChat community, seeing as her main content for several years was VRChat, as well as the fact that the character of Zentreya was created and developed through the VRChat community.
 * Zentreya has role-played at least 10 different characters.
 * Zentreya in her role-playing days had a kid named IceReaper with Joey Bagels AKA Nagzz21.
 * She is Still waiting to go on her second date with Nagzz21.
 * Zentreya actually has a blood sister, only known as Medusa.
 * Zentreya was adopted by Shiro alongside Medusa, Kirbynite, and Kirbynite.
 * Zentreya has several other RP characters she played as, including LuLu, Nez, Carmella, Lady Z, V4LK-YR13, Hoppi, Abysma, Zenchi and Zentreya's estranged sister, Medusa. And a Sora Fantasy version Zentreya.
 * Zentreya was going to appear in a fan-made VRChat RPG game named VRChat Heroes, as an NPC. The Game was then cancelled.
 * Zentreya was a part of the VRC group “The Demon Dogs” for 2 days.
 * Zentreya has gone through several iterations of models over the years do to being a role player. Her traditional garb at the time consisted of a sharp military-esque uniform.
 * Commander Zen's hair glows in the dark.

Miscellaneous

 * Zentreya was not originally a VTuber, but instead began as a mute YouTuber.
 * She can sing (through a similar system like her STTS), play the drums and a little bit of the piano. She has also expressed interest in learning to play the guitar.
 * Zentreya has gone though three re-brandings.
 * According to Zentreya, she went from a dragon to cyborg to better fit with her TTS system and how the dragon form didn't make sense with it. Though the dragon motif is still around as well as the cyborg and she is still referred to as both.
 * She lives in Texas with her two dogs Millie and Marlo.
 * It was noted by Haruka on stream, that one of the reasons Zentreya's TTS often has issues with capturing what she is saying is due to her thick Texan accent. This is why Zen has issues with getting people's names right, like Haruka and Henya.
 * Her love for catgirls has led to her being nicknamed Zentrenya.
 * One of her most notable running gags is playing "Taco Tuesday" by Lil Jon per every Tuesday in which she is available to stream. However, contradictory to the theme of the gag, she does not eat tacos per every Tuesday and the gag serves more as a joke gag based on the day of Tuesday itself.
 * Her former emoji was 🐲
 * The speech-to-text-to-speech voice Zentreya previously used was TATYANA IVONA VOICE. Now she uses a different program which is undisclosed as she is not allowed to distribute it.
 * Zen's Twitch content in 2018 consisted primarily of VRChat (675 hours), making up 51.7% of all hours streamed; followed by Destiny 2 (137 hours).
 * Due to her STTS slip ups, Zentreya has many nicknames for Haruka, Geega, Henya and others with a list of names she calls them.
 * Zen’s original TTS made her sound Russian.
 * Zentreya was the founder of the Twitch Team Virtual Streamers Worldwide.
 * Zen is both willing to insult her audience as well as giving them the middle finger (mostly in a joking way).
 * She is very upfront about her opinions, stating whether or not she hates something.
 * She has exceeding levels of affection towards her friends and community both.
 * Zentreya has made it widely known that she has ADHD (she often has this in her Twitch streamer tags), while she does not use this as an excuse, she often has issues remembering things, seen as chaotic at times and sometimes struggles with focus.
 * She has stated that she is 100% Hispanic, though she doesn't know a lot of Spanish due to never being taught.
 * In a stream, Zen explains to the chat that the helmet to resembles a dragon with the mouth and the antennas resemble horns of the dragon.
 * She used to street race
 * Zentreya has work in retail for as a management, and some floral work.
 * Zentreya is very good at drawing.
 * Zentreya has a geographical tongue (looks like a bunch of vines), this means her tongue is super sensitive to tastes, spices and sweet foods.
 * During Henya The Genius' lore video, Chapter 4: The Cube, Zentreya makes an appearance and can be seen rescuing Henya
 * In the video for Ironmouse's animated short "Ironmouse: Unleashed", Zentreya appears twice in the video (as Dragon Zen and Cyborg Zen) as well as red and teal toaster behind Bubi in reference to Zen.
 * Zentreya makes a cameo twice, along with other vtubers, in Henya's music video for "強風オールバック", once a pigeon fighting with Haruka and again as a cat in her "Candy Pop" concert outfit.
 * Zentreya makes an appearance, along with other VShojo members and vtubers, in Unnamed's music video for "Queen of Hearts"

Credits

 * 2D Illustrator: Yuniiho
 * 2D Rigger: Iron Vertex
 * 3D Model: jjinomu
 * 3D Model Rigger: Baffler
 * Emote Illustrations: LilythArts, CINAMONCUNE, Crispy
 * Emote Animations: KJOEE88

Media

 * Zentreya - Twitch channel
 * Zentreya - YouTube channel
 * @Zentreya - Twitter account
 * @Zentreya - Instagram account
 * Zentreya's Cyberspace Server - Official Discord server
 * Zentreya - Kick channel
 * Zentreya - Spotify Artist Page

Merchandise

 * VShojo Store - Official Merch Store

Twitter hashtags

 * #zentreart - Fan art
 * #zentreNSFW - Fan art (18+)

Statistics

 * Zentreya - TwitchTracker stats
 * Zentreya - Social Blade stats
 * Zentreya - SullyGnome stats