Zentreya

Zentreya is an English-languge VTuber who debuted in 2017. Initially an independent streamer mostly known for VRChat roleplaying, Zen joined VTuber group VShojo in November 2020. She is noted for the use of a speech-to-text-to-speech system to produce a synthesized voice.

Personality
"A cyborg from a post-apocalyptic future, sent back in time to prevent the apocalypse. She's very headstrong and tends to yell at everyone around her, but loves meeting new people! She's become accustomed to 21st century culture, and enjoys memes and pranks." -VShojo entry

Zentreya is snarky to a relative degree, projecting herself through means of assertion. She prefers to be upfront about her feelings and says what she thinks, whether it's an insult to someone or some form of praise, especially in regards to giving gratitude to her own community in general terms. Despite this, she intends to provide entertainment for her viewers and intends for her negative statements to be simple banter. She also frequently humiliates herself through the means of accidental mistranslation in her speech-to-text-to-speech system, leading her to say offensive statements or statements generally opposite to what she intends to say, correcting herself when necessary when her chat plays it up in response. Generally speaking, however, she reacts as someone is expected to as when she is truly irritated or confused by something, she will not hold herself back, questioning other people's logic or prompting them to attention when they don't listen to her vindications. She can typically be seen as being indifferent in regards to her role as a gamer as she has a wide selection of unfinished games, to the extent that her community has them listed specifically for when she notes the possibility of continuing to play a certain game she likes, Devil May Cry 5 being an example.

Regarding her personal friends, she does not apply herself in the same way that she does her overall community, preferring to provide additional banter and act overtly mischievous in somewhat disadvantageous ways. Most of this is done in back-and-forth vulgarity or taking advantage of game mechanics to hinder progress with whoever she plays with, though whether or not the banter is specifically intended to serve negative outcomes is made unclear as she still responds with visible stress or shock from the results of her own mischief during a playthrough.

In spite of playing a part in it in previous times, she has briefly shown a serious intolerance betraying any banter towards the attitude of her community following an Apex Legends collaboration where she was constantly insulted for losing every match due to her team failing to agree on a defensive approach, deciding not to play any games in the stream as punishment. To support this, it is shown that she fails to understand the mechanics and necessities of the games that she plays unless they are first-person shooter, action role-playing, or idle games, usually failing at sandbox, simulator or puzzle games like Minecraft, Surgeon Simulator or Portal. Contradictory to her complete lack of ability when playing a game she is unfamiliar with, she is intelligent through other means as she is able to cleanly play the drums to cover a song, is the only member of VShojo to have a verified driving license, and is able to easily catch onto the mechanics of the types of games that she is familiar with.

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 cyberpunk body suit with black and mint green armor. She has a black jacket and helmet. Underneath the helmet is her normal face with yellow eyes and short grey hair. She also wears horns.

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.

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, while her YouTube channel was created on 30 March 2017.

2017
Her first Twitch stream was a one-hour VRChat stream on 30 November 2017, with 5 viewers. 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.

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.

2020
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 25 September, Zentreya officially disbanded the Anti-Lewd Army and retired from the VRChat RP community.

On 1 October, Zen debuted her new dragon form with a 3D model.

On 24 November, Zentreya redebuted 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 a 2D avatar created by Yuniiho.

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

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. Later that month, she would reveal her normal 3D avatar.

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.

2022
On 20 May, she underwent a rebranding and debuted a new 2D model, abandoning the dragon motif for a futuristic android one.

On 31 July, she redebuted the new motif with a 3D model. However, she has frequently had issues with rendering the model as it occasionally disappears.

Relationships
Zentreya is a first generation member of the Vtuber idol group VShojo along with Nyanners, IronMouse, ProjektMelody, Froot, Hime, and Silvervale.

Zentreya is good friends with Veibae, FeFe, Ironmouse, Silvervale, Projekt Melody, Bunny_Gif, and many other VTubers.

Zentreya is in an eternal conflict with a Twitch moderator she has named Fatman. However, she eventually decided to demote him on August 15th 2022 following her chat discouraging her from playing Apex Legends after losing multiple matches in collaboration with streamers Rainhoe and Mika.

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.

Fans

 * Zentreya's fans are known as the Soldiers and can be found in her Discord Zentreya's Cyberspace Server.
 * Zentreya's fans were formerly called the A.L.A., aka the Anti-Lewd Army, in reference to a group she created in VRChat, as well as the Red Knights when she was a dragon.

Trivia

 * She lives in Texas.
 * She 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.
 * 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 Lewdist territory.
 * She was not originally a VTuber, but instead began as a mute YouTuber.
 * She 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.
 * She has role-played at least 10 different characters.
 * During her time role-playing, she had a kid named IceReaper with Joey Bagels AKA Nagzz21.

Credits

 * 2D Illustrator: Yuniiho
 * 2D Rigger: AlexyonLive2D
 * 3D Model: jjinomu
 * Emote Illustrations: LilythArts
 * Emote Animations: KJOEE88

Media

 * Zentreya - Twitch channel
 * Zentreya - YouTube channel
 * @Zentreya - Twitter account
 * @Zentreya - Instagram account
 * The Dragon's Lair - Official Discord server

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