Hakos Baelz

This name is officially written using the Japanese name format; the family name is Hakos.

 Hakos Baelz is an English Virtual YouTuber associated with hololive, debuting as part of its English (EN) branch second generation of VTubers alongside Tsukumo Sana, Ceres Fauna, Ouro Kronii and Nanashi Mumei.

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A member of the Council and the very concept of Chaos, birthed by the world, itself.

The Gods appointed her Chairperson of the Council, but she mostly takes a hands-off approach as she has yet to accept the decision, much like her fellow members. That said, all of them have no intention of contending; instead to obey.

Her mouse-like appearance has deceived many a fool who fails to realize that mice are the harbingers of chaos.

Also of note is her wild smile, which she often flashes in her frequent romps.

Chaos is confusion and disarray, it is fortune and tragedy, and it is freedom from all the logic and inherent nature of life.

She believes that rules are not the be-all and end-all, which is why she has come to break them all.

Watching the aftermath is her greatest joy, and so she remains a bystander to the destruction caused by mayhem.

Background
Following the success of hololive English in 2020 and 2021, COVER Corporation announced auditions for a second batch of English members from 12 February to 26 March 2021. Twitter accounts for the five new members were created in June 2021 and YouTube accounts created on 26 July 2021.

Teaser videos for the new generation began on the official hololive English YouTube Channel in August 2021. On 1 August, "Prelude" revealed a story of gods creating the four concepts of space, nature, time, and civilization. On 14 August, "Omen" described the creation of avatars of those four concepts plus that of the primordial force of Chaos, revealing five silhouettes. On 17 August, "Council" revealed the five new hololive English members and announced a grand debut scheduled for the coming weekend. Although the traditional term "generation" was not officially used to refer to the new members, who had been referred to as "hololive English Generation 2" by fans, the new members nonetheless formed a group known as "-Council-".

Upon conclusion of the Council debut PV, all five new members' Twitter and YouTube accounts were revealed, and each made their first tweet.

On 17 August 2021, around 24 hours after the initial announcement, Hakos Baelz reached 100,000 YouTube subscribers before her debut. However, YouTube soon removed around half of this number, possibly due to the sudden subscriber growth on a channel with no videos yet, which may have triggered a YouTube anti-bot algorithm.

Hakos Baelz's debut was scheduled for 21 August 2021 at 4 PM PDT, midnight BST, or 8 AM JST on 22 August. A -Council- group collaboration on her channel was tentatively scheduled two hours later. However, the -Council- debuts were postponed for 24 hours due to unspecified technical issues, which members jokingly blamed on the "EN curse", a perceived tendency for hololive English members to suffer from unexpected technical problems. The debuts were rescheduled at the same time on Sunday 22 August (US/Europe time) or Monday 23 August (Japan time).

Quotes

 * "The world is not composed with order alone. Can't you apprehend? Not being bound by anything is the greatest limitation."

Trivia

 * The name "Hakos" is an anagram of "Khaos", matching her theme as a being of chaos.
 * The name "Baelz" may be a reference to the demon Bael, a being described in medieval grimoires including the Lesser Key of Solomon and Pseudomonarchia Daemonium, or Baalzebul, an ancient Biblical deity or prince of demons sometimes equated with Satan.
 * In Dungeons & Dragons lore, demons are aligned with chaos.
 * Prior to debut, Tsukumo Sana addressed Hakos Baelz by a shortened form of her name "Bae", a popular American slang meaning "darling".
 * Bae's emoji is a six-sided die, used both in gaming and as a metaphor for the concept of randomness. The physicist Albert Einstein famously used the term in the latter sense regarding quantum mechanics, stating "God does not play dice." The notion that events may appear random while actually being deterministic is a foundation of a field of mathematics known as chaos theory.
 * She shares her character designer Mika Pikazo with the VTubers Kaguya Luna and Pinky Pop Hepburn.

Media

 * Hakos Baelz Ch. hololive-EN - YouTube channel
 * Hakos Baelz's corporate profile on hololive.tv (EN)
 * Hakos Baelz's corporate profile on hololive.tv (JP)
 * @hakosbaelz - Twitter account

Twitter hashtags

 * #enterbaelz - Stream tag (English)
 * #ベール登場 - Stream tag (Japanese)
 * #illustrayBAE - Fan art (English)
 * #ベーアート - Fan art (Japanese)
 * #MADDOOFS - Music
 * #YABAEL - Memes (English)
 * #ヤベール - Memes (Japanese)

Statistics

 * Hakos Baelz Ch. hololive-EN - Social Blade YouTube stats