Nyatasha Nyanners

Nyatasha Nyanners, commonly known as Nyanners, is a female virtual YouTuber, Twitch streamer, voice actress, and singer. She is best known for her gentle voice and rap music covers. While originally an independent streamer, she is now part of the agency VShojo.

Personality
Nyanners is a gentle, sensitive, and pure-hearted catgirl with a good sense of humor. However, her "seiso" (pure) attitude is offset by a tendency to use toilet jokes and reference adult topics. This contrast between pure and crude is considered by fans to be a defining aspect of Nyanners' appeal.

She is easily flustered by lewd things, loud noises and large donations. She is strongly moved by nostalgic video games such as Ocarina of Time and Final Fantasy X. Her love of FFX is legendary, and she describes the character Yuna as a major influence.

Nyanners has considerable knowledge of Japanese pop culture, and she is skilled at singing in Japanese and other languages, including Latin (Lilium) and constructed or fictional languages (Song of the Ancients). She has a case of chuunibyou, as exemplified by her obsession with Cold Steel heavy-duty sword canes and tendency to create elaborate lore.

Appearance
Nyanners is a catgirl with fluffy pink hair and purple eyes. Her hair has an ahoge on top, and her cat ears have soft fur inside them.

She wears a pale blue hoodie, which hangs off her shoulders because, although it is comfy, it is also too warm. She wears a black and white top underneath which says にゃん〜, the Japanese spelling of "nyan~". Her hair and clothes are decorated with cat motifs.

An alternate costume, debuted on 1 October 2020, reveals a purple and black costume with bat motifs and a single side-ponytail. It depicts her for the first time with legs, having previously appeared with a spiderlike lower body.

On 3 November 2020, Nyanners' default outfit gained a variant with a new hair clip depicting a cat ghost wearing an eyepatch. It replaces her original hair clip of a simple cat face. The cat ghost represents Nyanners' true form as an otherworldly eldritch spirit for whom Nyatasha Nyanners is just the latest in series of haunted vessels; while the eyepatch represents Yakuza character Goro Majima. However, she continued to use the old version in streams.

On 24 November 2020, she revealed a new winter outfit. It features and elaborate pale blue winter coat, frilled and lined with white fur, and decorated with cat motifs and shiny gold buttons. She also has a warm Russian-style ushanka hat, decorated with a ribbon pin featuring her cat familiar Goro.

Background
Nyanners first created her pink-haired catgirl character on 13 May 2012, although it did not receive a name. For her birthday on 14 June of that year, Nyanners received two pieces of fanart depicting her as this character: one used in Ken Ashcorp's A Song for Nyanners' Birthday, and another by Pikkurni, later used in Tsukema Tsukeru cover to illustrate Nyan Nyanners, an Utauloid voice synthesis trained on Nyanners' singing voice.

Nyanners would go on to represent herself with depictions of this character in other videos, including numerous song covers from 2014 onward. When she became a Twitch partner in October 2016, this character appeared in her Twitch emotes.

2020
On 17 July, after several years of streaming on Twitch using various Facerig avatars due to shyness, Nyanners revealed her custom virtual avatar. On 21 July she posted her character bio, revealing the official name Nyatasha Nyanners. The name was selected by a series of polls on Nyanners' Discord. Rejected names included Nyanzu Nyanneru, Nyanasu Nyanners, and Nyatasha Kotova Neru III.

Nyanners announced reaching 100,000 Twitch followers on 29 July 2020, and 200,000 followers on 10 Oct 2020.

On 20 October, following reports of copyright takedowns on Twitch VODs, Nyanners established the Nyanners VODs YouTube channel to archive past streams. On 23 October, she announced that she would delete all VODs hosted at Twitch to avoid the risk of copyright strikes, but her community was able to save a substantial backup. The following day, Nyanners announced a two-week hiatus for unrelated personal reasons. On 9 November she announced her return scheduled for Nov 11, declaring "prepare your wives".

On 24 November, she made a redebut revealing her new winter outfit, drawn by Nia and rigged by Iron Vertex. Nyanners also announced her membership in VTuber group VShojo, whose members include Projekt Melody, Ironmouse, Silvervale, Zentreya, Froot, Hime Hajime, and Nyatasha Nyanners. She reached 250,000 followers during this stream.

Fans

 * Nyanners followers are known variously as Nyanderthals, the Nyafia, the Shub Club, the Noble Nyanner Supporters, the Blessed Disciples of Shilkworm, the Covenant of Cringe.
 * Nyanners fanart can be posted to the Twitter hashtag #nyanart. She also uses the hashtag #nyancast.
 * Nyanners has over 250,000 Twitch followers, and over 2,000 Twitch subscribers. She has over 900,000 subscribers on YouTube.

Origin and certain nature

 * Nyanners' true form is that of a terrible eldritch spirit, who was summoned to earth more than a thousand years ago. To prevent her from conquering the world, she was sealed away in the Siberian Arctic for an age. Recently, she awoke from her slumber and was rejoined by her cat spirit familiar and began wandering the arctic together.
 * She can transform into a seal, and often makes seal noises, taught to her by various tribes of seals she befriended in the arctic. On September 30, 2020, she added the Twitch emote "nyannBLEGH", referencing her ability to blegh. She worked for a time as a lumberjack in Siberia.
 * Nyanners' powers include the ability to shapechange and possess other forms. She adopted many vessels before taking her current form. The form of a non-threatening, wholesome pink catgirl was chosen as part of an elaborate plan to endear herself to humanity, following research into the power of strange pictographs known as "anime".
 * She began streaming as part of a plan to conquer the world. Unfortunately, her thirst for knowledge ran too deep, and continuous exposure to video games and anime caused her to become docile and lazy. She fears that her long period of imprisonment in the ice may also have weakened her supernatural power and caused her to become senile.
 * She does not have a tail. She often attempts to conjure one, but it always shrivels and falls off.
 * Nyanners has both cat ears and human ears. One pair hears normally, but the other hears only sounds in the night from other worlds or realms of being.
 * She has a failed clone, named Nyanders. Normally she eats her clones, but Nyanders tastes bad. She is connected to Nyanners telepathically, and smells of french fries.
 * To keep her hair pink and soft, she frequently washes it in a human concoction known as "pepto bismol". She uses it to dye her hair when it turns grey.
 * She can see through wooden doors.
 * She has the ability to unhinge her jaw like a snake and swallow a turkey whole.

Likes and hobbies

 * Despite being a cat, she does not like milk, and in fact is lactose intolerant. Her favorite foods are piroshky, green curry, and vodka. She is the inventor of a mixed drink known as the Vodka Poggers, consisting of vodka and POG juice (a brand of fruit juice including passionfruit, orange and guava).
 * Her favorite anime are Toradora!, Idolmaster, Kaguya-sama: Love is War, Ghost Slide, and Baccano.
 * Her favorite games are the Final Fantasy series, Dark Souls, Bloodborne, Rune Factory, and Scrabble.
 * Her number one game of all time is Final Fantasy X, which she has played on stream several times. She owns at least five copies of the game on different platforms, and has played the game at least 12 times, although often did not complete a run because she didn't want the game to end. The first time she ever played FFX, she sank into a deep depression for two weeks after completing it.
 * She is a fan of Green Day.
 * She likes to receive headpats. The Twitch emote "nyannPat" references this.
 * She likes being comfy, and helping others.
 * Her favorite color is purple.

Other facts

 * Her goals are to perform her own music in an idol concert, acquire a 3D model for dancing, to music collab with the rest of VShojo, to engage in a VTuber wrestling match, and to bend the entire planet to her will and become powerful.
 * Her rarely-used full name is Nyatasha Kotova Nyanners III.
 * Nyatasha has purple eyes because it is Nyanners' favorite color.
 * Nyatasha Nyanners' blood type is O.
 * She doesn't know what sex is.
 * She has ADHD
 * Nyanners is fascinated by absurdities of human culture, including toilets and men cutting open boots filled with meat.
 * Nyanners claims to be the greatest baker in all of Europe. She also claims that her bust size is FFF, and that she has an IQ of 200.
 * She can't pronounce "anonymity".
 * According to her debut stream, Nyanners is "the first catgirl who has been sent to jail for tax evasion." She is also banned from several Chili's across the country for reasons she can't talk about.
 * Nyanners believes that she will go to hell when she dies.
 * Nyanners has said on stream that she does not have a pee fetish. (9/24/2020)
 * Nyanners has mentioned ways she would like to see the world improved. She intends on flatten the Earth's topography with her self-claimed enormous posterior. Nyanners also desires the world to conform to her timezone for her streaming audience.
 * She is friends with other independent VTubers, including Haruka Karibu, whose nickname for Nyanners is Nyancchi. She has appeared as a guest on the Lewdcast, a podcast with Projekt Melody, Silvervale and Ironmouse.
 * She is a moderator of the official Nyanners subreddit.
 * Initially, the character of Nyatasha Nyanners' official birthday was April 7, the creation date of Nyanners' YouTube channel. However, she later changed this back to her real-world birthday of June 14, in order to avoid confusion.
 * Nyanners' age of 1,039 began as a joke on the Virtual YouTuber wiki, when an editor replaced her age with the tag, which always shows the number of articles at the wiki; a similar joke previously appeared in her entry at the Nyanners wiki. Nyanners happened to read her Virtual YouTuber Wiki entry when the count read 1,039, and incorrectly thought it might be a reference to Green Day album 1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours. Nyanners, a Green Day fan, made this her official age.
 * Nyanners is sometimes accompanied by a ghost cat with an eyepatch, named Goro. Goro is Nyanners' familiar, and is named for Japanese onomatopoeia representing the sound of a cat rolling around. It's also a reference to Goro Majima, a character from the Yakuza series who wears an eyepatch.
 * She claims that bees whisper her secrets.
 * She has ordered her followers to gather information on 500 fellow Vtubers. Her nefarious plans for this information remain unknown.
 * Gilbert Gottfried once called her "a little piss goblin".
 * Mori Calliope followers her on Twitter. Nyanners has expressed interest in a collab with her.
 * She is working on a visual novel titled Love Saucer, about a green-haired girl who comes to earth and the boy who fights to protect her.
 * She has a large amount of Russian fans, which she has discussed on stream, and even sang a Russian Christmas song during a karaoke stream.