XAS

XAS, also known by his given name, Xas Akaoni (ザース 赤鬼, Xas the Red Demon), is a male English-speaking Virtual YouTuber from Malaysia.

He has a twin brother named YOZER which has always been confused as alternate personalities by many people. He is currently an active member of the Slice of Six group; consisting Loafy Katt-B, Wizzo [MY], Fye Le Trash Queen and Manager RyouMirul (also known as M-san).

Profile
"From the land of the rising moon, Yozer and Xas lay waste to the land of virtual world to be your favorite Nightmare! Because you people didn't sleep and only watch YouTube all night!"Xas is a Nightmare of Hope (while Yozer is a Nightmare of Faith. Both are very similar and related to each other, matter of fact, they're twins). How do you feel when you're hanging at the edge of a cliff and you have nothing else to grab on? The hopeless feeling you felt everyday within yourself has become the source for Xas to exist.

Character Design
Xas appears to be young man in his middle twenties with a height of 170cm (5'7"). Base face and body design is very similar to Yozer since they're twins. Xas has very bright red color hair with slight orange at the end of the front hair with a white lining on the right side of his head and a short ponytail wrapped around his neck to the left shoulder. He also have red reverse winged liner and garnet glowing eyes with diamond shaped pupils. His horn is transparent glowing energy-like that will disappear sometimes. His right hand is always holding his favorite katana shows how much he is clingy and having an unconditional loves to his katana.

Outfit Design
He is wearing double layered traditional Japanese theme outfit contrast to Yozer, who have a mix of futuristic and modern. Wearing minimal armor plate on his body resembling a warrior and giving a samurai vibe as he is mad in loves with katana. The kimono is ripped and teared giving a vibe of nightmares. Left side of outer kimono is being fold to his back waist allowing him to have comfortable movement when he fight using a katana as a left-handed swordsman. Kamon crests on his outfit and katana's scabbard feature motifs of Hibiscus rosa-sinensis plant, represent the VTuber's origin from Malaysia.

Color Theme
His color theme is red, contrast to Yozer which is green. Red vibrant color were chosen to emphasize the masculinity and powerful also to fit in with black color which symbolize fear and evil. Both bright and dark color combination brought some kind mystic feeling and youth which suited on both VTuber's lore and streaming concept.

Background
Yozer and Xas is a blood brother who has been living and working together in professional artistic industry; illustration, animation, design, videography and editing. Yozer have specialized his experience to working in illustration and design for advertising while Xas is pushing himself to the limit in professional animation industries (series and movies). Both of them specialized their own skill which make them a perfect combined piece of puzzle. The spark of gaming stream were actually came from Yozer, which later on were push by Xas and both agree to enter VTuber entertainment field.

Being a VTuber didn't stop them to keep working on what they're good at but instead has given them chances to show off their skills and promote their available services such as art illustration, graphic designs and Live2D services.

2021
On 23 February, Yozer and Xas YouTube channel were created known as a Yozer and Xas - duo Hitman Twin VTuber, retired modern assassins who only play games on mobile. Most of the games were only be played off stream by Yozer since he is generally good in every game genre while Xas is prefer to work behind the scene as he is good at making arts and video editing. Xas introduced RyouMirul into the team as their second-brain or adviser, since RyouMirul is more familiar to social media community and experienced on working in indie field.

In May 2021, Yozer and Xas 1st Live2D model were complete and released, design, art and rigged by Xas. The process has took 3 months for Xas to finish both models. During the month, they form a group with 3 other people to specifically to celebrate Eid Ul Fitr through online connection in Minecraft to cherish people and mainly to who are celebrating alone during Covid-19 MCO. The group later on, agreed to officially form an indie VTuber group named as Slice of Six, consisting Loafy Katt-B, Wizzo [MY], Fye Le Trash Queen and RyouMirul (also known as M-san) as manager.

2022
In February, Yozer and Xas successfully made their 1st debut stream (they didn't have a proper debut before) "Unleash the Nightmare" with help of their friends. Live2D Model we're drawn and rigged by Xas. Outfit design were help by Hanihani @NagaFolder. The lore and background story were helped by their real life friend. Little Nightmare 1 and 2 were stream shortly as a gimmick for their debut theme.

In May, they started to stream on Twitch but the account got hacked few months after. They stop using Twitch since then.

On June 7, Yozer launching #Horrozer as his own community stream, playing open-room horror games with viewer, mostly on Roblox.

On August, Yozer and Xas appear in Malaysia "Animangaki" (one of Malaysia’s largest animation, comics and games convention held annually) and got their merchandise sold out.

2023
In April, Xas contribute his art skill into Roblox game Blox Fruits.

Name

 * Xas name is actually a sound effects pronounce by kids "zaaas" when they swing an imaginative sword.
 * It is written as "Xas" instead of "Zas" is just for him to be able to use a name started with X.
 * Original idea of his name was Xhan.
 * Akaoni is title given to him as per his design is red and having a pair of horns, which is stereotypically recognized to be demon.

Lore

 * Nightmare of "Hope" instead of "Hopeless" because he want to make the word more general in meaning.

Universe
Dream Realm is another pocket dimension like Ghost Realm, or Limbo conception; living together with human and actually sharing the same world. Nightmares is a creature that existed by accumulated negative energy released by dreamers; humans, animals, etc. Pawn nightmare or unnamed nightmare is bunch of monster that wandering around in dream realm; haunting prey in human's dream and collecting fear energy.

Unnamed nightmare are tend to be easily forgotten by dreamers once they woke up from their dream. Named nightmare is a stronger nightmare in hierarchy who tend to burnt into dreamers memory a little bit longer, so the dreamer is capable to remember the nightmare for a while after they woke up. Named nightmare are also have their own specific behavior, "skills" or "super power" for example; Mare, malicious creature that sits on peoples chest, causing them to not be able to move even thou they have woke up, and get stronger by eating up the fear energy made by the dreamer.

Yozer and Xas is named nightmares that is forgotten by humans for centuries.

Arvak and Alsvior
Arvak and Alsvior is the name of Xas's favorite katana (the one that he is holding). Arvak (Árvakr (Old Norse: [ˈɑːrˌwɑkz̠], "early awake")) is the name of the blade while Alsvior (Alsviðr ([ˈɑlswiðz̠], "very quick")) is the name of the scabbard. Arvak is dark matter material form to be a katana blade without a Hamon but instead having a red line on the Bo-Hi. Legend had said, these weapons are used to be the tools to pull the sun across the sky each day when morning arise in Dream Realm.

Miscellaneous

 * Xas is quite a talented artist. He draw and rig his own Live2D VTuber model as well as for Yozer's model. He has professionally made a few other VTuber model due to his commissions and make an art stream as well.
 * His obsession with katanas is often getting mocked by his friends as "katana thot".
 * He is very bad at shooting games or fps.
 * Not really a gamer but often play MMORPGs or any games that offers katana to the players.
 * Yozer and Xas's Twitter is mainly manage by Xas.
 * Xas begin as an introvert who aren't able to speak English properly but it is progressively improve as he keep streaming through the years.

Media

 * YOZER and XAS | Twin Nightmare VTuber - YouTube channel
 * Yozer and Xas | Twin Nightmare VTuber 😈 - (new) Twitter account
 * Yozer and Xas - Ko-Fi account
 * Slice of Six - Discord Server