Soma Rigel

Soma Rigel (ソマ ライジェル) is an Independent male English/Filipino Yatagarasu VTuber. He currently streams on both YouTube and Twitch via Restream.

Profile
Weaponsmith and surrogate son of the Sun's Head Goddess / CEO Amaterasu. Soma, a Divine Crow known as a Yatagarasu, was kicked out of Hell because a thermostat took his purpose in regulating its flames. Now he lives in the Surface world among mortals and hiding the fact that he is a God to not raise attention. However he does portray himself as one when being a VTuber to passively gain faith as a deity.

Personality
Soma is a very hotheaded and energetic individual. When things go his way, he tends to be quite confident in himself and the situation, only for things to backfire much to his dismay. He is a very talkative (a bit too much) and energetic person who overelaborates on topics but is trying his best to make friends.

He sometimes becomes a bird brain on stream, as expected of a Divine Bird of the Sun.

Examples include: Not seeing an item in a video game despite looking at the inventory for 5 minutes straight, spacing out and not saying anything or even be completely oblivious to what is even going on.

2020
On 02 April, Soma streamed as a VTuber for the first time, marking his debut. He originally went by a different name (Wildcawrd) and went by a different lore.

On 09 April, Soma made an introduction video on Youtube.

During these first three months from his debut, Soma amassed 3,000 followers on Twitch and 1,000 subscribers on Youtube. It was met with difficulty as he had too weak of a computer to handle many games while streaming.

// This PC officially died mid June during a Code Vein stream. //                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             ''However he did get a new one almost immediately and he bounced back stronger than ever, streaming games such as Warzone, Apex Legends and many other games he otherwise was not able to / could not handle without crashing in the past. Around the same month, he acquired a new 3D model by DDMavis, in which he revealed along with his comeback. Unfortunately, the streams he had done this year were not archived on Youtube, and many were deleted due to the DMCA announcement on Twitch, becoming lost media. Earliest clips on Twitch are of Soma with his second VRoid Model. Footage of the first model is seen only from other VTuber's clips.''

Around May - June, Soma did a charity stream for his grandmother (who unfortunately passed away in July of that same year) to help pay for her medical bills. Fortunately the family gained a lot of support from the VTuber community and managed to shave off a large portion of the bills much to his and his family's thanks.

On 26 October, Soma unveiled his new Live2D model illustrated by maka_nyan and rigged by Zourikyu. Included in this debut stream was an all new lore and a slides presentation (with scuff of course).

2021
Around late March to April, due to reasons unknown, Soma started over on his Twitter which by this time, reached 2,000 followers. He also started over his Youtube channel, effectively starting from scratch while leaving his Twitch intact.

On 15 April 2021, Soma made his debut once again, with a new introduction video and declaring that he is streaming on Youtube from that point on. During this year, he streamed once a day on Twitch every Thursday, and every day that he was able to stream not on a thursday, he streamed on Youtube.

As of May 2021, Soma went on hiatus for the whole summer, waiting for commissions to finish and to take a break from VTubing. During his hiatus, Yannapii made him a chibi model for his birthday, which he used to stream for a while until the 9th of September. (Soma wanted to stream so bad but could not due to the commissions involved his model at the time).

On 09 September, he came back and revealed that his hiatus was to reveal his rigging update and new overlays, along with his first cover (Hyakkisiai by Kanaria) and a VTuber QnA introductions video.

Around the same month, Soma joined a VTuber team in which he stayed with until the next year.

On 22 December, Soma revealed his new/current 3.0 model which was drawn by Bizette and rigged by his best friend Yannapii, effectively debuting three times in his career as a VTuber.

2022
On 04 February, Soma left the VTuber team he was part of, going back solo.

On 02 April, exactly two years since his first debut, Soma celebrated his 2nd year anniversary as a VTuber. He showed off new overlays and announced future projects. Soma also released a cover of "Wanting Getting Wanting" by Demondice, who he is a big fan of.

On 01 June, Soma once again hit 1,000 subscribers on Youtube, over a year in working to get to where he was after starting over, the previous year.

Mascots and Fans

 * Soma's fan mascot is the Tamatori, a mechanical bird that can turn into a sniper round.
 * These mechanical Yatagarasu are manifestations of Soma's fans' faith.
 * Soma's Membership names on Twitch and Youtube are "tamACOLYTE" (in reference to him being Amaterasu's Acolyte).



Quotes

 * "gagu pare"
 * "COME ON FIGHT ME"
 * "WHAT DO YOU MEANNNN" (when he loses 13-2 in VALORANT)
 * "I know I like mommy archetypes, but you're not my type" (Soma to a tall Kuchisake-onna from the game Ghostwire Tokyo)
 * "Welcome to the Twitch Temple!" (when he greets a new follower on Twitch)

Identity

 * Color: #e66a1f
 * Occupation: Weaponmaster and World Guardian.
 * Soma is Filipino but did not really bring that out until his second year as a VTuber.

Lore
''// This is all in a webnovel (and to be released chapters). //''


 * Soma is a Yatagarasu, the surrogate son of Amaterasu, the CEO / Head Deity of the Sun.
 * He was sent down to the Underworld to regulate its flames and made friends with the locals.
 * One of his friends was the Prince of the Underworld, Cyrus Capsaicin (also known as "sample text" in his streams).


 * Soma stayed in there for thousands of years living in a concrete house he built himself, solving incidents and defeating rogue denizens trying to take control of the Flames.
 * During this stay, he also forged countless weapons and awakened a hidden power to have a pocket dimension for storage of said weapons. These weapons however were too fragile for Gods so Soma can only use each "disposable" weapon a total of three times.
 * One day, he was kicked out of Hell, due to a thermostat usurping his purpose in the Underworld, even to Amaterasu's surprise.
 * After moving to the Surface World, he was told by Amaterasu that he were to become her Acolyte.
 * Being an Acolyte meant : living in the parent God's place of worship, contribute to the shrine and doing missions to gain a certain amount of religious faith, the source of every God's power.
 * Soma did not want to live in Amaterasu's shrine and desired to live among the mortals, which Amaterasu reluctantly agreed in with some conditions of course.
 * Soma wants to live among mortals in secret to not stand out and so he can live like them to learn more about how the mortal world works.
 * This is where he found out about the internet and VTubing. Soma became a Yatagarasu VTuber for fun, in which he realized later that followers he gained as a VTuber actually gave him faith.
 * The young God decided to now grow his faith through the Internet while masquerading as a student in a university, while also protecting his world from Otherworldly threats.

Likes and dislikes

 * Likes: Learning new hobbies, editing videos, playing all types of video games and writing.
 * Anime: Attack on Titan, Nichijou, Mirai Nikki, Boku no Hero Academia, Demon Slayer, NEW GAME!, Kaguya-sama Love is War, Fate/Stay Night Unlimited Blade Works, Spy x Family, That Time I got Reincarnated as a Slime and more!
 * TV Shows: FPJs Ang Probinsyano , a Filipino TV show is one that Soma tweets about from time to time.
 * Games: Touhou Project, NARAKA: Bladepoint, VALORANT, League of Legends, Terraria, Minecraft, Tekken and anything "that seems fun".
 * Music: Any Touhou Music Circles, Reol, Kanaria, Eir Aoi, LiSA, Yousei Teikoku.
 * Dislikes: The dark, heights (ironically enough), being alone
 * Movies: Star Wars (Original and Prequel Trilogy), Karate Kid, Rush Hour (all of them), A Silent Voice, Harry Potter.

Miscellaneous

 * He named his PC Utsuho after the character from the Touhou Project series.
 * He works at a bakery as a crepe chef. He sometimes goes over his job on stream and shows off orders he did on social media.
 * Soma is currently top 500 in the game NARAKA: Bladepoint, he aims to go pro in the future.



Twitter hashtags

 * #tamatori - Fan tag
 * #rigellustration - Fan art
 * #rigelLIVE - Live tag