Fuwawa Abyssgard

Fuwawa Abyssgard (フワワ・アビスガード) is an English speaking Virtual YouTuber associated with hololive. She debuted in 2023 as part of hololive -Advent-, the third generation of members of hololive English, alongside Shiori Novella, Koseki Bijou, Nerissa Ravencroft and her twin sister Mococo Abyssgard with whom she shares her YouTube channel and Twitter account as the unit FUWAMOCO.

Profile
"How about we get you all nice and fluffy~?"

The fluffy older twin sister of The Demonic Guard Dogs, who were sealed away in The Cell for being a pain in the godly behind, Fuwawa Abyssgard is "The Fluffy One." Her duty is to calmly look after her younger twin sister Mococo and their pet Pero, but that calmness can be short-lived. Ultimately, she is a bouncy and boisterous girl who loves to chat and play.

Background
Following the debut of hololive English second generation -Council-, hololive English announced a permanent English language audition page on 30 December 2021. An update to the audition page on 7 September 2022 sparked speculation of an upcoming English third generation.

The FUWAMOCO YouTube and Twitter accounts were originally created on 12 May 2023, one day after the rest of the group's accounts, although they contained no content at this point. Fuwawa and Mococo share an account.

The third generation of hololive English, -Advent-, was first teased on the hololive English Twitter account with a short video on 22 July 2023. This was followed by another teaser video on 23 July, showing five new characters.

On 25 July, the hololive English YouTube channel posted a video titled Wanted!, revealing the five members of -Advent- and announcing their upcoming debuts. At the same time, the FUWAMOCO duo also posted a short teaser video and made their first tweet.

All -Advent- members' YouTube channels reached 100,000 subscribers within twelve hours of the announcement. On July 30, the FUWAMOCO channel reached 200,000 subscribers prior to the sisters' debut.

Debut
Fuwawa and Mococo made their debut stream on Sunday, 30 July 2023 from 8:45 PM to 9:30 PM PDT (Monday, 31 July 31st from 12:45 PM to 1:30 PM JST). Their debut reached over 119,000 viewers at peak. During the stream they also debuted their first original song "Lifetime Showtime" and released their first cover of the song "KAIBATSU."

Later on the same date -Advent- debuted their first original song "Rebellion."

Discography

 * Main article: Fuwawa Abyssgard/Discography

Mascots and Fans

 * They have a pet named "Pero," short for Perroccino. Pero was the twins' mentor, and they first met in the demon world.
 * "Peropero" is Japanese onomatopoeia for the sound of licking, such as a pet might do.
 * Her fans are called Ruffians.

Name

 * Fuwawa is from Japanese onomatopoeia "fuwafuwa", meaning "fluffy." It matches her title as The Fluffy One.
 * Abyssgard is a compound word of "abyss," meaning a bottomless pit, such as The Abyss in Dungeons & Dragons; and "gard," meaning either a guard, or an enclosed area of land, as Midgard or Asgard of Norse myth.
 * She writes her name in western name order. In Japanese, she writes it in katakana, commonly used for foreign words.

Lore

 * The members of Advent were sealed away in The Cell, a prison deep underground built to hold dangerous people and things. Its location is a closely-guarded secret.
 * The duo are referred to as the Twin Demonic Guard Dogs of hololive English -Advent-.
 * Despite being twins, their birthdays are different by one day. This might happen if the elder sister Fuwawa was born shortly before midnight, and Mococo was born after midnight.
 * Fuwawa and Mococo are identical twins.

Likes and dislikes

 * She likes pillows, Japanese sweets, matcha, nattou, and cute girls.
 * She dislikes dirty jokes, tangled hair, and pizza.
 * The sisters' "FUWAMOCO BIG LIKES" list includes baths, walks, singing, dancing, and pon-de-ring donuts, and cats.
 * They dislike having her ears and tail touched.
 * Fuwawa's favorite anime are Mahoromatic, Onimai, Utawarerumono, School Days, Kimi ga Nozomu Eien, Genshiken, and Yosuga no Sora.

Hopes and dreams

 * A debut, the duo presented a screen full of hopes and dreams. They included a lot of goals to mention some of them: performing on holding a solo concert, have an original song in a game, hug all the Advent members, release a dakimakura, release a physical CV, run a maid cafe for a day, appear in a video game, sing anime songs with IRyS, release a FUWAMOCO visual novel, reach 1 million subscribers, carry Bijou in their arms like a princess, to dance with Kiara, to explore Minecraft with Mumei and Kronii, do ASRM with Fauna and to complete their goal list.

Miscellaneous

 * The pair's role as a duo of guard dogs invites a comparison to Gere and Freke, Odin's guard dogs in Norse mythology. Along with their pet Pero, they are also compared to Cerberus, the three-headed dog who guards the gates of Hell in Greek myth.
 * Fuwawa and Mococo are the first two VTubers in hololive to share a single channel across all of their social media accounts.
 * Unused individual channels for Fuwawa and Mococo were also created on 12 May 2023.
 * The sisters share an emoji, since they share a channel.
 * When speaking by herself, Fuwawa appends her messages with a blue heart emoji.
 * She speaks both Japanese and English.
 * Fuwawa considered the nickname "Wawa" but discovered it was alredy a nickname for Takanashi Kiara.
 * She is designed by ICOMOCHI, who coincidentally is also a twin.
 * Her Live2D rigging is by Jujube, who rigged various other VTubers including hololive members Hakos Baelz and Usada Pekora, as well as now retired VTuber Amano Pikamee.

Media

 * FUWAMOCO Ch. hololive-EN - YouTube channel
 * Fuwawa Abyssgard's corporate profile on hololive.hololivepro.com
 * @fuwamoco_en - Twitter account

Twitter hashtags

 * #FUWAMOCO - General
 * #FWMCpix - Fan art
 * #lilFWMC - Clips
 * #helpFWMC - Suggestions/requests
 * #FWMCMORNING - Currently secret
 * #FWMCwww - Memes
 * #FWMCbeats - Music