Kaela Kovalskia

Kaela Kovalskia (カエラ・コヴァルスキア) is a female Indonesian Virtual YouTuber associated with hololive, debuting as part of its Indonesian (ID) branch third generation of VTubers alongside Vestia Zeta and Kobo Kanaeru.

Profile
After taking over her great blacksmithing teacher's forge, she felt a lack of excitement in her life.

So, she decided to be free and depart on a journey to find rare smithing materials, one of which was rumored to be under the building of a certain "idol group" in town.

She also loves challenging herself and has a peculiar taste when it comes to foods!

Personality
Kaela appears to be a pretty calm person. She barely raises the voice even when she becomes angry. Kaela is known for her particular laugh, as she always laughs silently. She likes flirting a little with her chat as well and other VTubers like Vestia Zeta. Kaela also likes to tease other people. Despite admiring Ouro Kronii more than any one else within hololive, Kaela likes to compete with her at any opportunity. On the other hand, when people send back her compliments and kindness by telling her she is cute, Kaela stalls in a deny.

Kaela is an obsessional video game player. Among all hololive members, she stands on top for the longest average stream time. Frequently, she extends her gaming streams in order to do her favorite activity, which she calls "grinding". Most of her colleagues have learned after some time to acknowledge Kaela as a frightening worker when it comes to farming and getting experience on certain video games, which led to them regularly calling her as an impromptu gaming collab partner, even if it is just for emotional support. Despite these numerous requests, Kaela is always patient and happy to help, with patience being one of her strongest qualities. Following Moona's lessons on Minecraft, Kaela's dedication and experience earned her a strong reputation in all hololive. Thus, many Japanese members started calling her a god.

She exhibits many personalities, with one of the most popular being a little sister personality called "Ckia", taking a cute high pitched. Her next personality, Skia, sounds like an older sister and is supposed to be more skilled than Kaela, having a slightly deeper voice and a more audible laugh. Sometimes, Kaela can also adopt an old lady voice to become the one named "Grandmaela". She calls herself "Goriela" when she starts imitating gorilla noises, or even "Omela" while taking a deep male voice.

Like Anya Melfissa, Kaela is very resistant to horror situations and never appears to be frightened. Additionally, her reaction to most horror scenarios (such as jump scares) has drawn comparisons to Shishiro Botan, where they laughed at situations that would otherwise scare their colleagues. For this reason, some of her colleagues called her as emotional support during their horror game streams, the most notable example being Hakos Baelz and Ceres Fauna on their The Mortuary Assistant stream.

Kaela shows sometimes a seductive side towards other hololive members. She likes to invite them all becoming her "wives," as if she was grinding for a harem. This behavior led her being nicknamed "Elagator."

Appearance
She has medium-length blonde hair with a red headband and sunglasses. Her eyes are a bright red.

Background
Auditions for hololive Indonesia's third generation were held from 25 August to 20 September 2021.

On 24 March, hololive Indonesia's YouTube channel revealed its third generation with a small introductory video. On this date, Kaela also made her first tweet, and a small teaser video was uploaded to her YouTube channel. Her YouTube channel was created on 27 January 2022.

Kaela debuted on 26 March 2022 at 10PM (JST). She had already reached 100,000 subscribers by the previous day. Her stream saw a peak viewer count of 37,870.

2022
On 2 April, during the channel monetization celebration, Kaela enabled her channel superchat feature.

On 3 April, Kaela reached 200,000 subscribers on YouTube.

On 9 June, Kaela opened her channel's membership feature.

On 22 June, Kaela reached 300,000 subscribers on YouTube.

On 3 August, Kaela reached 400,000 subscribers on Youtube.

On 18 August, she had her first collaboration cover song with fellow hololive ID members, (from 1st to 3rd gen) of the song "Bebas" by Iwa K.

On 30 August, Kaela celebrated her birthday on YouTube channel. After the stream, she released her first solo cover song "Phoenix", the 2019 League of Legends World Championship theme song.

On 16 October, Kaela reached 500,000 subscribers on Youtube. This makes her the 56th hololive member to reach this milestone.

On 8 November, Kaela received a YouTube Partner Day 2022 award, for Most Supers Gained channel in Gaming category.

2023
On 3 February, Kaela debuted her second 2D costume, a kimono to celebrate the new year. Kaela has two hairstyles using either short hair or really long twintails. She wears a short black kimono with red elements. The sleeves are detached and are long with hammer figures on the sides. Kaela uses a big white ribbon instead of an obi. Kaela uses black and red short gloves and carries a black flute with a small hammer motif. She wears black heels decorated with red roses. Kaela has the option to wear an additional white see through layer and a gorilla mask.

On 6 April, Kaela's YouTube channel reached 600,000 subscribers, at a time it was exactly counting 600 videos in total.

On 9 June, which she calls "Pemaloe Day," Kaela showed a new 2D model for incarnating her childish personality Ckia.

On 6 August, hololive Indonesia's Twitter announced that their 3rd generation would get their third costumes.

On 15 August, Kaela debuted her third 2D costume. Kaela uses long wavy hair with a ponytail to the left. Kaela wears a beige striped shirt complemented with a red tie, she also uses a necklace with a red fire opal that shines. She has a dark brown corset with golden elements and a belt in the same colors where Kaela carries two pickaxes. She has bracelets that are from the city Papua. She has a black and red skirt with a pattern. Kaela uses black shoes. Kaela can also wear a big cape in the same colors as her skirt and a golden brooch on the left side. She can also wear glasses. Kaela can cross her arms and put her hand on her chin in a thinking pose.

On 27 August, as part of the "hololive Summer 2023" event, during "hololive Summer 2023 Splash Party!" DAY 1 Sunshine stream on hololive's YouTube channel, Kaela was shown in a 3D render for the first time using the 2023 version of the swimsuits, alongside her gen mates. In the concert however they appeared using their standard 2D models.

On 7 September, hololive Indonesia's Twitter account announced that Kaela, Kobo, and Zeta would be debuting their 3D models in October 2023.

Events

 * On 16 July 2022, Crunchyroll Expo's Twitter account announced that Kaela and other members of hololive Indonesia would appear in "Crunchyroll Expo 2022," which would be held from 5-7 August 2022.
 * On 12 September 2022, Comic Frontier announced on Twitter that Kaela and other hololive ID members would be appearing at "Comic Frontier 15," which would be held from 24-25 September 2022.
 * On 12 August 2023, Cosplay Mania's Twitter account announced that Kaela would be appearing as a guest at the event, which would be held from 30 September to 1 October 2023.

Mascot and Fans

 * Her fanbase is officially called "Pemaloe," an archaic spelling for the Indonesian word pemalu, which can either mean "hammer wielder" or "shy person."
 * Her members are called "KAELUARGA," a pun on the Indonesian word kêluarga, meaning "family."
 * The 9 June is called "Pemaloe Day" in Kaela's community. 6 September is also a special day for Kaela.
 * On 30 August 2023, for her second birthday, Kaela held 11 streams (including one in membership) for 24 hours. She ended by revealing her official mascot Galon, a gallon filled with water. The liquid turns red when Galon gets angry.

Relationships

 * "HoloTall/HoloTiang," alongside Pavolia Reine.
 * "TimeSmith," alongside Ouro Kronii.
 * "MoonKae," alongside Moona Hoshinova.
 * "KanaKae," alongside Amane Kanata.
 * "Kaelentra," alongside Alenka Inventra.
 * "Kaellie," alongside Kureiji Ollie.
 * "Omet," alongside Anya Melfissa. The name stand for Om & jaMet.

Quotes

 * "Get some help!"
 * "You are cool if you like Monday."
 * "You can feel tired and pause for a while, but giving up is not acceptable!!!!!!"
 * "We will never be a perfect human being. Don't be too hard on yourself. Instead just be better each day. I believe in you."

Name

 * Kovalskia is related to the Polish name Kowalski or Kowalska, meaning "blacksmith." Similar names appear in other eastern European languages, where they are among the most common surnames in their respective countries (similar to the English name Smith).
 * Kaela possibly came from the wordplay of Leyak (localy called Leak), an Indonesian evil mythcial creature that’s supposed to be Barong’s nemesis.
 * Kaela, or Kaera, is a Japanese female given name.
 * She writes her full name in katakana, 「カエラ・コヴァルスキア」. Katakana is typically used to write foreign names.

Lore

 * Kaela Kovalskia is the youngest and most successful apprentice of a reknowned blacksmith. However, even after achieving success, she felt unfulfilled and left to visit the city in search of a rare material. Her search led her to to the hololive headquarters, where she was hired as a member.
 * Kaela explained much later after her debut her whole lore is strongly inspired by her real life experience until she joined hololive. The key behind her lore, the rare material she was running after, is in fact "happiness" itself.

Likes and dislikes

 * She spends 40% of her time gaming and 40% swinging hammer. She also likes reading, writing, cooking, and swimming (5% each), and wishes she had the superpower to do all of these at once.
 * Her favorite anime are K-On!, Grave of the Fireflies, and Spirited Away.
 * Her favorite food is bitter food, spicy food, instant noodles, and mushrooms.
 * Her favorite drinks are mineral water, hot tea, soy milk, and bitter gourd juice.
 * Her favorite games are League of Legends, Hearthstone, the original Diablo II, cooking games, party games, and simulator games. She also enjoys Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy.
 * She is a particular fan of Sakura Miko, Tsunomaki Watame for her humor and singing, Oozora Subaru for her entertaining collabs, Mori Calliope for her friendly attitude, Ouro Kronii for her voice, and Ninomae Ina'nis for her drawing skills.
 * She dislikes spiders and lizards.
 * Kaela dislikes big cities and crowded spaces.
 * Her most disliked foods are bean sprouts, dairy products, sweet food, and sweet drinks. She prefers unsweetened drinks.
 * Her least favorite games are memory games and FPS games.

Miscellaneous

 * Her planned content includes a lot of gaming (including tournaments and gaming with viewers), collabs with other VTubers and YouTubers, a talkshow or gameshow, a "Tutorial Chamber," "#Kaelaboration" streams, and a "Pejuang Senin" ("Monday Warriors") stream every Monday morning.
 * Her goals are to inspire people, learn Japanese, reach 777k subscribers, build a positive community, host a lot of talk shows, and have a lot of friends so she can play all the party games in her library.
 * Her dreams are to have an original song, live a worry-free life, finish Getting Over It, collaborate with publishers or developers, set up a proper streaming studio with good internet connection, and finally acquiring the rare crafting material held in the hololive office.
 * Her outfit is inspired by the barong, a mythical creature of Bali, Indonesia.
 * Unfortunately, she is often mistaken for a penguin. This is compounded by her surname's similarity to "Kowalski," which is the name of a penguin character in the Madagascar franchise. Although Kaela is quick to remind viewers that she is not a penguin, she has taken the meme in stride, and even adopted the term "Kaelanalysis" for the title of some streams and as her Minecraft user name (a reference to Kowalski frequently being asked to provide his analysis of a situation or object).
 * Her earring is a metal ingot.
 * At 173 cm, Kaela was the tallest active female hololive member, beating previous record holder Pavolia Reine by 1 cm, until Nerissa Ravencroft, at 175 cm, broke this record.
 * She shares the same illustrator as Suntory Nomu.
 * Her hashtag "ElaonDuty" is inspired by the Teemo's quote "Captain Teemo on Duty," he is a character from the LOL game.
 * She started swimming lessons when she was 3.
 * She played badminton, swam and shot hoops when she was younger.
 * Kaela has gained a reputation among fans for streaming often and for a very long time, to the point that she regularly spends as much time on her regular streams as others would spend on endurance streams. A common remark from fans in other time zones is that they watch Kaela stream before they go to sleep, and when they wake up they find Kaela is still streaming. Anya Melfissa pretends sometimes Kaela is part of hololive EU (standing for Europe).
 * After being coached by Moona, Kaela embraced grinding for materials in Minecraft. Only a few days after their second collab, Kaela even managed to acquire over 20 Elytra, a rare and highly-sought item that can be used to fly. Even Moona, a prolific Minecraft player herself, was awed by Kaela's feat.
 * A running gag between Kaela and her fans is the phrase "Get some help," abbreviated in chat as "GSH," which Kaela uses whenever she reads a comment or superchat that is flirty or off-color.
 * Kaela's silent laugh has been the subject of speculation, with many fans assuming that she mutes herself deliberately or her microphone automatically cancels it out as ambient noise. According to Kaela, her laugh is naturally quiet to begin with and replacing her microphone would not increase its audibility on streams. In some situations, usually collabs, she will laugh hard enough for it to be audible.
 * Kaela admitted she never watches movies, because she is always spending too much time on gaming.
 * She used to play League of Legends for 50 hours straight with only 2 hours of sleep.
 * She considers 69 to be her lucky number.
 * Kaela was nominated hololive ID coolest member and best comedian in 2022.
 * About being best comedian, Kaela keeps denying and rather seeks for Anya's title as most serious one.
 * Aside Indonesian and English, Kaela revealed she took Chinese lessons (in traditional script) around 10 years ago and still conserves few basics, including the bopomofo table.

Media

 * Kaela Kovalskia Ch. hololive-ID - YouTube channel
 * Kaela Kovalskia's corporate profile on hololive.hololivepro.com
 * @kaelakovalskia - Twitter account
 * Kaela Kovalskia hololive ID - Page on Facebook
 * kaelakovalskia - Instagram account
 * @kaelakovalskia - Tiktok account

Twitter hashtags

 * #KaelaKovalskia - General
 * #Kaelaif - Stream talk
 * #PemAloe - Fans
 * #inKaela - Fan art
 * #KaelAttention - Announcement
 * #KaeLaugh - Memes
 * #ElaonDuty - League streams
 * #Kaelaboration - Heart-to-heart streams
 * #ElaMine69 - Minecraft streams

Further readings

 * カエラ・コヴァルスキア - Pixiv Encyclopedia
 * Kaela Kovalskia - Moegirl Encyclopedia
 * 카엘라 코발스키아 - Namu Wiki
 * Kaela Kovalskia - hololive Fan Wiki