Nerissa Ravencroft

Nerissa Ravencroft (ネリッサ・レイヴンクロフト) 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, Fuwawa Abyssgard and Mococo Abyssgard.

Profile
"Ah, the beautiful resonance of idol songs..."

With a deep love of song, Nerissa Ravencroft is "The Demon of Sound." Her powerful love turned into a dark power that inhabited her singing, giving her music the potential to drive the entire world mad. The gods, fearful of her beautiful voice, decided to seal her away for eternity, but this did not seal away her desire to sing for others. While she was sealed away, she came across Japanese otaku culture, and is currently fascinated by idol songs and penlights. Maybe her life imprisoned wasn't all that bad.

Appearance
Nerissa has black long straight hair with a blue inner side decorated with silver and golden ornaments on her left. She used to have two symmetrical horns, but due to her powers the right one was cut. Her horns have a blue internal layer covered with a black one that can take the shape of musical notes near their base. Her horns are also decorated with black flowers. Nerissa has light purple eyes and a beauty mark below the left one.

Nerissa wears a striped shoulderless white shirt decorated with a black bow and a ruffled collar. The sleeves are covered with black fabric and resemble feathers at the edges, she wears black gloves. She has a sleeveless, layered coat tied together with three crossed belts below her chest. She wears assymetrical high boots, the right one has a diamond pattern. Nerissa can also carry a giant decorated with the same flowers as her horns. Her raven mascot Shadow can also stand in her right shoulder.

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.

Nerissa's audition consisted of a segment where she chatted with the listener in a familiar tone, followed by a sample of her singing ability. She was overwhelmed when she learned she had been successful.

Nerissa Ravencroft's YouTube and Twitter accounts were originally created on 11 May 2023, although they contained no content at this point.

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, Nerissa also posted a short teaser video on her YouTube channel and made her first tweet, saying "Ope?!"

Nerissa's Twitter and YouTube accounts were accidentally discovered by some fans several hours prior to the official announcement, although they had no profile pictures or content yet. Her YouTube account received over a thousand subscribers before its official launch. Additionally, the mouseover preview on the Wanted! PV on YouTube accidentally revealed Nerissa's name, title, and appearance ahead of time.

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

Debut
Nerissa Ravencroft's debut stream took place on 31 July at 12:00 noon to 12:45PM JST (Monday 30 July from 8:00 PM to 8:45 PM PDT. Her debut was attended by over 107,000 viewers at peak. It was followed by the release of her first cover, the Vocaloid song "Love Me, Love Me, Love Me", with English lyrics written by herself.

In hololive tradition, this was followed by the generation all-member group collab stream. This was in turn followed by the release of their first group song, "Rebellion."

2023
On 1 August, Nerissa reached 300,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel during her first solo stream, where she played game Unpacking.

On 6 August, she celebrated her YouTube channel monetization and also enabled Super Chat feature.

On 14 August, Nerissa reached 400,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel.

On 30 August, Nerissa's YouTube channel was open for membership.

Discography

 * Main article: Nerissa Ravencroft/Discography

Mascots and Fans

 * Nerissa's mascot is a raven named Shadow.
 * Her fans are known as Jailbirds. They are depicted as fluffy dark blue demon birds.

Name

 * Nerissa is a female given name, probably derived from Ancient Greek etymology, meaning "sea-nymph." It is believed to have been invented by William Shakespeare for his play The Merchant of Venice.
 * Ravencroft is a surname of English origin. The raven is a black bird said to symbolize death. "Croft" is a suffix appearing in surnames that originally meant a plot of land, or an underground crypt.
 * "Croft" could also be a pun on "crow," a black bird similar to a raven; or the Japanese "kuro," meaning "black."
 * She writes her name in western order, with the given name first.
 * She writes her name in katakana, normally 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.
 * Nerissa's beautiful singing voice held the power to drive people to insanity. The gods broke her horn, which limited her power. The other part of it still exists somewhere, but she does not know where. Now people can safely listen to her singing.
 * Later in a collab stream, Shiori revealed that she knew where the part of horn was, but she didn't say because Nerissa didn't ask. Shiori is a person who knows many things including forbidden info, maybe on the journey of searching, archiving, she accidentally found where the gods hid Nerissa's part of horn.
 * For a long time while she was sealed away in The Cell, she didn't want to sing at all. During this time, listened to a lot of Touhou music.
 * Nerissa has two weapons: her tuning fork staff, which she used to stun the guards to make her escape, and a microphone.
 * Hanging from a keychain at her hip is the master key of the cell she stole from the guards when they escaped in case they were caught.
 * She is a demon, but also a raven. She loves to collect shiny things, and is fond of Koseki Bijou as a result.
 * Nerissa describes herself as being "old enough to drink alcohol". She later expanded on this, claiming that she was in The Cell for 9,000 years.

Likes and dislikes

 * She likes traveling, foraging mushrooms, shiny things, eating, horror, and rainy days.
 * Her favorite soups are chicken with gnocchi, and chicken with wild rice.
 * Her favorite food is pepperoni and pineapple pizza, ice cream, chocolate, and Korean barbecue. She especially likes Korean barbecue, because it allows her to cook for her friends.
 * Nerissa hobbies are: cooking, watch musicals, collecting jewelry, (not) playing the bass (she explained that she has it but she doesn't play it often) and skincare.
 * Her favorite music is 80's music, Touhou music, sadtimes&trade; music, idol music (including Idolm@aster and Love Live!), Eurobeat, K-Pop, anime theme music, choir, classical, video game music, Studio Ghibli music, and weird music.
 * Her favorite musical artists include The Smiths, IOSYS, Jack Stauber, TM Revolution, Florence and the Machine, Evanescence, My Chemical Romance, and Fallout Boy.
 * Her favorite games are Nintendo games (Legend of Zelda, Story of Seasons, Mario, etc), Final Fantasy VII, Haunting Ground, Higurashi, and Umineko.
 * Her favorite anime are Higurashi: When They Cry, Naruto, Sailor Moon, Peach Girl, Macross, Clannad, Love Live!, IdolM@STER, and Jujutsu Kaisen.
 * Her favorite movies are Perfect Blue, Spirited Away, and The Princess Bride.
 * Her favorite Pokémon are the Eevee evolutions, and her favorites of those are Sylveon and Vaporeon.
 * She is a big fan of Houshou Marine and Takanashi Kiara, and self-described KFP member. She owns a lot of Kiara merch, including the Smol Kiara plush (which she takes with her even when she travels) and the Kiara cuddle blanket. She also owns the Marine plush and three Marine figures (the Nendoroid, Pop Up Parade, and Relax Time Marine), and the only reason she doesn't own the Kiara Pop Up Parade figure too is that didn't have room for it.
 * She dislikes underwear, eating mushrooms, polyester, ice water, and driving. She doesn't wear underwear, and usually goes "no-pan." She can drive, but doesn't like to, because she can fly.
 * Her goals are to collab with everyone in hololive, make an original album, do a lot of voice acting, sing an anime opening or ending theme, make a Vocaloid-style synthesizer of her voice, reach 500,000 subscribers, and to become fluent in Japanese.
 * She plans to produce mainly gaming, zatsudan, music, and voice acting content.
 * Her favorite hololive songs are Houshou Marine's I'm Your Treasure Box and Unison, and Takanashi Kiara's DO U.
 * Her favorite color is blue.

Miscellaneous

 * At 175 cm (5'9"), Nerissa is the tallest member of hololive English at her debut, as well as the tallest member of hololive overall.
 * The previous tallest hololive English member was retired Council member Tsukumo Sana, at 169 cm. However, with her limiter removed, Sana could reach a height of 1,697,840 km tall. Following Sana's retirement, the tallest EN member had been Ouro Kronii, at 168 cm (5'6").
 * Nerissa is two centimeters taller than hololive Indonesia's Kaela Kovalskia, who is 173 cm and who was the previous tallest member of hololive overall.
 * Her emoji, 🎼, is a musical score with a . Her outfit also reflects musical notation; a bass clef appears on her hair clip, her belt buckle, the white wing of her dress, and her staff. Her staff also resembles a tuning fork, although it can also take the form of a microphone.
 * In the group debut PV, the end of her title "The Demon of Sound" was covered by her character model, leading fans to nickname her "The Demon of Soup", a name she easily accepted.
 * Nerissa is the only member of -Advent- to have a weapon, her staff. The FUWAMOCO twins also have claw weapons, but it is their natural weapon since they are demon dogs.
 * Despite being bird-themed, Nerissa was not automatically invited into HOLOTORI, a group formed of fellow bird members Takanashi Kiara, Oozora Subaru, Pavolia Reine, Nanashi Mumei and Takane Lui. This may be because HOLOTORI began performing together as a unit in 3D events, and as a new member Nerissa would not gain her 3D model for some time. Kiara noted that while she is indeed a holobird, and has been in communication with the other members of HOLOTORI, they need to wait for management approval before being integrated as an official member.
 * She speaks some Japanese, knowing around 2,000 Japanese words, and can read around 1,000 kanji. However, she is not fluent. In her debut, she claimed to be able to read 2,000 kanji, but this was later corrected in episode 7 of Fuwamoco Morning.
 * She wakes at 11 am most days.
 * Nerissa has two older sisters, the eldest who she refers to as "Oneerissa" aka "Malpha", and "Anerissa" aka "Aradia". Both sisters made a guest appearance in one of her unarchived karaoke streams where they performed songs alongside her.

Media

 * Nerissa Ravencroft Ch. hololive-EN - YouTube channel
 * Nerissa Ravencroft's corporate profile on hololive.hololivepro.com
 * @nerissa_en - Twitter account

Twitter hashtags

 * #RissaLIVE - Stream tag
 * #RavenCrafts - Art tag
 * #RissaMusic - Music tag
 * #MemeRissa - Meme tag