RAINA

RAINA (ライナ) is a English-speaking virtual staff member associated with Merryweather Media. While known to occasionally stream on Twitch, she primarily focuses on content production and creative support for other VTubers.

She is the writer and producer for the VShojo comic specials on Twitter. Her production credits on corporate VTuber projects include various VShojo: Mythos videos, "Calli's Christmas Catastrophe" for Mori Calliope, and lore for Doppio Dropscythe and Pavolia Reine. She has also produced, provided storyboard help and/or added direction on projects for Vienna, Girl dm and Lilpoogi.

Profile
Bar/atelier manager who aims to be the hostess with the most-est. Also known as a loremaster/lorekeeper, known for helping to bring her lore clientele's stories to life - but somehow never finding success as an original story creator herself.

The "Reasonably Articulate, Inquisitive, Nonsensical Anthropoid" model - AKA "RAINA" - came into being after a freak accident due to some cryptobro shenanigans; simply put, hardware overload caused an extensive explosion that resulted in a "freak data storm". Over time, the storm settled and coalesced into a humanoid form with the ability to interact with humans. "Call me internet gas turned 2D waifu, y'all."

Background & Appearance
The character RAINA was initially designed and created by her VA, the studio manager at Merryweather Media, as an OC (Original Character) for drawing practice in her spare time. She initially sported a white short-sleeved blouse with a blue pinafore as a nod to her Malaysian heritage. RAINA had white knee-high socks and black loafers, glasses, and rainbow twintails accessorized with white cloth bows.

When the Merryweather Media team decided to more extensively explore VTubing in 2020, Lucius Merryweather and Carillus suggested that the character be turned into a virtual persona that could be used more extensively on social media. During late 2020, Carillus updated the character design, opting to retain the color scheme while refreshing the outfit. The new design retains the white short-sleeved blouse, but adds gold sleeve garters and swaps out the pinafore for a serafuku-inspired waistcoat and a paneled skirt. The collar ribbon was replaced with a red tie containing a gold bunny tie "knot" accessory, and the crossed bobby pins on her bangs were substituted with a graphic X hairclip. The black gloves were removed, and the twintails now sport a suspended angular "RGB gamer girl" hair accessory in place of the hair bows.

RAINA's model was rigged by Soy of Iron Vertex as of April 2021. A formal debut has not been announced, though the completed model has been used during streams.

An additional form, "Gremlin RAINA", was commissioned as a gift by Ziyan Su and produced by chroneco in 2021. The "scuffed" model features a chibi RAINA with oversized twintails that also act as large feet.

Trivia

 * RAINA is the name used by her VA (Cazz) on VTuber-related production and voiceover projects, and the persona she uses when streaming. On social media, Cazz is referred to as "my human", "the landlady", or "the puppeteer" by RAINA on various occasions.