Selen Tatsuki

Selen Tatsuki (セレン 龍月) is an English female Virtual YouTuber affiliated with NIJISANJI EN's second-wave group "OBSYDIA" alongside Rosemi Lovelock and Petra Gurin.

Profile
A sky dragon descended from the moon. She has a gentle heart hidden underneath her mischievous nature, like the glow of the moon on a cloudy night.

Personality
Selen has an energetic, trickster-type personality. She loves to laugh and to make other people laugh. Selen enjoys messing with people, and is more likely to taunt others rather than brag about herself.

She is especially well-known for her skills in Apex Legends. She has a strong love for gaming in general, especially shooters and retro games.

While she often comes off as loud and chaotic, Selen also has a cute, wholesome side that becomes especially noticeable when drawing or making bentos, and has gained a reputation for "gap moe." She's very hardworking and often goes to great lengths to support her fellow EN Livers.

Background
On 30 November 2020, NIJISANJI opened auditions for their new English branch, with the audition period lasting until 15 December. Youtube channels for NIJISANJI EN's second wave were created on 8 July 2021, and their Twitter accounts were also created in July 2021.

NIJISANJI EN's second wave, OBSYDIA, was announced on 14 July 2021, accompanied by a short teaser with the new Livers' designs and voices.

Debut
OBSYDIA began their activities on 18 July 2021 (JST) as part of a special debut program on the NIJISANJI English channel. Selen was the last of the group to debut, with commentary provided by Elira Pendora. Selen's debut stream featured an animated introductory video with remarkable audio production. Her debut was also particuarly memorable due to featuring a joke schedule listing Apex Legends every day of the week.

Afterwards, all three members of OBSYDIA appeared on the main channel. OBSYDIA's first original song, "Black Out", was released shortly after the debut program. The song's composition and lyrics were written by TeddyLoid and the lyrics' story was made by Ryushen.

2021
On 27 July, her Youtube channel was approved for monetization.

On 5 August, she reached 100,000 subscribers on Youtube.

On 14 September, she opened memberships on her Youtube channel.

On 17 September, OBSYDIA's debut celebration voice packs were made available for sale.

On 16 December, she reached 200,000 subscribers on Youtube.

On 19 December, Selen's "First Step Goods" merchandise and Christmas 2021 voice pack went up for sale.

2022
On 1 January, Selen's New Year 2022 voice pack went up for sale.

On 25 February, she reached 250,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel.

On 15 March, Selen's White day 2022 voice pack went up for sale.

On 4 April, she reached 300,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel.

On 22 April, Selen's Sakura Bloom 2022 voice pack and goods went up for sale.

On 13 June, Selen opened a second YouTube channel to host her Twitch VODs.

On 22 June, Selen reached 400,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel. Selen celebrated this occasion with a giving a custom Selen tatsuki Shimeji-ee/Desktop pet to her viewer she coded herself.

On 2 July, Selen's Good night & Good morning 2022 voice pack went up for sale. To commorate this release, she commisioned an unofficial art to pair with the voicepack.

2021

 * On 15 September, Selen participated on Shibuya Hal Custom #38 with Kanae and Qualia Qu as her teammates.
 * On 18 September, Selen participated in Apex Legends Reignite Cup #2 tournament as team "Actual Gold Player" along with Bonnivier Pranaja and Ban Hada. They took 8th place in overall ranking. This team was the first time an entire Apex team was made of three different branches of NIJISANJI.
 * On 15 September, all members of LazuLight and OBSYDIA participated in the "Meltdown" game show on the official NIJISANJI EN channel.
 * On 29 October, she held her first sponsored stream, a pre-release promotion for SEGA's English version of the game "Project Sekai: Colorful Stage! feat. Hatsune Miku."
 * On 22 November, all members of LazuLight, OBSYDIA, and Ethyria participated in the "Ready! Get Set! Clash!" Mario Kart game show on the official NIJISANJI EN channel, with Selen placing 6th overall.
 * On 23 November, Selen participated in Apex Legends Reignite Cup #3 tournament as team "fxxking girl's♡" alongside Qualia Qu and Mitwun. They took 12th place in overall ranking.
 * On 3 December, Selen participated in Apex Legends "Hide and Escape Invintational" tournament hosted by Disguised Toast along with rpr and iPN. They took 2nd place in overall ranking.

2022

 * On 14 January, Selen participated in Apex Legends "OTK Apex Invitational" hosted by OTKNetwork with iPN and brucewayner. They got last place in this tournament.
 * On 25 January, she participated in a promotion for "Princess Connect! Re:Dive" on Crunchyroll-Hime's channel as part of the game's 1st anniversary celebration.
 * On 5 February, Selen participated in Apex Legends Reignite Cup#4 tournament as team "Don't Kill Us" alongside Qualia Qu and Obly . They took 14th place in overall ranking.
 * On 19 May, she participated in a promotion for "PUBG Mobile" during their collaboration with Evangelion alongside Nina, Reimu, and Elira.
 * On 22 May, Selen was part of the merchandise collaboration with Otaku Culture Lab alongside Shu, Vox, Petra, Luca, and Elira.

Relationships

 * OBSYDIA: Selen, Rosemi Lovelock, Petra Gurin
 * Actual Gold Players: Selen, Ban Hada, Bonnivier Pranaja
 * W-key: Selen, Kanae, Qualia Qu
 * Oceanlaw: Selen, Finana Ryugu
 * Nijidads: Selen, Enna Alouette, Vox Akuma, and Fulgur Ovid

Mascot and Fans

 * Selen's companion is named Ember. He is one of her top dragons in training.
 * Her on-stream Streamlabs notifications refer to donations as treats for Ember.
 * When going AFK, she often puts Ember on screen to keep her viewers entertained.
 * Her fans are called "Dragoons".
 * Her membership feature is called "Embership".

Quotes

 * "What a lovely night... for trouble." - debut teaser line
 * "It's ocean law! If it's in the ocean long enough, it's yours!" - while taking other people's belongings in Minecraft
 * "We've been fucking, Vox!"

Identity

 * Race: Lunar Sky Dragon
 * Profession: Dragon Tamer/Racer
 * She can speak English, French, and Chinese (Cantonese/Mandarin). She is also learning Korean.
 * Color: #7E4EAC

Lore

 * According to her introductory video, Selen is a highly decorated racer who also trains other dragons for racing. Although she usually wins first place, she's more interested in the thrill of the race itself and tends to discard her trophies afterwards.
 * Despite her appearance, Selen is half-human and half-dragon. Selen's mother is said to be a dragon, while her father is said to be a human.
 * Selen has the ability to shift between both her dragon and semi-human forms at will. However, she has trouble maintaining her human form, which is why one of her hands still has a draconic appearance.
 * She lives in a cave on a mountain.

Likes and dislikes

 * Likes: Bubble waffles, being awake at 3 in the morning, winning, green tea, cheese.
 * Dislikes: Bugs, animatronics, swimming/the ocean, sunlight, math.
 * Hobbies: Keyboards, volleyball, petting Ember, drawing, making bento boxes.
 * Favorite anime/manga/movies: Keroro Gunso, Aggretsuko, Death Note, Mameshiba, The World Only God Knows, The Liar Game, Panty and Stocking, Kungfu Hustle, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Pretty Cure, Magical Girl Raising Project, and Transformers.
 * Favorite music: Daft Punk, Wonder Girls, Caravan Palace, Maximum the Hormone, and bands/songs with an amazing bass player (musicals, Disney).
 * Favorite games: Spyro trilogy, Heroes of Might and Magic, Starcraft, Apex, GMOD (Trouble in Terrorist Town, Jailbreak), arcade shooters, Splatoon, Pajama Sam & Freddi Fish, Dynasty Warriors, and Zoo Tycoon.
 * Her favorite livers in NIJISANJI are Nun Bora and Yuki Chihiro.
 * She is also a pretty big Pokémon fan with Sylveon being her favorite Pok&eacute;mon due to it having a ribbon as its flesh . She is also into collecting a lot of Pok&eacute;mon merchandise  although she still prefers Digimon over Pokémon.
 * She was a die hard Puella Magi Madoka Magica fan leading her to hunt/collect all Madoka Magica character figures ever released at one point spanning from a phone stand, keychain, to figurine. Though she never played Magia Record nor read the spin off manga.

Weekly Apex Collabs

 * Each week, Selen invites one or two special guests to an Apex Legends collab. These guests are usually well-known Apex players in their own right or at the very least play the game.
 * Generally, Selen tries to alternate between guests within NIJISANJI and from outside NIJISANJI each week.
 * In the video description for each collab, Selen also provides one or two emojis as a hint for the next week's guests.
 * Weekly Apex collabs in "season one":
 * 17 August 2021: Zentreya and Froot
 * 25 August 2021: Bonnivier Pranaja
 * 31 August 2021: Iida Pochi and Qualia Qu
 * 8 September 2021: Lee Siu and Ryu Hari
 * 12 September 2021: Qualia Qu and Tempplex
 * 28 September 2021: Tempplex and Nun Bora
 * 1 October 2021: rpr and TrulySquid
 * 7 October 2021: Mika Melatika and Ha Yun
 * 9 October 2021: Amatsuka Uto and Restya

NIJISANJI Express

 * To celebrate the start of 2022, Selen held a New Year's countdown in VRChat with Rosemi Lovelock and Pomu Rainpuff using unofficial chibi 3D models. During this stream, she revealed a special VRChat world themed after NIJISANJI EN and created under her direction, called the "NIJISANJI Express."
 * During the month of January 2022, the NIJISANJI Express was made accessible to the public. Selen's, Pomu's, and Rosemi's chibi models were also made available for download.
 * On 1 February, the last day that the NIJISANJI Express was accessible to the public, Selen and other EN Livers held an offstream "meet & greet" with fans on the NIJISANJI Express.

Miscellaneous

 * Selen's manager calls her "Salad".
 * Her first tweet was a drawing of all NIJISANJI Livers, from all branches, as dragons or their respective associated animals.
 * Selen confirmed that her past rank in Apex Legends was Top 500 Predator.
 * She has once unironically dumped multiple diamonds into lava in Minecraft.
 * Selen knows a disturbing amount of animal facts, concerning in both numbers and subject matter.
 * Peppa Pig Selen Tatsuki.png's affiliation with Peppa Pig originated from a joke she made during her Halloween Special stream where she played a children's game due to her tendency of getting jumpscared during horror games. Although this started as a joke, she finished the game in one sitting and later played multiple children games though the latter was less iconic.
 * Her NIJISANJI application was quite simple, consisting of a short recording in Windows Movie Maker and an application written in 30 minutes
 * Her editing skills are extremely limited, basically consisting of "opening Windows Movie Maker and going chop chop", which is a reason why she had little confidence for getting into NIJISANJI but was encouraged by her friends and ultimately decided to do so. After proceeding to the next phase of auditions, she researched NIJISANJI in depth to prepare for her interview (e.g., finding past interview questions).
 * Ember Selen Tatsuki Pet.png has an in real life black& tan dachshund dog, which is what her mascot ember correlates to.
 * The length of Selen's neck has become a recurring joke among fans as well as fellow members of NIJISANJI EN. On 17 September 2021, Selen and Elira held a collab with "Dragon Duck Wars," a parody of Battleship featuring ships made out of Selen's and Elira's necks created by their respective fanbases.
 * Off-stream Apex Legends, while Selen Tatsuki was helping her friend to get Master she met and fought against the SSG players (Dropped, Frexs, Xenial), and came out on top killing both Dropped and Xenial by herself. At the time, Dropped was ranked 1, Frexs was ranked 6 & Xenial was ranked 15.
 * Selen wearing a bear hoodie is a recurring theme originated from her Minecraft collaboration with all Obsydia's member due to her not having a custom skin. She picked a bear skin which she embraced, leading to customization/interpretation from fans to her wearing a bear hoodie.
 * She did a comment of the day at the end of her stream
 * Selen used to do choir (with choreography) when she was younger. She was also a theatre kid in middle school and performed in a production of Cats as the school's drama representative at a conference. She switched from performance to lighting and did the lighting for a production at a later conference.
 * Selen mentions playing golf back then.

Media

 * Selen Tatsuki's corporate profile on the official NIJISANJI website
 * Selen Tatsuki 【NIJISANJI EN】 - YouTube channel
 * Selen Tatsuki Twitch VODS 【NIJISANJI EN】 - Twitch VOD archive
 * SelenTatsuki - Twitch channel
 * @Selen_Tatsuki - Twitter account
 * u/Selen_Tatsuki - Reddit account

Twitter hashtags

 * SelenTatsuki - General tag
 * #Tatsutalk - Stream talk
 * #Artsuki - Fan art
 * #Lewdsuki - Fan art (NSFW)
 * #Tatsulaugh - Memes
 * #TatsuTunes - Music suggestions

Further readings

 * Selen Tatsuki (セレン・龍月) - Unofficial NIJISANJI Wiki
 * SelenTatsuki - Pixiv Encyclopedia
 * 龙月Selen - Moegirl Encylopedia
 * Selen Tatsuki 【NIJISANJI EN】 - Wikitubia
 * Selentatsuki.com - Fanmade website