Fulgur Ovid

Fulgur Ovid (ファルガー・オーヴィド) is a male English Virtual YouTuber affiliated with NIJISANJI EN's fifth wave "Noctyx", alongside Sonny Brisko, Uki Violeta, Alban Knox, and Yugo Asuma.

Profile
A Cyborg from the future with unparalleled strength. His body is partly cold steel, and who's to say if he has a heart?

Personality
Fulgur initially played the part as a dead serious "edgelord" character on debut, but quickly revealed a more natural side of himself afterwards. Nowadays, Fulgur is more straightforward, relaxed, sarcastic, and more than occasionally unhinged. He has a tendency to laugh very easily, and often displays a dramatic and dorky side. However, he occasionally reuses his original Legatus persona for dramatizations or roleplay.

Appearance
Fulgur has a red line over his left eye that bears resemblance to an ECG. The slogans on Fulgur's jacket and belts are saikyō, jōnetsu, justice, and cyborg (written in leetspeak). He has a device called a NetJack attached to the front of his belt.

Background
On 18 June 2021, NIJISANJI EN opened two sets of auditions, one of which was specifically for male Livers. The male-specific auditions lasted until 1 August.

On 22 February 2022, NIJISANJI EN announced the upcoming debut of its fifth wave, "Noctyx", accompanied by a teaser featuring the new Livers' designs and voices.

Fulgur's YouTube channel was created on 7 February 2022, and his Twitter account also created in the same month. His first tweet was made on 22 February 2022.

Debut
Noctyx made their debuts on 27 February 2022 (JST) as part of a special debut program hosted on the NIJISANJI EN channel, with commentary provided by Reimu Endou and Ike Eveland. Fulgur was the fourth of the group to debut. Afterwards, all five members of Noctyx appeared on the main channel.

An original song sung by Noctyx, "Stuck in The Abyss", was released shortly after the debut program. The lyrics and music were by MATZ and BBY NABE, and the song was produced by the former.

2022
On 12 March, Fulgur opened memberships on his YouTube channel.

On 21 March, Fulgur reached 100,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel.

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

On 24 May, Fulgur reached 200,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel and 300,000 followers on his Twitter account.

On 28 May, Fulgur congratulated VirtuaReal on their third anniversary during their special program.

On 24 July, Fulgur reached 300,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel.

On 19 August, Fulgur appeared on Ironmouse's talk show, Speak of the Devil.

On 22 August, Fulgur announced that he would be debuting on bilibili with a Q&A stream discussing donghua on 26 August. He also reached 100 captains on bilibili the same day.

On 26 August, the day of his bilibili debut stream, Fulgur reached 1000 captains on bilibili.

On 16 October, Fulgur released his first original song, "Legatus 505", via TuneCore and an accompanying music video on YouTube. The song and music video are related to his Legatus 505 lore.

2023
On 27 February, Fulgur released an instrumental version of his second original song "Enshrouding" which is related to the Archivist 404 lore.

On 2 May, NIJISANJI EN's official Twitter announced that Fulgur would be going on hiatus for health reasons. A return date was not determined at the time, but the announcement indicated that Fulgur would provide further updates on Twitter when possible.

He eventually returned to streaming officially on June 4th but was active on Twitter earlier and was doing collabs.

2022

 * On 24 June 2022, a Sweets Paradise collaboration involving Noctyx and Ranunculus was announced, running from 1 July to 7 August.
 * On 13 July 2022, Fulgur announced that he and Uki Violeta would be attending Animation-Comic-Game Hong Kong 2022 as guests holding a panel on 1 August, which was also later streamed live on YouTube.
 * On 24 July 2022, Fulgur announced that he and Uki Violeta would be attending Owlby Animate and Comic Show 2022 as guests holding a a panel on 27 August.

2023

 * On 14 January, Noctyx attended ANIME Impulse LA 2023 as guests, where they held meet & greet sessions and a Q&A panel designated #QandAbyss.

Mascot and Fans

 * Fulgur has two fanmade sheep mascots: Bleep Bleep the Censorsheep and Sheero the Fundansheep. The former's name is derived from bleep, censorship, and sheep while the latter is from sheep, shiro (white), and fudanshi.
 * Fulgur's fans are called Comfydants, a portmanteau of comfy and confidant.
 * Fulgur's YouTube membership is called Membaaasheep, a portmanteau of membership, baa, and sheep.

Quotes

 * "Come in, do you read me?" - Debut teaser
 * "Don't be led astray, my Comfydants, and I will catch you next time." - Stream outro
 * "This is fine."
 * "Don't worry about it..."

Relationships

 * "Noctyx" - Fulgur, Sonny Brisko, Uki Violeta, Alban Knox, and Yugo Asuma. They are debut-mates.
 * Twitter hashtags: #Noctyx
 * "PsyBorg" (aka "CyChic") - Fulgur and Uki Violeta.
 * They are sometimes referred to as the mom and dad of Noctyx.
 * Twitter hashtags: #PsyBorg, #CyChic
 * "LAM Bros" - Fulgur, Vox Akuma, and rpr. These three were designed by LAM. Initially a duo consisting of Vox and Fulgur until rpr made his vtuber debut.
 * "NijiChaos" - Fulgur, Vox Akuma, Mysta Rias, and Millie Parfait.
 * "NijiDads/NijiCancelled" - Fulgur, Vox Akuma, Selen Tatsuki, and Enna Alouette during their Trial By Trolley collab.
 * "NijiBitter" - Fulgur, Kyo Kaneko, Enna Alouette and Ren Zotto.

Trivia

 * Color: #FF0000
 * He's bisexual.
 * Fulgur Ovid's name is derived from the Latin terms fulgur (lightning) and ovis (sheep) and is also a reference to a cyberpunk novel and a Roman poet: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep and Ovid.
 * Fulgur's Fuu-chan nickname first appeared in a Tweet reply from Yugo on 22 February 2022. Yugo used this nickname since he had trouble pronouncing Fulgur Ovid, but it is now widely used by many and arguably more than Fulgur's actual name.
 * Fulgur has also stated that Fuu-chan is short for fudanshi.
 * Uki commonly refers to Fulgur as Fuufuu-chan. He derived this nickname from Fuu-chan, which was originally coined by Yugo, "because [Fuufuu-chan] sounds cuter".
 * Fulgur shares his character designer with Vox Akuma of NIJISANJI EN, Kureiji Ollie of hololive Indonesia, and independent VTubers Ganba Ruuko, BakenVT, and rpr.
 * LAM also illustrated Kujo Ringo, Kujo Natsume, Kujo Anzu, Kujo Lychee and VAV AI.

Lore

 * His debut lore video presented him as a "Legatus", a cyborg super-soldier working for a post-apocalyptic city-state. However, Fulgur later revealed that this was all just an elaborate roleplay to mess with Vox, and that he's actually just an ordinary person with cyborg body parts who works as an archivist.
 * As an archivist, Fulgur looks through history and collects novels, several of which are visible on his bookshelf.
 * His debut roleplay was based off his old TTRPG character named Legatus, who he describes as a "murder hobo." He intends to continue the story of Legatus through a regular series of ARG streams.

Likes and dislikes

 * Likes: Literature, plants, art and animation, TTRPGs, ARGs
 * Two of the flowers in Fulgur's room are love-lies-bleeding and wolf's-bane.
 * Dislikes: Cooking, schedules, storylines with asspulls
 * Contrary to what he claimed in his debut, he doesn't actually dislike people unless he's in character as Legatus.
 * Favorite movies:
 * Director-specific: Tetsuya Nakashima (Memories of Matsuko, The World of Kanako, Confessions), Sion Sono (Tag, Why Don't You Play in Hell?, Love Exposure, Cold Fish, Suicide Club), Takashi Miike (so many), Satoshi Kon (Milennium Actress, Perfect Blue, Paprika, Tokyo Godfathers) Denis Villeneuve (Arrival, Prisoners, Dune, Blade Runner 2049), Alex Garland (Sunshine, Annihilation, Ex Machina, Dredd, Never Let Me Go), Taika Waititi (What We Do in the Shadows, Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Thor Ragnarok)
 * Others: The Prestige, 5cm/s. Voices of a Distant Star, Mr. Nobody, Fight Club, Team America: World Police, Robocop, Upgrade, Starship Troopers
 * Favorite anime: Mushishi, Saikano, Saezuru Tori wa Habatakanai, GANTZ, Senyuu, Ergo Proxy, Angel Beats!, TEXHNOLYZE, Banana Fish, Jigoku Shoujo, Dokyuusei, Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou, Hai to Gensou no Grimgar, Shinsekai Yori, Death Parade, Ghost in the Shell, Asobi Asobase, Gabriel Dropout, Seitokai Yakuindomo, Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun, Mushoku Tensei, Suka Suka
 * Favorite donghua: The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, Scum Villain's Self-Saving System, Heaven Official's Blessing, Beryl and Sapphire, The King's Avatar, Fog Hill of Five Elements, Fox Spirit Matchmaker, The Legend of Luo Xiaohei, All Saints Street, White Cat Legend, The Daily Life of the Immortal King, Link Click, Ling Cage, Alita's Trial, Fairy's Tales, Scissor Seven, To be Heroine
 * Favorite games: The Legend of Zelda, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Star Ocean, Fire Emblem, Final Fantasy, Batman Arkham, Danganronpa, Shin Megami Tensei, Rune Factory, Pandora's Tower, Resonance of Fate, Alundra, Zone of the Enders, Hades, 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim, Among Us, Valorant, Overwatch

Miscellaneous

 * Fulgur plans to never celebrate his birthday (e.g., in the form of a birthday stream).
 * Fulgur has hinted at having Irish ancestry.
 * He's a dog person.
 * His rice purity score is 29.
 * Millie Parfait once made a Fulgur Ovid fancam which appeared in her "appreciation" stream for him.
 * He used to be a bartender at one point.
 * When speaking Japanese, he calls himself watashi or ore.
 * If asked, he will freely admit that he rarely wears underwear.
 * Fulgur was a pre-medical student and is thus knowledgeable about the human body.
 * He has a very distinctive laugh, a high-pitched wheeze often compared to a teakettle.

Media

 * Fulgur Ovid's corporate profile on the official NIJISANJI website
 * Fulgur Ovid 【NIJISANJI EN】 - YouTube channel
 * Fulgur-Official - bilibili channel
 * @Fulgur_Ovid - Twitter account
 * @fulgur_ovid - Marshmallow account
 * u/Fulgur_Ovid - Reddit account
 * Legatus505 - Blogger blog

Twitter hashtags

 * #FulgurOvid - General tag
 * #FulgurOvidHere - Live tag
 * #FulGallery #Artchivist/#Legartus - Fan art tags
 * #VulgarOvid #Cybussy - NSFW tag
 * #FullGirthOvid #Fulguma - Meme tag
 * #FulgurOvidius #Fulfic - Fiction tag
 * #FulgurOVideos #OVideos - Clip tag
 * #FulGalleryTN #FoYoVid - Thumbnail tag
 * #Legatus505 - Legatus 505 story tag
 * #Comfydants - Fans' tag
 * #FulAss - Stream asset tag