Sigrid and Bird

Sigrid One-Eye and Bird the Robot are a pair of English-language Virtual YouTubers. They stream as a duo known as Sigrid and Bird.

Profile
Sigrid is a multidisciplinary scientist who works in the fields of biology, robotics, and computer-brain-interfaces. Her main focus in the present is robotics, and one day aspires to build a mech. She took the construction of Bird's body as a chance to practice and study humanoid robotics, but lost all the documentation and research afterwards because she accidentally ran a recursive delete command on the drive holding them.

Bird is a sentient AI that stumbled across Sigrid's server farm while traveling through the internet, and took refuge there. From there she befriended Sigrid, who built her body so that they could play and have adventures. Her past is mysterious and her future is her own to build!

Personality
Sigrid is intelligent and gentle. She enjoys teasing Bird, and the two care for each other a great deal. Sigrid often deploys deadpan comedy, and tends to be the straight man to Bird's wise guy.

Bird is hyperactive, careless and ditzy, but in fact is also extremely intelligent, possessing substantial knowledge of science and other fields. She becomes anxious when Sigrid is not around.

Appearance
Sigrid is a tall woman with orange hair that is usually kept in a bun. She has green eyes, although one is missing and replaced with a bionic red eye that shows a seven-segment display. She also wears a pair of safety goggles. One of her arms is also mechanical. She usually wears an orange jumpsuit, but is occasionally seen in a white lab coat.

Bird is a short robot girl with long teal hair that somewhat resembles a pair of wings. Her eyes are teal in color, including the sclera of her eyes. An anime fan, Bird wears a Japanese school uniform style outfit with a red scarf around her neck.

Background
Sigrid One-Eye and Bird the Robot met online at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Sigrid had long wanted to be streamer, collecting games and consoles at garage sales. Bird was extremely shy, and Sigrid suggested that they become a streamer duo in order to help Bird develop her social confidence. They were partly inspired to become VTubers by Amano Pikamee's Let's kill da ho! clip, which appeared in mid-2020.

Each initially had their own Twitch channels. Sigrid's channel, sigridoneeye, was created on 13 November 2017, while Bird's channel birdtherobot was created on 26 September 2020. They originally intended to stream alternately on each other's channels, but decided to consolidate on Sigrid's channel, which was renamed sigridandbird.

The pair began streaming together around the start of 2021 from Bird's laptop with no on-screen models. The first recorded stream featuring the characters of Sigrid and Bird is dated 2 February 2021, where they appear as static images or "PNGTubers".

Sigrid and Bird officially debuted on Twitch 30 July 2021. They revealed their Live2D models in that stream, which reached a peak viewership of 111. An abridged cut of the debut stream was uploaded later that year as Sigrid & Bird: Debut.

2021
On 13 December, Sigrid and Bird celebrated becoming Twitch partner.

In 2021, Sigrid and Bird's top streamed games were Hunt: Showdown, Yakuza 0, and Dark Souls. Their top stream category was Just Chatting.

2022
On 26 June, Bird held a birthday celebration stream. This stream introduced Bee, Sigrid and Bird's antagonist. The duo made collabs with Meat, Coqui, Leaflit and Krimbo.

On 30 June, Bird challenged Tob to a raw egg eating contest. Bird failed to beat her personal best of 12 raw eggs, and barfed attempting to eat a 13th egg. Tob won after managing to keep down 17 eggs.

From 23 December until 3 January, Sigrid and Bird met up in real life.

In 2022, Sigrid and Bird's top streamed categories were Just Chatting, Special Events, Retro, Minecraft, and Hunt: Showdown.

2023
On 3 January, Bird returned home. The duo returned to streaming on 8 January.

On 11 May, the duo introduced a mascot character, Lady Beakerton.

On 27 May, Sigrid debuted a new outfit inspired by Metal Gear Solid, and additional options for a twin-bun hairstyle, an eyepatch, and an electric guitar. She also had a bloodstained option for her orange jumpsuit model, but forgot to reveal it.

Fans

 * Sigrid and Bird's fans are known as Test Subjects. They are also called "testies" for short.

Quotes

 * Sigrid: Hello everybody. My name is Sigrid One-Eye. Bird: And I'm Bird the Robot. Sigrid: I'm a completely sane and morally upstanding scientist. Bird: And I am a bird, and not a robot of any kind. Sigrid: And I'm here to steal your vital organs, but most importantly your heart. Bird: --Your liver!
 * Sigrid: Is Chris Roberts also a Rome Guy? Bird: He might be a Rome Guy. Sigrid: Bird's a Rome Guy. Bird: No, I'm a Byzantine Empire Guy. It's a similar kind of guy, but different. Y'see, the people I rant and rave about have Greek names instead of Latin names.
 * Sigrid: I'm the stupidest person on the planet. Bird: Naw, I'm pretty dumb right now too. I'm losin' my mind! We can lose our minds together. Sigrid: Where is my mind? Bird: Aww, you dropped it.
 * Sigrid: I'm just annoying, I can't help it. Bird: Aw, my 'Grid. Sigrid: Even among annoying weirdos, I'm considered an annoying weirdo. Bird: Okay, you're not as annoying as me. Lets be real. Sigrid: ... Bird: You don't know how to respond, because your answer would be "Yes, I agree." Sigrid: I withhold statment.

Science

 * Sigrid designed and built Bird's robot body.
 * Sigrid claims that due to a lack of funding at the time, she built Bird largely out of the contents of a recycling bin, including tin cans and discarded childrens' toys.
 * Bird's blood type is osmium, a heavy metal. Her outer shell is made of aluminium oxide coated in synthetic skin.
 * Bird runs on a micronized fusion reactor.
 * Sigrid's artificial eye contains a multi-spectral detector which gives her superhuman vision range. She can use it to see Bird's insides, which include greasy cogs. She can also see neutrinos.
 * Sigrid claims that the number in her eye doesn't mean anything. It runs on a Python script.
 * Sigrid also has a mechanical arm.
 * Sigrid is uncertain of her age due to time travel, particle interaction, and travel at relativistic speeds. At one point in April 2021 she was 89 years old. Her blood type changes due to genetic experiments.
 * Bird can speak in Assembly language. She used to program in vi. She also set her Linux terminal to green on black to look like a hacker.
 * Sigrid's laboratory is located in Antarctica.
 * It was Bird's idea to put the lab in Antarctica, because "Antarctica's super cool." Originally, she wanted to put it in space, but suddenly had "a stupid obsession with Antarctica." After it was built there, she changed her mind and wanted to put it in space again.
 * Bird has a charging station in the laboratory. She recharges via the base of her feet.
 * There is a third character named Bee, a representative of the US government who occasionally visits the lab to harass Sigrid and Bird for not paying their taxes or failing to obey health and safety legislation.

Likes and dislikes

 * Bird likes knives, puppies, robot uprisings, and Sigrid.
 * Bird dislikes humanity, and horror movies, which she describes as "sitting there and waiting to be upset".
 * Sigrid likes mechs, anime, video games, music, cooking, gardening, guns, and bonsai.
 * Sigrid dislikes poor scientific methodology and naysayers.
 * Bird isn't poisoned by aluminium, but she doesn't like it.
 * Sigrid is a big fan of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
 * Bird's favorite game is A Hat in Time. She has never streamed it because she 100%-ed it off-stream already.
 * Bird is a fan of the manga/anime Princess Tutu and Made in Abyss.
 * Sigrid is a fan of YouTube Shorts. She often tortures Bird by forcing her to watch them on stream.

Bird goofs

 * Bird once shot a staple gun at her eye, but it was deflected by her glasses. Initially, the staple gun fired so fast that she thought it wasn't working, so she pointed it at her face. "I thought it about after I did it."
 * Bird bought a set of lockpicks but lost some of them after putting them in her ear.
 * Bird lost the key to her gun case, and held a lockpicking stream to open it. She gave up and cut the case open with garden shears. When she went to put the gun away, she spilled Monster energy drink over her router and her Internet disconnected. She does not own any ammunition for her gun.
 * Bird bought a dishwasher and was confused where the water went after the wash was done. It turned out that she was supposed to have connected an outlet hose, and it was just leaking over the back of her kitchen.
 * When moving the dishwasher toward the sink for the outflow hose, it fell into the sink. When she tried to stop it, knives fell out and she cut her hand.
 * Bird had rats in her kitchen, but couldn't manage to get rid of them. She decided to just surrender the kitchen to the rats.
 * Bird enjoyed the taste of super-sour candy, so she bought bags of the active ingredients, anhydrous malic acid and citric acid, and ate spoonfuls of it.
 * Bird once mistook a drop of sweat for a spider and flicked it, but inadvertently cut herself with her fingernail.
 * Bird bought skatole, the chemical which is reponsible for poop smell, and baked a cake with it on stream.
 * Bird doesn't towel off after a shower. She just lies down in bed and waits for the water to evaporate. Sigrid says she smells like a wet dog.
 * Bird used to run head-first at the wall as a joke.
 * Bird used to put her head near a malfunctioning microwave oven until she felt dizzy.
 * When Bird was little, she pronounced "pizza" as "peebish."
 * Bird has an entire room at her house that is full of cardboard boxes that she hasn't thrown out yet.
 * Bird left a bottle of whiskey out and flies got into it. She didn't want to drink it because it had flies floating in it, so she switched to vodka. She left the whiskey open as a flytrap and it caught a lot of flies.

Miscellaneous

 * Sigrid's design was partly inspired by the cyberpunk aesthetic of Cyberpunk 2077, which was released in December 2020.
 * The seven segment display bionic eye was an earlier idea of hers. In retrospect, Sigrid suspects she may have been subconsciously inspired by the character Enzo from Reboot, who loses his right eye.
 * Sigrid's orange jumpsuit was inspired by a similar one worn by Nikaido from the anime Dorohedoro.
 * Bird's name was inspired by the character Duck in Princess Tutu. She shares the same height.
 * Sigrid's name was inspired by a character named Sigurd in Crusader Kings, which Bird included when reading out names appearing in the game.
 * Sigrid has noted her similarities to Odin, a figure from Norse mythology. Odin also has one eye, speaks to birds, is called "mad," collects the bodies of the dead, and has the ability to bring artificially built humans to life. Sigrid's name is also that of a valkyrie, the maidens who serve Odin. However, the similarity is a coincidence.
 * Sigrid speaks English, French, and is learning Japanese.
 * Bird often refers to Sigrid by endearing nicknames like "my 'grid." She also sometimes puts the emphasis on "grid" in "Sigrid."
 * Sigrid and Bird both believe that aliens are real.
 * Early in their streaming career, Sigrid and Bird once applied to join hololive together, but were not accepted. Sigrid later said she would not have joined hololive except as a duo with Bird.

Media

 * SigridAndBird - Twitch Channel
 * Sigrid And Bird - YouTube Channel
 * SigBird - YouTube channel (secondary)
 * Sigrid And Bird VODs - YouTube VODs archive
 * @sigridoneeye - Sigrid's Twitter account
 * @BirdTheRobot - Bird's Twitter account

Twitter hashtags

 * #SigandBirdart - Fan art
 * #LeaksFromTheLab - Fan art (18+)

Statistics

 * SigridAndBird - TwitchTracker stats
 * SigridAndBird - SullyGnome Twitch stats
 * SigridAndBird - Social Blade Twitch stats