Alpha Aniki

Alpha Aniki a.k.a. Alphonse Mackenzie, is an augmented futuristic drummer and aspiring Rockstar. He lives in Tokyo in 2123 and streams into the past on twitch thanks to the slime from his companion, Klawed. Klawed is a tiny and adorable pink, grey and blue Snailien who lives off glizzies and communicates via telepathy with Alpha, through TTS, and with noises that sound suspiciously like Animal Crossing characters. Klawed is an S-rank wingman and is a beloved character on TikTok (much to Alpha's salty chagrin). Visually, Alpha has dark purple hair (he has described it as "Raven coloured") with pink lowlights, a beauty mark, an eye scar, a cybernetic eye and arm, and multiple tattoos. In Alpha's words, he is "the best big brother you never had". This moniker is less about dispensing wisdom and being overprotective than it is about having fun, causing shenanigans, and playing video games. He is also the drummer and vocalist in the band "Midnight Howl", his rock band from 2123.

Alpha may or may not be voiced and piloted by acclaimed voice actor Jonah Scott, but he prefers to keep the two identities their own separate thing. Alpha says that Jonah is his upstairs neighbour (sometimes landlord depending on the day) and he stole his twitch channel from him.

Personality
Alpha appreciates all things classic rock; Route 66, vinyl records, hair metal, prog rock, and lots of analog (for him) recorded music. Despite his insistence on this hard rocker exterior with a tough, confident, flirtatious persona, Alpha is as sweet as fancy 2123 future space candy. He reads the chat scroll at a near inhuman speed, and makes all newcomers to the stream feel welcomed and engaged with. When Alpha has a guest on, or is a guest on another stream, he always makes his guests feel at home and comfortable and keeps conversation flowing effortlessly. Despite streaming sometimes having to take a back seat to real life or other outside projects, he never misses a collaboration, and brings high energy and infectious laughter to every stream he participates in.

Background
Not much is known for certain about Alpha's history, family, or why he has the cybernetics (arm & eye). Rather than a more traditional Vtuber launch with a mini lore video or comic, Alpha opted to launch with a teaser video and a debut stream. More lore will be released in the very near future, as a 100 page graphic novel is currently in the works, with official Kickstarter pre-orders set to start in 2023. Example pages have been shown on stream, and small mini comics by Viera B. have been released as sub goals have been achieved. Alpha is also accepting donations via his Streamlabs to help offset some of the novel costs, given the scale of the art and work planned is very extensive.

The music that has been currently released-Neon Fire and Hype Beast (and the next planned songs) are set after the events of the graphic novel, although there are no specific plot points revealed in the songs that will spoil the contents of the novel. Concept art and some earlier sketches show Alpha in various stages, with the cybernetic arm remaining constant, as he has had it since age 13; although the circumstances surrounding how he lost the arm in the first place have yet to be released.

Some minor lore tidbits been partially confirmed in some streams, mostly regarding the other VTubers/Content Creators who live in the same time and city as Alpha (2123 and Tokyo).


 * CyYuVTuber is Alpha's "ripper doc" who maintains Alpha's Cybernetic Arm
 * CL/Ciel is a recent arrival to Future Japan, and is the "live in sound tech for several rock bands", which while not listed by name is hinted to be Midnight Howl
 * NateTheMoth/Lepido Lamplight is involved with a Cafe in Future Tokyo, in what capacity it hasn't been fully discussed yet
 * Joe/JM_Bad is a waitress in KaiKen's "Rocking Takoyaki Bar" (the Takoyaki place where Alpha works), and staying CL's guest room
 * Kaimeriss is a chimera and possibly involved with a Cat Cafe in Future Tokyo

Events and Collaborations
Guest appearances and major events edit, some lore added

2022

 * August
 * August 29th, LewdCast #17 guest on Projekt Melody (appearing as Jonah Scott)
 * November
 * November 24th,Teaser and voice trailer dropped
 * November 26th, Alpha Debut
 * December
 * December 15th, "Creating the Next Generation of Vtubers (ft. Jonah Scott)" Guest on Drawfee
 * December 16th, "Drawing Alpha fan art" hosted Karina Farek/Dilfosaur (Drawfee) as a guest on Stream
 * December 16th, "Why Anime Voice Actors are becoming VTubers Ft. Jonah Scott aka AlphaAniki" guest on Rant Cafe

2023

 * January
 * January 18, "A Special Mimsday! Ft. Alpha" guest on Mimcubus' stream
 * January 21, "Whose Line is it Anyway" hosted in VRChat by SkyeFire, collaborating with Phia, Thrillseeker, and MrCreepyPasta
 * January 23, "Cafe Night ft. Alpha Aniki" guest on Royzoga's stream


 * February
 * February 12, "DATE SHOW" Guest on El_xox's stream (won the date show!)
 * February 13, "YOU CAN'T ESCAPE ME!!! Walkies with AlphaAniki" Guest on DayumDahlia's stream
 * February 23, "Alpha goes to Art School with Karina and Spencer" hosted Karina Farek/Dilfosaur and Spencer Wan on Alpha's stream
 * February 24, [Vexoria 18+ VTUBER DATE NIGHT TIER LIST! LETS GOOO!] Was not a guest on stream but was Ranked #2 Hottest Date by Vexoria
 * February 25, "Whose Line is it Anyway [ w/ BardicRJ, Truckchan, and Klace ]" on Alpha's Stream


 * March
 * March 6, "Cafe Night ft. Syllaaria, Hiiragiyuu & AlphaAniki" guest on Royzoga's stream
 * March 7, "Party Stream!!!! With: Alpha Aniki, KMRS, NateTheMoth and MORE!" (Kaimeriss and Joe/JM_Bad Art) guest on CL/Ciel/StrangeBox's Stream

Future Projects

 * Voice acting for Projekt Melody-A Nut Between Worlds (TBD)

Mascot
Klawed Mackenzie, a.k.a. Klawed is Alpha's best friend and near constant companion. He is a "snailien", and differs from traditional earth snails in both his level of intellect and where his eyeballs are located. Klaweds eyes are on the front of his face above tiny blush marks (adorable) while typical terrestrial snails have theirs on top of stalks (gross, but pragmatic). As mentioned before, he communicates telepathically with Alpha, via a TTS function, and a communicator that sounds almost identical to various Animal Crossing characters. Despite Alpha's insistence at his youth, Klawed is over 100 years old. Klawed hangs out on Alpha's shoulder and is also animated in tandem with Alpha, as the two will squint, look the same direction or at each other, and move their mouths at the same time-though Klaweds motions are much more subtle. He also puts away glizzies (hot dogs) at a nearly breakneck pace when Alpha isn't paying attention.

Klawed has streamed solo when Alpha has had to attend band practice, with chat keeping an eye on him while he games. While he isn't allowed to play too many adult games, chat tends to look the other way (but don't tell Alpha).

After consuming too many Glizzies, Klawed will divide into another snailien. Whether this is a clone or a copy seems to change week to week. These other Klawed's will go visit other streamer friends of Alphas or make unexpected appearances online. Klawed is a good Snailien but does seem to find himself in mischief from time to time, like the time he visted DayumDahila on her stream and wrecked shop, or when Alpha guested on her stream with Klawed in tow only to have him break the entire hotel room, and then run freely around the streets of Tokyo.

In addition to streaming with Alpha, he currently hangs out with TruckChan on her shoulder, promoting Alpha's song Neon Fire on a tiny banner.

Musical Career-Midnight Howl
Alpha makes no secret of his goal to be "The Worlds Greatest Rockstar", and he plays and practices with his band Midnight Howl to make that happen. Currently he is the bands drummer, vocalist, and best dressed member. He has a near encyclopedic knowledge of rock music from 1970-1980 and that influence can be found in the bands singles (but the sound is all their own).

Other members of the band are Fleas (bassist), Clapton (Vocalist and Guitars), and Jimi (Lead Guitar). The information for each of them is taken from the images provided during the band announcements on Twitter, but has been typed out for readability here.

Outside of fiction, Midnight Howl is produced by Isaak Wolf. There is some discussion about having Isaak appear as an in Universe character but nothing has been fully confirmed.

The next song set to release is "Neon Glow" with a total of twelve songs to be released in the coming year.

Fleas (he/him)-Bassist
Real Name: Angus Thrando-Murphy (Inspired by Fleas of the RHCP)

Age: 29 (February 5th)

Height: 6'5" (196 cm)

Blood Type: A-

Species: ET (Canidaelien)

Likes: Cats, Sudoku, hiking, weight-lifting, house plants (especially orchids), rock collecting

Dislikes: People taking things too seriously, people not taking things seriously enough, boba

Special Skill and notes: He's a really good cook and has two kids; Jasper (5) and Flint (7). It's been hinted that Alpha might babysit for him sometimes but this is unconfirmed. Alpha's chat is currently contesting one another for his affections.

Jimi (he/they)-Lead Guitar
Real Name: "Jimi" Watanabe (Inspired by Jimi Hendrix)

Age: 26 (July 9th)

Height: 5'7" (168 cm)

Blood Type: O+

Species: Human

Likes: Alt fashion, shoes, comics, video games, retrofuturism, dance (is trained in ballet)

Dislikes: Conflict! Also being forced to dress all stuffy

Special Skill and notes: The ability to befriend literally anybody, and the oldest of five children (he loves kids)

Clapton (he/him)-Vocalist and Rhythm Guitar
Real Name: Richard Takenaka (Inspired by Eric Clapton)

Age: 27 (November 11th)

Height: 6'0" (183 cm)

Blood Type: A-

Species: Human

Likes: Tattoos, hats, old tech, "doing things by hand", poetry, time alone to unwind

Dislikes: People being wishy-washy, loud noise that he isn't responsible for, stuff that's needlessly high-tech, spicy food

Special Skill and notes: He's good at fixing things. He has a lot of tats' but kind of lacks fashion sense. More importantly he's Alpha's ex.

Rockstar Graphic Novel
An Alpha comic is currently in the works! Stop by the stream and/or the Discord for more info and updates on when it releases! Also, check out the artists behind the comic on Twitter, JM_Bad and Viera.

Currently Alpha is in the early stages of fundraising, moving to an official Kickstarter in the next few months. Ongoing donations are being collected via his streamlabs, the link of which can be found on his Twitch "About" page.

There are spots inside the graphic novel for visual advertisements (in city shots or otherwise) that will have other Vtubers drawn in, so far lots of Alpha's stream friends are involved with this plan, with plans to add more as the art comes together.

Quotes
Currently ongoing and rapidly evolving the #Quotes channel of the community discord
 * Stream sign-off: "Be excellent to everyone you meet, because everyone is fighting a hard battle, and sometimes you can't see it"
 * “You know how Bobo gets”
 * "You would be amazed by what I'm incapable of"

Relationships
Alpha is a very social streamer, frequently appearing in other Streamers chats, games, and talk shows (see History and Collaborations tab above). This list is by no means finished or exhaustive, and will be updated semi-frequently.

⭐- A member of Alpha's Mod Team

🎮 - A streamer Alpha frequently games with (Overwatch 2, Valorant, Apex, other Multiplayer games)

📺- Another Vtuber or PNGTuber in Alpha's friend group

🎏- A non-Vtuber streamer Alpha frequently interacts with


 * 📺 Arielle
 * ⭐ AlexVossLSF
 * 📺 AtteraNox : Alpha's Model "Older sister", as both were rigged by Patella Coop
 * 🎮📺Aliwa
 * ⭐ Blue_Owlz_Medic
 * ⭐🎮Buttermage_
 * 🎮📺Chill_VA
 * ⭐📺CinnamonPyroll
 * 📺CottontailVA
 * 📺CultistZolon
 * 📺CyYuvtuber
 * 🎏Damanmillsva
 * 📺Darks0als
 * 📺DayumDahlia
 * 📺DJRecca
 * Dilfosaur: Karina Farek, not an individual streamer, but streams with part of Drawfee. Helped with original Alpha designs and makes amazing fanart.
 * 🎏DrawfeeShow
 * 📺El_xox
 * ⭐ErockWheelman
 * ⭐Fleshy: Creator of the TTS art for Klawed, another artist who worked on Alpha's Vtuber
 * 📺FreyaAmari
 * ⭐🎮📺FreyjaVT
 * 📺HaydenVT
 * ⭐iAteTheRamen
 * 🎏JamBudsVO
 * ⭐Jaxxhoffman
 * 🎏Jokn
 * 🎮📺Juzo
 * ⭐Kaorunanjo
 * ⭐🎏KellenGoff
 * 📺 KohiMocha
 * ⭐📺LadHanabi
 * ⭐Lewis_tho
 * 📺MeowMoonified
 * 📺Mimcubus
 * ⭐Mucrush
 * ⭐🎮📺NateTheMoth: Community Manager Extraordinaire and all around legend. Creates many of the stream channel point redeems and shorts/tiktoks for other socials
 * 📺Noctapus
 * 📺Onsta
 * 📺OverEzEggs
 * 📺PrismSplay
 * ⭐📺RedTheTiny
 * 📺RissTV: Alpha's Vtuber model designer and artist
 * 📺Royzoga
 * 📺RyMcKeand
 * 🎮📺Senz
 * 🎮⭐📺SkyeFire: VRChat champion and community lead
 * 📺Soleil
 * ⭐📺Sonicgott
 * 📺StrangeBox
 * 📺🎮Strykur
 * ⭐🎏TinaMickel
 * ⭐🎮📺TruckChanVtuber
 * ⭐📺VAAMusicalMike
 * 📺Velcria
 * 📺Vexoria_the_sun_eater
 * 🎏VieraB: Artist for Alpha's "Phonesly" and other mini lore comics
 * ⭐🎮📺VoiceofSeer
 * ⭐🎮📺WynDings
 * ⭐Zathured

Lore

 * Fandom Nickname is "Howlings" as dubbed by Anarchic Eris-who has also created a lot of Alphem (Alpha's Fem version) artwork
 * Wears Abercrombie and Fitch "Fierce" cologne
 * Likes Melon Boba over others but will likely still drink other boba flavours
 * Born in Riverside Iowa (same place as Captain Kirk)
 * Has an "affinity" for slime girls above all other monster girls
 * Alpha waxes, but this may be said with slightly less than full sincerity
 * His cybernetic arm was installed and is maintained by Vtuber CyYu as his "ripper doc" and has a recently discovered feature
 * His mom gave him the apartment he lives in currently
 * He works at a Takyoaki shop with a member of his band, Midnight Howl. They love to get boba together.
 * He is scared of trains, the reason of which will likely be revealed in the planned graphic novel, as well as the minions in Despicable Me
 * Has four tattoo’s
 * One of Alpha Centauri on his arm, a Midnight Howl logo on his right ankle, drummer John Bonham's symbol- set of three interlocking circles that he got with the band in one of the mini comics and a treble clef in a “surprise” location, which can be seen in some of the spicier fan art
 * He also hates fried ice cream
 * Dislikes party-poopers, rent, feeling pitied or spoken down to, disappointing others, and commitment
 * His band, Midnight Howl, has released two songs named "Neon Fire" and "Hype Beast", and are planning on releasing another soon
 * He is an avid fan of Roofball and Kappa Mikey
 * Alpha wears three inch heels
 * Was Ranked #2 Hottest VTuber Date by Vexoria_the_Sun_Eater
 * Has been dubbed "The Internet's Badboy" by Projekt Melody
 * When he drinks, refers to himself as "Bobo W Rizz" while hitting on people at the Bar. The W stands for W.



Content

 * Overwatch
 * Valorant
 * Dying Light 2 (as he sounds awfully similar to the voice of protagonist Aiden Caldwell)
 * Dungeons & Dragons (Alpha has a reoccurring stream every Wednesday at 7 pm PST)
 * The Witcher
 * Dead Rising
 * Cyberpunk 2077
 * Hi-Fi Rush
 * Extremely cursed but hilarious ASMR streams
 * Just Chatting
 * Watch Along Streams (Kappa Mikey, 90's Cartoons and commercials, trailers, web surfing)
 * Watch Along Streams (Kappa Mikey, 90's Cartoons and commercials, trailers, web surfing)



Likes and hobbies

 * Drumming
 * Street food (especially Takoyaki)
 * Twitch Streaming
 * Streetwear
 * Retro Games & Music
 * His pet snailien Klawed <3

Memes

 * "You know how Bobo gets"
 * "The McRib never left"
 * "WTF, I have a 3090, I'm supposed to be able to run god!"
 * Longoshi (an animated drawing of Longoshi created by Viera B. set to the "didntIdoitforyou" audio)
 * Klawed vibing to the Freebird solo (sometimes affectionately abbreviated to FREEB)
 * O I L
 * "Gaming" Game Awards Clip
 * "Creasing"
 * "Shortie"
 * Kevlin (a long furby who may have beef with Klawed as Klawed is a veteran "Of a thousand psychic wars" that Kevlin's race may have been involved with)
 * That's a W (accompanied by a gif of Legoshi doing a Fortnite dance with music)



Media

 * AlphaAniki - Twitch channel
 * AlphaAniki - YouTube channel
 * Alpha Aniki VODS - Alphas Twitch VOD Archive on YouTube (also stolen from Jonah Scott)
 * Jonah Scott's YouTube - some streams have happened here historically, when Neon Fire Released
 * VO To Go -A comedy youtube account with Jonah Scott and Alexs Le talking about voice acting
 * @AlphaAniki- Twitter account
 * @alphaaniki - TikTok account
 * Alpha's Wolfpack - Official Discord server
 * "Phonsely" page - This is for "spicier" content. Links for which can be found in the community discord server.

Merchandise
There is currently no official Alpha merchandise, but Jonah Scott has merch available through Represent
 * Jonah Scott Store - Jonah Scott Official Merch Store

Twitter hashtags

 * #AlphonseArt - Fan art
 * #Phonsely- NSFW Fan Art