Nemu

Luna the Magikarp is a Female English VTuber who debuted in early May of 2020. She is commmonly called Nemu, pronounced "neemu". She is independently produced and not currently affiliated with any Twitch Teams.

Personality
Nemu has a calm demeanour and a no-nonsense attitude. She is skilled at video games, and a self-described "really big nerd". She finds joy in pursuing the more niche side of gaming such as breaking them through bugs and researching the statistics behind them. Throughout her streams, she is very interactive with her chat, often managing to engage in challenging gameplay, read chat, and keep up a conversation the whole time.

She is known for her quirky behavior. Examples include hosting Pok&eacute;mon tournaments with random and arbitrary rules, positing conspiracy theories linking Knuckles the Echidna to Jesus, singing a song every time someone follows her channel, reading cursed Sonic the Hedgehog fanfiction, having a hand swoosh in from off-screen and pet her head.

Appearance
Nemu has long indigo-blue hair tied at the back and topped with a small silver crown. She has deep blue eyes and wears an off-shoulder white t-shirt bearing the Japanese text 「水族館」, "suizokukan", meaning "aquarium". As Queen Fishe, she wears a small silver crown with a blue gemstone.

Background
Nemu became a VTuber almost by accident.

While suffering from COVID-19 in April 2020, she learned that hololive English had opened auditions, and decided to apply. On 23 April she posted an original character, which she used as a static avatar in her Twitch art streams. On April 30 she drew a new character design which would be used for her final model.

She created her YouTube channel on 1 May 2020, and throughout the first week of May she created her own Live2D model from scratch, teaching herself rigging in the process. Nemu is one of a rare few VTubers who created their Live2D model entirely from scratch, including both drawing and rigging. The process took 39 hours in total.

She continued streaming on Twitch throughout May on a regular schedule in order to build up a portfolio of streaming work, and on 21 May 2020, she submitted her audition to holoEN. While her application was ultimately unsuccessful, she continued to stream on Twitch. Nemu originally did not intend for the model to be used seriously.

2020
Nemu announced her first 1,000 Twitch followers on 13 July, celebrating with a 24-hour Minecraft stream. On 7 August she announced a 3D model for use in VRChat.

Nemu was made a Twitch Partner on 8 October 2020. At this point she had 7.8k followers on Twitch.

Starting on 29 November, Nemu played in Leaflit's weekly Dungeons & Dragons game.

2021
On 16 March, Nemu switched software from Facerig to VTuber Studio.

Fans

 * Nemu's Twitch subscribers are known as the Glub Glub Club.
 * Nemu congratulates subscribers by singing "Magikaaaaaarp!"
 * Nemu uses a jellyfish as her 3-month sub tier. She congratulates 3-month subscribers with "Congratulations on becoming a jellyfish! How do you feel? Leave your bones at the door, because you're entering (enables reverb) the no bone zone!"

Relationships
Nemu is good friends with Leaflit, Minya September, and BungoTaiga. She is also known to be a fan of Nyatasha Nyanners.

Fans
Nemu's fans are known as the Fish Friends, and can be found on her official Discord, the Fish Bowl.

Quotes

 * "Sand is a spice. But instead of adding flavor, it adds texture. It's like rice puffs, like in chocolate. It doesn't really add any flavor to it, but it definitely adds texture."
 * "I have something that's like dyslexia, but instead of it being like dyslexia, I'm just stupid."
 * "Dante's Inferno is just Jesus fandom fanfiction."
 * "Parfect."
 * "I really like Magikarp, so my name is Magikarp. Because who uses their real name on the internet?"

Lore

 * Nemu is not a Magikarp, but rather an underwater fishfolk whose royal blood allows her to assume an aquatic appearance which reflects their personality. This form is not inherited; Nemu's mother was an octopus.
 * Her form is based specifically mauve stinger jellyfish.
 * Nemu's crown reflects her position as queen of an underwater kingdom whose name has not been mentioned. Her official title is Queen Fishe Nemu III. Nemu's mother, the former Queen Fishe Nemu II, first opened diplomatic relations between the underwater kingdom and the surface. Nemu III inherited the throne, though she shirks her duties to hang out on land and play video games.
 * Nemu was gifted her 「水族館」 shirt and her sand-containing pendant at an aquarium during a diplomatic visit to the surface.
 * She can speak to fish, but only some fish, as many fish are dumb.
 * Nemu is tall, and comes from a family of tall people. While this is not obvious in her streams, she appeared much larger than her co-hosts in a collab stream where she was depicted to scale next to Leaflit and Minya September.

Bizarre quirks

 * Nemu used to have a soup plate. This is because it would cool faster, so she could eat the soup faster.
 * She once fell asleep eating chocolate in bed.
 * Nemu used to have a special maze-shaped baking tray that allowed her to create brownies which were all edge pieces.
 * She likes to swim at edges of deep underwater ravines, where you can look over the edge into the abyss.
 * She is scared of whales. A whale's cry is so loud that it crushes your lungs, causing them to fill with blood. Sound travels much better through water. However, she likes dolphins and sharks, describing sharks as "beautiful", "extraordinarily cute, and very sweet", and "absolutely adorable". She enjoys swimming with sharks.
 * She is allergic to so many land-based things that the doctors had to extend the allergy scale. Among the things she is allergic to are grass, trees, paper, rain, and the sun. She's also allergic to photosynthetic plankton and her own sweat. Scientists have studied her in a laboratory.
 * Nemu's favourite fish is the Pacific spiny lumpsucker.
 * Her streams often feature excessive headpatting. Viewers can redeem channel points to summon The Hand, who is Nemu's son.
 * The Hand Golem, a creature created from headpat hands with eyes, is also her son. The Hand Golem loves jello, gogurt, and Lego. Leaflit is the Hand Golem's godmother.
 * Nemu sings the Magikarp song for each follow. Its lyrics are as follows: "Karp karp magi magi karp karp magi magi karp karp magi magi karp karp karp karp karp".
 * If a follow occurs during headpats, she will sing "Pat pat magi magi pat pat". Witnessing a magi pat is a blessed event.
 * Nemu once entered Leaflit's Waifu Wars create-a-character contest. The theme of the contest was "Seiso Waifu", meaning "pure". Nemu instead created a dog girl with purple octopus tentacles named Professor Wagglewompy.
 * She created a Dark Souls III character named Kirito Bradley and defeated difficult late-game boss Dancer of the Boreal Valley with mouse and keyboard, while only level 15, without wearing armor, and without having played a Dark Souls game before. The process took multiple attempts spanning 10 hours and 47 minutes across three streams, and was followed by a 64-hand pat.

Likes and dislikes

 * Nemu always chooses food over sleep when it comes down to it.
 * She's not a fan of Bethesda games.

Miscellaneous

 * While suffering from COVID-19, Nemu played Runescape Classic because it was easy to play without paying much attention.
 * Nemu plays a considerable amount of Minecraft, and is skilled at the game:
 * She played a server running the RLCraft mod to make the game more difficult.
 * She hosts a Pixelmon server, with tournaments which use bizarre and arbitrary rules such as "no Pok&eacute;mon with the letter 'E' in their name or "no two Pok&eacute;mon with the same type". She built a gacha machine for items which costs diamonds, and players have spent tens of thousands of diamonds on it.
 * When she played on a vanilla Minecraft server with Leaflit, Nemu was granted the title of Hero of the Village. She eventually built her base on top of the Nether by glitching through the bedrock ceiling.
 * She appears in one of Leaflit's stream transitions, in which Leaflit is fishing and is disappointed to catch a tiny Magikarp, to which Nemu replies "Pog".

Hashtags

 * #ShowFeesh - Twitter art hashtag