Petra Gurin

Petra Gurin (ペトラ グリン) is an English female Virtual YouTuber affiliated with NIJISANJI EN's second wave "OBSYDIA", alongside Selen Tatsuki and Rosemi Lovelock.

Profile
A penguin who spent much time alone in the frosty sea. Has charm and complex emotions as the stormy sea.

Personality
Petra often comes off as a calm and soft-spoken girl, though she's shown herself to have a somewhat blunt, charmingly honest and sassy side mixed into her nature. She often becomes easily frustrated while playing games, and tends to curse frequently or pretend to sob. Overall, Petra is a very sweet and caring person, always trying to help her fellow livers and to show appreciation to them.

Due to her soft voice, short model, and tendency to get frustrated easily, Petra has gained a reputation as the easiest member of NIJISANJI EN to tease. As she's often on the receiving end of light-hearted bullying during collabs, Petra often has to reassure viewers that she's used to these kinds of friendships and is on good terms with her fellow Livers.

Petra also has a sizable following among Japanese fans due to her high proficiency in Japanese. She does her best to accommodate both English-speaking and Japanese-speaking fans, often scheduling streams during JP-friendly hours or holding Japanese-only streams.

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. Petra was the second of the group to debut, with commentary provided by Finana Ryugu. Petra's debut stream featured an introductory video in the form of a visual novel playthrough, followed by her rendition of "Snow Halation."

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, she reached 100,000 subscribers on YouTube. At the time, this made her the fastest member of NIJISANJI EN to reach this milestone, as well as the sixth-fastest member of NIJISANJI overall, behind Eden-gumi.

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

On 26 September, she opened memberships on her Youtube channel.

On 1 October, she premiered her cover of "phony" by Tsumiki.

On 4 December, she celebrated her birthday with a nine-hour stream, during which she premiered a cover of "Tokimeki Broker" by PMaru, with visuals drawn by chika. During the call-in portion of her stream, she spoke with over twenty Livers from various NIJISANJI branches.

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

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

On 21 January, Petra reached 200,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel.

On March, she participated in a promotion for "Anime Japan 2022" which was hosted in her channel.

On 22 April, her Sakura Bloom 2022 voice pack went up for sale.

On 12 May, Petra reached 300,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel.

On 18 August, Petra reached 400,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel during a Jump King endurance stream.

On 20 August, OBSYDIA held a special announcement stream where they revealed that they would be getting new costumes. The costume debuts would be under the Twitter hashtag "#OBSYDIARunway" where the audience can also send in their outfit predictions. Fans could post outfit predictions on twitter using the hashtag "#PetraHandArc".

On 24 August, Petra revealed her new outfit, a "combat idol" military uniform with a full mesh bodystocking, a beret, and a black-and-orange coat lined with fur. She sports a significantly longer hairstyle with her iconic "paintbrush" hair changed to a braid on her left side. Petra also announced that she had grown during the past year in both outfits, bringing her official height up to 152 cm.

On 25 October, ANYCOLOR announced that Petra would be featured in the fifth set of Liver Outfit Goods alongside NIJISANJI Liver Nishizono Chigusa. These goods consisted of hoodies based on their default outfits.

On November, Petra announced that she had moved from USA to Japan to live alone for studies as full time student, after studying online on her university for the past year.

On 31 December, Petra and Shu became the MC for the pre-show of the NIJISANJI Music Unit Festival 2022 Day 2.

2023
On 3 January, Petra appeared in NIJISANJI's 5th anniversary program on the main channel.

On 5 January, Petra's "New Year 2023" goods went up for sale. This series featured the members of OBSYDIA and Ethyria. Merchandise included acrylic stands, kakejiku-style tapestries, hologram badges, acrylic plates, and random omamori.

On 3 April, NIJISANJI announced a new program project for its main channel, "NIJIBAN". The new program would air weekly on Tuesdays at 22:00 JST, and unlike existing programs, its content would change each month. The first NIJIBAN program, "Nagao & Petra's We are NIJISANJI" (長尾とペトラのたいして変わらん), would be hosted by Nagao Kei and NIJISANJI EN's Petra Gurin, and would air for four weeks starting on 4 April.

On 25 June, Petra reached 500,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel.

2021

 * On 15 September, all members of LazuLight and OBSYDIA participated in the "Meltdown" game show on the official NIJISANJI EN channel.
 * 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 Petra placing 8th overall.

2022

 * On 2 January, Petra participated in a promotion for "Project Sekai Colorful Stage" hosted on her channel alongside Nina Kosaka, Rosemi Lovelock, and Finana Ryugu.
 * On 6 January, she participated in a promotion for "Alchemy Stars" Half-Year Anniversary hosted on her channel with Elira Pendora also streaming in her own channel.
 * On 22 May, Petra was part of the merchandise collaboration with Otaku Culture Lab alongside Elira Pendora, Selen Tatsuki, Shu Yamino, and Luca Kaneshiro, and Vox Akuma. Limited-time goods included fans, wooden sake boxes, senjafuda stickers, wooden name tags, noren curtains, tenugui towels, and temperature-sensitive cups.
 * On 1-2 October, Petra participated in NIJIFes 2022, on the first day being part of a drawing event with her wavemate Selen Tatsuki and on day 2 she was part of a karaoke event alongside Shu Yamino, ZEA Cornelia, Hana Macchia, Yang Nari, Ha Yun, Tsukumo and Yua.
 * On 23 November, WIXOSS TCG's official Twitter revealed that Petra would be featured in the upcoming "NIJISANJI DIVA" collaboration pack. Petra's card art was revealed on 13 December, and the collaboration pack was released on 24 December.

2023

 * On 6 February, OffKai Expo's official Twitter account announced that Petra would appear as a guest at "OffKai Gen 2" on 16 June.
 * On 19 March, Petra paticipated in Anime Impulse 2023 in San Diego alongside her wavemates from Obsydia.

Fans

 * Her fans are called "PenTomo". They are small, rotund penguins with Petra's "paintbrush" hair and orange neckerchiefs.

Relationships

 * OBSYDIA - Petra, Selen Tatsuki, and Rosemi Lovelock. These three debuted together
 * EliPeto - Petra and Elira Pendora
 * FrozenHispanic - Petra and Reimu Endou. (This name has only been used once, and is commonly called "Petreimu" by fans)
 * NIJIUK (Unbelievably Kracked) - Petra, Reimu Endou, Millie Parfait, and Enna Alouette
 * NIJIPETS - Petra, Mysta Rias, Enna Alouette, and Alban Knox
 * Nootycall - Petra and Millie Parfait
 * PinkORE (ピンクオレ) - Petra, Miyu Ottavia, Onomachi Haruka, and Yang Nari.
 * NijiShospleColupis - Petra and Sonny Brisko
 * PetoMari - Petra and Maria Marionette
 * PenguinSiblings - Petra and Shu Yamino
 * Pengumi - Petra and Amicia Michella
 * PetRika - Petra and Igarashi Rika

Quotes

 * "Shall I break the ice?" - debut teaser quote
 * Fuck you, bitch
 * Noot Noot
 * KonPen
 * Once you Gur-in, you never Gur-out
 * Come witness this tail

Identity

 * Color: #FFAE42
 * Race: Frost penguin
 * Occupation: Student, VTuber
 * She can speak English, Japanese, and Chinese.
 * She shares her illustrator with the main branch's Igarashi Rika and hololive's Hakui Koyori.

Likes and dislikes

 * Favorite anime/manga: Natsume Yuujinchou, Akatsuki no Yona, Boku no Hero Academia, Card Captor Sakura, Chihayafuru, Death Note, Haikyuu, Hyouka, ID:Invaded, Jibaku Shounen Hanako-kun, and Kuroko no Basuke.
 * Favorite games: Otome games (AMNESIA:Memories, BUSTAFELLOWS, CLOCK ZERO, Code:Realize, Collar×Malice, Psychedelia series, Taishou Alice, Shinigami to Shoujo), A3!, Genshin Impact, IDOLiSH7, Kimi ga Shine, Persona series, anything with a good story.
 * Favorite music: Amatsuki, Ayase, DECO*27, Harumaki Gohan, Hitoshizuku × Yama, KANON69, luz, Mafumafu, Rib, Ryushen, syudou, Yanagi Nagi, and Yorushika.
 * Interests: Singing, graphic design + motion graphics, café hopping, making (and eating) desserts, NIJISANJI.
 * Dislikes: Horror, thunder and loud noises, public speaking, school assignments.
 * She is a big fan of Ryushen, Hoshikawa Sara and Debidebi Debiru.

Miscellaneous

 * She is very musically inclined, and sometimes does piano streams. She also composed her own BGM during a stream.
 * Petra made all of OBSYDIA's stream overlays, as well as that of Reimu Endou and Mysta Rias.
 * Petra helped all of Lazulight in their thumbnails and other parts of their second outfit debut. Also was the producer of the MV for Pomu's first cover. In general Petra helps the EN branch with her graphic design and abilities.
 * She streams using a gaming laptop instead of a desktop PC, owning a personal macbook and a gaming laptop used for stream. As of October 2022, she owns a desktop PC as well as her two laptops.
 * Petra has editing as her hobby and she used her abilities to edit her own covers and also was paid by Elira, Luca and Pomu to make a MV for their own covers.
 * Because her name looks similar to "Peter Griffin", her ikemen voice is referred to as Peter.
 * Petra has her own little universe with her different identities from her streams: She has debut Petra, an identity she created based on her personality in her first weeks as a liver; she has Peter Gurin, her male alterego which had his own debut in January 2022; she has Petrin Gurin as a younger version of her who speaks in "uwu mode" and Yankee Petra, an older and sexy version of her.
 * Upon her first visit to the NIJISANJI World Minecraft server, Petra was unhappy with the house that Selen built for OBSYDIA, so she (jokingly) claimed that she was leaving OBSYDIA. Pomu initially agreed to adopt Petra into LazuLight, but changed her mind after discovering Petra killed some of LazuLight's sheep to make a bed. She later built her own house next to the OBSYDIA house, which Pomu and Finana later renovated into an igloo.
 * During a collab with Selen, Petra joked that her uncle was Riku Tazumi, the CEO of ANYCOLOR, parent company of NIJISANJI. This led to a running joke that Petra got into NIJISANJI through nepotism.
 * She gets motion sickness easily.
 * A running joke among fans is to debate whether Petra has flippers or hands.
 * Reimu Endou is her best friend, with both of them being friends for years even before NIJISANJI and calling each other wife as a signal of their affection. Outside of Reimu, Petra is also very close to Enna, Millie and Elira, who she called her closest friends in the agency before.
 * A running joke between Petra and Reimu fans is how each of them flirt with other girls and "cheat" on each other in twitter and collabs. This happens so much that PTR was suggested as a unit name for them, which was shut down as it was a reference to Petra to Reimu but also to NTR. Still, PTR is used every time they cheat on each other even if the unit name did not became reality
 * Petra designed the original, defunct neon logo for OBSYDIA.
 * Prior to her debut, staff originally suggested for her name to be "Petra Gurin VI" or "Petra Gurin, the Fifth".
 * She hates cucumbers.
 * Her second outfit featured noticably larger boobs, which she initially claimed was just two loaves of bread that she had stuffed down her shirt. Since then, both EN Livers and fans tend to refer to boob size increases in new outfits as "bread upgrades" or "visiting the bread shop."

Media

 * Petra Gurin's corporate profile on the official NIJISANJI website
 * Petra Gurin【NIJISANJI EN】 - YouTube channel
 * @Petra_Gurin - Twitter account
 * @petra_gurin - Marshmallow account
 * u/Petra_Gurin - Reddit account

Twitter hashtags

 * #PetraGurin or #ペトラグリン - General
 * #PetraOnAir or #ペト配信 - Stream talk
 * #PetraArt or ペト絵 - Fan art
 * #Gur18n or #ペト禁 - Fan art (NSFW)