Shiro Nya

Shiro Nya (stylized as shiro__nya) is an independent male Canadian VTuber whose primary language is English. He has been streaming on Twitch since 25 March 2023 (as a PNG-tuber) and officially debuted as a VTuber on 1 July 2023.

Profile
i stream roguelikes from time to time, drop by and get comfy~

Personality
Shiro has a cheerful and playful personality.

Appearance
Shiro's likeness is roughly based on the character of the same name from the No Game No Life franchise and the Live2D Sample Model Hiyori Momose. He has had two designs – a PNG-tuber model by Rune and a Live2D model by Azzypics.

Shiro’s PNG-tuber model has mushroom-colored hair to her waist and an ahoge, a lock of hair in front of her face, sky blue eyes, and fair skin. She wears a white sailor fuku school uniform with a cyan lavallière and a gold crown with the letter "N" on it. A side ponytail goes through her crown.

Shiro’s Live2D model is based on the PNG-tuber model with a few differences. She has hazelnut hair and violet eyes. She has two outfits:


 * The Comfy outfit consists of a pastel pink pullover with a cyan collar and an apricot lavallière, a cyan skirt, pastel pink thigh-high socks, and brown school shoes. There are a few decorative badges on her chest, including a pogo-stick badge, a mushroom badge, and a name tag written in Japanese.
 * The Maid outfit is a classic French maid outfit from the Victorian era. It consists of a white short-sleeve dress with a black ribbon above the chest, a frilly white apron with shoulder straps, a black corset tied with a red string, black and white wrist cuffs, two layers of white frills under the dress, pastel pink thigh high socks, and black Mary Jane shoes.

Regardless of outfit, Shiro's model can wear either a gold crown with the purple letter "S" on it or an orange birthday hat with red and purple stripes. She can also equip cat ears the color of her hair with white ear tufts. Shiro can redden her eyes or disable eye highlights for reactions and roleplays.

History
Before becoming a streamer, Shiro worked as a moderator for Neuro-sama. In his early days, he primarily streamed for a small group of friends from the Neuro-sama Headquarters Discord server.

2023

 * On 25 March, Shiro started streaming on Twitch as a community event for Neuro-sama Headquarters.
 * On 11 April, Shiro became a Twitch affiliate.
 * During his stream on 23 June, Shiro teased that he would reveal "something exciting" once a 30,000 Channel Point redeem challenge was completed.
 * On 25 June, the Channel Points challenge was completed and Shiro teased his new Live2D model.
 * On 26 June, Shiro created a Twitter/X account.
 * On 1 July, Shiro debuted as a VTuber.
 * On 20 August, Shiro hosted a marathon stream for the charity Games For Love. His community raised $1,346.01 on stream, with a later off-stream donation bringing the total to $1,500, hitting the goal.
 * On 6 September, Shiro reached 500 followers on Twitch.

Fanbase
Shiro's fanbase has two concurrently existing names – Cat Maids (official) and Shatters (self-designated by the community).

Quotes

 * "Meow."
 * "I have milkshakes to suck on."
 * "I gotta mate, let me mate quickly." (From one of Spore streams).
 * "I will not throw in a 1000 years!" (Moments before dying in Celeste).
 * "There are no anti birthday agents in the server. They are not here to keep an eye on you. You do not need to look for anti birthday agents."

Birthday-related

 * Stemming from Shiro answering "this year" to the question about the date of his birthday, there's a running joke that Shiro's birthday is every day. During post-stream raids, raid targets are usually gaslit into believing it's actually his birthday and would congratulate him. Others, like Camila, are in on the joke and keep it running.
 * The phrase "It is not my birthday!", often said by Shiro in response to mistimed birthday wishes, has led to the development of additional lore that Shiro "steals birthdays" from people around him, proudly exclaiming that the birthday is, in fact, not his.
 * It is said that Shiro is the God of Birthdays and uses his incomprehensible powers to manipulate our birthdays; Shiro giveth and Shiro taketh away.
 * Shiro's actual birthday is on the 27th of March – that is, the 27th of March every day, every month, for every year.

Other

 * The letters "N" and "S" on the two model's crowns stand for "Neuro" and "Shiro", respectively, as his first design was made in the context of him being a Neuro-sama community moderator. However, other interpretations exist, such as S and N standing for "Shiro" and "Nya" or "North" and "South".
 * Despite being a nekomimi, Shiro usually only meows per request (for a certain sum of channel points) and substitutes the onomatopoeia with "cat sound" or "cat word." As a part of a donation incentive during his charity marathon, he meowed more than precisely 100 times in a row.
 * Shiro has set the minimum bits requirement on Twitch to 9999 to discourage donations to him. He also set the amount of advertisements to minimal and said that if there were an option to disable paid subscriptions altogether, he would do that as well. Nevertheless, the community tries its best to support Shiro through the remaining means.
 * This hurdle had been overcome on 16 September 2023, when Twitch user Flonk (who also made Shiro's streaming software layouts) donated 10000 bits.
 * While the mushroom is a prominent meme associated with Shiro, he doesn't actually like eating mushrooms.
 * While Shiro has never publicly disclosed this information, it's said that he is a 5'4" 120lb femboy.
 * The PNG-tuber model was not intended to be used as a PNG-tuber model when it was drawn.
 * The pogo badge is a reference to Shiro's Choice Chamber streams where chat would repeatedly pick pogo jump because it was the worst option.
 * The mushroom badge is a reference to Shiro's encounters with mushrooms in his Don't Starve Together streams and the mushroom facts he sent in the discord server.

Media

 * Shiro Nyarchive - Youtube (VODs), not operated by Shiro himself
 * @shiro__nyaa - Twitter/X
 * discord.gg/shironya - Discord

Twitter hashtags

 * #ShiroNyart - Fan art