Merryweather

Merryweather (Merry) is a male English-language VTuber based in Denmark who debuted in October of 2020. He is the head writer and owner of the Merryweather Media art studio based in Tokyo. As of February 2022, he is also the head writer for VShojo, being in charge of Nyanners, Ironmouse, Veibae, Zentreya, and Kson's lore videos. His company has also produced content for Hololive's Mori Calliope and Nijisanji's Vox Akuma. Not only that, in the December of 2022, he also wrote the lore for XSOLEI's Doppio Dropscythe and Zaion LanZa.

He is also an official writer for WEBTOON, currently writing Winter Moon, Clinic of Horrors, Everywhere & Nowhere, Stalker x Stalker, and many others. His WEBTOON account is Merryweather.

Personality
Merry has a very relaxed vibe the majority of the time, but when he gets excited he barks like the dog boy he is. He hardly if ever swears and requests those on his chat refrain as well. He is easily scared by horror games such as the Chilla's Arts series, but otherwise has a very relaxing aura even in collabs (except in Yugioh collabs). This vibe has sometimes been known to descend into chaos on a few occasions; for instance, during games of Frostpunk where he pretends to be a "maniacal dictator of Wooftopia", or during his yugioh streams where he frequently acts like a villain.

Appearance
Merry takes on a dog boy appearance, a mix between a Danish Spitz and a Turkish Kangal, he has almost chin-length black hair with a single red streak and short pointy ears, often being mistaken for cat ears. Merry's usual outfit consists of a brown pinstripe three-piece suit with a red tie, but on 19th of November in 2020 he debuted a new navy/black military outfit, which he uses for certain games. Most of these clothes being removable or customisable, he adds variety to his appearance and demeanour to his streams by doing so.

On May of 2021, he gained another outfit: a black three-piece suit with an overcoat and top hat. It also includes a Cthulhu plushie, a walking stick, and a pop-up book that has Eldritch tentacles popping out of it.

In December of 2021, he debuted a maid uniform designed by Kirero, with an axe, tea set, and a Yu-Gi-Oh duel disk. This model would come with updated rigging by 2wintails.

Merry also has a dog form created for him as a gift by Yuniiho, and an "ugly bastard" (aka Uncle Merry) form created by Carillus.

During March of 2022, Merry revealed a markedly younger-looking model designed by EmuLapis and rigged by 2wintails, rectroactively referred to as "Femboy Merry". While this version also has a brown vest, it also comes with shorts and a markedly bluer hue to his hair.

During July of 2022 Merry debuted of a different dog form commonly known as 'IkeMerry' amongst the Dog Army, this form having a much more masculine presenting appearance compared to his previous forms with an overall more edgy feel as designed by DyaRikku. His outfit consisting of a skintight black shirt which accentuates his muscles, neat white trousers with a black belt and mid/high calf black boots.

History
Merry debuted in early October of 2020, gathering over 12,000 followers on Twitch within his first two months of VTubing. Prior to debuting as a VTuber, he also had a fanbase on other platforms as an independent webcomic writer and producer.

2021
On May, Merry made a redebut, introducing a new outfit called the "Cthulhu Gothic Suit" and personality (adopting the name Lucius J. Merryweather), though still under the name of Merry. He stated that this look and personality would be used for his more horror-themes streams, including creepypasta storytime streams.

On 1 April, Merry debuted an "ugly bastard" version of his model, illustrated by Carillus. The video can be seen here. It has become known as the "impostor" model. The "impostor" would go on to cancel all male vtubers.

On 13 December 2021, Merry revealed the Live2D model for the maid outfit, designed by Kirero and rigged by 2wintails.

2022
On 14 March, Merry introduced a fifth new model, designed by Emulapis and rigged again by 2wintails.

On February 1st, Merry was revealed to be the writer and director for Nyanners lore video. Following the positive reception, he was brought on by VShojo to continue creating lore videos within a shared universe for all of their members, with many cameos from vtubers outside of VShojo as well, such as Haruka Karibu, Snuffy, and many others.

On February 27th, the official lore of Bubi and Ironmouse was released in the series of videos which would then be referred to as "VShojo Mythos".

On April 10th, Veibae's lore video would be released, featuring Silvervale and Snuffy in key roles, as well as multiple cameos.

On May 20th, Zentreya's lore video was released, featuring Projekt Melody as her evil alter ego MELWARE.

So far, Merry has been the writer for all of VShojo's lore videos, with all of them being illustrated by artists Jowa and AT2 from Merryweather Media.

On March 15th, Merry appeared on Mysta Rias for an Apex Legends collab.

On June 22nd, Merry hit 100k followers on twitch.

On July 10th, Merry created his bilibili account Merrydawg

On July 12th, He celebrated 1,000 followers on bilibili then hit 2,00 the same day.

On July 20th, he revealed a sixth model with a more mature look has been teased with art and rigging by DyaRikku. This included a new lore video that included more of his personal struggles as a webcomic writer.

On July 23rd, Merry hit 100k followers on TikTok.

On December 6th, Merry hit 300k followers on Twitter

On December 11th, Merry hit 200k followers on Twitch.

Events

 * Guest appearance at Genki 2019, marking their first appearance as a special guest in their native Denmark.
 * Guest appearance at J-Popcon 2021 as a special guest.
 * Guest appearance at DigiKomi 2021 as a special guest together with Lumi.
 * Guest appearance at KamiCon 2022 alongside Lumi and Sif Avellana, marking their first time visiting the United States.
 * Guest appearance at Dreamhack 2022 in Dallas, Texas alongside Yuniiho and Lumi.
 * Guest appearance at Anime Expo in California 2022 with Lumi, representing Merryweather Media and as lore writer for VShojo
 * Guest appearance at TwitchCon Amsterdam 2022.

Relationships
Merry has a VTuber Wolf cousin named Lumi, who was actually the first VTuber to debut from the Merryweather Comics circle; she also occasionally hosted the Merryweather Comics Youtube channel announcements. The both of them are close, often collaborating with each other on games. They also stream to the same channel when live on Youtube, and share a channel for highlights. In an interview with Domo Arigathanks, he said that Lumi is his oldest friend, having met her in World of Warcraft over a decade ago and IRL for the first time in Japan.

The name "Merryweather Comics" is used to refer to the comic production circle/studio headed by Merry himself. While Merry is known for writing and producing regular comic content for Webtoon and his social media accounts, the art, lettering and editing are handled by various creative staff (artists, editors, VAs) in his circle.

Some of these staff members with a streaming presence are informally referred to as "Team Merry" and can often be found visiting each others' streams. A list of those who are also VTubers (aside from Merry and Lumi) are below:


 * Osiimi/KireinaPinkyFox (artist of Crawling Dreams)
 * Mayui/Yuureya (artist of Winter Moon)
 * Carillus (artist of Fox Girls Are Better)
 * Monomogi (artist of My Incubus Boyfriend)
 * Elizabeth von Mountbatten (VA for various Merryweather Comics JP Dubs)
 * Cazz/Raina (letterer, editor and manager of Merryweather Comics)
 * Sif Avellana (VTuber friend, not affiliated with the Merryweather Comics)

So far Carillus has collaborated on stream with Merry, often resulting in a straight man-funny man dynamic between the two. Merry has also collaborated with a fair few of his friends listed below.

Other than the above, Merry is friends with Bunny_GIF, Noble, Nux, Projekt Melody, Wolfychu, FeFe, Ironmouse, Vox Akuma, Mika Melatika, Mysta Rias, and many more.

Fans

 * Merry's fans are called the Dog Army and can be found on his official discord server.
 * At times, he has also referred to them as "The Doggo Army" or the "Woof Army".
 * Merry often refers individually to his fans as my Lady/Lord/Nobel/Royal based on their preferred title, if Merry does not know their preferred title he often asks or calls them all of the titles inclusively.

Trivia

 * Although Merry's accent is typically assumed to be British, he has no British heritage - he is actually half-Danish and half-Turkish.
 * He loves receiving headpats, and is known to demand for a "TREAT!" from his friends.
 * Despite being Danish, Merry's company is Japanese.
 * He is known on the Maxmoefoe YouTube channel as the one who helps Max get all his pokemon stuff.
 * He can type at over 160 words per minute, and often makes claims that he is the fastest typing vtuber.
 * He has written for over 30 different webtoon series.
 * His VTuber YouTube account has over 200,000 subscribers, and his company YouTube account (Merryweather Media) has over 1.3 million subscribers.
 * He is a longtime friend of Fredrik Knudsen, and frequently does writing collabs with him.
 * His comics have been featured on Pewdiepie's channel.
 * He claims to have been writing webcomics since 2012.

Quotes

 * "Im just a dog, im dogging...DO NOT LOOK THAT UP!"
 * "Woof Woof."
 * "Wang Wang."