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 2 January, she 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 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. Her personal predictions hashtag was "#PetraHandArc". Petra's outfit reveal happened on 24 August.

Relationships

 * OBSYDIA - Petra Gurin, Selen Tatsuki, Rosemi Lovelock
 * NIJI UK (Unbelievably Kracked) - Petra Gurin, Reimu Endou, Millie Parfait, Enna Alouette
 * Elipeto - Petra Gurin, Elira Pendora
 * NIJIPETS - Petra Gurin, Mysta Rias, Enna Alouette, Alban Knox
 * Nootycall - Petra Gurin and Millie Parfait
 * PinkORE (ピンクオレ) - Petra Gurin, Miyu Ottavia, Onomachi Haruka, and Yang Nari
 * PetoMari - Petra Gurin, Maria Marionette

Events

 * On 15 September 2021, all members of LazuLight and OBSYDIA participated in the "Meltdown" game show on the official NIJISANJI EN channel.
 * On 22 November 2021, 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.
 * On 22 May 2022, Petra was part of the merchandise collaboration with Otaku Culture Lab alongside Elira Pendora, Selen Tatsuki, Shu Yamino, and Luca Kaneshiro, and Vox Akuma.

Fans

 * Her fans are called "PenTomo".

Quotes

 * "Shall I break the ice?" - debut teaser quote

Identity

 * Color: #FFAE42
 * Race: Frost penguin
 * Occupation: Student, VTuber
 * She can speak English, Japanese, and Chinese.
 * She shares her illustrator with Hakui Koyori of hololive.

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.
 * 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 planned for her name to be "Petra Gurin VI" or "Petra Gurin, the Fifth".

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)