Axel Syrios

Axel Syrios is a male English Virtual YouTuber endorsed by hololive's branch HOLOSTARS English. He is one of the four founding members of "TEMPUS" debuting in July 2022 alongside Regis Altare, Magni Dezmond and Noir Vesper.

Profile
The chief of human resources in Adventurer’s Guild TEMPUS. He is the owner of the combat arena, and a gladiator himself. He joined Tempus on a whim, only to take a real liking to it. Has always swiftly resolved any problems he has faced by sheer instinct, and thus considers himself somewhat of a doctor. “Doctors resolve the root cause of a problem, right?Well, I destroy it. So I am a doctor.”

Personality
Axel is a confident, cheeky, and at times dense gladiator. His genmates in TEMPUS often mock his blockheadedness which matches him having the lowest intelligence stat. However, despite this, Axel can provide great advice and commentary when needed as shown in his visual novel streams such as YTTD. He's confident in his abilities yet humble at the same time, always thanking his fans for their support. He can be quite mischevious, calling his pranks a 'heehee haha' moment.

Background
The existence of HOLOSTARS English -TEMPUS- was first teased by hololive's Japanese Twitter account on 14 July 2022, with the launch of the TEMPUS website.

On 16 July, Omegaα returned to their Twitter account after months of inactivity posting a two pages manga related to TEMPUS lore.

On 17 July 2022, hololive English Twitter account revealed various details regarding TEMPUS including their social media accounts and debut dates. Axel made his first tweet on this date and a small teaser video was uploaded on his YouTube channel. His YouTube channel was created on 13 June 2022.

On 23 July 2022, Axel debuted on YouTube.

2022
On 24 July, after the debut of all TEMPUS members, a video was posted on the HOLOSTARS English main channel announcing the first original song for them, making them the first hololive Production branch and unit to receive an original song after their debut.

On 26 July, Axel reached 100,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel.

On 6 August, Axel's channel was open for monetization.

On 11 September, all TEMPUS members' channels have opened their membership feature.

On 29 October, Axel released his first multibranch cover project of Bad ∞ End ∞ Night featuring him and hololive Indonesia members Kureiji Ollie, Anya Melfissa and Pavolia Reine; hololive English members Mori Calliope, Ninomae Ina'nis, Ouro Kronii; and HOLOSTARS English members Regis Altare and Noir Vesper. The cover was teased multiple times on twitter, featuring images of the shadowed silhouettes of each of the members featured on the cover along with their oshi marks.

Discography

 * ''Main page: Axel Syrios/Discography

Fans

 * Axel's fans are called "Axelotls", a portmanteau of his name and "axolotl."
 * His YouTube channel members have four tiers: Chads, Giga Chads, Omni Chads, and ザ・CHAD (The CHAD).

Relationships

 * Subunits within TEMPUS:
 * "TEMPUS Headquarters (TEMPUS HQ)", alongside Regis Altare, Magni Dezmond, and Noir Vesper. They are debut-mates.
 * "Shiny Spicy," alongside Regis Altare.
 * "Kintama Bros," alongside Magni Dezmond.

Name

 * During a super chat reading stream, he revealed that "Axel" is actually his last name. However he said that Axel can be both his last or given name depending on the order, Japanese or Western. He has mentioned that he simply prefers using Axel as first name.
 * According to one of Regis Altare's Minecraft streams, Syrios is named for the star Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky and part of a group called the Winter Triangle. Sirius is known as the Dog Star, which is reflected in his design.
 * His gen-mates Altare, Dezmond and Vesper are named for the stars Altair, Deneb and Vega, respectively, known collectively as the Summer Triangle.
 * With the addition of four new TEMPUS members in 2023, two members appear to be named for the remaining two stars in the Winter Triangle: Gavis Bettel, after Betelgeuse; and Machina X Flayon, after Procyon.
 * Axel is a male given name. "Axle" is also an archaic term used in astronomy to refer to an axis around which something rotates.

Lore

 * He's from "Northern Elysium," which seems to be Elysium's equivalent of Australia.
 * Axel originally was going to be Tempus' treasurer, but after asking Altare when he would go treasure hunting, they realized Axel had no idea what a treasurer does.

Likes and dislikes

 * He likes: singing, sports (specially basketball), road trips and outgoing activities.
 * Axel prefers cats over dogs.
 * His favorite anime include: Evangelion, Elfen Lied, Serial Experiments Lain, Kaiji, Promised Neverland, Dr. Stone, Sword Art Online, Overlord, Toaru Kagaku, A Certain Magical Index, Slam Dunk and School Days.
 * His favorite food and drinks are: ramen, yakiniku, fast-food, spicy food in general and choccy and strawberry milk.
 * His favorite games: Final Fantasy series, NieR series, Granblue Fantasy, APEX Legends, NBA2K, Super Robot Taisen, Monster Hunter series, and any co-op survival games.
 * Axel dislikes: bad smell, being sleepy, gloomy days, when cute girls dislike him, burning himself, bitting the side on his lips when eating some tasty food.
 * He also dislikes these foods and drinks: tomatoes, mushrooms, shellfish, intestines and stuff.
 * Axel's goals are:
 * Short term: joining an APEX VTuber tourney and winning, monthly covers, reaching over 1000 channel memberships, making tons and tons of new friends in the community, getting to know them more and collab with senpais and people from different gens.
 * Long term: "create a bomb of as f original songs and get over 10Mil views," get 1 million subscribers, getting to work on a music project with a famous singer/composer company, joining the world of hololive Alternative and "collab with our homie boy Mr. Yagoo chan <3."

Miscellaneous

 * Axel has been considered HOLOSTARS' "Winning Son" (specifically that of the english side, as Roberu already is known to take this title for the japanese branch). This is due to Axel's sheer "protagonist luck" which he has demonstrated multiple times in streams and various other successes.
 * In a collab stream of Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, he had managed multiple times to solve the modules to defuse the bomb correctly on his own by sheer luck. Another example is him oversleeping a Tempus group collab that was organized as a game show, but having Ouro Kronii impersonate and win as him, rendering him the winner of a game show he had never participated in.
 * Axel talked about having a stalker in his Twitch APEX stream collab with rpr and Vesper. It's revealed that he was popular with girls, but he himself denies it much to Vesper and RPR's chagrin.
 * He's a fan of visual kei and jirai kei.
 * He started playing basketball when he was younger because of a girl.
 * He doesn't like to drink alone unless he's feeling really down.
 * He'd like to try being a seiyuu one day.
 * Axel said that he is half Japanese from his mother's side.
 * He is an adamant thigh guy as revealed in his Devil May Cry playthrough and tweets.

Media

 * Axel Syrios Ch. HOLOSTARS-EN - YouTube channel
 * Axel Syrios' corporate profile on holostars.hololivepro.com
 * @axelsyrious - Twitter account

Twitter hashtags

 * #Whysosyrios - Live
 * #Artxel - Fan art
 * #Axelotls - Fan tag
 * #Axeldent - Memes