Soma Rigel

Soma Rigel (ソマ ライジェル) is an Independent male English/Filipino Yatagarasu VTuber. He currently streams on both YouTube and Twitch via Restream.

Profile
Weaponsmith and surrogate son of the Sun's Head Goddess / CEO Amaterasu. Soma, a Divine Crow known as a Yatagarasu, was kicked out of Hell because a thermostat took his purpose in regulating its flames. Now he lives in the Surface world among mortals and hiding the fact that he is a God to not raise attention. However he does portray himself as one when being a VTuber to passively gain faith as a deity.

Personality
Soma is a very hotheaded and energetic individual. When things go his way, he tends to be quite confident in himself and the situation, only for things to backfire much to his dismay. He is a very talkative (a bit too much) and energetic person who overelaborates on topics but is trying his best to make friends.

He sometimes becomes a bird brain on stream, as expected of a Divine Bird of the Sun.

Examples include : Not seeing an item in a video game despite looking at the inventory for 5 minutes straight, spacing out and not saying anything or even be completely oblivious to what is even going on.

2020
On 02 April, Soma streamed as a VTuber for the first time, marking his debut. He originally went by a different name (Wildcawrd) and went by a different lore.

On 09 April, Soma made an introduction video on Youtube.

During these first three months from his debut, Soma amassed 3,000 followers on Twitch and 1,000 subscribers on Youtube. It was met with difficulty as he had too weak of a computer to handle many games while streaming.

// This PC officially died mid June during a Code Vein stream. //                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             ''However he did get a new one almost immediately and he bounced back stronger than ever, streaming games such as Warzone, Apex Legends and many other games he otherwise was not able to / could not handle without crashing in the past. Around the same month, he acquired a new 3D model by DDMavis, in which he revealed along with his comeback. Unfortunately, the streams he had done this year were not archived on Youtube, and many were deleted due to the DMCA announcement on Twitch, becoming lost media. Earliest clips on Twitch are of Soma with his second VRoid Model. Footage of the first model is seen only from other VTuber's clips.''

Around May - June, Soma did a charity stream for his grandmother (who unfortunately passed away in July of that same year) to help pay for her medical bills. Fortunately the family gained a lot of support from the VTuber community and managed to shave off a large portion of the bills much to his and his family's thanks.

On 26 October, Soma unveiled his new Live2D model illustrated by maka_nyan and rigged by Zourikyu. Included in this debut stream was an all new lore and a slides presentation (with scuff of course).

2021
Around late March to April, due to reasons unknown, Soma started over on his Twitter which by this time, reached 2,000 followers. He also started over his Youtube channel, effectively starting from scratch while leaving his Twitch intact.

On 15 April 2021, Soma made his debut once again, with a new introduction video and declaring that he is streaming on Youtube from that point on. During this year, he streamed once a day on Twitch every Thursday, and every day that he was able to stream not on a thursday, he streamed on Youtube.

As of May 2021, Soma went on hiatus for the whole summer, waiting for commissions to finish and to take a break from VTubing. During his hiatus, Yannapii made him a chibi model for his birthday, which he used to stream for a while until the 9th of September. (Soma wanted to stream so bad but could not due to the commissions involved his model at the time).

On 09 September, he came back and revealed that his hiatus was to reveal his rigging update and new overlays, along with his first cover (Hyakkisiai by Kanaria) and a VTuber QnA introductions video.

Around the same month, Soma joined a VTuber team in which he stayed with until the next year.

On 22 December, Soma revealed his new/current 3.0 model which was drawn by Bizette and rigged by his best friend Yannapii, effectively debuting three times in his career as a VTuber.

2022
On 04 February, Soma left the VTuber team he was part of, going back solo.

On 02 April, exactly two years since his first debut, Soma celebrated his 2nd year anniversary as a VTuber. He showed off new overlays and announced future projects. Soma also released a cover of "Wanting Getting Wanting" by Demondice, who he is a big fan of.

On 01 June, Soma once again hit 1,000 subscribers on Youtube, over a year in working to get to where he was after starting over, the previous year.

Quotes

 * "gagu pare"
 * "COME ON FIGHT ME"
 * "WHAT DO YOU MEANNNN"
 * "I know I like mommy archetypes, but you're not my type" (Soma to a tall Kuchisake-onna from the game Ghostwire Tokyo)

Trivia

 * Soma loves the Touhou Project, a Japanese bullet hell series.

Twitter hashtags

 * #tamatori - Fan tag
 * #rigellustration - Fan art
 * #rigelLIVE - Live tag