Ike Eveland

Ike Eveland (アイク・イーヴランド) is a male English Virtual YouTuber affiliated with NIJISANJI EN's fourth wave "Luxiem," alongside Luca Kaneshiro, Shu Yamino, Mysta Rias, and Vox Akuma.

Profile
A Novelist from the past who seems somewhat closed-off. When an idea for his next work sparks, he becomes a completely different person.

Background
On 18 June 2021, NIJISANJI EN opened two sets of auditions, one of which was for an all-male wave Livers. The all-male auditions lasted until 1 August.

On 17 December 2021, NIJISANJI EN announced the upcoming debut of its fourth wave "Luxiem", accompanied by a teaser featuring the new Livers' designs and voices. It was also announced that an original song sang by Luxiem, "Hope in the dark", would be released on the same day of their debut. The song was written and produced by ChibiNyan, who also wrote and produced Ethyria's debut song "God sees all".

Ike's YouTube channel was created on 1 December 2021, and his Twitter account also created in the same month. His first tweet was made on 17 December 2021.

Debut
Luxiem made their debuts on 20 December 2021 (JST) as part of a special debut program hosted on the NIJISANJI EN channel, with commentary provided by Elira Pendora and Oliver Evans.

2021
On 17 December, not long after his Twitter account was made, the account got restricted, triggering #FREEIKE hashtag.
 * On 21 December, for once he had to use NIJISANJI EN official account as proxy to announce his stream as his own Twitter account was still restricted.
 * On 24 December, Ike's Twitter account was finally unlocked.

2022
On 8 January, Ike reached 100,000 subscribers on his Youtube channel.

Fans

 * Ike's fans are called "Quilldren", a portmenteau of "quill" and "children".

Identity

 * Color: #348EC7
 * Occupation: Novelist
 * Ike is proficient in Japanese and Swedish. He learnt Japanese back when he was still in high school, however because he did not continue practicing it after graduation his fluency is not as good as before. He is Swedish.
 * He made his own stream overlay despite not having passion on graphic design.
 * He is lactose intolerant.
 * Despite that, he likes milk.
 * He has kampanaphobia, which is the fear of bells but in Ike's case he is afraid of church bells.
 * He is able to do a heavy/death metal scream, which he kept hidden from his fans until his first karaoke stream.

Preferences

 * Likes: stories in any kind of forms (favourite genres: slice-of-life, romance, horror, "utsu-ge" (depressing game)), junk food, music, wholesome things, cute art, caviar toast, visual novels, soft drinks, and horror movies.
 * Anime: Higurashi, Haruhi Suzumiya, Death Note, Clannad, Plastic Memories, AnoHana, Another, Toradora, Angel Beats, Elfen Lied, OreImo.
 * Games: Pokémon Mystery Dungeon 1 & 2, NieR, Drakengard, Catherine, Resident Evil, Apex Legends, Halo, Visual Novels (Da Capo 1 & 2, SubaHibi, Higurashi/Umineko, Saya no Uta).
 * Music:
 * VOCALOID: Camellia, Yuyoyuppe, Utsu-P (鬱P), kinoshita.
 * Eurobeat: DJ Command, Samfree.
 * Rock & Metal: Spiritbox, BMTH, Ice Nine Kills, My First Story.
 * Hobbies: figure collecting, language learning, songwriting, music production, YouTube binging.
 * Dislikes: spiders, software crashes, heat, veggies, jumpscares.
 * His favorite movie is How to Train Your Dragon.

Miscellaneous

 * Ike shares his character designer with Kanade Izuru of holostars and Nekozeno Shin of NoriPro Gamers.
 * He looks up to Petra Gurin as his NIJISANJI EN senpai because of her musicality and her passion in graphic design.
 * His female persona's name is Ivy.
 * Doesn't drink Coffee

Media

 * Ike Eveland【NIJISANJI EN】 - YouTube channel
 * Ike Eveland's corporate profile on the offical NIJISANJI website
 * @ike_eveland - Twitter account
 * u/Ike_Eveland - Reddit account

Twitter hashtags

 * #IkeEveland - General tag
 * #IkeStreamland - Stream tag
 * #SliceOfIke - Clip Tag
 * #Ikenography - Fan art tag
 * #SpicyIkey - NSFW art tag
 * #YikesMemeland - Meme tag