Fuwawa Abyssgard

Fuwawa Abyssgard (フワワ・アビスガード) is an English speaking Virtual YouTuber associated with hololive. She is set to debut in 2023 as part of hololive -Advent-, the third generation of members of hololive English, alongside Shiori Novella, Koseki Bijou, Nerissa Ravencroft and her twin sister Mococo Abyssgard with whom she shares her YouTube channel and Twitter account as the unit FUWAMOCO.

Profile
The fluffy older twin sister of The Demonic Guard Dogs, who were sealed away in The Cell for being a pain in the godly behind, Fuwawa Abyssgard is "The Fluffy One." Her duty is to calmly look after her younger twin sister Mococo and their pet Pero, but that calmness can be short-lived. Ultimately, she is a bouncy and boisterous girl who loves to chat and play.

Background
Following the debut of hololive English second generation -Council-, hololive English announced a permanent English language audition page on 30 December 2021. An update to the audition page on 7 September 2022 sparked speculation of an upcoming English third generation.

The FUWAMOCO YouTube and Twitter accounts were originally created on 12 May 2023, one day after the rest of the group's accounts, although they contained no content at this point. Fuwawa and Mococo share an account.

The third generation of hololive English, -Advent-, was first teased on the hololive English Twitter account with a short video on 22 July 2023. This was followed by another teaser video on 23 July, showing five new characters.

On 25 July, the hololive English YouTube channel posted a video titled Wanted!, revealing the five members of -Advent- and announcing their upcoming debuts. At the same time, the FUWAMOCO duo also posted a short teaser video and made their first tweet.

All -Advent- members' YouTube channels reached 100,000 subscribers within twelve hours of the announcement.

Debut
They are set to make their debut stream on Sunday, 30 July 2023 from 8:45 PM to 9:30 PM PDT (Monday, 31 July 31st from 12:45 PM to 1:30 PM JST).

Mascots and Fans

 * They have a pet named "Pero," short for Perroccino. Pero was the twins' mentor, and they first met in the demon world.
 * "Peropero" is Japanese onomatopoeia for the sound of licking, such as a pet might do.

Name

 * Fuwawa is from Japanese onomatopoeia "fuwafuwa", meaning "fluffy." It matches her title as The Fluffy One.
 * Abyssgard is a portmanteau of "abyss," meaning a bottomless pit, such as The Abyss in Dungeons & Dragons; and "gard," meaning either a guard, or an enclosed area of land, as Midgard or Asgard of Norse myth.
 * She writes her name in western name order. In Japanese, she writes it in katakana, commonly used for foreign words.

Lore

 * The duo are referred to as the Twin Demonic Guard Dogs of hololive English -Advent-.

Miscellaneous

 * She is designed by ICOMOCHI, who coincidentally is also a twin.
 * Her Live2D rigging is by Jujube, who rigged various other VTubers including hololive members Hakos Baelz and Usada Pekora, as well as now retired VTuber Amano Pikamee.
 * The pair's role as a duo of guard dogs invites a comparison to Gere and Freke, Odin's guard dogs in Norse mythology. Along with their pet Pero, they are also compared to Cerberus, the three-headed dog who guards the gates of Hell in Greek myth.

Media

 * FUWAMOCO Ch. hololive-EN - YouTube channel
 * Fuwawa Abyssgard's corporate profile on hololive.hololivepro.com
 * @fuwamoco_en - Twitter account

Twitter hashtags

 * #FUWAMOCO - General
 * #FWMCpix - Fan art