Mado

Mado (マド） is an independent English Virtual YouTuber who debuted on December 17th, 2020.

Profile
A cactus fairy who went to the human world to become a VTuber, giving up her magic in the process.

Mado enjoys playing indie games, weird RPGs, visual novels, and classic games from the GBA and DS era. She also sings opera, draws, voice-acts, and develops her own games.

Appearance
Mado appears to be a small, plush-like fairy; similar to mascots such as Kudamaru, a star fairy, or Nakanon, a lotus fairy.

Her body is completely white, save for two yellow, circular marks on her cheeks. She has four fingers on each hand. Two cacti are attached to her head, each with four yellow spikes. Both of the cacti have white flowers and pink centers, but the flowers’s number of petals differ; the right cactus’s flower has five petals, whereas the left cactus’s flower has four. The smaller white flowers within Mado’s hair also differ; the right flower has four petals, while the left has three.

On top of this, Mado has a third, smaller cactus as her tail, with a four-petalled flower growing from it. Unfortunately, this cannot be seen outside of her drawn turnarounds, as she is always facing forward.

Mado’s eyes are a bright green-blue, with yellow-white highlights. They are framed by a pair of large, black, circular glasses; ones with two lashes on each side. She also features a cat-like split lip. Her mouth hides many sharp teeth of differing sizes.

Mado’s hair is bright pink and styled in a bob. Her skirt, suspenders, buttons and shoes are the same color, as well as the ribbons that circle her blouse’s sleeves, collar and front. These sections of the blouse also have lace. Mado’s blouse is mostly white; as are her circular skirt clasps, socks, heels and petticoat. As well as this, Mado’s collar has a yellow flower with three petals, a white center, and two green leaves.

Debut
Mado created her YouTube channel on October 14, 2012. However, she seldom used the account, aside from uploading animatics and comic dubs that she made in her spare time.

Prior to becoming a VTuber, Mado was well-known on other platforms as an illustrator, comic artist and game developer. She first appeared as Virtual YouTuber on December 17, 2020, when she made the debut stream CACTUS FAIRY MANIFESTING.

2021
On October 31st, Mado had her first collaboration; playing a game of Among Us with several other VTubers across Twitch and YouTube.

On November 27th, Mado celebrated 1,000 YouTube subscribers. This coincided with her birthday.

2022
On January 5th, Mado released her first commercial visual novel, Bad Faith, on Itch.io. She later released the game on GameJolt and Steam.

In late February, Mado celebrated 5,000 YouTube subscribers. The increase in subscribers came from one of her animations (Misery X CPR X Reese's Puffs (Fate/Stay Night)) going viral.

On March 15th, Mado was killed by a passing meteor. In the process, she become infected with Meteoritis, and her ghost streamed for two future streams. Coincidentally, she also announced the debut of Mado V2; a wholly remade version of Mado.

On March 19th, Mado V2 made her debut; featuring greater movements, several expressions, and physics. Most importantly, Mado V2 gained teeth, which meant she could eat solid foods. This debut also gave Mado's overlays a complete makeover; from new chatrooms to new intro, pause and ending screens for her streams.

On April 1st, an infant version of Mado made her debut. While she entertained the chat for nearly an hour, she was soon "disposed of" by the adult Mado. Mado later explained that the infant Mado was a runaway clone. Since then, the infant has not made any reappearances.

On May 20th, Mado hosted a concert to celebrate her graduation from her university's 5 year dual-degree program. She officially graduated from university on May 22nd.

On May 23rd, Mado opened her channel memberships, as well as her official Discord server.

Events

 * On April 2nd, 2022, Mado was featured on Indiepocalypse Radio, where she talked about the development of her visual novel, Bad Faith.

Fans

 * Mado's fans are officially known as the "Prickly Pals."
 * As a running joke, Mado sometimes refers to them as the "Sussy Cactussies", but her fans always reject the name.
 * Mado's memberships are known as the "Prickly Pal Perks." Among other privileges, Prickly Pals who join gain their own infant Mado clone.

Trivia

 * Although her image color is pink, Mado's favorite color is actually yellow.
 * Mado has a twin sister known as Clu. Prickly Pals have nicknamed her "Wado"; framing her as the "evil twin" to Mado's "good twin" (similar to how Wario is portrayed as an "evil counterpart" to Mario). As a mad scientist, Clu clones Mado for fun and thrashes her opponents at Quiplash. On April 22, 2022, Clu's appearance was officially revealed.
 * Mado is lactose intolerant.