User:Scalesinger/Tuski Brown

Tuski is an English VTuber with a light, gentle voice. The streams have wholesome vibes with occasional tangents on Tuski's occupation as a butler who works for a private detective.

Tuski will also occasionally Tweet on artist Katy133's account, signing posts with "-Tuski" when they're written by him.

Introduction Video
https://clips.twitch.tv/RacyEnticingTrayRedCoat

Personality
Tuski is a polite, calm person with a love of tea and jazz music, talking about sipping tea and playing jazz music during livestreams. He does not like mess, taking pride in cleaning Detective Mel Ambrose's office, and talking about how messy the place originally was with a shudder. Tuski is not knowledgeable with technology, needing help from Mel to learn how to use Twitch.

Lore
Tuski is a cat who was born in 1915. He became a butler to Eugene Ambrose around the 1920s-1930s.

During the 2010s, Tuski meets and partners up with private detective Mel Ambrose, and together they solve mysteries.

Between cases, Tuski livestreams detective and butler-themed games. Mel set up the VTuber equipment and software for Tuski. The first game that Tuski debuts with, Tally Ho!, was recommended by Mel, describing it as a "butler simulator."

Although other characters have not made an appearance on streams, Tuski often references other people, including Detective Mel Ambrose.

It is left unexplained how it's possible for Tuski to have been born in 1915, yet able to Twitch stream in 2020, whilst still remaining 22 years old.

Background Development
Tuski was created by Katy133, a Canadian artist, animator and game developer. Tuski's 2D rig was created using Live2D.

Katy133 began posting screenshots of Tuski's rig on the 15th of October 2020, later showing videos of rig tests two days later. On the 18th of October 2020, she posted a video of Tuski's rig miming a karaoke of the song Titanium titled, "Tuski Sings Titanium Like It's Still the 1920s."

Tuski made his Twitch depute on the 24th of October 2020, also releasing recordings of the streams on YouTube.

Tuski is a character from an upcoming game called The Butler Detective, a mystery visual novel set in the 1930s. Comics and artwork of Tuski can be found on Katy133's DeviantART gallery, with art of Tuski dating back to 2014. Katy133 says she first had the idea for The Butler Detective in 2010, and plans to start development on the game once she has finished her current game projects.

Katy133 says she plans on improving the rig (adding tail animation and additional expressions) in the future.

Fans

 * Tuski's fanbase is addressed as Detectives.
 * Fans ship Tuski Brown with Detective Mel Ambrose. The ship name is "Melski."
 * Tuski appears to lean into this by roleplaying as a butler who falls in love with his employer (named Rory Wintermint) while playing the game Tally Ho! Mel is Tuski's employer.
 * Viewers of the livestreams on Twitch can collect Brownie Points (the name for the Twitch channel points) to give to Tuski, requesting Tuski to read them an Aesop's Fable.
 * All members in Katy133's Discord server is given the Detective role. $5 Patrons on Katy133's Patreon get exclusive access to a Discord server, which focuses on Tuski and has Tuski's face as the server's icon.
 * A fandom headcanon explaining how Tuski can use Twitch in 2020 despite being born in 1915 is, "Everyone stopped believing in time in 2020 so it stopped existing."

Trivia

 * Tuski's creator, Katy133, has created several videogames, including Dear Devere, Last Meal at Cafe Mori, Eight Sweets, The Heart of Tales, Must Love Jaws and Three Guys That Paint. The majority of her games are visual novels of various genres.
 * The books in Tuski and Mel's office are existing books with covers viewers can read or recognise if they zoom in on them. The books include: Various Penguin books, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Terror of St Trinians, The Catcher in the Rye, Infinite Jest, The Adventures of Tintin, The Illustrated Sherlock Holmes Treasury and Bird by Bird.
 * Tuski is Eurasian (British/Chinese), currently living in London, England.
 * Tuski has Type I (juvenile) diabetes. The box and armband strapped to Tuski's left arm is his insulin infusion pump. In pictures of Tuski that are 1930s-set, Tuski does not have the infusion pump, as small plastic ones had not been standardised yet.
 * Tuski is transgender. This was first expressed when Katy133 was posed the question, "How would your characters celebrate national pride holidays?" and Katy133 replied with artwork of Mel giving Tuski a pin with the trangender flag colours as a gift.
 * Eugene Ambrose is Mel Ambrose's first cousin thrice removed. Meaning, Eugene is Mel's great great grandparent's sibling's son.
 * Mel drives a blue 1975 Reliant Robin. It is a UK-made three-wheeled car known for falling over a lot. Tuski hates it, but it's Mel's pride and joy.
 * Mel is asexual. This has been shown with artwork of Mel wearing the asexual flag's colours as a shirt and as a bracelet.