User:Scalesinger/Tuski Brown

Tuski is an English Virtual YouTuber with a light, gentle voice. His streams are mainly playthroughs of story-driven video games, with occasional tangents on Tuski's occupation as a butler who works for a private detective.

As of November 2020, Tuski has over 2,000 followers on Tumblr and over 1,000 followers on Twitter.

Introduction Video
Mel Gifted Tuski with a Vtuber Setup

Appearance
Tuski is an anthropomorphic cat with grey fur, white paws and a white muzzle with a white blaze.

He wears a white collar shirt, a black waistcoat and a tie as his butler livery.

On his left shoulder, Tuski has an insulin pump strapped to himself.

Tuski's character model has a gouache paint characteristic to it, reminiscent of children's books.

Personality
Tuski is a polite, calm person with a love of tea and jazz music, talking about sipping tea and playing smooth jazz during livestreams. He writes and speaks with an educated voice and uses minimal to no swear words. His videos have a wholesome and relaxing tone to them.

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. Tuski also appears to get annoyed by Mel Ambrose's actions, including Mel's references to memes and use of puns.

The two of them work as foils to each other, Tuski being more silver-tongued and graceful (once seen balancing two cups of coffee on his head to avoid spilling them) and Mel being more awkward and chaotic (having trouble talking to clients at his detective agency). Mel knows about memes and pop-culture, while Tuski considers jazz music to still be modern. These clashes sometimes cause Tuski's otherwise calm nature to crack.

Lore
Tuski is a cat who was born in 1915 and raised by his grandfather. He became a butler to Eugene Ambrose around 1935 because he needed the money and Eugene was of a rich family of foxes. During this span, Eugene is framed for a crime and Tuski takes on the role of acting as a detective to clear his name.

During the 2010s, Tuski meets and partners up with private detective Mel Ambrose (a descendant of Eugene), 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. Tuski also knows a white cat named Inspector Snow, though Snow does not appear to like Mel.

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

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 debute 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 2012. Katy133 says she first had the idea for The Butler Detective in 2010, but (due to the large scope of the project) decided to make other games first to learn about game development, with plans to start development on The Butler Detective once she has finished her current game projects and collaborations.

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

Fans

 * Tuski's fanbase is officially 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, the implication being that Tuski is comparing Rory to Mel and himself to the player character.)
 * Tuski's creator, Katy133, has also used memes to create relationship charts for Tuski and Mel's dynamic, mentioning Melski.
 * Viewers of the livestreams on Twitch can collect Brownie Points (the custom name chosen for Twitch's 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. The server has updates on Katy133's various projects and has a focus on Tuski: Naming the general chat channel the "Detective Agency" and using Tuski's face as the server's icon. $5 Patrons on Katy133's Patreon get exclusive access to a hidden channel in this Discord server.
 * 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."

Tuski

 * Tuski's creator, Katy133, has created several video games, including Dear Devere, Last Meal at Cafe Mori, Eight Sweets, The Heart of Tales, [redacted Life ], Must Love Jaws, and Three Guys That Paint, among others. 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 appears to favour narrative-driven video games, particularly ones about detectives.
 * Games Tuski has covered: Tally Ho!
 * Tuski's Twitch alert sound for new followers is a sound byte from the television series Jeeves & Wooster (of Bertie Wooster saying, "What ho, what ho, what ho!"), an homage to Tuski being inspired by the character Jeeves, who is a hyper-intelligent valet.
 * Tuski is Eurasian (British/Chinese), currently living in London, England.
 * Tuski has Type I (juvenile) diabetes. The dark grey 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 officially 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 transgender flag colours as a gift.
 * Tuski has experience in working as a professional chauffeur.
 * Tuski knows how to play the piano.
 * Tuski's name in Chinese is 卓姫.

The Ambrose Family

 * 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 does not appear to be good at driving it.
 * Mel is asexual. This has been shown with artwork of Mel wearing the asexual flag's colours as a shirt and as a bracelet.
 * Mel has blue arm tattoos that require him to shave his arms bald. The tattoos are of various circles. He got them before he met Tuski.
 * Eugene Ambrose is not considered bright, his teachers giving him an education that was described as a "Herculean" effort.
 * Mel has an extreme sweet tooth, wanting several lumps of sugar in his tea. Tuski does not like this (possibly because Tuski has Type I diabetes and has to manage his blood sugar levels constantly).