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Clara Dogford is a female English-language VTuber. A variety streamer who mainly plays action/adventure and roleplaying games, Clara is also known for her singing.
She was previously known as Clara Slimeford. Originally a slimegirl, she re-branded as a golden retriever in 2022.
Personality[]
Clara is an upbeat and kind person. She is often forgetful while playing games. Clara is bad at math, and will frequently ask her community for help with calculations.
Appearance[]
Clara Dogford has has pale skin and blue eyes. She has two floppy dog ears. Her hair is blonde, tied into twin messy braids. She usually tops her outfit off with a teal beret style hat that has a brown ribbon tied in a bow along the side. Her usual outfit consists of a black tank top underneath a teal sweater and a brown plaid skirt that has a hole along the waist for her tail. Although she is part dog she has stated numerous times that she is not fond of collars.
History[]
Background[]
Clara's Twitch channel was registered on 12 January 2021. Her YouTube chanel was registered on 18 January 2021, and her Twitter account was registered in the same month.
Her earliest Twitch stream is dated 25 January 2021, using the VTuber tag. A clip dated 29 January 2021 shows her using the Clara Slimeford model.[1]
2021[]
On 27 February she held an official Clara Slimeford debut stream on Twitch. It reached 13 viewers at peak.
On 29 May she held a re-debut event on Twitch.
On 6 August her YouTube clips channel was registered.
On 18 September she began a subathon, in which she debuted new a tracking setup.
On 1 December she revealed updated tracking.
2022[]
On 31 March she debuted a new model.
On 11 July Clara announced an upcoming rebrand from Clara Slimeford to Clara Dogford.[2][3]
On 23 July the character of Clara Slimeford officially retired. She took a week to prepare for the re-debut.
On 30 July she held her re-debut stream as Clara Dogford.
2023[]
On 1 April she debuted two new models.
On 3 June she debuted a summer outfit.
On 26 August she re-debuted with the new Clara Dogford 3.0 model.
2024[]
On 10 March she reached 10,000 Twitch followers.
Mascot and Fans[]
- Clara Dogford's mascots are the Ruffians, which are small dog like creatures that despite not being the most intelligent are prone to chaos and generally harmless shenanigans.
- Her fans are known as Howligans.[4]
Trivia[]
Lore[]
- Clara Slimeford was born in a different world, full of monsters and adventurers. Slimes were hunted by adventurers for their large experience gains.
- Clara made a deal with a demon lord to escape that world and go "to a place where adventurers would never find her." Thus, she was sent to Earth.
- She brought her cousin Clarence, as well as her older sister Clarmilla, along with her.
- After the dimensional shift, Clara Slimeford went back to her own dimension and in her place a new Clara variant by the name of Clara Dogford settled in this dimension.
- According to Clara Dogford, since every dimension has a "Clara -ford" that they will occasionally switch places with one another in order to take in new experiences. They have a pseudo hivemind that allows them to coordinate for the most part although that doesn't stop some Clara's from having personalities that vary greatly from the others. This phenomenon is referred to as 'The Claraverse' and is stated that there is even a Clara Humanford(?) that is drifting among the multiverse as well.
- Clara Dogford is a golden retriever.
- Despite being able to travel the dimensional rift to swap with other Claras she has no other (announced) supernatural powers/abilities.
- Clara's only decent stat is Charisma. Her weakest stats are Constitution, Strength, and Dexterity
- Her Halloween costume of Cyber Dog Clara comes with colored contacts. It also still has glasses since Clara has poor vision.
- From her origin dimension Clara has stated that golden retrievers are not the only types of dog-persons.
- She does have a tail that tends to wag on its own.
- She has, per her own admission, only ever chased her own tail once... that's been recorded.
- Her height of 5'4" includes the ahoge.[4]
Likes and dislikes[]
- Clara likes mushrooms, RPGs, cooking, singing, and Broadway musicals.
- Clara dislikes energy drinks, canned tuna, mangoes, and hurt tummies.
- Headpats are the preferred method of contact.
- Her favorite games are the Elder Scrolls series, Animal Crossing, Bravely Default, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Monster Hunter, and Pokémon.[4]
- Her favorite manga are Witch Hat Atelier, Sousou no Frieren, Dungeon Meshi, Marriagetoxin, and My Sister, the Cat.[4]
- Her favorite anime include Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Princess Jellyfish, Yuru Camp, Flying Witch, Romantic Killer, Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury, Servant x Service, and Working!!.[4]
- Her hobbies include gunpla, musical theater, drawing, and learning language.[4]
- Her skill include singing, voice acting, drawing, video editing, and being the world's biggest weenie.[4]
- Her favorite food are boba tea, takoyaki, kewpie mayo, mushrooms, and seafood.[4]
- She dislikes canned tuna, licorice, celery, cilantro, and cottage cheese.[4]
- In gaming, her romantic preferences aer MILFs, DILFs, glasses, doctors, Ford from Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns, Cecilia and Molly from Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life, and Dylas from Rune Factory 4.[4]
- Her goals are to release a song cover, to do more karaoke streams, to reach 5,000 YouTube subscribers, to become Twitch partner, and to have 3d full body tracking. She plans to do mor RPG content, voice acting, music, first-time playthroughs, and meme reviews.[4]
Miscellaneous[]
- She suffers from Gastroesophageal reflux disease. This makes it hard for her to eat a great variety of foods, including tomato, mint, caffeine, alcohol, carbonated drinks, and spicy food.[4]
Credits[]
- Her 2023 Clara Dogford 3.0 model was illustrated and rigged by YUMI, but the tail art and rigging was by Kuroama.
- Clara's original model and outfit was designed and modeled by Ibby Wondrous. Ibby also designed Clara's eyebrows, and created concept art for Clara's new eyes. Clara designed her eyes using this concept art.
- Clara's level four model was designed and rigged by herself, with the outfit designed by HulaFlat.
- Her earlier 3D models were a combination of VRoid model assets, rigged by herself:
- Clara's standard outfit features beret, socks and shoes by Sakuman45, hair and texture by seranakupopo, cardigan by mumyo_0108, chest texture by yakumo_sayo, skirt from VRoid default, and glasses and eye texture by herself.
- Her Bunny Suit outfit features hair and texture by seranakupopo, outfit by Hulaflat, socks by WonderfulP, shoes from VRoid default, and bunny ears by herself.
- Her Halloween outfit features clothes by Ofuji, horns by Junkyard, hair by Himawari Hachi, and eye textures, ear textures, and nails by herself.
External Links[]
Media[]
- claradogford - Twitch
- Clara Dogford Ch. - YouTube
- Clara Dogford Clips - YouTube clips
- claradogford - Twitter
- @claradogford - TikTok
- claradogfordvt - carrd.co
Hashtags[]
- ClaraArtford - Art hashtag
Statistics[]
- claradogford - TwitchTracker stats
- claradogford - SullyGnome Twitch stats
- claradogford - Social Blade Twitch stats
References[]
- ↑ https://clips.twitch.tv/BusySaltySparrowStoneLightning
- ↑ Dogford, C. [@claradogford]. (2022, July 11). Clara Slimeford is rebranding
Read: https://tl.gd/n_1ss33va [Tweet]. Twitter. - ↑ https://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1ss33va
- ↑ 4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10 4.11 Clara Dogford Clips [Clara Dogford Clips]. (2023, September 7). [Vtuber Debut Highlights] Meet Clara Dogford, the Anxious Dog Girl! [Video]. YouTube.