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Hakos Baelz (ハコス・ベールズ) is a female English speaking Virtual YouTuber associated with hololive. She debuted in 2021 as part of hololive English -Council-, the second generation of members of hololive English, alongside Tsukumo Sana, Ceres Fauna, Ouro Kronii and Nanashi Mumei.
Baelz is currently a member of unit "hololive English -Promise-" alongside IRyS, Ceres Fauna, Ouro Kronii and Nanashi Mumei.
Introduction Video
《DEBUT STREAM》- LET'S GET THIS PARTY STARTED! -hololiveEnglish -holoCouncil
Baelz's introduction.
Profile
| hololive.hololivepro.com |
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| "WAZZUP!! It's your worldwide Rat Idol --- Hakos Baelz!"
Chaos. Mayhem. Entropy..... All in the form of a cute little rat. She is a performer looking for her next stage. Occassionally she will get swept up in her own storm, but thats just part of the fun.[7] |
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| A member of the Council and the very concept of Chaos, birthed by the world, itself.
The Gods appointed her Chairperson of the Council, but she mostly takes a hands-off approach as she has yet to accept the decision, much like her fellow members. That said, all of them have no intention of contending; instead to obey. Her mouse-like appearance has deceived many a fool who fails to realize that mice are the harbingers of chaos. Also of note is her wild smile, which she often flashes in her frequent romps. Chaos is confusion and disarray, it is fortune and tragedy, and it is freedom from all the logic and inherent nature of life. She believes that rules are not the be-all and end-all, which is why she has come to break them all. Watching the aftermath is her greatest joy, and so she remains a bystander to the destruction caused by mayhem.[8] |
Personality
Baelz is essentially a reverse-case Watson Amelia. While she initially appeared to live up to her lore, being almost as chaotic as Kureiji Ollie during the first few weeks after her debut, she turned out to be the most "normal" member of the group, often ending up as the victim of her genmates’ antics and (ironically) stuck in the middle of their chaotic interactions. Her bright and loud character also contrasts with her introverted personality, as evidenced by her odd interactions with other members of Hololive and Holostars. She has arachnophobia, and expressed her discomfort at Haachama's habit of consuming spiders during her time in Australia.
She also has a habit of writing text upside-down (as shown by her first tweet "dnssɐʍ" (wassup), which led to the creation of various upside-down fanarts of her; she later explained that this is a nod to her being from "Australia, the land down under".
Since early after debuting, Baelz is in a chaotic couple relationship with IRyS. They share many tastes and opinions, but also dispute frequently. Consequently, Baelz and IRyS keep "divorcing" and "remarrying" depending on their mood.
Baelz doesn't get many common popular culture references. Because her knowledge is so limited, Baelz is sometimes called a "zoomer", and thought of as some kind of opposite to the old boomer Noir Vesper.[9]
Baelz often demonstrates her Australian pride. For example, she tries to make the world taste vegemite, a traditional local dish. This dedication led her to open the program "BAE-GEMITE" where she invites hololive members to taste it and share their thoughts.
Appearance
She has vibrant red hair in pigtails and black and white streaks with blue eyes and mouse ears. She has a spiked collar and white top with black accents with the word "RAT" and graphics of ears and whiskers around it.
History
Background
Following the success of hololive English in 2020 and 2021, COVER Corporation announced auditions for a second batch of English members from 12 February to 26 March 2021.[10] Twitter accounts for the five new members were created in June 2021 and YouTube accounts created on 26 July 2021.
Teaser videos for the new generation began on the official hololive English YouTube Channel in August 2021. On 1 August, "Prelude" revealed a story of gods creating the four concepts of space, nature, time, and civilization.[11] On 14 August, "Omen" described the creation of avatars of those four concepts plus that of the primordial force of Chaos, revealing five silhouettes.[12] On 17 August, "Council" revealed the five new hololive English members and announced a grand debut scheduled for the coming weekend.[13] Although the traditional term "generation" was not officially used to refer to the new members, who had been referred to as "hololive English Generation 2" by fans, the new members nonetheless formed a group known as "-Council-".
Upon conclusion of the Council debut PV, all five new members' Twitter and YouTube accounts were revealed, and each made their first tweet.[14][15][16][17][18]
On 17 August 2021, around 24 hours after the initial announcement, Hakos Baelz reached 100,000 YouTube subscribers before her debut. However, YouTube soon removed around half of this number, possibly due to the sudden subscriber growth on a channel with no videos yet, which may have triggered a YouTube anti-bot algorithm.
Debut
Hakos Baelz's debut was originally scheduled for 22 August, by Japan time. A -Council- group collaboration on her channel was tentatively scheduled two hours later. However, the -Council- debuts were postponed for 24 hours due to unspecified technical issues,[19] which members jokingly blamed on the "EN curse," a perceived tendency for hololive English members to suffer from unexpected technical problems.[20] The debuts were rescheduled at the same time on Sunday 22 August (US/Europe time) or Monday 23 August (Japan time).[21]
Baelz's debut stream took place on Monday, 23 August 2021 at 8 AM JST (22 August 2021 at 3 PM PDT or midnight BST). She is the fifth and final member of hololive -Council- to debut. Her debut stream reached a peak of over 90,000 viewers, and she had already reached 135,000 YouTube subscribers when the stream started. She finished out the stream by singing Fuwa Fuwa Time, a popular insert song from the anime K-On!, in which she impersonated both characters Mio and Yui from that series. A hololive -Council- collab stream was scheduled on her channel one hour later.[22]
2021
On 29 August, Baelz reached 200,000 YouTube subscribers. She had previously reached this milestone on 23 August, but a number of subscribers had been removed by a YouTube algorithm.
On 4 September, her channel got approved for monetization.
On 23 September, Baelz opened her channel's membership feature.[23]
On 24 September, Baelz's 1 month celebration in the morning (11:30 AM JST). In the same day at night (22PM JST), Baelz held her first official collaboration with another hololive member outside her generation, playing Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes with Takanashi Kiara.[24]
On 12 October, Baelz reached 300,000 subscribers.
On 30 October, Baelz released her first ever official cover song "Happy Halloween" by Junky.[25]
On 24 November, Baelz revealed that she would be taking a break from streaming from 29 November to 6 December.
On 30 November, Baelz debuted a voice actor show called "BaeWatch." The first episode "SCHOOL STARTS!" premiered on the same day.[26]
On 13 December, Baelz received the Silver YouTube Play Button.[27]
On 16 December, Baelz reached 400,000 subscribers during a chess match against Usada Pekora in Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics.[28]
2022
On 6 January, hololive's Twitter account announced that both Myth and Council members would get new year costumes.[29]
On 15 January, Baelz debuted her second 2D costume, a kimono to celebrate the new year. In this costume, Bae got a new hairstyle as she let her hair loose. However, she uses small buns with the tips extending out, resembling her original hairstyle. On the right bun, she has a golden hairpin. On the front of the same side, she uses two white flowers as ornaments. The upper part of her kimono is white, and the opening of the kimono is yellow. To the left side, there is a pattern of five red-stylized petals and white flowers which are connected by yellow lines. On the right side, there is a decoration consisting of hanging squares in an order of blue, black, blue and white. The kimono's sleeves are detached. On the upper part of Baelz's kimono, the sleeves are black and white. The inner of the sleeves are black. However, both the sleeves and the skirt of the kimono are mainly yellow with a plaid pattern in black and white on the edge. The outfit also have pleated portions where the colors go in order from white to red, to white again. These sections are decorated with the same flower pattern present in the upper part of the kimono. The obi has a plaid pattern in white, yellow, black and red, decorated with a blue teal bow. Another bigger bow is on the lower half to the left. The biggest bow of her kimono is on the back. Her tail has a smaller bow in white and yellow. Baelz wears high socks, with the right sock being red and white and the left sock being red and black. She uses red and black sandals. Baelz can also wear a black rat mask to the left of her head, reminiscent of a kitsune mask. She can also hold a temari ball in her right hand.[30]
On 1 February, Baelz announced "Febaerary," a birthday celebration month where she would stream every day leading up to her birthday celebration on 28 February (instead of 29 because it is not leap year), when she would release her first original song.[31][32]
On 22 February, -Council- celebrated their 6 month anniversary on Mumei's channel. They also released a cover of the song "Hikaru Nara" after the stream.[33]
On 28 February, Baelz celebrated her birthday and also released her first original song "PLAY DICE!."[34] During a "BDAY KARAOKE" stream on the night, she said she would rest for about a week and a half.
On 12 March, Baelz reached 500,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel, making her the 3rd Council member and also the 50th hololive member overall to reach this milestone.[35]
On 20 March, her first original song "PLAY DICE!" reached 1,000,000 views.[36]
On 1 April, Baelz appeared as a guest of on Speak of the Devil, the talk show by Ironmouse of VShojo. This was Baelz's first collab outside of hololive, and her first official appearance on Twitch.[37]
On 25 June, during a stream, she announced that she would be taking a break for two weeks and revealed that something would be released on 1 July.[38] On 1 July, her first collaboration product was announced, Baelz of hololive with HYTE and iBUYPOWER had teamed up to release CPU case and deskpad.[39]
On 20 July, during a stream on Mumei's channel -Council- and IRyS debuted "Beeg Smol" 3D models designed by Sana.[40]
On 8 August, she reached 600,000 subscribers on YouTube during a Ring Fit Adventure stream.[41][42]
On 23 August, during -Council- first anniversary celebration, they debuted their first group original song: "Rise," with the music video premiering just after the stream ended. Tsukumo Sana is also featured in the song even after her retirement.[43]
On 2 October, Fauna and Baelz announced the "BAE & FAUNA'S MONTH OF HORRORS," where they would be playing two horror games together each week for the whole of October.[44] The first stream was took place on 4 October.[45]
2023
On 28 February, during her birthday stream, Baelz debuted her third chibi 3D model, also known as strawberry princess model.[46]
On 19 March, during hololive 4th fes "Our Bright Parade" holo*27 stage, Baelz debuted her 3D model.[47]
On the night of the same day, Baelz debuted her 3D idol costume during hololive 4th fes. "Our Bright Parade" DAY2.[48]
On 28 March, she reached 700,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel.[49]
On 31 March, she debuted a series "BAE-GEMITE DOMINATION" where she brought Vegemite, an Australia's favourite national dish, to challenge her fellow hololive production members to try it. Vegemite is a thick, dark brown Australian food spread made from leftover brewers' yeast extract with various vegetable and spice additives.[50]
On 10 April, Baelz announced that she would get her third 2D costume.[51]
On 15 April, Baelz debuted her third 2D costume. Baelz received two new hairstyles using long wavy twintails and side locks, her white bangs have a diagonal cut. In the second one Baelz use a side ponytail while her bangs are tied up. Both hairstyles are decorated with multiple accessories including a yellow "RAT" hairpin, a "85" hairpin meant to represent her last name "Hakos," in Japanese, a blue big star and small stars in her twintails/ponytail. Mr. Squeaks is facing front, standing on two feet and using black sunglasses. On her right arm she has temporal prints representing "CouncilRyS", doubling as tattoos. Bae wears a futuristic outfit using a black top with only one strap and a yellow zipper. On her left arm she uses a long black sleeve. Baelz has a decorative chain with small stars around her waist. Her pants are black and shorter on the right leg where an opening on her hip is also present, and Bae wears a fishnet. The pants' left leg is connected with various brooches. She has a crossed blue belt with a yellow brooch reminiscent of a piece of cheese. Baelz wears white sneakers with yellow, blue and black decorations. Baelz can also wear a short white puffer jacket with red, blue and yellow elements including a cheese-like zipper.[52]
On 5 May, Baelz released her second original song "PSYCHO."
On 2 July, she participated in "hololive English 1st Concert Connect the World."[53]
Baelz 2D model was also updated to the 1.1.69 version. Baelz can blush, wear a microphone and hold a Mr. Squeeks plushie. Mr. Squeeks on top of her head can now mimic her emotions.[54]
On 7 July, Baelz released her first extended play titled "Pandæmonium." During a release party stream on the same day, her strawberry princess model got the second costume "Blackberry Bae."[55]
On 11 July, as part of the "hololive Summer 2023" event, Bae debuted her 3D yukata. These are the same designs that Japanese members debuted the previous year.[56]
On 30 July, as part of the "hololive Summer 2023" event, during a karaoke relay, Bae debuted her 3D swimsuit. The 2023 swimsuits are inspired in a sailor uniform. Members wear a two layered swimsuit, the first layer is blue from the straps going down diagonally to the center where each member has a mostly blue bow but one of the sides and the brooch are in one color representative of each member. The rest of the top is white. The edge has a semi circular cut. The lower piece of the first layer has two variants, one is a two layered blue skirt decorated with a white belt, a golden chain with some decorations hanging from it and a bow to the left and planks to the right. The second version is mostly the same but they wear blue shorts instead of a mini skirt. Baelz uses the shorts. The second layer of the outfit is a matching striped bikini in white and another color depending on the member.[57]
On 27 September, Baelz debuted a new accessory for her third 2D costume. A dark blue tasmanian devil themed cape with decorative pink paw prints and a white fluffy collar and edge. She can remove the cape's cap. Of the -Council- members, Baelz's cape is the only one that doesn't have a bow.[58]
On 30 September, she officially debuted her 3D model on her YouTube channel.[59]
On 9 October, IRyS, Ceres Fauna, Ouro Kronii, Nanashi Mumei and Hakos Baelz announced that they would form the new unit "hololive English -Promise-."[60] While not stated in the 3D collab the closure of "Project: HOPE" was announced on hololive's website shortly after.[61]
On 11 November, she reached 800,000 subscribers on her YouTube during an unarchived karaoke.[62]
2024
On 29 February, during her birthday, Baelz released her new original song "RxRxR" and her first album "ZODIAC."[63]
On 12 May, Baelz debuted her fourth 2D costume. Baelz uses short messy hair with longer thin twintails and two ahoges. In her second hairstyle she uses long wavy twintails, in both her ears are decorated with black and white ribbons. She has black tatoos below her eyes and lipstick. Baelz wears a white a gray blouse with long sleeves and frills, complemented with a black ribbon. Baelz uses black puffy shorts with two diagonal belts. She wears assymetric black boots with crossed straps. Baelz can also wear a really big jacket with some elements in white and red outlines, a white captain's hat, an eye patch, a black facemask, round glasses and hold a megaphone.[64]
Baelz reached 900,000 YouTube subscribers during an unarchived endurance karaoke stream on the same day.[65][66]
On 24 May, during -Promise- half year anniversary, Baelz debuted a tiara accessory for her fourth 2D costume.[67]
On 31 August, as part of the ENigmatic Recollection project, hololive English members debuted a new accessory for their main 2D costumes. They wear the white and blue cloaks first seen in the project's introduction video and related concept art. The cloak includes a blue gem containing a symbol that represents their affiliated guilds.[68]
On 8 October, during -Promise-'s first anniversary stream, they announced their 3D musical "The Broken Promise."[69]
On 12 December, Baelz reached 1,000,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel during an endurance karaoke stream, making her the 48th member in hololive and also the 4th member in -Promise- to reach the milestone.[70]
On 14 December, -Promise- held their musical: "hololive English -Promise- 1st Anniversary Musical: The Broken Promise."[71]
On 24 December, Baelz debuted her 3D Santa costume. The costume has two versions, red and white.[72]
2025
On 20 February, Baelz debuted a 3.0 update for her main 2D model. With this new model, Baelz has a lot more movement. New features include the ability to change the appearance of her eyes (heart eyes, remove the shine, or become redder), cry, stick out her tongue, use a keyboard, hold a controller, and make emotes.[73]
On 28 February, Baelz released her new original song "FEAST."[74]
On 8 March, she debuted her hololive 6th fes. Color Rise Harmony 3D idol costume during the event's day 1 STAGE 2. The costume has some variants, it can be black or white, complemented with a color representative of the talent. The midriff can be covered or not. One has variant has a skirt while the other uses pants, with one leg exposed. Aside for the design featured in promotional material, the costume also includes a short jacket.[75]
Discography
- Main page: Hakos Baelz/Discography
| ZODIAC | 1st album | 1 March 2024 |
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| Pandæmonium | 1st EP | 7 July 2023 |
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Events
- On 26 October 2021, Anime NYC announced that every holoCouncil member would appear in "Anime NYC."[76]
- On 26 April 2022, Anime Central announced that Hakos Baelz of -Council- and Gawr Gura of -Myth- would appear in their event on 21 May at 4:00 PM which was also the first event to participate in hololive Meet of hololive.[77][78]
- On 12 May 2022, SMASH!'s Twitter announced that Hakos Baelz and Tsukumo Sana would appear in their event which would be held from 16 to 17 July.[79]
- On 14 July 2022, Crunchyroll Expo's Twitter account announced that Baelz and other members of hololive English would be appearing as guests in "Crunchyroll Expo 2022," which would be held from 5 to 7 August 2022.[80]
- On 26 July 2022, Seoul POPCON's Twitter announced that Hakos Baelz would be appearing as guest in "Seoul POPCON 2022," which would be held from 25 to 28 August 2022.[81]
- On 9 September 2022, Crunchyroll Expo Australia announced on Twitter that Baelz and Mori Calliope would be appearing as guests in a special panel on 18 September at "Crunchyroll Expo Australia 2022."[82]
- On 1 March 2023, Anime Boston's Twitter account announced that Baelz and other members would appear at their event which would be held from 7 to 9 April.[83]
- On 9 March 2023, hololive's Twitter account announced "hololive EN café," a collaboration with CAPSULE Inc., featuring all hololive English members: Myth, Project HOPE, Council in foods and limited goods. The event would be held from 3 to 23 March 2023.[84]
- On 14 October 2023, hololive's Twitter account announced a collaboration with animate cafe Bangkok in Thailand, featuring Shirakami Fubuki, Minato Aqua, Tsunomaki Watame, Omaru Polka, Moona Hoshinova, Kobo Kanaeru, Nanashi Mumei, and Hakos Baelz in limited drinks and goods, which would be available from 21 October to 21 November 2023.[85]
- On 25 October 2023, hololive's Twitter account announced that Baelz would be a Virtual Navigator for VRChat. This is an ambassador role to introduce VRChat by demonstrating the platform's functions as a VTuber and content creator.[86]
- On 30 October 2023, Riot Games Japan announced that Kobo Kanaeru, Hakos Baelz, Murasaki Shion and La+ Darknesss would perform in 3D LIVE for opening act at Riot Games ONE 2023 offline event. They would perform K/DA's two songs, POP/STARS on 2 December and THE BADDEST on the next day.[87]<[88]
- On 15 February 2025, Bae participated in the DTTO.CUP Apex tournament as part of Astel Leda TEAM along with Astel Leda and Kaga Sumire.[89]
Mascots and Fans
- Her mascot is a red and teal mouse named Mr. Squeaks. He rests on her head.
- On 21 August 2022, Mr. Squeaks had his debut stream.[90] In the stream it was revealed that "Mr. Squeaks" is just a nickname. His full name is "Lord Squeakers" with "Lord" being the last name.
- During the stream Mr. Squeaks revealed:
- His favorite food is "Omelette du fromage," the French phrase for cheese omelette.
- His favorite drink is alcohol. Baelz always drives him crazy, he needs it to exist with her.
- He used to think soda was just for children.
- His fears include Baelz being stupid, Baelz dying, Baelz hitting her head when he is on her head, Baelz shaking her head, Baelz going outside, basically Baelz.
- He is not good at cooking.
- Baelz got angry with him once when he decided to go on spring break without telling her.
- Some of his recreational activities includes sailing and reading a book. Baelz doesn't like sailing because she becomes seasick.
- He likes Felix Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 4 and Maurice Ravel's Jeux d'eau.
- He is a fan of Shakespeare.
- His future plans are unboxing his new wax stamp set, washing dishes, attempting to hold an innovation (intervention) for Baelz, hoping that he can sleep a little earlier, relaxing in the hot tub and go out and enjoy the warm sunshine.
- His goals are to stay alive, keep Baelz alive, re-enact an entire Shakespearian play, try hot chocolate, attempt to play a video game, see Baelz in 3D stage performance.
- Baelz fans are known as "Baerats," pronounced "brats."
- The fan group name was decided by poll during her first post-debut stream. Rejected names for her fan group were "entropeeps" (from "entropy,") "rat pack," and "gate crashers."
- Her members are called "Rat Pack."
Relationships
- Notable units and groups Baelz is part of:
- "-Council-," alongside Ceres Fauna, Ouro Kronii, Nanashi Mumei and Tsukumo Sana.
- "-Promise-" alongside IRyS, Ceres Fauna, Ouro Kronii and Nanashi Mumei. Officially introducing IRyS into the same group as the remaining active -Council- members on 9 October 2023, forming a new five member group similar to debuting genmates.[61] Before this the unit was known as "CouncilRyS" and also included Tsukumo Sana for a short time before her retirement.
- "BaeRyS," alongside IRyS.
- "CHADCAST" (Chaos, Hope And Death), alongside, IRyS and Mori Calliope.[91][92]
- "holorodents," along with Usada Pekora (rabbit), and Ayunda Risu (squirrel).
- "BRO," along with Yukoku Roberu and Kureiji Ollie.
- "ORB," along with Kureiji Ollie and Minase Rio.
- She considers Ookami Mio as her mom, Kureiji Ollie as another mom, and Mori Calliope as her elder sister for sharing the same Live2D modeler.
- "HololiveAustralia," along with Akai Haato, Takanashi Kiara, and Tsukumo Sana.
- "preYdator," alongside Nanashi Mumei.
- "MUFAUBAE," alongside Ceres Fauna and Nanashi Mumei.
- "RoBaelz" (ロベールズ), alongside Yukoku Roberu.
- "InkyaZ," alongside MARUTAKE and Minami Tette.
- "Amber Coin," alongside Takanashi Kiara, Nanashi Mumei, and Raora Panthera. They are guildmates in ENigmatic Recollection.
- "ABS," along with Astel Leda and Kaga Sumire. Team initially formed for the DTTO. Cup tournament, the name was decided in a subsequent collab.
Quotes
- "Wazzup! I am Chaos the end of ends, a steel rose trapped in a cage of ice, your best friend Baelz Hakos from hololive English Promise, WITNESS ME"
- "Boom!"
- "Bruh."
- "SARABA DA!"
- "You wanna go? You wanna freaking go??"
- "Leave me alone."
- "How you guys doinnnn'?"
- "Oh, ma gaaad..."
- "The world is not composed with order alone. Can't you apprehend? Not being bound by anything is the greatest limitation."
- "Time is precious, and time has great booba."
- "Oui oui pp."
- "I'm a seiso idol, I'm a seiso idol, I'm a seiso idol..."[93]
- "I'm actually gonna.. drink some water, please...I'M...H2O."
- "Bonjour, je m'appelle... rat! Um... Omlete du fromage, uhh... ugh... I don't know any other French."
- "Oh yeah, me too."
- "BIG BRAIN!"
- "Bae is stoopid."
- "You're doing great!"
- "That's just rude."
- "I don't wanna lose a lot of wood, but y'know what? Burning is worth it."
- "Hi I'm looking for the owner of KFP? I have my resume here and I was wondering if you guys have any openings?"
- "This game makes zero sense. What?"
- "Oh my god! OH MY GOD! My god...Okay, sweet."
- "...I just wanted to make a hamburger."
- "You just made me sound like a disease."
- "They bite it, and then you pull on it. When. They. Bite. The. Bait. You're supposed to press A."
- "I GOT K'D! NOOOOOOOO!"
- "I FEEL THE POWER!"
- "I will...send you to Jesus."
- "Everything comes back to 'Bruh'. Today's stream is sponsored by Bruh!"
- "ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA!!! *laughs* Oh, that's so satisfying."
- "...I don't want to talk about it."
- "PP is too expensive, I refuse."
- "Stupid rats."
- "'Whose tail is that?' The only one who has a tail...'I'm the only one with the tail-"'HA HA! [laughs] Bruh! BRUH! Hey, yo dev. Wanna hire me for the next game? I can do some script writing!"
- "Hi, Calli, don't watch."
- "I don't like this. I wanna leave."
- "Don't play with the lights! That increases our electricity bill!"
- "Why am I playing a zombie game?"
Trivia
Name
- The name "Hakos" is an anagram of "Khaos," matching her theme as a being of chaos.
- The name "Baelz" may be a reference to the demon Bael, a being described in medieval grimoires including the Lesser Key of Solomon and Pseudomonarchia Daemonium, or Baalzebul, an ancient Biblical deity or prince of demons sometimes equated with Satan.
- In Dungeons & Dragons lore, demons are aligned with chaos.
- The name "Baelz" is also an anagram of "Blaze" as fire is often depicted as the de facto element of chaos.
- Her name is pronounced "bells hake-oss", though most hololive members instead pronounce her name as "bay-lz".
- Baelz reads her name in Western order. However, she rarely uses her full name, considering it too formal. Because of her official name format, some Japanese members and fans call her by her surname, much like Watson Amelia in her early days.
- She revealed that she picked "Bae" as a nickname for herself. Most hololive English members and fans refer to her as this, with some exceptions like Kiara still going by her full name. hololive Japanese members generally refer to her as Hakos.
Lore
- Her species is technically not mouse or rat, but "chaos." However, her physical form is that of a rat. She retains both rat and human ears to hear better.
- She doesn't know her own age, and encourages viewers to "roll a dice" [sic] to determine her age in rat years.
- If a six-sided die is used, this could make her anywhere between 30-180 years old in human years.
- The first time Baelz rolled a die for her age, it was a 9,999,999-sided die and the result was 2,347,180.[94]
- Her birthday is 29 February. Leap years were created by Ouro Kronii to hold Baelz. In the Chinese zodiac, one of the possible animals which leap years fall in is the rat, with the other two being dragon and monkey.
- Her height of 149 cm is equivalent to 7.45 cheese wheels. She sacrificed 8 cheese wheels to stack them up in the yard to check this.
- Her choker was given to her by the gods. She doesn't know what it's for, but she also has the key to remove it.
Likes and dislikes
- Her favorite beverage is coffee. She plans to do coffee review streams.
- Her favorite food is fried cheese.
- She fears the dark and jump scares.
- She has repeatedly demonstrated an extreme weakness to horror games, both when playing them and when watching others play. Baelz mentions that it's paranormal elements in particular that she doesn't like.
- The most notable instance was her Outlast stream, where she got so scared she cried and "couldn't feel her left arm."[95]
- However, she was able to clear Resident Evil Village, with Ceres Fauna watching along.
- They agreed to do this as exchange for Baelz accompanying Fauna throughout the latter's playthrough of Resident Evil 7.
- She has also expressed great interest in Five Nights at Freddy's lore, binging Game Theory's videos, but she wouldn't dare to play the games herself.
- She has repeatedly demonstrated an extreme weakness to horror games, both when playing them and when watching others play. Baelz mentions that it's paranormal elements in particular that she doesn't like.
- Her favorite weekend activity is to sing and dance.
- Her top three anime duos are Izaya and Shizuo from Durarara; Edward Elric and Alphonse Elric from Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (her overall favorite anime); and Tanya and X from Youjo Senki.
- Her favorite game genres are RPGs, simulation games, and Nintendo games. She prefers console games to PC, as there are fewer buttons to press on a controller.
- Her favorite music is anime theme songs, JPop KPop, hardstyle, and EDM.
- Apart from hololive English, the hololive members she watches the most are Oozora Subaru, Yukoku Roberu and Houshou Marine. However, she watches everyone. Her oshi is Oozora Subaru.[96]
- Her goals are to dance in 3D, attend a live voice actor event, make many collabs, be a voice actor in an anime, and create her own coffee drink.
Miscellaneous
- Baelz's emoji is a six-sided die, used both in gaming and as a metaphor for the concept of randomness. The physicist Albert Einstein famously used the term in the latter sense regarding quantum mechanics, stating "God does not play dice." The notion that events may appear random while actually being deterministic is a foundation of a field of mathematics known as chaos theory.
- She shares her character designer with Kaguya Luna and Pinky Pop Hepburn.
- Baelz speaks English, Japanese, some Korean and Cantonese. She is still actively learning Japanese and Korean, and has notably spent over 10 years learning Japanese.
- Her Live2D rigging artist is Jujube. She shares this with Mori Calliope, allowing her to call the grim reaper "sister."
- She uses the pronoun "boku" in Japanese when referring to herself. "Boku" is used mainly by boys, but is also used by tomboyish girls. Other notable VTubers with this trait include fellow hololive members Roboco-san, Nekomata Okayu and Amane Kanata; as well as Ars Almal and Levi Elipha of NIJISANJI.
- Her loading screen pixel art is by Taho.
- During early October 2021 when Japanese and English branches' members visited each other's Minecraft servers, there sparked some confusion among JP livers due to her unusual username ("whatabae"), often mistaken for Tsunomaki Watame; the "victims" of said confusion includes Oozora Subaru, Amane Kanata, Minato Aqua, Tokino Sora, Sakura Miko, as well as Watame herself.[99]
- Baelz is the twenty-second hololive member to join the official Hololive Subreddit as a moderator.
- Baelz has a female Bicolor cat named "Beastie," with two color black and white.[100]
- Standing at 149 cm height, Baelz is the shortest in -Council-. She is the 3rd shortest in hololive EN overall, being only taller than Gawr Gura (141 cm) and Koseki Bijou (140 cm).
- Baelz has an alternate male persona called Hayko, who in-universe is her intolerable cousin.
- Hayko featured in Calvin Morrison (C-MAN)'s April Fools 2022 prank.
- Baelz revealed herself to be Australian after she and Tsukumo Sana appeared in SMASH! Convention in Sydney as the convention is in her home country, thus it's "special" to her.[101]
- Baelz has admitted to texting other holoEN members such as IRyS and Nanashi Mumei on her mobile phone while in the shower.
- Baelz has a font named "Bae Font" which was created by Mei using her handwriting during her learning stream. Currently, the font has been updated to version 1.0 using handwriting provided by her directly.[102][103]
- The impetus for creating the font was when chat pointed out that 'R' and 'K' look extremely similar to each other with Baelz' handwriting. This also made chat tease her by calling her "Haros" Baelz instead.
- On 5 September 2022, Baelz announced a new fan art hashtag "#BaelzBrush" to replace the original ones "#illustrayBAE" and "#ベーアート" when she discovered some accounts were using it to share comics.[104]
- She is well known for being a zoomer and has a distinct lack of knowledge about things from before around year 2010. For instance, she did not know Gamecube is a console, could not comprehend the concept of a pager and thought that PS1 is the handheld one. [9]
- She is associated with the catchphrase "JDON MY SOUL," which originates from a mishearing in a telephone game collab stream.[105]
External links
Media
- Hakos Baelz Ch. hololive-EN - YouTube channel
- Hakos Baelz's corporate profile on hololive.hololivepro.com
- @hakosbaelz - Twitter account
- @hakosbaelz - Marshmallow account
- u/HakosBaelz - Reddit account
- @hakosbaelz_holoen - TikTok account
Hashtags
- #TeleBAE - Stream tag (English)
- #ベール登場 - Stream tag (Japanese)
- #BaelzBrush - Fan art
- #baerats - Fan tag
- #BaeBeatz - Music
- #YABAE - Memes (English)
- #ヤベール - Memes (Japanese)
Former
- #enterbaelz - Stream tag (English)
- #illustrayBAE - Fan art (English)
- #ベーアート - Fan art (Japanese)
- #MADDOOFS - Music
Statistics
- Hakos Baelz Ch. hololive-EN - Social Blade YouTube stats
Further readings
- ハコス・ベールズ - Nicovideo Encyclopedia
- ハコス・ベールズ - Pixiv Encyclopedia
- Hakos Baelz - Moegirl Encyclopedia
- 하코스 벨즈 - Namu Wiki
- Hakos Baelz - Hololive Fan Wiki
