Haato Akai

Akai Haato, also known by her Haachama personality, is a female Japanese Virtual YouTuber associated with hololive, debuting as part of its first generation of VTubers alongside Yozora Mel, Aki Rosenthal, Natsuiro Matsuri, and Shirakami Fubuki. Haato appears to be a classic tsundere who teases her fans by calling them kimo ota (creepy otaku),among other things and sometimes flusters easily. She is mostly calm to where others can find relaxation in her streams, with Minecraft specifically of note. She has also been referred to as seiso (pure) by even the higher ups (managers, ect) that they told the other hologirls, as stated by Houshou Marine, to use her as the example of purity. When playing video games, Haato has considerably more confidence than actual skill, which usually ends up biting her in the back. She is infamous for her ear-splitting scream, and often releases these screams even when not playing horror games. Fans refer to these brutal screams as "Haato's blessings." However, after the introduction her own nickname as "Haachama" around early 2020, originally intended as a less formal nickname to "Haato-sama", her personality underwent a radical change to the point that the fanbase started considering both Haato and Haachama as two different personas while other hololive girls simply disregard the change in behavior as Haato trying a different kind of character. But as time went on and her channel got wilder, around mid-February 2021, it became very clear that the Haato and Haachama became separate entities, which eventually started creeping out her fellow holo-members such as Omaru Polka and Oozora Subaru even when they were talking to Haato. Haato typically freezes or comes close to mindbreaking anytime she reads or repeats Haachama's name. On top of this, when her sanity is intact and talks to Haachama, she expresses a distaste for Haachama's childishness and games directly to her. Haato is also clever enough to take sleeping pills before bed so to paralyze Haachama when she takes over. Unlike Haato, Haachama can be described as an Eldritch Baby that loves repeating her name. With a fondness for Haato's Candy Gothic Lolita outfit, she adopts a very childish personality that can sometimes borderline on evil, unsettling or insane despite her cutesy, giggly, playful demeanor. Haachama does whatever comes to impulse. She does nothing to discourage creepy behaviors, and frequently does weird, creepy things herself such as sniffing her own feet, and decorating her home in Animal Crossing: New Horizons with lewd drawings of herself and Tsunomaki Watame and even going so far to fondle Haato's breasts whenever she feels discomfort. Though Haato compares her fans to pigs, Haachama seems perfectly content to (metaphorically but most likely literally) splash in the mud right next to them. Her sense of humor is extremely deranged even by hololive's standards. She often publishes short, random clips that make little sense even to Japanese listeners, sometimes pretends to be Akai Haato via a clone she made. This contrast in personality with Haato's lead fans to joke about Haachama killing Akai Haato, something that she was happy to play along with such as: pretending Haato doesn't exist or doesn't know her name while giggling uncontrollably during the "Trapped Haato" arc, to even actually beheading her at the end of the brief "Haato's Amnesia" arc. She also enjoyed mocking her fans who were worried about Haato, as if the fate of Haato's life was all just a game to her. Haachama shows an extreme amount of distain towards Haato stemming from a (currently) vague promise. She loves to psychologically haunt Haato, such as leaving signs around Minecraft of her greeting resulting in Haato subconsciously freezing (evident by her blank stares) despite not knowing clearly who Haachama is yet. Haachama also expresses a toxic sense of awareness and possessiveness over Haato's lifestyle, such as stalking and criticizing her for streaming while she's sleeping without her permission, leading to her beheading Haato in her "#FREEHAACHAMA" stream as "panishment" (typo intentional). The following stream had Haato's decapitated head searching for her body and stitched back on like a Haaton. It didn't take long for more tormenting to continue. However, not all of Haachama's actions towards Haato are inherently violent or traumatizing, as in a now member's only stream simply titled "H", Haachama tried childishly pranking Haato and the chat by smearing lotion all over Haato so to make her think she was covered in seed when she woke up and to frame members of the chat for it for fun. While initially vague, it became clear in a stream renamed "#Bad End" that Haachama has various reality altering abilities, such as walking in a parallel reality to effect the real world around her (similar to a ghost or Onryo), making illusions become real (such as clones, beheadings or her own physical presence) and, of course, fusing herself with Haato while she sleeps to take control of her. But as powerful as Haachama is, she isn't always the smartest when it comes to controlling her surreal abilities, as during the era in which Haato was trapped inside Haachama (as seen in a now unarchived stream titled "[DEBUT STREAM] #HololiveEN0") she was tricked by Haato into singing "Faded" by Alan Walker which literally started fading her out of existence and freeing Haato from her being for a few days, seemingly with amnesia. However, in spite of their extreme differences, both Haato and Haachama share some common traits such as using cropped lewd art as video thumbnails, and questionable cooking skills as seen of various streams previous to the introduction of Haachama, but as Haachama she started a series of cooking videos in which she commits unholy atrocities ranging from boiling beef in a mixture of Mentos and cola, melting marshmallows over sliced ham or, worse yet, cooking and eating tarantulas and scorpions on fish and ramen. Under extreme circumstances, however, the two are capable of communicating face to face. Haato greets her viewers with "Oha-rouge" while Haachama prefers to use "Haachama-chama."