Gawr Gura

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Official Bio
A descendant of the Lost City of Atlantis, who swam to Earth while saying, "It's so boring down there LOLOLOL!" She bought her clothes (and her shark hat) in the human world and she really loves them. In her spare time, she enjoys talking to marine life.

Overview
Gawr Gura (がうる・ぐら) born June 20th, which is also the date that the movie Jaws debuted, is a Shark-Human hybrid Virtual YouTuber from Atlantis that debuted as a member of the Hololive English 1st Generation.

Best known for her verbal tic, "A", she is an energetic and amusing Shark with a tendency for pranks. She has a vast knowledge of memes and will often use them in her jokes. Her love to banter between her fans and fellow members gives an atmosphere similar to hanging out and playing games with friends. While she lacks a good sense of direction and a grasp on basic math, she is still quick-witted and clever, solving puzzles creatively and quickly. Her favorite games to play are rhythm, horror, and Western-themed games. Along with gaming, she is an amazing singer with her favorites to sing being City Pop, Anime, and classic 2000's and oldie songs.

Personality
A friendly and mischievous shark, Gawr Gura often plays around with her chumbuds and fellow Hololive members. Best compared to a friend that exchanges back and forth teasing and encouragement, Gura welcomes everyone to hang out and watch her be a dumb shark and do foolish antics. Despite being a over 9000 year old shark, she cleverly uses memes and simple humor as she plays games. Due to unknowingly mistaking the word "Simp" for "Shrimp", it has since been the word to denote someone who is devoted to the shark, either through giving donations, joining membership, or regularly watching Gura.

She also gives useful life advice such as "live life without a care for other people's opinions" and "to do things that makes you happy". She is seen by others to be a "little sister" character to which she says that she is too old to be someone's sister and rather she is a Gurandma (a play of words on Grandma and Gura). While it seems that she gets angry at chat for inciting flat jokes and teasing the shark, she states herself that she is not genuinely mad and it is all in good fun. She is often joking and making fun of chat back. During horror games, she pokes a lot of fun while playing and it could possibly serve as her coping mechanism against being scared. She is hard working and tries her best to give a good streaming experience to her viewers. She works hard behind the scenes to practice her singing for karaokes and doing research for Minecraft or other gameplay. She is also learning the ukulele. Of her fellow HololiveEN members, she gets along with Amelia Watson the best, often joking back and forth with each other. The fun exchanges and affectionate words between each other has lead to the chumbuds calling their pairing AmeSame (Ame short for Amelia and Same for the Japanese word for Shark). They're close enough that they knew what each other were saying during a simultaneous, but not a collab, Minecraft stream. They both like the pairing name and has both encouraged the ship in their own ways. Ame is often watching Gura's streams and has also parodied a song after Gura, calling it "Gura doesn't know I exist". Gura has talked multiple times about how she likes Ame and how much fun she has together.

2020

 * July 16 Twitter account creation date.
 * July 16 YouTube account creation date.
 * Sep. 13 YouTube debut, first uploaded video and achieved a 100,000 YouTube subscriber milestone on her debut stream.
 * Sep. 15 Achieved a 200,000 YouTube subscriber milestone.
 * Sep. 16 Achieved a 250,000 YouTube subscriber milestone.
 * Sep. 17 Achieved a 300,000 YouTube subscriber milestone.
 * Sep. 21 Achieved a 400,000 YouTube subscriber milestone.
 * Sep. 26 Achieved a 500,000 YouTube subscriber milestone.
 * Oct. 02 Achieved a 600,000 YouTube subscriber milestone.
 * Oct. 02 Membership feature opened.
 * Oct. 07 Achieved a 700,000 YouTube subscriber milestone.
 * Oct. 12 Achieved a 800,000 YouTube subscriber milestone.
 * Oct. 17 Achieved a 900,000 YouTube subscriber milestone.
 * Oct. 22 Achieved a 1,000,000 YouTube subscriber milestone. She is the 1st VTuber endorsed by Hololive that has reached this milestone.
 * Nov. 30 Achieved a 1,500,000 YouTube subscriber milestone.

2021

 * Jan. 18 Achieved a 2,000,000 YouTube subscriber milestone during a Skyrim playthrough stream and became the 1st VTuber endorsed by Hololive as well as the second ever Virtual YouTuber to reach this milestone, the first being Kizuna AI.

Stream Rules
For the main page, see Stream Rules.

Gawr Gura has the following streaming rules in her streams' descriptions:

Fans
Her fans are called the "Chumbuds" and "Shrimps" for fans who donate or are part of membership.

Trivia/Shark Bites

 * The very first tweet she made consisted of just "a".
 * Her pet shark is named Bloop. She considers him to be emergency rations.
 * When asked about her age, the specific number changes every time, as she cannot remember what she had decided on last time.
 * Shares the same Illustrator with the following VTuber:
 * Kamiko Kana.
 * Is one of the Hololive Production VTubers with a verified YouTube channel. Other verified members can be found here.

Likes =  Food 
 * Salman (not a typo)
 * Shrimp
 * Kit Kats
 * Pizza (will eat with mostly anything on it including Pineapple)
 * Salty Breakfast (mostly eggs with fish paste)
 * Carrot cake and Salmon Cake
 * The Over-the-Top Chocolate Cakes that you can get like a 12 layer ones
 * Coffee - Prefers to drink it with Almond Milk . Likes to put in Milk and Sugar too
 * Seafood in general such as boiled shrimp, lobsters, scallops, crawfish, and mussels
 * Soup with rice
 * Three Musketeers. She likes putting them in the freezer or the fridge
 * Peanut butter hamburgers
 * Doesn't mind pineapple on Pizza. Pizza is pizza
 * Mangoes, Bananas, Sugar snaps/snap peas
 * Bullied by her friends (playful banter).

Games
 * Rhythm Games
 * Marija (from Muse Dash)
 * Minecraft
 * Skyrim
 * Legend of Starfy
 * Her favorite game is Lockstep. It taught her how to keep on beat.
 * Munchy Monk

Misc Dislikes = Games = Atlantis/Personal Facts = Atlantis and Shark Related
 * The color Blue
 * PWWIE - People Watching Without Intent to Eat
 * Honshou Marine (Hololive Main Branch Gen 3)
 * Salman Shark
 * Kiara's singing (It makes her heart do funny things)
 * The smell of the ocean
 * Learning about Languages, Foods, and the History and Culture of Languages and Foods
 * Stegosaurus
 * Hydrangeas (Favorite Flower)
 * Magikarp (Pokemon)
 * Cute or big and powerful Pokemon.
 * Putting her feet on the glass panel of her PC that she built herself
 * Favorite type of workout is cardio, such as running or swimming. She likes high intensity cardio if she has to do something. She also likes walks and biking.
 * She's a homebody but likes to travel. She likes other cultures and wants to experience as many as she can through communication and food.
 * Watching idols sing and dance and she wishes to be able to do the same.
 * Bass covers are one of her favorite instrument covers to listen to like slap bass.
 * When she was a baby shark, she used to have a nightmares about monkeys and monkey dolls.
 * Peanut Butter Pizza
 * Gura is scared of heights, falling, and flying because she doesn't have wings.
 * M&Ms burns her throat.
 * She used to be afraid of the sound of the toilet flushing.
 * She would wash her hands in a separate room because she didn't want to be where the loud toilet was so public restrooms were a nightmare for her. She's scared of toilets that have a suction so strong that if you got your pants, skirt, shirt, or whatever close to it, it would suck the clothing right off you.
 * Water monsters in any game scares her. She hates them so much that if any type of game has a water monster, she'll avoid them.
 * Gura watched a video from Vsauce and it scared her so badly that she had a hard time sleeping for about a week.
 * She does not like oysters. "Oysters on the half shell? More like boogers on the half shell?"
 * Gura is known to be a bit directionally challenged when it comes to games.
 * She has mentioned liking all genres of music.
 * Gura is known to like Rhythm videogames, and she's really good at them.
 * Gura drew her own loading screen while Ina animated it.
 * Loves rhythm games to the point of it being like an addiction. She gets an itch to play or tap the desk if she hasn't played in a while due to muscle memory.
 * Has played a bunch of rhythm games (Osu, Project Diva, Sound Voltex, Beat Saber, DJMax Respect, Voez, Rhythm Heaven, Taiko, BanG Dream, Love Live, etc) but has not tried others like Deemo and Guitar Hero. She also played Project Mirai DX in the past.
 * Has gotten around lvl 500 in muse dash on a previous account (one of her wishes is getting a song in the game)
 * Has never played rhythm games in an arcade before and one of her dreams is to go to an arcade that has a full array of rhythm games.
 * She's not good at strategy games. She's not good at puzzle games either.
 * Project Diva was one of Gura's first rhythm games and she has played Project Diva Future Tone on PS4 (twice, one for JP release and another for the worldwide release), Project Diva F 2nd on PS3 and Vita, Mirai DX on 3DS, Project Diva X for the Vita, Project Diva: Mega Mix on the Switch". She doesn't think she has played Project Diva F.
 * Project Diva wasn't her very first rhythm game but it was the first rhythm game that she took seriously.
 * Her very first rhythm game was Rhythm Heaven on the Nintendo DS.
 * First time she played Minecraft was on pocket edition lite. She got scared when she heard a zombie and closed the app and didn't open it for many, many years.
 * She started with Pokemon X in the Pokemon series. She likes the cute Pokemon or the big and powerful ones.
 * Her accuracy is 25% as based on L4D2.
 * She owned/owns a Gamecube, Playstation 2, 3, and 4, Gameboy, Nintendo 3DS , Nintendo DS , and a Switch.
 * When Gura played Smash, she played Pikachu. She also played Meta Knight in Brawl.
 * Gura wants to be good at another game (other than rhythm games). She's looking for something that requires speedy fingers.
 * She has the fastest HoloEN time to go to the nether.
 * Her fastest attempt from the start to making the Nether portal is 23 min. From the start to stepping into the Nethers is 23.083 min. This was from her third attempt.
 * First attempt: Start to portal: 25.9 min; Start to Nether: 26.85 min; Start to Death: 35 min
 * Second attempt: Start to portal: 29.23 min; Start to Nether: 30.77 min; Start to Death: 35.5min
 * Third attempt: Start to portal: 23 min; Start to Nethers: 23.083 min; Start to Death: 40.35 min
 * She's a Gura shark.
 * Gura's skin feels like human skin, but her tail feels like shark because she is part human part shark.
 * She says that once you get past 5000 years old things start to get hazy. In her case, she forgets her age, which makes her say a different number every time she's asked. But always remaining between 9000~9999.
 * She possesses a total of 55 teeth.
 * Amelia has mentioned that Gura doesn't know how to swim, but Gura has said otherwise.
 * She has a medical certificate PHP (not a typo)
 * The origin of the scars on her tail were made by her just being a shark. Rough and tough.
 * Gura has gills. She wets them occasionally., on her rib cage.
 * She is trained by the Shark Team 6.

Bloop Facts
 * Gura describes Bloop as being an "Emergency ration".
 * According to Gura, Bloop is the one who bites and not her.
 * Amelia did the Bloop loading screen.
 * Bloop is a shark-shark.
 * Bloop sleeps with Gura. He curls up like a cat with Gura or sleeps on his back with his belly up.
 * Bloop is stuck in his bubble for a reason. Gura goes over the reasons why Bloop stays in the bubble every time.

Personal Facts
 * Gura said that If she was in anime, she'd rather be the antagonist than the protagonist, because that's cooler.
 * She is a day and night shark/morning and night person. She always wakes up 10 minutes before her alarm and gets out of bed really easily. She's also good at night. She'll get tired but she can still keep going. As long as she gets 3 hours, she's okay.
 * Her doctor warned her against jumping out of bed because she would hop out of bed and faint. So her doctor told her to get out of bed slowly. She has to sit up, wait 20 min, swing her feet off the bed, wait another 20 mins, stand up, wait 3 min, then she can get going.
 * Gura occasionally giggles herself to sleep . Her mom also told her that she giggles in her sleep a lot.
 * She did no oversleep or was late to her debut. She had a big technical difficulty.
 * She's more of a cake person rather than an ice cream person.
 * She does not like ice cream cake.
 * She is a self taught singer.
 * It's been a couple of years since she first came to land but she talked about how she enjoyed radio before the TV came around.
 * She used to use HTML to make websites.
 * Gura built her own PC (despite having trouble identifying the components) and has it on the floor. She likes to put her feet on the glass panel.
 * She has such poor circulation that she gets purple and big white spots in the winter.
 * She's nervous about giving life advice. She's a good listener. If you ever need an ear to listen, she has two.
 * She has never had a Baby Ruth before.
 * Gura plays a little bit of guitar and she can play the recorder.
 * She knows how to play the Ukulele.
 * She's practicing the banjo.
 * She has access to a lot of instruments: guitar, electric, bass, ukulele, violin, drums, and banjo.
 * Gura doesn't know how to drive a car but she does know how to change a tire.
 * Gura wanted a bunk bed but she was not allowed because she would fall off and hurt herself.
 * Gura is a green fin and grows her own tomatoes, basil, and even managed to grow a couple of avocado trees. Hasn't had much luck with carrots though because they're small like her.
 * Whenever she feels the slightest bit she's gonna get sick, she instantly thinks of making soup.
 * One day she wants a big greenhouse with every vegetable in it, and would also like to grow her own fruit, like a mango tree and a banana tree. She also likes growing sugar snaps/snap peas; they're very tasty.
 * She has a powerful tail.
 * Gura is Hydrodynamic. It is the reason why she is not Boing Boing.
 * Once she casually knocked herself out (hitting her nose with her knee while sitting on the floor).
 * Gura's desk is made of tempered glass so if she punches it too hard she'll need a broom.
 * Gura is good at hide and seek. Very good.
 * She lost a whole loaf of bread (10/05) and never found it.
 * Her internal alarm wakes her up before her actual alarm does.
 * She likes bald people because you can slap their head.
 * Her tail does NOT come off.
 * Gura got small hands.
 * Gura can write with her toes.
 * She measured her forehead and it's 3 fingers.
 * She has 1 and a half banana worth of space to use her mouse.
 * Her eyes go red when in bloodlust.
 * Gura can get 2 to 4 meals out of a McDonald's burger.
 * She kind of wants to go spelunking.
 * She is a very indecisive shark.

Shark Facts Misc = Quotes =
 * Great White Shark - They have a lot of teeth (like her). They are one of the largest predators in the world (maybe), at least in this world.
 * Tiger Shark - They eat everything (like her). Sometimes they have thin lines like a tiger. That's why it's called the tiger shark.
 * Amelia Shark - She eats sand.
 * Megalodon - They are believed to have grown to 140 bananas (25 meters) long.
 * Whale Shark - They have a big mouth (like her). The whale shark can live up to 100 years. She didn’t expect it to have such a short life span.
 * Hammerhead Shark - They have a head shaped like a hammer's head. Their favorite food is stingrays.
 * Cat Shark - They say nyaaa.
 * Blue Shark - They are blue.
 * Nurse Shark - They suck up their food, like a big straw. It's also similar to conveyor belt sushi where instead of sushi, you get teeth.
 * Dwarf Shark - They are the size of an average Human hand.
 * Lemon Shark - They got their name from the color of their scales, lemon. They taste like lemonade. There also exist pink lemonade sharks.
 * Mako Shark - They are the fastest shark. It goes up to 35 mph.
 * Shark skin feels similar to sand paper.
 * "There's a reason why I'm not boing boing. I'm hydrodynamic, you can't be hydrodynamic if you are boing boing"
 * "Did you know that sharks loses 20000 teeth in their lifetime, that's like 20000 bananas!"
 * "a" is a running joke within her fans in reference to her first tweet.
 * Salman" is also a running joke. In this case, it is referring to her favorite food (Salmon) that she misspelled during her debut stream.
 * Her birthday (6/20), which is not her real birthday, was chosen by her to be the same date as the premier of the movie Jaws (1975). It's also the day when she arrived to land.
 * "(Humans) makes for nice rugs"

Stories
Updated March 19, 2021

Ordered from Newest to Oldest Streams with Timestamps to their respective streams:

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BGM
The following are a list of background music Gura has used in her streams and videos.