Fayelinya

Fayelinya (full name: Fayelinya Luna) is a shy cat girl and a staff member in the BVA's Drawpile Wing. She works on that shyness, eagerly helps with anything Drawpile-related with her better-than-average computer knowledge.

While she's gotten recognition for her help in Drawpile-related activities, she's also known as one of very few canonical musicians in the BVA as a tuba player. It's kind of hard to miss that fact now that she's not too shy to share. Maybe you've heard her playing around the BVA recently? With how loud (and low) she can play, it’s very hard to miss!

Artist Background/Bio
Fayelina is a regular and staff member in the Egg PAC, having joined since it first opened to the public, She especially helps with the community Drawpile as well as being the main person running the official Egg PAC Twitter. She has been a long-time lurker and fan of content creators such as Chuggaconroy (Emile) and Stephen Georg, finding each of their channels at a young age after a spark of curiosity led her to looking up Nintendo-related things on the Internet and YouTube. She did not interact on the net at all until joining StephenCraft in the summer of 2014, where she and her first and closest internet friends met each other. She is still in contact with a handful of these people, even though they've all gone separate ways since.

Lurking otherwise continued in Lucahjin, Tom Fawkes, and others' streams until 2018, when she finally started talking in FireLordBrooke (Josh’s wife)’s community and lurking in Jon's Twitch occasionally. Around the same time, she immediately joined in on the bandwagon of then-soon-to-be internet grandparents StephenGeorg and MalMakes as they started streaming on Twitch for something other than their annual charity stream: a breakfast chatting stream that's been running bi-weekly since late 2018 with very little (serious) reason not to. Faye also unlurked in Jon's chat in late 2019, and was around when RosaJon became a thing.

She has been a fan of TheRunawayGuys since inception and happened to already follow many of the creators that would eventually become “TRG friends” and gather for the annual charity event, TheRunawayGuys Colosseum. It’s almost like magic that one Let’s Player would lead people places and bring them together as a happy family…

She's also a concurrently self-taught musician; the tuba theme is no joke! She started learning tuba in late September of 2021, practically as a late birthday present to herself after yearning to play since childhood. She received her own tuba in mid-November 2021 from an online friend promising to take good care of it, continuing learning in her free time, and playing in ensembles with it (the latter as of 2023).

As for games, she likes some choice pickings of things but tends to not finish them or get to new games in her backlog, usually from being "too busy". In her childhood, she may have also been: A) too young to understand mechanics, or B) too scared to play (and fail at) certain levels, like the castle or athletic levels in Mario (or platforming in general) and Mario Kart Wii's twisty and winding Rainbow Road. That's just a few reasons that explain her middling clear lists outside of select Kingdom Hearts, Pokémon and Sonic games even now, though she's grown out of those fears over the years. And yet, she hasn't even done a "proper" solo Minecraft or single-character Terraria run. She prefers to be a casual fan of all the franchises she plays games from, staying away from heated drama and toxicity at all costs. Despite her neutrality and playing Devil's Advocate at times, she does prefer playing Nintendo games and consoles more and are most familiar with them, especially starting at the Wii/DS era.

Character Backstory
Fayelinya is a result of wanting the Drawpile to be written into BVA lore as she makes an OC of herself, but she still has a legitimate backstory:

Fayelinya was once infected with a sort of kitty virus when she was young. The exact details are no longer clear to her, but she vaguely remembers that it was a part of some sort of "prank" she was dragged into one night despite suffering physical consequences. She was cured from the incident, but she managed to keep the cat ears. Finding the change cute, she accepted this fate of perpetually being a cat girl.

She has a big interest in tech. Her exposure to computers from a young age led her to be a helpful volunteer and eventually a staff member at the BVA. You’ll most likely find her somewhere in the Drawpile Wing of the BVA (usually in her office tagging random posts or whatever). When she isn’t playing tuba or drawing (and learning about it in the process), she mainly volunteers with the mostly-weekly Egg PAC Drawpile. As a personal project, she also upkeeps a Drawpile gallery online and asks for wall spaces around the BVA to post old and new Drawpiles on. Any and all server fires and penguin problems in the wing may have slowed that down, however, though she’s also taken a hiatus from upkeeping it after 100 total sessions had been done.

She is most notable for being a tuba player (and one of few BVA or Egg PAC members who are known to own and play a physical instrument. While she was once shy about this fact, regulars of the BVA and the Egg PAC see it no surprise to find Faye carrying a tuba or sousaphone (marching tuba) in and around the BVA even while she’s working. She started playing tuba at a very young age, playing in the school band when she was younger. With her shy demeanor, this was a boon as she was able to stay in the back, mostly hidden from sight, but never unheard and always supporting the sound of the band. Eventually breaking away from this shyness—especially as a statement against gendered instrumentation—Faye has become synonymous for “tuba girl” around town. Who says that girls can’t play such a wonderful and beautiful instrument? It’s really fun!

You’ll often hear her blasting out tunes—and very loud foghorn-like doots—often when you may least expect it, but she has lots of fun with it. She loves the tuba with all her heart first and foremost, alongside low-pitched instruments in general. Eventually she would like to gradually learn how to play most of them!

Character Personality
Fayelinya is known to be quite shy, but is also tries to help out where she can. While she tends to stay in the sidelines, she often helps behind-the-scenes as a supportive figure or filling an otherwise helpful role, much like a tuba would in a band/orchestra. She tries to avoid conflict and attempts to dispel any arguments. She hates violence and will usually cower in fear by the sight of it, as per the events of Digital Shadow.

Give her a tuba and suddenly she’ll speak—and play—as if she wasn’t ever an introvert to begin with! As if by magic, her demeanor changes to a more playful and talkative type. She can and will nerd you out if you let her, as she loves to was poetic about the tuba like how the Kanto Pokemon Fan Club president would about Rapidash. She first showcased this side of her during the "marketable plushie arc" of the Digital Shadow incident, causing others to think they were hearing a distant foghorn from a supposed ship they were expecting to arrive. (In truth, since it was Halloween when this happened, it was just for her to "have a jolly" out of scaring people with sudden blasts from her tuba.) Though it may have come as a shock at first, people come to expect seeing the cat girl to also have a tuba on her like it’s nothing…typically without expecting a loud foghorn back. She can’t guarantee she won’t abuse expectations by never playing around unsuspecting people, however. ;3c

Her wide range of playing styles on tuba reflect her personality. One day you may catch her playing the most soft and lyrical-sounding piece to dispel the most stereotypical view of a tuba, or you may catch her playful side scaring people with more intense orchestral-style playing (like playing the bass line of the Jaws opening theme). It depends on the mood She may be pretending to hold down the bass for a jazz or polka band, or serenading the local Drawpile penguins with a lullaby. It all depends on context, really, but she loves to show the multiple sides of tuba playing that people don’t typically recognize are all in the same package.

Booru Curse
Her growing art skill makes her feel extremely envious of others. While she claims to be inspired by her fellow artists and the content creators she follows closely, she often feels left out of the "fun" stuff and tries to get as close as possible to the action to no avail. While being friends with many of those involved in such things, she may pass by them in public with feelings of jealousy but outwardly tries to be as supportive as possible towards them like any other. These feelings translate to her involvement in the Drawpile team, inspiring others to keep going no matter what. Suppressing these feelings has developed into a Booru Curse in which her golden blonde hair turns cinnamon-brown and her music note hair clip turns black with the note stems flipped. In this form, she tends to put her hair up in a single, medium ponytail. She also puts cinnamon sticks on the backside of her hair and on the ends of her side bangs.

Other Trivia

 * Fayelinya's backstory is linked to Faye's time in StephenCraft, a defunct fan Minecraft server for Stephen Georg that was run by fans. The "prank" described above was a joke done one night to change everyone's in-game /nickname to denote that they're a cat. Faye took it a step further and changed her skin to an orange cat. The skin stayed on for several years, even past the point when StephenCraft was put down.
 * Fayelinya's other job in the Drawpile Wing is to keep the worker penguins fed with fish, to her chagrin. Her "uniform" and tuba need to be cleaned constantly from fish smells and stains (her tuba even ends up as a "cornucopia" of fish at times... they don't know any better).
 * Because her name is shortened to Faye often (and wasn’t always “Fayeli nya ”), the “nya” in her full [user]name is often overlooked and left out.

Outfits Owned

 * Penguin Kigurumi: She's cursed to wear a penguin kigurumi as a "uniform" for the Drawpile Wing to blend in with her co-workers. The penguins don't know the difference. This also doubles as her only coping mechanism for the freezing temperatures of the Drawpile Wing. When she doesn't need to be in the Drawpile Wing, she almost never wears it out of wanting to wear what she wants. She has many outfits that she wouldn't otherwise get to show. At least it feels comfy and warm to keep her sane. She washes this constantly to get rid of a fishy smell that ends up catching onto it because of her "line of work" at the office.
 * Bunny Girl Leotard: As a seasonal staff member of the Booru Voodoo Arcade, she dons a dark green leotard with black or white tights depending on the time of day and what kind of sousaphone she's wearing.
 * Maid Uniform: Before the first BVA Cafe got taken over, she joined in on the maid and butler craze of 2021, serving drinks and tunes to customers.
 * Dirndl: Her first Halloween outfit; a brown dress with a white apron and green ribbon very much inspired by Faye (Fire Emblem)'s outfit design. She wore this when she first showed off her tuba to some unsuspecting people in the BVA during the events of Digital Shadow. There's a Christmas variant of the main dress in red.
 * Witch Costume: Her second Halloween outfit that mimics her favorite ink color scheme in Splatoon 2 (and now Splatoon 3): purple and orange. She didn't get to wear it much the first year...
 * Christmas Dress: A festive outfit gifted to her by Luci in 2021, with help from Dovi, as a token of their friendship. She can be seen wearing this even outside of December (if it's cold enough, like in the Drawpile Wing) because she loves it so much.
 * RosaJon hoodie/Green hoodie: She has her own RosaJon hoodie that may or may not have glitched space magic. It doesn't immediately make her bustier, however. It's personalized with a yellow bass clef decal in place of the star insignia on one of the pockets, and the back reads "Tuba Girl". Also, one of her green hoodies has the same RosaJon star insignia as this one, but she doesn't know how it got there.
 * Zero Suit: She got this outfit for playing Metroid: Zero Mission, her first 2D Metroid game, for the first time in October 2021. The next year, LovingSakuraKat ended up with the same thing after playing the same game in August.
 * Summer Bikini: Inspired by a bra design that Mimoriru made up, she added detached sleeves and a bikini bra to complete the set. She may be found wearing it underneath her other clothes in the summer.
 * Tuba Lass (Fancy Dress): A green formal dress given to Faye by Princess Skyler.
 * Tuba Princess: Her "magical girl" outfit with a golden dress that mimics the the bell of a tuba. In certain lighting it shines like metal.
 * Yukata: Rhyme gifted this to Faye on her birthday, inspired by certain BlazBlue characters and the Japan trip she took a few months earlier.

Instruments Owned

 * A rotary 4-valve tuba. (The only one I actually have IRL, but some fanart may present it otherwise. “Rotary” valves are the same kind of paddles you see on a French horn.)
 * Two sousaphones she takes around to play while walking. She prefers the lighter weight and the pretty white color of a fiberglass sousaphone, but she also owns a silver-colored one that's heavier but flashier.
 * A bass trombone, baritone sax, and bass clarinet she's rarely seen with because she's learning how to play each of them. She uses the latter as a broom for her witch costume that's ready to play at any time!

Gallery
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