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?

Artist Background/Bio
Fayelina is one of the Egg PAC's staff members, especially helping 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 (aka Emile) and Stephen Georg, not interacting on the Internet at all until joining StephenCraft, a now-defunct Minecraft fan server made by people in Stephen’s community, in the summer of 2014. Lurking otherwise continued in Lucahjin, TomFawkes, and others' streams until 2018, when she finally started talking in FireLordBrooke (Josh’s wife)’s community and lurking in Jon's Twitch occasionally (until unlurking in 2019). 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.

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 and continue learning in her free time.

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 them 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. She doesn’t mind being called a cat girl; she’s fine with this fate because it’s cute. Balancing out the cuteness, you may see her with fishnets, short skirts, and/or a personalized RosaJon hoodie. Otherwise, she is typically seen wearing a dark green hoodie, thigh highs, and leggings, or a mandated penguin kigurumi for her Drawpile duties.

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 on the 118th floor (usually in her office tagging random posts or whatever). When she isn’t dooting or drawing (and learning how to do it in the process), she mainly volunteers to tag every Drawpile in the Protonbooru for easy searching. 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.

Character Personality
Previously hidden by her shyness, Faye absolutely loves the sounds of low-pitched wind instruments. This led her to love the sound of the tuba at a very young age and playing it in her school’s band when she was younger. This led to her hiding in the back, hidden from sight, and usually not heard as often as the rest of the band due to the instrument’s role. Regardless, she’s not shy to be a tuba girl and supports breaking gender roles in music like such. Who says that girls can’t play such a wonderful and beautiful instrument? After joining the BVA, she's been loud and proud about herself and her tuba-playing habits since everyone seems to be supportive of it (startle jokes notwithstanding).

She loves the tuba with all her heart, which shows in her tendency to play foghorn-like low notes (or bass lines) whenever she feels like it, often without warning and to the chagrin of others. This love extends to her choice of clothing too. Some of her clothes (and even a hairclip she sometimes wears) are adorned with a bass clef somewhere. Even her RosaJon hoodie has the words “Tuba Girl” on the back, and a bass clef replaces the star on one of the pockets. The decals may or may not inhibit the supposed "space magic" of the hoodie itself, but her assets often get "bigger" simply by asking.... among other means never mentioned.

At first, she was only heard playing in the Drawpile Wing despite the freezing temperature making it hard on herself to play in-tune and not freeze up. The first time she played outside the frozen office shocked some people during the "marketable plushie arc" of the Digital Shadow incident, causing others to think they were hearing a distant foghorn. (In truth, since it was Halloween when this happened, it was just for her to "have a jolly" out of scaring people from doots.)

Nowadays, you'll hear her dooting all over the place. You can spot her from a mile away with her big tuba in tow, blasting in a hallway or room with lots of reverb, or walking around the BVA campus with a sousaphone. She only does this towards unsuspecting friends who happen to pass her, but never in a "following a fat person" kind of fashion (that's just rude). She may be more careful within her shared office space as to not scare the penguins, but she won't hesitate elsewhere...

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