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 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 (aka 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, 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. 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. 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, at least to some).

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 decal 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 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.)

Nowadays, you'll hear her playing all over the place, doing whatever kind of tuba thing she feels like at that moment: soft, loud, lyrical, bassy... whatever! 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 with a sousaphone... but she tends to blow when you least expect it if you happen to pass by. She tries to do that mostly towards unsuspecting friends, but never in a "following a fat person" kind of fashion (without consent, that's just rude) and others may be caught in the blast. She may be more careful within her shared office space as to not scare the penguins, but she won't hesitate elsewhere... ;3c

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).

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. 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 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. 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.

Instruments Owned

 * A rotary (like the valves of a french horn) 4-valve tuba. (The only one I actually have IRL, but sometimes it's drawn differently in fanart.)
 * Two sousaphones she takes around to play while walking. Fayelinya 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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