NasueBlueCoati

Nasue is a member of the Egg PAC community.

About
An eccentric from Australia, NasueBlueCoati is a relative newcomer to Jon's audience, watching for the first time in 2018. Before then, they'd dismissed Jon as yet another obnoxious "angry shouty American Youtube man", but between Lucahjin's collaborative LP of America's Next Top Model with him, and his appearances on StephenVlog, it became clear that their first impression of him was mostly mistaken. (They can't tell US and Canadian accents apart either)

Nasue primarily interacts with the community through the Booru and the Egg PAC, and by extension the BVA setting. They're also a regular artist in the Egg PAC's Drawpile group.

Their interests include history (preference for pre-Industrial era, but all history is good history), mythology and folklore, cats, old sci-fi/fantasy art, animals, cats, prehistoric life, nonhuman entities (and the design and writing of such), cats, old computer games, old computer music... that's what they can remember off the top of their head at the time of writing this. They own two black cats.

At one point, after noticing how Jon only ever referred to them as "NasueBlue", they started changing the last word of their nick in the Egg PAC discord. It was daily for a while, but that got tiring, so it just happens every once in a while.

As you can see, they can be very wordy sometimes!

Lore
"BVA-sona", booru-sona, art-sona, fursona - whatever you call it, this is Nasue the Bluecoat. Originally a humble cat-like alien from the seventh moon of, orbiting the star of  , they came to St. Jonsabooru some time ago, and through a series of events wound up becoming a headless cyborg barista with psychic powers.

That was a sentence and a half.

Nasue is the manager of Starbits, or the BVA Café, and also regularly participates on Drawpile Day. They are, however, strictly a noncombatant, only engaging in combat in dire emergencies. This is partly out of fear that the machinery that keeps them alive might be damaged - a very real risk, especially since they're not a combat cyborg - and partly because... well, they can't fight for crap. If they fight at all, they will use every dirty trick they can think of in order to survive.

Personality-wise, they generally come off as a very mild-mannered and quirky-but-harmless sort, reacting to odd things with nothing more than an "oh dear" or a "well, that's interesting". Generally. They're noticeably rather cagey when it comes to their history prior to joining the BVA, as well; it was something like half a year before their species, and the fact that they were a cyborg, was even known.

Also, they are definitely not addicted to earl grey tea. Definitely not. It's perfectly normal to drink 8 cups of earl grey tea a day, honest.

Cyborg implants & mask
Following an incident that saw them get decapitated, Nasue was turned into a cyborg. Since their original head was lost, the new machinery in their body largely serves to replace the brain's functions in keeping the body going. One side effect of this is that Nasue's respiratory system was modified to be completely self-contained, and as a result, they can function normally in environments where normal people would be in danger of suffocating to death. However, they still need regular food and water intake.

(Don't ask how they can drink tea without a head, please. The answer might actually give people nightmares.)

To give the decapitated cyborg a face that other people could look at and talk to, Nasue was given the Holo-Head v.467, a hologram projector based where their neck used to be. The head can look like anything the user wants, but Nasue defaults to a recreation of their original face, albeit tinted blue and with visible scanlines.

Nasue's distinctive mask is effectively their other replacement brain, specifically the new anchor for their soul. The mask is what allows Nasue to perceive the world as if they had their original senses, and is also connected via a psychic link to the machinery in their body, allowing them to control their body without need for psychokinesis.

Curse
Nasue's curse, which manifested shortly before their decapitation, is a form of telekinesis (or psychokinesis, to use the proper term). While most forms of telekinesis involve directly moving the object with one's mind, Nasue can manifest and control a small "cloud", for lack of a better term, of pure kinetic energy. This power isn't particularly strong - at a guess, the limit that the "cloud" can safely lift is around 5 kilograms (11 pounds), which is nowhere near enough to lift an adult human. Instead, they specialise in using it to manipulate small objects in precise ways, such as carrying a cup of tea.

As a side note, this power is often depicted as a visible blue cloud with scanlines. In reality the "cloud" isn't actually visible to normal human vision; this design is purely for visual clarity.

It has been theorised that Nasue may also have a second curse that either renders the "Bigger" effect ineffective on their body, or causes other body parts to grow to ludicrous sizes instead. This has yet to be tested or proven, and Nasue isn't terribly keen on finding out.

Known Transformations

 * Monster girl (Tiger-Brows/Tiger Brew) - Transforms into what has been described as "the horrifying offspring of the Dullahan, a centaur, and some sort of lizard". Their mask transforms into a flaming skull.
 * Tiger'd! (Tiger-Blobs) - Grows an enormous tail, and the holographic head gains tiger-like stripes. What happens to the mask is as yet unknown, but it would probably turn into a stylised tiger face.
 * Dragon (Chill-Rae) - Transforms into a giant serpent. Does not gain a breath weapon; instead their psychokinesis becomes more powerful. Their mask loses the ears in favour of fin-like ears.
 * Meltdown (???) - Forcibly transformed into a tree-like being made of pure kinetic energy, albeit with coat intact. The mask takes on a skull-like appearance. The cause is unknown, but is believed to be connected to extreme emotional distress.

Trivia

 * During one Drawpile session, Nasue decided to do the date and title in a fancier way than usual. This was well-received, inspiring them to up the ante next session, and before long they became the de facto default artist for the Drawpile's titles, subtitles, and dates. They dialed back on this in favour of encouraging other artists to do the title early in 2021.
 * Nasue's username is taken from Nasuella, a genus of coati, and they even used to have a blue coati as their fursona. As a reference to this, their current artsona's mask is based on the face of the white-nosed coati, albeit with the colours inverted. Meanwhile, the character's face takes some inspiration from lynxes.