Kaela Kovalskia

Kaela Kovalskia, also known as Ckia, Ela, Elagator, Goriela, Grandmaela, Kaela-shin, Kaelegskia, Koala, Omela, Penguin, Skia and The Blacksmith, is an Indonesian Virtual YouTuber endorsed by hololive.
== Charactah Account ==
After taking over her great blacksmithing teacher's forge, Kaela felt a lack of excitement in her life. So, she decided to be free and depart on a journey to find rare smithing materials, one of which was rumored to be under the building of a certain "idol group" in town. She also loves challenging herself and has a peculiar taste when it comes to foods.
Kaela appears to be a pretty calm person. She barely raises the voice even when she becomes angry. Kaela is known for her particular laugh, as she always laughs silently. She likes flirting a little with her chat as well and other VTubers like Vestia Zeta. Kaela also likes to tease other people. Despite admiring Ouro Kronii more than any one else within hololive, Kaela likes to compete with her at any opportunity. On the other hand, when people send back her compliments and kindness by telling her she is cute, Kaela stalls in a deny.
Kaela is an obsessional video game player. Among all hololive members, she stands on top for the longest average stream time. Frequently, she extends her gaming streams in order to do her favorite activity, which she calls "grinding". Most of her colleagues have learned after some time to acknowledge Kaela as a frightening worker when it comes to farming and getting experience on certain video games, which led to them regularly calling her as an impromptu gaming collab partner, even if it is just for emotional support. Despite these numerous requests, Kaela is always patient and happy to help, with patience being one of her strongest qualities. Following Moona's lessons on Minecraft, Kaela's dedication and experience earned her a strong reputation in all hololive. Thus, many Japanese members started calling her a god.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Holo no Graffiti
=== Video Games ===
* HoloCure
* Idol Showdown
== Trivia ==
* Kovalskia is related to the Polish name Kowalski or Kowalska, meaning "blacksmith." Similar names appear in other eastern European languages, where they are among the most common surnames in their respective countries (similar to the English name Smith).
* Kaela possibly came from the wordplay of Leyak (localy called Leak), an Indonesian evil mythcial creature that’s supposed to be Barong’s nemesis.
* Kaela, or Kaera, is a Japanese female given name.
* Kaela Kovalskia is the youngest and most successful apprentice of a reknowned blacksmith. However, even after achieving success, she felt unfulfilled and left to visit the city in search of a rare material. Her search led her to to the hololive headquarters, where she was hired as a member.
* Kaela explained much later after her debut her whole lore is strongly inspired by her real life experience until she joined hololive. The key behind her lore, the rare material she was running after, is in fact "happiness" itself.
* Kaela spends 40% of her time gaming and 40% swinging hammer. She also likes reading, writing, cooking, and swimming (5% each), and wishes she had the superpower to do all of these at once.
* Kaela's favorite anime are K-On!, Grave of the Fireflies, and Spirited Away.
* Kaela's favorite food is bitter food, spicy food, instant noodles, and mushrooms.
* Kaela's favorite drinks are mineral water, hot tea, soy milk, and bitter gourd juice.
* Kaela's favorite games are League of Legends, Hearthstone, the original Diablo II, cooking games, party games, and simulator games. She also enjoys Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy.
* Kaela is a particular fan of Sakura Miko, Tsunomaki Watame for her humor and singing, Oozora Subaru for her entertaining collabs, Mori Calliope for her friendly attitude, Ouro Kronii for her voice, and Ninomae Ina'nis for her drawing skills.
* Kaela dislikes spiders and lizards.
* Kaela dislikes big cities and crowded spaces.
* Kaela's most disliked foods are bean sprouts, dairy products, sweet food, and sweet drinks. She prefers unsweetened drinks.
* Kaela's least favorite games are memory games and FPS games.
* Kaela's planned content includes a lot of gaming (including tournaments and gaming with viewers), collabs with other VTubers and YouTubers, a talkshow or gameshow, a "Tutorial Chamber," "#Kaelaboration" streams, and a "Pejuang Senin" ("Monday Warriors") stream every Monday morning.
* Kaela's goals are to inspire people, learn Japanese, reach 777k subscribers, build a positive community, host a lot of talk shows, and have a lot of friends so she can play all the party games in her library.
* Kaela's dreams are to have an original song, live a worry-free life, finish Getting Over It, collaborate with publishers or developers, set up a proper streaming studio with good internet connection, and finally acquiring the rare crafting material held in the hololive office.
* Kaela's outfit is inspired by the barong, a mythical creature of Bali, Indonesia.
** Unfortunately, Kaela is often mistaken for a penguin. This is compounded by her surname's similarity to "Kowalski," which is the name of a penguin character in the Madagascar franchise. Although Kaela is quick to remind viewers that she is not a penguin, she has taken the meme in stride, and even adopted the term "Kaelanalysis" for the title of some streams and as her Minecraft user name (a reference to Kowalski frequently being asked to provide his analysis of a situation or object).
* At 173 cm, Kaela was the tallest active female hololive member, beating previous record holder Pavolia Reine by 1 cm, until Nerissa Ravencroft, at 175 cm, broke this record.
* Kaela shares the same illustrator as Suntory Nomu.
* Kaela's hashtag "ElaonDuty" is inspired by the Teemo's quote "Captain Teemo on Duty," he is a character from the LOL game.
* Kaela started swimming lessons when she was 3.
* Kaela played badminton, swam and shot hoops when she was younger.
* Kaela has gained a reputation among fans for streaming often and for a very long time, to the point that she regularly spends as much time on her regular streams as others would spend on endurance streams. A common remark from fans in other time zones is that they watch Kaela stream before they go to sleep, and when they wake up they find Kaela is still streaming. Anya Melfissa pretends sometimes Kaela is part of hololive EU (standing for Europe).
* After being coached by Moona, Kaela embraced grinding for materials in Minecraft. Only a few days after their second collab, Kaela even managed to acquire over 20 Elytra, a rare and highly-sought item that can be used to fly. Even Moona, a prolific Minecraft player herself, was awed by Kaela's feat.
* A running gag between Kaela and her fans is the phrase "Get some help," abbreviated in chat as "GSH," which Kaela uses whenever she reads a comment or superchat that is flirty or off-color.
* Kaela's silent laugh has been the subject of speculation, with many fans assuming that she mutes herself deliberately or her microphone automatically cancels it out as ambient noise. According to Kaela, her laugh is naturally quiet to begin with and replacing her microphone would not increase its audibility on streams. In some situations, usually collabs, she will laugh hard enough for it to be audible.
* Kaela admitted she never watches movies, because she is always spending too much time on gaming.
* Kaela used to play League of Legends for 50 hours straight with only 2 hours of sleep.
* Kaela considers 69 to be her lucky number. This consideration was born after Kaela saw Moona calling herself "Moona69", which made people laugh, and she adopted it after opening her membership on a 9 June.
* Kaela was nominated hololive ID coolest member and best comedian in 2022.
** About being best comedian, Kaela keeps denying and rather seeks for Anya's title as most serious one.
* Aside Indonesian and English, Kaela revealed she took Chinese lessons (in traditional script) around 10 years ago and still conserves few basics, including the bopomofo table.
* After reciting a poem on her 3D debut, Kaela revealed she developed her writing skills in a phase where she tried to live from her own books, back when she was still student. She went far enough to participate in a national competition, and obtained a cup for the second rank.
* M-chan (her manager) said Kaela she is one of the most fit hololive members if not the fittest, as Kaela demonstrated her sport abilities to prepare her 3D showcase.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Kaela Kovalskia at Virtual YouTuber Wiki
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