Mori Calliope

**Mori Calliope** is an English Virtual YouTuber associated with hololive, as part of its English (EN) branch first generation of Vtubers alongside Ninomae Ina'nis, Takanashi Kiara, Watson Amelia, and Gawr Gura.

## Personality

Calliope is equally excited by both rapping and "reaping". Her favorite weapons include her scythe (nicknamed "Ricky") and the flail, a medieval weapon made from a spiked metal ball on a chain.

Although fluent in English, Calliope often fails to understand current modes of speech, such as the use of contractions or modern slang. She is easily flustered by romance, leading some to call her the "tsundereaper".

## Quotes

* "If you quit when you suck, you'll suck forever."
* "You can be cute and strong at the same time."

## Trivia

* In Japanese, her name is written 「森美声」.
	+ "Mori" is a Japanese surname, written with the kanji 森, meaning "forest". Mori is also Latin for the verb "to die", as in such phrases as "memento mori".
	+ "Calliope" is written with the kanji 美声, normally read "bisei", meaning "beautiful voice". It is read かりおぺ, "kariope", a non-standard reading of the kanji.
	+ In Greek mythology, "Calliope" is the name of one of the Muses, a goddess who presides over epic poetry. It is normally pronounced "ka-LYE-o-pee", which is how Calli pronounces her name.
	+ When speaking in English, Calli usually gives her name in the English order, as does Amelia Watson. The other three holomyth members (Gawr Gura, Ninomae Ina'nis, and Takanashi Kiara) put the surname first, Japanese style, even when speaking English.
* She like slaying people, dark spaces, flowers, stuffed dolls, sweets, the color red, mafia movies, rap (especially Japanese rap; she claims that she met the genre in the Underworld because it was dead), red wine, and “Death Sensei” (the Grim Reaper) as she is a reaper in training.
	+ Because of her passion for rap, Calliope released an original song on her debut stream. She also announced that she would release her first EP for free to thank the support received, including four songs, an instrumental and an acapella version, some of them written by herself.
* She dislikes crowds, coffee, hospitals and cantaloupe.
* Her favorite animes include Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Made in Abyss and Dr. Stone.
* Her favorite games include games from FromSoftware, Ghost of Tsushima, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, weird RPG maker games, and platformers (preferring side-scrollers).
* Her goals and dreams include becoming a great track maker and mixer, collaborating with other VTubers and people, supporting her fellow first gen members, becoming an expert in Japanese, writing and performing an anime or video game opening song, and writing a full album.
* Calliope was the first member of hololive English to debut.
* In addition to English, she can speak Japanese - although she is still learning and actively taking classes on it
* She claims that the Underworld mimics the aesthetic of the current era, so it looks mostly like a modern city.
* Her debut stream experienced some lag. She claimed it was because of the bad internet connection in the Underworld.
* She is the first hololive EN member and seventh hololive member overall to join official hololive Subreddit as a moderator.
* She has a habit of randomly making comical gasping noises that sound like "guh", usually after taking a drink.
* During her second live stream, Kiara revealed her crush on Calliope, much to Calliope's annoyance. This has to do with the fact that Kiara is immortal, so no matter how many times Calliope would kill her, she'd always revive. This has resulted in a long-standing running gag between the two, which eventually became the ship "TakaMori".
* Her EP "Dead Beats" became the number one album worldwide on iTunes on 22 October 2020. This gave a lot of media attention to VTubers during a few days.
* On 13 November 2020, she attended on the 23rd podcast video of Trash Taste, a podcast channel that consists of three Anitubers (Gigguk, CDawgVA, and The Anime Man.)
* She used to be the second tallest hololive Virtual Youtuber, standing at 167 cm, before Pavolia Reine broke that record by standing at 172 cm.