Finana Ryugu

Dragon-Human Relations Official Ambassador between humans and mermaids (after Arc 4)

### Location

Atlantis (Ryugu Palace)
US, Earth (human form)

### Date of birth

1000 AD (first incarnation)
FROOTLOOP (public)
21 June, Late 1990s (human incarnation)

### Species

Tropical Mermaid
Half-Human half-mermaid (human form)

## Nijime Appearances

### Appears in

Arcs 2-4 (major roles)
Arc 11 (supporting role)
Arc 15 (minor role)

### Debut

Arc 2 Episode 1 (Part 1)
Arc 11 Episode 3 (Part 3)

## Stream Universe Info

### Debut Date

16 May 2021 (attempted)
17 May 2021 (officially)

### Fans

Ryuguards

**Finana Ryugu** is a mermaid (a Tropical Mermaid) who is best known for being the princess of the kingdom of Atlantis. She is a main protagonist in arcs 2-4 in Nijime in Story Reality and is one of the first Nijisanji-EN livers to debut in Stream Reality.

## Etymology

Her first name "Finana" is a pun on the word "fin", referring to her fish fins, and is the nickname she has given to herself, meaning her original name is unknown due to her "fish brains". Her last name is Ryugu, a reference to her ancestor Ryugu who is the progenitor of the mermaids and the royal mermaid line.

It is customary for any member of the royal mermaid family to adopt this name to follow tradition and to reinforce the notion of an unbroken line stretching back to Ryugu himself (even though all mermaids, not just the royal ones, are descended from Ryugu). The name more strictly refers to any of those descended from Ryugu I, the first king of the Ryugu Dynasty, who believed himself to be the reincarnation of Ryugu, his grandfather.

## Appearance and Personality

*"Fish and chips, anyone?"*

Despite being called "feesh" and describing herself using fish imagery, Finana is a mermaid and mermaids are ultimately unrelated to fish, being closer relatives of the dragons, and have existed even before fish evolved. Still, mermaids do appear like fish and have a special kinship to fish. Like other mermaids, Finana's appearance, especially her hair, is meant as a camouflage mechanism to protect her from the threats she may face from underwater wildlife, and when light shines past her, her hair acts like glass crystals and causes it to shine and reflect and refract everywhere.

Finana appears like many of her tropical mermaid brethren in her mermaid form. She has a humanoid form, like all mermaids, and is commonly seen with her purple crown to signify her royal descent and status as a princess. She commonly wears Sea Purprose flowers in her hair, and has fin ears. Her hair is a shade of light blue-green, much like the seagrass she tends to. Her clothes are often tropically themed and involve the usage of shells and other sea creatures. He often is found adorned with the Atlantis Crown. Lastly, she has a powerful tail in place of legs to help her quickly travel underwater, as well as gills to assist in breathing underwater. In her human form, Finana loses her fins, tail, and gills, and replaces them with human ears, legs, and lungs. She also presumably wears normal human clothes rather than the traditional mermaid garb.

Finana first appears to be a soft and innocent mermaid girl to anyone first meeting her, claiming to have a heart as "clean and pure as the beautiful and calm sea". However, once she gets to know someone, she is often quick to unleash her hidden side, which is often bold and as un-seiso as can be. When asked about this dual personality, Finana often insists that people only initially view her as innocent and soft due to it being a common mermaid stereotype reinforced by movies such as The Little Mermaid. Finana insists that mermaids in reality are somewhere between their Disney depiction and the depiction of Sirens from Greek Mythology: neither fully benevolent nor outright monsters that seek only to feed on humans.

In spite of her boldness, Finana is in actuality a very nice mermaid regardless of whether or not she choses to acknowledge this. She cares deeply for her friends and insists that only she be allowed to bully or mess with them. She also gets very involved in whatever she is doing, whether that be an important cause such as a war between the dark and the light, or video games (as seen in Stream Reality). Whenever she is working on a project, she never wants to stop and just wants to finish it.

## History

*"A mermaid who spends her time with tropical fish in the sea of coral reefs. Has a heart as clear and pure as the calm and beautiful sea."*

### Story Reality

#### Pre-Series

Finana was born in Atlantis in 1000 AD in her first incarnation. She was born to King Posetune, the king of Atlantis, and the King's consort, Queen Posetune. Finana, as the firstborn and only child of royalty, is destined to be the next queen of Atlantis and this will happen after King Posetune passes away, but due to the long lifespan of mermaids, this is not due for thousands of years.

As part of the Ryugu Dynasty's Royal Requirements, Finana must accept a responsibility of the people, and hers was to become a Reef Protector. Enrolling in university to learn the tools of the trade at 12 years old, she graduated at 16 with prodigiously high marks. This job enabled her to spend more time outside the castle to get away from it all, as well as being a good excuse to spend more time with her fish friends. Still, she came to enjoy the job in and of itself.

#### Part 1

Finana first appears in Part 1 Arc 2 when Ethyrium is transferred underwater in order to contain its instabilities. There, she is introduced to the four friends by Sealey, the Seal animo that the friends had met and befriended in the previous arc and that was also a mutual friend with Finana, and the one who recommended the Ethyrium be sent underwater in the first place. There, Finana joins the four friends in trying to uncover the secrets of the Ethyrium and in trying to determine how to rebalance it.

Finana and the kingdom of Atlantis take on a major role in the Ethyrian War when they receive the light side of the Ethyrium to become key members of the Lazulight faction, representing the element of Water. During the battle, Finana balances her time helping the four friends on their quest and providing them the knowledge of Atlantis and also serving as her nation's general in the battle.

The two factions Lazulight and OBSYDIA formed as the formerly balanced Ethyrium has started to split into its dark and light components like oil mixed with water, and only the Heart’s Melody can restore the balance. The Heart’s Melody is a prophesized power the dragons and mermaids have been searching for, for millennia, and it allows the user to directly channel the energies of the Universal Celestial itself. This plays a minor role in Finana's interactions with the four friends as they are the embodiments of the Heart's Melody, giving her plenty of ammo to tease them with, but also giving her plenty of respect for their role.

Finana continues to be a main character following the conclusion of Arc 2. In Arc 3, she assists the four friends when people in her kingdom begin transforming into Pomu during Pomufication, just like humans on the surface. However, she is once again often torn between her duty to stay in her kingdom to manage the consequences of the Pomufication and her duty to her new friends in trying to help them stop the process.

In Arc 4, Finana plays a major role by being the one to find the Book of Ethyria, a magical book that appears in Atlantis when the members of the Ethyria Project are ready to heed their destiny. In the process, Finana learns that the four friends, as the children of Ryugu, are actually her distant cousins and that Atlantis, and now her, are playing a part in a billion year destiny. She helps the friends with adjusting to their roles and also in formulating a way to stop the cycle once and for all. While the four friends sacrifice themselves to cast the Anti-Ethyrium Spell, Finana is unable to do so as she is not a member of, or is created by, the Ethyria Project, but she helps supply all her available power and keeps the memory of the friends alive in Atlantis following their deaths, and resolves to continue her search for where the Heart's Melody went following the sacrifice.

#### Between Parts and Human Life

For hundreds of years, Finana continued to live in Atlantis. During this time, she often continued to have audiences with, and meet with, magic users from the surface world to coordinate their civilizations. King Posetune even allowed Finana to adopt new responsibilities in order to prepare her for her role as Queen of Atlantis whenever he would pass on in the next few thousand years.

During the Global Witch Hunt, humanity began to turn on magical creatures, mermaids included. As a last resort to protect the mermaids from further harm, the magical community shielded Atlantis as part of the Great Concealment Spell from human vision in order to protect them from the surface world. However, in the process, Atlantis was cut off from the surface world by the resulting Veil, and there was only limited, if any at all, communication between Atlantis and the magical community/MOSNA.

For long after Atlantis was sealed off from humanity, tropical fish friends of hers secretly passed through the Veil to inform Finana of what was going on in the surface world above. Finana's curiosity began to pique when she was informed of such marvels as the internet and computers as time passed into the 1990s. Wanting to learn more about humanity firsthand in case contact with them ever resumed, and to satisfy her own curiosity about the surface world and what has happened since she last saw it, Finana decided to venture out into the surface world.

After consulting with her parents, they eventually decided to allow her excursion, but Finana could not simply enter into human life in her current form, and getting past the Veil was very difficult. Thus, they resorted to using the Rebirth spell, which has previously worked with Elira, and were confident from their testing that it would be safe for Finana. After announcing her long departure to her kingdom, the spell was cast and Finana's essence had to fight to swim upstream against the current of the Veil dragging her down, but managed to successfully escape to the surface and step onto land. Not long after, Finana was reborn into a human form, her human incarnation.

Due to Soul Amnesia, Finana lost most of her memories, but due to the power of her soul she was able to remember many details about her former life as she grew up. However, she could not recall distant memories like of her birth and experiences during Arcs 2-4, which she attributes to her normal "fish memory" getting in the way of clearing the Soul Amnesia completely. After recovering her memories, Finana would spend much of her human life documenting the surface world and the actions of the people around her, becoming a hobbyist anthropologist. She hopes to one day return to Atlantis and provide them with her notes about humanity.

#### Part 3

At the start of Arc 12, Finana is thrust into the spotlight in the wake of the Dragon-Human Reveal given the connection between mermaids and dragons. After the fall of the Veil, Finana is in charge of reintroducing mermaids to the public and in putting forwards her best foot while also clarifying the common misconceptions people have about mermaids due to the fiction based on them. Finana also works closely with the Iluna Six in handling the subsequent crisis.

Her notes she has taken about humans become invaluable during this reintroduction between humans and mermaids. At the conclusion of the crisis, Finana gains the ability to transition between her human and dragon forms, which enables her to be her true self even in the public. She later returns to Atlantis to resume her duties while returning to the surface every so often. Finana even becomes the official ambassador between humans and mermaids, assigned to the role by her father due to how she is the only one with immense experience working with and understanding both species.

As part of this role, Finana is given an official position on the Dragon-Human Relations board, and coordinates with world governments and international organizations on both the human and mermaid end to help better facilitate the integration and getting-along of the two societies. Due to her nature as a Reef Protector, Finana also began to lead an international mermaid-human collaboration to reduce the damage to the seas caused by human activities, leading teams of her fellow Reef Protectors around the world to clean up and restore overall sea diversity and damaged coral reefs.

In Arc 13, Finana, along with Selen, Petra, Pomu, and Elira inform the group of their millennia long search for the Heart’s Melody, a force granted by the universe itself to counter the darkness, but which has disappeared a millennia ago with the sacrifice of its four components (which Finana witnessed firsthand). Their discussion leads to the insight that Kyo main be its main embodiment. Finana then helps the Iluna Six in their rematch and victory against The Rose, and assists in the final mission to destroy the Darkness in the Battle of Aster's Star.

### Stream Reality

Everything up to what happens at the start of Part 3 above also occurs in Stream Reality.

At the beginning of 2021, Finana, who was living her human life at the time, was trapped by Nijisanji in a time bubble and a RWP was spliced into her consciousness, creating the liver known as Finana. After preparation, she ended up debuting on May 2021 in the wave Lazulight, comprised of her former ally commanders from the Ethyrian War that she had forgotten about until debut due to her Soul Amnesia. Along with her fellow genmates, Finana inherited a piece of the Virtual Moon, which she named Dorufin.

Gaining the desire to stream from this new introduction to her consciousness, the new consciousness Finana merged the desires of her two components by rationalizing, deciding that she would best learn more about humans and the surface world by becoming a VTuber. Of course, this is sort of counterintuitive since VTubers are notorious for not getting out much and "touching grass", and even Finana admits this since when she was asked if she could readily deliver streams, she responded that she was very confident she could since she could not remember the last time she went outside.

Finana's RWP messaged with Luca's RWP in the human world about auditions prior to her debut, and only found out that Luca's RWP did indeed make it into her reality (and into Luca's body) months after his debut.

After debut, Nijisanji has granted her the power to transform back and forth between her two forms at will, which enables her to continue to live her human life while still corresponding with the denizens of Atlantis. She still continues her role as an anthropologist taking notes about human and surface life and sending it back to Atlantis, and can now be her true self whenever she wants to. She most often, when by herself or streaming, takes a half and half approach where she has human lungs and feet but mermaid facial features and hair.

In the stream reality, Finana's fan name is Ryuguards. Her membership has many layers and starts with "Gifted Feesh", then "Ryuguard" after her fan name, "Financers" after her alternate name, "Seamen" after an inside non-seiso joke she has with her fans, and finally "F1-N4N4-CH4N".

## Powers and Abilities

As a royal mermaid, Finana has access to various abilities associated with the sea. Although she is not the most powerful being even in Atlantis and certainly not on Earth, she is valuable for the insight she has and the resources (that of Atlantis) at her disposal.

### Abilities

Mermaid Physiology: As a tropical mermaid, Finana has access to her mermaid physiology, although only when in her mermaid form. This includes enhanced strength as well as powerful fins which enhance her swimming speed up to 40 meters per second, faster than many cars. She also has an enhanced healing factor and increased durability thanks to her mermaid scales (which are almost as strong as dragon scales, which the mermaids inherited from their ancestors, the dragons). Of course, she has gills as well which allows her to breathe and survive underwater indefinitely.

Fish Understanding: As part of her mermaid royal lineage, Finana can bless normally non-conscious fish with limited sentience, allowing her to become fast friends with them. As part of this, Finana can telepathically communicate with the fish and can even see things that her fish friends have seen, so long as they allow her.

Aquatic Life Manipulation: Finana has immense ability to affect aquatic life beyond her Fish Understanding, including powers to control coral and kelp. This makes her invaluable as a Reef Protector.

Aquakinesis: Finana has control over water, giving her the ability to manipulate it up to a certain scale.

Siren's Song: In her mermaid form, Finana can enchant those with the power of her song to a limited extent like a mythological siren, although she, like other mermaids, rarely resorts to this power.

### Weaknesses

Land: As a mermaid, Finana has great power when in water, but on land she is often rendered powerless unless large amounts of water is present for her to control.

Human form: In her human form, she has human weaknesses and can be harmed accordingly. She does not experience the elevated healing rate typical of mermaids in this form.

Forgetfulness: Regardless of her form, Finana has "fish brain" and often forgets things easily.

## Trivia

Finana is often known for saying "mothertruckers!" She also often says "maybe I shouldn't say it" before saying something un-seiso. She is commonly "so embarrassed".

Finana can speak English, Hmong, and a little bit of Japanese after learning these languages in her human form. She natively speaks Fishtongue, a dialect related to Dragontongue.

Finana has many nicknames, including "Feesh" as the most common. She only receives this nickname in the Stream Reality due to debuting with Elira whose tagline is "Sheesh". Finana being considered like a fish, and her debut with Elira who commonly says "Sheesh" caused the two to merge into the nickname "Feesh". Another nickname of hers is Finance, also unique to the Stream Reality. She receives this nickname because autocorrect often converts "Finana" into "Finance".

Finana's human form is ethnically Hmong, and she is bisexual.

In her human form, Finana has taken a liking to custom keyboards, drawing, anime, video games, Doritos and Dr. Pepper, and fashion and cosplay. She also has taken a liking to lots of anime and music, and especially anime OSTs when these two interests intersect.

Finana dislikes many things in her human life as well, including spiders, minecraft mobs (including spiders but also including creepers and skeletons), pineapple on pizza, and when "Finana" autocorrects to "Finance", although she later comes to acceptance with the latter one when she adopts Finance as a nickname.

She claims to have met Cthulhu once but it is unclear if she is serious or not. Of course she could just be talking about Pomu since many consider Pomu to be some sort of Eldritch horror.

She likes stress balls when she is stressed, and often uses her own breasts as stress balls.

She once attended two high schools at the same time just to keep taking Japanese.

In March 2022 of Stream Reality, she and Pomu went on a trip to New York, which Finana considers one of the first major trips in her human life.

Her RWP, prior to joining Nijisanji, was a simple fan of Vtubing, and did a lot of research on VTubers on Youtube. After all this research, she finally made up her mind to audition for Nijisanji after seeing a twitter post advertising for auditions and was able to successfully become Finana as we know her.

## Gallery

Mermaid Form, human feetDressed Up Mermaid Form