Amelia Watson

**Amelia Watson**, also known as **Ame**, **Amechan**, **Ground Pounder**, **Gremlin Ame** and **Armando Watson**, is a Japanese Virtual YouTuber endorsed by *hololive*.

Amelia heard strange rumors online surrounding hololive: talking foxes, magical squirrels, superhuman dogs, and more. Soon after beginning her investigation on hololive, and just out of interest, she decided to become an idol herself. Amelia loves to pass her time training her reflexes with FPS games, and challenging herself with puzzle games.

In the AWA fics, Amelia debuted in the All Worlds Alliance Missions - CROSSOVERDOSE.

## **Appearance**

Amelia is a young woman with an average height, she had a slender frame and a fair complexion, she had shoulder-length blonde hair held by golden-colored monocle-shaped hairclip and she had blue-colored eyes. She wears a light-brown coachman's cape with yellow runes and red belts over a white long-sleeved collared shirt with a red necktie, she wears a brown high-waist pleated skirt, she wears a black garter belt on her right upper thigh that helds several items, she wears a pair of black thigh-high socks with black bands and a pair of brown loafers with black shoelaces. She had a golden-colored watch on the middle of skirt, she had a stetoscope dangling around her neck and she wears a brown deerstalker on top of her head.

## **Personality**

Amelia is a highly eccentric girl who is often seen mingling or teasing her fellow holoMyth members. She is usually kind, supportive, and sweet as shown when she frequently watches her fellow members' streams and often willingly helps Gura in Minecraft. She was said to have helped troubleshoot some of the technical problems her genmates were having before and during debut which led to the birth to the meme Amelia Tech Tips which is a parody of the popular YouTube channel Linus Tech Tips. Amelia is also highly supportive towards hololive members and frequently comments in any ongoing streams whenever she gets the time to do so.

However, Amelia can also be quite mischievous and playfully naughty by pulling pranks on her fellow genmates or making statements and jokes that have inconspicuously lewd undertones, such as naming one of her mines in Minecraft "Gura's Backdoor" with an added lenny emoticon " ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) " that is often used mischievously online.

Amelia also harbors another side of her personality that comically emerges that is often dubbed "Gremlin Mode" by her viewers. She can be greedy, prideful, and unsportsmanlike in competitive online games such as, Apex Legends, and Valorant. For these reasons, fans often refer to her as a "True Gamer." Such kinds of behavior has led fans to also calling her a "True Gamer" in the sense that gamers are often considered to be toxic online. Though it is important to note that this doesn't detract from her positive traits but rather makes her streams quite unpredictable and very interesting to watch. Amelia has a special voice that she uses when she is in Gremlin Mode, which sounds like a cross between a high-pitched wheeze, reptilian screech, and the final breath of a dying squeaky toy. She is not above trolling and calling out her chat if the opportunity arises, such as when she trolled her viewers in one of her Minecraft streams by adjusting her shader's brightness very darkly and innocently claiming that she fixed the shaders for them. Despite these circumstances, she tries her best to moderate her gremlin-like behavior, to varying degrees of success.

Possibly Amelia's best-known joke is "ground pounding your mom," which she said once during a Super Mario Odyssey playthrough in a slightly lower-pitched and "gremlin-like" voice and has since become almost synonymous with her character. She frequently makes similar lewd remarks seemingly out of nowhere. It might seem that Amelia has no filter, but that isn't entirely accurate. She does have a filter, but most of the outrageous things that are caught in her filter end up being said out loud regardless.

Overall, Amelia's balanced chemistry of sweetness and saltiness makes her very lovable as noted by her fans.

## **Trivia**

* In Japanese, her name is written as "Watoson Ameria." This is direct transliteration of her name in katakana, the syllabary normally used in Japanese to write foreign words and names. It is written in Japanese name order, with surname first; in English, it would normally be written "Amelia Watson".
	+ When speaking in English, Ame usually gives her name in the English order, as does Calliope Mori. The other three holomyth members (Gawr Gura, Ninomae Ina'nis, and Takanashi Kiara) put the surname first even when speaking English.
* Ame shares a name with Dr. John H. Watson, the assistant of fictional British investigator Sherlock Holmes. Amelia is also seen with a doctor's stethoscope and syringes; in the original stories, Dr. Watson is a medical doctor who provides medical care for Holmes, among them the provision of various drugs.
	+ Ame also shares the name of Dr. John H. Watson's second wife Amelia Watson, coined by Michael Mallory in the mystery novel *The Adventures of the Second Mrs. Watson,* based on the unnamed second wife of Watson in the *Adventures of the Blanched soldier*.
	+ On 25 September 2020, in her membership promotional video, she revealed her name as "Amelia H. Watson," further reinforcing the reference. However apart from her mentioning this, the "H" in her name is not featured on her social media accounts or her official hololive profile page.
* Prior to debut, a rejected name for Ame was May Tantei, a pun on the Japanese *meitantei* meaning "great detective". Other rejected first names included Olivia and Ophelia.
* Ame is a time traveler. Her pocket watch gives her the ability to travel through time. Her ability was not revealed until 16 September 2020, during her first Fall Guys stream.
* Ame was born circa early 1920s, but transported through time after an encounter with a Lovecraftian entity in a graveyard on a stormy night.
* Ame's watch contains a time crystal. The exact technology is secret.
* A tweet by Amelia implies that her time traveling device is borrowed and she has overstayed her welcome.
* Time travel is not without its risks:
	+ Time travel can cause headaches.
	+ Time travel can cause an Ame's eyes to bleed due to the pressure caused by entering new dimensional time fabric.
	+ Ame once caused a rift in the time dimension while reading.
	+ In one instance, Ame got trapped in a time loop while reading superchats.
	+ Time travel can affect the molecular structure of neurons and smooth brain tissue. Ame uses a device which electrocutes the brain to regenerate brain cells.
	+ When traveling through an interdimensional reality portal, there's a rare chance of being sucked into a wormhole.
	+ Too much time travel is bad for the skin.
	+ Time travel makes loud screeching noises.
* Ame once went back in time to tell Gawr Gura that she would be in hololive.
* Ame once went back in time to make a cameo in Sakura Miko's video from February 2019.
* Ame was responsible for bringing Kiryu Coco to hololive, and ultimately the creation of hololive English. At Coco's graduation party on 1 July 2021, Yagoo asked Ame to travel back in time to 28 December 2019 and shoot Coco with a Watson Concoction dart, causing her to fall onto hololive HQ.
* Ame has never tried to bring another person with her through time. She is unsure if it can be done, and suggests it would be dangerous for the passenger.
* Ame's body contains prototype nanobots to defend against a phenomenon known as Timeline Anomalous Continental Viruses. The nanobots were developed by Ames of other timelines to help with time travel.
* Ame doesn't use time travel to cheat at games.
* Ame claims that to have predicted hololive Generation 6 *-holoX-*, after entering the name "hololive X" as an answer in Jackbox some thirteen days before the announcement.
* Ame is the creator of Watson's Concoction, a powerful substance which can cause hallucinations. Ame is constantly trying to perfect it. However, it can cause various side-effects.
	+ Kiryu Coco produced a similar substance known as *Asacoco*. Before Coco retired, she entrusted Ame with the Asacoco recipe.
* Kiara gifted Ame a spaceship, called the Wat-shuttle. However, she clarified in *【STREAM】TadAiMEma!* (21 Oct 2021) that these are more like just the blueprints to a ship, and she doesn't have the technology to build it.
* Ame previously interned at the Ame Security Corporation, which watches over other Ames. She acquired her CRT TVs from this corporation, which allow her to watch over other Ames, just in case an evil Ame is planning something.
* Ame has also coined the terms *Ametaverse* as well as *NFATs (Non-Fun-Gulllible Ame Tokens)*. These terms were invented to poke fun of the trend of the Metaverse and Non-Fungible Tokens respectively. NFATs are, contrary to most NFTs, absolutely free to share and are exclusive to their respective owners.
* Ame likes roller coasters, sleeping, clear noodles, the color green (because it's the color of trees, plants, and money), iced tea, and dogs.
	+ Ame has four pets: a hunting terrier named "Bubba," whose barks can occasionally be heard on her streams; another hunting terrier named "Mikki/Nikki" (she says she calls her both); a British Shorthair cat named "Wellington," and a kitten named "Henry," who has disrupted her from playing videogames on several occasions. She also has a 5-gallon salt water tank, as well as a 8-gallon fresh water tank currently under construction.
* Amelia favorite cake is "yellow-flavored" with chocolate frosting.
* Amelia likes video games from a variety of genres:
	+ FPS: *Counter Strike: Global Offensive*, Valorant and Apex Legends
	+ Open World: *Fallout*, *The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild*, and *Grand Theft Auto V*.
	+ Puzzle: *Portal* and *Inside*. In 2022 she added *Outer Wilds* and *Return of the Obra Dinn* to that list.
	+ Rhythm: *Rhythm Heaven Fever*, *osu!*, *Beat Saber*, and *Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA*.
* Ame's favorite game is space exploration title *Outer Wilds*. She first played it on stream after accidentally securing permissions to stream it instead of Fallout-style RPG *The Outer Worlds*.
* The videogame Ame doesn't like to play the most is *Terraria*, even outside streams.
* Amelia's favorite anime include *Mob Psycho 100*, *Inuyasha*, *Golden Kamuy*, *Deca-Dence*, *Girls' Last Tour*, and *Made in Abyss*. In 2022 she added to that list *Puella Magi Madoka Magica*, and *Asobi Asobase*, and was watching *Thermae Romae* and *The Orbital Children*.
	+ Ame's favorite manga are *The Promised Neverland*, *Tokyo Ghoul*, *Kawazu-san no Isekai*, *Usotoki Rhetoric*, *Detective Conan*, and *Oogami-san Dadamore Desu*.
* On occasion, Amelia will display her love of marine biology by talking about her knowledge of aquatic life, including random obscure trivia and methods to care for them.
* Ame dislikes dirty monitor juice, loud/high-pitch noises, going outside, wearing clothes to sleep, onions, and peppers. Later Amelia also revealed that she doesn't like soda, as it hurts her throat.
* Ame's goals are reaching 100,000 subscribers (an achievement that she got during her debut stream), investigate more hololive members, improve her Japanese, debut a 3D model, and make a game based on hololive.
* Ame hated the Bee Movie. "I only cringed once during the Bee Movie, and it was the whole time, from beginning to end".
* Ame frequently hiccups during streams. This is caused by swallowing a lot of air, causing what are technically burps, which she makes sound like hiccups because burps are gross. Ame has stream emotes which spell "HIC" for this purpose.
* Ame's birthday, 6 January is supposedly the birthday of Sherlock Holmes. This speculative date was popularized by Sherlock enthusiast Christopher Morley.
* Ame is the second hololive EN member and eighth hololive member overall to join the official Hololive Subreddit as a moderator.
* Prior to her debut, there was much speculation as to whether Amelia would have a British or American accent. In her debut stream, Amelia began using a British accent, but quickly revealed that it was a cover identity for use in investigations. She primarily uses an American accent.
* Amelia has an older brother, who would stay at her house when she is away on a trip. He is also into MMA and has taught and trained Amelia some skills.
* Amelia also has a little brother, who mostly plays ROBLOX and Minecraft with a computer she built for him using old parts along with paint. When she got him Fortnite cards and money for Christmas, he spent the money on more Fortnite cards.
* Amelia can play the ukelele.
* In her debut stream, Amelia gave her height as 150cm, or 4'9" "in freedom units," or 8.427 bananas. However, 150cm is actually equivalent to 4'11". According to the website Banana Length Convertor, which takes the length of a banana as 7 inches, 8.427 bananas is indeed equal to 150 cm.
	+ Ame's profile on the hololive website incorrectly listed her height as 160cm. Ame joked at her one-year anniversary stream that she had changed so much in the past year that she had grown 10cm.
* Ame invented a cocktail known as the Amenade, consisting of blueberry ramune, Malibu coconut rum, and lemonade. She invented it by accident on New Years 2021 when she added too much rum to chilled ramune which had gone flat, which she previously had in a Japanese snack taste testing event with Ina. Ame had to dilute the mix with lemonade, resulting in a delicious drink where Ame couldn't taste the alcohol. A commenter noted, referencing Pop on Rocks: "Take it slowly, this drink is dangerous." Other VTubers to invent a cocktail include Nyatasha Nyanners, who invented the Vodka Poggers.
* Amelia is allergic to gluten. Ingesting gluten causes a rash.
* Amelia is the first VTuber with a butt scratch animation on her character model.
* Ame drew the original concept art for the designs of the VRChat models used by holoCouncil and IRyS.
* In November 2021, Ame revealed that she had a new manager of her own, nicknamed HenMa.
* Ame is known for her initiative and innovation. Examples include:
	+ When hololive English's official 3D debut and off-collabs were delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Ame held her own 3D streams using consumer 3D gear and a 3D model. She subsequently commissioned matching models for hololive -Myth- members and arranged a VR collab. Next, she designed and commissioned models for IRyS and the five members of hololive Council.
	+ Ame once held a collab with herself by using her Live2D model and 3D Smol Ame at the same time.
	+ Ame briefly ran a morning talk show called "Ame in the A.M".
	+ Ame organized the first hololive English offline collaboration to take place outside of Japan.
	+ Ame commissioned the Myth or Treat music video.
	+ Ame wrote the script for the Smol Adventures: Link Your Wish! video and provided sound design.
* Ame viewers popularized the catchphrase "Ame doko?"—Japanese for "Where is Ame?" The phrase is often used when the stream is late, the stream is starting, or Ame is off screen. Variants of the phrase have since spread to other members.
* Ame often uses interesting stream interlude graphics which feature clever references:
	+ Crocodiles often appear in Ame's stream, sometimes dressed as Ame. They reference Ame's channel members who are known as Investigators, "gators" for short.
	+ Yellow pudding often appears as a motif in Ame art. This references the *Puru Puru Pururin* opening theme, which Ame sang at her debut—"purin" in Japanese means "pudding," particularly the yellow sort. *Puru Puru Pururin* is itself an imaginary anime appearing within the actual anime *Welcome to the N.H.K.*.
	+ One stream graphic depicts Ame as a turtle on her back. This references Tsukumo Sana's suggestion that it would be cute to push over the Big Smol Ame mascot who appeared at *hololive 3rd fes* and and watch it flail like a turtle on its back.
	+ Another depicts Ame stamping her feet in a puddle with an umbrella. This references a scene from the anime *Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid*, in which Kobayashi Kann