Baelz Hakos

**Baelz Hakos**, also known as **Bae**, **Chaos**, **Hakos Bagel**, **Hakotaro**, **Hayko Baelz** and **Rat**, is a Japanese Virtual YouTuber endorsed by *hololive*.

The physical embodiment of Chaos and the appointed leader of the Council. Baelz, who prefers to go by "Bae", is wild, chaotic, and unpredictable, yet her charismatic leadership and endless support for her peers is as clear as day.

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

## **Appearance**

Baelz is a young woman with a short stature, she had a slender frame and a fair complexion, she had a long vibrant messy red hair with black & white streaks and is tied in assymetrical twintails by a pair of dices, she had a pair of large mouse ears on top of her head with a mousetrap clipped on the right ear, she sports a red mouse tail with a mint-blue ribbon and she had blue-colored eyes with yellow shinings. She wears a black bulky choker with white spikes and a red garter that holds a yellow-colored key at the tip, she wears a white strapless croptop shirt with black bottoms over a black crisscrossed sports bra and she wears a black & white x-shaped belt over a red, white & black racing pleated skirt with a pair of red & mint-blue mouse plushies dangling on her left hip. On her right leg is a black strap belts wrapped around her upper thigh alongside a red & mint-blue puffy loose sock and on her left leg is a yellow sock underneath black strap belts, and on both of her feet, she wears a pair of black leather shoes with yellow-mouse motifs. On her right arm is a detached red & mint-green bulky sleeve with white folds, black & red accents and mint-green ribbons, and wears a black glove. On her left arm is a detached yellow bulky sleeve with yellow ribbons, a cross mark, white folds and black & red accents.

## **Personality**

Baelz is loud, unpredictable, and chaotic. Despite this, she seems to have a talent for leading off in discussions and keeping things as orderly as possible, as seen in the first hololive -Council- meeting. Ceres Fauna even described her as a natural born leader, and Baelz eventually embraced the role of "Leader of -Council-." In contrast to her chaotic nature, she speaks rather fondly of the other -Council- members, and is regarded by them as adorable in turn. Baelz can also be easily flustered if things do not go her way.

Since early after debuting, Baelz is in a chaotic couple relationship with IRyS. They share many tastes and opinions, but also dispute frequently. Consequently, Baelz and IRyS keeping "divorcing" and "remarrying" depending on their mood.

Baelz doesn't know some very popular culture references. Because her knowledge is this limited, Baelz is sometimes called a zoomer, and refered as some kind of opposite to the old boomer Noir Vesper is.[6]

Baelz often recalls her Australian pride. For example, she tries to make the world taste vegemite, a traditional local dish. This dedication led her to open the program "BAE-GEMITE" where she invites holomems tasting it.

## **Trivia**

* The name "Hakos" is an anagram of "Khaos," matching her theme as a being of chaos.
* The name "Baelz" may be a reference to the demon Bael, a being described in medieval grimoires including the *Lesser Key of Solomon* and *Pseudomonarchia Daemonium*, or Baalzebul, an ancient Biblical deity or prince of demons sometimes equated with Satan.
	+ In Dungeons & Dragons lore, demons are aligned with chaos.
	+ The name "Baelz" is also an anagram of "Blaze" as fire is often depicted as the de facto element of chaos.
* Baelz' name is pronounced "bells hake-oss."
* Baelz reads her name in Western order, like Watson Amelia, Mori Calliope, Tsukumo Sana, and Ouro Kronii. However, she rarely uses her full name, considering it too formal. Because of her official name format, some Japanese members and fans call her by her surname, much like Watson Amelia in her early days.
* Prior to her debut, Sana addressed Baelz by a shortened form of her name "Bae," a popular American slang meaning "darling." She revealed this at the beginning of her debut as her common nickname.
* Baelz' species is technically not mouse or rat, but "chaos." However, her physical form is that of a rat. She retains both rat and human ears to hear better.
* Baelz doesn't know her own age, and encourages viewers to "roll a dice" [sic] to determine her age in rat years.
	+ If a six-sided die is used, this could make her anywhere between 30-180 years old in human years.
	+ The first time Baelz rolled a die for her age, it was a 9,999,999-sided die and the result was 2,347,180.
* Baelz' birthday is 29 February. Leap years were created by Ouro Kronii to hold Baelz. In the Chinese zodiac, one of the possible animals which leap years fall in is the rat, with the other two being dragon and monkey.
* Baelz' height of 149 cm is equivalent to 7.45 cheese wheels. She sacrificed 8 cheese wheels to stack them up in the yard to check this.
* Baelz' choker was given to her by the gods. She doesn't know what it's for, but she also has the key to remove it.
* Baelz' favorite beverage is coffee. She plans to do coffee review streams.
* Baelz' favorite food is fried cheese.
* Baelz fears the dark and jump scares.
	+ Baelz has repeatedly demonstrated an extreme weakness to horror games, both when playing them and when watching others play. Baelz mentions that it's paranormal elements in particular that she doesn't like.
		- The most notable instance was her *Outlast* stream, where Baelz got so scared she cried and "couldn't feel her left arm".
		- However, Baelz was able to clear *Resident Evil 8*, with Ceres Fauna watching along.
		- They agreed to do this as exchange for Baelz accompanying Fauna throughout the latter's playthrough of *Resident Evil 7*.
		- Baelz has also expressed great interest in *Five Nights at Freddy's* lore, binging Game Theory's videos, but she wouldn't dare to play the games herself.
* Baelz' favorite weekend activity is to sing and dance.
* Baelz' top three anime duos are Izaya and Shizuo from *Durarara*; Edward Elric and Alphonse Elric from *Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood* (her overall favorite anime); and Tanya and X from *Youjo Senki*.
* Baelz' favorite game genres are RPGs, simulation games, and Nintendo games. She prefers console games to PC, as there are fewer buttons to press on a controller.
* Baelz' favorite music is anime theme songs, JPop KPop, hardstyle, and EDM.
* Apart from hololive English, the hololive members Baelz watches the most are Oozora Subaru, Yukoku Roberu and Houshou Marine. However, she watches everyone.
* Baelz' goals are to dance in 3D, attend a live voice actor event, make many collabs, be a voice actor in an anime, and create her own coffee drink.
* Baelz' emoji is a six-sided die, used both in gaming and as a metaphor for the concept of randomness. The physicist Albert Einstein famously used the term in the latter sense regarding quantum mechanics, stating "God does not play dice." The notion that events may appear random while actually being deterministic is a foundation of a field of mathematics known as chaos theory.
* Baelz shares her character designer with Kaguya Luna and Pinky Pop Hepburn.
* Baelz speaks English, Japanese, some Korean and Cantonese. She is still actively learning Japanese and Korean, and has notably spent over 10 years learning Japanese.
	+ Baelz has been complimented by multiple hololive JP members for her proficiency in Japanese. She revealed that she recently passed the N1 JLPT (Japanese Language Proficiency Test), the most difficult level.
	+ Baelz said she can speak a little Cantonese but can not read it.
* Baelz' Live2D rigging artist is Jujube. She shares this with Mori Calliope, allowing her to call the grim reaper "sister."
* Baelz uses the pronoun "boku" in Japanese when referring to herself. "Boku" is used mainly by boys, but is also used by tomboyish girls. Other notable VTubers with this trait include fellow hololive members Roboco-san, Nekomata Okayu and Amane Kanata; as well as Ars Almal and Levi Elipha of NIJISANJI.
* Baelz' loading screen pixel art is by Taho.
* During early October 2021 when Japanese and English branches' members visited each other's *Minecraft* servers, there sparked some confusion among JP livers due to Baelz' unusual username ("whatabae"), often mistaken for Tsunomaki Watame; the "victims" of said confusion includes Oozora Subaru, Amane Kanata, Minato Aqua, Tokino Sora, Sakura Miko, as well as Watame herself.
* Baelz is the twenty-second hololive member to join the official Hololive Subreddit as a moderator.
* Baelz has a female Bicolor cat named "Beastie," with two color black and white.
* Standing at 149 cm height, Baelz is the shortest in -Council-. She is the 3rd shortest in hololive EN overall, being only taller than Gawr Gura (141 cm) and Koseki Bijou (140 cm).
* Baelz has an alternate male persona called Hayko, who in-universe is her intolerable cousin.
	+ Hayko featured in Calvin Morrison (C-MAN)'s April Fools 2022 prank.
* Baelz revealed herself to be Australian after she and Tsukumo Sana appeared in SMASH! Convention in Sydney as the convention is in her home country, thus it's "special" to her.
* Baelz has admitted to texting other holoEN members such as IRyS and Nanashi Mumei on her mobile phone while in the shower.
* Baelz has a font named "Bae Font" which was created by Mei using her handwriting during her learning stream. Currently, the font has been updated to version 1.0 using handwriting provided by her directly.
	+ The impetus for creating the font was when chat pointed out that 'R' and 'K' look extremely similar to each other with Baelz' handwriting. This also made chat tease her by calling her "Haros" Baelz instead.
* On 5 September 2022, Baelz announced a new fan art hashtag "#BaelzBrush" to replace the original ones "#illustrayBAE" when she discovered some accounts were using it to share comics.