Calliope Mori

**Calliope Mori**, also known as **C-Man**, **Calli**, **CallioP**, **Calvin Mori**, **Dad**, **Kawaiiope**, **Miss Mori**, **Mowi** and **YUNG SH1N1GAM1 B01**, is a Japanese Virtual YouTuber endorsed by *hololive*.

Calliope is the Grim Reaper's first apprentice. Due to modern medical care causing a decline in the reaping business, Calliope decided to become a VTuber to harvest souls instead. It seems that the ascended souls of the people who are vaporized by the wholesome interactions between VTubers go to her as well. That being said, despite the image her hardcore vocals and manner of speech gives off, she's actually a gentle-hearted girl who cares greatly for her friends.

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

## **Appearance**

Calliope is a young woman with a tall stature, she had a slender frame and a fair complexion, she had a waist-length pink hair with a black tiara on top of her head and she had red-colored eyes. She wears a white transparent veil over her head and black detached collar with a clover-shaped bib and red diamond-shaped brooch, she wears a black tattered hooded cape with fang-like spikes over a black strapped calf-length gown with brown buttons, linings, accents, runes and a slit side, and a gray-colored belt wrapped around her waist. On both arms, she wears a pair of golden-colored arm rings and on her left arm is covered with a black transparent detached sleeve with golden-colored linings and runes, and her right arm wears a black wristband. On her left leg, she wears a dark-brown thigh-high sock with golden-colored bands and on both of her calves and feet, she wears a golden-colored calf-buckles and slip shoes.

## **Personality**

Calliope is Grim Reaper's apprentice has displayed throughout her streams, guest appearances, and music to a have cool, yet serious personality, with a timid side being seen when interacting with others for the first time, such as her senpais. Calli's cool attitude can be clearly observed in most of her streams, as she tries her best to impress her fans with her musical talent and occasional gaming skills. However, she is not afraid to get serious about topics that may be on her mind, and engages in thoughtful discussions with viewers. This combination of a relaxed yet serious personality has earned her the admiration of not only her fans, but also the other hololive talents as well. However, Calli's playful side comes out more evidently during collaborations with her genmates, displaying a side of Calli which viewers don't regularly experience. Calli still remains above all an avid hard worker who is regularly working on projects behind the scenes, often not sleeping for long periods of time. Despite the challenges that she may face while working on these projects, each one is very much rewarded and appreciated by her fans each time a new original song or cover is released.

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.

Calliope is noted for having one of the most lowest pitched voices in hololive, even more so than likes of Nekomata Okayu, Tokoyami Towa and A-chan. 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."

When not on camera, however, Calliope is described as air-headed and hopelessly forgetful. Kiara has mentioned that she frequently misplaces things despite leaving them in an obvious place, like leaving her cellphone in her jacket. She also works exceptionally hard, perhaps too much so.

## **Trivia**

* Calliope is a *shinigami*, a spirit being of death similar to the western concept of the grim reaper. Her purpose is to carry souls of the dead to the afterlife, although she is on hiatus from this job while working as a hololive member, and has promised not to kill anybody.
* Calliope comes from the Underworld, the realm of the dead. The Underworld mimics the aesthetic of the current era, so it looks mostly like a modern city.
* Calliope's scythe blade is made of stainless steel. She is able to summon and dismiss it at will.
* Before she became a Virtual Youtuber in the human world, Calliope worked two jobs in the Underworld, one of them a summer job at a restaurant chain as a waitress, in order to save up enough funds to take her dream trip to "Overworldian" Japan. Despite making quite a few mistakes and being mistreated by customers, she stuck through. She quit as soon as she could afford the cheapest plane ticket to Japan.
* Calliope currently inhabits a humanoid body. She was surprised to learn that it requires sleep to function, which she found bothersome.
* Calliope likes slaying people, dark spaces, flowers, beanies, stuffed dolls, sweets, the color red, mafia movies, rap (especially Japanese Internet 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.
* Calliope's favorite tea is oolong tea.
* Calliope dislikes crowds, coffee, hospitals and cantaloupe.
* Calliope's favorite anime include Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Made in Abyss and Dr. Stone.
	+ In a 2022 interview with Crunchyroll, Calliope listed her top ten anime as: *Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann*, *Jojo's Bizarre Adventure*, *Made in Abyss*, *Baki*, *Psycho-Pass*, *Dr. STONE*, *Puella Magi Madoka Magica*, *One Piece*, *Kaiji: The Ultimate Survivor*, and *Higurashi: When They Cry*.
* Calliope's favorite games include games from FromSoftware, Ghost of Tsushima, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, weird RPG maker games, and platformers (preferring side-scrollers).
* Calliope's 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's birthday on 4 April (4/4) references that the fact that in Japanese the number 4 is a homonym for the word for death. Both are pronounced "shi".
* While many Japanese hololive members have a special pronoun for themselves (for example, Minato Aqua says "ateshi," Nakiri Ayame says "yo," and Sakura Miko refers to herself in the third person), Calliope is the only holoEN member who does something close to the English equivalent, sometimes referring to herself as "your boy."
* Calliope's personal emoji was originally considered by Uruha Rushia as one her possible emojis.
* Because of her airheaded nature, Calliope has a bad habit of not knowing how to keep her mouth shut when she needs to, thus causing misunderstandings. For example:
	+ Calliope said she liked short guys because she wanted to make short people feel included as well as people with beards. This lead to her audience to think she has a fetish for short people and beards which she tried backpedaling on.
	+ When asked about her cup size, Calliope tried finding ways to avoid saying before using Shirogane Noel's "Knight Cup" idea for reference, not realizing it to be an innuendo on K-cup bras. This has lead to her saying she is "Grim Reaper" Cup, which immediately backfired on her as everyone started to assume she's a D-cup, G-cup or even as extreme as an R-cup.
* Calliope was the first member of hololive English to debut.
* In addition to English, Calliope can speak Japanese, although she is still learning and actively taking classes.
* Calliope's debut stream experienced some lag. She claimed it was because of the bad internet connection in the Underworld.
* Calliope is the first hololive EN member and seventh hololive member overall to join official hololive Subreddit as a moderator.
* Calliope 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."
* Calliope's 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.
* Calliope made a guest appearance on the 23rd podcast video of Trash Taste, a podcast channel that consists of three Anitubers (Gigguk, CDawgVA, and The Anime Man). Among other things, she revealed that she is a big fan of MoistCr1TiKaL (penguinz0 on YouTube) and has expressed her desire to collab with him. She has also considered working with The Anime Man on rap.
* Calliope's tweet about the Just Chatting stream after the new model announcement accidentally leaked the look of the new model due to it being scheduled before the actual reveal, which prompted an amusing remark from Amelia.
* In announcing that she would run a World of Darkness RPG for hololive English, Calliope noted that it had been several millennia since she had last run a tabletop RPG. This suggests both that Calli has a much better memory of the distant past than Kiara, and that the hobby of roleplaying games is several thousand years older than previously understood.
* On 3 May 2021, the hashtag #CalliDrip became trending on Twitter worldwide when Calliope debuted her second 2D costume.