Mafu

Mafu's profile picture

Mafu, also known as TropicalCycloneWatch, is a 14 year old member of Sdslayer's server as well as the owner of the side server named "BetterSd (2023)." They are known to be an animator and also the creator of this wiki.

Their MBTI personality type is INTJ-T and their enneagram type is 2w1.

Currently, they are a well-known animator in both servers, the owner of BetterSd, and the owner of the Sdslayer Server Wiki.

They speak English, Spanish, and Cantonese.

They are **NOT** to be confused with Dereck, who is also known as DTheAviator (C5 Studios).

## Sdslayer Server Debut

They joined the main server on July 6, 2021, and rapidly became one of the most well-known members due to their animations. After several dramas, Mafu created BetterSd on September 17, 2022 to give the members a place to chat without all the drama with the addition of more bots and channels. BetterSd exploded in January 2023.

## Participation in Other/Own Projects

Mafu began animating on January 27, 2021, only known as Derick at the time, then DerickStormTracking starting March 9, 2021, and finally, on May 11, 2021, they adopted the name TropicalCycloneWatch for their channel due to the similarities with other channels including StormTracking in their names. On June 10, 2021, Mafu abandoned KineMaster and began using HitFilm, starting the era of their best animations.

On September 17, 2022, Mafu would create BetterSd, which would become the main chat place for many members of the original Sdslayer server starting in January 2023.

## Major Events Leading To Mafu Leaving YouTube

On Friday, **October 29, 2021**, an outrageous sequence of events happened online, which will not be described specifically. This day would be the start of a long-lasting period of demotivation and depression for the animator. On **December 19, 2021**, they unlisted all of their videos, then deleted them, and uploaded their final video **(The Track of Typhoon Rai)** on December 20th letting everyone know they were leaving YouTube. They would upload several surprise animations afterwards, including **Track of Hypothetical Hurricane Emily V (2023)** on April 9, 2022, **1919 Nightmare-Case Atlantic Hurricane Season Animation** on May 15, 2022, and last but not least, **Track of Hypothetical Hurricane Emily VI (2024)** on June 27, 2022. All these videos would be deleted within an hour of being premiered.

On September 25, 2022, Mafu suddenly uploaded a channel reboot trailer and was scheduled to return on the 29th. On October 10th, they would release their best animation yet, **2021 Recreated Atlantic Hurricane Season Animation**

Mafu would stop animating again on **October 20, 2022** because of loss of interest, **NOT** due to depression.

Legends never die, they say. On **December 25, 2022** Mafu would post an announcement in the TropicalCycloneWatch server about his upcoming return in January 2023 on a new channel.

On **January 1, 2023**, Derick returned to YouTube on a new channel. His first video was 2021 Recreated Atlantic Hurricane Season Animation.

## August 2022 Gender Identity Crisis

On August 3, 2022, Mafu began to have second thoughts about his biological gender, and that was when he noticed that he didn't really appreciate being a male anyway.

On August 22, 2022, Mafu would open up about his gender crisis to the original Sdslayer server, using they/them pronouns, but over time those would vary to she/they, she/her, or any pronouns.

As of January 2023, Mafu is their most used name, their pronouns are they/them.

## January 27-28, 2023

From 8:50 pm to 10:00 pm on January 27, 2023, Mafu would go through a severe, long-lasting anxiety attack triggered by extreme paranoia. They then removed their Discord Bio, set their profile picture to a black screen, went offline, and that closed the day.

On January 28, 2023, Mafu's feelings of paranoia and anxiety remained.

Mafu would take two online IDRlabs tests on Jan. 28, a multidimensional depression test and a stress-anxiety-depression test.

They would get 100-100-100-100-100 for the depresison test, and 97-97-100 for the stress-anxiety-depression test.

The paranoia was caused by a two factors: an overall fear of most people, and the anticipation that most, if not all of their close friends were saying or doing something behind their back, or messing with their trust in general.

Ever since this incident, Mafu has not been the same.

## Mafu Trivia

1. They are sometimes confused with another Sdslayer server member due to the similarity between their names
2. Their main account was created in **July 23, 2021**
3. They used a 25-ji Track in their **2021 Recreated Atlantic Hurricane Season**, that being the first ever time a song with Japanese lyrics was used in any animation.
4. They created the **Nightmare-Case Scenario** series
5. They created SIX iterations of **Hypothetical Hurricane Emily (2023-24)**
6. Mafu's profile picture from October 2022 is the cover image of the song **Venom** by **25-ji** from Project Sekai: Colorful Stage.
7. Mafu's name is based off of Project Sekai character & 25-jji member **Mafuyu Asahina**.
8. During their gender crisis in August and September and parts of October, Mafuyu was what most people called them. However, at some point, the last two letters vanished, and their nickname across the community became Mafu.