>>60302057Yes, the girls were advised to create a familiar like character to sell with merch, Mouse opted for something easy to draw as a little imp named Bubi, she kinda mentioned it first on her first lore video as her best friend and special attendant, basically that from the start he was her butler. Mouse then commissioned both the imp form and a human form in case she found someone willing to voice him for a small role in the future (note all of this is prior her being close with Connor). Eventually she found his VA, both kinda worked out the redesign (bubi was tanned before), decided that it should became his own vtuber and after several months, he debuted. Mouse then realized this came with an issue, while Bubi is part of her brand, it's also really weird to consider him as a "mascot", so she did the contest for the chat mascot, but still kept Bubi as her own "mascot". Basically:
>Imp Bubi = Mouse's own mascot>BubiVT = VA's vtuber account>Chat Mascot = representation of chat as a mascot 