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Ninomae Ina'nis [JP: 一伊那尓栖/にのまえいなにす; CN: 一伊那尔栖]

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"It's Tako time!"

Debut date: September 13th, 2020
Birthday: May 20th
Height: 157 cm
Fanbase name: Tentacult (collectively), Takodachi (individually)
Illustrator: Kuroboshi Kouhaku

(main); Walfie

(Smol); SeafoamBoi

(Smol 3D VR); Priichu

("School Girl" 3D VR)
Channel: Youtube

Social Media: Twitter

Alias: Ina, Priestess (by the Ancient Ones)
Age: ████
Species: Empowered Human / Kraken (UMISEA)
Affiliation: Tako Eats, KFP, AKUKIN Construction, UMISEA

Occupation (bar idol): Priestess of The Ancient Ones, (Former?

) Senior Waitress

at KFP, Food Delivery Courier of Tako Eats
Languages spoken: English, Korean, Japanese (conversational)

My fingers reach in longingly
To get the clock ticking once again
With my wishes frozen in time and long forgotten
Your fleeting smile
Is all I know

— VIOLET

A priestess who came into contact with the Ancient Ones, granting her tentacles and making her not quite so human. Ina's usually quiet, but loves to dish out silly puns like no one's business. She is an artist who does drawing streams each week, and even drew the group image for the HoloMyth promotional trailer.

Associated characters: The Ancient Ones (chat moderator), Takodachis, Doctor Oopsie, ENMa-chan (manager), Yuul B. Alwright (Hunter: The Vigil character)

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The Ace:
- Ina is a professional level artist, having done official art for various franchises. She regularly holds art streams which show off her proficiency, in both the realism of her art and the speed at which she is able to draw.
- Aside from shooters which are Amelia's territory, Ina generally plays and does very well at difficult games. During a collab with Kiara and Calli on Puyo Puyo Tetris 2, she was able to win pretty easy against both of them even when handicapping herself (she was asked to play slower), defeated the titular Hades when relatively underpowered in regards to permanent upgrades, and defeated a particularly nasty boss in Hollow Knight, the Soul Master, on her very first attempt. Beyond that, she's one of the most talented artists in the entire Hololive cast, with the knowledge to teach it, on top of her singing skills.
- This really sticks out in Minecraft, where she is constantly wowing the others with her building skills, sense of aesthetics, the sheer amount of resources she's gathered (and is freely giving away to her friends because she has too many) and how she's almost always the first with things ('Ina did it already' and 'Ina was here already' being close to a Running Gag at this point). She is also easily the most successful in fights and at the very least ended up matching evenly with Amelia when it comes to being the team's designated Redstone Engineer and builder of public works, if not outright surpassing her in that respect ^note. In recognition of this, she has been made second-in-command of both KFP and Watson Industries. Over time, this has only escalated further and further, to the point that her crossovers with IRyS have Ina appearing as basically a superhero, frequently coming out of nowhere to pull a Big Damn Heroes and oneshotting all nearby mooks before casually returning to her business by taking flight. As Calliope put it:
  Calli: It's like, you fly in like this magical, mystical being, I'm just here, like, with my sticks and stones, caveman-style, just like breakin' shit down, and then Ina just descends like a god and is like "Hello, let me use my matrix cube from outer space..."!
A-Cup Angst: Don't talk about her chest size if you know what's good for you◊. She will accept "hydrodynamic" though. She also invoked a RARE occurance of her angry face when someone made a joke about it on a drawing stream.
Adorable Abomination: She's basically a normal girl who has turned into an adorable Eldritch Abomination after picking up a copy of the Necronomicon.
Affectionate Nickname:
- She calls the Ancient Ones Ao-chan.
- She is called Inasuke by Mel.
Alternate Character Reading: Her surname "Ninomae" is written with the kanji 一, meaning "one" and usually pronounced "ichi" or "hitotsu". "Ni no mae" (二の前) means "before two"; what comes before two?
Alternate Self: Smol Ina. Much like Smol Ame, Smol Ina ended up becoming a separate character who refers to the main Ina as "Big Ina".
Always Someone Better:
- Discussed when playing Mario Kart 8 with her viewers that while she never played online, her mother was regarded as the best player in her house. After the stream, she had picked up some tips to the point that she felt confident that she could finally win against her mother and challenged her to a race... only for her older sister to beat them both.
- When it comes to Pokémon games, Sana is essentially her boogeyman, having once trashed Ina's team (who came fresh out of the Champion League victorious) during one of their first interactions, though Sana doesn't remember having done so due to the sheer number of people she defeated.
  Sana: I don't know. I decided to challenge a lot of people to battle, and I realized that everyone's so weak.
  Ina: Well, I'm sorry.
Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Played with in that it's entirely on Ina's end; a constant source of embarrassment for her that her mom ("Momma'nis", as Ina refers to her) persistently watches Ina's stream or clips from her streams in spite of Ina asking her mom not to. Momma'nis, for her part, is only ever supportive or proud of what Ina does.
Ambiguously Related: She calls Cthulhu "Gramps" and Dagon her uncle, but doesn't know if they're actually related.
Animal Motif: Octopuses, particularly flapjack and dumbo octopuses due to having the same flappy thingies as she does. Even setting aside the common association of these animals with Eldritch Abominations, considering her occupation as an artist, the octopus' dextrous tentacles and ability to secrete ink feel particularly appropriate (Ina even jokingly lists "tentacles" on her lists of tools used to create a given drawing).
Autocannibalism: Tasted one of her tentacles when she was very hungry. Due to how awful it tasted she can confirm she is not an octopus.
Bad Boss: Played for laughs. She is technically Smol Ina's "boss", whom she regularly forces to stand in for her whenever she doesn't feel like streaming. If Smol Ina is to be believed, "big" Ina also keeps her in a box in her closet whenever she's not needed, and tends to deny her food or other kinds of comfort.
Barrier Maiden: Hinted at. She received a superchat sent back in time from the year 2025 that congratulated her on 5 million subscribers, but more pressingly stated that the Ancient Ones are loose and rampaging Earth. Ina responded that for that to happen, she must no longer be alive. Ina reassured everyone that she will do what she can to avert such a timeline from happening.
Benevolent Abomination: Despite her eldritch vibes, Ina hasn't got a malicious bone (or tentacle) in her body.
Berserk Button: Do not stream snipe and give pity wins. She has lectured her chat for doing so in both Dead by Daylight and Mario Kart 8.
Beware of the Nice Ones: Also doubles as Beware the Quiet Ones.
- Despite her general image as the most laid-back, kind and shy of the group, she will punish infractions against her with surprising vigor. To give two Minecraft examples, when Gura pushed her off a platform as a prank, she played nice for a while and pretended it was all water under the bridge while at the same time encasing the entire interior of Gura's house in ice, and when Kiara was (jokingly) accusing her slacking off on a shared building project, Ina got her to take it all back by threatening her at bow-point and saying some scary things about shooting her straight in the heart.
- The Third UMISEA episode, shows her going full Eldritch Abomination and easily dispatching all of the other UMISEA members, when they are about to stumble upon her old cringe-worthy artwork.
Big Bad: Of Fauna's holoweEN series, where she attempts to channel the Observer effect to alter reality. She accomplishes this through gratuitous kidnapping, mutilation and mutation to draw an audience.
Birds of a Feather: With Airani Iofifteen from the Indonesian branch. Both of them are the most skilled artists of their generations and in their two collab drawing streams, they are mostly agreeable on whatever the topic is. Because of this, fans liken the two as sisters.
Black Comedy: Likes engaging in this occasionally, especially regarding depression. She mentioned she just loves the way people almost always react with a Double Take upon suddenly hearing such things coming out of the mouth of her of all people. Exhibit A, Exhibit B.
Bland-Name Product: Her drink of choice is a bottle of Dr Oopsie.
Calling Your Attacks: She shouts "Ina Ina Beam!" when using the artifact in The Shore.
Casual Kink: Her reaction to Amelia greeting her on Twitter is "Please step on me." During a drawing stream, she said her initial reaction to Calli was "My Queen! [whispered] Please step on me." During her Call of Cthulhu stream when Pierce goes down to a Groin Attack by Cat, Ina thanks her for it.
Ina (after meeting Cat): Is she wearing heels? Just asking for a friend.
Catchphrase: "Wah!", which she regularly begins her streams with. Other common phrases include "It's Tako time!", "Inaff!" ("Enough!"), "Ina, Ina, Inaaaa!", "Good morning/afternoon/evening!" and "Yabe!" ("Oh no!"). She also frequently uses "Well, you know what else is X?", which, depending on what was said just before, may be meant as anything from a roast to an attempt at flirting.
The Charmer: Rare Female Example. Her love for puns and dad jokes is only rivaled by her love for pickup lines and flirtatious remarks, whether they be directed at her chat or her fellow idols. The reason she is this and not The Tease is because her remarks tend to be more wholesome and conventionally romantic compared to the likes of, say, Kiara.
Childhood Friends: With Sana, after the space priestess curb-stomped her in a game of Pokémon. During their first official collab on a Super Bunny Man stream, Sana casually mentioned last meeting Ina in person at least ten years ago as of 2021, meaning that their friendship went back even further than that.
Creating Life: The Takodachis were said to be crafted by her from the void, combining her lore with her artistic skill in how she designed them.
Crowbar Combatant: She's unofficially depicted with a crowbar as her weapon due to her declaring that she'd bonk anyone who touches her hair with one, which itself is likely a nod to her playing Half-Life 2 at the time. This has crept to semi-official status with her bonk emote and her chibi model being able to wield a crowbar.
Cuddle Bug: Ina prides herself as a hug collector, as in, hugging every holomember she comes across in real life. Following her trip to Japan at the end of 2022, Ina boasts that she hugged all of holoEN, plus a few JP talents like Mel.
Cute Little Fang: She has one on the left side that's a little hard to see unless she opens her mouth wide, like when she's laughing.
Deadpan Snarker: Don't let her chill atmosphere and calm demeanor fool you.
Calli: Here's what's gonna happen Ina. We're gonna stop this stream here. But it's gonna be 2 A.M. here where I am. I'm gonna start playing this game randomly with randos. And we're gonna play UNTIL I GET GOOD AT THE GAME!
Ina: Welp. See you in ten yea- I mean- Ahaha!
Calli: INAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
Does Not Like Spam:
- Dislikes cucumbers, due to the smell and the fact she was forced to eat them when she was young.
- She also dislikes raisins, dubbing them "zombie grapes" and how she becomes especially annoyed over being fooled into thinking a raisin cookie is a chocolate chip cookie.
Don't You Dare Pity Me!: She gets annoyed whenever stream snipers clearly throw to let her win, outright telling her fans to stop pitying her during her Mario Kart 8 stream.
Dope Slap: Ina is famous for "bonking" Takodachi who misbehave by hitting them on the head with her crowbar. The Takodachi for the most part actually want her to do this, and so would conspire to be as naughty as physically possible to goad her into bonking them regularly.
Dull Surprise: As acknowledged by Ina herself, her voice acting in the UMISEA shorts.
Ina: [talking about the voice recordings she has saved] It's like, various clips of me trying to be angry at Gura, but it's just [monotone] "Gura? Gura... Gura!".
Easily Forgiven: During the Generation 5 and HoloEN Among Us collaboration, she kills Nene and when she gets suspected and voted off, Nene asks her why she killed her. Ina tells her she couldn't let anyone else kill her, an answer Nene immediately accepts. And then they start flirting in the Ghost Chat.
Energetic and Soft-Spoken Duo: Ina is soft-spoken to every other energetic member of HoloMyth. While she talks a fair amount in her solo streams, she is much more silent than her collab partners in duo streams by comparison and is virtually drowned out in group streams.
Everyone Has Standards: Despite Ina's love for incredibly lame puns, even she groaned at Old Jack's "ear-ie tale" joke in regards to a character's death.
Ina: Oi, don't - don't throw in the pun there.
Everything Fades: Applies to her tentacles and non-human appendages. According to Ina, they were formed from the energies of the Void by the Ancient Ones, so if a tentacle is cut off, it will disappear from the material world.
Expressive Ears: Whatever those flappy things on her head are, Ina is capable of wiggling them.
Expy: Her design and background draw inspiration from Kuroboshi's designed Foreigners from Fate/Grand Order (Abigail Williams, Katsushika Hokusai, Yang Guifei) who have gained powers from Lovecraftian deities. Fittingly enough, one of her primary games is none other than Fate/Grand Order.
Family Theme Naming: How she refers to her family members. Her parents are Papa'nis and Mama'nis while her older sister is Ane'nis ^note.
Fangirl: Of her 'papa' even before she joined Hololive, and Hololive itself. She started becoming invested in Hololive upon watching Subaru's 3D debut, and eventually became a part of Hololive as well.
Fashionable Asymmetry: Wears a long stocking on her left leg and a detached sleeve with a ribbon on her left arm, with no corresponding wear on her right arm or leg.
Forehead of Doom: Her 2nd 2D outfit parts her bangs to expose her forehead. The chat likes to play superchat games of Tic-Tac-Toe and Chess on it.
Formally-Named Pet: She dubs her Minecraft horse Mr. Pierce.
Full-Name Basis: Downplayed by her Japanese senpais as while they don't call Ina by her full name, they are more likely to call her "Inanis-chan" as oppose to just "Ina-chan".
The Gambling Addict: Is probably the biggest one alongside Fubuki and Suisei. She has played several famous gacha games such as Fate/Grand Order, Arknights, Granblue Fantasy, Azur Lane, and Girls' Frontline, and has been called a "leviathan" ^note for it.
Fun with Acronyms: According to Ina herself, "WAH" is actually shorthand for many different things that describe the Takodachi, such as "We Are Happy!", "We Are Hype!", and "We Are Here!". There's also an unofficial "fourth WAH"^note"We Are Horny!" that the Takodachi are sternly warned against using under threat of being bonked.
Funny Octopus: Also a punny octopus.
Girls Love Stuffed Animals: She has a large stuffed rabbit named Burrito represented in her channel assets that she keeps in her lap while drawing in order to maintain proper posture.
Gratuitous Japanese: She almost never refer to octopuses as "octopuses", preferring to use the Japanese word for it ("tako") instead. Justified as most of her puns involve the "tako" word, and as she is also "fluent" in "tako language".
Got Me Doing It: Her love of Incredibly Lame Puns is contagious. Polka starts making them after watching Ina's streams, and Kiara points out that Ina's chat takes after her.
Hartman Hips: Despite her claiming otherwise in regards to the "Ina's back" situation, her official character art demonstrates that she does indeed have rather wide hips, a comparatively tiny waistline, and narrow shoulders.
Hearing Voices: Started hearing ancient whispers after picking up her tome. "The Ancient Ones" will occasionally comment on her chat as a moderator.
Hidden Depths: While her artistic skill is very well known at this point, what is more surprising is how good she is at actually teaching it. She had a stream where before moving on to complete a piece she had been working on for Amelia, she went into a detailed discussion regarding proper technique on how to draw gestures and poses. Calliope, an amateur artist by comparison, had started to incorporate some of Ina's tips into her own work and feels that following her advice has improved her own skills.
Hime Cut: Her hair matches the style (perfectly level bangs, shoulder-length sidebangs, knee-length hair) in keeping with her being a priestess.
Holy Halo: Her default outfit includes a golden halo suspended behind her head, fitting for a priestess of the Ancient Ones. It tends to show up when she's displaying her tentacles.
Horned Humanoid: While the flaps on the top of her head aren't actual horns, they do add a horn-like silhouette to her figure.
The Hyena: Occasionally, especially in full group collabs, Ina can be overtaken by a fit of laughter that can last over a minute. Another example was when Gura raged out at Uno.
I Am Not Pretty: She believes her singing voice isn't good at all and warned chat to bring earplugs to her first karaoke. The stream left everyone in chat, including the other singers of Hololive present for the stream, dumbfounded that she could possibly think this.
I Am Not Left-Handed: The HoloMyth cast picture she drew is certainly charming, though definitely beginner. Only in her debut did she confess she drew that with her left tentacle, then revealed she's actually a phenomenal artist who drew the official banner for Hololive EN, along with doing some art for the others as well.
I Hate Past Me: Played for Laughs whenever she references "Future Ina" or "Past Ina". Sometimes she puts off a task or problem for "Future Ina" to handle only for it to catch up to her later on and curse "Past Ina's" choices for her situation.
I Have This Friend: She often follows up questions with "Just asking for a friend" even if it isn't inappropriate.
Identical Stranger: Despite previously using the same 3D model during Halloween events, Ina and Dr. Oopsie are supposedly two entirely different individuals who just so happened to look exactly like one another.
Implausible Deniability: She swears she's 100% human. Don't worry about the pointed ears, the weird hair things, or the huge tentacles. Perfectly normal. As revealed by one of her artists, the negative space of her halo plus her crown and antennae makes a very Cthulhu-esque face. Whether this means that this Ancient One influences her or anything else was not revealed.
Innocent Innuendo: She wasn't aware that "pecker" was slang during her Bastion playthrough, leading to some very interesting comments.
Ina: I'm doing this for Peckers!
In-Series Nickname: During her debut stream, she quietly remarked that her friends sometimes call her "leviathan" when it comes to mobile games. The Ancient Ones also call her priestess.
Insistent Terminology: For Ina, it is not a coffee if you add milk (or any other liquid for that matter). She insists on calling them lattes at that point.
In the Blood: Has implied that her artistic inclinations come from her mother, who Ina describes as being very good at crafts and has tried her hand at animation before. Similarly, she apparently got her penchant for dad jokes... from her dad.
Ironic Fear: In the Holo no Graffiti episode "Eat or Be EaTentacle", she states that she's scared of tentacles. Immediately lampshaded by Towa asking "What about the ones behind you?"
Irony: Just like Calliope, she's one of the HoloEN girls whose Eldritch Abomination persona would normally be associated with the darkest implications - Cosmic Horror, madness, the end of the world, and whatnot. You might expect her to be very chaotic or horror-focused, but, despite the occasional moment of casual creepiness or degeneracy, Ina is on the whole possibly the most wholesome, cute and calm member of the EN branch, with Token Human Amelia being arguably more eldritch than she is. It's been joked by her fanbase that Ina's streams tend to restore sanity as opposed to damaging it.
Kraken and Leviathan: In Mumei's "Dan Dan Don Don" MV, Ina can be seen in the form of a Kraken causing the sinking of Atlantis.
Lovecraftian Superpower: Has control over a bunch of tentacles that emerge from portals near her back.

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Marry Them All: When Nene asked who Ina'd rather date, her or Polka, Ina Took a Third Option.
Ina: Well, I have two hands, so my left hand will be for Nene and my right hand will be for Polka!
Matchmaker Crush: She's really into Calli but ships her with Kiara.
Meaningful Name: "Inanis" means "empty/void" in Latin, a common element in Lovecraftian horror. Combined with "Ninomae" (see Alternate Character Reading above), her name means "Empty One".
Mundane Utility: She uses a tentacle to hold her microphone while singing.
Nerves of Steel: Downplayed. While she still gets scared in horror games, Ina doesn't really scream loudly compared to the other Myth girls, which makes her look a bit more unflappable.
New Powers as the Plot Demands: According to the Umisea shorts, just being in close proximity to Ina will allow others to breathe underwater. This is not explained.
Nice Girl: Ina is an adorable bundle of sweetness and positivity. She almost never gets angry, even when playing very difficult games, and specifically became a vtuber to inspire her fans to be able to follow their passions, and has on more than one occasion been moved to Tears of Joy upon hearing about how she's been able to do so.
Nobody Touches the Hair:
- In the first group collab stream, both Kiara and Gura expressed the desire to touch Ina's bangs to see if they felt as "squishy" as they looked; she rebuffed them by saying "No touchie, only lookie."
- When the subject came up again in a Q&A session, she threatened to bonk the viewer with a crowbar.
No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction: After 20 deaths against the Lost Kin in Hollow Knight, Ina follows chat's advice to equip the Defender's Crest and wins the next attempt, but she gets disappointed at how she didn't conquer the fight through her own skill.
No-Sell: Ina is extremely difficult to faze with pranks or gags as her quick wit often allows her to respond without missing a beat. This is in any setting, whether it be in a game, some other kind of collab or even impromptu calls. For example, Gura and Bae tried to prank call her on separate occasions and both had their jokes reversed on them.
Old Shame: During the third UMISEA episode, we find out that she has a stash of old cringe-worthy artwork, that she has hidden and buried in a distant temple within deep-sea levels, where even light can't reach it. She is so protective of her past that she goes full Eldritch Abomination and summarily dispatches her fellow UMISEA members when it seems they are about to see it.
O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Invoked. Ina started a talk stream devoid of her usual comfy atmosphere, telling everyone something really serious just happened, only to cheerfully announce that she and her gen-mates will become senpais with the reveal of holo ID Gen 2. While some viewers genuinely feared the worst, between the punning stream title, Ina's corpsing, and the timing of the stream ^note, most saw the twist coming.
Overly Long Name: Subverted. When she introduces herself in English, it's Ina'nis Ninomae, but when she does it in Japanese, it's "Jugemu Jugemu" ^{full name} but then immediately tells her Japanese viewers to address her in the same fashion as her English speaking viewers.
The Paragon:
- One of the main reasons why she became a virtual Youtuber is to inspire others into picking up their hobbies, and when she learned that she had accomplished it, she was overwhelmed with emotions to the point of tears.
- Being an artist herself, she inspired other artists into drawing, on top of being drawn and followed by prolific artists on Twitter.
Parasol of Prettiness: Carries one in her end card.
Parent-Preferred Suitor: Aoi Nabi, the character designer of Amelia Watson, prefers the Ina/Ame ship over Ame/Gura.
Pointy Ears: Has them despite listing herself as human.
Pokémon Speak: The first Umisea short has an angered Ina shouting "INA INAAAA!" after a sleeping Gura bit her tentacle and the two started fighting.
Portmanteau: Her fanbase name is Tentacult ("tentacle" + "cult").
Profanity Police: She gives a quick "language!" when she hears swearing in a game and usually avoids cursing herself.
Pungeon Master: Noted by other members for this, such as naming a free talk stream "Let's Tako-bout stuff" and her tendency to make puns, from the clever to the groan-inducing, during her streams and on her Twitter posts. If someone on the official hololive Subreddit makes cheesy puns, other commenters will jokingly label them "one of Ina's alt accounts".
Ina: I'm seiso ^note, if you say so.
Put on a Bus: She went on an extended hiatus from streaming starting from October 2022, citing burnout and personal health problems. Among the most pertinent concerns was her seemingly perpetual fatigue that led her to being late to a few of her scheduled streams and noticeably low-energy during them, which she and her doctor chalked up to poor lifestyle habits, including her forgetting to eat or sleep. Her break was set to last for however long it would require for her to get her health back on track, and she eventually slated her return to come in early January 2023.
Reference Overdosed: She is incredibly knowledgeable of the Western anime community's sense of humor and a lot of her own jokes are referential to those found on English message boards.
Ina: When I first met Gura, I was surprised at how small she was... I thought to myself, "What's with this sassy lost child?"
Rewatch Bonus: The music video for her first original song, "VIOLET", is chock-full of numbers and sentences that only make sense upon further analysis.
- At five different points in the MV, there's a flash panel that supposedly depicts a monologue, only it's a number accompanied by a biblical verse at the bottom of the screen.
  403. ^* [...] Hatred stirs dissension, but love covers over all wrongs. ^*Quote from Proverbs 10:12
  520 ^* [...] But he knows the way that I take: when he has tested me, I will come forth as gold. ^*Quote from Job 23:10
  913. ^* [...] Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. ^*Quote from Matthew 11:28
  1016. ^* [...] And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. ^*Quote from 1 Corinthians 13:13
  1129. ^* [...] For we brought nothing into this world, and we can take nothing out of it. ^*Quote from 1 Timothy 6:7
- Ina's recitation of "fecel, lemienne, phei, seire, lilutia, ei finceq" sounds like Conlang until one takes the number of letters in each word and adds them up to become 584578; the hex colour code for violet.
Sand In My Eyes: Her usual phrase for tears is that "the ceiling is leaking".
Sanity Slippage: While playing Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, Ina's attempts to fish for an elusive Feebas results in her swaying back and forth while giving in to the BGM and ad-libbing lyrics about searching for the "Cheesy fish."
Self-Deprecation:
- From her co-op playthrough of Portal 2 with Gura:
  Gura: [Backpedals and slams into Ina] Oh, I'm sorry! I thought that was the wall!
  Ina: I mean... I think people will say you did bump into a wall.
- While playing BPM: Bullets Per Minute, Ina comes across a room with a nautilus monster, which didn't leave behind a treasure chest after clearing the room as all enemy-filled rooms do.
  Ina: No chest? I guess Takos are known for no chests.
Separated by a Common Language: Shortly after Halloween 2021, she mentioned having a bunch of packs of Smarties left over, only to be confused when part of her chat was instead talking about how acidic Smarties are.
Sexy Backless Outfit:
- Usually her long hair or tentacles obscure it, but a Freeze-Frame Bonus during the HoloMyth off-collab when she was trying to properly align her model revealed her first outfit as such. Fan artists were quick to jump on it. And then she finds out her art tags are flooded with them.
- For her 3d showcase Ina freely admits that she deliberately made the pose for the Youtube thumbnail focus on her back because she knew what her audience liked.
Shipper on Deck: She admits she ships Calliope and Kiara.
Ship Tease: Due to Ame/Gura and Calli/Kiara being the prominent ships within the English branch, fans consider Ina's real ship to be Gen 5 of the JP branch (Yes, the whole branch sans Botan).
- The initial ship began with Nene with Ina joking giving off Yandere vibes by killing the former during their first Among Us game, claming that she "couldn't let anyone else kill you [Nene] first." Afterward, the two would declare each other as their wives and exchange artwork of each other. Ina uses the art Nene made for her as her Twitter banner.
- Ina's first tour on the JP Minecraft server was accompanied by Nene and Polka where the two would occasionally argue and even fight with one another for Ina's affection. Ina would compromise and say she has two hands for holding both of them.
- Instead of joining her own genmates, Ina decided to go on a date with Lamy during the Usaken Summer Festival. Not only did they flirt with one another but whenever Nene and Polka (who were in a separate call together) came across Ina, they would start squeeling.
Shout-Out: Her Hades streams are named after the Initial D songs "Deja Vu", "Running in the 90s", and "No One Sleep In Tokyo".
The Smart Guy: Conversed after a death against Grimm in Hollow Knight.
Ina: Hey, just because you know what the moves are doesn't mean you're gonna be good at dodging it. Why do you think that in animes, there's the character who analyzes the enemy and they have to find the weakness while the main character pulls off time, it's cause the people who know all the moves, they sometimes don't have the means to do the deed themselves, so y'know. [Laughs].
So Proud of You: She has admitted she wasn't sure how well her puns would be received, but got incredibly excited when she saw her fans embracing her style of humor with puns of their own, as well as spreading them outside of her chat in places like the official subreddit.
Ina: I raised this chat.
Speaks Fluent Animal: She has a conversation with an octopus during her Animal Crossing: New Horizons stream.
Squee:
- Ina's playthrough of New Pokémon Snap is filled with giddy excitement and adorable wonderous gasps at seeing all the cute pokemon.
- After seeing the axolotls that various idols have collected on the JP Minecraft server, Ina was determined to find some for herself. When she finally caught some, she let out the most adorable happy tako noises.
- Ina is a big fan of capybaras and gets excited and completely distracted whenever one is mentioned or seen.
Stunned Silence:
- She breaks into a horrified silence after accidentally selling a boon powerup she had been praising in Hades and even puts up her loading screen for a bit.
- She's shocked into silence in Hollow Knight after witnessing the conclusion of the Grub sidequest where the Grubfather has either eaten or became a cocoon for his children.
Stylistic Suck: Ina's drawing stream thumbnails will occasionally just consist entirely of quick, goofy doodles that she put together in a few minutes instead of professionally-edited images. This has since expanded to her gaming and free talk streams as well.
Take Over the World: One of her (crossed-out) goals is world domination. She would later clarify it's still the Tentacult's intended end-game, but they believe in taking it slow, both so that it's harder to notice and because they're just kind of comfy like that.
Team Mom:
- Has increasingly become this in Minecraft, particularly after acquiring flight. If you are in trouble somewhere on the server or looking for certain resources, expect Ina to drop by and provide support, if she notices. One memorable example had Calliope and Kiara lost in the wilderness at night and under attack by monsters, only for Ina to swoop by, save them, hand them beds for sleeping, and then disappear again, all without saying a word. Kiara compared it to a mom bringing you the stuff you forgot. Ina has also been seen watching over the members of Council in the same way, settling disputes between kouhais, and once dropped everything she was doing in order to comfort IRyS over the loss of her ingame pet fish.
- As confirmed by Fauna after their early 2022 impromptu off-collab, Ina is apparently like this in real life as well.
Tentacle Hair: She gained the power of huge Cthulhu-esque tentacles that extend out of her hair. She hides them during streams.
Thinking Up Portals: According to Ina, her tentacles aren't actually attached to her body, rather they emerge from portals spaced around her body. By extension this allows her to open a portal anywhere which ta tentacles can emerge from.
Third Wheel: Exaggerated. She is viewed by the fanbase as this to Calli/Kiara and Amelia/Gura as those two pairs are the most common collabs to see in the English branch. Unlike most examples of this trope, however, there is no awkwardness involved and it's justified because of timezone differences ^note, Ina's game preferences, and most co-op games only being geared for two players.
Token Wholesome: Played with. In a similar way to Miyiabi on the Holostars, Ina tends to be regarded as this for the EN branch by both viewers and the other EN members (although this got downplayed over time due to them being aware of her occasional degenerancy), despite the fact that Ina herself doesn't really try to enforce the trope.
Tome of Eldritch Lore: Picked one up which granted her control over tentacles and has her Hearing Voices.
Touched by Vorlons: Seemingly an ordinary human until she found her book.
Toxic Friend Influence: The Ancient Ones usually encourage bad behavior, though Ina doesn't typically follow their advice.
The Ancient Ones: KILL
Trademark Favorite Food: Cup noodles and Dr. Oopsie soda. And for the takodachis, it's cookies.
Tranquil Fury: When losing progress or valuable items in games, usually reacts in silence, staying quiet and calm while looking angry or astonished, and sometimes with visible heavy breath (see Stunned Silence above).
Trash of the Titans: She's admitted to living in a pretty messy room, and on one occasion has streamed herself doing nothing but picking up garbage for more than an hour. Her bedroom is not as cluttered as say, Kanata's or Noel's, since there's still enough space for her to move around and even lie down on the floor, but the "pile of Amazon boxes to the left" does take up a lot of it. If the scattered dishes around her desk are any indication, it would seem that Ina has a habit of eating while working and then just leaving the plates right there as she finishes them. Additionally, based on the noise alone, she seems to have had a small mound of soft drink cans piled up in a corner as well. Such was the dramatic level of tidying that Ina managed to accomplish that Mama'nis told her she should do more streams like that often.
Ina: [Cans rattling] Can you hear all the cans? Please don't count them, it's quite embarassing. [rattling intensifies]
Underboobs: A downplayed example due to her smaller size, but Ina's default dress has a big triangular window round about where her sternum is, partially exposing the undersides of her breasts.
Vague Age: Her listed age is blotted out by ink. When she says it out loud during a Q&A session, it gets covered up with a Sound-Effect Bleep. Twice. An image posted by her shows what seems to be a pre-transformation Ina in a seemingly black-and-white photo, giving a possible stopgap to how old she might be.
Verbal Tic: "Humu humu". According to her, she developed it as a way to verbalize "nodding your head in agreement" since she is normally quiet but nods in face-to-face conversations. However, in voice-only conversations, no one would see her nodding, leading to them questioning if Ina is paying attention or not.
Visual Pun: Her Minecraft "guerilla" streams ^note always go with an image of a gorilla in thumbnails.
Vitriolic Best Buds: With Sana. They share in their first official collab that they've known each other for quite some time, with the words "like old times" specifically being said. Their coffee debate, apparently the latest in a long line of them, got Ina to be the most spirited and animated she's ever been before. Considering how soft-spoken she normally is, especially with others, it was a definite surprise.
Was Once a Man: When asked if her parents (specifically her father) were eldritch beings such as her, she affirmed that they are 100% normal humans, and that she is the way that she is because of The Ancient Ones' influence on her physical body.
Winged Humanoid: She has a small pair of vestigal angel wings curled around her waist. They're easily missed compared to all her tentacles.
Yandere: Despite lots of flirting with Nene during the Among Us collab, Nene is Ina's first victim because she didn't want the other traitor to kill her first. Nene's surprisingly okay with this.

Other Characters

The Ancient Ones

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Alias: AO-chan
First appearance: September 12, 2020
Appears in: Ninomae Ina'nis Ch.

The moderator for Ina's chat who is apparently the voice of the book that made Ina what she is today.

Affectionate Nickname: They are officially named "The Ancient Ones" but Ina almost always calls them "AO-chan."
Animate Inanimate Object: AO-chan is a sentient book that can communicate with both Ina and chat.
Ambiguous Gender: While The Ancient Ones were previously referred to using pronouns that can be interpreted as either gender-neutral or third person plural ("they", "them"), ever since Ina started calling her AO-chan, she has exclusively referred to The Ancient Ones using single person female pronouns ("she", "her"). What significance this has, if any, remains to be seen.
Eldritch Abomination: They are some kind of Lovecraftian entity/entities that communicate with Ina.
Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Inverted. They are the only one who never calls Ina by her name, only referring to her as "Priestess" when directly addressing her or referring to her. Likewise, they never use proper names for the other EN girls, simply referring to them as "Ally".
The Ghost: Thus far they have only been visually represented by the book Ina carries or, as noted below, by a tablet.
Hearing Voices: Inflicts this on Ina who takes it in stride.
Laser-Guided Amnesia: Can inflict this on viewers via "brain massages" by Ina's request.
Magitek: As of Ina's new outfit reveal it can appear as a tablet with a trailing wire, apparently the result of AO-chan trying to upload itself to the internet. Ina has suggested "AO-Pod" as a name for this form.
"No. Just… No" Reaction: Their response to chat requesting a bikini picture of them from Ina or referring to them as thicc.
Power Floats: The book/tablet bobs along next to Ina at around chest height.
Tome of Eldritch Lore: They speak from one.
Toxic Friend Influence: Attempts to push Ina into bad behavior but is generally ignored.
The Voiceless: Downplayed, in that they have posted in Ina's chat a fair bit but have never verbally communicated with anyone but Ina.

Takodachis

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First appearance: September 12, 2020
Appears in: Ninomae Ina'nis Ch.

Ina's mascot, being small octopus like creatures that are meant to represent her viewers. However, they appear onstream so frequently that they are often treated as a character in their own right.

Audience Surrogate: They are a representation of Ina's fanbase.
Bizarre Alien Biology: They have no organs bar a brain, a stomach (with an endless capacity due to being connected to the void) and a singular tooth.
Born of Magic: Ina crafted the Takodachis from the void, and chose their appearance.
Cute Little Fangs: All Takodachis have one small fang. Ina confirms that that is the only tooth they have in their mouth.
Dope Slap: The Takodachis are frequently on the receiving end of this, due to their collectively perverted tendencies. Unlike most examples, they actually want Ina to bonk them with her crowbar, and will deliberately act out of line to provoke this reaction from her.
Eyes Always Shut: While Takodachis can open their eyes, they generally look like their eyes are closed. In INACADEMY Special #5, Ina revealed that the Takodachis' eyes are actually always open, and they just squint so hard it looks like their eyes are shut.
Funny Octopus: Ina loves to meme about the Takodachis from their behavior to their lore.
Head Pet:
- Ina's Smol Chibi model includes an optional Takodachi sitting on her head.
- With the inclusion of a new prop update in July of 2022, Ina now wears a Takodachi on her head with her full-sized model.
Holy Halo: Much like Ina, Takodachis have a halo behind their head.
Inexplicably Identical Individuals: Takodachis are pretty much indistinguishable from each other.
It Tastes Like Feet: During Ina's 3D Showcase, a loading screen states that research suggests that they taste like Nintendo Switch cartridges when licked.
Made of Iron: They are constantly bonked by Ina with a crowbar, but are none the worse for wear.
Ridiculously Cute Critter: Small, cute octopus-like creatures that follow Ina around.
Scenery Censor: Ina will use them to hide sensitive information on her streams, such as putting the cookie-munching Takodachi to cover up the chat in Overwatch.
Stomach of Holding: Ina explains that Takodachis stomachs are connected to the void, which is why they can eat an endless amount of cookies without gaining any weight.
Trademark Favorite Food: Cookies. Ina constantly feeds cookies to the Takodachis, while a Takodachi that is frequently seen onstream next to Ina will be munching on cookies.
Your Size May Vary: Most of the time Takodachis are shown to be rather small, only slightly larger than the palm of one's hand. There are a few larger variants such as the tall-but-thin Long Tako, but the biggest overall is undoubtedly the Kuso Dekai Takodachi, which is big enough to be used as a makeshift bean bag chair. In 3D form, they have a middle ground size, being about the size of Ina's head.

Smol Ina

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Appears in: Ninomae Ina'nis Ch.

Similar in nature to Amelia Watson's Smol Ame, Smol Ina originated from the chibi Myth fanarts of Walfie, before also evolving into her own recurring character separate from the original Ina.

Beleaguered Assistant: As per her own words, "big" Ina keeps her around seemingly just to be a stand in for whenever she doesn't feel like streaming, or for assistance upon hitting a hard segment in games. She typically receives neither pay nor food for this, or is forced to eat leftovers that "big" Ina may or may not have accidentally thrown all over the floor, and is kept in a storage unit inside Ina's closet instead of being provided her own housing.
Crowbar Combatant: Like "big" Ina, Smol Ina also prominently wields a crowbar that she can use to Dope Slap the chat.
Decomposite Character: Like Smol Ame before her, Smol Ina was initially just a Super-Deformed alternate model that Ina would sometimes use while streaming, before splitting off into her own entity, complete with her own personality quirks separate from her original counterpart.
Head Pet: She's usually depicted with a small Takodachi sitting on her head, as shown to the right. Additionally, her sun hat has another, even smaller Smol Ina in Walfie's art style dancing on top of it.
Hypercompetent Sidekick: At least in regards to gaming. Smol Ina is typically depicted as being significantly more skilled at videogames than "big" Ina, and as a result is often made to stand in for her larger counterpart whenever she hits a brick wall. That said, Smol Ina's tasks are often of the Exact Words variety, and playing more than she's allowed tends to earn her "detention".
Identical Stranger: She's not to be confused with Dr. Oopsie, despite the two of them looking largely identical to each other^note
Token Good Teammate: Unlike the other Smol Myth designs that became their own characters, who tend to be depicted as mischievous and destructive, and have no respect for their bigger counterparts, Smol Ina is largely harmless and sweet, if lazy.

Doctor Oopsie

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First appearance: October 31, 2021
Appears in: Ninomae Ina'nis Ch.

"Doctor Oopsie" was originally a brand of soda that Ina was quite fond of and frequently brought up onstream as a Running Gag. Later on, Doctor Oopsie would end becoming a proper character in her own right, being the purported creator of said drink.

Eventually Doctor Oopsie would appear onstream, debuting during Hololive EN's 2021 VRchat Halloween stream, albeit at this point it had not yet been established that she was Doctor Oopsie. It wouldn't be until April 1, 2023 where she finally revealed her identity as being Doctor Oopsie all along.

Ascended Extra: Starting off as a Running Gag of Ina mentioning a drink called "Doctor Oopsie"^noteA stand-in for Dr. Pepper. But over time, Doctor Oopsie would get increasingly more lore and was eventually established as her own person, being the creator of the drink in question. Ina would then retroactively assign the character to Ina's 3D Chibi VR model when she wears a Mad Scientist attire.
Composite Character: "Doctor Oopsie" was originally an unseen character, frequently referenced by Ina through the brand of soda that they allegedly created. Later on, Ina decided to merge Doctor Oopsie with her "Scientist Ina" 3D VR Halloween costume into one character.
Decomposite Character: Originally "Scientist Ina" was just a Halloween costume Ina wore for the 2021 Halloween EN collab stream. Over a year later, it would be retroactively established that she was in fact Doctor Oopsie, the very same one that Ina frequently mentioned in the past.
Identical Stranger: Has a strong resemblance to Ina/Smol Ina, but she denies being the same person as her.^note.
Labcoat of Science and Medicine: She dons a white labcoat as part of her scientist shtick.
Mad Scientist: This is her entire shtick, complete with a lab coat and swirly glasses. It's later revealed that Doctor Oopsie performs bizarre experiments on living subjects, which she does so on the 2023 April Fools stream on the rest of EN.
Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: Has the "Dr." title, but performs ethically questionable experiments on living test subjects.
Opaque Nerd Glasses: As part of her scientist getup, she sports a pair of Coke-bottle Nerd Glasses with big, comical swirly lines on the lenses.
Suspiciously Specific Denial: Denies being Ninomae Ina'nis, despite looking identical to her.

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