"Yo! What's up my beautiful weebs."
— Introductory phrase.
Connor Marc Colquhoun, AKA CDawgVA, born July 26, 1996, is a Welsh internet personality and professional voice actor best known for his anime related content on Youtube.
Having started his channel on 2014, he would begin to gain popularity thanks to his voice impression videos, where he used an impression of Sebastian Michaelis from Black Butler, which had become notable in how similar it is to the character's actual voice actor, J. Michael Tatum.
Since then however, while most of his content is generally anime and manga related, he has since branched out of anime and manga a bit and has covered a wide variety of topics on his channel, particularly those related to Japanese pop culture and voice acting, especially since he moved to Japan in 2019, which he stated has given him the opportunity to cover things that he couldn't otherwise in his home country, such as host clubs, themed cafes, etc.
In 2020, he, alongside The Anime Man and Gigguk had started a podcast called Trash Taste, where they cover a wide variety of topics related to Japan and anime/manga in general.
Outside of his voice acting and Youtube career, he also directed the English audiobook dub for the yaoi manga You Are My Princess under Bookwalker (a subsidiary of Kadokawa Corporation).
Besides his main YouTube channel
, he also has a Twitch page where he does live-streams, as well as accounts on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.
CDawgVA's videos provide examples of:
- Accent Upon The Wrong Syllable: Daidus and Emirichu make fun of the way he says Mario due to his British accent. Ironmouse also did it in a later stream.
- Anger Born of Worry: One of the few times he was genuinely angry at Ironmouse (i.e., not trying to bait her into a shouting match) was when he accidentallynote found out she was in great pain while she was doing a collaboration with him. He went straight into Tranquil Fury mode and threatened to cancel the stream then and there, if she didn't take care of herself right away.
- Bait-and-Switch: During Mousey's birthday stream, he complimented Mousey's new Live2D model saying it's her best one yet. And then he added this:Connor: Of course, it's nothing compared to the real Ironmouse. IRL-Ironmouse is always "S-Tier."
Ironmouse: (Blushes heavily and gapes with her mouth open)
Connor: (Uploads a picture of him in his cursed Ironmouse Cosplay)
Ironmouse: (Bursts out laughing) - Berserk Button: The Funko Pop! figures. He absolutely despises them.
- Big "NO!": Let out a rather impressive one when he fails at one point near the end of the game Jump King. He often does a lot of these while playing the aforementioned Jump King or similar games meant to make the player rage.
- Big "YES!": He has let out several of these, usually when completing really hard video games after hours of attempting to do so.
- Bullying the Disabled: Ironmouse of VShojo occasionally accuses him of this. It should be noted however that it's all part of their Vitriolic Best Buds dynamic. For the most part, Mousey actually appreciates that Connor treats her like an equal and not like some sort of fragile creature.
- Catchphrase: Several:
- "Sheeesh!"
- "Bruh."
- "Let's Goooooo!"
- "It's one of those things..."
- Cosplay: A running series of his has him wearing cheap cosplay, often from China.
- Damned by Faint Praise: He had to endure three hours of this during Ironmouse's "Compliment Connor" stream (which was an obligation from reaching 100K in donations during her charity stream). Mousey complimented him in ways that were disingenuous and made him feel very uncomfortable, to the point that when she eventually made a couple of genuine compliments he dismissed them.
- Deadpan Snarker: He is a master of this brand of humor, especially when discussing hentai on Trash Taste.
- Deal with the Devil: He makes one with Ironmouse (who is supposed to be Satan), in order to play an embarrassing clip of her being ecstatic when he joined her Twitch channel. The deal: he has to cosplay as her. Though it turns out...
- Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?: When he eventually does cosplay as Ironmouse (during her "4th Year Anniversary" stream), it's so bad that it instantly makes Mousey regret all of her life's choices.
- Determinator: Ironmouse once stated that once Connor sets any kind of goal for himself, he will do whatever it takes to acomplish it.
- Even the Guys Want Him: He has shown attraction to numerous fictional male characters across his videos, the most notable being the male love interests from Mr. Love: Queen's Choice.
- Ham-to-Ham Combat: His arguments and streams with Ironmouse can sometimes develop this, with both her and him trying to out yell each other in an over the top way.
- Hidden Depths:
- He used to play chess competitively when he was a kid and also talks about how some people would take it seriously in an almost exaggerated way.
- During a Trash Taste episode, Connor states that even though he has zero interest into getting into cryptocurrency he really enjoys keeping up with it (and especially with the drama in the community). He also does a quite good job explaining about it.
- He used to play chess competitively when he was a kid
- Hit Me, Dammit!: His standard reaction whenever he happens to make Ironmouse uncomfortable, (usually about something involving her condition) is to beg her to stop apologizing and start insulting him, like she usually does.
- The Infiltration: Several of his videos have him going undercover on both his Discord and numerous sites.
- Insult of Endearment: He is fond of calling Ironmouse "Tungsten Rat." This no longer angers her as much as it used to.
- Irony: When the subject of VTubers was first brought up on Trash Taste episode 18, Connor was confused by the very concept and didn't really get the appeal, cue nearly a year later Connor has become deeply involved in the culture, regularly streams and hangs out with Vtubers and even has his own avatar.
- Large Ham: Connor can get very invested into whatever he's doing which often puts him squarely into this trope. Some of the voice-overs in his videos also tend to be quite dramatic (though that's expected for a voice actor).
- Mistaken for Gay: While trying to strike up conversation with people on Omegle, he was merely wearing an anime style spandex unitard. This would occasionally lead the other person (not knowing who he was) to assume that Connor was gay.
- My God, What Have I Done?: He has this reaction when he makes Ironmouse of VShojo admit that she is on her oxygen machine during one of their streams. He immediately stops insulting her and starts apologizing.
- Once Done, Never Forgotten: He has called IRL Ironmouse cute just once. He will never live it down.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Connor is a calm Deadpan Snarker most of the time but he is absolutely flabbergasted when he finds out how much a single dose of plasma costs (plasma being something that needs to be administered to Ironmouse weekly in order to keep her alive).
- Open Mouth, Insert Foot: Happens a lot as Connor rarely thinks before he talks, doesn't always articulate his opinions well, or sometimes goes on a tangent before being smacked back to reality. While he has never purposely been derogatory toward others, he does have a habit of accidentally saying the wrong things, which usually leads to him apologizing profusely.
- The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: Despite being usually referred to as an Anime Youtuber or "Anituber," Connor rarely talks about or discusses anime itself, being far more interested in the culture and sub cultures that spawned from anime then the shows.
- Positive Friend Influence: He is this to Ironmouse of VShojo and she is this to him... when they are not busy hurling insults at each other. Connor's friendship made Ironmouse a lot more confident, outspoken and daring than she used to be, and her influence brought out his most witty (and occasionally caring) side.
- Refuge in Audacity: Essentially his entire Powerpoint presentation about Ironmouse is this.
- Running Gag:
- His unhealthy relationship with Kermit is a frequent running gag throughout his videos.
- His mentions of being a sigma male is also very common, especially while streaming.
- His constant Open Mouth, Insert Foot moments pissing off some fanbase for whatever slight they believe he has made has led to the fandom frequently joking that Connor is canceled at least once a week, expect whenever he brings up something that might be controversial, or he just has an unpopular opinion, to see a lot of comments mention that he is getting canceled again.
- Whenever he makes a Deal with the Devil with Ironmouse, he always pulls a Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?, and she always ends up regretting her wish. It doesn't help that she doesn't realize the full implications of what she is asking of him most of the time. It should be noted however that this happens only when she is making a direct deal with him. In all other cases (such as the "Compliment Connor" stream, which was a deal she made with her audience) she is fully able to utilize Loophole Abuse and You Didn't Ask in order to come out on top.
- In his "guess the drawing" videos with Emirichu and Daidus, Daidus often guesses "Mario and Sonic making out", despite most videos having no relation to either franchise.
- Self-Deprecation: In post production of his videos, Connor will sometimes add voice-over commentary that includes a lot of insults aimed at himself.
- Sharp-Dressed Man: The page image certainly shows how nice he looks in a suit.
- Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: Has this relationship with Ironmouse of VShojo.
- Split-Personality Team: He has actually met Ironmouse's helper, Bubi and the two got along surprisingly well, to the point that Connor periodically allows Bubi to take over his body, as a Willing Channeler.
- Stylistic Suck:
- Offers a variation of this with his cosplay series, where he dresses up (or tries to dress up) in low-budget cosplay for comedic purposes. These cosplay usually have low quality material, don't fit, look like poor imitations of the source material, or all of the above.
- Whenever he sings Karaoke he deliberately sings as loud and off-key as possible (him performing "Friday" on Ironmouse's birthday being a prime example of this)
- Virtual YouTuber: Has his own Vtuber avatar that he uses from time to time.
- Vitriolic Best Buds:
- With Ironmouse of VShojo. She treats him like a Sitcom Arch-Nemesis and Connor is more than happy to play along and tease her often in response, but it's clear that the two have mutual respect for each other.
- His relationship with Chris Broad quickly delved into this once they started making videos together. Much like with Ironmouse, Connor started off as a huge fan of Chris even lamenting that he didn't get to be in videos with him like Joey had been. Now the two often collab in a video series called Wacky Weekends where they go to weird (often awful) places and basically spend the entire video trying to make each other as miserable as possible.
- We Used to Be Friends: Downplayed. Ironmouse was much more cordial and friendly towards him during their early collabs, before they developed their Vitriolic Best Buds dynamic. According to him, they "speedrunned their friendship all the way to resentment."
- Win Her a Prize: A non-romantic variation. He did this for Ironmouse when he was taking her on a Virtual Tour around Tokyo. Of course, with them being Vitriolic Best Buds, he later attempted to invoke Take Back Your Gift, when they had an argument about it. Unfortunately for him, she still considers his gifts precious and wishes to keep them.
- Yaoi Fangirl: Gender inverted example. While he's not super into it (at least, that's what he likes to say), he is shown to be pretty fond of Yaoi and has done numerous videos of him reading numerous yaoi manga and several videos related to it.
