Cheryl Alcmene
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Indie VTuber Cheryl Alcmene is currently active. Previously part of NEXAS. Presents as Female. Streams primarily in english. Active on Twitch, YouTube, X (Twitter), Bluesky. Their reach includes 513 followers on Twitter, 81 followers on Twitch. Primarily plays gaming. Often tagged with alchemist, streamer, #cherylalcmene, #cherylive. Recent activity covers 4 archived broadcasts. Active since AniLive: 2024/09/15 YouTube: 2024/12/16 Twitch: 2025/12/11. Character work: illustrator by Virgo_vtube; illustration by Virgo. Personality: Cheryl is a moon alchemist, loosely based on the villain Odile from Swan Lake. Visual design notes: She has mainly pink hair ending in purple tips, which she wears slightly below the shoulders, in a style composed of twin side-tails, each decorated by a pair of ribbons. In-character history: In the first half of 2024, Cheryl auditioned and was accepted to the NEXAS VTuber agency, being selected to debut as part of its 3rd wave, Class Yume - whose roster, after a period of internal… Notable detail: "Alcmene" is a pun on "Alchemy", and also the name of Hercules/Heracles' mother. Cheryl stands at 167.64cm. Zodiac sign: libra. Signature mark used by fans: 🦢🔑. Signature emoji: 🦢🔑 (oshi mark) 💜 (Yume heart). Their profile includes an introduction video, a 6-image gallery. Their community goes by "Lavalieres". Goes by Ryl / Minnie / Crymene in different contexts.
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Cheryl is a moon alchemist, loosely based on the villain Odile from Swan Lake. Due to this, the most important visuals motifs of her design are the moon and the swan, while her narrative leitmotif is enjoying life without being judged or antagonized, as seen in her YouTube debut.
Like a moon, Cheryl has two sides. She is intelligent and mature, yet does her best to remain young and have casual - sometimes dumb - fun. She often plays homely games, which tends to give her streams a comfy vibe, yet the right situation can make her chaotic side emerge. Loves those who love her, and vice-versa. Dislikes confrontation, but can be firm if needed.
She is passionate when expressing her opinions, so a viewer best be ready to listen, should they ask for one! Has no problem with agreeing to disagree with a different point of view. More generally, enjoys talking about her likes and experiences, appreciating an ear willing to hear.
Appearance
She has mainly pink hair ending in purple tips, which she wears slightly below the shoulders, in a style composed of twin side-tails, each decorated by a pair of ribbons. She wears a predominantly white magical girl outfit, with pink and purple details. Her most prominent accessories are a pair of golden swan earrings, and a golden key dangling from her neck.
Below the waist, Cheryl bears many references to Odile and Swam lake: she sports tutu-like frills on her skirt, a pair of pinkish-white wings, and - below a pair of long and slender, ribbon-wrapped legs, like those seen in a ballerina - a pair of ballet shoes, also ribbon-decorated.
Background
In the first half of 2024, Cheryl auditioned and was accepted to the NEXAS VTuber agency, being selected to debut as part of its 3rd wave, Class Yume - whose roster, after a period of internal preparations and fraternization, was finalized as composed of 8 members.
NEXAS teased Class Yume on 29 August 2024, announcing its VTubers and their respective Twitter accounts on 30 August. On that same day, Cheryl made her first tweet, with her model reveal taking place on September 6th.
Fans
- Her fans are called "Lavalieres", an older term for "lockets".
- Cheryl wishes her fanbase to be loud and passionate, while respectful and mature; for it to understand her, encourage her, and support her projects. While understanding she may not be everyone's only VTuber oshi, she hopes to charm you and become your #1!
- The dedication one of her fans displayed promoting and campaigning for her led to the Super Chats podcast to institute a double secret-award during its Vtuber Awards 2025, her fan being recognized as "Best Fan", and her as "Vtuber With the Best Fan".
Relationships
- As a member of Class Yume, Cheryl shares a close bond with her generation mates, Mizuki Akemi, Ruri Tinytale, Wendy Wanderful, Nowi Inari, Kougami Harue, Cora Light, and Rune Atelier. Several Yume collab streams have occurred, with Cheryl often organizing. Within Yume each member is color-coded to a different heart emoji, Cheryl's being 💜.
- Cheryl also keeps in contact with her former NEXAS seniors, having, after its closure, been part of collabs with the following Class Genesis and Class Nebulink members: Nell, Nox Orphee, Osian W.D. Whitlock, Mia Fenimore, and Silas Ain.
- She is friends with independent VTuber Cyano Nightingale; the latter has drawn her fanart/memes, and regularly raids into Cheryl's streams when her own are over.
Trivia
- "Alcmene" is a pun on "Alchemy", and also the name of Hercules/Heracles' mother.
- Her childhood dream is to be a singer, and her current dream is to be an entertainer.
- She has previously dabbled in poetry, song-production, pixel art, and video essays.
- She is a massive foodie, yet her cooking skills made her mom bar her from the kitchen.
- She likes honey chicken, chocolate milk, cheese ramen, spicy food, and the esoteric.
- Her favorite color is purple, specifically periwinkle. Dislikes dark green and dark brown.
- Her favorite Webtoons are "Villains Are Destined To Die", "True Beauty", and "Who Made Me a Princess".
- Her favorite books are "History is All You Left Me" by Adam Silvera, "The Title of This Book is a Secret" by Pseudonymous Bosch, and "The School for Good and Evil" by Soman Chainani. Her most disliked book is Chuck Plahniuk's "Beautiful You".
- Her favorite movie is "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" (the 2005 adaptation).
- When it comes to consoles, she is outspoken against Nintendo's Switch 2, advocating for Valve's Steam Deck instead. On the second half of 2025, fan donations enabled her to buy one, which she has since thoroughly enjoyed. She even stated the back problems she once suffered have vanished as a result of being able to game from bed. Still, the release of Pokémon Pokopia in 2026 did, of her own admission, tempt her slightly.
- She is proficient at rizzing (self-proclaimed). This earned her the nickname "Cheryzzler", which achieved finalist status on a "Best Nickname" award.
- She loves "sexy music that makes you depressed". This has led to the running gag of having the song "Careless Whisper" be associated with her.
- She shares a character designer, Virgo, with Kiko Hayashi and Charlotte "Charlie" Morgan. It was her illustrator's idea for Cheryl to be magical girl themed.
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Cheryl is a moon alchemist, loosely based on the villain Odile from Swan Lake.
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From her channel description. ✧.* Hi! I'm Cheryl Alcmene, the Moon Alchemist. I stream games that I find cute, interesting, or sometimes unexplainable. Let's make our life magical! ⋆˙⟡ From her NEXAS profile. Like streamer, like fan. Like alchemist, like apprentice. Remember that in good faith.
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2024
On 15 September, Cheryl made her debut on AniLive, a streaming app for VTubers available for Apple and Android, with whom NEXAS had an strategic partnership. She was the 6th member from Class Yume to debut, as part of a 3-day debut relay. Lasting half an hour, she showcased her model in detail, introduced her likes and dislikes, and her future stream plans. 4 minutes in, she played an instrumental of George Michael's Careless Whisper, and though she did not sing along, it started a running gag of the song being associated with her.
Due to AniLive not possessing an archive feature, most of her streams from this period cannot be revisited; however, Cheryl has compiled a playlist on her YouTube channel, gathering existing fan recordings of some of her streams in their entirety, including her debut.
On 21 October, Cheryl's YouTube channel was created, and she began preparing her debut. However, NEXAS' decision to halt operations - internally communicated around this time - took a hit on her motivation, and delayed her plans for after the closure had been made public, to avoid overlap with the immediate fallout. Eventually, on 1 December Cheryl announced her YouTube debut for the 15th, alongside her intention to make it her primary platform.
On 9 December, NEXAS publicly announced that it would cease operations on 31 January 2025, allowing most members to retain their IP. Cheryl confirmed through a Twitter statement that she would continue her activities as an independent VTuber.
Though 15 December had been announced as her debut date, voice discomfort had her postpone it for the following day, finally debuting on 16 December with the title "Really in pain, Still gotta slay!". Lasting half an hour, it saw the introduction of a toggleable, floating version of her wand asset, and the performance of "Ultraluminary", from the animated musical "Over the Moon". The following two days saw her host one Class Yume collab and one solo stream, being these three her only YouTube streams of the year.
2025
Following the closure of the NEXAS agency and the AniLive app, Cheryl took a step back from streaming to spend time with her family, and to search for a job, which she found as a clinic receptionist. Once she felt a degree of familiarity with her new position, she returned to streaming, her first stream of the year taking place on 18 March. During this period, she described herself as "a retired streamer turned full-time alchemist".
After a time of streaming irregularly on her off days, Cheryl quit her job, which she didn't feel welcome at, to dedicate herself to streaming full-time once more. This new phase began on 26 May, after discharging her responsibilities and registering as a content creator. Taking this break as a before and after with her AniLive days, she began focusing on streaming any game she is interested in, ranging from smaller creators to famous titles.
On 14 July, she opened her Throne wishlist, to receive snack tips and other fan donations.
On 16 August, Cheryl held her first handcam stream, with a dedicated setup funded by her fans, showcasing an art haul from a convention she had just attended, taking time to appreciate each item, and introducing the respective artists along with their socials.
On 18 October, she hosted an unarchived YouTube karaoke stream to celebrate her birthday, performing 12 songs for her fans, half being in English and the other half in Japanese. Her setlist began with "The Feels", featured Persona songs, and ended with "Careless Whisper".
On 5 December, Cheryl reached 500 subscribers on her YouTube channel. She had previously pledged to open a Twitch account upon reaching this milestone, which she did on 10 December, her first Twitch stream being a multi-stream of "60 Seconds" the next day.
On 22 December, KingYamiVT announced the nominees for "The Rising Stars Gala" award show he organized, Cheryl being featured as a nominee for the "Hidden Gem Award. On December 24th, Cheryl acknowledged her nomination, and made a post requesting a "strong effort" from her fans during the voting process, offering to release a cover should she win, even announcing the song as Toki wo Kizamu Uta. On 28 December, during the Rising Stars Gala award stream, Cheryl was announced as the Hidden Gem Award winner.
2026
On 10 January, the Super Chats podcast premiered the results of its Vtuber Awards on a 1 hour pre-recorded special. Having been previously confirmed as the finalist for two categories, "Best Nickname" (for "Cheryzzler") and "Best Taste in Games", Cheryl lost the former to Autofister (Gigi Murin and Cecilia Immergreen) and the latter to Mint Fantôme. However, the efforts one of Cheryl's fan made to campaign for her during the voting process moved the hosts to introduce a previously unannounced, double award: her fan being recognized with the Best Fan award, and her with the VTuber With the Best Fan award. These surprise awards were the last to be announced, having the honor of closing the show.
Cheryl, having taken a year-end-break to spend the holidays with her family, scheduled her return for the first Monday of the year. However, a bout of illness forced her to postpone her planned return by a week, holding her first 2026 stream on 12 January. The next day, her symptoms reappeared, making her go on a new two-week break, hosting her second return stream of the year on January 29, streaming but twice on its first month.
On the last day of January, the VCharm Indie Vtuber Group announced Cheryl as a finalist for the "#1 Mom Friend" category of its Girlypop Awards. The stream of the event took place on February 7th, Cheryl not being able to take the win, which went to Kaijuwus. The next day, Filunie announced that The Underground Awards, the vote-based award show she organized (open for streamers in general, not only Vtubers), would not have a dedicated video for its winners, revealing them via tweets - Cheryl winning the "cozy-maxxer" category.
On February 23rd, Cheryl hosted her 100th YouTube stream.
Media
- Cheryl Alcmene - YouTube channel
- CherylAlcmene - Twitch channel
- @CherylAlcmene - Twitter account
- @cherylalcmene.bsky.social - Bluesky account
- Cheryl Alcmene Profile - NEXAS website (archive)
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- #CheryLive - Live
- #Picheryl - Fan art
- #Cherlicious - Fan art (NSFW)
- #CherylCaps - Clips
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