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Mo Ayato is an inactive VTuber, affiliated with Simon Fraser University. Presents as Female. Based in Canada. Maintains a presence across YouTube / X (Twitter). Debuted YouTube: 2025/03/01. Designed with designer by Chockie Dockie & Character sheet: Kylwooo, live2d rigger by Edward Madojemu & Re. Personality: In contrast to her strait-laced counterpart Faye , Mo is silly and energetic, though she has a certain laid-backness. Visual design notes: In her human form, Mo Ayato is a young woman of average height and weight, sporting bright orange hair and red panda-shaped nekomimi. Lore: In August 2024, 's School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT) announced an initiative in partnership with Sawmill Studios to create its first-ever "Virtual Ambassadors" in order to represent… Mo stands at 1.6 Cappus (As human) 1 Cappu (As Cappu), character age 23 years old. Character birthday: 11 January. Signature emoji: 🌠🐾. Their profile includes an introduction video, a 6-image gallery. Frequently mentioned alongside faye-ayato, wren-akane, ap0110. Their community goes by "Cappudachi". Goes by Mo Ayato/操斗モォ in different contexts.
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Appearance
In her human form, Mo Ayato is a young woman of average height and weight, sporting bright orange hair and red panda-shaped nekomimi. She wears a red scarf inspired by the character from the anime Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, and covers a black top with black gloves using a light yellow cardigan adorned with star-shapped buttons. She has black garterbelts on her calves and tight brown socks. She also has a red panda-inspired tail coming out of her back.
In her Cappu form, Mo stands significantly shorter, at about a meter. She resembles an enlarged red panda/racoon creature with a red bandana and a distinctive white "M" pattern between her eyes.
Background
In August 2024, 's School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT) announced an initiative in partnership with Sawmill Studios to create its first-ever "Virtual Ambassadors" in order to represent and engage with the SFU community. These Virtual Ambassadors would be functionally identical to VTubers. Auditions for the talent opened that September. The duo debuted on March 1st, 2025, livestreaming both separately and together on the SIAT YouTube channel. Their primary activities involved giving feedback to student work from the SIAT program, as well as promoting the SFU's values, courses, and facilities. The initiative was billed as grant-funded research, employing motion capture technology to create full 3D models of the Virtual Ambassadors and a chance for students to work in a professional motion capture studio environment.
In promotional material, the university has referred to the duo as "Canada's first university VTubers", or alternatively, "The world's first university VTubers". The characters were said to have come from a magical fantasy world to SFU in order to study at SIAT. Mo Ayato was characterised as "formerly a magical red panda-esque beast known as a Cappu, is now a carefree and silly human(?)." An animated trailer would expand on this backstory, showing Faye opening a portal to Earth and the two fleeing their homeland, where they suffered discrimination from a system that favoured those with magic powers over those without. Arriving inside of SFU Surrey's motion capture studio, Studio SIAT, the trailer shows Mo transforming from her Cappu form into her human one, after which the two would take on the name "Ayato" from the pronunciation of the "IAT" in "Studio SIAT".
Convention appearances
Mo and Faye would appear at Anirevo 2025, Vancouver's largest anime convention, to interact with guests live and ask them about their favourite games. Attendants were given SIAT-branded hand fans as a reward for following the channel. Two weeks later, during an anime convention held at the school they represented, SFU Summerfest, a scheduled second live interaction with fans in the form of a game show would be cancelled due to technical difficulties. The game show was streamed a few days later.
Convention appearances
Mo and Faye would appear at Fan Expo 2026, an annual pop culture convention taking place in various Canadian provinces, where they would tease the second generation of SIAT Vtubers. A graphic showing the silhouettes of the new generation was teased as well.
Lore
Born as a Cappu in the world of Avenaria, Mo could not use magic. This rendered her unable to participate in many parts of her society, which discriminated against her. To make up for this, she became proficient with her paws, enjoying crafts and creating things. Upon enrolling in Magic School despite having no magic, she was protected by her soon-to-be best friend Faye, and together they searched for another world to emigrate to. Upon realising that Earth did not have any magic, they became fans ("earth weebs", in Mo's own words) through using magic to connect to the planet's internet. Using magic to enroll in online classes at Simon Fraser University (SFU)'s School of Interactive Art and Technology (SIAT) during the , they decided to permanently move there by way of Faye's magic portals , which was later revealed to be an illegal act. At this point, Faye would humorously kick Mo through the portal before walking through himself. Arriving in the middle of SFU's Studio SIAT, a motion capture studio, Mo found herself magically transformed into a human and began attending classes with Faye shortly afterwards. The two would take on the name "Ayato" from the pronunciation of the "IAT" in "Studio SIAT".
Mo's transformation into a human was a result of the specific spell that Faye used to conjure a portal to Earth, although he has revealed he is working on the prospect of chemically endowing Mo with magical powers. Although Mo's human form rendered her unable to utilise magic, Faye did not give up, and continued his experiments on Earth, such as crafting a potion that would place Mo's consciousness in his body temporarily. This also did not yield results, with Faye theorising that Mo's physiological transformation into a magic-capable human was only superficial or incomplete. Driven by his desire to make scientific progress, Faye continued undeterred.
At SFU, Mo was excited to learn her prowess in crafts was in high demand on Earth, and took up an interest in cosplay. However, she became extremely homesick and began dunking the local racoons into a potion (stolen from Faye) to convert them to Cappus against their will. Despite great fear from at least one such racoon and the option to take legal action being afforded to them by Wren Akane, they did not take action. Faye revealed later that these Cappus were able to convocate from the university.
Mo would be arrested in autumn 2025 and placed in Gay Baby Jail on charges of , (aforementioned) inter dimensional portal usage, and fraud (69 counts). Her location was formally described as Golf Bravo Juliet, presumably a reference to Gay Baby Jail. Wren Akane would later confirm during their debut stream that Gay Baby Jail was a location within the oppressive Bureau, a villainous organisation in Mo's world, and highly discouraged viewers from trying to visit. Later, Mo would break out of Gay Baby Jail and hunt down Faye, demanding her old job back, which she re-acquired after competing for it against her Generation 2 counterparts in a game show.
Avenarian Lore
The following section recounts more general details of Mo's fictional world of Avenaria, from which she originated before coming to Earth in her backstory, in no particular order.
- According to gen-mate Faye Ayato, magic portals function by envisioning the point of origin and the target location as clearly as possible before conjuring the portal. Because of this, Mo's immigration to Vancouver was hampered somewhat by the fact that she had never been to Earth, and only had human media to envision what the place looked like. Faye would employ an individual from Earth to help stabilise the portals. The individual that ended up stabilising the portal was the player of the SIAT ARG that launched with Faye's debut.
- The average wizard from Avenaria would lose a fight to the average , due to lack of magical education producing subpar and sloppy casters who treat their wands like guns.
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- The origin of magic in Avenaria was . The people of Avenaria were descended from birds, and through their song, it was said that magic entered the land. All magic is simply a translation from birdsong. Methods of casting include runes or phonetics, hence why Cappus are biologically incapable of using magic. (The spells are all tuned specifically for human use.)
- While Cappus are incapable of using magic, there are non-human species in Avenaria capable of understanding and replicating the magical properties of birdsong.
- Rodriguez was an ancient mage by Faye Ayato's standards, who revolutionised what magic looked like in Avenaria, allowing it to industrialise. AP0110, incidentally, is much older.
- The Bureau withheld much of the technology developed by Rodriguez in much richer cities. The feudal, medieval style city shown in Faye's lore trailer and the modern city shown in Generation 2's lore trailer actually exist at the same time, to illustrate the extreme gap of both knowledge and wealth that The Bureau created.
- The interdimensional communicator created by Faye to relay radio waves through his portals had to be scrapped together from spare parts due to the Bureau not sanctioning its creation. The communicator was seized by the Bureau anyway, until it was freed by Wren Akane and AP0110.
Personality
In contrast to her strait-laced counterpart Faye, Mo is silly and energetic, though she has a certain laid-backness. She can become very enthusiastic and raise her voice when talking about the things she enjoys, such as when she emphatically encouraged her viewers to try watching Robot Dreams. Faye also recalls Mo being very excited to immigrate to Canada and how she would not stop talking about it. She is also well-versed in Internet culture and frequently uses memes for humour, such as when she referenced the somewhat obscure "Today is Friday in California" meme or when she rapped a perfect rendition of Mr. Beast Into The Night on an unarchived Karaoke stream. She has been known to dance and has a passion for Wotagei, frequently showing off her artistic talents to her viewers. thumb|374x374px|Mo Ayato as she appeared in Faye Ayato's Kyoufuu All Back cover. Note that Wren Akane would later nearly categorise her actions in this specific photo as a criminal offence.
Despite all this, when appropriate, she can become very down to earth, especially when it comes to giving formal critique to pieces of artwork. Mo takes her craft seriously, and values hard work. She would like her viewers to be interested in not just her as a person but also the educational content she creates that gives them a look into the world of the art industry. A victim of discrimination in her home world, she is also tenacious and strong-willed with a near-unbreakable spirit: despite seemingly being unable to enroll into Magic School due to her lack of magical powers, she gained such dexterity with her paws (as a Cappu) that she was able to enter anyway through physical skill alone.
Fans
- Her fans are called Cappudachi (Cappu + Tomodachi)/Moshi (Mo+Oshi). They look like Cappus. They vary in fur pattern pattern, interests, and clothing/accessories. Mo's Cappudachi are characterised as sillier than Faye's Interns, who are also Cappus. * Her oshi mark is 🌠🐾. * Her general tag for fan content is #MoAyato. ** Her art tag is #GimmeMoArt. * Fans and even fellow Virtual Ambassadors are quick to point out Mo's seemingly pathological need to play Yakuza 0.
Likes
- Anime ** Cartoons in general ** Nichijou ** Beastars ** Made in Abyss ** Robot Dreams *** Which she insists her viewers watch ** Adventure Time * Video Games ** Rythm games such as Maimai ** Shin Megami Tensei ** Green Hell ** Monster hunter ** DDR ** Chunithm ** Persona 4 * Music ** Yoasobi, Zutomayo, Yorushika ** t+pazolite ** Mili ** Fuji Kaze ** Shibayan Records ** USAO * Savory food ** Microplastics * Entomology and languages
Dislikes
- Vegetables
- Rainbow Dash
- Horror
- Crunching deadlines
- The 11th version of a certain unnamed proprietary operating system.
Frequently mentioned
More VTubers from Canada
More Info
Promotional campaign
On 24 January, 2025, an launched on the SIAT website, with a video being embedded to the page in which the yet-to-be-revealed Faye Ayato encourages viewers to help him "open a portal connecting your world to mine". It would later be revealed that in-lore, Faye was sending these signals to participants using an "interdimensional communicator", which subsequently became an item of interest in the launch of the second generation of virtual ambassador's backstories as well. Posters that were shared online would also feature an illustration of the tops of the Virtual Ambassador's heads, giving the world its first look at the new mascots.
On 23 February, 2025, a teaser trailer was released on the Studio SIAT YouTube channel, revealing full-body images of Mo and Faye Ayato for the first time. An "Animated Lore Trailer" was released on Youtube and promoted on SFU's website two days later, on February 25th, 2025. The trailer was a collaboration between both SIAT students and university students from across Canada, with J Tseng and Trisha Wong, both staff at SFU SIAT and Narratic Labs, producing and directing respectively. Tseng stated in a Reddit post how the team was comprised of mostly junior animators, with Wong adding that the main inspiration for the trailer was the work of . Simultaneously, the SFU website was updated with a section to prominently feature the virtual ambassadors, introducing Mo and Faye Ayato with a series of illustrations showing them interacting with various SIAT facilities. The illustrations were also created entirely by Canadian university students. Alongside the two Virtual Ambassadors, a third red panda-like character called a Cappu was also introduced. On 27 February, a third video was released on the Studio SIAT Youtube Channel, revealing key art for the characters and employing motion graphics featuring the pre-existing illustrations of Mo and Faye, introducing more of their personalities.
In celebration of the debut, a limited line of merchandise was created, consisting of figures and a tote bag featuring the Cappu. Postcards of Mo and Faye were also included as a free gift with each purchase.
Reception
The Virtual Ambassadors debuted to much fanfare, according to City News Vancouver. Reactions to the Virtual Ambassadors were mostly positive, with commenters on the Animated Lore Trailer praising the fluidity of the animation and background illustration, and affirming the comparison to Shinkai. Enthusiasm was also expressed about the personalities of the Virtual Ambassadors. SFU's official news page praised the trailer, calling it "stunning". Other reactions were mixed, with some commenters remarking that they believed the Virtual Ambassador Program was a waste of tuition money. Art director Trisha Wong corrected some of these claims, stating that the project was "funded by external grants specifically for giving student artists the opportunity to work on professional client work and entrepreneurial experience".
On 4:30 PM of March 1st, 2025, City News Vancouver, a Vancouver-based radio news station, ran a story about Mo and Faye Ayato. City News Vancouver would go on to run a similar story about the Mo and Faye two days later. City News Vancouver had previously ran a story about the duo's initial auditions. Sing Tao, a newspaper catering to Vancouver's Hong Kong population, would also run a story about the Virtual Ambassadors.
Yakuza 0
On 30 April, Mo began a play through of . Overtime, the urge to play Yakuza would consume her, preventing her from focussing on even simple tasks, such as drawing or playing Feeding Frenzy. This seemingly pathological need to play Yakuza 0 became an inside joke amongst fans. The subject matter of the game also led to several awkward situations, given Mo's status as the official representative of a university. As of this writing, Mo has yet to beat Yakuza 0.
2.0 reveal
On 18 August, Mo revealed her updated 2.0 model, followed by a full-body VTuber stream, made possible through Studio SIAT's industrial-grade motion capture technology, which at that point the team had been calibrating for Vtubers for over half a year. Mo would interact with a virtual MaiMai cabinet in the virtual world accurately, tracking her in real life interacting with a real MaiMai machine, the gameplay from which was also shown. Although this specific stream concept was not unprecedented, such a high level of interaction and blending between the 2D and 3D worlds rendered its appearance in the world of VTubing nominally uncommon, and it was later reflected by Mo to be a significant technical challenge.
Interactions with hololive
On 2 September, whilst playing hololive-ID's Kaela Kovalskia's game Kaelaverse: Permascape, the eponymous VTuber herself joined to watch and began interacting with the chat. Kaela would later praise Mo on a stream of her own two days later, saying, "She was very, very interactive while streaming. She's a very good streamer." Mo would later talk about the experience positively on Reddit, which was met with praise.
Temporary hiatus
Sometime in autumn 2025, Mo quietly stopped streaming for undisclosed personal reasons. On her birthday on 11 January 2026, she posted a message to the SIAT channel, revealing that she was stuck in "gay baby jail" and that she would be "let out on good behaviour" (Read: Breaking out) soon, with a promise to resume streaming. She continued the letter, bidding cappudachis to take care of Faye in her absence, vowing to come back "with a vengeance". Mo would close the letter teasing a cover of Tiny Me by Masarada, complete with a music video produced by SFU SIAT's IAT 443 Senior Production course.
First song cover and MV
The following day, on 11 January 2026 (her birthday), the aforementioned MV of Mo's cover of Tiny Me would be released. This would mark her music debut, similar to her genmate Faye Ayato, who made his music debut about a month prior with a cover of Kyoufuu All Back. The credits of the video would list Mo Ayato herself as having contributed to the animation on the MV.
During the MV of the Kyoufuu All Back cover, Mo could be seen striking a Cappu with a mallet. Similarly, in Tiny Mo, she was shown throwing a Cappu into the air. These two acts were later nearly prosecuted by second-generation SIAT Vtuber Wren Akane as a criminal offence, but this was acquitted as Cappus do not have human rights and are not protected under Canadian law.
"Criminal" conviction
On 23 February, Wren Akane, a second-generation SIAT Vtuber, posted a short detailing a prison file related to Mo Ayato, seemingly confirming that she was still confined to Gay Baby Jail. The file included previously released biometric information, but would reveal the charges for which she was convicted, which included: , inter dimensional portal usage, and fraud (69 counts). Her location would also be revealed as . (Gay Baby Jail), within the sinnister Bureau.
During her incarceration, she stated that she watched many more hololive streams, becoming inspired by Japanese language and cultural exchange, citing her experience watching english-speaking viewers try to explain english memes to Inugami Korone. This birthed the idea in her to do more cross-cultural content building upon her Japanese language skills upon her eventual return.
Return to SIAT
On the anniversary of Mo's first stream, Faye Ayato assembled Wren Akane and AP0110 to interview for a new Virtual Ambassador to seemingly replace Mo, organising a game show for the two of them as part of their interviews called Who Wants To Be Employed?. However, before the start of the game, Mo appeared out of nowhere, screaming and demanding her old job back. Faye, flabbergasted, demanded to know what she was doing for five months, out of which "we got one music video (...)" Mo was then forced to participate in the game show anyway, outraged to learned that Faye had been gaslit by the viewers (And AP0110) in the interim to forget Mo's existence. The three players would unite and share answers over the course of the game. Mo would tie the game with Wren at 15 points each briefly before being crowned the definitive winner with 3582 points after the channel's subscriber count miraculously rose to match her estimation of it at the end of the game. Predictably, however, all three players were awarded employment at SIAT, and Mo was officially reinstated as an official SFU SIAT Vtuber, returning to her previous streaming schedule.
It was later revealed that Wren pulled some strings at the Bureau to absolve Mo of all her charges.
Collaboration with Peoni Astera
On 3 April, Mo and Faye collaborated with Chikagei specialist Vtuber Peoni Astera for a virtual workshop on the subject. Passionate about educating people on the subject, Peoni had previously held a Wotagei 101 workshop at Offkai Expo. This coincides with Mo's previously established love of both Wotagei and Chikagei. The collaboration would mark Mo and Faye's first collaboration with another VTuber.
Monetisation
On 15 April, SFU Cappuverse unilaterally enabled super chats and donations for all of its talent, explaining that the university funding of the Virtual Ambassador program did not allow their talents to pursue their own on-stream creative projects, and that the donations would be used entirely to fund that.
Collaboration with Lychibe
On 3 May, Akane Wren announced Mo's collaboration with VChibi's Lychibe for a stream focussing on art trading, set for the following day.
Launch of Cappuverse SMP
On 3 May, Akane Wren announced the start of the official Cappuverse the following week, with as-then all four SFU VTubers on stream. Previously, Mo had been in charge of designing every player skin, which matched the official designs closely.
Basic information
- 23 years old. * Birthday is January 11th. * Speaks English, Japanese, and Chinese. ** Does not enjoy showing off her Chinese. ** She (jokingly, for the meme) does not appreciate the French language. ** Mo cannot read the written language of Avenaria. This does not bother her, because she sees their written language as an extension of the racist system.
Hobbies
- Doing art ** Drawing cartons * 3D Modelling * Animation ** Classic 2D Animation ** Motion graphics * Crafting/Cosplay ** Making costumes & props ** Making fursuits ** Sewing *** By her admission, this is her weakest skill * Dancing ** /Chikage * Singing * Writing fan fiction (should inspiration strike)
Other
- Mo and Faye used magic to attend SIAT's online classes during the , which became their first exposure to Simon Fraser University. * Suffered discrimination within her homeworld for being unable to do magic. ** Became extremely proficient with her paws to make up for it and met Faye, who saved her upon entering Magic School. * Simon Fraser University favours the term "Virtual Ambassador" when officially referring to Mo and Faye, but promotional material has somewhat not shied away from the terms "Virtual Youtuber" or "VTuber", either. * Unlike most VTubers, Mo and Faye debuted with full 3D models and professional-grade gyroscopic tracking technology from Mocopi was used to allow them to interact with their virtual stream environments, parts of their bodies with (such as being able to rustle their own hair) and even touch each other, and even touch each other, and on one occasion, perform the spontaneously. This was done to promote SFU SIAT's motion capture facilities, where students would be able to use the same technology and even Mo and Faye's models for their own projects. * As "inter dimensional students", Mo and Faye pay exorbitant amounts of money in tuition to SFU. Mo in particular regretted not bringing over any her gold bars to assist in this, as they were available in such abundance in her home world that the inhabitants even used them as household decorations. * Mo and Faye, during their research on Earth, would use magic to pirate anime. * She is not sure if she should formally be called a human or a Cappu. ** Wren Akane has confirmed that both are considered human in a court of law. * Mo derives her name from the Japanese pronunciation of the short form of Motion Capture, "Mocap", with her animal form, the Cappu, forming the second part of this pun. * Mo has a brother slightly younger than her who did not decide to follow her to earth. * Any injuries sustained in one of Mo’s forms are transferred to the other. For example, she has bruises on her Cappu form from being kicked through Faye’s portal that carried over into her human form. * She let her fans vote between Cappudachi, Ayatomo, and Red FANdas as her fan name. In the end, Cappudachi won the vote. * Mo re-modelled her own model about 2 weeks after her debut because she possessed the 3D knowledge to do so. * Mo actually prefers medium to long-form premade content to streams, and wishes for people to watch her streams because the things she does are educational or interesting. * Mo got her on her first try, although she is now deathly afraid of driving. * Mo hates WebP. ** Mo hates WebP to the extent that she will temporarily silence viewers on stream who so much as mention it in a positive light.
Quotes
- "French is banned on my stream. No French. (...) French is cancelled." (Chat continues to speak French.) "STOP SPEAKING FRENCH ON MY STREAM! (...) Mods, check this guy!" (Chat continues to speak French.) "Imagine saying 'le' unironically." (Chat spams pictures of baguettes.) "We do not cater to your kind."
- "I GOT BARS!" (Mo on her rap skills)
- "I was very aware of what (VTubers) were, had been exposed to clips here and there, I’ve got several friends who are indie VTubers themselves, and I’ve even worked with corporate VTubers at events! In hindsight, I’ve had friends and family say I would be well suited for VTubing and they’re surprised I hadn’t done it yet. And here I am proving them right, I guess."
- "Why is this a WebP?! I hate WebP! Just give me a PNG, please. The problem is (that) I can't even put a WebP into MS Paint, and you might say that's because MS paint is primitive and it doesn't support other file formats. Well, I put it into Photoshop and Photoshop doesn't support WebP either, okay?! And, like, if Photoshop can't open the file format, then what can, huh?! Don't get get me started on trying to put it on literally any other (program). Clip Studio Paint won't open a WebP. MS Paint won't open a WebP. Photoshop won't open a WebP. I cannot seem to drag WebPs into Figma. I can't! And what if I'm doing video stuff, huh?! Or what if I'm modelling and what if I want to maintain the transparency of your stupid WebP and turn it into a PNG where's actually usable on other programs? I have to put it into Photoshop? No. God forbid it's that easy. I have to go to Google a "WebP to PNG converter" and I have to make sure that the converter actually includes transparency, and you know what? EZGif is a website that's goated, it's goated; it converts so anything perfectly with so many options. EZGif is great for that, but the fact that I have to go to a website called EZGif.com to download a picture with transparency when PNG from the start, from the get-go, would have been way better?! I hate it. I hate it. And do you know the freaking creator of WebP, he gets all smug on Twitter; Someone made a tweet that was complaining about WebP and rightfully so. We should all be complaining about the WebP (...) The tweet says, "I hope the inventor of the WebP image format gets hit by a bus", and all the person has to say for themselves - the creator of the WebP - just responds to this tweet: "I invented the lossless WebP format in 2011". Like, what? Are you trying to be smug?! Are you?! What's your game? What's your game plan, dude? What's your goal? Do you want us to be, like, "Sorry for hating on the WebP"? No. I wish I could travel back to 2011 and be, like, "Hey, man. If you wanted to do this, maybe you should've done this like 20 years earlier. Have you tried being born earlier, so you can, like, invent the WebP so it becomes a standardised format that actually gets used across common software, actually gets taken seriously?!" And listen, I wouldn't even be that mad if I could just open it in MS Paint! If I could just open it in MS Paint, then I could just pull up MS Paint and throw it in and I could save it, but NO, I have to take a screenshot. I hate it." -Mo on her least favourite file format
- "I love WebP" - Faye Ayato, speaking out of Mo's body
- "Hello, I am the orange one. I got out of jail." - Mo on Gay baby Jail
- "The smell of the rare earth metals in the computer burning? That's gourmet. It's gourmet." - Mo on inhaling microplastics
Media
- @cappuverse- YouTube account
- @redredraccoons - Twitter account
- redredraccoons - Twitter account
- redredraccoons.studiosiat.com - Bluesky account
- VAmbassador Program - Official website
Hashtags
- #MoAyato - General
- #GimmeMoArt - Fanart