BaeRyS

BaeRyS is the Femslash ship between IRyS and Hakos Baelz from the Hololive fandom.

Canon
IRyS debuted alone in Project:HOPE in July 2021 as Hololive English’s first Vsinger while Hakos Baelz debuted in Hololive English’s 2nd generation group, Hololive - Council - in August 2021, alongside Tsukumo Sana, Ceres Fauna, Ouro Kronii and Nanashi Mumei. IRyS debuted as the Nephilim deemed as the Incarnation of Hope, while Baelz or ‘Bae’ for short, represents the Embodiment of Chaos and is the leader of Council.

IRyS mentioned in Bae's Birthday Stream, during the call-ins that her first impression of Bae was that she is a very energetic person. She remembers when they first chatted together (before IRyS' and Bae's debut), Bae kept calling her "IRyS-senpai" and that she was very excited for her debut. IRyS immediately thought that she is super friendly as IRyS is very, VERY shy when it comes to approaching people easily. IRyS stated she still admires that part of Bae until now. When IRyS saw Bae's debut stream, she thought of Bae as a really hardworking and creative person.

In IRyS’ Minecraft portal material gathering stream, this was their first interaction shown on stream. You can see a glimpse of their dynamic, especially during the soggy cereal and French fries debate. Until two Minecraft portal making streams (IRyS’ POV and Bae’s POV) popped up and kicked off this ship by surprise, all because of a baked potato bento. From doing some wife-husband role playing then to domestic abuse to them trying to kill each other in the game, this pair really caught the fans off-guard and loved the dynamic of these two.

They did not just stop there, they had a one on one collab together soon after to play ClubHouse 51 with punishments to whoever loses (ending with IRyS not drinking soda for a week). After settling the score, Bae suddenly brought out the “divorce papers” and even went as far as to make her mascot, “Mr. Squeaks”, as ‘their’ child and that IRyS must pay for child support.

Many streams later, the two then collab for the RAT REVIEWS where Bae collaborates with her friends to react to various topics. BaeRyS’ theme was memes and reddit a lot of memes revolving around them; from Bae’s Inuyasha karaoke stream where IRyS delayed her loading screen for about 10 minutes as both of them dearly love Inuyasha, to a meme where it perfectly describes their cycle of marriage and divorce every stream. From that Minecraft portal making stream and the Clubhouse 51 stream, the divorce-marriage antics and divorce papers had been solidified in the community and even now are still being memed upon in this ship.

On Bae’s New Year Celebration stream (2022), she wrote a letter to her friends and senpais. When she typed a letter to IRyS, she thanked IRyS for being herself and for the laughs and for the times when Bae needed help with lyric translations late at night. Thanking her for also the time when IRyS said something yabai and they laughed for minutes. Ending the letter with thank you for being a divorce with me, I love you. In the 2023 new year's resolution stream, after reading last year's letter to IRyS Bae explained that she also went through a lot with IRyS. Bae's favorite moment was them often hanging out late at night watching and fangirling at things. She states that IRyS is one of the few people that can get along with Bae from the get-go with their similar humor. Bae considers remarrying IRyS and thanks the fans for supporting the relationship. Bae feels she and IRyS had gotten closer over the past couple of weeks together. To be revealed in the later paragraphs and especially the recent letter Bae has written for IRyS.

A new year (2022) has begun and it started off immediately with BaeRyS! Due to unfortunate events, IRyS had to postpone her GTA5 stream and did a guerrilla Minecraft stream. Around that time, Bae was also streaming Minecraft earlier. The two then hopped on to VC and decided to gather materials, until they decided to make a “fanfiction” in one of their friend’s base. This also made another meme in the community as IRyS being “YabaiRyS” as usual, made an innuendo using the famous board game ‘Monopoly’. In the fanfiction they insinuated IRyS ‘monopolizing’ Bae, making both the girls themselves and the fans go wild. Many fanfictions and fanarts incorporated these memes into their works.

Another legendary moment made by these two was when they decided to do Wife Dubs, where they would speak like each other (IRyS as Bae and Bae as IRyS). Bae did a rage games only stream while IRyS did a puzzle games only streams. IRyS did a perfect job impersonating Bae as to even fooling Mori Calliope to thinking it was Bae who was the only one speaking in that stream. Bae on the other hand, did really well imitating IRyS’ gimmicks and to even make YabaiRyS jokes on that stream. With what Mori Calliope stated, them constantly hanging out all the time in discord really gave them an understanding on how they acted, how they spoke and their gimmicks.

During one of IRyS' streams, Bae suddenly popped into her chat saying “ily” (I love you) as it was revealed in a tweet that IRyS had sent her an advance birthday gift! IRyS only revealed only the first gift, which was a skin care set. She stated that the second gift is small. Though she wanted to give Bae a Boost Juice Gift Card as a reference to that one funny moment in CHaDcast. Days after, IRyS tweeted out how a big box arrived and as said in her birthday stream that she and Bae were on a call in Discord during the unboxing. Bae had given her a blue rose that doesn’t wilt easily and lasts longer.

In December 2022, a few members revealed to be visiting Japan as the country opened its borders after a long time. Fauna, Mumei, Bae and Reine revealed to be visiting and many JP members took the opportunity to hang out with them. IRyS also took the opportunity to hang out with the members who were visiting despite being busy with her schedule. In fact, in one of IRyS streams, it was revealed that IRyS, Fauna and Bae went on a trip to Kyoto to visit not only a shrine but to the famous Nara Park where they fed deers. They trio even went out to drink (Bae and IRyS got drunk as they do not have a great tolerance with alcohol). Bae wrote in her letter during the New Year Resolution stream (2023) that she will never forget the moment they met up for the first time and hugging each other for the first time, as well as not forgetting the time Bae had to body slam IRyS to wake her up in their Kyoto trip. She enjoys their talks and laughing at unhinged comedy. She also saw snow for the first time with IRyS and wishes that her shoulder was comfortable to sleep on during their train ride. Ending the letter with Bae wanting to drink with IRyS again as she is funny and clingy.

In both IRyS’ stream & space and both Bae’s powerwash stream & the JUST CHATTING stream, it was also revealed that IRyS slept on Bae’s shoulder while on a train ride, and Bae leaned on IRyS more than she did. Even sharing earphones (IRyS’ airpods as Bae had forgotten to bring hers on the trip as stated by IRyS). Another story from that trip was when Bae had to body slam IRyS to wake her up (from this tweet). Bae first tweeted it out then explained it in her chatting stream that IRyS was difficult to wake up. There was a fanart that was spot on of how that actually happened (IRyS was the one that showed Bae the fanart).

On February 8, 2023, history was made as IRyS finally took Bae to Gisneyland together! (Tokyo Disneyland, but they say Gisneyland to avoid any copyright complications). Bae finally got to redeem that coupon IRyS gave her on her Birthday stream! They then both tweeted out (IRyS’ tweet and Bae’s tweet) and did an collab stream about what happened during their ‘Gisneyland’ date. It was hinted - or slipped up by the girls - that they also bought matching rings for each other! At the near end of the stream, they announced that they have prepared two cover songs to be released on Valentine’s day and that there will be an off-collab karaoke stream sometime this month. At the secret ending, they ended the stream with them flirting with each other.

Songs
The two have worked hard together since May - June of 2022 to release not one, but two covers for Valentine’s day 2023. On Baelz’s YT channel, she uploaded the Daikirai Na Hazu Datta - Honeyworks cover as part 1 of the story while in IRyS’ YT channel, she uploaded the Erande Kurete Arigatou - Honeyworks cover as the final part of the story.

There are various references in both covers: In the Daikirai Na Hazu Datta cover, Bae specifically changed the playing sports scene into a basketball match, since Bae had stated she used to play basketball before (the original had the guy playing football/soccer). In the Erande Kurete Arigatou, there’s a lot of references of their shenanigans: From the baked potato bento that started this dynamic duo in that Minecraft portal making stream, to the divorce papers which really kicked off in the Clubhouse 51 collab stream, to IRyS smooching Bae on the cheek from that moment Bae pulled out an IRyS kissing PNG in her Delivering Hope stream, the ‘Tofu’ where Bae called IRyS’ chest “saggy” in the Observation Duty stream and the “kabedon” reference from one of Bae’s Splatoon 3 stream. A lot of love has been put into making these covers, and the covers were well received by the fans.

Both covers featured the full members of both Myth and CouncilRyS.

Fanon
BaeRyS is one of the popular ships within the Hololive fandom, usually characterizing Baelz Hakos (or Bae) as the ‘Embodiment of Chaos yet a Tsundere wife’ who often gets teased by IRyS. Her wife on the other hand, IRyS is known to be ‘YabaiRyS and SeisoRyS’ or a little bit in between due to her angel and devil nature. As Vtubers, many of the girls have lores in their descriptions which gives fans an idea of how their relationships are and even basing things on how these Vtubers are like on stream.

A lot of fanfictions like to dabble on their marriage-divorce dynamics. Some fanfictions tend to play around how their relationship gets affected by IRyS’ unfortunate dilemma where once she brings hope to the world, she will return to a deep slumber until the world is in need of Hope, leaving Bae alone with the other girls of HoloEN. Other fanfictions do also play around Bae’s doubts on her ability to control Chaos, though most of the works just showcase them being supportive of each other.

Fanarts on the other hand, not much BaeRyS fanarts are being produced unlike the other ships in HoloEN sadly. But a lot of them are usually made during or after a BaeRyS collab stream, either lore-wise or stream-wise.

(Author’s note: There isn’t much fanart and fanfictions as there is almost always a BaeRyS moment, whether it’d be in a stream, a twitter space or in a tweet.)

On Ao3 (Archive of Our Own), the BaeRyS is the most popular ship between IRyS and Baelz Hakos. As for popularity in the Hololive English ship, [https://twitter.com/HoloRune/status/1609145923518488577?s=20 BaeRyS ranks at 5th. Failing behind KronMei.]

Fandom
IRyS ao3 tag

Hakos Baelz ao3 tag

Trivia
(Author's note: will add sources soon)


 * When HoloX (the 6th generation of Hololive Japan) was announced, Bae exposed IRyS with a screenshot of her DMs where IRyS was caught saying “BOW DOWN AND LICK MY SHOES” as Bae refuses to call IRyS her senpai or “SenpaiRyS”.
 * During Bae’s Inuyasha Karaoke stream, IRyS had to delay her loading screen to 10mins to watch Bae, especially when she sang IRyS’ favorite song from Inuyasha - Angelus by Hitomi Shimatani.
 * In Bae's Big Brain Academy Stream, she challenged IRyS ghost and lost with 3 wins to 7 loses.
 * IRyS and Bae have the same mole in the middle of their feet.
 * Bae and IRyS have figurines of each other (PNGs as seen on their streams from time to time).
 * IRyS and Bae do share fanarts with each other.
 * It was revealed that DadRyS bought the Hololive Weiss Schwarz cards and got a special card of both IRyS and Bae and texted it to IRyS, even telling his own daughter that: "it would be neat to put you two lovebirds together".
 * The happiest moment of IRyS' life was when Bae complimented her breasts. (SagRyS)
 * In the Crunchyroll interview with Bae, both IRyS and her did not think their dynamic would blow up this big. As honest as she is, she loves and respects IRyS so much as a streamer. They have the same humor, same vibes and they're on the same wavelengths which was why it was so easy for Bae to interact with IRyS. She states IRyS is a nice and outgoing person. She also explains that the fans like the dynamic so much because this type of relationship (a beautiful friendship that is) is genuine and she wouldn't trade that for the world. As for the interview with IRyS, a question was asked about the relationship with Bae and IRyS stated she had a hard time thinking about this as she and Bae have a natural attraction with each other like a magnet. She also said they both did not think that this relationship would grow this big and that she mentioned she was saved by Bae so often that she cannot ask for a better wife/ex-wife. This was the best thing that has happened to IRyS since joining Hololive.
 * When they first met in Japan, they both initiated the hug and walked around to then eat dinner together.
 * IRyS doesn't really do make-up that much but it was done by Bae when they were staying together on a trip.
 * IRyS got so drunk one time that she kept squeezing both Bae and Fauna's thighs and arms.
 * IRyS and Bae have the same hand size.
 * During the CHaDcast where the trio finally met and did an off-collab stream, Bae explained what happened when Calli was away. IRyS and Bae were watching anime on Calli's big TV and IRyS suddenly looked at Bae and asked: "wanna smash?". After looking each other dead in the eye, Bae replied: "on the TV?!".
 * After The Gisneyland date, the two stayed somewhere and Bae cooked Honey Soy Chicken to eat with IRyS.