Baalia

Baalia or Kamie-Ko (卡咩子, kamiēzǐ) is the avatar of Project Neural Cloud's Producer and Sunborn employee Kamie. She was first introduced in the Beilan Island Shelter Broadcast of 5 February 2021, and makes a notable appearance in the Neural Cloud game ever since beta as a bullying target in the EXP Collection stage. She will mock you if you fail to take her life bar down to zero before the end of the countdown. She is also referenced in the LOFT - Hanging Poster furniture and a lot of Weibo posts.

According to Kamie, Baalia was designed by his team because he needed a Live2D avatar to appear in the Beilan Island Shelter Broadcast devlogs. It is supposedly based on a joke with Kamie's name: the second character in his name (咩, miē) can be read as the bleating of a sheep or goat, so his team designed a well-endowed goat-demon girl and forced him to cross-dress, even adding the feminine 子 suffix to his name (子 is pronouced -ko in Japanese and -zǐ in Standard Chinese. Because using 子 as a feminine name suffix comes from Japanese, her name is transcribed in the English community with a Chinese-Japanese mix as Kamie-Ko, even though the Sunborn staff pronounce it in Chinese). In Global, her name was translated as Baalia, retaining the goat bleating joke with “baa”.

Whether Baalia is supposed to exist as a canon character in Magrasea or only as a joke like Sharkitect in Girls' Frontline is anyone's guess. Her animal features are at least consistent with the representation of virtual Agents.

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  Spot the Baalia plushie?