Cecilia Immergreen’s ‘One Game’ of Deadlock Stretches to Three Hours on Hyakuto Kyoko’s Stream

HOLOLIVE — Cecilia Immergreen joined Hyakuto Kyoko and Gigi Murin for what was billed as a single game of Deadlock and stayed for nearly three hours of an eight-hour broadcast on Kyoko’s channel. Gigi streamed the session from her own channel as well. The three won the first match in about 40 minutes, and the others then talked Cecilia into another. She said it was her birthday week, and the group wished her a happy birthday and kept telling her “it’s your birthday” through the fights that followed.

Several of the next matches went badly. In one, played on the Archmother side, the character’s repeated voice line, “You need to make a stand and stop them,” became a running joke. Kyoko had not seen the English-language meme behind it, a riff on mobile strategy-game ads where a kingdom is always “under attack,” and the others explained it. Kyoko said she understood and found it hilarious.

“Hopefully we get to do a 10-hour run with CeCe and Gigi.” — Hyakuto Kyoko, while reading Super Chats near the end of the stream

The explanation led to a swap of Japanese and English memes. The participants set up a group chat to share them and floated a future stream in which they would redraw their favorite memes themselves rather than show the originals. Kyoko, who has been practicing the heroes Seven and Infernus, also compared online-game culture with Cecilia and Gigi, noting that many gaming terms are the same English words in Japanese.

Cecilia thanked the others for playing with her just before 3 a.m. on the stream clock, and the matches carried on without her. Gigi’s game soon turned up a corrupted file; she sent her viewers over to Kyoko’s stream and restarted her PC. Kyoko, left in the match alone, kept fighting while chat cheered her on. After Gigi’s long absence the pair had to wait about 15 minutes in the queue, and they used the time to try new heroes, including Celeste and Bebop.

The broadcast ended on a win. Kyoko then spent the closing stretch reading Super Chats, said she had another stream that night and needed to prepare, and said she would return the next day with Cuphead. Asked about a future watch-along, she said she liked the idea of a meme-heavy one with Gigi and Cecilia, and she said she hoped to attempt a 10-hour run with them.