Kumoku Tsururu and Cerafine Mikael Reunite for a Model-Swap Debate

PIXELA PROJECT — Kumoku Tsururu and Cerafine Mikael of Pixela Project streamed a roughly two-hour “debate” on Thursday, wearing swapped avatars in their first joint appearance in months. The stream was titled “Mild-R vs. Lilibelle,” after two colleagues who were not on the call.

The pair opened by working out when they had last streamed together. Going back through old messages, they put the gap at somewhere between half a year and eight months, and agreed it felt longer than that. Tsururu then slipped into a fairy-style look, and chat joked that it suited the avatar better than the original. The two said they were debating on behalf of the opposite side, trading praise and teasing about the absent colleagues. One argued that Lilibelle could not match Mild-R at telling friends how much they were missed; the other countered that Mild-R could not match Lilibelle’s taste for dramatic, edgy lines. Along the way they tried on other colleagues’ models, including child-sized versions.

“Whoever puts on that face looks 300 percent younger.” — Kumoku Tsururu and Cerafine Mikael, after trying on a colleague’s model

Stories filled much of the second hour. One participant described sharing a bed with Lilibelle during a recent collaboration and waking with Lilibelle’s face inches away, eventually giving up and moving to the sofa; a photo attempt came out too dark to show anything. Another told how Mild-R once gathered five small blankets into a pile and curled up in them. Chat answered with whistling cat emotes and a stream of laughter. Tsururu also recounted tipping over backward in a chair during an earlier stream after a bolt that had worked loose long before finally gave way. Nobody was hurt, the story went, because a hair clip and the seat back took the fall.

The two also talked about seeing colleagues in person. They had not met face to face in about two years, they said, and concluded that a small group of three to five would be easier to schedule than a large one. One participant floated organizing a group blood donation. Near the end they played with halo accessories on the swapped models, ending up with a double halo and one that changed colors like an RGB bulb.

Tsururu said they would be away from Friday through Sunday and back on Monday. A Saturday 9 p.m. stream for Mikael was announced at the close, and chat filled with goodbyes and wishes for a safe trip.