Xin Xin

Biodata

Feature	Information
Name	Xin Xin (芯芯)
Alias(es)	Scaredy-cat Xin; Xin-jie 34
Gender	Female
Occupation/Role	VTuber variety streamer and horror-game streamer 34 43
First Appearance	Dark Forest night event 12

Background

Xin Xin was already a popular streamer before focusing on horror games. Her usual content primarily involved MOBAs, leaving her unfamiliar with the single-player scene and Shuo Guang's work. 34

Her first Dark Forest stream established the persona behind “Scaredy-cat Xin”: a jump scare made her drop her keyboard and accidentally disconnect her stream by pulling out the ethernet cable. Clips of her repeated screams spread on Danmu Network, but her fearful reactions also made her the top-ranked game-channel streamer. 34 43

Personality

Xin Xin is expressive, easily frightened, and highly sensitive to immersive horror. She panics at supernatural encounters, darkness, sudden sounds, and heights, occasionally removing her VR headset or needing time to compose herself after a scare. 12 75 76

Despite this, she repeatedly chooses to continue. She faces dangerous events for her viewers, explores altered environments even when afraid, and regains her resolve after deaths or failures. 41 76 235 238

She is compassionate and curious, sometimes to her detriment. She tries to rescue NPCs and chooses mercy toward Agent Dave in the Pocket Dimension, but she also takes calculated risks to uncover entertaining or unusual game content for her audience. 75 143 145 147

Streaming Career

• Her frightened reactions to Dark Forest made her a prominent horror-game streamer and earned her the nickname “Scaredy-cat Xin.” 34
• Her Visage stream returned her to second place in the game category, then back to first due to her entertainment value. 43
• Her chaotic Control Failure playthrough—especially spectacular deaths and reckless choices—drew higher viewership than Zai Zong’s stream. 143
• Her screams during Dark Forest VR drove substantial viewership and viewer gifts. 239

Game Playthroughs

*Dark Forest*

Xin Xin initially dismisses horror games, but the first night event leaves her terrified as footsteps circle her shelter, an unknown man appears and vanishes from her room, and spirits attack when the lights go out. 12

She continues despite the experience, becoming known for her fear-driven reactions and repeated screams. 34

*Visage*

Xin Xin watches the Visage preview during a stream and becomes engrossed by its disturbing imagery and sudden scares. 34 35

When Visage dominates the game category, she immediately buys and streams it to recover her viewership. She encounters sanity-draining supernatural effects, tests the game’s object interaction and physics, and explores its black-and-white videotape sequence. 41 43

In the hospital sequence, she attempts to escape the ghostly Lacan through an unstable, shifting layout, but is eventually cornered and killed. 44

*Skyhill*

After completing the prologue, Xin Xin joins Zai Zong in co-op. Rather than spawning beside him, she begins as a separate survivor in Room 8907, identified as a wife waiting for her husband; the pair must travel through the hotel to meet. 74

She attempts to help a blind woman in Room 9110, only to discover that the apparent NPC is a monster. The encounter pulls her into the room and causes her to fall from the 91st floor. 75

After respawning in Room 8701 as an assassin, she finds two silenced handguns, a sniper rifle, and a military knife. Armed with a pistol, she kills a Mummy Monster on the 90th floor and reunites with Zai Zong on the 91st. 76 77

While scavenging supplies during the elevator-repair sequence, Xin Xin is killed by the nursery-rhyme event. A ghost then impersonates her assassin character and silently follows Zai Zong into the elevator. 80

*Control Failure*

Xin Xin’s playthrough is defined by impulsive exploration and frequent deaths. She obtains a Level 3 keycard, enters an observation room to try to save a projection, and is killed after provoking the hostile projections. 143

She discovers that the protagonist’s save-and-load mechanic is treated in-universe as an extraordinary precognitive ability. This knowledge allows her to use saves and reloads as a deliberate puzzle-solving tool. 143 144 146

After a pale anomaly sees her through surveillance footage, she is dragged into black substance and transported into the Pocket Dimension of A-FBC-0106. There, she cooperates with Agent Dave and Rose Emily, initially spares Dave, and later shoots him when he attacks Emily after apparently aging fifty years within the dimension. 146 147

*Control Failure* — Confrontation Mode

Xin Xin takes an interest in the new PvP mode and invites Zai Zong to team up after watching his stream. 182

In a later match, she plays as W-FBC-0096, “Shy Guy.” When humans look at her, she enters a three-second sorrowful state; afterward, she becomes berserk, gaining vastly increased strength, sixfold movement speed, 90% damage resistance, and the ability to destroy indoor walls and security doors. 183

*Dark Forest VR*

Xin Xin is among the leading Dark Forest VR streamers. In the revised prologue, she controls the true protagonist—an injured investigator captured and interrogated by the Village Doctor. 233 234

She investigates a new half-open door absent from the original game, enters a flesh-like room, restores power in an improvised operating room, and obtains the password 6409 from a corpse-like radio puzzle. 235 236 238

After opening Mr. Jun’s door, she witnesses the doctor murder a man before the hanging female corpse attacks her, ending the prologue with another major on-stream scream. 238 239

Gameplay Skills

Horror-Game Endurance

Xin Xin continues streaming and progressing after extreme fright, deaths, and disturbing first-person VR sequences.

• Persists through Dark Forest night events despite panic and repeated scares. 12
• Re-enters Skyhill after the blind-woman event leaves her in tears. 76
• Explores Dark Forest VR’s altered prologue despite repeatedly hesitating at dangerous doors and rooms. 235 237

Improvised Combat

When equipped, Xin Xin can act decisively against immediate threats.

• Uses a silenced handgun to kill a Mummy Monster with a point-blank headshot. 77
• Carries firearms as an assassin survivor in Skyhill. 76
• Shoots Agent Dave after he attacks Rose Emily in the Pocket Dimension. 147

Save-and-Reload Problem Solving

While playing Control Failure, Xin Xin learns to use the protagonist’s revive ability as a tool for exploration and puzzle-solving.

• Saves before dangerous surveillance exploration to preserve a fallback point. 145
• Uses saving and loading to test paths through the nine-route Pocket Dimension. 146
• The ability permits unlimited trial and error, but it does not prevent her from experiencing the danger and fear of each failed attempt. 138 146

Equipment / Items

• Spiked board — Xin Xin’s only defense during her first Dark Forest night event. 12
• Candle, mask, and bat — Her retained Skyhill pre-order items after joining co-op. 74
• Two silenced handguns, sniper rifle, and military knife — Equipment found after she respawns as the assassin survivor of Room 8701. 76
• Level 2 and Level 3 keycards — Used during her Control Failure exploration. 143
• Flashlight, old shovel, and table leg — Items used during the Dark Forest VR prologue. 234 236 238

Relationships

• Zai Zong — Fellow top streamer and frequent co-op partner. They coordinate while playing Skyhill, support each other after deaths, and later team up in Control Failure’s Confrontation Mode. 74 76 77 182 183
• Xin Bao — Xin Xin’s fan community. They comfort her after frightening events, offer gameplay advice, and actively support her streams through comments and gifts. 75 76 235 239
• Rose Emily — Research assistant encountered through Control Failure’s Pocket Dimension event. Xin Xin chooses to spare Dave after Emily pleads for cooperation, then intervenes when Dave attacks her. 146 147
• Agent Dave — Security guard encountered in the Pocket Dimension. Xin Xin initially shows him mercy but shoots him after he becomes hostile and attacks Emily. 146 147

Trivia

• Xin Xin’s nickname “Scaredy-cat Xin” originated from her Dark Forest stream, where a jump scare made her drop her keyboard and disconnect the stream. 34
• Although she is easily frightened, Xin Xin’s terror is a major source of her streaming popularity. 143 239
• In Skyhill co-op, Xin Xin’s avatar is a bald, burly assassin in a suit and red tie—an appearance sharply contrasted with her usual cute image. 77