Lachie (Character)

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"Why do you keep calling me that? Who even is Lachieninja?"

- Lachie

Lachie is a YouTuber, however is also referred to as seemingly running a Show (Lachieninja) in The Good, and the Plain. As such, Lachie is a very popular creator in his world, as Lachieninja is apparently “live-streamed to the world,” (As quoted by Detective Lachie in The Good, and the Plain)

Channel Creation
Lachie started creating content on the 8th of October, 2018. It is unknown when he rose to popularity in his universe. He created a video titled A Restoration of a Partying Tradition / Super Mario Party Review in which he talked about Super Mario Party for the Nintendo Switch. He did not show his face in this video, however it is canon to the Lachieninja story-line.

Meeting Anjin
Lachie's second video begins with a new character, Anjin introducing himself as The Darkness, someone who can be the negative parts of his review. This, for a long time, was the only time in which the two of them were seen as separate entities together. At the end of this episode, there is an end scene in which Anjin clenches his fist and it becomes that of Lachie's.

Lachie's Later Content
Lachie's content continues to stay relatively the same as when he started, only changing in the way that he was showing his face in his videos. He still created the same sort of content. He continues to this day with the only notable changes being that he commentates with a camera less, if at all.

Captivity
By Halloween (Close Enough) in Luigi's Mansion / Luigi's Mansion 3 Review, we saw that Lachie was being kept in chains in the digital realm by Anjin. At first Lachie was forced to help Anjin with the content he was creating, however, Anjin didn't like the results of this in this episode, so he took over the writing process after this point. It seems that Lachie is left in a state of exaustion and despondency most of the time, and it is to be assumed that he is alone a lot of the time in this realm.

Break Away
Devoid of Christmas Spirit brought to us the Spirits of Christmas, beings that exist in Lachie's unconcious mind, however appear to be more than just a figment, because of their power to show Lachie things he could not possibly know on his own, like visions of the outside world. These spirits, particularly the Spirit of Christmas Future, motivated Lachie to break free of Anjin's chains with a glowing blue power. It is unknown wether Lachie has always had this power or gained it through some means.

Non-Awareness
Lachie has constantly shown signs of non-awareness, specifically to the idea of Lachieninja. It is unknown why, but in almost every video, he will ask who Lachieninja is, claiming to not know who it refers to, and even denying that it is him, despite the fact that it is his clearly his channel's name.

Lachie also shows signs of not knowing more than just Lachieninja, in The Good, and the Plain, Lachie jokes;

"Despite me having no recollection of anything at all, let alone a birthday..."

Later, in Devoid of Christmas Spirit, he was finally able to find out that Lachieninja was himself, which shocked and sent him into disarray. He screamed that the situation made no sense before we went back to the review.

Anjin's Control
Lachie has shown to be basically forced to create videos against his own will, like in My Favourite 2D Platformers, where he goes to sleep playing Shovel Knight, is talked to briefly through the form of a vortex, then wakes up to Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze on his TV instead. This is also confirmed by later on in the video, Lachie stating;

"You know, I originally wanted to review Shovel Knight."

He doesn't elaborate much further on this, however in a later video, The Good, and the Plain, Lachie is once again forced to do a review, this time on Mario Kart Wii after seeing the same vortex in his sleep.

"If that isn't the most atypical villain monologue that's ever forced me to do a Mario Kart Wii Review and rip-off Scott the Woz, then I don't know what is."

In NOT the Worst of the Trilogy!, there is also a cryptic end scene where the policeman points his finger towards a screen in My Favourite 2D Platformers, and seemingly Lachie shouts “I'm the one in control!”, which the policeman dismisses as Lachie simply being a loon. This only results to have a deeper voice play back to the viewer with the same phrase. This deeper voice is reminiscent of Anjin's voice in Halloween in Salem Town, yet slightly more menacing. This same voice is heard throughout the vortex communication in My Favourite 2D Platformers and The Good and the Plain. This vortex also later appears in How to Complete a Trilogy, however very obviously the voice belongs to Anjin.

Gradual Discovery
Lachie has continued to discover things and grow as a character, most notably in Devoid of Christmas Spirit. He was once naive and had little-to-no concern of the questionable things happening, however, now he wants to know what is happening and how to get his life back. This determination seemed to kick into full force after he was chained up in the digital realm by Anjin.

Trivia

 * Lachie (Creator) has confirmed that Lachie never explicitly agreed to the collaboration with Anjin in Halloween in Salem Town during his 1 year anniversary Q&A Livestream.
 * The start of 2019 is when Lachie started to show his face in his videos and when he got his new sprite.
 * The end scenes and some intro scenes would not be broadcast to the in-universe canon. The police seem to be the only characters with access to the weird unknown content, such as the vortex sequence in My Favourite 2D Platformers for example. It seemed Anjin begain to catch on by How to Complete a Trilogy, as he also addressed the unwanted content appearing in the Lachieninja episodes.
 * The new sprite transition is nothing of note story-wise, just Lachie (Creator) deciding to ask Em to do his art instead of him.