Pokémon White ("semi-blind"note She had played through parts of it before, but had not beaten the game, and was mostly unfamiliar with Pokémon as a franchise)
Achievements in Ignorance: Her lack of experience with Pokemon has led to her pursuing some of them that more experienced players usually dismiss, leading to surprising successes with Audino and Bibarel among others.
All Girls Like Ponies: Plays up an exaggerated version of this stereotype, and during her Barbie Horse Adventures LP, and squeals in a vaguely suggestive way over her horse. (She apparently actually does like horses, though, and even owned one once.)
And Now For Something Completely Different: Her secondary channel, Relaxajin, features her doing down-key and meditative Let's Plays in a very calm and laid-back voice, at odds with the more over-the-top persona she uses in some of her videos.
Black Sheep Hit: Her blind Paper Mario 64Let's Play is her most popular project, and drew a lot of new watchers to her channel. However, its sense of humor is incredibly dirty even by her standards, as is the fact that it's so over-the-top humorous to begin with. So when she announced Journey, a number of her newer watchers expressed surprise that she would choose such a serious game—despite the fact that she's done a number of more serious projects, such as Shadow of the Colossus and ICO.'
Boss Dissonance: Discussed Trope in Pokemon White, where Lucah easily curbstomps the gym leaders yet has trouble with some of the rival and regular trainer battles.
Buffy Speak: Mainly in the form of "It's a thing", "Is this a thing?", "Why is this a thing?" etc.
Catch Phrase: "MAH BALLS" seems to have ascended to one.
"[Something that sounds suggestive]—just like all my first dates!"
"That's what S/HE said!
"Are you coming onto me?"
"Sir?!/Ma'am?!"
"You don't know?!"
"Whis is this a thing?" and "Why is anything anything?!"
Cherry Tapping: She deliberately kept the basic move Tackle on Joshtheslt in Pokemon White for a long time so she could do this to nearly-dead opponents.
Lucah: You fuckin' awful piece of fucking shit fuck cunt stained asshole grandpa motherfucking drop needle dick shithead. Unbelievable. Fuck you. Just...fuck you.
Collective Groan: The "Dr. Mario" pun in Paper Mario 64 elicits this.
Crosses the Line Twice: Invoked in some of her LP's, when she gives characters voices based on various outdated caricatures. In addition to lamenting the fact that she can't think of anything better and is thus offending everyone, she tries to play it up enough that it goes straight into ridiculous.
Dirty Old Man: She has her suspicions about... pretty much every old man in Paper Mario 64.
Disney Death: For a brief moment in Journey, it looks like the White Cloak is going to get eaten by a rock snake. But they escape just in time, for which Lucah is thankful.
Down the Drain: Hates water levels, and is mildly phobic of them.
Again in episode 61 when she fights the X-Yux. It takes up almost half of the episode.
Erotic Eating: Lucah, Donnabellez and Attacking Tucans all do it in her "Project Brave Heart" charity livestream as a challenge - Lucah with a taco, Donna with a banana and Tucans with a slice of pizza.
Evil Brit: The voice she gives Bowser in Paper Mario 64.
She also consistently refers to Kammy Koopa as Queen Elizabeth II, and reads all of her lines in an exaggerated version of the Queen's voice.
Fake Brit: Both she and guest Hercrabbiness put on British accents for characters in 5 Days A Stranger, with...varying degrees of success.
She also calls Merlee "Happy Ending Lady" and eventually starts calling Goombella "Ms. No-Arms".
Failed a Spot Check: "I somehow managed to miss the ONE trick, that everyone told me about, that would have made that boss fight easy."
First Name Basis: Josh Jepson is one of the few people who regularly uses her real name when talking about her, instead of calling her "Lucah." Her real name is Risa, sometimes "Reese" for short.
Heh Heh, You Said X: She can find innuendos in just about anything. And it's one of her favorite things to do when playing a game.
Hello, Insert Name Here: She and Josh Jepson can't wait to name their horse something immature in the Barbie Horse Adventures LP. They find out the game only allows you to choose from a list of pre-set names, but they insist their horse is named "My Balls" anyway.
They also named their game file "Dickbutt."
Barbie's friend, Theressa, is called "Vagisil", and her baby horse at the end she delightfully names "My Penis".
The theme continues in the sequel with the aid of fan suggestions, leading to horses named "Your Virginity", "President Haemorroid" and "Fappy Cow" among others. And all the foals are named after venereal diseases.
Lucah herself will sometimes comment on puns used by the writing of a game itself by saying "That's the lamest pun I've ever heard, and I hang out withChuggaaconroy!"
Large Ham: She has a distinct "deep voice" she uses when she's being over-the-top. She's also one LPer who isn't shy of showing her face online, and she hams it up in front of a real camera, too.
Larynx Dissonance: In Paper Mario 64, she gives Tayce T. a very deep "old man voice." She has no idea why she does this, but sticks with it due to Rule of Funny. (OK, so she's female herself, so it's kind of a zig-zag.)
Mentor: In her Journey LP, the White Cloak. In addition to being Lucah's partner through most of the LP, they show her many secrets she hadn't found before.
Mythology Gag: In Pokemon White, she gives some of her Pokemon the same names as some of the horses from the Barbie Horse Adventures LP's.
Older Than They Look: Is in her mid-thirties. Could easily pass for a decade younger. In a bit of an unintentional Running Gag, this always newly astonishes a large number of commenting fans every time she shows herself on camera.
Only Known by Their Nickname: Even when she appears on camera herself, or in videos at cons, she is almost always referred to as Lucahjin or simply Lucah.
Parody Names: Usually really immature ones. For example, in Pokémon White she refers to Cheren and Bianca as "Chinhair and Pee-on-ya".
Already in the first few episodes of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, the characters of Grodus, Lord Crump and Koops have become Scrotum, Lord Dump and Poops.
Perverse Sexual Lust: For N from Pokemon White, to the point that she acts as though all their battles are dates.
Platonic Life Partners: She's very good friends with fellow LPers Nintendo Capri Sun and Josh Jepson, and they co-op often. One question in her channel's FAQ section is if she and NCS, Josh, and any number of other famous LPers are dating. The answer is a firm "No."
Plucky Girl: During her fight with Pelagia in Shadow of the Colossus, not only does she express open disdain for the colossus, but she also had multiple failed recordings and was drunk at the time. She also tried to use a nonconventional method to beat the colossus to prove it could be done. Despite failing, repeatedly, she kept with it and eventually won.
Power Creep, Power Seep: When she participated in Josh Jepson's Mario Kart anniversary celebration (as well as MrRepzion and Super Jeenius) she did badly on all the more recent games, but very well on the SNES original as she grew up playing it.
A lot of videos include her commenting "if you can hear X in the background, it's Y", usually being the antics of either her cat or her neighbours. Almost invariably the sound isn't audible on the recording, which only makes it funnier.
The name "My Balls" seems to be one, seeing as how she named a horse in her Barbie LP this, and would go on to use the same name for her Zebstrika in Pokemon White and her baby Yoshi in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door.
When reading out in-game instructions, replacing any reference to buttons with "blah". Josh Jepson does a similar joke, it's not clear whether they came up with it independently or not.
Whenever she does a blind LP (especially Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door), complaining about fans who don't understand the concept and keep spoiling things for her.
In Pokémon White, reacting to the game text "What will My Balls do?" with "What will you do, My Balls?" in a pompous tone.
Also from Pokemon White, when she gets a gym badge, singing "We got a thing, it looks like a thing, and we put it in our birth control case!"
A third from Pokemon White is semi-singing "Quick Claw is the best!" whenever that item activates and lets Snuggltits go first. By the end of the LP she's saying that she expects her viewers to be saying it along with her.
Singing "I'mmmmm riding my (X)" whenever her character rides anything in-game. Less commonly "I'mmmmmm (X)ing away", which makes it more obvious that this is based on a Shout Out to the song "Come Sail Away" by Styx.
When Merlee appears during battles in Paper Mario, breathlessly saying "Haaaaappy ending laaaady!"
Springtime for Hitler: In Pokemon White she keeps one-hit-killing the final Pokemon of gym leaders so she never hears the last-Pokemon music. After a while she tries using deliberately bad choices of moves to try and hear the music for longer, but it always seems to somehow result in another One-Hit KO.
Squee: In-universe, she loses it on learning that she can name the Yoshi baby in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door... and that there are exactly enough letters for her to name him "My Balls."
Standard Snippet: Midway through ''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door," she started using an outtro, each of which uses one of these.
Tomboy and Girly Girl: Due to the fact that they're two of the most popular female Let's Players on Youtube, she is often considered the "counterpart" of Donnabellez. It's also probably because they fit this particular trope very well—Lucah is more of a tomboy, while Donnabellez is an unashamed girly girl. With one exception: Lucah is easily frightened by creepy things, while Donna revels in them.
Tomboyish Name: She often abbreviates her real name Risa to 'Reese' leading to this. Her username is also a more obscure example of this, as she has said it comes from combining the (female) character Lucca from Chrono Trigger with -jin, which is a masculine name suffix modifier in Japanese.
Verbal Tic: "Sir? / Ma'am?" and "...you don't know!"
Waxing Lyrical: When the Shhwonk game show host in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door rotates around on his pedestal, she says "He's spinning right round, baby, right round. Like a record, baby".
What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?: In-universe: Her and Josh Jepson's incredibly immature take on Barbie. Numerous commentators have noted they pity the poor little girl who just wanted to watch someone play a Barbie game... Lucah herself eventually added a disclaimer to the video saying it was definitely not for kids.
Amusingly, at PAX East 2012, she gave away a "MAH BALLS" t-shirt to... a little girl. Who had indeed seen the videos. (OK, so she wasn't that little—she was probably around 13—but still.)
With Lyrics: She sings several different sets of Toilet Humour lyrics to the upbeat Pokemon Centre music in Pokemon White (some of which were submitted by fans). At one point she also hummed wordlessly along to the Tetris theme music but replaced the last two notes with "...MY BALLS!"
(real name Risa Dressler) is a YouTube-based Lets Player, and one of the more noted female Let's Players on YouTube. She's Let's Played a number of old PC Adventure Games, including entries in the Kings Quest series and Leisure Suit Larry. She's also played the games of Team ICO, and various other assorted games.Her Signature Style is a strange mix of incredible cuteness, from both her voice and her unstoppably perky attitude, and her incredibly filthy sense of humor. She frequently hams it up in her videos, and tends to swear and make make off-color jokes. She's also undeterred by failure, and is fond of co-opping games with various other YouTube Let's Players.After participating in two of The Runaway Guys' filler tournaments, she has joined them as a full guest for their LP of Little Big Planet and as a special guest player on their board play-through of The Observatory on Fortune Street.Games she has LP'd include:
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