Lets Play / stacyplays

Stacy Marie Hinojosa, also known as stacyplays, is a YouTube and Twitch Let's Player who is based in Utah. Her videos are primarily based around Minecraft, but other games she has played tend to be animal and nature-themed indie games. She currently has over 2 million subscribers on her main YouTube channel, stacyplays. She is also the author of Wild Rescuers, a tetralogy based on her Dogcraft series.

In addition to the above, Stacy has also played characters of the same name in Minecraft: Story Mode and New Life SMP. For more information about her personas in these media, please refer to their respective character pages.

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Games StacyPlays has played:

• Dog Sled Saga
• Eternal Winter
• The Long Dark
• Meadow
• Minecraft
• Minecraft: Story Mode
• Never Alone
• Shelter
• Shelter 2
• The Sims: Cats & Dogs
• Stardew Valley
• TRI: Of Friendship and Madness

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This YouTuber and her videos provide examples of:

• Accidental Murder: In the 14th episode of Diversity 3, Stacy kills her parrot Desdemona while fighting a slime.
  Stacy: I SHOT DESDEMONA!!!
• Action Girl: In Dogcraft, Basil fits the bill, being a Lightning Bruiser.
• Added Alliterative Appeal: Many of her Dogcraft builds have an Alliterative Name, such as the Hound Hospital, Basil's Barkery, Addison's Academy, Pumpkin's Patch, and the Reindeer Ravine.
• Animal Lover: It is her schtick to play video games themed around animals, which is lampshaded throughout her videos.
• Badass Bookworm: Addison from Dogcraft is the smartest of the wolf pack and a capable fighter.
• Balloonacy: Her house on The Cube SMP is based on Carl's house from Up.
• The Beastmaster: Stacy's love for animals causes her to tame and adopt all sorts of animals in Minecraft. In Dogcraft, this is taken up to eleven when she manages to tame and ride the Ender Dragon.
• Bookworm: Stacy's Minecraft series Bookcraft involves rebuilding structures from various works of literature. It's Played for Drama in the series with Ms. Reedsalaught and her backstory, whose love for books led to her greatest regrets.
• Broke the Rating Scale: On a scale of one to ten, Page rates Molly of how much she loves her a -2.
• Camping Episode: Epawsode 41 of Dogcraft, "The Camping Trip".
• Canine Companion:
  • In Dogcraft, she is accompanied by her wolf pack — Wink, Everest, Tucker, Basil, Noah, and Addison. She has also adopted dogs in the hundreds, if not thousands, in the series alone.
  • In Bookcraft, she has a wolf named Dogear.
• Catchphrase: Her outro, which she switches up in Bookcraft to "Page and Molly love you, go read a book."
• Cats Are Mean: Zigzagged in Dogcraft. Dog the cat led the creepers into battle during the First Creeper War, but it turned out he was just Brainwashed and Crazy. Later in the Second Creeper War, Ninja did a Face–Heel Turn to lead the creepers in battle, but after being captured by Stacy and imprisoned for a period of time, he was given a second chance. However, all of Stacy's other cats are portrayed as heroic, even playing a vital role in the Second Creeper War.
• Character Outlives Actor: It is acknowledged In-Universe that although Page has passed away in real life, her Dogcraft counterpart remains alive and well. This eventually becomes a plot point in Epawsode 342, "Page's Rainbow Bridge" that Stacy's Excessive Mourning for her has been causing a multitude of problems around her world, and the only way for her to fix it was to let Page go free.
• Crossover: One between Dogcraft and Bookcraft occurred as she worked on The Hundred and One Dalmatians in the latter world, and was close to breeding her 101th dalmatian. Cruella de Vil also shows up to steal her dalmatians, which prompted Stacy to go after her and kill her.
• Doomed Hometown: In Dogcraft Epawsode 183, "Sooezy's Revenge", in Stacy's vision, the pigs of Dogcraft summon Pigzilla to destroy the town of Dogcraft. This is thankfully defied by her decision to kill Butch before Pigzilla can be summoned.
• Dragon Rider: In Dogcraft, during the Nether War, Stacy tames the Ender Dragon and names him Zephyr before riding him into battle to defeat the forces of the Nether.
• Dreaming of Things to Come: In Dogcraft Epawsode 183, "Sooezy's Revenge", Stacy briefly faints and has a vision of the pigs all across the Dogcraft world uniting at Sooezy's final cry to rally against Butch. As she attempts to take Butch into custody, the pigs summon Pigzilla, a giant pig, to destroy the town of Dogcraft. When she regains consciousness, Stacy sees the pigs gathering outside the Dog Show, and decides to Screw Destiny by having her dogs kill Butch instead.
• Excessive Mourning: It is revealed in Epawsode 342, "Page's Rainbow Bridge", that Stacy's refusal to let Page's Dogcraft counterpart die with her real-life counterpart has caused a multitude of problems around her world, including the invasion of the Wizard, Wink's diappearance, and the rampant cricket infestation in the world.
• French Jerk: Madeleine, who runs Basil's Barkery in Dogcraft, is grumpy, snarky, and over-the-top for the most part, though she sometimes has genuinely kind moments.
• Friendly Rivalry: With Graser10, whom she competes against in Mineclash and Far Lands.
• Homage: Her Bookcraft series is filled with these — each of the builds are a homage to the story it is originally from. So far, these books have included The Twenty One Balloons, Charlotte's Web, Hatchet, The Hundred and One Dalmatians, Misty of Chincoteague, Island of the Blue Dolphins, A Christmas Carol, and Journey to the Center of the Earth.

• Lighthouse Point: She builds one in Bookcraft.
• Lightning Bruiser: In Dogcraft, Basil the wolf was blessed with super speed after being struck by lightning.
• Mama Bear: For her pets in Minecraft. During the Dogcraft-Bookcraft crossover, she killed Cruella de Vil for stealing all her dalmatians.
• Mix-and-Match Critters: The Squickens in Dogcraft are half-squid, half-chicken.
• Noble Wolf: The wolves in Dogcraft, and their equivalents in Wild Rescuers. The wolves from Mystic Mesa also count as this.
• No Hero Discount: In Dogcraft, Stacy borrows dozens of treats from Madeleine in Epawsode 81, "The Creeper War", in order to level all her wolves up to maximum level Creeper Sweeper so that they can fight against the creepers taking over Dogcraft. However, this leaves her in debt with Madeleine, who constantly demands payment in gold for the treats. This eventually causes Addison to lead the wolf pack into the Nether to steal gold from the zombie pigmen in order to help Stacy pay back her debt, which leads to... a lot of trouble.
• Origins Episode: Chapter 69 of Bookcraft, "The Librarian's Secret", is this to Ms. Reedsalaught, Stacy's librarian.
• Pungeon Master: Many of her builds in Dogcraft seem to involve one animal pun or another, with Noah's Bark, Basil's Barkery, the first episode being titled "A Ruff Start", the vet Dr. K. Nineheeler...
• Raised by Wolves: Her persona in Wild Rescuers is this.
• Rescue Arc: In Epawsode 240 of Dogcraft, "The Second Creeper War", Stacy and her cat army launch one to save Noah, Basil and Everest, who were being held hostage by the creepers.
• Self-Deprecation: From the eighth episode of Diversity:
  Cupquake: (singing) I believe in you!
  Stacy: Thank you. That makes one of us.
• Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: In Bookcraft, she does "Word of the Episode" sessions, where she introduces an uncommonly used word Once per Episode and has to use the word in the episode itself. She also occasionally slips into this during Mineclash.
• Shout-Out:
  • In Dogcraft, Stacy has dogs named Sirius, Luna, and Dobby, and a Squicken named Harry Potter. She also has several pets named after characters from Oliver & Company, and a pig called Reuben Jr.
    • She also names several of her animals in the series after her friends — a Squicken named Lizzie after LDShadowLady, a cat named Stampy, a donkey named Joey, a duck named Sqaishey, and a gray poodle named Grayser after her friend Graser10.
  • Several Mineclash challenges have premises based around various fandoms and popular media, including Insurgent, Mockingjay, The Jungle Book (1967), and Aladdin (2019).
  • She, in turn, receives one from the creators of The Long Dark, who name the item "Stacy's grape soda" after her in the game.
• Two Girls to a Team: Basil and Addison among the six wolves in the Dogcraft wolf pack.
• Very Special Episode: Dogcraft Epawsode 342, "Page's Rainbow Bridge", deals with heavy topics such as grief and animal death.
• World of Action Girls: All competitors of UHShe, a Minecraft Ultra Hardcore PVP tournament she created, are women.
• Yet Another Christmas Carol: Chapter 69 of Bookcraft, "The Librarian's Secret", is this.

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"Page and Molly love you, go rescue a dog."