History WebAnimation / LaceyGames

* ThrowTheDogABone: The normal route's ending, though [[AWinnerIsYou barebones]], actually lets Lacey be happy for once: her diner does well, she's proud of herself and hopeful for the future, and she earns enough to maintain herself and possibly improve her lot in life.
* UncertainDoom: Whether any of the customers survived eating [[LethalChef the inedible and outright dangerous food]] Lacey served them is unclear. Given her SanitySlippage and unreliable POV it's also unknown whether any of them ''actually'' ate the clearly dubious food or if they saw through it and reported her without further incident.

* MediumBlending: Continuing the trend from ''Lacey's Petshop'', we see Grace and the player talking to each other frequently throughout the video.

* BittersweetEnding: Lacey actually survives for her once due to the events of the game being AllJustADream... but what her uncle did to her still traumatised her... and there's something rotting under her bed.

** Lacey painfully stretches a hamster's neck for an order.

* SelfImmolation: Lacey does this to escape her nightmare.

* SurprisinglyHappyEnding: Lacey wakes up, alive and well... Downplayed as there's something rotting under her.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Jay was Impaled with Extreme Prejudice by a spike while she was skating, and her corpse that ends up in the morgue shows the grisly aftermath of her death.

%%* DarkAndTroubledPast

** In ''Lacey's Diner'', the ''food'' Lacey makes on the third day on the bad ending route is presented in the same manner as the food she cooks in the normal route: with fanfare, a pink background, and sparkles.

* NewJobsAsThePlotDemands: In the videos so far, Lacey has been a pet shop owner, a cook, a waitress (at the same diner), and (according to one image in ''Petshop'') a musician.

* TheOphelia: Lacey, who's very pretty, is shown to be a complete psychological mess in the videos, with WordSaladHorror inner monologues and very disturbing acts. Her creator Rocio also fits, having MessyHair and being implied to use the games as an outlet for her own issues.

* AddressingThePlayer: InUniverse, Lacey pleads with the player to not click the "ready" button and send her out with her stalker, who will kill her.

* DownerEnding: The stalker eventually ends up killing and eating Lacey.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: This is the only video with clear non distorted voice acting as well as the only video that makes no mention of Lacey's CreepyUncle and portrays Lacey as a relatively normal girl with none of the mental issues she showcased in future episodes, in addition Lacey in this video actually seemed to be aware that she was in a game, begging the player not to make her go outside implying she is a form of sentient AI, this was dropped in future episodes. The antagonist of this video, the Stalker, also has yet to appear again in the series, unlike Lacey's uncle who's a prevalent character in the videos.
** On top of that, this video is the only one where we see no one InUniverse react to the content with (totally justified) shock and horror. Most following videos include the recurring character of charchar887 who plays and investigates the games [[AudienceSurrogate in complete shock of what they're seeing.]] In ''Wardrobe,'' there are no obviously "real" characters featured at all unless the silent player and/or video uploader are counted. Strikingly, the description of ''Wardrobe'' is only a few words long and refers to the game as though it is as innocent as it first seems.
-->''Wardrobe'' video description: '''cute little game i found after many years. i remember playing this as a child lol :)'''

** And finally, the StringyHairedGhostGirl.

* TheyKilledKennyAgain: Averted for the first time in the series, Lacey actually survives to the end of the episode on account of everything that had happened being AllJustADream.

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: The complaints about Jay, supposedly made in the late 2000s, complain about her unfeminine nature and use homophobic and transphobic rhetoric and slurs.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Rocio's response to MoralGuardians complaining about Jay? Kill her off in a [[CruelAndUnusualDeath very gruesome way]]. On a website for children.

* KillTheCutie: All of the videos end with Lacey getting killed or [[DrivenToSuicide killing herself]].

* TheOphelia: Lacey. She's quite pretty, and in ''Lacey's Diner'' she goes completely insane. In ''Lacey's Petshop'', during the NightmareSequence, we learn why she became this and get to see her strange inner monologues.

* TheyKilledKennyAgain: Lacey dies in each video under different circumstances, and nothing that happened in one video has come up in another.

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%%--->"this is such a game\\

** On top of that, this video is the only one where we see no one InUniverse react to the content with (totally justified) shock and horror. Most following videos include the recurring character of charchar887 who plays and investigates the games [[AudienceSurrogate in complete shock of what they're seeing.]] In ''Wardrobe,'' besides the silent player, we don't see nor hear of any obviously "real" characters at all. Strikingly, the description of ''Wardrobe'' is only a few words long and refers to the game as though it is as innocent as it first seems.

** On top of that, this video is the only one where we see no one InUniverse react to the content with (totally justified) shock and horror. Most following videos include the recurring character of charchar887 who plays and investigates the games [[AudienceSurrogate in complete shock of what they're seeing.]] In ''Wardrobe'' besides the silent player, we don't see nor hear of any obviously "real" characters at all. Strikingly, the description of ''Wardrobe'' is only a few words long and refers to the game as though it is as innocent as it first seems.

In ''Lacey's Wardrobe'', Lacey has a busy day. She'll go picnicking in the morning, go shopping at afternoon, then go on a date with a cute guy at night. Only problem is that she doesn't know what to wear, and that you'll help her dressing up.

In ''Lacey's Diner'', Lacey has recently opened up a new restaurant, and once again, it is up to you to help her cook food and serve to the customers.

* AuthorAvatar: It's heavily implied that Lacey is actually a stand-in for Rocio Yani, one of the co-founders of Lacey's Games, as she looks nearly identical to Lacey. This also means that ''every'' bad thing Lacey has experienced (drug addiction, molestation by her uncle, etc), actually happened to Rocio.

* SelfImmolation: Lacey does this to escape her nightmare.

* SurprisinglyHappyEnding: Lacey wakes up, alive and well… Downplayed as there’s something rotting under her.

* KickTheDog: One of the first things we see about Lacey's Games is a drawing done by a 9 year old girl named Jenny being shown on the front page, being relentlessly mocked by someone who owns the site (implied to be Rocio), claiming it's trash and that Lacey hates it. It is so pointlessly cruel that it reflects why the Lacey flash games are so depressing.

--> '''what have you done'''

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Lacey ends up getting butchered into pieces and eaten alive by the stalker, screaming in agony the whole time.

* UncertainDoom: Whether any of the customers survived eating [[LethalChef the inedible and outright dangerous food) is unclear. Given Lacey's SanitySlippage it's also unknown whether any of them ''actually'' ate the clearly dubious food or not.

* AxCrazy: The Stalker, who "loves" Lucy so much that he wants to butcher and eat her alive so he'll be "together" with her. It's also implied that she's not his first victim either, judging from the "gift" he sent her.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Lucy ends up getting butchered into pieces and eaten alive by the stalker, screaming in agony the whole time.

* AxCrazy: The Stalker, who "loves" Lucy so much that he wants to butcher and eat her alive so he'll be "together" with her.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: This is the only video with clear non distorted voice acting as well as the only video that makes no mention of Lacey’s CreepyUncle and portrays Lacey as a relatively normal girl with none of the mental issues she showcased in future episodes, in addition Lacey in this video actually seemed to be aware that she was in a game, begging the player not to make her go outside implying she is a form of sentient AI, this was dropped in future episodes.