Lets Play / Lyinginbedmon

The creator of the website Remember Comics LyingInBedMon (usually shortened simply to "Lying") is the online persona of Tim Maughan. Primarily known for his online webcomic inspired by The Order of the Stick, Lying also runs several Let's Play series, plays/runs Role Playing Games with The Dragon Hat, and is a friend to members of the Yogscast. Tim's work is characterized by his love of long-reaching storylines, and his varying characterization depending on which series he is recording. Thanks to an ongoing multiverse plotline, Lying's personality can vary dramatically between videos.

Following through to the Yogscast Complete server from the Chaosville Server, wherein his series theme was the recreation of classic Horror Movie settings, specifically the Well in the Woods, Lying's recent Minecraft series on the Yogscast Complete pack is The Witch in the Woods. This series takes his previous theme up a rather disturbing notch by focusing on the recreation of a horror antagonist... via his own Minecraft character.

Lying has another Minecraft series running on the Resonant Rise 3 modpack called Yokai Temple, in which he plays a priest who (initially) aims to protect the inhabitants of the server from the monsters and angry spirits in their world. After a while, this Lying begins to dabble in magic that he shouldn't, a practice encouraged by a brain in a jar.

The third Minecraft series on Lying’s channel uses the Absque Sole subpack of Resonant Rise 3. Knight of Fangs follows the adventures of Sir Lying of Baedmahn and his squire Fuzz. Later in the series, the Band of the Fox, a group of mercenaries, appears to join the two. Sir Lying and Squire Fuzz (and, later, the Band) are werewolves, and the series details the Band’s mercenary adventures along with Lying and Fuzz' quest to master and ultimately rid themselves of their lycanthropy.

Other series include Atlantis, Maid-ing Do, The Return, The Haunting, and The Forbidden Lyings

Lying maintains a complete list of all Lyings here.

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Lyinginbedmon provides examples of the following tropes.

General

• Cosmic Motifs: His characters tend to have some relation to the stars; whether it be pining to return to the stars, wearing clothing with night sky symbolism, praying to them, or talking about their deaths, once you start noticing all the stars you will see them everywhere.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Lying is well known for the beautiful blonde hair he puts on most of his characters, and for being a pretty swell guy.
• Human Outside, Alien Inside: Redmakers, while they look human and seem human, humans don't typically have redstone inherently in them that allows them superhuman abilities that are viewed as normal for the species.
• Meaningful Name: His online name originally came from his affection for the animated series Digimon, however, his reliability and honesty is usually called into question in series, making the name Lying doubly appropriate.
• Pacifist: Lying himself is not much for fighting and imploys a pacifist philosophy, though they have learned to fight.
• Spiders Are Scary: Lying has a phobia of spiders.

Witch In The Woods

• Alternate Timeline: The main theme behind his gradual development into a monster. In the most nightmarish way possible. Lying is basically cannibalizing their other-selves from alternate realities, killing themselves across a thousand realities, and stealing their life-force to stay alive. This is the origin of Kyofushin, who is basically the ghost of every other version of Lying ever killed.
• Ambiguous Gender: Part of the fanon (possibly Ascended Fanon) for Lying's character is that the character in question is gender-neutral.
• A Million Is a Statistic: We have no idea who most of the Lying's the Witch killed only a few like possibly Atlantis!Lying, but we sure know it is a lot!
• Cute and Psycho: His Minecraft Persona has massive shades of this. One can't really blame him after being trapped in a well for decides.
• Don't Go in the Woods: For that's where the Witch resides.
• Driven to Madness: Averted. His Minecraft character was already crazy period to his quest to become a horror villain.
• Establishing Character Music: The first thing in the series you hear is an eerie music box tune.
• Friendly Rivalry: With Kirin Dave, although there may very well be more to it than currently meets the eye given what Kirin did to him on the Chaosville server...
• Hidden Agenda Villain
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Designed a Well that only opened during certain times during his stint on the Chaosville server. he was trapped in his own well by Kirin Dave with whom his character had a friendly rivalry. As of his arrival on the Yogscast complete pack Lying has apparently been trapped down there for years.
• Immortality Seeker: Part of his goal at recreating himself as a horror antagonist is to make themself impossible to be killed
• Never Found the Body: Every Lying that was devoured
• Nobody's That Dumb: At the end of episode 24, Kyofushin appears again. As Lying blatantly lies about being sorry for how he's treated the ghost, the thing walks into the ritual circle... That is then used to seal Kyofushin into a spectral stone.
  Lying: I cannot believe that worked.
• Older Than They Look: Presumably, since he was seemingly in that well for debates without dying or aging... even he doesn't understand why.
• Ominous Music Box Tune: His Witch in the Woods series and his Chaosville series both include a rather disturbing musical box opening complete with the occasional off-putting Freeze-Frame Bonus
• Sealed Evil in a Can
• Sealed Room in the Middle of Nowhere: The way Lying was left at the end of his series on Chaosville, trapped in the bottom of his own recreated horror scene.
• Shut Up, Kirk!: After Kyofushin points out all the monstrous things that Lying has done, Lying is quick to point out that if the positions were reversed, it would have done the exact same thing.
• Sinister Surveillance: The Witch's ravens are watching anyone who catches the Witch's eye, and no one but the Witch even knows.
• Tears of Blood: Almost. Lying has a red line above his eyelids, somewhat resembling eye shadow which is in fact intended to be blood.
• Then Let Me Be Evil: The more Lying interacts with characters throughout the series the more obvious it becomes that he's developed from Friendly Rivalry with other characters and a mild taste for horror to somebody actually seeking vengeance for his mistreatment.
• Through the Eyes of Madness: This has definitely begun happening to Lying's character more and more during his quest to obtain immortality, including this rather creepy sequence from Witch in the Woods.

Yokai Temple

• Big Badass Battle Sequence: The ambush of Kirin, well as big and badass as you can get with Minecraft.
• Bittersweet Ending: Despite successfully beating the Witch and redeeming Kegare, Shisai manages to lose control of their godly powers long enough while angry to accidentally speak a curse against Redmakers, erasing at least one from existence and potentially every other one Lying has ever talked to throughout the series, or even every one that exists on that plane potentially. We never learn if this action ever was reversed or what happened to these people or the whole scope. As you can imagine this is pretty traumatizing to Shisai.
• Corrupt the Cutie: As a consequence of talking to Kegare, Lying, the almost saintly priest who initially had only the utmost respect for gods, has slowly become bitter towards them, and has started to practice magics that may get him into trouble.
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu??: Basically no one watching was expecting Priest Lying to be able to beat the Witch thanks to their intense power and basic immortality, but the Priest made it look like child's play
• Impossible Theft: Stealing from a god's hidden shrine tends to be pretty darn impossible, luckily for Lying, Kegare managed to discern where the shrine was. Without Kegare's help, it would likely be impossible for anyone else.
• God Is Flawed: Lying has begun to think this since his prayers asking the gods for information about other universes remain unanswered.
• God Is Inept: Lying begins to think this towards the end, angry at them for keeping secrets and not doing anything to help him.
• Godly Sidestep: None of Lying's gods will speak to him.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: Lying after he realizes what he's done at the end of the series, giving up the power of his god and going back to taking care of his people, and spending his days hoping its enough to redeem himself to the same god
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: While Priest does defeat the Witch, they have left quite a wake of destruction in their way. From Angering gods to what could have been viewed as an accidental genocide. Priest definitely broke more than they fixed
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: After seeing the fiery ruins of Kirin Dave's house, Lying spends the first minute of Episode 19 panicking, telling himself that everything is fine.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: The Witch really cannot get a break in not getting sealed in claustrophobic areas, thus back into the can they go
• Slowly Slipping Into Evil: Most of the series is one long slowburn corruption arc for Lying-Shisai and it is only at the very end of the series does Lying realize how far he's fallen.

Knight of Fangs

• A Father to His Men: Sir Lying is quite protective of his group, he is also literally a more father-like figure to them thanks to him transforming them into Werewolves

• Bloodless Carnage: As this is a Minecraft series there really isn't any actual blood to be seen.
• Bond Villain Stupidity: Kirin when they didn't go on to slay Sir Lying when they had them cornered.
• Clear Their Name: Foli about vampires, especially the ones he's acquainted with.
• Curbstomp Battle: Kirin when they attack the band's camp.
• Cycle of Revenge: The relationship between Kirin and Sir Lying
• Disproportionate Retribution: Sir Lying decades every single vampire is to be killed, no matter how much they are doing to negate their predatory nature, one must wonder how much of this is based on their interactions with Kirin.
• Fur Against Fang: After a confrontation with a vampiric Kirin, the series becomes about the fight between the Knights and Kirin.
• Good is Not Nice: Sir Lying can be quite cruel especially about his prejudices, believing in a genocide of the vampires being necessary, despite most of them really just wanting to be left alone and not cause trouble.

• Loony Friends Improve Your Personality: Most of the band is, eccentric at best.
• Mook Horror Show: During the first interaction Kirin is certainly much more scared of Sir Lying than Sir Lying is of them.
• Noble Demon: Kirin, though not very good, is actually all things considering was actually quite kind to the Knights during their ambush, only driving them into there cave and even offering them a chance to join up with them and become vampires. Which Garion who had been looking for Kirin, quickly took up.
• Noble Wolf: When it's not about Vampires, Sir Lying is very noble and incredibly intelligent.

• Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Foly refuses to follow Sir Lying's orders of vampire genocide, even helping the Den of Sin escape Sir Lying.
• Van Helsing Hate Crimes: Most of the vampires really aren’t trying to cause harm, this doesn’t stop Sir Lying’s hate for them and desire to see them all killed, this is especially shown in the fight with the Den of Sin, clients who Lying had only known for a few minutes and showed no signs of attacking anyone.

The Return

• Alternate Timeline: No two Lyings are from the same Timeline.
• But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Knight waltzes right into the TARDIS without requiring much in the way of explanation. Nether is pleased.
• Enemy Mine: Look no Lying who knows who The Witch is likes to interact with them, and honestly The Witch doesn't like any of them either, but sometimes you gotta put that aside for like a day.
• Team Spirit: Time for the ultimate crossover of everyone's favorite Lyings to team up and save the day.

The Haunting

• Abstract Apotheosis: Witch Lying claims they are fear incarnate
• Believing Their Own Lies: Witch thinks everything they’re doing, everything they’re trying to achieve, is one hundred percent justifiable and what they deserve for what they've gone through.
• Flaw Exploitation: The Witch taunts Nether about all his failings and issues.
• Psychological Torment Zone: The Witch puts Nether Lying through this.
• Salt the Earth: With no other option available to prevent the Witch from getting control of the Tardis, Nether decides to enact what he calls a 'scorched earth' plan by destroying parts of the Tardis to slow down or distract the Witch.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Witch gives Nether one of these speeches, while its actual truthfulness is dubious as Witch is a known manipulator, it's still a what the hell hero speech.
• You Cannot Kill An Idea: Witch Lying presents themself as this as to how they are still in the Tardis
  Witch!Lying: When one invites fear into there home do you really think it leaves just as easily?

Maid-ing do

• Unspecified Apocalypse: Something, certainly happened to end the world! It probably has something to do with those hooligans Maid keeps talking about but we don't actually, know what happened.

Come Block Home

• That Poor Plant: During the first day 0 stream Lying activates a device supposed to harvest one tree. However it proceeded to destroy every single tree that was connected to it, then every tree connected to those, then every tree connected to those, then every tree-

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