Lets Play / Tessellating Hexagons

"Hello, everyone, I am Tessellating Hexagons..."

Tessellating Hexagons (first name Connor, aka TessHex or Tess) is a British LPer who provides insightful, somewhat nonsensical, and occasionally surreal commentary. He also occasionally does vlogs and videos based around Tumblr and the Eurovision Song Contest. In addition to having a YouTube account, TessHex is also on Twitter, Patreon, Tumblr, and Twitch.

Games that Tessellating Hexagons...

...is currently Let's Playing

• Ripened Tingle's Balloon Trip of Love

...has Let's Played

• Touch Detective
• Spyro Adventure
• Ib
• Klonoa: Empire of Dreams Versus (with SuperAlex641) (Winner: Tess)
• Bomberman Tournament ^note Although he didn't consider this a blind LP, he admitted he only recalled the game very vaguely prior to playing it.
• Ristar
• Choice of the Dragon
• The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap Versus (with Yuki) (Winner: Tess)
• Sonic 3D: Flickies' Island Versus (with europezgal08) (Winner: Tess)
• The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap ^note Listed on his channel as "Let's Finish The Minish Cap", in which he plays the game to 100% completion from where the versus left off.
• Anodyne
• Klonoa 2: Dream Champ Tournament Versus (with SuperAlex641) (Winner: Tess)
• Touch Detective 2½
• Eversion
• Jazzpunk
• Klonoa ^note The 2008 Updated Re-release of Door to Phantomile for Wii
• HuniePop ^note Chosen by a fan poll
• Wario Land 4
• Undertale ^note Blind
• Another Code: R - A Journey into Lost Memories
• Spyro the Dragon (1998)
• The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Master Quest
• HunieCam Studio Versus (with europezgal08) (Winner: Tess)
• Oxenfree
• Undertale ^note Merciless (with Joth Ending)
• Cursed Mountain ^note Blind
• Even The Ocean
• Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil
• Portal 2 Co-Op (with Joth Ending)
• Knuckles Chaotix Versus (with HeatherOnStevia) (Winner: Tess)
• Spyro 2: Gateway To Glimmer
• Mario Party 8 (with europezgal08)
• Kirby's Epic Yarn
• LostWinds
• LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias
• Pikmin 3
• NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams
• Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus
• A Hat in Time ^note Revisited in 2020 due to the release of two DLC chapters.
• Spyro: Year of the Dragon
• Wario Land: The Shake Dimension
• Night in the Woods
• Freshly-Picked Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland
• Super Mario Galaxy Versus (with Yuki) ^note Listed as "Mario Bros. Galaxy", in which Tess plays as Luigi, against Yuki playing as Mario. (Winner: Tess)
• Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg
• Touch Detective Rising 3: Does Funghi Dream Of Bananas?
• Yoshi's Crafted World
• Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling

...has Streamed

• Sonic 3 & Knuckles
• Spyro Adventure ^note Listed on his channel as "Spyro Adventure Redux"
• NiGHTS into Dreams…
• Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Episode I
• McPixel
• Camera Obscura
• Sonic the Hedgehog 2 ^note The Simon Wai prototype version
• Pokémon Ruby ^note Listed on his channel as a "Lazy Nuzlocke".
• Super Mario Maker
• Animal Crossing: amiibo Festival (with his parents)
• Wii Party U (with his parents)
• Wii Party (with his parents)
• Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing (with his mother)
• Boom Street (with his parents)
• Nintendo Land (with his parents)
• Please, Don't Touch Anything
• Bishi Bashi Special
• Bomberman Max 2 Blue Advance
• Scribblenauts Unlimited
• The Stanley Parable
• Anodyne
• Sonic Colours
• Mario Party 8
• Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc (with HeatherOnStevia)
• WarioWare: Smooth Moves
• Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Episode II
• The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (with europezgal08, SuperAlex641, HeatherOnStevia, and Joth Ending)
• Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair (with HeatherOnStevia)
• Knuckles Chaotix
• Sonic 3D: Flickies' Island
• Sonic Mania
• Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony (with HeatherOnStevia)
• The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Randomised (with SuperAlex641, europezgal08, and Joth Ending)
• Stardew Valley - Year 1 (with SuperAlex641, europezgal08, and Joth Ending)
• Deltarune (Chapter 1 Demo) (with europezgal08 and Joth Ending)
• The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Almost) Everything-Sanity (with SuperAlex641, europezgal08, and Joth Ending)
• Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes and Quiplash 2 (with europezgal08 and Joth Ending)
• The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Everything-Sanity (with europezgal08 and Joth Ending)
• Mario Party 7 (with his parents)
• Donut County
• The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask Randomised (with europezgal08)
• Night in the Woods ^note A second playthrough, in which he shows other story routes that he couldn't show in his main Let's Play.
• Anodyne 2 Return To Dust (Exclusive Pre-Release Look)
• Jackbox Party Pack 5
• The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker Randomised (with SuperAlex641, europezgal08, and Joth Ending)
• Jackbox Party Pack 7
• Minecraft
• A Hat in Time ("Death Wish" Mode Streams)
• Pokémon Sword
• Sonic Forces

...has done Video-Essays of

• San Marino at Eurovision: What's a Micro-State To Do? (Final Grade: D)
• Tess's Top Ten Eurovision Performances
• Probably the Greatest Game of 2016: Even The Ocean (Final Grade: B)
• Sweden at Eurovision: Of Strong Songs and Stronger Strategy (Final Grade: B)
• You Don't Have to Like Undertale (Final Grade: B/C)
• Andorra at Eurovision: Always The Bridesmaid... (Final Grade: D)
• Oxenfree, Whatever That Means (Final Grade: A)
• How to Win Eurovision: My College Dissertation
• Tess's Top Ten Unique Levels In Gaming
• How to Win Eurovision (Part 2)
• The Enchanting World of Nekojishi (Final Grade: C)
• Moldova at Eurovision: Why So Serious? (Final Grade: C)
• Czech Republic at Eurovision: The Power of Applied Knowledge (Final Grade: C)
• Journey of Dreams: The Sequel NiGHTS Needed? (with HeatherOnStevia) (Final Grade: B)
• Tess's Top Ten Junior Eurovision Entries
• Spyro The Dragon - The Birth of a Legend (Final Grade: A)
• Slovakia at Eurovision: Living with the Worst Luck in Europe (Final Grade: E)
• Another Code: R - A Game Worth Remembering (Final Grade: C)
• What Happened To Türkvizyon?
• Jazzpunk: A Walk on the Weird Side (Final Grade: B)
• United Kingdom at Eurovision: A Nation of Spoilt Brats?
• Tess's Top Ten BGM in Gaming
• North Macedonia at Eurovision: Too Much of a Good Thing? (Final Grade: D)
• In Honest Defence of Sonic Adventure (Final Grade: B)
• Hungary at Eurovision: A Masterclass in Humility (Final Grade: A)
• A Hat in Time: An Instant Modern Classic (Final Grade: A)
• Belarus at Eurovision: A Literal Next-Gen Approach (Final Grade: C)
• Is Cursed Mountain Really That Bad? (Final Grade: E)
• Azerbaijan at Eurovision: Burning Bright, or Burning Out? (Final Grade: B)
• Deltarune's Tantalising Potential (Chapter 1 Demo) (Final Grade: A/B)
• Junior Eurovision: Hope for the Future of Music
• I Don't Hate Skyward Sword (Final Grade: C)
• Albania at Eurovision: Smooth Sailing or Total Shqipwreck? (Final Grade: C)
• Tess's Top Ten Overrated Games
• Bosnia & Herzegovina at Eurovision: To Rise, Perchance to Fall (Final Grade: C)
• How Anodyne Swept Me Away (Final Grade: A)
• Night in the Woods & How to Tell a Story (Final Grade: A)
• Bulgaria at Eurovision: Be Brief, Be Bright, Be Gone (Final Grade: A)

...will Let's Play in the future

• Braid
• Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch
• Psychonauts
• Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls

Tropes Tessellating Hexagons and his videos demonstrate:

• Achievements in Ignorance: According to Twitter, he once spent three minutes singing along to a Croatian song that he completely knew and understood, "temporarily forgetting" that he couldn't speak Croatian.
• Aerith and Bob: His Pokémon Ruby team consists of Pokémon named after Eurovision artists...aside from his starter, a Mudkip named Soupy Tom.
  • It also includes a Seedot named Petra Sede.^note After Petra Mede, host of the 2013 and 2016 editions of the Eurovision Song Contest.
  • This continues in his Pokémon Sword streams, too, right down to his starter (Jeremy the Sobble) ignoring the pattern entirely.
• Ambiguously Bi: In his review of Poland's 2014 Eurovision entry, he makes his opinions on the female figure quite clear, but, at the same time, he doesn't exactly oppose being shipped with Alex (not to mention his attraction to Asgore or Sly).
  • Since this trope was listed here, he has started making occasional reference to it, and how he has no intention of clarifying his sexuality one way or another.
• Angrish: During one of the harder Agent 9 levels. He temporarily starts laughing loudly once he actually succeeds.
  • Whenever he screams in rage, a picture of a pterosaur flies across the screen.
  • The last battle of part 11 of his Pokémon Ruby stream series devolves into this by the end of it. It even takes over his end-of-stream outro shortly thereafter.
  Tess: I swear, I'm just... I'm just gonna lie down and have, like, an aneurysm or something. Oh, wow. Just... See you when next I see you. I'm gonna need therapy after this episode. And, no, I'm not gonna count any of those deaths, because wow. Just wow. Just wow, just... wow. Just... WOW. JUST...FUCKING-- (incomprehensible)
• Aroused by Their Voice: Heather succumbs to this regarding Reala's voice in the NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams video-essay, to the point that Tess uses it against her to refute her counter-argument about the game's final grade.
• Art Evolution: Towards the end of the HuniePop LP, Tess fixes some issues with his computer, resulting in a much smoother framerate.
• As Long as It Sounds Foreign / Pardon My Klingon: "Fyakku".
• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: In Ib #3, he's distracted from checking a injured Garry by a painting, which he proceeds to check instead.
  • At the end of his video "The Friendship Test", Tess shows the pre-written "official" answers he and europezgal08 had prepared for the video. In the corner of that page, alongside his own answers, he also supplies the following:
  Oh, sweet damn, this is a sexy pen to write with~♪
• Audience Participation: He's the owner of the Yourovision Song Contest.
• Berserk Button: He does not react well to Flowey killing Asgore.
  Tess: Well then, you little golden-petalled bitch... I believe we have a score to settle. So let's do this.
  • He doesn't take too kindly to Charlotte Graham's condescending attitude, either.
• Big "SHUT UP!": Tess doesn't react too well to all of Ezlo's tutorials.
• Big "WHAT?!": During The Minish Cap Versus, when Yuki delivers the bad news about Bambi's mother.
  • Delivers several in a row after he discovers on a date with Audrey that his last move was not consumed. As he explains in a later episode, this was because he moved a Joy token in the same move, and thus didn't use up that move.
• Bilingual Bonus: He titled one episode of Touch Detective "Joyeux Noel", which, in addition to meaning "Merry Christmas", could also be interpreted as "Joyous Noel", referring to Noel the Ice Fairy.
  • In part 4 of Bomberman Tournament, he says the intro completely in Japanese, right down to translating his own name and using his original, unused intro-catchphrase.
• Birds of a Feather: He identifies with Beli and Nikki quite a bit, considering his IRL personality.
• Bland-Name Product: In VEDA 2015 #6, he takes a drink of "Bepsi" from a "Loca-Cola" glass.
  Tess: Go ahead, just try and sue me for product placement.
• Brick Joke: One involving a potato during VEDA 2014, where the brick came down three times: once at the end of #17, again at the end of #18, and once more, at the end of #30.
  • During Empire of Dreams Versus, he threatens to censor Alex if he sings the Zulu chorus of "The Circle of Life" one more time. Towards the end of the versus, he actually does mute Alex's audio in several places, citing this as his reason for doing so.
  • In his review of Belarus' song for Eurovision 2015, he fires a Hadouken to demonstrate the type of visual effects he is talking about. At the start of the last review of the series, the energy ball comes back and hits him in the face.
  • Early on in HuniePop, he mentions that there's a spider jiggling outside his window. A few episodes later, he takes note of the spider again.
  • Also in HuniePop, while on a date with Tiffany, he makes a joke about the sounds one would hear if Freddy Fazbear played the game. After he completes the post-final-date minigame with her, the infamous scream is edited in alongside certain other sounds.
• Brits Love Tea: VEDA and his vlogs occasionally feature tea, and it's established that he quite enjoys it.
  • Referenced during Spyro Adventure:
  Tess: It instantly refills all your health and magic, and doubles your attack until the next time you get hit. That is what tea does...but only if you're a British person.
  • Also addressed in his song "British Girls (My, Brytyjskie)", in which he drinks a cup during an instrumental break that precedes the following lyrics:
  This special thing we have in our genes
  Makes us all addicted to tea
• Buffy Speak: He often asks characters in his LPs to not 'do a X'.
  • In his review of the Hungarian Eurovision entry for 2015, he states, several times, that the song "doesn't offer you the cookie". He also compares the Portuguese song to both lemon sorbet and lasagne.
• The Cameo: Alex, with whom Tess would later do his first and fourth versus with, made a brief appearance in the last segment of Tumblr #4 during VEDA 2014. He has since appeared in Tumblr Snack videos, and voices Papyrus, Flowey, and Asriel in parts 28 and 29 of Undertale. He also makes a brief appearance in Master Quest as the voice of Saria.
  • Yuki (along with Alex, Laura, and HeatherOnStevia) makes several appearances in Tumblr Snack #3, before taking part in Tess' second versus.
  • Laura appeared as the opponent of his third versus. She also makes a guest appearance as a co-commentator in part 6 of Ristar, and again in part 1 of Klonoa, and parts 12 and 37 of HuniePop. She also appears as the voice of Toriel in parts 28 and 29 of Undertale, and appears regularly in Tess's streams.
  • Tess makes an appearance as a featured artist in one of Yuki's rap tracks, as well as co-commentating for a brief period in Yuki's solo LP of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker.
  • HeatherOnStevia joined Tess for the finales of Anodyne, Klonoa, HuniePop, and Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil, along with the streams of Skyward Sword and the Danganronpa games. She also reviewed NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams with him in a video-essay (represented by Akane Owari).
  • Tristan MacAvery makes a guest appearance in parts 28 and 29 of Undertale as the voice of Asgore.
  • Jenettera appears in Tumblr Snack #4, and co-commentates with Tess in Master Quest during the Forest Temple.
• Catchphrase: "Can you not?" and "Really?"
• Change the Uncomfortable Subject/Furry Fandom: In Empire of Dreams VS #2, when he refers to "scaly things". Also when he addresses Klonoa by his "furry little arse".
• Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: In the video icons for The Minish Cap VS, Tess is wearing a blue tunic (and has his channel icon as his belt buckle), while Yuki is wearing yellow.
  • In Oxenfree, subtitles are colour-coded according to which character says them. Occasionally, Tess adds in subtitles for his own quips as well, marked in pink, which is not used by any other character in-game.
• Corpsing: He can't get through his intro for episode 37 of the same series without dissolving into laughter.
• Couch Gag: During Pikmin 3, in order to bypass YouTube's overzealous copyright-protection system, he started blurring out the daily sequence of the S.S. Drake landing on PNF-404, adding random thoughts on top of that, such as:
  "You Can Discover Everything You Need To Know About Everything Just By Looking At Your Hands"
  "If you play The X-Files theme in a major key, it basically turns into Wii Sports music. You're welcome."
  "Do you ever get deja-vu?"
  • Each of his video-essays involves a small skit before the opening animation.
• Cruel Mercy: His reasoning for sparing Flowey in the Neutral ending of Undertale; Tess says that he won't let him die or give him access to any power, and Flowey would have to live with the fact that he had been defeated.
  Flowey: ...why are you being...so nice to me?
  Tess: Trust me: I'm not being nice. If I were being nice, I would've ended this long ago.
• Cuteness Proximity: He gushes whenever he encounters a dog in Undertale.
  • He also squees when Ralsei first reveals himself.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Tess won Empire of Dreams VS 4 points to 0.
  • Tess won The Minish Cap VS in exactly the same way.
  • This happens again for Tess in Sonic 3D: Flickies' Island VS.
  • Averted in Dream Champ Tournament VS, with the final score being 3 points to 1 in favour of Tess.
  • HunieCam Studio VS brings the most profound one to date, with Tess' final score being over 7 times the size of Laura's, at 98,337 to 13,790.
  • The intro to one episode of The Minish Cap VS features a literal example, in homage to the asdfmovie series.
• Curse Cut Short: During his live reactions to Eurovision: You Decide, there's a vignette about recent Eurovision winners. Just as he mentions how he "still doesn't understand why Azerbaijan won in 2011", a clip of the 2012 winner (whom Tess has made clear he hates with a passion) comes on, prompting a Precision F-Strike censored only by a jump-cut.
• Cypher Language: Saurian.
• Deadpan Snarker: He and Alex snark occasionally, but the post-editing onscreen text snarks a lot.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: In the Ib LP, he reads '???' as 'Mm?'. After doing this numerous times in a row, he notes how suggestive it sounds.
  • Particularly prominent when he stumbles across an Easter Egg in the form of an apparently-erotic novel, with the more suggestive words censored out in this way.
  Garry: ...Don't read this kind of stuff until you get older.
  • In Bomberman Tournament, Comic #2. Tess' increasingly exasperated reactions say it all.
  • Episodes 5 and 12 of Touch Detective 2½ are entitled "A Handful of Bonus" and "A Mouthful of Bonus" respectively.
• Either/Or Title: All four episodes that cover the fourth case of Touch Detective 2½ have one of these.
• Failed a Spot Check: In Bomberman Tournament's Pretty Base, Tess doesn't notice a switch hiding underneath a soft block. He then proceeds to leave and wander around on the overworld, oblivious to his mistake and saying how he was probably missing something extremely obvious (while the post-editing onscreen text snarked at him). He rectifies this in the next episode, noting how this moment is forever immortalized on This Very Wiki. Ironically, this wasn't what he had needed to do to progress after all.
  • Yuki does this a few times early on in The Minish Cap VS.
• Fanboy: Tess is a big fan of the Eurovision Song Contest, as he quite frequently allows Eurovision references to bleed into his commentary.
  • He also appears to be a fan of Steven Universe.
• Flashback Nightmare: During VEDA 2014, he disclosed that he still gets these two years after having finished high school.
• Flowery Insults: "I will slit your kneecaps and ship you to Antarctica," "You can choke on your spoon," "This soggy lampshade can back the fuck up," et cetera.
  • From The Minish Cap VS:
  Tess: I will spank your wood until you bleed, or at least until you scream "soufflé"!
  • Sonic 3D: Flickies' Island VS adds:
  Tess: Slow your roll, yoghurt-breath!
• Foil: Alex is this to Tess, not knowing much about things outside North America (for the most part) and being fairly blunt compared to Tess.
  • Between those factors, his level of skill, and his style of humour compared to Tess', Yuki takes this role up to eleven.
• Freeze-Frame Bonus: During a date with Celeste, he accidentally matches some Broken Hearts, causing her to ask "What is your excuse for that?!" The page on This Very Wiki for Distracted by the Sexy flashes on-screen in response.
• Funny Animal: The endslates of the Portal 2 Co-Op LP feature these representing the two players, with Tess as a lion with his signature red top hat, and Joth as an alligator with pink spines on her head. Both wear jumpsuits and boots similar to Chell's from the first Portal.
• Funny Background Event: In an attempt to help Yuki catch up, Tess spends the entirety of episode 10 of The Minish Cap VS playing Tetris instead of the game he's supposed to be playing.
• Fun with Foreign Languages / Speaking Simlish: The intro to part 3 of Spyro Adventure.
• Fun with Palindromes: "Was it Eliot's toilet I saw?"
• Gender-Blender Name: "Tess" is typically considered to be a female name.
• Gratuitous Foreign Language: In Empire of Dreams VS #2, Tess says in Polish "My Słowianie wiemy jak nasze na nas działa!" (We, the Slavs, we know how to do it!)
  • He does it again in the third episode, this time with Gratuitous Japanese.
    • And again in the sixth episode, spewing random Chinese phrases.
  • The entire "Mega-Mizu" video, consisting of Japanese, Spanish and German.
  • In The Minish Cap VS #5, Tess and Yuki have an exchange in Japanese.
  Tess: 日本語難しくないですね！ ^TranslationJapanese is not difficult!
  Yuki: Uh... こんにちは，私の名前はカメロンです...？ ^TranslationUh... Hello, my name is Cameron...?
  Tess: ...じゃがいもがいらない！！ ^Translation...I do not need potatoes!!
  • The endslates of Anodyne include Haikus in Gratuitous Japanese.
  • His presentation of the results of the poll on what his next LP after Touch Detective 2½ should be is delivered entirely in Japanese.
  • For reasons best known to himself, he portrays all of the Roaches in Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling as being French... by manually translating all of their dialogue and reading that out instead.
• Guide Dang It!: He shows off several moments of this Master Quest, including the fact you can go through a door with a lit Deku Stick when Ocarina of Time never required you to do so, and the code Inside The Great Deku Tree being different (3-1-2 instead of 2-3-1) with no hint telling you about it.
• Heh Heh, You Said "X": Whenever Tess says something that sounds sketchy, Alex will often snort, implying this trope.
• Hot for Teacher: Discussed; in part 2 of HuniePop, after meeting Aiko, he mentions that he's never understood the mentality behind this.
• Idiot Ball: Briefly holds it after Papyrus turns him blue. He forgets that he can move left and right, and chastises himself immediately after realising it, as he would've avoided Papyrus' attacks more easily.
• I Have Nothing to Say to That: Alex's response to some of the weirder thing Tess says.
• I'm Going to Hell for This: Tess says this in Dream Champ Tournament VS after spouting "Purakutisu pureisuru desu ne!"
• I Need a Freaking Drink: He ends a stream of Bomberman Max 2 by downing a shot to make up for his repeated deaths at the hands of an anthropomorphic oven.
  Tess: ...Tastes like Irn-Bru and feet.
• I Need to Go Iron My Dog: In the video-description of part 25 of The Minish Cap VS, as Tess' justification for abandoning the final dungeon halfway through.
• Insane Troll Logic: Particularly in his Eurovision Debates.
  Tess: (Denmark) sent a drag-queen, but we sent a drag-queen with feeling! (Greece) sent a drag-queen in the form of Helena Paparizou, who then defected to Sweden! And she's not actually a drag-queen, but that's a segue! You can't segue, because you're Greek, and your economy can't afford Segways! Denmark invented the Segway, and, by "the Segway", I mean "the bicycle", and, by "bicycle", I mean "Copenhagen is full of cyclists"!
  [...]
  ...I'm aware that has nothing to do with your rebuttals, but...I don't know, I'm improvising! So, in short, Greece invented butt-stuff, Denmark invented bikes, you can use a bike to get a nice butt, end of story; Denmark is the best. Bish-bash-bosh, big smile on your face; go to bed. I thank you.
  • At one point, he attempts to pin Montenegro's shoddy qualification record on faulty air conditioning.
• In-Series Nickname: Alex is usually referred to as "Canada".
  • Also, Tim is referred to as "the Thighmaster".
• Insistent Terminology: "You are not TwinDrag, you are Double Charizard!" He even edits the in-game text to say "DblCharizard" instead of "TwinDrag".
  • This also doubles as Hypocritical Humour, considering the number of times he complains about how the game loves to abbreviate words unnecessarily.
  • One moment in The Minish Cap VS, in which he and Yuki consistently refer to each Piece of Heart as a "Pizza Heart", has him stop talking abruptly after saying the word "pizza", prompting him to edit his footage so that the Piece of Heart he is referring to is, instead, a heart-shaped pizza, even changing the text that followed collecting it to read, "You got a pizza!".
  • He repeatedly refers to Toriel as "Cow Zelda", and has never actually used her real name. He explains in Master Quest that this is because child Zelda's necklace resemble the Delta Rune seen on Toriel's robe.
  • Throughout Pokémon Sword, he only ever addresses the rival character as "Loser Hop".
• In Which a Trope Is Described: A fair few of his videos are named this way.
• Ironic Name: He mentions in Spyro Adventure that Connor is a Celtic name meaning "dog-lover". He really doesn't like dogs (real-life ones, anyway).
• Irony: Tristan MacAvery (as Asgore) asking what anime is in part 29 of Undertale.
• Kind Hearted Cat Lover: As Twitter reveals, he has a few cats, including one named Meredith with whom he takes selfies. He also revealed in Spyro Adventure that he has two other cats he nicknamed "Moely Cyrus" and "Skittletits". He assures the viewers they'd be better off not knowing the origins of those nicknames.
• Lame Comeback: In Empire of Dreams #2, he uses a "your face" retort.
  Alex: ...Witty comeback.
• Lampshade Hanging: Tess finds himself invoking the Pterosaur of Rage in episode 17 of Another Code: R. He then comments on the sheer improbability of him finding an excuse to do so in a game like that.
  • Calemvir makes a brief appearance shortly thereafter, with more or less the same outcome.
• Last-Second Word Swap / Curse Cut Short: From Spyro Adventure:
  Tess: What the actual— *dying velociraptor noises*
• Laughing Mad: His portrayal of Mary in the later parts of Ib.
• Male Gaze: In the HuniePop Abridged video, while Jessie says "I'm more than just a pretty face, you know," the camera pans down to her chest.
  Tess: You certainly are...
• Metaphorgotten: Amongst other instances, mostly from the Eurovision Debates, this example, from his attempts to defend Estonia's Eurovision track record against Cyprus:
  Tess: Cyprus, you're incredibly hit-and-miss. You're like a drunk penis, scattergunning urine all over the toilet of Eurovision, whereas (Estonia) sits down on that toilet and pisses neatly into the water below, and only occasionally spills over the side...
  (Through laughter) ...and stains the carpet of non-qualification.
  (Completely dissolves into laughter)
• Motor Mouth: Particularly prominent in his Eurovision Debates series, which, itself, sees him occasionally overlap into Character Filibuster territory.
• Mr. Exposition: In Dream Champ Tournament VS, Alex is the one who explains the game's plot and new gameplay mechanics.
• Musicalis Interruptus: Tess employs this at one point during Alex's time alone in Empire of Dreams VS.
  Alex: They asked me why I evolved into a Wobbuffet. I asked them...Wynaut?
  *WHIRRP!!*
  Tess (added in post-production, alongside a picture of him facepalming): That. Was terrible.
  • This happens again in episode 23 of The Minish Cap VS.
  Tess: I'm confused right in the vegetables.
  Yuki: Right in the vegetables? Or are you sure it's not, like, right beside the vegetables? So, like, right in the vegetables?
  Tess: Much like the green willow, it is all around my hat.
  *WHIRRP!!*
  (The screen cuts to black, and the theme of the Forest Maze starts playing on the WTF bells, as the letters "WTF" appear and disappear to represent each note.)
• My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels: His intro to part 2 of Anodyne, in Gratuitous Finnish.
  Tess: Kusi ku'uusi! Saaranpaskantamasaari! Jääkausi on tulollaan!!^TranslationPiss as good as new! An island shat by Sarah! The ice-age is coming!!
  • Lampshaded in part 5 of Undertale, where he says in Finnish, "Ilmatyynyalukseni on täynnä ankeriaita!"^TranslationMy hovercraft is full of eels!
• Needs More Love: In-Universe; a recurring theme with his Let's Plays are games that he feels deserve this status, such as Ristar, the Klonoa series, NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams, and Freshly-Picked Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland.
• Noodle Incident: The "Macedonia thing".
• Omniglot: Particularly visible in his Eurovision reviews, where he had people from Iceland to Albania remark that he pronounced their names/words/etc. remarkably well.
  • The "Mega-Mizu" video has him speaking Japanese, Spanish, and German.
  • One "TessHextra" video involves him going through his full-size national flag collection, and announcing the name of each flag's country of origin, in that country's national language.
• On the Next: At the end of part 26 of Undertale, foreshadowing the True Lab segment and featuring edited clips from Doctor Who.
• On Three: How most episodes of Empire of Dreams VS are resumed.
  • This practice is continued in Dream Champ Tournament VS.
• Opposites Attract: Tess states Aiko to be his polar opposite, personality-wise. She's the first girl he gets to three hearts. She's also the first one he beds, not to mention the only girl he beds more than once, and the last girl he sleeps with before his final date with Venus.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Tess is notably more serious in the Neutral finale of Undertale (recorded directly after the previous episode, which concluded with Flowey killing Asgore and taking the human souls for himself), becoming determined to settle the score with Flowey in his new Photoshop form once and for all.
• Perfectly Cromulent Word: The Minish Cap Versus gives us "ambigulous".
  • Part 1 of Klonoa has "molincesturbation".
• Pet-Peeve Trope: He does not like stealth gameplay, with the Sly Cooper series being a notable exception.
• Pluralses:
  Tess: How've you guyses dayses been being? *beat* This is what happens when I try to be sociable...
  • He does this again in Bomberman Tournament, noting how he hasn't improved since last time.
• Pre Emptive Shut Up: In Empire of Dreams #1:
  Tess: I thought I was going to either dominate, or be dominated. ...Shut up.
• The Quiet One/Shrinking Violet: He reveals in Empire of Dreams VS that, despite his proficiency with words, especially on camera, he tends not to talk all that much IRL.
• Rapid-Fire Comedy: His Tumblr Snack videos are this, somewhat in the vein of Vine.
  • His "recap" of the songs of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2014 had this kind of essence to it.
  • His HuniePop Abridged video.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Alex and Heather are the red to Tess' blue.
  • Yuki and Joth are also blue, but not as much as Tess.
  • Laura, on the other hand, is so blue, she makes Tess look red by contrast.
• Retirony: In The Minish Cap VS, Tess goes through the entire game without getting a single Game Over...until the second-last episode.
• Riding into the Sunset: He does this in the final VEDA video with a potato.
• Right Behind Me: Yuki experiences this during The Minish Cap VS.
  Yuki: Oh, that puzzle was as easy as...um...as your mom!
  Tess: Ohh...My mum actually watches these videos, so...
• Running Gag: He has some weird fascination with potatoes.
  • Referring to The Astronomer as 'John the Weenieman' in Touch Detective. Referenced in the Ib LP.
  • "Fudgeballs" in Spyro Adventure.
  • Saying Garry's name with (often overly long) Trrrilling Rrrs.
  • Referencing "Boss Ass Bitch" in the first half of Empire of Dreams VS; replaced in the second half with the Zulu chorus of "The Circle Of Life".
  • Marking particularly weird sections of commentary with three bell-chimes, synchronised with the letters "WTF?", as they appear on-screen.
  • "I got a pizza heart!"
  • Referring to Young and Mitra as MC Hammer and Lady Gaga.
  • Whenever he screams in rage, a pterosaur flies across the screen.
  Alex: Hi, pterosaur!
  • 69, aw yeah.
  • The Toilet.
  • His vlogs usually open with a small skit, followed by a phrase appearing onscreen in time with five bells.
  • In Master Quest, short sections of Adele songs accompanying Ganondorf's actions.
  • His favourite flavour of ice cream is apparently "existential void".
  • His predictions about upcoming events turning out to be correct, to the point where he dubbed himself the "Ultimate Clairvoyant".
  • "GONTA DADDY!"
• Running Gagged: In the first episode of Dream Champ Tournament VS, Alex starts to sing the Zulu part of "The Circle of Life", but then a gunshot cuts him off and Tess yells "No!" This happens again in the second episode.
• Screams Like a Little Girl: Downplayed in HuniePop; he makes an unusually high-pitched noise whenever Broken Heart tokens suddenly appear in inconvenient locations or if he makes an unexpected combo.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: He expresses such displeasure at Austria's song for Eurovision 2015 that he abandons the review. Twice.
  • In #21 of VEDA 2015, he plays some of Super Mario Advance. He falls into the first Bottomless Pit of 1-2, prompting this reaction, culminating in him abandoning the game (and his shirt) and teleporting away a la Steven Universe.
• Self-Deprecation: Yuki calls himself an "official idiot" after a moment of temporary idiocy, and gives Tess permission to put that beside his name underneath his screen. Tess goes ahead and replaces his name with "Official Idiot" altogether.
  • At the end of part 7 of Bomberman Tournament:
  Tess: I have been, and will continue to be, Tessellating Hexagons...*sigh*...and that's why I drink.
• Self-Imposed Challenge: He played through the entirety of HuniePop without giving any of the girls alcohol, thus earning the "Sobriety" achievement.
• Separated by a Common Language: Tess and Alex; it's particularly prominent in Empire of Dreams VS #2.
  • Tess and Yuki, considering the piss and vinegar incident in The Minish Cap VS.
  • Tess and the Touch Detective series, to the point of it becoming a Running Gag during his LP of the second game.
• Set Right What Once Went Wrong: He opens part 5 of Ib by reloading an older save, to give Garry his coat, which he forgot to do the first time, which would have prevented him from getting the Golden Ending.
• Ship Tease: Tess with Alex; addressed several times during Empire of Dreams VS.
  • Brought up again during The Minish Cap VS in this exchange:
  Tess: Screw me right in the face....
  Yuki: Uh... I will, if no-one else will. ...But I think Canada might be up for that.
  • And again, at the end of that same episode, when he refers to Alex as his "bae".
• Shout-Out: In Empire of Dreams:
  Alex (imitating a Simpleton Voice): Maybe I won't. Maybe I won't; maybe I'm sick of your shit.
  Tess: Shut up, Patrick...
  Alex: No, this is Patrick!
  • "Y'know, IN THE BATHROOM!" *ding*
    • One time the pterosaur of rage appears, it's carrying a green Rupee, in reference to NCS' infamous scream.
  • The thumbnails for Let's Finish The Minish Cap has "FINISH HIM!" under the game's logo.
  • At the beginning of his February 2015 vlog video, Tess spits out a lemon. This is referenced in the first episode of Dream Champ Tournament VS:
  Tess: And I'm back at the map screen, and there is a lemon being fondled by all of the vines in the middle, there. Because how else would you portray a jungle besides a load of vines molesting a lemon?
  Alex: Mm... Lemons?!
  Tess: (while the same clip plays) Hrr—rrgh—PAH!!
  • "I am so racist, I am so racist, I am such an asshole! Ding!"
  • From the eighth Eurovision Debate:
  Tess: Oh, my god, Australia, you can't just ask people why they're white!
  • In HuniePop, he states "The milk is out of date!" while on-screen text says "THE ROOSTER IS WEARING SUNGLASSES."
  • The October 2015 vlog opens with Tess and Laura doing an adaptation of the 'I'm At Soup' meme.
  • Episode 26 of Undertale ends with a "Next Time" trailer in the style of Doctor Who, complete with footage from the show (with the faces of Undertale characters pasted lazily on top), and "I Am The Doctor" as backing-music.
  • Whilst taking down the elemental barriers in Ganon's Castle in Master Quest, he summons each of the sages "in the name of" the six virtues from Undertale.
• Sir Swears-a-Lot: Tess swears quite a bit. Particularly in reviews of Eurovision songs he doesn't like.
  Tess: Because potatoes are my motherfucking spirit animal...*beat*...Bitch.
  • He does seem to draw the line when it comes to N-Word Privileges, though.
  • Alex will not hesitate to swear, either.
  Tess: Don't make me censor your arse.
• Sophisticated as Hell
• Spoonerism: Referenced during Spyro Adventure when he promises to "go and shake a tower" once he finishes recording.
  • During part 6 of Bomberman Tournament:
  Tess: I'm definitely going to cut this out, but, I don't know, I might keep it in...for gits and shiggles.
  • When voicing Ganondorf in Master Quest, he mixes up one of the lines, referring to "the power of the Courage of Triforce".
• Stage Whisper
• Stealth Insult: In Empire of Dreams VS #2:
  Tess: Fucking Canadians... *beat* ...I don't advise it.
• Stiff Upper Lip/Sick Episode: He doesn't seem to have any objection to recording whilst ill.
• Straight Man and Wise Guy: Tess is the Straight Man to Alex's Wise Guy. There's a bit of overlap, though, what with Tess' non-sequiturs and Alex's deadpan reactions to them.
  • Yuki takes Alex's place as the Wise Guy in The Minish Cap VS.
• Sudden Musical Ending: The finale of Choice of the Dragon ends this way, with Tess (as Calemvir) singing a parody version of Katy Perry's "This is How We Do".
• Surreal Humor: He's a fan of this type of humour, and it occasionally slips into his commentary. Lampshaded in his Jazzpunk video-essay, where he admits that some people might not appreciate the game's surreal atmosphere as much as he does.
• Take That!: In his two parody songs; one against Sanna Nielsen:
  It's just another Swedish song
  I cannot even hold a tune
  All of my fans will want to murder you
  If you won't vote for me
  • And against Cascada:
  'Cause you know we are plagiarists
  Singing songs that you've heard before
  I'm eye-candy, backed up by a pair of mid-life crises
  • One episode of Minish Cap Versus sees him call out Loreen for supposedly making Eurovision 2012 too predictable as an allegory for how one-sided the versus seemed at the time.
  • In part 1 of Klonoa, he calls Danny O'Donoghue a "talentless mofo who can't perform live".
• That Came Out Wrong: In part 14 of Bomberman Tournament, at the end of an impromptu speech about political correctness:
  Tess: Anyway, I'm talking myself into all kinds of holes, here. *beat* Oh, that could be misconstrued, as well...
  • In his January 2016 vlog, about a game of Quiplash he, his parents, and Laura played:
  Tess: ...there was one question that was "name a scented candle designed for Kim Kardashian", and the answer that won was my mother's "Fruity Booty". That—could've worded that better.
• That Was Objectionable: In episode two of Dream Champ Tournament VS, Tess quotes an example from Sonic Boom, while Alex quotes the Trope Namer, complete with "Objection!" speech bubble.
• That's What She Said: Tee-hee.
• Tongue Twister: One involving crackers in Tumblr Snack #2.
• Tradesnark™: Used in The Minish Cap VS:
  Yuki: Awkward Silence Ensues!™ Yeah...
  • And again in Bomberman Tournament— in episode 6:
  Tess: I can't get over the fact that I thought I solved the problem; it turns out I hadn't, then I solved the problem by accident.
  (The words "STORY OF MY LIFE™" appear on-screen, accompanied by bell-chimes for each syllable, plus one for the ™ itself.)
  • And episode 9:
  Tess: Bras: They Are A Thing That Women Use™
  • In HuniePop, referring to Lola:
  Tess: Yo' Ass Travels™
• Trauma Button: Public buses, and the number 36 (also, 163, 166, 167 and 168, to a lesser degree), revealed during VEDA. That said, it doesn't trigger too much of an outward reaction; rather, he bottles his responses to it up, and it usually results in the Flashback Nightmare cited above.
• Trrrilling Rrrs: A Running Gag in Ib is Tess pronouncing Garry's name like this.
  • Also part of Tess' portrayal of Calemvir.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Tess and Alex often mention how they wish the other would fall behind, though it's clear that they don't mean it seriously, and neither hesitates to offer advice if the other's struggling.
  • He has moments of this with Yuki, too.
  Tess: So, I just beat the second dungeon...
  Yuki: You can go fuck yourself!
• Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma: He calls Spyro Adventure out on this.
  Tess: Love thy apostrophe, goddammit!
• Weird Aside: He once mentioned that his first word as a child was "clock".
  • In part 2 of Sonic 3D: Flickies' Island VS, he spontaneously asides that his middle name is "Microsoft Word". Laura isn't sure how to react.
  • Two episodes later, he claims his thighs can crush a human skull.
  • In part 1 of Dream Champ Tournament VS, he claims he is a talking turkey whose middle name is Sebastian.
  Alex: ...What.
• You Need to Get Laid: This is Tess's response to Alex expressing his attraction to several Galar women, such as Marnie, Nessa, Bea, and Melony.

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"And I don't have an outro for this, so..."
"...ONE! OF! UUUUS!"