| Lanks | |||
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 An honest to goodness dweeb who's just kind of there. | |||
| Party Member | |||
| Full Name | Liam McCoy | ||
| Nickname | Lanks | ||
| Class | Wuss | ||
| Race | Human | ||
| Sex | Male | ||
| Relationships | Benny "Beltboy" Oberwinch (Friend) Clyde "Cyclops" von Volger (Friend) Rodriguez Creed (Boss) | ||
| Gameplay | |||
| Equip Types | |||
| Weapon Types | Wristband | ||
| Armor Types | Accessory / Shawl | ||
| Skill Types | Support | ||
| Traits | |||
| Target Rate | 90% | ||
| Evasion | 10% | ||
| Hit Rate | 95% | ||
| Crit Chance | 1% | ||
| Features | |||
| State Rate : Depression * 120% | |||
| State Rate : Cool * 50% | |||
| State Rate : Pissed * 25% | |||
| State Rate : Crying * 120% | |||
| State Rate : Scared * 120% | |||
| State Rate : Drunk * 110% | |||
| Element Rate : Rough * 150% | |||
| Element Rate : Gentle : * 75% | |||
| Element Rate : Loving * 75% | |||
| Element Rate : Abusive * 0% | |||
- "I did it, guys!"
- ―Lanks
Liam "Lanks" McCoy is one of three main party members and protagonists in LISA: The Hopeful. He is classified as a "Wuss", described as an honest to goodness dweeb who's just kind of there. He serves the role of a support character, focusing on healing, buffs and debuffs. Being physically weaker compared to his two friends, Beltboy and Cyclops, he constantly relies on them for guidance and protection.
Background[]
Name: Liam "Lanks" McCoy
Fighting Art: Raw Emotion
Past Occupation: Burger Flipper
Likes: Sports cars
Favorite Food: Carrot sticks
Most Hated Thing: Conflict
Appearance and Personality[]
As his name implies, he is a lanky man, donning a red shawl with a pale stripe, covering only his shoulders. He has a large, red nose and wears circular spectacles.
Lanks has a tendency to worry, as he questions what him and his friends are doing at various points throughout the game, showing concern when others don't. He comes off as very submissive, as he does not fight back when Cyclops tells him that he is not trying hard enough, instead opting to apologize to the sexually frustrated charger. He also shows concern over the topic of consent in regards to the girl.
Overview[]
Lanks starts out as a rudimentary party member, capable of healing and delivering fire damage, but as he levels up he quickly gains increasingly more useful skills, such as his Irritating Poke ability, which has a chance of inducing Pissed or his Rousing Applause ability, which is a cheap, readily available move. Eventually, when he gains his Speech abilities, his Helping Hand, and his Fire Ball 3, he becomes one of the most useful party members in the game. He later becomes even more powerful on his respective route as he gains the ability Persevere (Which induces the Unstoppable status effect), his Emotional Overload (An enhanced version of Fireball 3 that can inflict Burning and Depression), and Triple Fireball (an enhanced Fireball skill that strikes 3 random enemies). Additionally, on the Rodriguez route, these stat-enhancing abilities are made even stronger with the inclusion of Rodriguez's Diligent-inflicting move, making the two cronies a strikingly good team.
Quotes[]
"S-sir!" - Liam's first line.
"But... Clyde!" - Liam, upon being left behind by Clyde on his respective route.
"I'm sorry." - Liam, when beltboy enters the lovely's truck in the beltboy route.
Battle[]
Lanks plays similarly to Terry Hintz from the source material LISA: the Painful, starting off relatively weak with nothing more than an underwhelming healing move and a hilariously weak basic attack. As the player progresses, Lanks will get many new skills, being able to induce Pissed, Poison, and a myriad of other status. He even obtains a stronger healing move to heal the entire team, and an inspiring speech to bolster attack power. He also obtains the ability to use fireballs, with the final level of fireballs targeting all enemies.
One of Lanks' biggest drawbacks is his low base health, having the lowest health of the main three and the second lowest health of any party member in the game, second only to Reginald. His skills also cost a lot of SP, and Cocola Colas are unfortunately uncommon outside of shops. Thus, it may become tough to maintain Lanks' SP without The Hottest Mag, especially later on when his skills start to cost SP in the 50 to 100 range.
| Skill name | Description | Lv Learned | SP Cost |
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| Attack | Damages the enemy. | 1 | 0 |
| Applause | Spur your buddies on with an inspiring applause. | 1 | 15 |
| Helping Hand | Offer a friendly hand for support. Cures Bleeding, Fallen, Stun, Burning, Paralysis and Crying. | 15 | 40 |
| Fire Ball | An attempt at a blast of hot emotion. | 4 | 20 |
| Irritating Poke | Jab your finger into the enemy in an irritating way. | 7 | 40 |
| Rousing Applause | Clap your hands 'til they bleed. | 11 | 40 |
| Stinkbomb | Throw a rancid smelling ball of stink. | 13 | 40 |
| Fire Ball 2 | A blast of flaming emotion. | 14 | 30 |
| Powerful Speech | Recite a speech that no one is listening to, and will only fight harder so that you stop. | 16 | 60 |
| Fireball 3 | An inferno of infinite emotion. | 18 | 60 |
| Enrapturing Speech | Move men's hearts with this awe-inspiring speech. | 22 | 100 |
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In Lanks' Route he will get these following skills:
| Skill name | Description | Lv Learned | SP Cost |
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| Emotional Overload | Let it all burn away. | 22 | 100 |
| Persevere (Replaces Speech skills) | Never back down, never surrender. | 50 | |
| Triple Fireball | Unleash your pain. | 23 | 70 |
Here's a bastardized summary of Lanks' Route because it's not really written down anywhere and I think many would appreciate reading an excerpt of it.
In Lanks' Route, Beltboy takes the initiative to speak initially, and unfortunately, he sustains an injury to his eye from a gunshot. Cyclops takes the initiative to join up with the Lovelies with a parting insult towards his wimpy companion. Lanks is allowed to go free and almost leaves alone, only for him to be alerted by Beltboy, who miraculously survives but is left severely injured and wearing an eyepatch. While recuperating, Beltboy and Lanks chat for a bit and decide to keep going for the girl . The journey continues to the Lovelies camp where some have settled down for a bit. Due to his cautious and timid nature, Lanks differs from Beltboy and Cyclops' routes as he does not have the option to fight the Connect 4 Hearts. He must go around the mountain, fighting a Lovely, wolves and Yogurt Masters. After going through the Joy Lab and fighting the Lovelies that tried to kill Beltboy, they head into a truck owned by the Lovelies with Beltboy's pace diminishing due to his wounds. He gives his last words, supporting his friend til the end before he tells Lanks he needs to rest for a while, presumably dying shortly afterwards. Lanks hotwires the truck they are in, unaware that Beltboy is dead which should have been pretty obvious to Liam as Benny had gotten shot in the goddamn eyeball in front of him earlier.
Lanks follows the rest of the convoy up until an accident occurs, culminating in Beltboy’s body going missing and Lanks never discovering his friend's death. Proceeding across the crash in pursuit of trying to find Beltboy, Lanks catches up with a gravely injured Cyclops just about to die from his wounds, who then addresses Lanks with a message of apology. Cyclops admits that he joined up with the Lovelies because he didn’t want anything bad to happen to Lanks, bemoaning the fact he can't protect him anymore before telling him to go live his life. Lanks asks Cyclops if he's seen Beltboy, who responds by telling Lanks to accept that Beltboy is dead and that the Lovelies will kill him if he stays there. Alternatively, if Cyclops had been given at least one joy before leaving the party, there will be an alternate scene where Lanks instead fights Cyclops' mutated form. The mutant's last words will simply be him apologizing to Lanks, and Lanks himself is left grieving his friends and horrified about how things had come to this.
Whether Cyclops succumbs to his wounds or killed as a mutant, Lanks will bury him and swear that he will find the girl. He is now allowed to do some last minute shopping or fight the Hardest Rider before proceeding to the final area. Interestingly, Lanks still appears to be in denial about Beltboy's death as he asks the friendly Sportsdome driver if he's seen his friend.
Continuing the established pattern, the journey advances to the Lovelies camp, marked by the defeat of additional Lovelies and their mutated forms, culminating in an encounter with Hart. Following a brief exchange, Lanks incinerates Hart's men before defeating Hart and his mutated form shortly after. Although victorious, Lanks sustains grievous injuries. He stumbles into the building where the girl is located but collapses within the hallway. Unexpectedly, a living girl emerges from the room. Lanks tries to get her to come back as he needs her to "save the world," but is completely ignored. Liam pitifully asks himself what he did wrong before he succumbs to his wounds, concluding the Lanks Route.
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Default Equipment[]
- Weapon : Sweaty Wristbands
- Body : Dainty Shawl
- Accessory : N/A
Notes[]
- Lanks will get injured on the head early in the game, earning a head wound that stays with him unless the player opts to take the Rodriguez route in Pain Mode. He will also be inflicted with depression until the player rests, making it favorable to rest at the rest site in Area 2 as soon as the player has the option.
- Because The Hottest Mag recovers SP, it is extremely useful to equip it on Lanks, as he has no other ways of recovering SP besides Cocola Colas and Rodriguez's Wake Up! move, if one is playing on the Rodriguez route.
Trivia[]
- Liam, alongside his companion Beltboy, are around twenty one (21) to twenty nine (29) years old. Source.
- He's weak to Rough attacks, but resists Gentle and Loving attacks, reflecting how his home life before the Flash was much better than that of his friends, never suffering the sort of hardships his two friends did before the Flash.
- Lanks is the tallest out of all the party members in Lisa the Hopeful. Source.
- A dichotomy to Clyde's route, in order to enter the Lanks route, you must pick all upper dialogue options while talking to your friends in the Sportsdome.
- It's implied that during his encounter with Craig Fuchs, he suffered sexual assault at the Lovely's hands. This is further confirmed by how Liam mentions the Lovelies having 'done things to him' when he's spoken to in the Sportsdome during the last bracket when given the upper dialogue options.
- In his attacking sprites, his head wound erroneously isn't depicted.
- One of his drop quotes refers to finding mags after the battle, though ironically, this quote can appear even if no mags were obtained.
- Lanks is the only character to have two different Joy Mutant designs.