#cursedthing

this is Lalna. he's the resident mad scientist of the Yogscast, or at least the one that openly wears it on his sleeve, and also dabbles in magic and combinations of magic and science for fun and profit. he's a goofball, although not very aware of the consequences of his actions and how he makes people around him feel. especially if those feelings are negative. he shrugs things off very easily and copes with whatever fallout happens by busying himself with some random project or outright being in denial.

memorable moments include him trying to make one of his rivals into a lawn ornament while casually telling him he planted a nuke under his base as a deterrent, causing at least one apocalypse, locking his apprentice in her tower for 100 days when she got severe magic poisoning, getting kidnapped several times, and replacing his cat constantly while being in vocal denial that anything ever happened to her. normal things to have happen in mcyt.

if you need a guy who has a lot of knowledge about Any Kind Of Science, you hit up Lalna. he's a rocket scientist, nuclear scientist, thaumaturge, magic law enforcer, ex-Yoglabs employee, and cloning specialist. he's in a bunch of different series so running into him one way or another is practically guaranteed.

except.. that's not all the same Lalna.

there are many, many Lalnas.

the story goes that Lalna used to work at Yoglabs and was an important force in establishing respawn. in the Yogscast canon, when you die Yoglabs prints a clone of you, shoves your memories into it, and teleports it to where you were. it's really messed up if you think about it for too long, and as one of the people working on it Lalna definitely thought about it for too long. at some point he snapped and may have killed a bunch of people (unclear on how much of it is unreliable narration), and got locked up in Yoglabs.

as for all of his clones, they scattered to the four winds. none of them are aware of the existence of other Lalnas or that they're not the original. from their pov, there is only one Lalna, and that's them. normally this is fine because they don't cross paths... until they do and things go catastrophic. not in the "world destruction" way, but in the "identity crisis" way. of course, the way they approach the identity crisis is to double down on "no, the other me is fake, i'm the real Lalna", which is all well and fine...

up until a Lalna calling himself Lalnable Hector shows up and starts tormenting the Flux Buddies (flux!Lalna and his apprentice Nano). Lalnable is a card-carrying villain, embracing the "mad" part of mad scientist with more glee than even the most mad science-y of Lalnas, and also leans heavily in the bloody serial killer aesthetic. after some mistaken identity when Nano finds his lab journals and accuses flux!Lalna of secretly being evil, they come to the conclusion that this must be an evil clone out to get them. especially when Lalnable starts cloning Nano.

Flux Buddies 2.0 culminates in a dramatic showdown between the Flux Buddies and the Flux Baddies (Lalnable and the Nano clone Specimen 5), and Lalnable dropping a hell of a bombshell: he's the original. the Lalna we've been following the POV of the entire time is a failed clone.

for further context, this is the first time any of the alternate Lalnas being clones comes up as a plot point. there'd been some hints before, but Lalnable in the season finale is when it finally gets confirmed. it's SO MUCH.