#elevator hitch doppleganger

[gavinom123]

yaoi so good when one guy scared as fuck

[un-favoredprotag]

>"Helloo!!!"

[strnvloz]

told them to pose and that i was gna take a pic why r u so angry antag, GAY!!!!!! OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!

[raiverratz]

You know what? No. You don't deserve the chair.

[helenapologist]

i dont wanna post this on main so here is some Elevator Hitch doodles/warm ups idk man

also my friend colored in the coworker and protag on the upper right 👍 thank you vic‼️‼️‼️

[casually-prish]

guys this was made on scratch and screen recorded and then put through a converter from webm to mp4 please bear with me

heres my contribution to the elevator hitch fandom

[voidofthearchive]

this is dopplecotagcore

toxic codependent familial dynamics this. toxic codependent romances that. what about toxic codependent coworkers. i can’t do my job without this guy here or i’ll kill myself.

[sketchedspiders]

Hello! in your essay about how cotag is doomed yaoi (lol), you said Co-worker is deeply insecure and puts up a front? ig it would make doppleganger!co-worker more tragic but i wanted to hear more of your thoughts on that ^^

Dropping everything and rising from my depression bed to write this . Thank you anon i needed an opportunity to yap about Coworker because I love him

(Elevator Hitch spoilers and Coworker analysis undercut)

Lets start with his personality. Coworker, as we all know, is a flamboyant and overconfident character. He constantly brags about his position within the workplace, and always tries to one up Protag by taking credit for his ideas or trying to prove that he’s stronger than the other. This makes most see him as an obnoxious character— nothing else. Yet, there’s a reason as to why he acts this way.

People who act this way often are insecure themselves. They put up this front to not only give themselves a false sense of security, but also they want others to respect and praise them just as much. This is what Coworker goes through, and there’s multiple reasons that can prove this.

Despite the fact he’s not very helpful at all during the game, he still tries to initiate that he’s the more superior and capable one compared to Protag. He’ll take credit for Protag’s ideas, and when Protag does ask him for his help, he goes on to boast about himself even more. One example is when Protag tries to open the Elevator door, but isn’t able to by himself. He goes onto ask Coworker if he could try budging the door open with him, and he responds with this:

He mocks Protag, calling him weak. Yet when he’s unable to open the door himself, there’s a moment where he breaks.

Obviously, this was put in for shits and giggles, but it can say a lot about Coworker. He belittles others so he can feel better about himself, but once it’s shown that he’s not as great as he claims to be, he begins to break.

Let’s also talk about his position at the company for a moment. When you first enter floor 6, Coworker and Protag have this dialogue.

He insists that the reason he’s such a highly respected employee within the company is because of himself. However, it is revealed that his nepotism is the actual reason for his position.

Sure, he may talk about how he’s been at the company for ages, and he’s “the full time employee of the month”, but his efforts truly don’t matter when his nepotism is the only reason he’s stable within the company. This makes sense when you also take into account out of touch he is within the game. He hardly ever helps, and when he does, he’s never truly useful. Once he’s in a situation where his nepotism can’t help him, he’s worthless.

His items are also very important to him, much like how his title is something he cherishes and brags about the most. This may not seem very important in this analysis, but it’s something I wanna point out regardless. Coworker is never willing to give up any of his items, even if it would help them escape the elevator. He supposedly lies to Protag and says he doesn’t have anything on him when Protag asks, Coworker doesn’t give away his lighter nor his cigars willingly, and he adamantly refuses to throw his shoe into the “darkness”.

What do all of these items have in common? Well, they’re all expensive. Of course, nobody would want to give up items that cost them a fortune, but in Protag’s and Coworker’s situation it’s rather dire. Yet, he still refuses and lies, and that could be connected to how he uses materialism and his nepotism as a false sense of security.

Although, while Coworker is unhelpful, that doesn’t exactly mean he has zero clue of what’s happening around him. He may cover it up by acting clueless when Protag asks if he remembers any of the deaths that occurred, but that’s yet another example of him being fearful.

Even if Coworker remembering the deaths is just an implication or a theory, it would make a lot more sense for him to be distant from what occurs. It’s not because he is desensitized, but because he desperately wants to distract himself. For example, when he sees the sight of blood, he becomes stressed, and he wants to get out immediately.

When he has to face the reality of the workplace, along with his fears, he breaks. He’s no longer in his safe space now that he’s reminded of the graphic nature of the office. Coworker is insistent on leaving, or at least for Protag to investigate the floor by himself, because he can’t hide how disturbed he truly is for once.

Speaking of the doppelgängers in your ask, false Coworker is actually a BIG factor in this analysis, and it goes along with the last part. After you get the Stranger Danger ending, Coworker gives you this advice:

This is one of the rare times he helps, and this teaches you to go for false Coworker instead of false Protag. Meaning that Coworker KNOWS he’s easier to break, and that he’s way more desperate than Protag. That he’s “the weaker one”.

Then, once Protag tricks the doppelgängers, he says this with an uneasy expression:

He felt the desperation from false Coworker because of his insecurities that he hides with his narcissism. False Coworker is the personification of the side he masks with a hubristic personality. What makes this even worse too, is that Coworker would know this is inevitable if he remembers all the previous endings. You cannot proceed with the rest of the game if you keep going for false Protag. You NEED to go for false Coworker, because he’s the one with little power in reality, and is easy to fool out of the two. No matter what, Coworker has to acknowledge the unfortunate truth. That he’s weak, desperate, and fearful. He also says after this that Protag “would be a good fit for the company”, meaning he has witnessed people who are as weak as him get baited and suffer because of it.

This is why he puts up a front. If he lets his insecurities slip, then there’ll be consequences, and he can’t let that happen when he’s “the star employee”.

Also, I may be taking this way too seriously because this was definitely meant to just be a silly fun fact, but this info provided by Rachel is also important !!

Coming from someone who knows another person who has done this before— drinking on the job is used as an escape to get through the day. People who have a lot going on in their lives, who can’t even find an ounce of comfort within work, use alcohol as an unhealthy coping mechanism. This is yet again another example of Coworker using escapism to just survive at the office and detach himself from the day to day horrors he’s subjected to.

There’s probably more that I may discuss later, but for now these are the biggest things I could find.

Even if this is reaching, it is canon that Coworker is mentally ill. I’m unable to insert the image because I’ve reached the limit on mobile, but it was a shitpost drawn by Rachel saying Coworker is a “person who’s mentally ill as hell but comes off as well enough to be considered put together”. You can find it on the Elevator Hitch official contect channel in sigcord, or maybe on her tumblr. So!! I am right LMAFOKDNFM

But I digress, thank you all for reading another Elevator Hitch analysis (that’s more or less a dump of my thoughts) <3

Btw if there’s a typo or if a part doesn’t make sense be patient with me because I wrote a majority of this with a headache LOL

[sillyworkday]

ACCOUNT INFORMATIONS!!:D

OOC UNDER THE CUT

Hello hello everyone!! welcome to my elevator hitch oc ask/roleplay blog account:333 i use she/her pronounce!!<3 call me Augustine if yohr not talking to my oc! im very like really new to tumblr and the roleplay stuff.. so im very sorry if i ever made a mistake in roleplaying!! my spelling sucks soo.. i might have made some mistakes in typing!

⁉️Stuff to know before you ask❗

My anon tag is [🎧]!!

any asks are perfectly fine!! unless their weird. im a minor!

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im not really online in tumblr so ill try my best to reply to asks💔

🎧 About my oc! -`

her name is Akari!! and her doppleganger is akira:33

shes pansexual, and she has a crush!(her crush doesnt like her back.)

shes pretty much close with everyone ! ! she likes to talk with people:D

she uses She/Her!!

shes 5'6(i just made that up)

she has an older sister named lune!

feel free to ask more about her!

>"hello hello everyonee!!! eee!! this is so exciting!"

[cherrysfruityrambles]

Videos i watched today and my favorite screenshots from them

Elevator Hitch, 10/10 Love the Dopplegangers theyre silly

Cold Front 7/10, The game was amazing but it made me cry during class

Eloquent Countenace 4/10, Im only like 4 minutes in so ill update this but what the actual fuck is wrong with this man and why do I want him locked up in my basement

[greatestcoworker]

>"WHAT THE HELL DOES THAT MEAN!?"

"What the hell?"

>[You're approached by.. another you! Though he's wearing colors of grey and black, and there's something attached to his neck]

"Where are all these me's coming from?"

>[ @classified-coworker]

[Coworker looks up from his magazine, raising an eyebrow, before huffing loudly. He groans as he begins to massage his temples, annoyed.]

>"Another one? You're like the third me i've met this week!"

>"And what's with the gray, anyways? Dark colors don't suit you, you look like a boss wannabe..'

[gavinom123]

doppleganger!protag my beloved...

[un-favoredprotag]

“LET ME INTO THE ELEVATOR!”

-Antag

>"HOLY SHIT!!!!"

[strnvloz]

Antag what are you doing here?!?

[un-favoredprotag]

“Hey where’d Protag go?”

”He’ll be fine, probably just..taking..a break.”

”How do you take a break from inside an elevator?…”

>"Oh, he just had to be on another floor for awhile....think of it as an unpaid vacation! You look like you two could actually use one!..."

[un-favoredprotag]

>"I think rats are pretty filthy....Maybe I should get another pet, like a cat or something....'