Lighthouse

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> "I would swear that you're worrying me to extremes, but I wouldn't ever swear around children..." -Lighthouse, to Sugar Glider
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**Lighthouse** is a female contestant currently competing in the first season of Hats on Some Trip*.* She was on Team Seethe until Challenge 11, where a second team swap occurred and switched her team to Not So Scrunkly.

## Personality

Lighthouse is known to be very kind and gentle even upon her first arrival at the airport. As seen with her interactions with Bucket of Pink, Ottace, Tropical Drink, RGB, Mug and Miku Cube, she seems to take interest in learning more about whoever she meets.

## Appearance

Lighthouse is a lighthouse with an orange brick body, a small yellow lightbulb head, and gray stony legs. Notably, her legs seem to be cracked, as if they've withstood great pressure or were put together from smaller rocks, and a small structure extending from her body seems to create an exposed "room" for her head to stay in. Her eyes can light up very strongly, similar to an actual lighthouse, and these beams can effectively blind anyone who isn't careful.

## History

Though her history is mostly unknown as of now, it is known that Lighthouse and her son, Foghorn, decided to split up to participate in two different contests. While Lighthouse found her way to Camp HOST, Foghorn ventured elsewhere, to a different camp. It is also implied that Lighthouse's reasonings for staying put after Hatsy's offer to allow contestants to leave the camp forever goes beyond simply making friends or winning the contest as a whole.

During a conversation with Smoke, Lighthouse explains that Foghorn's conditions provided a different maternal experience than she would've had with any other child, hinting that Lighthouse's life before joining HOST could've been very chaotic and/or unique.

## Relationships

### Tropical Drink

Lighthouse and Tropical Drink first interacted after the former caught the latter watching her from afar. After a brief chat, the two learn more about each other, and discuss sea monkeys and popcorn piles together.

Later on, Lighthouse spots Tropical Drink in the airport's food court, and approaches them, engaging in conversation. The two talk a bit about traveling and Tropical Drink's clothing and accessories, Lighthouse in particular notably enjoying the chance to learn more about her new friend.

At the airport security terminal, Lighthouse spots Tropical Drink at the back of the line, where they greet each other. Upon realizing Lighthouse couldn't hear them, Tropical Drink exits the line and approaches where Lighthouse is, making sure to stay out of the line. After some small talk, Tropical Drink asks Lighthouse to pick them up, saying that they have "something [they] want [Lighthouse] to try on". Lighthouse obliges, and Tropical Drink puts a cap with the phrase "#1 Mom" embroidered on the front. Lighthouse thanks them profusely and offers to eventually buy a souvenir for Tropical Drink in return.

Later on, on the plane, Lighthouse and Tropical Drink talk some more; after seeing the former struggle with the brightness of the plane during a nap, the latter offers a self-made eye mask to help. Lighthouse refuses the offer, saying she's not tired anymore, and Tropical Drink shrugs, using the mask to take a nap themselves. Meanwhile, Lighthouse has a realization, after confused questions about the term 'fruity' after Sugar Glider uses it, that she has a crush on Tropical Drink. Shortly afterward, Tropical Drink wakes up, remarking a dream they couldn't quite remember, to Lighthouse's surprise. Lighthouse tries to hide her nervousness by bringing Smoke into the conversation, which ultimately fails due to the extinguisher's inherent knowledge of the whole situation.

Upon arriving to the candy factory and later on the mall, Lighthouse and Tropical Drink bond more, until it comes to a boiling point: the two head to separate jewelry shops to purchase gifts for the other, and they exchange them between each other. This is where Lighthouse also confesses to the crush, and the two go on a date together, that of which makes Smoke and Sugar Glider proud.

After a date gone wrong, Lighthouse and Tropical Drink don't quite speak to each other for the duration of Challenge 8 out of embarrassment.

### Bucket of Pink

Bopper is one of the first contestants Lighthouse interacts with upon entering the airport, the latter remarking that she "hopes [she and Ottace] are being supervised".

At the airport security terminal, Lighthouse stops Bopper from cutting the line and instead helps distract her with Ottace's help with various conversation topics. After Lighthouse's interactions with Tropical Drink at the terminal, Bopper casually states that Lighthouse is falling in love, to the building's surprise.

After Ottace's elimination, Bopper seems to be a bit colder toward Lighthouse, as if she knows she was the cause of the elimination. This doesn't help Lighthouse's guilt.

### Ottace

Ottace is also one of the first contestants Lighthouse interacts with upon entering the airport (due to zir accompanying Bopper at the time. After introducing zirself, ze points Lighthouse in Hatsy and Hateen's general direction before the three spot Tropical Drink.

At the airport security terminal, Lighthouse asks Bopper about family members, that to which the conversation then turns to the latter's sibling-like relationship with Ottace. Lighthouse gives zir a thumbs up of approval upon seeing how happy Bopper is to talk about Ottace.

Upon Ottace's elimination during Challenge 7, Lighthouse is shown to feel immense regret, feeling as if she's failed Otto by seeing zir eliminated.

### RGB

RGB approached Lighthouse to have a chat with her after the latter spoke with the hosts. They learned just a bit more about each other before Miku Cube joined in the conversation. Lighthouse remarks that RGB is a "pleasant object to be around".

During RGB's transformation into Gummiballs, Lighthouse seems to show intense disinterest in getting to know the gummibarified contestant. However, after the transformation wears off, Lighthouse notes how happy she is to see RGB back to normal again.

### Moth Puppet

Shortly after Sakura Mochi's elimination, Lighthouse spots Moth Puppet looking lonely, and decides to talk with him. She suggests that he try and connect with other contestants based around hobbies and offers to be his friend, both of which he accepts. Later on, witnessing Lighthouse asking Sugar Glider, Smoke, and Hateen about what the term 'fruity' means, he fails to hold in laughter and eventually tells Lighthouse what the term means.

### Miku Cube

Miku Cube joins in RGB and Lighthouse's conversation, seeking to become Lighthouse's friend. While content with the friendship, Lighthouse witnessed Miku Cube pull a bag of chips from her hair and hopes the chips are clean, to that of which Miku Cube replies that they are.

Lighthouse spots Miku Cube again on the plane during the intermission between Challenge 4 and Challenge 5, and they get into a discussion about drawing.

### Hateen

Upon meeting Hatsy and Hateen, Lighthouse introduces herself and congratulates them on their honeymoon. This causes Hateen to have to take a moment to process the gesture of good faith, remarking that it's "unlike the other contestants" to be so kind.

During Challenge 9, Hateen offers every contestant the chance to guide him throughout the double date via an earpiece. Lighthouse does so successfully, and it is assumed that Hateen's respect for all of the contestants, if not just Lighthouse, went up considerably.

### Hatsy

Upon meeting Hatsy and Hateen, Lighthouse introduces herself and congratulates them on their honeymoon. After Lighthouse expresses a bit of shock at the length and number of flights the contest is planned to have, Hatsy offers to allow anyone to leave if they want to. Lighthouse refuses, remarking that she has more than one reason to stay.

### Mug

Travel Mug and Lighthouse interacted for a short time during Hatsy and Hateen's check up on the contestants in the airport. The former expresses shock at the married couple's status, and Lighthouse reassures Mug that it's "nice to be reassured that [marriages] work out in the end, right?". Mug quickly agrees, again noting his surprise as nothing more than just that.

During Smoke's Unfortunate Cookie induced love confession, Mug witnesses Smoke passing out, and he and Lighthouse, at first, agree not to tell Smoke what happened. However, Mug excuses himself with the reasoning of "needing to look at souvenirs to buy" so that Lighthouse can tell Smoke about the confession.

### Glockie

Glockie and Lighthouse have a very brief conversation when the former struggles to get his bacteriophage collection through airport security. Lighthouse then points out there IS no airport security in the first place.

In a joking conversation, Lighthouse lightheartedly suggests to Smoke that she punt Glockie "but gently". Smoke obliges, punting Glockie gently.

When Glockie quit the game during Challenge 9, Lighthouse seemed to be genuinely upset at his departure, sadly giving the "Seethe forever" cheer unfortunately too late for him to hear.

### Smoke

In Lighthouse's entry for Challenge 1, Lighthouse and Smoke find the shopkeeper Avaline/Airplane Trolley within an abandoned part of the airport after the latter breaks through the souvenir shop to get there.

At the airport security terminal, Smoke, pondering how she may react with the metal detector, hears her name being said by Bopper in a conversation, and affirms that the bucket once thought she was food. Lighthouse disapprovingly states that she "hopes [Smoke] didn't teach [Bopper] anything morally grey", to which the extinguisher responds that she didn't. Later on, upon Lighthouse's admittance to having a crush on Tropical Drink, Smoke chuckles to herself, implying that she heard some of the conversation and knows about the crush.

At the mall, Smoke, after eating an Unfortunate Cookie from 93, confesses a crush to Lighthouse and then passes out from the pressure. Upon waking up, Smoke fails to recall the event, but Lighthouse tells her after some prodding. This leads Smoke to consider whether or not she does indeed have feelings for Lighthouse or not.

### Sugar Glider

Lighthouse and Sugar Glider properly met at the airport security terminal, after the former constantly noted how unsafe it was for the latter to recklessly climb onto and spin around the metal detector. After Sugar Glider glides into the line of contestants and hops over them to get to the end, ae drops aer necklace, only retrieving it when Lighthouse finds it and holds it out to aer. Upon the retrieval, Lighthouse glimpses something within the amulet, but never explicitly stated what she saw.

When Hatsy and Hateen administer Challenge 4, Sugar Glider complains about not knowing how to draw. Lighthouse reassures aer that practice makes perfect, and that ae should at least try to do a good job. Sugar Glider begrudgingly complies with this after a very awkward head pat from Lighthouse.

From challenges 5-8, Sugar Glider has been 'adopted' by Lighthouse, in a sense, and ae can normally be seen hanging around her.

### Avaline

Avaline and Lighthouse seem to have a very extensive history. According to Lighthouse, Avaline, as a teen, used to babysit Foghorn whenever Lighthouse was out working. Due to this, the two have a rather close friendship, and even now, as Avaline works for Hatsy and Hateen, they still talk just as casually and lightheartedly as they would've years back. However, Lighthouse seems to show a bit of disapproval at Avaline's tendencies to bet on almost everything with Woodchuck...

### Twinkie

When Lighthouse starts scraping against the floor to get her calculator-she-thinks-is-an-Ipod, Twinkie casts an annoyed glare at her, sparking a small conversation with him, where he actively tries to avoid a confrontation and, subsequently, a conversation. Funnily enough, however, he doesn't realize the exchange he and Lighthouse had specifically with this in mind was a conversation in itself. Upon retrieving the caculator-she-thinks-is-an-Ipod, Lighthouse scrapes on by Twinkie yet again, though she drops the device and struggles in getting it. Twinkie, annoyed, closes his book and finally properly gives Lighthouse his attention, to the building's surprise. After a brief conversation about Twinkie's horror-romance novel, Lighthouse nearly accidentally speaks about her crush on Tropical Drink, which then she flees the scene comically slowly, due to her being unable to do much more than lie down on the plane.

Despite this initially okay interaction, their interactions become much less friendly: once Twinkie affirms to Lighthouse that he's simply not interested in a friendship, Lighthouse begins to grow to resent him, thinking that mindset is much too negative and harmful to both Twinkie himself and the people around him.

After Twinkie's death during Challenge 7, Lighthouse begins to hope for Twinkie's return, somehow, noting that even if she didn't quite like him, that he didn't need to *die* for it.

## Challenge Coverage

### Challenge 1

> Rank: 3rd/25
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In Lighthouse's entry for Challenge 1, Hatsy and Hateen send all of the contestants off to search for the shopkeeper. Stumped at the lack of further information, Lighthouse consults her teammate Smoke and asks for her aid in finding the shopkeeper. Smoke agrees, and the two search for a while before realizing they could check inside the closed souvenir shop. Smoke breaks inside, destroying both the front door and the Employees Only door, and finds an abandoned part of the airport with Lighthouse. The two then find a boarded-up door, only to be suddenly struck by the entry-specific shopkeeper Avaline within her Airplane Trolley. After an introduction, Avaline returns to the souvenir shop, and the entry ends with Lighthouse questioning how Smoke will explain the damage, with the latter replying that she'll blame it on Hatsy.

### Challenge 2

> Rank: 1st/5
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This challenge was team based and did not involve any contestant-specific entries. Team Seethe, however, placed 1st within this challenge.

### Challenge 3

> Rank: 2nd/24
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This challenge involved playing Prom Queen Sim and obtaining the highest score possible. Lighthouse managed to score 21,010 points, second only to Smoke.

### Challenge 4

> Rank: 8th/23
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This challenge was an art challenge, and Lighthouse was specifically tasked with drawing Smoke using a limited color palette.

### Challenge 5

> Rank: 3rd(6th)/22
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This challenge was a game challenge, where the contestants played Flirting on School to achieve the highest score possible. Due to the Fridge Magnet play, Lighthouse moved up 3 places in the rankings, going from 6th to 3rd.

### Challenge 6

> Rank: 6th/21
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This challenge was a design challenge, where contestants designed their own candies for the candy shop. Lighthouse's submission, Super Slammin' Candy Pear Hammer, became permanent in the shop's rotations with her placement at 6th.

### Challenge 7

> Rank: 4th/4
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This challenge was a team challenge, where each team would make some kind of musical related submission, whether it would be an animatic or a cover. Team Seethe, however, ranked last in this challenge, though Lighthouse's efforts earned her immunity throughout the elimination.

### Challenge 8

> Rank: 3rd/4
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This challenge was yet another team challenge, where each team had to fill out a form and guess the names and artists of 50 different songs. Team Seethe got 39/50 of these guesses correct, landing them in 3rd place. While this would've normally landed them in elimination, this challenge was a reward challenge, so there was no elimination to speak of.

### Challenge 9

> Rank: 1st/17
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This challenge was the CTT crossover challenge, where Hateen requested that the contestants keep him, Hatsy, and the hosts of CTT safe. Lighthouse, upon being given Hateen's earpiece, reassures the hat that things will be alright, and that she will be diligent in keeping up with the conversation to avoid suspicion of the rather bloodthirsty waiting staff inside. Carefully, Lighthouse directs Hateen through 10 separate responses, some humorous in their possible answers, and others literally mentioning Foghorn by name, catching Lighthouse's attention. At the end of the double date, Lighthouse notes the victory, and Hatsy comments that Hateen being nervous the whole time was adorable. Lighthouse, to herself, then notes the coincidence, calling it "almost planned".

### Challenge 10

> Rank: 9th/17
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This challenge was to make a terrible poster for the festival, as per Hateen's wishes. Lighthouse's poster, detailing Hateen 'unfestival-ing your festival' and having a Bus Stop Sign (from Camp Evil 2) aesthetic, earned her a 9th place spot here.

### Challenge 11

> Rank: 4th/16
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This challenge was a game challenge; the contestants played Taiko Online, specifically the song Roku. Lighthouse's score was 637,900 on Hard Mode, placing her fourth, only behind fellow Hard Mode player Smoke and both Extreme Mode players Noelle and 93.

### Challenge 12

> Rank: 4/15
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This challenge was a puzzle challenge, where Lighthouse placed 4th with a time of 33 seconds. This was a tie with RGB, who also had 33 seconds, but both were immune during the next elimination regardless.

### Challenge 13

> Rank: /14
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> Trivia
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> * The filename for Lighthouse's reveal icon is *MomIdLikeTo.png.*
> * Notably, the character Mystic Messenger, a participant in a different camp, makes a surprise appearance with the sole purpose of announcing Lighthouse's reveal. They also appear in Lighthouse's reveal artwork.
> * Lighthouse has a son, Foghorn, who she talks fondly about quite frequently. Interestingly enough, Foghorn participates in the same camp as Mystic Messenger, hinting at the fact that Foghorn is the one who pointed Mystic Messenger in the right direction, and subsequently allowed his mother entry into Camp HOST.
> * Whirligig, another character closely related to Lighthouse and Foghorn's lore, is also considered a part of their family, and Lighthouse treats him like a son as well.
> * Lighthouse's exact height is 11'2". Though her weight is unknown, she was able to make part of the Airport shake upon sitting down, so it can be assumed that she's quite heavy.
> * Upon meeting Hatsy and Hateen, the latter remarks on Lighthouse's kindness and promptly takes a moment to process the information, to Lighthouse's amusement. Other contestants have also remarked on this quality.
> * Lighthouse owns a cap with the phrase "#1 Mom" embroidered on the front. This cap was a gift from Tropical Drink, who embroidered the cap specifically for her.
> * For Challenge 5, a Gummy Bear was played on Lighthouse by RGB. Lighthouse did indeed make a cover of the Gummy Bear song (specifically the Mask parody), which spared her from the punishment this candy provides.
> * For Challenge 6, the Super Slammin' Candy Pear Hammer was added to the candy shop. This candy was of Lighthouse's own design.
> * For Challenge 7, the Boombox Gummy was played on Lighthouse by Mug. Lighthouse successfully warded off the candy's punishment.
> * For Challenge 9, the Gumdrop was played on Lighthouse by Bucket of Pink. This candy forced her to submit a video entry, in which she did, and successfully warded off the candy's punishment.
> * For Challenge 11, both the Super Slammin' Candy Pear Hammer and the Candexagon were played on Lighthouse. She warded off both punishments, though this led to the discontinuation of the Hammer shortly after. The Candexagon, however, turned Lighthouse into a likeness of 93, humorously enough.
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