Fake Coworker

**Fake Coworker** is one of the antagonists of *Elevator Hitch*. He is an alternate version of Coworker, stuck indefinitely with Fake Protag in a separate elevator.

## Personality

This version of Coworker has long since lost his suave attitude, making him very insecure and dependent on Fake Protag. He is not very helpful or able to really even do anything. He does not talk unless directly spoken to, but even then, he allows Fake Protag to cut him off whenever he is close to giving in to Protag's questions.

## Appearance

He looks almost exactly like Coworker, though there are a few key differences. His hair is considerably more unkempt, and he has an untrimmed 5 o'clock shadow compared to Coworker's clean-shaven face. Fake Coworker's tie has also been undone. His eyes are almost always averted to the side, as if afraid to make eye contact.

## Background

When they were first thrown into the elevator by a different Protag and Coworker duo, Fake Coworker's talkative and lackadaisical personality was the same as Coworker's. Sometime before or on Day 6, he started running out of steam and was shown sitting on the ground with his tie undone. It is on this day that Fake Protag found the scissors in the vent, which Fake Coworker looked vaguely disturbed by.

On Day 34, a meager attempt at more conversation on Fake Coworker's part finally caused Fake Protag to snap. Fake Protag punched him while brandishing the scissors in his other hand, screaming at Fake Coworker all the while. Fake Coworker, seemingly terrified, became insecure and lost any sense of his previously upbeat self.

When Protag and Coworker finally appear on Day ???, Fake Coworker and Fake Protag immediately perk up, with Fake Coworker coming to a standing position to match Fake Protag's. In the Stranger Danger ending, Fake Coworker is completely silent. Excluding the opening illustration for the scene, his only moments of notable characterization appear in the ending CG sequence when he grabs Coworker by the tie and throws him into the elevator. He is then shown alongside Fake Protag giving Protag and Coworker a deranged grin as the elevator door shuts.

If you avoid the Stranger Danger ending, Fake Coworker and Fake Protag are revealed to have been stuck in the elevator for an incredibly long time after Fake Coworker breaks down (in spite of Fake Protag's best efforts) and tells Protag everything. The only definite unit of measurement they cite for the passage of time is that Fake Coworker's wrist watch ran out of battery "months ago." Besides the dead wrist watch, all the two have is the pair of scissors that Fake Protag found in the vent. When Protag tricks Fake Protag into handing over the scissors before locking them back in the elevator, Fake Coworker is once again silent in comparison to Fake Protag, though both of them are described as trying to force open the door from the other side of the elevator.

## Relationship

### Fake Protag

When Protag and Coworker appear, Fake Protag takes it upon himself to introduce them both. He refers to Fake Coworker as "my colleague." Fake Coworker is clearly terrified of Fake Protag, constantly sweating and appearing meek around him. He does not bat an eye or bother defending himself when Fake Protag calls him a moron. When Fake Protag shoots him a glare or interjects into the conversation as Protag questions him outside of the Stranger Danger ending, Fake Coworker immediately backtracks on whatever he was saying. However, when Fake Coworker finally snaps, not even Fake Protag telling him to "Shut it" can stop him from pleading with Protag. They are last seen working together to try and break down the door when Protag traps them in it once again.

### Coworker

When Coworker first sees Fake Coworker, he remarks, "eUGH, why do I look like that-". This is the extent of their interaction excluding when Fake Coworker is the one to grab and pull Coworker into the elevator in the Stranger Danger ending.

### Protag

He is resistant to Protag's questions at first and tries to evade them at Fake Protag's direction, but he eventually breaks and starts begging Protag and Coworker to let him and Fake Protag take their place.

## Trivia

* As confirmed by Rachel in the official RachelDevsThis Discord, you receive the scissors from the doppelgangers rather than any other level because scissors represent duality and being made of two halves that look the same.
* The doppelgangers appear on floor 8 because 8 is a "loop number," becoming an infinity sign when turned onto its side.