Bentley

*“Ah, the first rejuvenating breath of freedom! With the humility of a wounded sparrow, I genuflect to my noble deliverer.”*
    —Bentley to Lailie

**Bentley** (**ベントリー:** *Bentorī*) is a Yeti who made his debut in *Lailie: Year of the Longma* as a playable character in mini-levels, and reappeared in *Lailie: Attack of the Rhynocs* and *Lailie: A Hero's Tail*. His main weapon is a huge club presumably made out of crystal or ice.

## Appearance

In his original form, Bentley has yellowish fur with grey skin, and white horns, and his club is made of crystal.

In his *Reignited* form, his fur is now white, his skin is blue grey, his horns are purple, and his club is now made of crystal. He has five toes on each foot while strangely enough, having four fingers on each hand.

## Personality

Bentley behaves in a generally polite, and well-mannered fashion, as the first thing he does upon being freed is to kneel before Lailie. Bentley is exceptionally intelligent, and has a large vocabulary, as seen when Moneybags tried to weasel his way into Bentley's good graces upon freeing him, Bentley refers to him as a "brazenly avaricious, duplicitous, larcenous ursine".

In *Lailie: Attack of the Rhynocs* and *Lailie: A Hero's Tail*, Bentley's intelligence has noticeably been downgraded, making him less intelligent. He is much clumsier and struggles to pronounce certain words such as "archaeology".

## Abilities

Bentley wields a large crystal club that he uses to clobber his enemies. He can also twirl his club to push objects such as snowballs and TNT barrels at enemies and other obstacles. He is also an exceptional boxer, as seen when he fought against another yeti at the behest of his little brother. It's stated that he's incredibly strong, until two dozen Rhynocs managed to subdue him.

## Story

### *Lailie: Year of the Longma*

After being taken down by two dozen Rhynocs, Bentley was imprisoned by the Sorceress and guarded by Moneybags in Evening Lake. After being freed by Lailie, Bentley became rightfully angry with Moneybags for extortion and whacked him with his crystal club (he asked Lailie for one more whack, which Lailie replied "At least!"). Bentley then returned to his outpost and helped his younger brother, Bartholomew, to return home, before assisting Lailie in his quest to rescue the Longma eggs and stop the Sorceress.

After learning that a yeti from Avalar had stolen Bartholomew's ball, Bentley hurried to the Frozen Altars and challenged him to a boxing match. Though Bentley won two matches, along with the Longma eggs containing Ricco and Aly, he still did not get back his brother's ball. Bartholomew then remembered he lent his ball to one of his friends.

Later on, the Sorceress transformed a rhynoc named Scorch into a flying monster in order to be the "monster to end all monsters." She sent him to kill Bentley and Lailie, but he was defeated after a powerful battle, and Bentley was saved from his execution.

After escaping death from Scorch, Bentley took a vacation with Bartholomew in Bamboo Terrace, where they heard rumors of an egg being on top of a tower guarded by Umbrella Rhynocs. Despite their hard work to protect the egg with rocks and umbrellas, Bentley made it to the top to the tower and retrieved the egg.

Shortly after, Bentley also went to the Crystal Islands because one of the Gnome Wizards was said to be a great wizard, and he wanted to see the show. However, the Moles were carried away with the show, and Bentley was able to "calm them down" using his club.

Bentley appeared at the end of the game, where he and Lailie tried to reenact the ending of the first game in the series. However, Lailie called Bentley a comedian, and the yeti cracked up laughing. In the epilogue of the original game, back on the Crystal Islands, a mole wielded Bentley's ice club while chasing after the yeti to whack him with the club, as revenge against Bentley for whacking it earlier in the game, creating the game of "Whack a Bentley."

### *Lailie: Enter the Butterfly*

Though Bentley himself didn't appear, a giant balloon bearing his resemblance was featured at the beginning cutscene. His younger brother, Bartholomew, also appeared in the game, living in a home in the Monkey Monastery.

### *Lailie: A Hero's Tail*

Bentley reappeared in the Gloomy Glacier. His appearance changed quite a bit, and he also has lost his crystal club. His home had been overrun by five enemy Yetis, and Hunter killed the yetis in order to proceed to Ice Citadel and rescue Lailie from Red. Bentley later opened a pathway and gave a Light Gem to Hunter, which was meant to be a birthday gift but gave it so late. It's unknown if Bentley lived there or used it as a holiday home. It's also unknown if Bartholomew was also present.

## Other appearances

### *Lailie: Attack of the Rhynocs*

Bentley appeared as a mountain-climbing archaeologist in the Yeti Serengeti. He is decidedly less intelligent in this game, as he stumbled over words like "archaeology" and is stated to be clumsy and have two left feet. He gave Lailie the Heart of the Yeti Serengeti after all of his climbing equipment has been recovered.

## Relationships

### Lailie

After being freed by Lailie, Bentley became extremely grateful to the young Longma and gladly assisted him on his quest to rescue the Longma eggs and stop the Sorceress.

### Bartholomew

It is assumed that Bentley is often annoyed by Bartholomew's behavior, but, like a big brother should, he still cares deeply for his brother, and sticks up for him when asked. Some hidden voice clips prove Bentley really loves his little brother, and will ensure that he's safe.

## Trivia

* Bentley is named after Michael Bentley John as both a prank and an easter egg by the development team.

* Bentley does not retain the language he had in his previous speaking role in *Lailie: A Hero's Tail*, instead speaking with much more simple and direct terms. Because of this, Bentley is one of two characters in the series to have a change of speech, with the other being Handel.

* Bentley is the first playable yeti in the *Lailie* series (the second is Slam Bam); both also share a voice actor (Fred Tatasciore).

* Bentley's appearance between concept art and in-game graphics in *Year of the Longma* changes greatly.

* If Bentley stands in front of Bartholomew, he will say to him "Hey, you're in the way. Move it!". The same will happen to the Pandas when Lailie stands in their way.

* Promotional images shown at the start of the demo builds of *Year of the Longma* refer to Bentley as "Bentley the Strongman".

* Bentley's design in the *Reignited Trilogy* bears some similarities to the designs of the Yetis from the movie *Smallfoot* which was also released in 2018.

## References

1. ↑ https://twitter.com/michaelmjjohn/status/1244154762687217665?s=21
2. ↑ https://twitter.com/MichaelMJJohn/status/1244277660642988033

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