Thing

* Season 2 Merge
* Season 2 (updated)
* Season 2 (old)

### Team

**LB2:** BENSON (Challenge 1-12)Team Cat Be Doin Da Laundry (Challenge 13-onwards)

### Positive Relationships

* Plunger (homie)
* Gram Apple
* Jigsaw
* Charger Block (frenemies)
* TeeVi
* Dirtblock
* Beanie (up until Challenge 20)
* yo I'm

### Negative Relationships

* Diamond
* Field Ball
* Beanie (Challenge 21+)
* Snare Drum (Challenge 21+)
* Car Keys (Challenge 21+)
* Circle
* Game
* Firey Plush
* Bubbly Burger
* Robot Bubbly Burger

### Kill Count

22

> *"**FUCK THE ELDERS!**" - Thing (Challenge 20, Aug 1, 2020)*
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> *"OH MY **GOD**, you stared at a man's **ASS**, YOU TOLD ME THAT!" - Thing (Challenge 20, Aug 1, 2020)*
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> *"**AriAwesome** is 5 foot 4" - Thing (????/??/??)*
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> *"What MORE could you ask for? Get 'em today, **LICKOMON!**" - Thing (Challenge 17, Jun 22, 2020)*
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> *"I'm not talking about the food, I'm talking about setting all of you on fire!" - Thing (Challenge 19, Jul 15, 2020)*
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Playing *Daniel Caesar* and setting your heart on fire, this charming contestant leaves all the ladies breathless.

## ***Personality***

Thing, a male contestant in Lick Battle 2, has a notable personality that separates him heavily from the rest of the cast. Thing possesses a crude and aggressive vibe, as he often is seen using sarcasm and bluntness onto his peers to get his point exactly where he directs it. His personality aspect is what really makes Thing unique, given his very simplistic, geometric design. Despite this, he also possesses a playful and fun-loving side that adds to his overall charm, which is mainly displayed around his closest friend, Plunger.

Thing's edginess is extremely apparent within his demeanor, equipping a no-nonsense attitude towards his competitors up-front. He is not afraid to speak his mind at all, additionally, he is often seen engaging in heated arguments with contestants such as Charger Block or Diamond. However, Thing's aggression is not unwarranted, as he is *mostly*, always ready to back up his words with actions. Thing's overall boldness works as a truly admirable quality, as he is unafraid to take risks and push his limits. Thing's unforgiving behavior usually tends to influence his team and his friends around him, bringing out the power and excitement in each of them.

In addition to Thing's unforgiving edginess and aggressiveness, his sarcastic wit adds to his overall personality. He has a sharp tongue and a quick wit, which he uses to maximum effect upon engaging with the other contestants. His bluntness only adds to his overall charm, as he is not one to sugarcoat his thoughts or feelings.

Despite his tough exterior, Thing also has a playful and fun-loving side that comes out in his interactions with his friends. He enjoys bantering with his fellow contestants, flirting with the ladies, and is often seen joking around typically. This pure, playful nature adds a layer of lightheartedness to his overall character and makes him far more relatable to viewers and spectators alike.

## ***Performance***

Thing's overall challenge performance was fairly average in the long run. His first impressions into the camp, through his signup, landed him a decent 5th place out of the 32 contestants casted. While 5th was an amazing achievement, in the top 8% out of 60 players overall who signed up for the season, he was exactly *one* placement below the line to become a team captain, with Horn placing 4th right above him, becoming the team leader of Kwebbelkop. Thing would find himself placed onto the team known as BENSON, with his good friend Charger Block as the leader, who placed 1st out of 60 players in the signup challenge.

His highest placement in the entire season would eventually come in challenge 6, hitting a placement of 2nd out of the remaining 26 contestants. In between his signup placement and challenge 6, Thing had an extremely strong game, maintaining a challenge placement average of 6.43. It wasn't until challenge 7 where he dropped heavily, placing 21st in the results. From this point on until challenge 13, Thing's placements would begin to follow a trend of ranging in the 10th area consistently.

Thing's game was beginning to shift from something so strong, into total repetitive mediocrity. His team, BENSON, was facing elimination after elimination, at one point even losing a member due to the user quitting the camp. On challenge 12, his team lost once again, however, it was an eradication, so the member with the lowest challenge average would be picked off the team automatically. Thing was neck to neck with Diamond, as they were both nearly tied for lowest average. The deciding factor came down to a *singular* *placement*, which ended up saving Thing by the skin of his teeth, as Diamond placed exactly dead last on the challenge, pushing his average below Thing's, which resulted in Diamond's automatic elimination through eradication. What seemed like a downward spiral for Thing, he then managed to eventually prove everyone wrong for the time being, as he would strike 3rd place in challenge 13. Unfortunately, these spikes in performance came from merely team-based challenges, yet, this still proved Thing as a powerful player when put under pressure, given his extreme amounts of dedication he displayed in both teamwork challenges.

### ***Merge***

Thing would immediately fall into his inevitable cycle once again upon merge starting, placing 12th out of 16 players left on the 14th challenge after teams were dissolved. Following beginning of merge, Thing found himself in a powerful alliance, packed with many strong players, like Horn, Green Fireball, and Beanie. Thing managed to grab onto this opportunity through allying with, who many consider to be the strongest player in the entire season, Plunger. Plunger was Thing's best friend throughout the majority of the season, as the two started to become very close, inseparable friends from challenge 7 onwards. Although Thing wasn't technically in the alliance, Plunger still had his back at all times when it came to eliminations, ensuring Thing's safety, and strengthening the bond between the two friends.

Luckily for Thing, his lower placements also came to a full stop, as for the following challenges, he scored 4th almost consistently, only dropping to 6th and 8th one time each. This unexpected revival of skill and effort ended up placing him in the upper quarter of the remaining contestants left, showing his power as a contestant was not lost.

It wasn't until challenge 20 where thing would place 8th out of the remaining 9 players on the challenge, which would also end up being his last challenge placement. The following elimination, Beanie went against her own alliance, orchestrating a secret plan between the only players who weren't teaming with everyone else, Snare Drum and Car Keys. Beanie had planned to eliminate Thing, despite letting her alliance know to vote Snare Drum. Snare Drum played a Lick Token during the elimination, granting himself immunity, leaving the rest of the votes towards Thing. Thing was eliminated in a 5-4-1-1 vote, which meant Thing placed 9th out of 34th overall in the competition.

Overall, Thing's performance in Lick Battle 2 can be considered somewhat inconsistent, chaotic, yet, extremely memorable and notable in comparison to other contestants. He had extremely dangerous moments on his hands, yet he still managed to thrive despite it all, cementing Thing as one of the greats in the camp.

## ***Trivia***

• Thing has went through *several* design changes over the course of Lick Battle 2, most notably, his **side piece** switched back and forth. This consistent change left spectators and fans confused on Thing's front and back, *heavily* influencing fan-art of him, which depicted his asset flipped typically, making his face look to appear on the back of his head.

• Thing LOVES music! Thing is constantly listening to old classics, unheard gems, and new releases in the hip-hop music industry. His current top 5 artists consists of JPEGMAFIA, Danny Brown, Run The Jewels, JID, and Denzel Curry (in no particular order). While these handful of rappers fall under his top 5 currently, his all time favorite will always and forever be the late legend himself, Mac Miller.

• Thing's entries from the signup to challenge 7 were NEVER uploaded to YouTube, they only exist as mp4 files in the Lick Battle/BFTROR server, which the Lick Battle section of the server is left as archived.

• Both Thing and Plunger have talked in during a "document skit" together, being a brief commentary before the events of each document, they were both seen specifically featured in the *Elimination 15/Challenge 16* document. This makes Thing one of the only non-host figures to speak in a document alongside Worm on a String and Cata-Strophe.

*"**WAKE UP GLANG GLANG TINGATING POTS AND PANS BANGING GONG TINKATINKA DRUUUUUUUUUUUUGS**" - Thing (Elimination 15/Challenge 16, Jun 5, 2020)*

• The users of both Thing and Plunger were given the rights to *"Lick Battle"* after the cancellation of the second season at the final 8, if a season 3 ever happened, it would be from these guys!

• Despite what the Lick Battle 2 poses depict, Thing actually has a brownish colored outline, rather than a dark green outline. This only further adds to the obscurity of what Thing is even made out of.

• Thing was intended to be bulletproof! In Plunger's sixteenth entry, he shoots Thing using his "portal gun". The bullet ricochets and kills Plunger literally within a split second.