The terrible children of the Hargreeves Family, one of my most favorite comics (I loved the show too, but the original comic has a big place in my heart, its one of the comics that made me love drawing and made me wish to put my heart into drawing).
Luther is beauty, style, and grace (an analysis again)
ok ive wanted to talk about this guy for a while after finishing the comics lately and oh my god his deal is the most obvious of all the characters compared to others when you think about it.
Starting off, his most obvious feature is his manners. He is very polite and "reasonable" but often forces it onto others and seems somewhat superficial. Like he's trying to hide something about himself. One of my mutuals earlier called him "repressed which I find very interesting as I never saw him that way before.
But after reading the comic I said to myself, "Yeah he's definitely repressed".
Specifically in the camping arc he has HUGE BEEF with the hitchhiker calling them a narcissist for seemingly being themselves, albeit a bit morbid and tries to poke through his skin like he does with others (whether to sedate them or not) but restrains himself when randal comes around, later attempting to call his doctor about it, implying that he doesn't want or like doing that to begin with.
There was also the scene with the pancakes where he just unhinges his jaw but implies that he doesn't do that often in front of guests for the sake of their comfort.
Other than that, Luther absolutely INSISTS that he's human and the weird "family" dynamic that he's made for the ivory household (which consists mostly of brainwashed people forced to play a pet role and randal who I'm pretty sure isn't even related to luther) and generally tries to put down anything he does not like in a sort of fancy royal manner.
From all this and the speech he made about choosing his own destiny and being so assertive about manners to others I think it's safe to say that luther is an absolute monster, but is very self aware and almost insecure about being non human, which he also enforces on others in order to "fix" them or to make himself seem perfect with the "ideal" family.
I think he's aware of how messed up everything is but is either in denial or trying to tone it down.
Other things to note:
Captain howdie said they had a crush for luther from an ask which I think is funny and unexpected. (Also true)
He has canonically dated women (epic)
The eyes on top of his eyes aren't just eyelids since they have been shown to come out before. He literally has two sets of eyes.
I also think it's funny that nyon and nana have an implied crush on him (I'll get to them later)
He's scared of mice apparently
he has a LOT of pets, none of them are normal animals
He seems to have sympathy of some kind but it's definitely half baked.
(Unrelated note: the current most mysterious characters are Sebastian, Nana, and the hitchiker)
I don’t hear enough people talking about this but what if ethereal q is Luther and Randal’s father, hear me out, I know that old comic you mentioned seems like pretty substantial evidence to prove that there is no blood relation between the two of them but usually during the writing process of a story some concepts tend to get dropped or changed over the course of the production, so it might not be cannon anymore but while scrolling through q’s character info page I noticed the physical/behavioral traits between Randal Luther and ethereal q, such as the similar eye shape Randal and ethereal q share and Luther and q both have the Bob cut aswell as an air of class but combined with some of Randal’s own odd tendencies, he just strikes me as an older wiser version of Randal too for some reason, though I see what you mean when you think they’re siblings but what they are not fully blood related, they maybe paternal half siblings but I could be wrong
Tbh that IS an interesting theory and brings up a good question. Where ARE their parents?? Both of them are seemingly mentioned despite being a "family" (that mind you, only confirmed to consist of 2 siblings and their "human" pets.)
Despite a few things from the website (like his origin and his first comic appearance being him trying to kiss nyon and luther), I think it's still possible!! Maybe he could be randals dad or at least a father figure which could explain both of their behavior to an extent or Luther's fanciness
Hell, them being half brothers could still apply to the old comics even, with an astranged relative telling luther about randal.
Also, yeah the comics might not be canon
Also here is an image of randal being traumatized by milk lmao