#Atlas May

[lordofdestructionm]

Sparing Ivy

He has no hesitation in trying to kill Rocky

He very nearly headshots Freckle who only survives by the skin of his teeth

But he has Ivy locked in his sights and could clearly take her out but chooses not to

Why? If you have read my long ramble about the sentimentality of Mordecai Heller there could be a few factors at play

It could be that having been raised with his two sisters Mordecai can't stomach the idea of gunning down a young girl

It may also be that Ivy is Atlas's goddaughter, and as much of Mordecai's motivation his tied to his desire to find out the truth about his death due to him being a surrogate father to him, he may feel that Atlas would be horrified by him doing it.

It may also be (and this may be my feral Vikdecai side showing) that Mordecai knows how important Ivy is to Viktor as his surrogate daughter, and as he feels guilty about the kneecapping incident already, he doesn't want to do something that would cause him even more pain

Could always be a combination of all three of course

#lackadaisy #lackadaisycats #tracy j butler #mordecai heller #rocky rickaby #calvin mcmurray #ivy pepper #rose heller #esther heller #atlas may #viktor vasko #mitzi may #1920s #cats #movie #film #animation #pilot #prohibition #gangsters #vikdecai

[daisymaycries]

I’m sorry I made fun of Atlas, Jellybeans, that was uncalled for from me. RIP king 🌎

Now then: this is the last meme of my backlog! 🙀 Time to scramble up sone more!

#lackadaisy #lackadaisy cats #lackadaisy memes #lackamemey #daily meme #rocky rickaby #freckle mcmurray #ivy pepper #mitzi may #dorian zibowski #sedgewick sable #viktor vasko #mordecai heller #serafine savoy #nicodeme savoy #lackadaisy animation #lackadaisy pilot #atlas may #area 51 #alienstock but it’s lackadaisy #i know area 51 was a while ago but aliens #👽👽👽

[mechanicalchickens]

I know this is. a basic observation. but the way everything gets warmer when Mitzi and Atlas enter the scene, the same moment rocky is given a place where he kinda belongs

Atlas however, remains in cool and desaturated colors... definitely a flashback filtered through Rocky's memories

#lackadaisy #atlas may #mitzi may #rocky rickaby #lackadaisy cats #animation #season 1 trailer came out! the backerkit 's already hit 400k so i think we'll be able to get a full season funded! super hyped #posting

[mousewithabowtie]

been trying to pin down a specific time period for Mordecai meeting Atlas and I think I can pretty confidently say the flashback in Posthaste-Redivivo takes place in mid September 1920!

According to Tracy, the headline on the newspaper the guy sitting in front of Mordecai is reading refers to something that happened in September 1920 (source). The headline seems to be referring to the Wall Street Bombing (occurred on September 16, 1920).

And Atlas' newspaper takes a headline straight out of the Chicago Daily Tribune, September 16, 1920 (source)

#mordecai heller #atlas may #lackadaisy #the attention to detail in this comic is INSANE

[melffen]

Since this trend has been popping up in my fyp for a while, I thought I'd make a Lackadaisy version!

Now, what movie are they going to watch?

I tried to make this as in character as possible.

Well- except Atlas and Asa but that's because their entire personalities had been formed in my head purely through headcanons!

#lackadaisy #tracy g. butler #lackadaisy pilot #atlas may #calvin mcmurray #mordecai heller #viktor vasko #ivy pepper #rocky rickbaby #mrs. babpka #dorian zibowski #mitzi may #asa sweet #nico savoy #serafine savoy #horatio bruno #lacy hardt #sedgewick sable #barbie #oppenheimer

[sleuth-hounds]

She's so pretty 🥰

#mitzi may #atlas may #lackadaisy

[lackaroses]

🌹Atlas Moodboard🥀

🌹Requests are open🥀

#lackadaisy #lackadaisy cats #lackadaisy comic #lackadaisy blog #lackadiasy moodboard #atlas may #lackadaisy atlas #Lackadaisy atlas may #Atlas lackadaisy #tracy j butler

[lackingdaisies]

red right hand

miiiight’ve been listening to too much nick cave lately

#mordecai heller #atlas may #lackadaisy #lackadaisy cats #tfw ur Artistic Vision is severely limited by ur actual Artistic Skill #i drew the thing

[lackadaisycats]

Does Atlas have any drawings of him in color? I always assumed he was a dark orange but I can’t seem to find any pictures of him not in black in white oop-

Yes. In fact, I recently posted a preview for Patrons to that effect. I doubt it'd contain any vast revelations for anyone, though. His color palette is not much different from the toned impressions of him that appear in Volume 2 of the comic.

#lackadaisy #lackadaisycats #atlas may

[lunmiar]

That awkward moment moment when a rando on a train gives you a gun to to kill the guys chasing you but now you're indebted to him

#my art #artists on tumblr #digital art #lackadaisy #lackadaisy fanart #lackadaisy mordecai #mordecai heller #lackadaisy atlas #atlas may #i think about this scenerio a lot

[lordofdestructionm]

The not so subtle sentimentality of Mordecai Heller

With the Lackadaisy Short Film  teaser trailer hitting over 800K views one line from Serafine got me thinking about a side of Mordecai that is not often discussed but is crucial to his character and may play a key part in the comics story before the end

Though it is easy for both other characters in the story and readers to see Mordecai as just a cold killer that cares more about stains on his shirt than ending multiple lives in grizzly ways (and that is true for anyone who makes the mistake of getting in the way of him completing his work) a closer look reveals that, while reserved for a short list of people, there is a strong streak of sentimentality hidden behind the buttoned down aloof professional persona he tries so hard to maintain

His Mother and Sisters

Mordecai was dealt a very bad starting hand in life. With his father dying when he and his sisters were still very young, despite his loving and hard working mother doing her best to provide for them, the family lived in poverty in the slums of New York

As a result Mordecai has to start working at a very early age and being naturally gifted with numbers he becomes a book keeper and soon enough gets drawn into running the numbers for gambling and loan sharking gangs.

All of this was done to try and make life better for his mother and his sisters. In a flashback to when he was on the run from the criminals he had been working for after being caught embezzling funds from them, his life is in danger and he needs to get out of town in a hurry and so jumps on a train in either 1920 or 1921.

Despite this he fixates on writing a letter to send to his mother in which he explains the location of his ill gotten savings and urges her to move with his sisters to cleaner better ventilated housing.

Because the money wasn’t primarily for his benefit

Mordecai clearly loved his sisters very much and they could break him out of his reserved bookish demeanor. We can see even as an adult Modecai holds the memory of his childhood with his sisters, impoverished and hard though it clearly was, very close. Close enough that thinking about them are enough to bring out his very small but very genuine smile that could not be further away from his “ice pick look”.

Atlas

The next imporant relationship in his life is with Atlas May. When on that getaway train he soon realized that cut throats from his former employers are already in the carriage waiting for their moment to pounce

Mordecai is 100% certain that he is about to get a bullet to the head and the tunnel will provide the hitmen with the perfect cover as the darkness and noise descends.

Only for a ray of light to suddenly appear

Atlas gave Mordecai the means to survive, not just by literally giving him what he needed to escape his would be murderers, but by employing him and providing a new purpose when he had nowhere else to go and no idea what to do.

Atlas being dead by the time of the main story, by design we know very little about his personality and relationships with others except for what the people who knew him have to say.

But is is very clear that Mordecai felt a deep loyalty to Atlas. It may even be speculated that he became a surrogate father figure for him, having lost his own father so young and having been moulded while working for him from the scared youth in shabby second hand clothes to a dapper professional bookkeeping bootlegger

This loyalty has not ended with Atlas’s death. He is determined to get to the bottom of the mystery of his murder. This is despite the fact it would be a much smarter move by far for the sake of both professionalism and survival to let dead former employers lie and simply carry out his new role with the Marigold gang no questions asked

Instead it is clear the entire reason he has abandoned The Lackadaisy is not, as Mitzi and the rest think, cold self interest but so he can investigate if the rival gang had any role in his mentors death

Even discussing the topic causes his cold passive exterior to crack and makes him look broken and overwhelmed

Viktor  (You knew this was coming)

As anyone who has followed this account will know this is one of my (and many other fans) favourite dynamics in the series

At fist it seems there is little reason for these two to have any kind of bond. Mordecai is pretty much obsessed with good grooming, high quality tailoring, correct grammar, and tends to go on one-sided rambles when perturbed.

 This clashes hard with the surly Slovak who is often unshaven, relatively casual in his attire, speaks a broken English, and hates people chattering or “noise, noise, noise” as he calls it. Indeed the two often bicker and act as if they can’t stand the other

However for whatever reason, in spite of these big differences, the big bruiser mechanic and the fussy nerdy sharp shooter are able to work very well together and soon become key weapons in Atlas’s arsenal

And in spite of their differences there is evidence, that over the course of the roughly six years they were working together before their bosses death, that these two extremely anti-social personalities actually began to form an unlikely rapport

On the one known occasion when Mordecai actually drank strong alcohol, and predictably got hilariously drunk, one of his chosen topics of conversation is his “friend” Viktor and how “great” he is (including a possibly telling comment about his large physique *cough*)

Mordecai also, despite being the type of person who you would assume would just radiate Scrooge energy, makes a point of buying Viktor a Christmas/hanukka present. Though he keeps up appearances by presenting it as another criticism of Viktor’s fashion sense

Tellingly Viktor voluntarily wears the tie for the rest of the day, something only Ivy (someone Viktor treats as a surrogate daughter) is able to get away with as well.

The two also not only work well together in a professional capacity, but seem to truly look out for each others welfare when on the job. Not only does Mordecai save Viktor from being shot while distracted, Viktor then goes out of his way to retrieve Mordecai’s pince-nez from the staircase of a burning building

While a hilarious moment as Mordecai fails to react in the “correct” way to having just survived a bloody shoot out, it also sums up his entire attitude to people, that he separates the world into those who count and those who don’t. The former are a short list

Viktor, along with the others on here, counts for Mordecai

This is made clear at his chat with Mitzi at the lunch meeting.

Mordecai may have kneecapped Viktor when he left the Lackadaisy gang, but from what we know now this was clearly an attempt to get Viktor out of harms way by forcing him to retire from bootlegging, and quite possibly to avoid Marigold putting him in a position where he would have to fight Viktor if he was told to finish off the failing speakeasy. Something he could hardly refuse if he wanted to keep investigating Atlas’s death

Mitzi seems to know Viktor is a chink in Mordecai’s armour, and of course exploits that to the fullest. When she informs him that his theft of the Lackadaisy arsenal put Viktors life in danger Mordecai’s face makes less than neutral expression

As Mitzi keeps twisting that screw Mordecai knows he is in danger of giving something away and with Asa right next to him he needs to restore his barriers.

In this case quite literally using a menu to cover his face to ensure he doesn’t slip up again

It seem to work as Asa laughs of the idea of Mordecai having a heart beneath the cold exterior (something we know is a big mistake)

Even when the attention is off him and the topic of conversation moves on his gaze remains firmly fixed down at the table.

Until Atlas lets slip some crucial information about Atlas’s last days. So much for there being “no heartstrings to tug on”

I am sure the Lackadaisy Animated Movie is going to be amazing and hopefully will only lead to ever more popularity and attention for this amazing world and its characters

#lackadaisy #lackadaisycats #tracy j butler #mordecai heller #viktor vasko #vikdecai #viktor x mordecai #asa sweet #zippy heller #rose heller #esther heller #atlas may #mitzi may #1920s #cats #calvin mcmurray #rocky rickaby #ivy pepper

[eggman91]

I just want to see all the Lackadaisy characters finding this picture and reacting to it when atlas was alive

#lackadaisy cats #lackadaisy #atlas may

[mechanicalchickens]

mitzi's pearl necklace as a microcosm for this whole mess....

it's a symbol of her life with Atlas and her relationship with him -- she sees it as a way that Atlas made her a 'a lady', made her feel like she wasn't 'tawdry' (note how easily she slips into reminiscing about the memories linked to it, even to Zib, who knows the story). Atlas probably purchased it with blood money. Once the necklace snaps, it's basically impossible to put it back together without covering yourself in gutter dirt, but she can't bring herself to let go. She eventually gets the physical symbol of the memories back(rethreading the necklace), but it's a hollow victory. It won't bring back Atlas, and it comes at the cost of collateral damage (rip virgil) and alienating Zib.

Mitzi, you can't go back! you can fight and scratch and claw but you can never go back! What you are searching for is not something that can be put back together. girl, you are looking back, and you are getting lost.

#lackadaisy #lackadaisy cats #mitzi may #atlas may #lackadaisy meta #Lackadaisy spoilers #'i can put it back together'. i get the feeling you aren't just talking about the necklace. #tracy really said the themes out loud with this whole sequence #sometimes the sidepiece isn't a guy. sometimes it's the idealized image of a past you can never return to & yr husband's metaphorical ghost #sometimes i think too much about mitzi and i disintegrate. i think she has good odds of surviving- but the journey. the journey wont be fun #absolutely steeped in tragedy she is. #posting

[kfrances]

@lackadaisycats yeah i don't even remember why this happened

#it was like 12 am for me. i dont know. #lackadaisy mitzi may #atlas may #peru alien remains #this is an old meme now

[melffen]

I did more of the somethings for my own amusement, here now:

Feed

#silly images for silly people #I have more of 'em but It only lets me show 10 per post #lackadaisy #viktor vasko #vikdecai #mordecai heller #lackadaisy pilot #tracy g. butler #viktor x mordecai #atlas may #asa sweet #ivy pepper #serafine savoy #nico savoy #frepper #calvin mcmurray #horatio bruno #I LOVE VIKTOR SOOO MUCH #LITERALLY MY FAV

[speakeasyaoi]

Atlas May x F!Reader

> Requested by @yourfavoritemexicanenby | Finally out of my writer's block! (Fanfare sound effect)

PROMPT: N/A

IMPORTANT DETAILS: Atlas is not in an established relationship with Mitzi.

Similar to his young protoge, Mordecai Heller, Atlas is a very quiet and reserved partner, but as opposed to him, he's very openly loving in spite of that. He's no stranger to showering you with love, he just prefers to do it in ways he finds to be more meaningful and intimate, like gift giving, acts of service, and physical affection. When he does voice his love, though, he's rather suave and poetic about it.

And on the topic of gift giving, it's a given that Atlas can and will spoil you. His earnings are pretty evenly distributed between adorning you with all sorts of jewels, silver and shiny things, and taking you out on expensive, classy dates. He takes pride in making you happy, as well as that added benefit of getting to see you all dolled up, and getting to have you on his arm to show off out in public.

He likes having you rest your head on his lap or lean on his shoulder while he's reading a book or the paper. It's a simple, everyday comfort for him; just something nice to help him unwind.

During and after the Lackadaisy's open hours, he loves taking you out onto the open floor and dancing with you. He's slow and intimate with it, and whispers where you're meant to put your feet, your body and your hands to the steps of the song. It's the farthest he probably goes in terms of PDA, but even then, he's more focused on you than he is on the crowd surrounding you both.

He's not big on petnames or terms of endearment, but he opts towards things like 'darling' and 'dear heart'.

I like to think he does the thing where he takes your hand in his and kisses your knuckles...yeah. ♡

Other notes: This ones a lot shorter than most just because A) I wanted to get something out since it's been a while and B) it was difficult to come up with anything from here because there's so little out about Atlas (personality-wise, at least)

There are also a few similarities between Mordecai and Atlas' headcanons I noticed, which spawned the idea of Mordecai getting his view of romance and partnership from spending so much time around Atlas

#lackadaisy #lackadaisy x reader #lackadaisy cats #lackadaisy comic #lackadaisy x f reader #lackadaisy x f!reader #atlas may x reader #atlas may x f!reader #atlas may