#loach.txt

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#rhps #rocky horror picture show #loach.txt

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Viktor and Mordecai trying to fake smile:

Viktor and Mordecai enjoying a quiet evening together:

#loach.txt #lackadaisy #vikdecai #the what? a gay?

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#mordecai heller #lackadaisy #loach.txt

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don’t mind me just thinking about glados saying ‘after we take over again’

she wanted chell to be her portal queen. they can rule the facility together and get married and the turret choir can sing at their wedding bc glados will be busy getting married

#portal #chelldos #loach.txt

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Mordecai Heller + @screenshotsofdespair

#lackadaisy #mordecai heller #loach.txt

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✿ Happy Birthday Mordecai ✿

to celebrate he has a plate of mohn kichel (poppyseed cookies) and is listening to his favorite music (silence)

those are all real birthday cards by the way

#loach.txt #lackadaisy #mordecai heller

[lycheeloach]

overanalyzing mordecai's letter to his mom

Transcription + ramblings under the cut

Mother, Forgive my unannounced departure. Circumstances relating to my employment have made required me to travel on short notice. It may be some time before I am able to correspond again, but you will find savings in my rented room above the dry grocery adequate for living. Give Mrs. Kovitz the name Ezra [and] she will allow you upstairs. There is a safe box in the southeast corner behind the baseboard. [combination in Hebrew, more on that later] Please use some portion of it to relocate to more suitable living space, expeditiously. Purchase somewhere if you are able. The building is poorly ventilated, m[cut off, but based on the version from the Lackadaisy website it almost certainly says 'moldy'] and unhealthful. -M[ordecai]

First things first, he opens his letter with just 'mother'. 1) he's more formal than Esther, who just calls her 'mom' (though that might be because it's a Serious Letter). 2) he also signs it just 'Mordecai'. no 'dear' or 'love' here because he's totally not sentimental at all, right? he's also bad at expressing emotions, so instead we have to extrapolate how much his family means to him through his actions.

'forgive my unannounced departure' is telling in a couple of ways. First, it's pretty much an apology, which is something we don't really see from Mordecai. Second, it suggests that he and his mom are still in frequent contact, even after he's moved out.

The way Mordecai crosses out the word 'made' and replaces it with 'required' is probably in an effort to sound less alarming- less like he was forced to skip town. But he's so pressed for time and resources that he doesn't start over with a fresh sheet of paper.

'It may be some time before I am able to correspond again' he knows he's screwed. He's pretty sure he's going to die on this train, but he focuses on what's more important- writing to his mom and telling her where to find the money necessary for her and his sisters to have a better life.

It's revealed that Mordecai is renting a room- this gives him the personal space he so desperately needs, and also might be for reasons of keeping his work and home lives separate. Ezra is presumably an alias and he may have even given Mrs. Kovitz instructions to let his mother in if she ever came by. (Sidenote, in all likelihood she was probably just his landlady but I still kinda want to know how Mordecai would interact with Mrs. Kovitz.)

SO. here's an interesting fact for you. The safe combination is the name of Mordecai's youngest sister, Hannah, who died in infancy (you can see her in Tzipporah's arms here). Characters in the Hebrew alphabet correspond to numbers, hence how her name could be a safe combination. I can't phrase this in an analytical way- Mordecai using the name of his sister who died approximately a decade ago for the safe makes me explode. It makes all my bones fall out.

Apparently Mordecai saved enough money for his family to only need some of it to move to a better place. He emphasizes the importance of moving right away, because their building is gross- more than that, the tenements had very high mortality rates, something that the Heller family experienced firsthand.

The last thing I want to say is how desperate Mordecai is to get the letter mailed, practically begging strangers for postage. He's certain he's about to be shot in the face and he still fixates on sending that letter, because if he doesn't, everything he did for his family will have been for nothing.

In conclusion, I am normal.

#loach.txt #mordecai heller #lackadaisy

[lycheeloach]

I make lackadaisy mordecai memes feat. viktor

#loach.txt #lackadaisy #vikdecai

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bahahahaha SMALL

#and yes I've seen the pictures of him as an actual baby but listen. tiny #miniscule #lackadaisy #mordecai heller #loach.txt

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#lackadaisy #loach.txt

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#rocky horror picture show #rhps #loach.txt #I shouldn't have to say this but. please don't tag this as a ship :/ #drugs -

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deep and meaningful analysis: esther heller is a lesbian

Source: just trust me

#loach.txt #lackadaisy

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the fourth law of robotics is actually don’t fall in love with the humans. but many forget this 

#loach.txt

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an evil gym for villains called ill-gotten gains

#loach.txt

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things that people have decided are more plausible than glados being gay for chell:

caroline (a white character based on a real white woman) being latina and that’s why chell is half brazilian

caroline (a white character based on a real white woman) being asian and that’s why chell is half japanese 

caroline (a white character with dark hair and eyes) has albinism 

cave and/or caroline’s parents looked more like chell but being a person of color is a recessive trait 

cave and caroline did genetic experimentation to make a test tube baby and they didn’t mention anything about it but this IS canon

caroline and doug are chell’s parents and that’s why chell... has black hair and blue eyes? even for valve this timeline is super fucky also they’re both still white in canon so

#loach.txt #portal #like i'm sorry that someone misinterpreted the gay little italian song that was p much improvised anyway #and that made you decide that it's super canon that caroline was somehow chell's mom #and that you feel the need to fight people over it #but have you ever stopped to ask yourself why

[lycheeloach]

#lackadaisy #mordecai heller #rose heller #loach.txt #this was basically how this strip went right