#🍒 A study in sleaze (headcanons and musings)

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// Here's a masterpost of Larry being VERY VERY VERY (unintentionally) autistic-coded. From his backstory in the Official Book of Leisure Suit Larry.

Like, yeah it was definitely not intentional coding and more done to drive the point home how "socially inept" and geeky Larry is, but I mean... Sad fact of the matter is that a lot of Nerdy Loser™️ stereotypes and characters, especially from the late 80s-early 90s when Larry 1 came out, are sorta built around neurodivergent traits and observations from the outside looking in.

And Larry struggling with a lot of the same things I do all his life and finally deciding to break out of his comfort zone and live and find love--even though it took a major traumatic life change for him to get to that point--is very poignant to me. It makes me hopeful.

I love Larry. ♡

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buddy, you need a union. Your bosses sound shady as fuck

(Truth serum: 2 / 5)

"A union ain't gonna do jack for me, buddy. My bosses....

My bosses have...everything on me. They know about me...they know about my family... My mom...

..my dad."

// this is from the plot outline of the cancelled "Larry 8: Lust In Space", you can read the entire synopsis on Larry creator Al Lowe's website! I consider it canon to my Larry's timeline since it was intended to come after Love For Sail and Casino.

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// i like larry being hotel california'd by his own casino. you can check out any time you like. you can never leave.

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LARRY EXISTS OUTSIDE OF TIME + SPACE HE IS NEITHER ALIVE NOR DEAD HE IS SCHRODINGER’S SLEAZE, SURPRISE!

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UH???? SURPRISINGLY PROGRESSIVE SAFE SEX DISCLAIMER FROM MR. LAWRENCE LAFFER IN 1991??? HOLY SHIT, KING???

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Updated the spiel about Larry's abilities on his bio. A lot of Larry's stuff has been a loooong process of thinking things up and out, so I have to periodically go back and elaborate on things. Both doc and on-blog bio page has been updated, but I'll post it here as well.

Larry’s got a few supernatural abilities, both from his little extraterrestrial incident years ago, and just by way of bein’ a Toon: Hammerspace - Larry can store items he’s come across and retrieve them again at a moment’s notice, regardless of the shape or size of said item. Semi-Invulnerability - Like regular invulnerability but slightly worse. High pain tolerance, and the ability to bounce right back from injuries that would land a regular human in the hospital. Squash-And-Stretch - Part of Larry’s enhanced durability comes from the fact that he’s got some very minor elastic qualities to him as a Toon. It’s not extreme and it’s also not voluntary, but it helps when he’s, say, thrown from a building..or a moving vehicle..or plane. He’s very throwable. Reloading - Larry exists permanently within a transitional state of existence. He is alive, but he is dead. He is dead, but he is alive. He isn’t a ghost or a zombie, he’s entirely corporeal and by all accounts alive and healthy, but his stint in space unlocked a latent ability to hop between planes of reality…apparently in a manner so traumatic, it partially ripped Larry from existence itself. If somehow Larry’s enhanced durability doesn’t bail him out and he does actually meet his demise… it doesn’t last very long. He’ll “wake up” moments later, good as new. Your muses will see this as a short, distorted “glitch” effect concentrated on Larry for a few seconds, in which he’ll disappear and reappear as he was before whatever caused his death. This isn’t exactly a “rewind” effect as it appears to be, though. Larry knows when he’s died, and remembers everything about it.

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// i'm watching a playthrough of larry 6 (the first voiced-acted larry game), and i feel like larry's little giggle after he introduces himself sounds much more like an involuntary vocal tic in that game than it does in 7, which is what I kinda headcanon it as being.

I have no idea how to extract the audio in 6 like I can in 7, though. 😔

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// ...dammit those pages on Larry 8 and Casino are gone. welp.

anyway, yeah. again, my larry's based heavily off of both a long-defunct and inaccessible online casino game, and the cancelled sequel it sort of tied into. here's a different page from big al himself outlining the proposed larry 8 (warning: it's--obviously--a bit raunchy), and the archived website for larry casino.

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// it's too hot to do anything, so here have this

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Larry is (obviously), overflowing with Rancid Takes, but I think he'd be chill as fuck with sex workers cause like, "Its the world's oldest profession, baby! Those gals work harder and make people happier in one night than a CEO ever will in his entire life!"

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👀 !

"Send 👀 for a headcanon about a behaviour my muse has that displays their thoughts and/or emotions!"

// This one's been brought up before, but Larry giggles when he's nervous.

The way he giggles when he introduces himself started off as a nervous tic he couldn't get rid of, and eventually decided to just roll with as part of his Whole Thing.

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𝟑-𝟓 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐒 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐄 𝐂𝐀𝐍 𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐁𝐄 𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐅𝐈𝐄𝐃 𝐁𝐘.

𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐎𝐑𝐒:

Electric Blue

Deep Pink

French Violet

Aquamarine

𝐒𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐒:

Cheap cologne, cheaper breath spray. A strong smell isn't necessarily a good smell, Larry

Sickeningly sweet, fruity cocktails. The added flavour never ends up dulling as much of the burn as you'd like

Sweat clinging to skin, the literal heat of passion. They never hold you as close as you truly want them to. You're too scared to ask

𝐅𝐀𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐎𝐍:

(Other than the obvious, of course)

Big collars and deep V's, cheap gold chains and watches that haven't worked for decades

"Funny" t-shirts with phrases on them that probably wouldn't be worn in public by anyone with an ounce of dignity

High-waisted bell bottoms, platform shoes, ascots, scarves, and other loose neck adornments

𝐎𝐁𝐉𝐄𝐂𝐓𝐒:

Playing cards with your face on them, years ago that was a dream to you, nowadays its anything but.

An engagement ring. Gold, real gold, not the cheap imitation you frequently adorn yourself with. You remember the day it was thrown back into your face. You say you don't know why you've kept it all this time, but that, like so many other things, is a lie you keep telling yourself.

Even though your watch broke so, so many years ago, you can't bring yourself to buy a new one.

𝐁𝐎𝐃𝐘 𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐔𝐀𝐆𝐄:

Fidgeting, always fidgeting, never still.

Finger guns, baby! Hip and casual. And sexy? (Hopefully)

Far too close, far too intimate, far too fast. Constantly feeling touch-starved

Nervous laughter, frightened laughter, laughing even through rage so deep you feel your heart might explode.

𝐀𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐒:

Rain-soaked streets lined with neon lights, images of show girls and martinis

A darkened cocktail lounge, you're tucked into the corner, several drinks in, trying to tune out the piano music that makes you far too nostalgic, makes you feel far too much.

Basking in the afterglow of an encounter with a yet another woman you know you'll never see again. You wrap your arms around yourself because she's far too invested in her cigarette to hold you.

Tagged by @crvptd! Whoever wants to yoink this can indeed yoink.

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What is your muse’s opinion on gossip? Do they ever gossip, encourage it, discourage it?

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// Oh god does he ever.

Larry's always enjoyed...not eavesdropping, per se, but people watching. He likes to know what makes people tick because he grew up feeling very Different from everybody else, not knowing why, and feeling very isolated because of it. (1950's undiagnosed 'tism rizz.)

For a good chunk of his life he was very shy and not nearly as outgoing, and approaching people (Especially women) for a conversation was terrifying to him, so he became content just sort of admiring from afar.

He's obviously come out of his shell since then, but he still does enjoy people watching...though nowadays it has crossed the line into eavesdropping, especially when it's a pretty gal he's set his sights on airing out her grievances. He's gotten very good at picking up on little things about people from just observing their behaviour and mannerisms.

Larry can be a bit spacey at times (No pun intended), but he's clever, and retains information very well, and he knows how to use that to use advantage. Usually in mundane, harmless ways (He's very good at puzzles, he can read through instructions or otherwise be taught how to do something once and then he's golden), but..... Well, I mean Leisure Suit Larry is infamously a game about solving women's problems in hopes they might sleep with you, and I won't ever say it isn't, so he does often try to use gossip and hearsay to his advantage in that respect.

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// I used to write Larry the way he's written in the games, and by that I mean with a semi-diagetic narrator doing exposition and commenting on things.

It's VERY fun to do, but it sorta reinforces that, in-universe, Larry is literally a video game character starring in his own games. I know that's the Canon way Sierra went about things, and it's fine by me! Valid way to spin it, but not what i'm going for.

I am open to it for goofs and asks/one-offs, and threads if its requested (Especially with other Sierra characters), because it is very fun writing the Narrator as well!! But default/mainverse/whatever, it should be assumed that Larry doesn't do any of that fourth-wall breaking stuff. He's not D.eadp.ool. (And I mean that in a loving way, W.ade is fun!)

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// spoilers? for bio update numero deux

i'm attempting to get the timeline a little more straight (arduous task for someone with Numbers Hard Disorder), and if i'm math-ing things out correctly there's approximately a 5-year long period in the 90's where larry is completely MIA. no contact, not a trace of him.

no wonder his nephew is so attached to him in magna cum laude, hangs on his every word.

he spent 5 whole years thinking he was dead.

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Does your muse pour milk before cereal or cereal before milk?Does your muse prefer to be in the company of others, or alone?

Cereal first, then milk. Sometimes the other way around, but usually only when he's really drunk or hungover.

Larry..does not like to be by himself for too long. He starts thinking when he's by himself. He gets introspective, and introspection is bad. He needs to be around people, he needs to be schmoozing, constantly distracted, or he'll start thinking about his life, every failure he's had, every love he's lost, everyone who's left him and everyone he's left.