By way of background, Lucas moved in with Cyril and Michelle in the 90s as a sort of third wheel/roommate after failing to graduate from high school. It was Lucas's entry to adult life, his first time away from his mother's teat, and it did not end well. Soon, Lucas would beg his family to "come home." Shortly after he would be involuntarily hospitalized for the first time.
Cyril was the oldest of the three, and had the best paying job. Lucas admits to be intensely jealous of Cyril's income. Moreover, Lucas was outraged that he had to pair an equal portion of the bills. He intuitively felt that because Cyril made more money, Cyril ought to pay more of the bills. Lucas hated paying his bills.
He afforded a better life. All my money went to him. My "rent" supported his lavishness while I had very little food or any fun stuff. I couldn't save any money. I didn't have anything left over from my meager paychecks after paying him. Sometimes I went days without anything to eat. He didn't seem to care as long as he was happy. His greed showed me what a selfish person he really was. He still acts like he's better than I am. How was I supposed to improve my station in life? I worked minimum wage. He had a better job. He didn't care. It was his world. I was just living in it...
...He has never understood my money woes. He could have easily picked up the tab for Michelle with his higher paying job...
Lucas was even more jealous of Cyril's social aptitude. Cyril, rather than being some debonair player, was just an average guy.
Anyway, one of Lucas's more amusing reoccurring themes is that other men should "hook him up" with baes or give him phone numbers. Other men know where the women are at, and how to reach them; they must share. We can trace this strange demand to Cyril. Lucas believed that Cyril had the secret to getting a girl friend:
I did my best to pay attention to what he was saying because he seemed so cool and confident to me at the time. I thought by watching his lead he could help me meet women. He had girlfriends and these neat things I had never seen before. But that's all they really were to me. Things. Collectibles.... I kept hanging around with him because I thought maybe he would help me talk to girls. Maybe he would let me in on his secret and I would become popular with the ladies by watching him.
In fact, echoing Lucas's later demands of his sex, Cyril was obligated to provide Lucas a girl friend:
I used to always hope Cyril would have introduced me to all girls he has been friends with. But he never has gone out of his way like that for me or has once taken a chance to help me out, even though he knows plenty of women. He's never hooked me up is what I'm saying. I always thought this was a strange thing for him not to have ever done. Then it dawned on me. Aside from Justin, the others - Bryan Keogh, Patrick O'Connor, myself, all his "little buddies" have had trouble meeting women and talking to women. Cyril has side-kicked his "buddies" so he could look more charming because we were so shy. I know he has talked behind Bryan's back and Patrick's back and told people they were gay when they weren't, just so they would never get a chance to meet his women friends and steal his potential fallback partners. I always thought it was fishy that we never have gone out bar hopping together and he's had girlfriends. How many people has he run this game on? Is it just us? Or has it been every younger male friend he has ever lured in and established a trust with? This seems more likely to me. Cyril established a trust some of us thought was iron clad. A trust Cyril has abandoned time and time again.
This quote from Lucas is quite revealing. Lucas believes that Cyril's social success is attributable to tearing down other men. To the extent that Lucas seeks reproductive success by emulating Cyrus, this may explain some of his later behaviors. Lucas also assumes that all the women Cyril knows are "potential fall back partners," and that Cyril is deliberately keeping them to himself because he expects other men to "steal" them. Lucas takes for granted that men try to steal other men's girl friends. We are left with the impression that Lucas considers all women to be potential sexual partners, and that other men do to, and that all men struggle to limit their rival's access to women. Perhaps this was because Lucas was trying to steal Michelle from Cyrus:
I remember Michelle coming home before Cyril and we both just needed to take our minds off work and hang out. We played games, visited. It was cool for a little while. But then Cyril started getting jealous...
I think he felt like I was becoming too close to Michelle. We were all friends. I wasn't going to try anything. But he appeared jealous for some reason. I never so much as made eye contact with Michelle at some points because that was Cyril's girl and he was my friend and I didn't want him to feel jealous anymore or think I was going to hit on his girl...
...I liked Michelle at one point. She was nice to me at one time...
Recall that Lucas has put the world on notice that if you have a girl friend, Lucas can and will steal her; and you will not be allowed to speak to his.
As I already noted, Lucas attributed Cyril's success with the ladies to his habit of mistreating Lucas and other "younger guys":
Thanks Cyril. I want you to know that you're the fakest friend I've ever had. You're a pussy assed bitch. You're insecure. You use younger guys to get women into bed with you. This makes you the biggest tool on the planet as far as I'm concerned.
Lucas also engaged in a bit of projection:
Cyril is insecure and hates competition to the extent that he will befriend younger guys with the express purpose of talking shit behind their backs so he looks like the hero.
It's established that Lucas cannot abide a woman he is interested in (presumably all female from 16-24, or perhaps 11-24) talking to another man at all.