He loves the pose of the disaffected rich kid, because it allows him to claim association with a social group, while simultaneously remaining above it. Speaking of isaac, and his crowd of friends, Lucas says "They're poor, they came from low upbringing", a statement of such raw classism that one could easier picture it coming out of the mouth of an aristocrat, than a homeless man.
His arrogance is typified in a phrase that we've heard Lucas use over and over again, and I believe you, my dear amigo
@wenttobermuda , were the first one to point it out: "I'm here for...", or "I'm not here for..."
Examples:
"I'm not here for platonic relationships". "I'm not here for vague answers". "I'm here for love" etc, etc ad infinitum.
Another regular bit of the Werner vernacular is "largely". Largely is almost exclusively a means of generalization for Lucas: "you're largely socialist" "you're generation is largely generous", "you're largely liberal", etc.
"Largely" functions as a shortcut in Lucas's hyperbole; as we all know Lucas is entirely unable to see people as anything other than groups and categories, usually binary sets, which are diametrically opposed into good and bad: Liberals and conservatives, Republicans and democrats, communists and capitalists, gen Z and millennials, narcissistic and empathic, generous and GREEDY, bigoted and enlightened, homeless / virtuous, or "Rich" enough to own a car / necessarily classist, etc.
In the same way that there was a lot of interest in CWC's singular "CWCisms" such as china, pickles, tugboats, "among which", etc, I found myself personally fascinated by the unique slang of Lucas's dialogue.
I noticed some of his odd ways of expressing himself very early on; many were entirely new to me, such that I thought of them as being unique to Lucas, before I realized he was attempting to appropriate slang of the youth, and mispurposing it.
For example, he used to use the word "open" to indicate the start of a conversation, like "You open 'buddy' with me", meaning someone would come up to Lucas, and call him "buddy" as a means of getting his attention, something that he was vehemently opposed to, because at the time, one of his obsessions was how women had to refer to him exclusively using cutie-pie terms of endearment like "honey", "sweetie", and "baby", which he claimed all of the singles from 'Friends' consistently used with each other.
Along with "the girls with the thick thighs", which he would run together very quickly when he spoke it, as if he expected everyone to immediately recognize the group identity of this substrata of women, he used to recall his treasured blushing with the aforementioned "full blush face", which actually could be good or bad, as he used it back then.
He mentioned Suzanne going "full blush face" as she handed him the restraining order, discussed his own mother going "full blush face" as some sort of gestalt shorthand for her ignorance and naivete, and of course most commonly used the term when suggesting the sexual interest that a variety of young female strangers allegedly had for him, at various times.
I don't think Lucas has ever described a male as going "full blush face"; in his appellation, "full blush face" appears to be a body language unique to women.
I found the term to be so unique, almost like a clandestine code word, as if Lucas had created his own shibboleth that only he understood, and so it became one of the early aspects of his identity which made me more interested in devoting a likely unhealthy amount of time to laughing at him.
Anyhoo.
