But my favorite lie he told was when he pretended to go back home and Mommy was overjoyed to see him, and her boyfriend was in the car. And she said how much she loved her trans-daughter and bought her an entire pizza. So mundane when you get down to it but this is what passes for a good time with Taters.
The most normal sounding relationship moment that Phil ever described...and in reality all that happened was him going to his mother, begging for money, and then punching her.
It's like he understands on some basic level what a normal, healthy relationship should appear as...and he
actively rejects it. Sure it doesn't sound like he had the best home life and we'll never know the mother's side of the story, but like how you can easily identify him from his dumb-ass retard face and eyes in a picture, the idea of him
willingly doing something normal people would do gives him away.
Richard is the physical embodiment of self-sabotage.
I think in his case, his obsession with guns is a power thing. He’s utterly powerless, unable to best other people on any level. He wants to be feared and respected, and he sees a gun as the way to get that. Which is a very male way of thinking.
His sexual overcompensating comes in the form of his pretended kinkiness. In reality. I think he’s effectively asexual. He has the mind of a child, and as such, sex is not really something he comprehends. I think his fondness for posting nudes was part of that - sexual expression from an undeveloped sexuality.
Not just guns, either - I'm pretty sure he had some kind of decorated baseball bat for home defense. But yeah, it's all a power thing, much the same way OPL goes around claiming to be Reborn Tranny Jesus to herald in the plot of
Fringe. It's the short term way of getting self-gratification to make up for what these losers know is missing in their lives, but are unwilling to actually put in real effort to improve their lives.
Hopefully he wouldn't try to "go on a spree" if he ever did get one.
He literally is incapable of self-harm. He tried to self-cut like some edgy emo kid from the 2000s...he got as far as red skin welts that likely were gone in four hours.
My understanding of Taters is that his preferred form of transportation has always been bicycle but he can’t even ride that. He went and bought his “daughter bike” a few years back and hasn’t ridden it once.
He's obsessed with bicycles for whatever reason, but AFAIK normally he has to ride shitty public bus transit.