In my head, Y originally was never meant to be anything more than just temporary help: an alternate bartender on nights when Ellis needed a break. And then there were a couple nights when someone wanted “company” to go along with their drink, and because he needed the money, Y obliged them and from there, things just spiraled out of control. He still plays substitute most of the time, though: filling in for Ellis or Paw when they want a break, playing errand boy and hiding in the back room until someone physically pulls him back out on the floor. Usually it’s Lucy, looking for a neck rub.
There’s a lot going on under the surface with Y. He goes through great lengths to keep his “real life” separate from his “work life” and tends to panic when they occasionally cross, like whenever Rollo T mentions that he’d like to visit him at work, or on the rare occasion when he runs into Stacey or Linkara up at school. He gets along with Benzaie because they’re sharing the same rung on the club’s social ladder, but Y purposefully keeps himself separate from Critic and Linkara because he feels they’re beneath him, somehow; even though it’s the same job, it’s as if he feels working directly for Michaud instead of Chick and Marz makes what he does for a living “better” than the other two. He’s intelligent and has a good sense of humor, but he’s also incredibly, increasingly tense around people and tends to think that because he recognizes what they’re doing is wrong, he’s “above” everyone else he works with. But most of all, I think he’s just very lonely.
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Date: 2011-10-08 02:56 am (UTC)There’s a lot going on under the surface with Y. He goes through great lengths to keep his “real life” separate from his “work life” and tends to panic when they occasionally cross, like whenever Rollo T mentions that he’d like to visit him at work, or on the rare occasion when he runs into Stacey or Linkara up at school. He gets along with Benzaie because they’re sharing the same rung on the club’s social ladder, but Y purposefully keeps himself separate from Critic and Linkara because he feels they’re beneath him, somehow; even though it’s the same job, it’s as if he feels working directly for Michaud instead of Chick and Marz makes what he does for a living “better” than the other two. He’s intelligent and has a good sense of humor, but he’s also incredibly, increasingly tense around people and tends to think that because he recognizes what they’re doing is wrong, he’s “above” everyone else he works with. But most of all, I think he’s just very lonely.