315 – Transgender Mordecai
By admin on January 17th, 2016 [ Edit Post ]

Also known as Tragicomic Tom, Capt. Pickeral’s Malaise, I remember Kilroy, and Dr. Mabuse the Gambler, Transgender Mordecai is swarmlord of the Lost Digits, a lesser swarm that wanders the fringes of the Georgetown Fire Pits. Committed to Our Lady of the Lampshade Orphanage for, according to his admittance papers, “thwarted expectations,” Transgender Mordecai proved to be a perpetual thorn in the Head Orphanmaster’s side for demanding extra gruel and refusing to work regular shifts on the pencil-selling chain gang. He escaped through a heating duct in 1927, abandoning the life of an orphan for the life of an urchin. He is Reinhoffer-Ootz type #12B: Wrist Twister.

Although “barnacles” often use the terms interchangeably, urchins draw a sharp distinction between urchin and orphan, an urchin being a child of their own destiny and an orphan being a slave in a gilded cage. Some scholars liken the difference in connotation to that between housecat and alleycat.

*non-urchins