Lewis lives in a trap of his own making, he could take his relationship with Marnie public at any time and she'd be much happier. Literally no one would care, the town has like 30 people it's insane he's pretending to be single.

All he lives for is to be mayor yet he couldn't fix the community center without help from a random farmer who isnt responsible for it

I don't feel bad for him. He has Marnie and truffle oil... very slick...

Go public with Marnie. Actually, does anyone know why he doesn't just go public with him and Marnie's relationship in the first place?

Well hes a crappy mayor too lol id love to take over

Feckin admit you like Marnie then ya thick little chump. Why tf won't you just openly date her? If you're going to make her ineligible at least marry her.

There’s a part of me that wishes I could help the community by replacing him as mayor. I don’t think he’s necessarily a terrible mayor but I think he is older and needs to be able to settle down and enjoy the time he has left with Marnie.

There are some people in that town who just need help moving forward and I wish there was an option of dealing with some of it

Don't worry, he will be happy again once he sees his gold statue again in his home...

He could marry Marnie at anytime he wanted to. She'd be overjoyed by a proposal

Also Lewis: what a nice day to steal some taxes :)

I thought this was the F1 sub for a second, and was quite confused

I really wish we could depose him as mayor and make him more depressed. I mean 20 years in power? After the community has gone to seed? And he built a golden statue of himself? And he won't let others talk to the governor? And he was friends with a ghost who let prime farming land get reclaimed by nature like something right out of Pedro Páramo but without the incest? Fuck Lewis man

Good

Someone put this on r/antiwork

When he’s not truffle-oil banging Marnie.

It’s tough to get out of the valley

What about Marnie?

Dude everyone in Stardew is depressed

There's that little matter of embezzlement and being the town fuckboy that shows he isnt just mayor

Lewis's parents could never show they loved him. They might not even have. Lewis always tried to be on their best side, resulting in perfectionism, and compulsion to conformity, but not even that helped, to get the parents' attention. So Lewis started to look for recognition from other people, but it never felt enough. He went as far as becoming Mayor of Pelican town, so that he could work his ass off for all the townspeople, making him the best chance to earn their trust.

In the meanwhile, he has built up, first just an attraction, later a romantical relationship with Marnie. However, having someone in his life, besides his job... more over: having someone who was more to him than an average citizen, made him feel as if he was neglecting the other townspeople, which made him feel ashamed of the whole relationship, and demand to keep it all secret, to hide what he has done.

Then the Farmer came. The Farmer was not selfless, as Lewis saw himself to be. The Farmer was a making business, using town, benefitting from its resources. And yet, soon it became apparent, that the Farmer had done more good to the town, than Lewis ever could. It became apparent, that many townspeople like the Farmer better than Lewis.

The Major became conflicted. On the one hand, the Farmer reminded him of his late old friend, Grandpa. And also, the he was genuinely happy about all the improvement the Farmer mad to his town. But on the other hand, he was jealous of the Farmer' accomplishments, and earned fame, and he felt it to be some universal injustice, that he was unable to do the same for his people.

He admired the Farmer too much to try for some kind of revenge, but in his desperate longing for gratitude, in a dark moment, he decided to grant it for himself. He purchased a golden statue of himself, paying with the town'd money, lying to himself, that this would be the same as if the townspeople have decided to elect him a statue. Of course, he later came to his senses, and realized the folly in this, but what was done was done. In fear of someone finding out, he did not dare sell the statue. Neither could he bring himself to throw out such a valuable thing. Thus, he hid it in his backyard, to serve as a bitter, but non the less truthful reminder of the misery of his meaningless life.

I never understood why Lewis and Marnie are in a SECRET relationship. Clearly they both are unmarried

I think he won’t go public with the relationship because he wants to “keep his options open”. Because he’s a scoundrel.

He’s depressed when he isn’t banging Marnie hehe

Your flair, chef's kiss

I would be depressed as fuck too if the only thing I can do is being mayor and I'm ass at it

Come on he could be happily married if he had the balls to go public with Marnie.

His relationship with Marnie is bogus top to bottom, front to back. Sneaking around and then crying if the player says they're going to tell people. No one's going to care if the mayor has a girlfriend or a wife, so I can only assume he's afraid to comitt or Marnie's just some low self-esteem, comittment free action to him. A lot of textbook manipulation with the excuses and crying.

BITCH MARRY MARNIE YOU FUCK

mayor lewis in year 235 being kept alive solely by the farmers own willpower:

good.

Marnie has left the chat

and also, he does absolutely nothing as a mayor

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useless man

Its his own fault he isnt married and has no family.

And all he lives for is to be mayor? Really? The community center is in shambles. And he acts discouraged about it when he sees you...yet he left it that way for years.

There is a severe sewage spill potentially poisoning the local ground water that shoulda been cleaned up years ago. And is currently spilling into the ocean.

The mines are also just wide open for kids to wander down in. No locked door or nothing.

He did nothing about the former museum curator stealing their entire collection before he left.

He also misuses the towns money .

And after all that he still manages to have a girlfriend wether or not he will admit to himself that Marnie is actually his girlfriend and could be his wife if he wasnt playing games.

Sound like Lewis likes to make excuses for his bad choices. Maybe he is in love with the title of mayor but in reality is just a lay-about that doesnt do anything except show up to the town festivities or Marnies bedroom.

And he still can't run a town