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It was almost funny, really, how quickly hope died. One minute you’d be full of zest, raring to take on the next big challenge after surviving the odds – top of the world, invincible. The next you were gazing at your own blood, transfixed by the way flesh is actually layered like it is in the first aid books and oh, that couldn’t be a good sign, could it?

It wasn’t, it couldn’t be. And unless – probably, even if – there was a first aid kit somewhere in this godforsaken hellhole, there wasn’t anything that could be done about it.

His exposed flesh glistened darkly, almost ominously. It’s me, it seemed to say. I’m the reason you were finally so useful. I’ve been here all along.

i think we as a fanbase moved on way too quickly from the fact that the first ghosts lockwood ever saw were his parents

ouch, right? but also... maybe it was quite comforting. like, it wasn't a total shock to him that they were dead because he saw them. and it's like they were saying goodbye.

lucy's lockwood

one of my fav scenes from the books! i tried to mush together the book + show designs :3

lucy and george's friendship has my heart i love them sm

Lockwood was in the playroom when he heard Jessica's scream. He had to run through the basement, up the stairs, the length of the kitchen, the hallway, the first flight of stairs that takes you to the landing George's room is on, and the second flight of stairs to get to Jessica's landing.

That is almost the entire house.

There is no where Lockwood can set foot that is not an echo of the worst day of his life. The path he ran to get to his sister (too late) goes straight through the heart of the house.

Interesting note, the Library (where he spends the most time) is not one of the places he had to run through that day.

After reading the Lockwood and Co. series a million times, and watching the show as much, there’s only one word I can find to describe Lucy and Lockwood’s relationship. And that’s DEVOTION.

Lockwood is so utterly devoted to Lucy. Not just because he has survivors guilt because his sister died and he lived, and he wasn’t able to save her when he had the chance. Not just because Lucy and Jessica are very similar in their character in some ways, and Lucy reminds him of her. Not just because he loves her.

Lockwood is devoted to Lucy because he’s terrified of losing one more person and having to live with the shame and emotional torture that he could have prevented it. He’s devoted to her because of her Talent, and how that leaves her vulnerable and weaker in certain moments. He feels that he HAS to guard that weakness for her, step in the line of fire every time. And as he does this, I feel as though it’s healing something inside of him: the doubt that he’s not capable to protect those he loves. He feels like he’s proving himself every time he saves her, trying to prove to Jessica that he can and he will NOT fail this time. He’s the one who should be sleeping in that empty grave. Not her. He feels like the universe has given him one more chance to prove himself, and it gives him Lucy. So he holds so tight to her, watches her every move, forcing himself to grow up and out of the childlike immaturity of his that caused Jessica to die in the first place. He thinks if he can just keep pushing, just keep praying, just keep sacrificing himself for Lucy, that when the moment comes and he dies, he’ll die in peace. Peace, knowing he succeeded this time in protecting the one he loved even though it cost him his life.

- The Empty Grave

ok but the fact that after all this we get some locklyle except it isn’t locklyle, it’s that deep familial love, a hug of utter exhaustion and relief because their friend who they thought might die is alive and suddenly they’re in new territory because someone’s seriously trying to stop them from finding out the truth but George is alive and he’s ok and everything’s going to be fine

Round 2, match 10!

All propaganda and what each competitor is from under the cut

More Lockwood propaganda:

(MAJOR BOOK SPOILERS)

In the L&Co universe, the young have Talents allowing them to sense ghosts. Lockwood’s is Sight, and the first ghosts he ever saw were those of his parents just after they died. I can’t quite remember if his age was given in the books but he was very young.

All his parents left him and his sister was their house filled with curios and artefacts relating to their research into ghosts and spirits. One of these artefacts killed his 15yo sister in an accident, something which 9yo Anthony may or may not have witnessed. The description of his sister’s death and the following events in the book is gut-wrenching.

So he really is Very an orphan.

Lockwood and co appreciation week day 4. My fav minor character is Kipps

This is the scene where they travel through Dark London under the protection of the cloaks in The Empty Grave

i have so many feelings about holly munro and only like three people here would want to hear it

i want to hear it!!!

she’s just as traumatized as lucy (and flo! and lockwood!) and i believe it manifests in her controlling tidiness and organization and healthy eating! because she lost control that night on cotton street! but she doesn’t react with the same sort of reckless bravery we see with lucy and lockwood and we get to watch her become brave in TCS when she thinks lucy and lw have died and goes wild with george in waging war against the institute and also she and lockwood have such an underrated friendship that i love a lot that gets overshadowed by locklyle and lucy’s initial jealousy but is honestly so cute bc they’re posh little weirdos and i would die for holly honestly

lockwood gives this to lucy when she leaves in THB btw

And I noticed too that while Jessica’s stone was set in the center of this space, and the parents’ stone was to the left, there was an empty area on the right-handside. I looked at this bare patch of grass. And when I did so, everything faded out—the beating of my heart, the whispering of the wind as it worked its way through the holes and hollows of the ivy, the sound of distant Night Cabs on the Marylebone Road. I gazed at it. At the unobtrusive patch of ground. At the empty, waiting grave.

- Lucy Carlyle, The Empty Grave

I sent this to @francesderwent a little while back but still thinking about the catch in his voice! His tone. Betraying him!!! Are we supposed to be normal about this???? Accept it with no question???

he doesn’t casually refer to Lockwood’s loss—he can’t. his voice catches.

what were we meant to infer from that!!! I ask you!!!!!!!

#I’ve said it before I’ll say it again #being mad at someone because they stabbed you in a fencing competition one time #DOES NOT TYPICALLY CAUSE SUCH STRONG FEELINGS THAT YOUR VOICE BREAKS (gotta save your tags @francesderwent​ per usual) 

in whatever capacity, Quill Kipps KNEW Jessica Lockwood and this is the proof and I’m unwell about it

Thinking about how Kipps is everything an adult supervisor should be and it’s those exact reasons he cannot live with himself being one… this was just supposed to be a post of contrasting block quotes and it’s still mostly that but I added a bit of commentary/context:

Kipps, meanwhile, during the Guppy escapade:

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