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I feel like we don’t talk about this enough:-

“And I couldn’t, I couldn’t Leave him. What would I be running for? What would I be running towards? A world where the prophecies of evil ghosts came true, where dark predictions were fulfilled, where a third headstone sat atop a newly turned grave in a long-abandoned cemetery. Where all my fears were realized and all light gone.

A world without him. I couldn’t run. “

Lucy describes a world without Lockwood as a world “ with all light gone”

- The Empty Grave

Here it is at last! My first (completed, lol) animatic!

(minor) SPOILER WARNING! Book 5: The Empty Grave spoilers!

If you're sad we never got to see the best of these characters from the Netflix series, go check out @savelockwoodandco and sign their petition! Happy ghost hunting, Locknation!

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

lucy pov vs audience pov

book spoilers ahead!!! mostly for TEG

sorry this post is long lol but it’s basically talking about scenes that weren’t necessarily covered due to where the POV is

so you know how with the Bickerstaff’s case, we don’t have a POV of lockwood fighting above ground bc lucy (and her POV) is downstairs with george, joplin, kipps and the bone glass

but when show comes to this plot point we (the audience) have a view of it because it’s more a third person/audience pov?

In TEG when L&Co. are back from the Other Side and emerge from the Fittes basement gate, they run into Sir Rupert Gale who engages them in a fight. Within that scene, L&Co. throw flares at the Fittes source columns causing said columns to break (releasing the ghosts/sources) and basically causing the room to fall upon itself. A particular pillar falls causing Lucy to separate from the group, and she ends up running away from the entrance because a ghost is in the way of her escape out with the others. The POV stays with her (as all the books are) so the only thing we see next is her confrontation with Marissa. It was absolutely thrilling and I wouldn’t change it for anything, butttttt…

and so not to sound like a broken record but with the show cancellation we were robbed (robbed!!) of viewing that scene as an audience!!! like can u imagine seeing the Fittes house part post column fall from an audience/ third person POV where we see

Lockwood + company (minus lucy) on the other side of the pillar!!!

l&co. fighting to survive the crumbling infrastructure + sir rupert gale + his men

them surviving then realizing lucy isn’t with them!! THE EMOTIONAL ANGST

lockwood going crazy in that cool calm collected way of his and getting to lucy upstairs

can u tell I’ve finished my TEG reread :(

The Creeping Shadow

The Empty Grave

*screaming soundlessly*

i . im so soooooooooooooooo normal about lockwood and co. Do not Speak to me. I HATE NETFLIX. . OK. normal.

Fun fact i have redrawn this FOUR TIMES since 2022. TWO YEARS!!!! AND I COULD NOT FINISH IT TIL NOW!

lockwood: *literally taking every possible opportunity to stare at lucy and being super open and trusting to her* lucy: is it cause we went to the other side???

#Lucy about to get married: what are we

@polithicc

#This is such teenage girl logic#lockwood: pls come back I can’t guarantee I’ll stay alive but I want to spend whatever time I have left with you#lucy: so do you like me or do you like-like me

@womaninwinter these are too good for the tags

you guys don’t understand what netflix has stolen from us. when i say i would do ANYTHING to see cameron and lucy act out the scene where lockwood and lucy are fighting marissa fittes in TEG and where lucy wont leave.

HEAVY on the line: “lockwoods eyes are dark with desperation” YOU DONT UNDERSTAND HOW MUCH I WOULD PAY TO SEE CAMERON TAKE THAT DIRECTION

the empty grave book cover but with show designs!!

[Spoilers for Empty Grave]

"Save yourself for me"

I am once again losing my mind over a single line from Lockwood & Co. It means so much with so little.

Because he isn't saying 'save yourself because I'm the one who deserves to take on risk and danger more than anyone else' which is what Lockwood from previous books would say.

He's saying 'I cannot stand you getting hurt. I know I can't stop you from doing something stupid anymore than you can stop me, but save yourself because I love you. Save yourself because you love me.'

Repeatedly throughout the series Lucy and Lockwood are just: 'I care about you, please don't hurt something I care about.'

Which is why Lucy stays because she can't stand him getting hurt either. From the minute she learns about his self-destructive tendencies she's been quietly saying 'save yourself for me' because she's afraid he won't save himself for his own sake.

It absolutely guts me. Why is it always 'Come off it, you know I'd die for you' and never 'Save yourself for me,' which means infinitely more.

the whispering skull, chapter 3 // the empty grave, chapter 26

Redrawing Lucy and Skully every few years and here’s the latest 😎

Old versions:

2018 2020

Flirt attempt: Success!

Another mini-sketch in between more Lockwood and co fanart projects.

Colour schemes are tiring 😓 someone teach me procreate

Just your normal husband and wife things. Also, can I say how much I love this moment?? After THB and TCS seeing my babies being lunatics together again warms my heart and soul.