No But Really I Can't Stop Thinking About It. Holly Losing Her Entire Team. Lucy Losing Hers. Flo Being

no but really I can't stop thinking about it. Holly losing her entire team. Lucy losing hers. Flo being apprenticed by people probably only a bit older than her and losing them as well. the three-way venn diagram of Holly/Lucy/Flo where you have Lucy and Holly falling through windows and Holly and Flo stranded alone beside their dead friends throughout the night and all three of them as sole survivors of their teams. the way this is almost a normal thing in this world. these three girls who are so, so different but so, so the same because they're wounded in the same ways and just reacted to it differently. Flo broke completely and had to build herself back up from the rubble. Holly turned to taking support roles, lacking in the connections she used to have. Lucy got angrier and more reckless and isolated herself so she wouldn't be the cause of more people dying. all three of them are alone-ish when we meet them and all three of them are in different stages of their character arcs with their survivor identifies as the inciting cause of those arcs. and by the end they're not alone anymore. and they're not afraid of the connection any longer, to each other, or to others.

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just finished my reread of the creeping shadow

Exactly

I can’t believe Lucy got the skull in the divorce.

To Have A Home - a Lockwood & Co edit

This started off simply enough and then gained a life of its own. I know L&Co means a great deal to a lot of people; that it truly is home for them. I hope Jonathan doesn't mind me borrowing his words. 💙🖤🧡

Backing credit to FanisCl on YouTube

I like episode four, Sweet Dreams and episode seven, Mesmerized.

And I like them both because we get to see a little bit into Lockwood’s character. Like more in depth.

In episode four after Lucy says she can talk to the skull and she brings up the room that Lockwood keeps hidden. And Lockwood ends up yelling at her. It’s like one of the only times he really loses it and yells.

And afterwards when he apologizes, along with it being a cute Locklyle moment, he also talks about his past. This is the most he’s opened up so far, even if it’s not specific. Says that he was orphaned at a young age and “that’s what’s behind that door”.

So not only is he being vulnerable, which I imagine is something very hard for him to do given everything that has happened in his life, but he’s also using that vulnerability to say ‘I believe you’.

He apologizes for yelling and how he reacted. And says that he believes her “about everything”. That is such a big thing in my opinion. Not to get too personal but something like that — to be believed in — I think it’s underestimated how important that is.

Basically, it’s a really nice moment for Lockwood. He really opens up there. And I also think Lucy takes it well. She doesn’t push him to tell her more. She allows him to say what he’s comfortable with. She listens (cause she’s a Listener. Get it? Yeah, that was unintentional). She acknowledges what he’s saying and doesn’t push for more.

And on top of that, Lockwood saying he would shine his spotlight on her! Lucy hears him. While Lockwood sees her! I love the similarities there!

It’s also kind of why I like episode eight, Mesmerized. When Lockwood takes things too far again and gets someone else hurt (killed) and ends up having a panic attack. I think this again shows his character. Shows what he cares about. That when he’s no longer acting like everything’s in control (cause it’s not) what happens when that breaks. It kind of exposes what kind of person he is.

He’s a kid. He’s always trying to prove himself. To others and to himself. That he’s capable and talented and whatever else. Then someone, an adult, had to make a terrible adult decision based off of Lockwood’s decision.

Breaking down because of regret or empathy he feels towards that agent shows that he cares. And it reminds me of episode three, Doubt Thou the Stars, when he says “come on Luce, I’m not a monster”. I mean, he was kind of joking, but it makes me wonder if he genuinely fears that sometimes. Once again showing his character.

And how his panic attack was handled by Lucy I think was nice too. Like there is never a good time to have a panic attack and running for your lives seems like an especially bad time. So despite being terrified herself. Trying to drag them both out of the way of danger while still trying to be gentle and forceful when stepping in front of him and telling Lockwood to look at her. As well as reassuring him that he made the right decision. That the bone glass is too important.

And at the end when they are finally safe for the time being. Lucy is now safe to feel her feelings. Those feelings being anger, mostly. So she did help Lockwood, but now he needs to start holding himself accountable to be “just reckless enough”. And I think episode eight helped him realize that.

Okay, wow. That’s it. I had a lot more to say than I thought. Thanks for the assignment this was fun. Obviously not a professional english paper though. Hope that’s okay.

tell me what your favorite episode of lockwood and co is and why. this is now your english assignment GIVE ME YOUR EVIDENCE AND ANALYSIS

song

Look My Way (from Helluva Boss) (a rewrite by me)

Sung by both Lucy Carlyle and Anthony Lockwood 

Lockwood:

It is expected

A bond by blood to keep the home

And the starlight passing overhead

Sees all the skills I've honed

I am a guardian

A leader heading all our fights

Yet, I find myself getting distracted 

On those frightening moonlit nights

Let me hold you, keep you close to me

I long to hear your voice

But Lucy, I know better know

I must give you this choice

Keeping you safe is my one need

Or do you want to hear me plead?

Just look my way, just look my way

Is there something more that I don't know

That you won't say 'til we've both grown cold?

Just stay, please stay

Look my way

Lucy:

This unspoken feeling

What we went through for knowledge gained

If that's all that is, when you're not here

Has it caused this rooted pain?

I don't care that you pay my expenses

Or you’re walled in your own defenses

Why can't you understand?

Let me explain

And I'm terrified, as I cry

To make these feelings true

What's left for me in this haunted home

If I cannot save you?

Lockwood:

Unless it's me?

And no matter what in this world I could give

Lucy:

It's not enough

To get through the walls you've conjured up to live

Is this how you feel?

Abandoned, forced to fend for yourself when you were young

I will grant you this mercy, my prying into your soul needs to end

Lockwood:

I will try to make amends

For making you means to an end

So, look my way, please, look my way

Lucy:

And if there's something more that I don't know?

I'll save us both before we grow cold

I will stay, if you say

"Look my way"