"I Think You Keep Me Safe, If Anything."

"I think you keep me safe, if anything."

Everyone always talks about Lockwood's later confession of 'whatever time I have, I want to spend it with you'; no one talks about how this reckless, reckless child turns to the girl who thinks she's protecting him by staying away and tells her the opposite.

Lucy, who notes in TEG that his place is always between them and the darkness, keeps him safer because he remembers he actually has a reason to live.

This is incoherent ravings at best, I'm aware, but do you get it? Do you really get it????

Reblog if I can go on your page and write stupid things in your ask box whenever I'd like to.

I think the best part about Lucy Carlyle is her flaws. Unlike most female characters written by men, her insecurities do not resolve themselves when she succeeds in life, if anything they amplify.

She’s ambitious and passionate and selfish and thoughtless, her vices aren’t ‘female’ in the sense that all of them lead back to beauty or weakness. She’s irrational and angry and rebellious, masculine traits that rarely are accepted in female protagonists.

And these things are never viewed through a romantic or sexual lense, Lockwood doesn’t tame her or fix all her problems, he accepts them as part of her. Jonathan Stroud is a genius when it comes to teenagers, but I think we sometimes forget that teenagers are not dramatic because of hormones, but because they feel incredibly deeply.

saw someone say percy jackson fans love their percy jackson as a main character and that's what sets them apart from other fandoms but i can say it's the same way for a lot of lockwood and co fans. we love and appreciate our iron trio so much as main characters in their own right.

Lockwood was such a magnificent character because a lot of male characters sort of revolve an angelic female love interest, and that’s their main motivation.

Nah.

His motivation was his dead family and his haunted house and his survivors guilt and his deep loyalty to the past and how things once were. He loved Lucy fiercely, and she definitely factored into his motivations, but she was no saint and he never made her one.