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Why is no one talking about the fact that Lockwood wore the tie Lucy gave him when he went to try and get her back
Locklyle Fic Idea
Sometime after TEG when they've confessed their feelings for each other and have been dating for maybe a few months. Lucy has a nightmare about the Fetch, she has these from time to time but this one if different because it just feels so real. She wakes up and she's totally panicking and she needs to see Lockwood to make sure he's alive and well, so she goes down to his room. But Lockwood isn't there, he's in the library reading something, but Lucy doesn't know that. So she goes to his room and finds it empty and she absolutely loses it. She just breaks down sobbing on the floor of his room. Lockwood hears something and goes to make sure everything is ok, and he finds Lucy curled up with one of his sweaters, crying and whispering something about how he died for her. Obviously, he's super worried, but he's not quite sure what happened, so he goes and hugs her and tells her everything is ok. As soon as she hears his voice she starts crying even harder because he’s there and he’s alive and he’s holding her. He still has no idea what happened but he holds her and he lets her cry and he tries to comfort her. When she calms down a little, he takes her downstairs and makes her some tea. She tells him about her nightmare and he holds her again and tells her that he’s alive and they’re ok and that everything is going to be fine. Eventually she calms down, but she’s still a little on edge and she doesn’t want to leave him, so they sleep on the couch together.
George finds them the next morning and sends a picture to Holly and Kipps.
Locklyle Fic Idea Pt 2
The night Lucy leaves Lockwood and Co, after she and Lockwood fight in the cafe, she gets all her stuff packed, and shes ready to leave, but it's still too dark for her to leave. She can't sleep so she goes to Lockwoods room because she thinks she'll probably never see him again and she doesn't want her last memories of him to be the fight they had. Unfortunatly, when she gets there she finds him mid-nightmare, so she wakes him up, and comforts him until she thinks he's asleep. But just when shes about to leave, Lockwood (who's like half asleep at this point,) grabs her wrist and asks her to stay. Lucy knows that it's probably a terrible idea, but she'll be gone in the morning, and he probably wont remember it anyway, so she stays. They fall asleep in Lockwoods bed, and the next morning, Lucy gets her stuff from the attic and leaves Portland Row. They never mention it to each other: Lucy because she assumes that Lockwood doesn't remember, and Lockwood because he thinks it was a dream or something, but during a fight, Lucy says something about it Lockwood is very confused because "Wait that was REAL?" Fluff ensues.
Inspired by a line from Tis the Damn Season by Taylor Swift.
"And the heart I know I'm breaking is my own/To leave the warmest bed I've ever known"
Concept: The Black Dog for Locklyle, but it's Lockwood's POV after Lucy leaves.
I am not okay, I feel the impending doom
as a child i really thought this was just clever worldbuilding 💀
Just finished the Lockwood & Co series (finally) and it was pretty good. I mean, I'm not fully sure I know exactly what was going on the whole time, due to the 5 or 6 year gap between when I read the second-to-last book and the last one, but I muddled through.
Джордж готовит компромат ))))
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.
”You won’t stick around too long,sweetheart. Not when you find out what he’s really like.”
— Quill Kipps
Lucy: proceeds to not stick around because she did in fact find out what he’s really like (reckless with a death wish bound to get himself killed, especially if it means protecting her).
They r up there with pride and prejudice somehow and its not even a contemporary drama, they literally fight ghosts! Love this show. Its perfect for fans of Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, Stranger Things and kids action-adventure stories in general 💙
Go watch it on Netflix!
EDITED. I’ve read the comments and reblogs and re-evaluated the manner in which I wrote parts of this post. Apologies to anyone who was offended; was not my intention in the least. I have edited the post below, and stand by the newly worded version.
What I don’t ever understand, is why authors in fanfiction completely disregard the actual character when writing about the character. For example, Lucy Carlyle from Lockwood and Co. I’ve read COUNTLESS fics that portray her as “tiny,” “light,” “skinny.” Stroud makes it a point to show that she’s not skinny as a stick. She’s curvier and heavier. Why to you have to wave your generic wand of cliche over her? Stop it.
Lucy’s body type is very rarely depicted in book, tv shows, movies, ect., at least from what I have read. In fanfictions, even less so. I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve read mention of a heavier girl in a fic. I feel that it removes a key piece of the character’s... characterization. Furthermore, J. Stroud essentially made a whole CROWD of people (including myself, a midsized person, who is heavier around the hips and thighs like Lucy) very happy and appreciated.
I have absolutely nothing against thinner and lighter people. All I’m saying is that the representation they have is more than plenty. And the physical description of a character, especially when the character differs from the norm that is usually portrayed in media and entertainment, takes away so much from the character and the readers.
Also, all those nightmare fanfics. Not the ones reflective of the scene in the books. And not the ones that are elegantly crafted to reflect something that Stroud’s characters might actually experience. I’m referring to those that are most often found on the underwritten, under-edited, and under-thought side of Wattpad. The side of Wattpad that has 34 fanfics describing the same scene in different words.
Of course, I do acknowledge that characters are interpreted by different people in different ways. However, certain aspects of the character shouldn’t be pulled away. For example, Lucy’s hesitance to share. The entire constant enigma surrounding Lockwood. George’s adorable love of the “why?” of it all and the science (and how he knows both Lucy and Lockwood better than they know themselves).
I personally can’t see Lucy or Lockwood crying to each other in the middle of the night about a bad dream (which in most fics that I’ve ended up reading, is a dream about one losing the other; perhaps I need to dig deeper, but that is all I’ve found on that trope). Discussing? Sure. Sitting together? Sure. Once their relationship progresses, being more vulnerable? Absolutely. But I can never imagine them the way that these pieces do.
To each their own.
And it comes in my birthday month. Magnifique.
Stroud’s London
“I landed on the top of a lamppost in the London dusk…”
growth, then decay, then transformation.
“You’ll notice I’m calling you John Mandrake now… the boy who was Nathaniel’s fading, almost gone.”
BOOK MEME: ten books/series (4/10) ↳ The Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud
"Here you are," I said. "All yours."
I've been having a lot of fun playing around with markers! I decided to try drawing the part at the end of Lockwood & Co. book one. I've never really tried such intense shading before but I think it turned out pretty cool! :)