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Lucy, George, Holly, Flo, Kipps, Barnes, etc: Lockwood, no!!
Lockwood: Lockwood, yes!!
Quill Kipps is by far my favorite side character. Like. This man had one of the best character development arcs I've ever seen, and. None. Of. Us. Noticed. Until we were cheering for him along with everyone else. I don't even know if he noticed.
Anyways. Quill Kipps.
I have a bunch of shitpost content in my notes app. Feel free to tag your favorite or the one you feel like is the most you. These were the ones I thought best fit the Lockwood and Co. characters:
How do people just say things? Have you not thought of the consequences?
— Holly Munro
Angry enough to fight god, but too tired to do it.
— George Cubbins/Karim
It’s not stealing if you don’t live by their rules.
— Lockwood
If you see me with an untucked shirt and un-cuffed jeans, don’t worry, I’m still bi.
— Lucy
I want to be cared for gently. What a fun, wholesome, devastating thought.
— Lockwood
I’m not going to read it correctly. I’m going to read it the way dyslexia intended.
— Lockwood
A shirt that says “Am I still performing?”
— Lucy, cause she could use a reminder to stop masking
Lucy about to get Lockwood to eat his words: *insert a picture of alphabet soup*
Ass is gender neutral.
— Quill Kipps
If being “manly” is just being “tough” and being trans is tough as hell, that means I’m super Manly™️.
— Quill Kipps
The only king I worship is Elvis.
— Lockwood
I hate how good it feels to have people like you.
—Skull
When I beat this depression it’s all over for you bitches.
— Everyone
How the fuck?
— George Cubbins/Karim
How do people get up in the morning, and like, do stuff… weird.
— Lockwood
I just want to watch wholesome gay videos and study science.
— Holly Munro
Who cares about character development? I want to be comfortable.
— Quill Kipps
Being alive feels like the ocean. I will not elaborate.
— Holly Munro
Why the fuck?
— Barnes, anytime the Iron Trio does anything
Bonus (Avatar edition):
Your honor, I—
*Zuko starts crying*
Babygirl characters: Anthony Lockwood (Lockwood and Co.), Quill Kipps (Lockwood and Co.), Percy Jackson (Percy Jackson and the Olympians), Jason Grace (Heroes of Olympus), Magnus Chase (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard), Spencer Reid (Criminal Minds), Jake Peralta (Brooklyn 99), Fred Jones (Scooby Doo)
Feel free to add to the list.
@daydreamxr17 I liked your idea for an edit, so I made it. I’m not a fan of the quality. Although, it is what it is. I don’t know if this is what you had in mind, but here it is.
The scenes are from Lockwood and Co. on Netflix and the song is Smells Like Teen Spirit by Malia J
lockwood to kipps in the first book:
"oh hey check it out the walking useless piece of garbage, wow and it can talk?"
lockwood to kipps in the rest of the books:
"kipps can you do smth for me?"
"yeah sure"
ugh. Every character in Lockwood & Co. are the biggest losers you’ve ever seen. They’re the coolest guys around. They hate each others guts. They love each other more than the world. They’re polar opposites. They’re the exact same. They’re literally unhinged. They’re the only sane ones for miles. They’re entirely incompetent. They’re the best ones at their job. They clash on the regular. They complete each other.
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 kind of want to see fanart of this now. Would he have braids? I feel like he would have braids.
short king Kipps with long hair and a beard
I will die on this hill
Still thinking about how once Kipps joins Lockwood & Co. as a contractor, Lockwood makes it clear from the get go he's part of the team by calling him Quill.
Like yes, by the end of things in The Empty Grave, George and Lucy call him Quill, too, but when he first started out with them? When it was all new and tenuous and uncertain for Kipps? Maybe Lockwood didn't say as much, but he sure as hell made it clear to everyone he was part of the team, fully and unequivocally. It wasn't 'Kipps' he invited to work with his agency, it was 'Quill.'
And in that same vein, I'm pretty sure there's only one instance where Kipps calls Lockwood 'Tony' after joining -- and it's not even to his face, it's to Lucy when they're on the other side and it's dawned on both of them he might very well die once he crosses the iron bridge and returns to the living world.
And in that reference, it's kinda a glimpse into the past? Because Kipps says it almost fondly, like Tony's a nickname for Lockwood rather than an insult (which I firmly believe is how it was at one point), and that speaks of a history between them that wasn't as contentious as the one we see in the first few books.
Anyways, I've loved Kipps since The Whispering Skull and my love for him has only grown, so am I reading into Locky using his first name? Yes, I absolutely am.
Have tea with Quill Kipps ☕️
Kipps: Get your fucking teammate bitch!
Lockwood: It don’t bite.
Kipps: Yes it do!
Lucy: *currently going apeshit*
Lucy: Do you want to talk about your feelings, Lockwood?
Lockwood: No.
Kipps: I do.
Lucy: I know, Kipps.
Kipps: I’m sad.
Lucy: I know, Kipps.
Lucy: In your opinion, what's the height of stupidity?
George: Hey, Kipps! How tall are you?
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.
These two scenes are the same thing except Kaz planned the revenge of his life and Lockwood just started frog war with Kipps
We stan our favorite drama queen
Lockwood and Co, everybody
Here is every one of these I could find:
Lucy: *exists*
Lockwood: She could stab me and I’d probably say thank you.
George: *completely done with him* What if I stab you?
Kipps: What if no one stabbed anyone?
Holly: *removes knives from the nearby vicinity*
Skull: I’ll stab him!