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What's wrong? You look like you've seen a ghost!

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I miss them

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She's ready to slay

Feel free to give her friends to slay!

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locklyle + hands: part 2 [part 1]

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locklyle + hands: part 1 [part 2]

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George everytime Lucy and Lockwood are bickering in the kitchen and then hitting eye contact a bit too intense like they might kiss:

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I've been thinking about the door on the landing.

It's easy to understand that opening that door is a sign of Lockwood's growth, him learning to trust his friends and let people in, but... keeping it closed was also learning to let people in. Specifically, letting George in. George Karim was fired from Fittes for breaking rules, asking too many questions, and visiting areas he wasn't allowed into. Lockwood knew that and brought him into his metaphorically haunted childhood home anyway. Then Lockwood made a rule that George could not enter the door on the landing, and could not ask why, the three things George had not been able to do at Fittes.

And George didn't.

He didn't ask, he didn't push, and he didn't go in. And that, Lockwood deciding to trust George even when he could be setting himself up for pain and George being worthy of that trust, that's the first cornerstone on which Lockwood could eventually build a new home, a new family. Trusting George not to cross his boundaries was Lockwood's first big leap of faith, his first step towards opening himself to others and healing.

George is just... so important. Lucy and Lockwood are incredible for each other, they're the catalysts for so much of each other's growth, but if Lockwood had met her before he met George he wouldn't have had deep enough roots to begin to bloom.

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sorry. okay. thinking about. locklyle and how they're portrayed in the show. cause like. it really doesn't feel like a typical ship that a show would produce? it's much more.... more. it's nit like. hyper emotional scenes and drama and tension between them. some of the most prevailing and iconic scenes for locklyle is them caring for esch other. it's lockwood steadying lucy as she's stumbling through a possession. it's him leaving a note to drink water and eat after passing out. it's lucy gripping his neck, telling him he'll be alright as he feels the world close in on them. it's him bandaging her wound. it's him making her toast. it's all so mundane and it feels less like we watch them fall in love and more like. they've always been in love, and we get to see their lives. we get to watch them as they find someone who cares as much about them as they do the other person. i'm just. idk i miss them so much

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lockwood & co… brainworms activated

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Physical touch? Quality time? Actually, I'm just gonna stare at you with my brown doe eyes full of sadness and sorrow until you fall in love with me.

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the evil voices in my head said to make more lockwood & co shitposts

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locklyle is hilarious because he fell first and he fell harder, but that's genuinely impressive because she went fucking insane. and they are both oblivious despite being a genius detective and a once in a generation spiritual genius. how did they manage all that while living under the same roof

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One of the things I love most about Lockwood is that he is the textbook example of the "one who is scared to love" but instead of being extremely cold and callous all the time like your normal tragic backstory male mc, he can't stop himself from loving.

The thing is, we know he tries. (See THB). He tries to keep everyone at a distance, tries to be cold and calculating, but he can't do it. He wants to be Sherlock Holmes, highly functioning sociopath, but he can't do it.

And it shows up in the smallest ways: how immediately understanding he is of Lucy when she doesn't want to explain what happened at Jacobs' even though he is interviewing her for a job. How he stood up for the bratty nightwatch kid when Ned was bullying him, simply because he didn't like watching someone smaller get picked on. Or when he mercifully changed the bet with Kipps, because at the end of the day it was a petty bet to begin with, and they had just been through so much together, and honestly it didn't matter anymore. There was no reason to humilate anyone. How he will always protect another agent, even if they are Fittes. Heck, he even stands up for the Fittes' agents, saying "they're just kids like us." It's the adults he has beef with.

Lucy mentions that any news of a death by ghost-touch weighs on Lockwood. He is incredibly patient with Danny Skinner and perturbed that a kid this young is in his living room alone.

All three of them think of Lucy as the one with the bleeding heart. She's a Listener, a feeler, the one who is most affected by the past suffering of the ghosts. But that's for the dead.

Lockwood is a bleeding heart for the living. He tries not to be. He hates it. Because caring means risking hurt. Caring means you can lose what you care about. But for as hard as he tries to pretend he doesn't, for as good as he is at acting like nothing can phase him, it does.

Lockwood is scared of loving. But he can't stop.

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October means I’ve been rewatching this show

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I love Anthony Lockwood because every time his team think they're fucked he's like "or... are we?" as he gets some explosives out of his pockets

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episode 5 ‘death is coming’ — scene analysis

the moment when l&c find danny in the water is one of my favorite instances of soft world building in the series. the nature of the world stroud created is one that we only get to see a small glimpse at, and most of the history and infrastructure surrounding the Problem is either implied or skimmed over, because the center of the story is lucy, lockwood & george. this scene stands out because it asks questions of the institutions in power in london, and places the characters in a positional dilemma regarding their ability to control their own lives (and ultimately their deaths).

lockwood says danny used to be an agent, someone kind and effortlessly cool, who looked out for him when he was starting out. lucy then asks “how did he go from that…to a relic man?”

this question has an answer, even if it’s not stated: the ghost industrial complex. children like danny who grow up under agencies are abandoned once their talent fades. they no longer have the skills for work in the field, but carry a lifetime of trauma in only their twenties. they haven’t had the time to develop other skills that could get them other employment, and are forced to turn to smuggling or other illegal work in order to survive. danny represents any agent who ages out of the industry—anyone without an existing safety net or supportive family who lacks the resources to do anything else but what they already know.

lockwood has no faith in the system. he ditches adults, forms his own agency out of his literal home, bashes the big agencies and their rules. lockwood operates from an extreme place of privilege—he has his own house to make an agency from, a safe place to go back to. seeing someone he looked up to die because the system failed him leaves him powerless and guilty—even if he can escape the confines of the complex, his friends cannot, and death is coming.

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