#george holly

[lucimiir]

Sean Kendrick and George Holly b-plot bromance of all time

[captainlaurence]

The Scorpio Races

Day 8, Chapter 13

October 8, 2023

Year 11

[skullism]

powerpoint night at 35 portland row

[adambasilica]

i want to talk about this more.

the childhood home. ronan and puck want to save their homes in some sort of way. ronan must work around the law, puck must work around her lack of money. both have to deal with their brothers being more or less apathetic to their struggles.

now, gabe and declan are not carbon copies of each other in the least. they're both emotionally distant. declan feels a deep responsibility to his brothers, gabe doesn't- or he won't continue to fight for it. in a way, gabe and ronan are very similar, as are puck and declan. they're all mixed together, and i love the dynamics between them. so good.

OKAYOKAY george holly. i think what i'm going to say is obvious, and that is holly and gansey are cut from the same cloth. american, rich, polite, drawn to the character that is cold and not entirely likable at first meeting. i'm obsessed with him.

i do think, in all technicality, gansey is older simply because maggie worked on trc for so long. tsr came out first though. either holly went through gansification or gansey went through hollification. both options make me giggle a little bit.

sean and the horse goddess, adam and persephone. i don't know, i'm just going insane over these books.

okay normal things:

raven cycle and the scorpio races.

a family of three siblings, religious, orphaned. disharmony between the oldest and the other two- puck loves gabe and will do anything to get him to stay. ronan hates declan and wants him to leave. despite that, ronan and puck are very much the same. they love their home and want desperately to stay. declan/gabe desire more. ronan/puck can’t understand why their older brother is so blatantly rejecting them (they conflate a rejection of their home as a rejection of their personhood because they’re so connected to it). this is where we see the divergence- ronan responds with anger, rage, pushing away. puck responds in desperation, pulling him in closer. neither option work. both are strong emotional reactions. both deeply love their brothers.

it’s about the loss of a childhood home, the life they’d always known. i actually go insane over characters who have already found belonging and don’t desire anything past it. the people that fight to stay. ahhh! thanks maggie.

sean/adam parallels now. they’re different, but my god look at them. sean and adam both resent their fathers for different reasons. sean doesn’t respect his father for the way he died, adam doesn’t respect his father for the way that he lived. both vow to never be like their fathers. sean/adam are hardworking, dedicated, indentured in some manner. sean needs corr, adam needs money/freedom/more. they resent those that have what they want, who could take everything from them. they take the abuse given to them by the people who hold that power, and they also try to establish their own power where they can. dog eat dog world (horse eat man world?) both think they only need themselves. sean/adam are both incredibly capable, and it is recognized, yet they don’t feel it to be so.

also, the consistent breaking down of cars, naming of said cars, me crying because i don’t understand or like cars, and they never work.

anyway. the books are different, and they’re the same. it makes me so insane. that is all

[sharksandlesbians]

biggest tragedy of lockwood and co cancellation was that we never get to see holly munro. do those who only watched the show even know what they're missing.

[aarohisingh25]

Do you randomly cry over the fact that Quill Kipps went from wanting to stab Lockwood to taking a stab for Lockwood and how that is the best character development you have and will ever see, but still people forget about him and his amazing jokes? .....Or are you normal?

[wolfjustdraws]

Quill: today I realised I'm old

Holly: what happened?

Quill: I fell in the kitchen and instead of laughing, Lockwood, George and Lucy came running to see if I was ok

Holly:

Quill: I saw fear in their eyes

[eliwithab]

i . im so soooooooooooooooo normal about lockwood and co. Do not Speak to me. I HATE NETFLIX. . OK. normal.

Fun fact i have redrawn this FOUR TIMES since 2022. TWO YEARS!!!! AND I COULD NOT FINISH IT TIL NOW!

[utterlyunawarewriter]

Barnes: Between Lockwood, Lucy and George, there are three braincells.

Barnes: And George has all three of them.

[arielleshaina]

ANNOUNCEMENT!! I now have Lockwood and Co digital download coloring pages in my Etsy shop! Get them individually or in a bundle ⚔️

The originals were drawn with ballpoint pen and Sharpie 🖊️

link to the bundle here

[lucimiir]

Something something the religions on Thisby are in inherent conflict but manage to coexist something something Sean is the history of the races and Puck is the future something something Puck thinks it dishonors her parents to ride a capall uisce and Norman Falk thinks it dishonors Tommy to ride a normal horse something something Puck rides Corr and begins to understand why something something George Holly thinks he can feel god on these cliffs something something Columba tried to convert the islanders and was thrown from the cliffs into the sea and the capaill and island magic drag the people of a converted Thisby to watery deaths every year something something the Malvern stables and St. Columba’s would look the same if you added the afterthought confessional something something

[vryfmi]

soft worldbuilding in L&Co is so special to me especially how telling talents are:

Sight is associated with with people who look after others, who are always at the look out for danger, the ones who constantly see death and are tied to it no matter what (kipps (with talent and then with goggles), lockwood, skull (in life))

Listening is the warning sign, the haunting before haunting ever began, it gets into one's head and makes you trapped in there with voices of times long passed (lucy, kat)

Touch, in the world where one touch kills, is the most high risk, a conscious decision to put yourself into one's shoes and feel what they felt, ache with empathy all alone in a world of constant pain (lucy)

and having a bit of every talent makes one less vulnerable to psychic effects, but that means that you are fully submerged into haunting, into the past, once you are confronted by it, and in this profession it's constantly there and around you (george, holly, flo)

[honorarypines]

Lucy Carlyle has to be one of the most shippable charcters of all time. She literally has chemistry with everyone and it never feels forced

Lockwood? obviously. not much to explain here. They have drama, mutual pining, both angst and comfort

Skull? Duh. The codependency. The snarky dialogues. She's his only connection to life and he's her only human (well kind of) connection when she leaves the agency. Match made in hell and I love it

George? May not be everyone's cup of tea, but everything you need in order to ship is there. They are complex, they constantly bicker, they share a lot of intimate moments. Very well written relationship in general

Holly? Hell yeah. Rivals to friends and possibly lovers. Grumpy x sunshine. Amazing character development on both sides. 10/10 no notes

Kipps? Now, in the books there's little to no this kind of chemistry between them but then show randomly added a bit of romantic vibe at least on the Kipps' side. So it counts. I guess.

The show also gave us Norrie and the sapphic vibes of these two were off the charts

Gotta love Lucy. Girl thinks she's soo repelling while in reality I wouldn't be surprised if every member of the team had a crush on her at some point

[fiasvsesvit]

back to my roots or whatever

[skullism]

scatters these in front of you all like birdseed

[multifandumbmeg]

Anthony Lockwood is an emotional chameleon. He changes how he interacts with people to be what they want and need.

Think about how he acts with George. They bicker, they insult each other, they're not touchy-feely, but they get each other. They care about each other. Lockwood treats him like this because that's what George likes: blunt, to the point, back-and-forth banter and sarcasm. He doesn't treat George's neurodivergence or eccentricities as a fault like others, he casually accepts or even lauds them. He's the hands-off but there when you need him friend George needed.

Think about how he treats Lucy. She doesn't realize this is why, which is the cause of much of her internal fury, but he tries to be what she seems to want. Lockwood gives Lucy a huge amount of freedom, doesn't push her to open up, celebrates and accepts her gifts at face value (especially in the books) but in the show when she makes clear what she doesn't want, he apologizes and changes course. He becomes comfortable with her quickly and doesn't treat her differently because she's a girl- he knows she can handle herself and she's just another member of the household, no judgement for being messy or lazy or looking wrecked like the rest of them. He knows that she is closed off and resentful when people pity her or acknowledge her pain, so he shows his affection in subtler ways, like making her toast and tea. Giving her precious things that are part of his past as a show of trust and attempt at vulnerability. Frequently praising her, but only when she truly deserves it, because she wouldn't accept it otherwise. Constantly showing her how much her life is worth to him, no matter how much it drives her crazy. His relationship with Lucy changes as his romantic feelings for her grow, and it gets harder for him to mask how he actually feels and wants to act.

Now here's the controversial one: Lockwood does not show Holly favoritism, nor is a malicious, manipulative monster pitting two women against each other. Every single thing about how Lockwood treats Holly differently can be attributed to him knowing her past and trying to be what she needs. He is helping her. Lucy's internal monologue of intense jealousy is a matter of insecurity. She sees Lockwood's gentleness with Holly as him seeing her as a "real girl" and Lucy herself as "just one of the guys" - read, not a romantic prospect. But Lockwood makes it clear who he favors soon enough: when Lucy decides to leave, he offers to fire Holly immediately because he knows of their feud. It is Lucy he can't live without. Lockwood is, in a word, polite to Holly. He is kind and friendly towards her because her previous boss abused her, and she is traumatized in a fundamentally different way than Lucy. Whereas Lucy hardened but sees the agent life as all she can do, all she is worth, Holly is paralyzingly traumatized by agent work. Which is exactly why he takes her out on cases slowly, watches out for her, and does everything he can to rebuild her confidence. He gets onto to Lucy rather than Holly because 1) Lucy became hostile immediately and fully started their conflict, 2) as mentioned before, Holly is traumatized by an abusive, toxic prior work environment. He's trying to make her feel safe here, and 3) He's completely unaware of how Lucy sees this behavior as a personal slight because he fully respects Lucy as an equal, which he thinks is a compliment.

Also, I think George sees Lockwood's ever-changing personality as completely par for the course. As a fellow neurodivergent, he thinks this parade of masks is how everyone interacts, Lockwood's just good at it.

In conclusion, Lockwood is simply a kind kid with pretty damn high emotional intelligence, which is frankly remarkable considering how alone he's been. Anthony Lockwood tries to be whatever anyone else needs, because there was no one to be it for him.