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clonerightsagenda · 10 months ago

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Lockwood's talent meaning he can't communicate with the dead but sees them in more frightening detail goes a long way to explaining his attitude versus Lucy's, and obviously his talent is a direct representation of his PTSD (constantly seeing the aftereffects of violence, viewing everything as more of a threat, etc.) but he's really like "see that sad man missing his wife? we gotta hit him with explosives Lucy. don't be an emotional girl about this"

#in his defense he's not trying to be sexist. he would do this if she were a guy also #lockwood throughout his career: this is fine it's not like they're real people with feelings #the first ghost capable of communicating with him: i hope your dick falls off #if ghosts are people and should be treated as such then maybe his beloved parents did something wrong #and are even partly responsible for his sister's death #we can't have that!#almost like constantly demonizing the victims of imperial greed and letting your children pay the price for it is a theme or something #sorry despite his repeated complaints my dad is now reading the third book and I was like #lockwood's tragic backstory boils down to the fact that he is British. artifact theft strikes back #lockwood and co

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