#the hollow boy

[hauntingthenarrativepod]

The Hollow Boy: A Timeline

Apparently at some point during Episode 2 you were promised timelines? Sounds fake but okay

Anyway. Here's our timelines for The Hollow Boy, pieced together from time clues in the text! There's some debate on this matter, actually, so we've put together two versions.

Version One -- Lizzie's Version

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Version Two - Qiqi's Version

(a.k.a. the Correct Version)

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BONUS - UNDECEMBER VERSION

[fiasvsesvit]

lucy leaving the agency at the end of THB is so so so important for her character growth. it's actually crazy to see how much she's grown mentally and became more independent in TCS. she stopped playing the victim in any argument she is in. she became much more patient and understanding towards people because she had to deal with all kinds of agents and supervisors during her freelance work, and also stopped blindly following lockwood's orders and acquired leadership skills of her own. before tcs it seemed like she had problem with everyone, except maybe lockwood - george, kipps, holly, kat, barnes etc. it surprised me how she managed to obtain such good relationship with almost anyone she met in tcs, after three books of straight up hating every person she saw. moreover, you could say that she actually becomes one of the chillest people in the agency.

she finally gets a mind of her own and is able to stand up for herself and her friends when needed.

[vryfmi]

i like that the more times you reread The Hollow Boy, the deeper and more complex the answer to “why did Lucy leave L&Co but kept the skull?” gets.

at first it's because skull confirmed Lucy’s talent and she says so herself in TCS. then it's because she knew she couldn't hurt it or bring it to its doom with her talent unlike Lockwood and others.

but ultimately the answer is that she was afraid that her actions would lead to Lockwood's untimely death, but it was Lucy who was rapidly approaching the other side, as her talent grew stronger as well as her connection to ghosts and the world of the dead. and, thinking that skull's the only one who understands being in two worlds at once, she, ironically, chose her companion to be the most life desiring character in the series, who didn't let her spiral during those months apart from L&Co.

[reggie-gremlin]

i'm rereading the hollow boy and as sad as i am that the show was cancelled and we won't get the whole story on screen, i'm also somewhat grateful because that book on screen??? absolutely not. absolutely the fuck not. aside from the sheer amount of locklyle angst, the whole ending in the department store??? terrifying. horror movie worthy. a fucking heart attack to see it on screen.

[justjudethoughts]

Okay, reverse Hollow Boy AU where the Fetch is Lucy, etc. etc. But instead of putting Lockwood in Lucy's EXACT place (i.e. the one who fell through the hole), Lockwood is STILL the one who dropped Lucy and came down to look for her.

That way, he starts by thinking she might be dead. He starts by worrying for the entire time it takes him to climb down. But he doesn't see her body at the bottom.

And then her ghost appears.

And he's the one who lost hold of her hand.

[catherineeverlasting]

Some Lucy and Lockwood after the Black Winter for your enjoyment <3 art by meeee

@jonathanstroud

[captain-hooks]

[iiinfinite]

Lockwood would die to protect Lucy, but she would never see him again if it meant that nothing would happen to him

[lewkwoodnco]

Anger surged through me. I shut the covers with a snap. In thirty seconds that single bald paragraph in the Archives had told me more than Lockwood had managed to in all the months I’d lived with him! The names of his parents! The circumstances of his sister’s death! It would have been funny if it weren’t so pathetic! What was he scared of? He seemed quite incapable of properly opening up, of giving me the trust that I deserved. Oh sure, he was charming enough, when he wanted to be. But it meant nothing. You could see it in his behavior now, the ease with which he mollycoddled his new assistant, while turning his back on me.

- Lucy Carlyle, The Hollow Boy

[bobbys-not-that-small]

this is quite possibly THE MOST savage thing I’ve read in my life:

[biscuitrule]

No because I’m sorry but Lockwood and Co should be Percy Jackson level popular

[sunshinelivesforever]

No because it's the way Lockwood and Lucy both parallel each other's pasts.

Like, Lucy being used by her mother to make money. Lockwood (although he later apologizes) calling her an "asset". Lucy watching most of her friends die and her best friend getting ghost-locked simply because they had underestimated the Visitor and weren't prepared. Lockwood forgetting to bring the chains and then underestimating Annabel, saying that they don't need chains to deal with her.

And then Lockwood seeing Jessica in Lucy. Lockwood seeing Lucy caring for him, helping him and making him see reason and being reminded of Jessica. Lockwood thinking that Lucy was Jessica for a split second after he woke up from being unconscious. Lockwood seeing Lucy lying on the floor in a room filled with sources and remembering what happened to Jessica.

They find the most traumatizing parts of their pasts in each other but it's different now. It's different because it's part of the healing process. They're helping each other and they're healing and it's going to be okay because they can get through it with their love for each other.

[twentyfunnybunnies]

Can we just take a moment to appreciate this absolute gem of a line from Lockwood & Co. THB

Like wHAT

Lucy my poor concussed child, i love you so much

[sweetreveriee]

Oh to be described like Lucy describes Lockwood

[justjudethoughts]

Not to accuse Lockwood of being extremely malicious and petty, but I really want to know if he did this on purpose. Originally, I didn't think he possibly could have meant that to hit Lucy the way it does — but as I kept thinking, it got more and more curious.

1) Right after saying he has someone to thank, he deliberately makes eye contact with Lucy. You don't do that unless you are intending to thank THAT person, or because you are exchanging knowing glances about the coming statement. But Lockwood knows Lucy wouldn't be giddy to praise Holly. Which means, at the very least, he looks over at Lucy knowing she probably won't like what he will say next. Maybe he isn't intending to make Lucy believe he is preparing to thank her, maybe he just wants to see her reaction to Holly being praised. But either way, the eye contact bodes very badly for his intentions.

2) He knows how well Lucy did the night before. He also knows she was specifically fighting alongside him, for the first time in ages. And, as he admits later, he is intentionally holding her at a distance. I wonder if this is one of his tactics.

3) Lucy says she knows the connected the night before, but that she doubts Lockwood's ability to sustain a meaningful relationship. She obviously doesn't know this at the moment, but Lockwood is severing bits of the relationship on purpose. I wonder if he was a little freaked out by how well they clicked the night before, and this was "damage control."

Anyway, this all seems a big malicious of Lockwood, but golly, the eye contact line is just odd

[loveverythingbooks]

'Lucy's Terribly Jaded': A Collection

Source: The Screaming Staircase

The Hollow Boy:

The Empty Grave: