The Last Line Never Fails To Give Me Chills. Like Jesper, Honey, Are You Alright? 😢

people say “write what you know” and then get surprised when i hand them 47 pages of unprocessed emotional trauma disguised as fantasy worldbuilding

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Lockwood & Co. - Jonathan Stroud, Lockwood & Co. (TV) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Lucy Carlyle/Anthony Lockwood, Lucy Carlyle & George Cubbins | George Karim & Anthony Lockwood, Anthony Lockwood & Quill Kipps, Holly Munro/Holly Munro's Girlfriend (background) Characters: Anthony Lockwood, Lucy Carlyle, George Cubbins | George Karim, Holly Munro, Quill Kipps, Holly Munro's Girlfriend, Assorted Agents Additional Tags: Fittes Ball v2, Post-Book 05: The Empty Grave (Lockwood & Co.), POV Anthony Lockwood, Anthony Lockwood Loves Lucy Carlyle, Simp Anthony Lockwood, Lockwood was maybe 2 thoughts, and they're both Lucy, everybody knows they're together, (Except for them), Slow Dancing, First Kiss, getting together (finally) Summary:

Lucy was wearing his mother’s necklace. The one he had shown to her along with a somewhat nervous explanation- “My dad gave it to her soon after they met. It was a symbol of his undying devotion.”

And now, I’m giving it to you, had gone unspoken about a week later, as he set the necklace down on her bed along with some papers. As a symbol of mine.

Lockwood really wished he had found the courage to say that out loud. He was a bloody fool. Assuming she would understand and leaving things unsaid (the most important things) was almost always his downfall. Especially with Lucy. Sure, he could fight off hordes of ghosts or beat just about anyone in a duel no problem- but the second he tried to ask out the girl he liked, Lockwood decided to flounder around like a Limbless.

 In which their relationship isn't confirmed and Lockwood flounders around like a Limbless

free-thoughts on mr kaz brekker and mr anthony lockwood

i’ve seen a lot of people compare kaz brekker and anthony lockwood / say that they would be friends. i’d like to present a lil counter argument

i mean they’re definitely similarly-coded characters, that’s for sure- they carry similar trauma in similar ways, the lil emo boy aesthetic, “i don’t talk about feelings alfred. ive never had one, ive never seen one” type vibe.

but to me, the fundamental difference between them is that in response to all of his trauma, kaz hardened up and closed himself off. he became what he needed to be to survive- the bastard of the barrel. but on the other hand, lockwood stayed a crack open. despite all he did to try and close himself off, he stayed positive and kind- he managed to keep his spark. maybe this is just due to their environments- maybe if lockwood had been in ketterdam, he would’ve hardened completely too- but i still think it’s an important difference between them.

in the hypothetical that these two divas meet, i see lockwood annoying the hell out of kaz- kind of like jesper does, but i think they’re way too similar for kaz to tolerate it in the same way he does w jes. lockwood is too much like jordie, but also too much like kaz himself.

knowing lockwood went through similar experiences (in regards to loss and having to make it alone, while still being surrounded by ghosts) but came out kindhearted would probably drive kaz a little crazy. and alternatively knowing that he easily could have turned out as vengeful, cold, and angry as kaz- maybe that he even had been at some point- would lowkey scare the shit out of lockwood.

i’m not saying they’d hate each other, but i doubt they’d really be friends either. maybe if they sat down, got really drunk, and had a whole trauma-bond/intensive therapy session… but i mean we all know how likely those two are to talk about their feelings lmao

but on the other hand, lockwood and jesper? now that’s two idiot bffs. they’d hit it off immediately- imagine the banter. plus both of them constantly gambling with their lives to avoid their issues, then playing it off like it’s nothing. mr “you’re our greatest asset” and mr “maybe i liked your stupid face”. they would be Unstoppable. chaos would reign. wylan and lucy would form a support group (inej would join).

this got longer than i meant oops. idk they rotate in my brain constantly and i have Been Thinking. i miss my crows and my favorite agency

Wylan monologuing about the butterflies with a sassy ‘like he’d care 😒’ while the ‘he’ in question is literally dying on the floor metres away will always be iconic

omg i love boygenius

words cannot explain how much I have missed this idiot

melt.

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Premise: Viggo slowly becoming afraid of Hiccup. Not because of his skill or his intellect or Toothless, but because Hiccup is resilient as hell.

Because, despite everything Viggo tries, all the physical and emotional torture, he's still standing. Still stubbornly defiant. Still alive and still snarling at Viggo with rage and determination in his emerald colored eyes.

And slowly, Viggo becomes afraid. Because no normal person should be able to withstand even half of what he's had done to Hiccup. No normal person should be able to endure the trauma Hiccup has and still, mostly, act like nothing happened.

No normal person should be able to talk to dragons like they're friends. No normal person should be able to ride a night fury, to endure the whiplash and wind and the physical strain, and still be steady enough to fight seconds after dismounting.

Viggo slowly realizing Hiccup, truly, is no normal person. And that scares him, because now he doesn't know what he can do to actually win. Short of outright killing Hiccup, which would only get the rest of Berk on his ass, Viggo, for once, is lost. For once, Viggo doesn't have a plan.