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me: <sits still on the bus and follows basic bus etiquette>

me (to myself): this is great. I'm going to get a good grade in passenger, something that is both normal to want and possible to achieve,

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ik i posted abt this scene already but i just made the mental connection that this line reminds me of this lyric from how you get the girl by taylor swift:

“stand there like a ghost / shaking from the rain, rain / she’ll open up the door / and say, are you are insane, -ane?”

AHHHHHAKDJKAJELAHDKSLAKS LOCKLYLEEEE = SOULMATES

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'Cause tonight I'm feeling like an astronaut Sending S.O.S. from this tiny box And I lost all signal when I lifted off Now I'm stuck out here and the world forgot Can I please come down? Simple Plan - Astronaut

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*commits breaking and entering* lockwood & co. core

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“This party’s dead—wanna ditch it with me?”

I don’t think I ever posted this redraw here! The original got a loooot of traction for only being a doodle & I really wanted to refine it haha. I played around a ton with colors & effects, too :3 And, also, I was rewatching it a third time and… man! I love this scene.

Also may start posting here more often… Twitter is frustrating and feeding stuff into AI, as expected.

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I CANT ANYMORE Bro fr went "Nice... Towel" and proceeded to go through all 5 stages of grief. HIS FACE AFTER HE SAID IT 😭 I'm not ok.

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They are so cute. I don't know why but this picture gives just a comforting vibe.

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- the party's dead. wanna ditch it with me?

- absolutely!

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Rewatching Lockwood and Co, I love that all it took for George and Lucy to become friends was pizza and bonding over screwing the system lol

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Back on the bench

And again, and again…

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lucy, from the kitchen: NEVER BACK DOWN NEVER WHAT? lockwood, from the basement: NEVER GIVE UP! george and skull: *sighs*

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Establishing Locklyle 💙🖤⚔👻

Whilst the books may not have ramped things up between our dashing heroes until Book 3, Complete Fiction hit the ground running. It's clear from the opening scenes of Lockwood and Co that these are our canon couple.

But I'm getting ahead of myself. What I really want to do with this post is look in detail at how well the opening scenes of this series are put together, especially in the context of Locklyle. Warning, it's a long one, but there's just so much to unpack.

The show opens with a mysterious couple walking. We see their kit well before we see their faces. But it’s the dialogue between them that provides the real hook. It's intelligent and immediately starts to build the world we are entering.

In these opening moments of the series, those of us new to the world of Lockwood and Co don’t quite follow the context of the exchange, yet in the hands of these two it doesn’t matter. The dialogue is clever, natural and, importantly, has just the right amount of snark.

Lockwood's response of "No need to be facetious" indicates that he is not cowed by Lucy's criticism and her later response, with accompanying knowing grin, of 'Thought you said there was no time to be facetious', hints at an already established mutual understanding and connection. But I'll come back to this in a moment.

When they meet Mrs Hope, Lockwood immediately slips into business mode, reassuring her of their capability. She looks uncertain but it's the first hint we get of Lockwood's charm and confidence, such a large part of his literary character throughout the book series.

Lucy, however, is not so diplomatic and immediately says adults are useless anyway. Lockwood, ever conscious of impressing the client, gives Lucy a look causing her to clarify what she means.

This was a change from the book where it is Lockwood who is dismissive of adults and Lucy soothes it over with explanation. However, Complete Fiction have made a clever change here. Having Lucy deliver the line is much more consistent with their characters, reflecting Lockwood's charm and Lucy's more acerbic edge. In fact much of this interaction with Mrs Hope is reversed from the books and I think it works better to establish the characters of Lucy and Lockwood.

With Mrs Hope's departure, we move inside the home and get our first understanding of their skills. We see Lucy and Lockwood as they tune into the house and see Lucy's point of view as she vividly experiences Mr Hope's death.

I love this scene. The ease as Lockwood laughs and leans against the wall. Lucy's feistiness as she challenges him with justification for her reaction. His response? He offers tea. The first reference to what we will come to know as a staple of their world.

The warmth of the kitchen offsets the ghostly greenish glow of the rest of the house. It's a very cosy, warm and domestic scene. It works to establish a sense of the calm before the storm.

As they discuss the backstory of the haunting, I adore Lockwood's question "Sarcastic or ironic?" and Lucy's response of "The cleverer one" is perfect 👌 One more example of the easy banter between them.

From here we move back upstairs to find ourselves a ghost 👻

The world building in these opening scenes is considerable. It's hard to believe it all happens in the space of 8 minutes.

I spoke earlier about how they seem to have a connection already. In the books Lucy has been with the company for around 6 months but, in Complete Fiction's universe she is only new to the company.

Which means that she, like us, is a bit unsure about Lockwood's ability. He is clearly charming and the leader but Lucy's criticism about trying to make contact with the living coming on top of his failure to pack the chains, means we're not quite sure and then we're left with Lucy dangling over a deadly drop and the opening credits roll.

It must be said that Complete Fiction have put this opening episode together so well. We don't get to see what happens with Lucy for another half hour and I admit by then, I'd almost forgotten our beginning.

We delve into Lucy's backstory which I won't go into detail over here, that's a separate post altogether. We do however get to see the development of the connection that Lucy and Lockwood clearly have and it's evident from when they first lay eyes on each other that there is a mutual connection.

There's so much to pull apart here: George's disdain, Lucy's rising feistiness as a direct consequence and Lockwood overseeing it all. The delight with which Lockwood shows her 35 Portland Row, Lucy's obvious pleasure at finding somewhere to stay, a place that could be home.

But it's the growing connection between Lucy and Lockwood that is clear. So much so that by the time of the final exchange between them in the library, Lucy is comfortable enough with Lockwood to call him out over his overstating of the standing of "Lockwood & Co". I love Lockwood's calm explanation that it was a mild exaggeration and that lots of people make them, much like she did when she exaggerated her rapier prowess ⚔

It's reflective of Lucy's inner resolve that once she realises Lockwood is not concerned by her omission, she challenges him by asking: "How do I know you're good enough for me?"

Cue the perfect segue back to her dangling over the stairwell precipice.

Now it's Lockwood's turn to shine and turns out, yes, yes he is good enough for her 🖤💙

After fighting the ghost off, with some pretty impressive moves to be honest, Lockwood grasps Lucy from falling and here, here is the moment where Locklyle is canon.

Yes I know he's just saved her from certain death, but the way they cling to each other🤗😍💙🖤

Let's just take a moment to savour this scene 😍

Sigh 😍🤗

Now, where were we?

Lockwood is so shaken by the events that he is ready to retreat, it's Lucy that wants to push on. Ironically, it's her that is reckless at this point. The desire to understand the ghost's pain drives her on and provides an early indicator of a major plot point for upcoming episodes and indeed seasons (🙏🙏Manifesting like crazy 💙🖤🧡)

The rest of the episode unfolds at pace. They find the body, Lucy grabs herself a souvenir and saves Lockwood from Ghost lock. It's just unfortunate that it results in the ultimate destruction of the house.

But our canon couple are locked in. There's no going back from here, they just go deeper and deeper.

And we willingly go along for the ride 🤗💙🖤

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At least once a week Lockwood walks out of a haunted building in the middle of the night wearing his sunglasses and walks straight into a signpost.

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i am in fact NOT being very brave about it and will whine and complain until i die. As is my right

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Every Locklyle fic with Skull is like:

Lucy: Can I ask you for relationship advice?

The Skull, preparing a wheel of fortune where the only two options are ‘communicate’ and ‘kill him’: Yeah, sure go ahead.

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George: I started off by making a map of all the ghost sightings that has happened in London during the last 5 years to see if there was a pattern.

George, pointing to a cork board completely filled with push pins: That led me to this. There are so many ghosts. No one should live here

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found my apple pencil