When you become more intelligent than you were in the first movie, but then they dumb you down again just for the sake of comic relief.
One of the things I love most about Lockwood is that he is the textbook example of the "one who is scared to love" but instead of being extremely cold and callous all the time like your normal tragic backstory male mc, he can't stop himself from loving.
The thing is, we know he tries. (See THB). He tries to keep everyone at a distance, tries to be cold and calculating, but he can't do it. He wants to be Sherlock Holmes, highly functioning sociopath, but he can't do it.
And it shows up in the smallest ways: how immediately understanding he is of Lucy when she doesn't want to explain what happened at Jacobs' even though he is interviewing her for a job. How he stood up for the bratty nightwatch kid when Ned was bullying him, simply because he didn't like watching someone smaller get picked on. Or when he mercifully changed the bet with Kipps, because at the end of the day it was a petty bet to begin with, and they had just been through so much together, and honestly it didn't matter anymore. There was no reason to humilate anyone. How he will always protect another agent, even if they are Fittes. Heck, he even stands up for the Fittes' agents, saying "they're just kids like us." It's the adults he has beef with.
Lucy mentions that any news of a death by ghost-touch weighs on Lockwood. He is incredibly patient with Danny Skinner and perturbed that a kid this young is in his living room alone.
All three of them think of Lucy as the one with the bleeding heart. She's a Listener, a feeler, the one who is most affected by the past suffering of the ghosts. But that's for the dead.
Lockwood is a bleeding heart for the living. He tries not to be. He hates it. Because caring means risking hurt. Caring means you can lose what you care about. But for as hard as he tries to pretend he doesn't, for as good as he is at acting like nothing can phase him, it does.
Lockwood is scared of loving. But he can't stop.
Julie and the Phantoms Week: Day 6: Play it on Repeat
⤷ Ruke + Sharing a Mic
nothing makes me feel more alive than being insane about a little show
I also love Buzz
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For @heathinator. 🥰 Because Pride siblings spin-hug their significant others the same exact way and it’s too ridiculously cute.
#HE DIDN’T LET HER SLIP THROUGH HIS FINGERS THIS TIME
Where’s the difference?
Here it it! The first chapter! I’m really excited to start sharing this story, it’s been in my head for so long and with the movie finally being out and consuming my soul and my money, this seems like a perfect solution.
Let me know what you think!
If there are any spelling mistakes please let me know because *John Mulaney voice* that’s the thing I’m sensitive about
Petition for Lucy Punch to go to next year’s MET Gala in character as Esmé Squalor
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