hlessiroo:

Don’t think about how the last time Lucy and Lockwood interacted pre-TCS ended

Don’t think about how Lockwood, who usually keeps his emotions so in check, must have felt if he got outwardly angry enough to yell and storm off

Don’t think about Lucy being left there afterwards and what she must have been feeling because she’s doing this to protect him

Don’t think about how that was the last time they saw each other for four months

Don’t think about how Lockwood got up the next morning to find she’d already gone

And really don’t think about him realising if anything happened to Lucy in those four months that would have been the last time he would have seen her

I just wanted to know if Lucy still wears Lockwood’s necklace

TCS Countdown: Lockwood

booksandbooksandsinkingships:

I’m sorry if this sucks but this is my first attempt at writing anything romantic 

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She shouldered her backpack and looked at the faces of her coworkers. 

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leaffromthevine:

So, originally I wrote these condiderations in reply to this post:

http://leaffromthevine.tumblr.com/post/139392342882/theladysherlock-contrary-to-popular-belief-i

But since it was probably an old one in the tag (tumblr doens’t have a proper chronological tracking system) and since I see a new post addressing similar issues, plus it touches upon Lucy’s refusal to befriend other girls, I think I’m going to repost my previous thoughts on the matter to contribute to the discussion.

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People, let’s get one thing straight once and for all, I won’t apologize from my insistence on the subject: stop treating Lucy’s pov, the pov of a blunt albeit sarcastic person, as unreliable when you boil everything down to jealousy. Stop stereotyping/degrading Lucy’s emotions. Stop mischaracterizing and being mysogynistic for your discontents. And I mean it for both Holly and Lucy’s sake.

Holly Munro was certanly a destibilizing presence for Lucy, but it was never because of romantic anticks. She was introduced suddenly in Lucy’s tight-knit, compact enviroment and the more Lucy came to know her the less she could stand her, because as her qualities shone through she became an ever neater representation of everything Lucy didn’t have to worry about or envy before: being an effortlessly impeccable, pleasant, good-looking girl and collegue. At least she wasn’t an agent. This knowledge kept Lucy’s pride intanct and her attitude towards Holly fairly neutral or mildly annoyed, at the begining. It’s when Holly became also the center of attention and the recipient of repeated praise - coinciding with Lockwood’s deliberate detachment - that Lucy’s acrimony kicked in.

However immature and ungracious of her, it was understandable that a person like Lucy - a prideful person, not a hopless romantic one - who derives most of her self-esteem from her professional status and also from her particular partnership with Lockwood, which she believed was unique and unbreakable, wouldn’t have responded favorably to such an abrupt change of dynamics and shift in relevance among her friends, expecially when Lockwood began to treat Holly like a fellow agent, encouraging her to work on the field, even if she wasn’t employed for that position (honestly, Lockwood made a lot of mistakes too in how he handled Holly’s integration: excluding only Lucy from the decision to hire her, including Holly on the field, forcing himself to concentrate on her safety).

Lucy may be attracted to Lockwood (an issue that flies over her head even at the blatant teasing of the Skull) but it never was her priority and it wasn’t a factor that exacerbated her disliking of Holly. She and Holly were simply incompatible, and I’m glad Stroud did show that sometimes people that are forced to work together just don’t click on a personal level, but that doesn’t mean they cant’ be impartial and tolerating toward each other. That’s what Lucy had to learn about dealing with Holly: to be respectful and truthful while recognizing they couldn’t be friends because they are too different, but equally valuable, not just get along to make a trite statement about female friendship. I rather have Lucy overcoming her predjudices while bonding with someone she could act more naturally with and finds more relatable even if there might be rivarly between them (*cough-KateGodwin-cough*).

And while we’re on the subject, let me offer a couple of observations about Lucy’s supposedly problematic socialization with other girls, that are often overlooked by critiques. In the books Lucy seem always contemptuous of any manifestation of weakness or frivolousness in other girls, but If you pay more attenction, it also shows she isn’t that difficult to those with whom she shares similarities and interests (again, Kat Godwin: do you remember the genuinely surprised ‘you know my name?‘  That’s basically Luce’s level of open approach), or women she can respect, female figures she can identify with, figures of success and power, like Marissa Fitts. Maybe it’s narcisistic but she’s still young and struggling with issues of recognition and self-worth. It’s also important to notice that she isn’t affectionate because she wasn’t raised to be. She comes from a family background dominated by hardworking women in the numbers, extremely pratical women without a trace of sentimentality; we know her own mother wasn’t the encouraging sort, except if there were money to be made, and her older sisters weren’t all that understanding of her abilities and aspirations either; she was just as good as useful to them, another cog in the wheel. And those were her examples growing up. She isn’t rough and austere just for style. I’d challenge anyone living more than a decade together with seven prosaic, imperious women under the same roof and not develope a bit of an aversion to regular girls.

Personally I wasn’t impressed with Holly as a character either, and you’ll never catch me saying Lucy should have be more nice and accomodating to her (that’s not how functional, realistic relationships work, people). But to me it was also a subjective matter, since faultless, easily agreable characters don’t hold my interest, and also a matter of biased first perspective narrative that made me sympathize with Lucy’s frustration most of the times and that inevitably flattened Holly to a generic good-natured side character who’s the unknowing catalyst of an unwanted conflict. That said, ‘hating’ Holly Munro is not only an overreaction, it’s downright unreasonable and ridiculous expecially if it stems from the utterly wrong assumption that she somehow came between “Locklyle”, when there wasn’t even an ongoing “Locklyle” worth separating or speaking of to begin with, or that Anthony’s intentions were nothing but proper to Holly. Then, there is the tiny canonical fact that Holly is a bloody serious eighteen years old gal, the only level headed legal adult among a bunch of fifteen-year-olds (let that sink in for a moment and begin to pity this woman), and certainly, more than anyone, supremely uninterested in being in the middle of unstable teenage trigonometric affairs…

If you really have to put the bame on someone or something for Lucy and Lockwood’s fall out, you don’t have to look further than the two of them. They are the only ones responsible for any little incomprehension and disagreament grown into rebellion and distrust. You only have Lockwood’s egocentrism, insensitivity and incapacity to listen, which backfired eventually; or Lucy’s untended anxiety and uncompromising, vindictive temperament that made her volatile and miserable in the end. Blame these kids’ psychologically binding past and intense, evolving characters (and bless George’s socratic aplomb everyday). Do not blame Holly who was only a device to show pre-existing problems never come to the surface with such dramatic embarassment before, and that go deeper than any brewing hormonal meddling, but really tackling the fundamental need to be aknowledged and cherished. And finally always remember that Lucy left Lockwood and George for two important reasons alone: a want for freedom to experiment with her amplified powers (that unfortunatley also tangles with a lingering bitter disaffection with her working relationships) and to excape a ‘prophecy’, or rather the fear, that she might become a burden and the indirect cause of Lockwood’s death. And none of these reasons refers to Holly in any way.

 #i’m still laughing my ass off at the notion that holly could have come between locky and lucy  #the only thing she came between is a dirty chaos of a house inhabitated by overworked teenagers  #she has no time for any of their shit except their actual shit  #poor holly