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Lockwood and Co Fanfic Ideas

* Sleeping Beauty AU

* 5+1. 5 times Lockwood was told he wasn’t good enough for lucy, and 1 time he proved she said he was

* Lucy talking with someone about art, and in general being an artist.

* Jealous Lockwood

* Lucy interacting with George’s family

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Plot twist. He was protecting her and he’s also a narcissist who loves fame and attention

Realizing that Lockwood was protecting Lucy the whole time by taking all the fame and attention onto his shoulders. He wasn’t the one who should’ve been praised, it was Lucy. He was just a screen that was pulled down to protect her and her gift.

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Book lucy would hate show Lucy for being emotionally mature and caring about her physical appearance. She’d also hate how show Lucy is afraid of what she does. Book Lucy was fearless. Show Lucy is fearful, but she still does things in face of fear. Show Lucy wouldn’t hate book lucy, but she would be very annoyed with how she behaves.

While I speculate that the show made the decision to nudge up the characters ages so that it was more feasible using older actors as well as to relate more to their target audience, I am bummed that they made Lucy so much older when she is forced to become an agent. 13, I think? While in the books, she's 8. I'm sure there's a reasonable production reason, but it unfortunately turns Lucy into a all too common "reluctant heroine" instead of the "child soldier" that so much of her personality and motivations are carved from. Much of her character flaws, character development, and the situations she finds herself in all revolve around her navigating her narrow sense of self.

It's late and I'm not really sure where I'm going with this, other than it would have been so interesting to see this particular angle play out on screen. I find tv Lucy miles more emotionally intelligent than book Lucy and I'm not sure how believable some of her later actions would have come across on screen. I would have loved to find out though.

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Lockwood being 18 makes sense to me. Cause that’s like an age where you are technically an adult, but at the same time you are very much a teenager. It’s not like your brain becomes an adult brain the second. You go from 17 to 18

I do wonder why they made Lockwood and Lucy have a 2 year age gap. Cause he’s 18 and she’s 16. Why not just make her 17?

While I speculate that the show made the decision to nudge up the characters ages so that it was more feasible using older actors as well as to relate more to their target audience, I am bummed that they made Lucy so much older when she is forced to become an agent. 13, I think? While in the books, she's 8. I'm sure there's a reasonable production reason, but it unfortunately turns Lucy into a all too common "reluctant female heroine" instead of the "child soldier" that so much of her personality and motivations are carved from. Much of her character flaws, character development, and the situations she finds herself in all revolve around her navigating her narrow sense of self.

It's late and I'm not really sure where I'm going with this, other than it would have been so interesting to see this particular angle play out on screen. I find tv Lucy miles more emotionally intelligent than book Lucy and I'm not sure how believable some of her later actions would have come across on screen. I would have loved to find out though.

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I don’t mind the characters being aged up. I will say though that book Lucy’s actions and behaviors would be very odd with how show Lucy acts. Like I can’t see show Lucy acting like how Lucy does in the books. I think she’d be annoyed with that type of behavior

While I speculate that the show made the decision to nudge up the characters ages so that it was more feasible using older actors as well as to relate more to their target audience, I am bummed that they made Lucy so much older when she is forced to become an agent. 13, I think? While in the books, she's 8. I'm sure there's a reasonable production reason, but it unfortunately turns Lucy into a all too common "reluctant heroine" instead of the "child soldier" that so much of her personality and motivations are carved from. Much of her character flaws, character development, and the situations she finds herself in all revolve around her navigating her narrow sense of self.

It's late and I'm not really sure where I'm going with this, other than it would have been so interesting to see this particular angle play out on screen. I find tv Lucy miles more emotionally intelligent than book Lucy and I'm not sure how believable some of her later actions would have come across on screen. I would have loved to find out though.

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Sleeping Beauty AU when?

Little pen sketch of Locklyle as Prince Philip and Aurora 🖤💙

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She definitely groomed him. And I think that Penelope is trying to groom Lucy as well. (Grooming isn’t always sexual)

I do think in this world grooming goes unnoticed. These kids live in a world where they not only risk their lives, but they pay bills, they live on their own. They are basically like adults. However they shouldn’t be. They are kids. So when an adult treats them like they are equals to them. They just see it as the adult validating them and treating them like they are peers.

But that shouldn’t be the case. Cause yes while adults should treat children with respect and validate them. They aren’t peers with adults

I feel like we ignore that Pamela and George was pedophillic a lot.

Joplin looks like she’s in her thirties and poor George is sixteen.

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He says it like it’s so obvious

Can we talk about the fact that HE CHUCKLED after saying something so unhinged? This man is a psychopath

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I think he does want Lucy to hurt in a way. She hasn’t been listening to him throughout the whole book. She’s been kinda of pushing back on him (not fully cause book Lucy lacks self respect until TCS) but I think he wants to be like “this is what happens when you don’t follow me. I’ll just find someone else. Someone better than you” course it blows up in his face and he doesn’t mean it but I think he wants her to think that he will if she doesn’t start to listen

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

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I see it. I raise you. Cafe scene. Lucy saying “you once said I was more of liability than an asset. You were right”

In season 2, I hope we get the scene with Lucy and Lockwood arguing in his room following the Bloody Footprints case and they have them circle back to Lockwood’s ‘you’re more of a liability’ speech from S1 but this time he says ‘I once called you a liability but now I’m actually starting to believe it’.

Cue Lucy broken-hearted face and sad guitar soundtrack

(and before anyone tries to tell me the bad news 🤫 yes I know; I’m manifesting)

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The my American ass thought you meant American football

Lockwood likes cricket

George likes F1

Lucy likes Football

Thank you and goodnight

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Definitely agree with this. The one thing I never got is if he truly cared about her opinions did why did he exclude her from the hiring process?

Holly, Lockwood, and Jessica

I think the reason Lockwood is so quickly comfortable with Holly (as opposed to the formalities he went through with Lucy) is because Holly reminds him of Jessica. Not in the same way Lucy does, mind you, but it's still there. Holly is gentle, kind, practical, and motherly, and she's older than Lockwood.

The thing is, by the time Holly's on the scene, Lockwood hasn't had a motherly presence in roughly seven years. He hasn't been taken care of in seven years. While Lucy provides much needed feminine energy for the company, she is still younger than him, more of a peer than a comforting maternal figure.

Lockwood likes Holly and he trusts Holly, but he is more *outwardly* protective of Holly than Lucy. Part of this is because he doesn't know how much Holly can handle, given her past situations, and he knows full-well Lucy's strength. But I think there's more. I think he can't bear the thought of not protecting his new sister. He can't lose Lucy because of how close they are. But he can't lose Holly because of who he sees in her.

And I think that's why it bothers him so much that Holly and Lucy don't get along. For once, things are going right for Lockwood. He has his best friend, George. His colleague turned best friend turned crush, Lucy. And a new sister. But the person who he cares about the most, whose opinion is most important to him, can't stand to be in the presence of this new sister.

Bonus points for the terrible, sinking, nauseating question of whether or not Lucy would have liked Jessica.

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This reminds me of how you can show brutal violence and blood and gore in American cable television. But you can’t show any type of explicit sexual act.

Children's novels are so funny because a character can die brutally but as long as nobody swears it's ok

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Please make more posts with this game

George: I’ve got a new game. It’s called Rapier or Lucy. I give you real things I’ve heard Lockwood say and you have to tell me if he was talking to his rapier or his girlfriend.

Holly:

Lockwood: I don’t think I like this game.

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It’s really pushing Locklyle. This boy was super depressed, until he met a girl and his life changed. Which is honestly pretty accurate to the books

This is a weird summary, right?

I guess it's because it's making Lockwood the main character

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It should be noted that other characters also comment on George’s physical appearance and make fun of him about it. It does give me an iffy feeling. I’m glad they cut it in the show

(TW: body image, fatphobia)

Ok oof this has been in my drafts for MONTHS but I still think it’s important so I’m gonna close my eyes and queue it 🙈

I feel like we need to open discussion about fatphobia in the Lockwood and Co books. I spent 5 mins the other day scrolling through one star reviews on Goodreads (because I saw one who said Lucy is a boring narrator(?!) which baffled me because she’s great???), but most of the negative reviews pointed out that Lucy is always commenting about George’s appearance negatively in one way or another, and I do agree this is true but I wondered what other people thought.

I think this happens a bit more in the first couple of books, which are the ones I’ve read the least recently making my memory a bit fuzzy.

I don’t have any real salient points to say on this topic (yet), but here’s some stuff maybe to get us started:

Lucy is an unreliable narrator in general. It doesn’t make anything bad she says acceptable, but it’s something to consider because we are seeing absolutely everything from a subjective point of view

We know Lucy has low self esteem and body image/insecurities which I guess projects onto how she views others too

I think there’s value in the contrast between Lucy judging people on appearances and then George completely not seeing outward appearances which we start to see more of later on

Please let’s all be calm and respectful if you do have anything to add! We can all learn from each other :)

(and pls pls let me know if I need to add more tws)

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“Never be so kind, you forget to be clever” (Lucy)

“Never be so clever, you forget to be kind” (George)

“Never be so polite, you forget your power” (Holly)

“Never wield such power, you forget to be polite” (Lockwood)

Marjorie- Taylor Swift

I feel like some of these aren’t the most accurate but I just did like the close enough