#lockwood and co the hollow boy spoilers

[skullandco]

Was listening to The Hollow Boy and in the news article at the end of the book they mention "Quill F. Kipps"??? Hello?? That means that Mr. Quill Kipps has a middle name starting with the letter F and I do not believe that we have any information telling us what this middle name is. (Correct me if I am wrong because I am dumb enough to get this wrong)

So now I ask you, WHAT DO YOU THINK THE F STANDS FOR GUYS GIVE ME YOUR MOST OUTRAGEOUS ANSWERS OR THE MOST GENERIC ONES EVER IDC I want to see the opinions of this strangely wonderful community.

Sorry if this post makes no sense or is weird I wrote it in about a minute and just had a huge amount of ice-cream so my brain is doing 20x more calculations per second than usual so yeah

[justjudethoughts]

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

[blue-boxes-magic-and-tea]

sometimes i wonder if i would’ve survived seeing lockwood reject and separate himself from lucy like in the hollow boy. like … would i have survived that or just imploded on the spot? seeing it all before my eyes i think would’ve hurt so bad idk if i would’ve made it

[bobbys-not-that-small]

this is quite possibly THE MOST savage thing I’ve read in my life:

[waterisntreal]

When I heard people talking about the “‘come off it.’ Lockwood said, ‘you know I’d die for you’” quote from the Hollow Boy I thought it was supposed to be cute or romantic or something, not Lockwood inadvertently confirm Lucy’s greatest fear

[carlyleandco]

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)

[pfirsichspritzer]

Lockwood and Co Appreciation Week 2024 - Day 2, Favourite Underrated Moment

The Lavender Lodge Case

This case is a literary masterpiece. It's got everything: suspense, action, humor, the skull being a snarky little shit

[crowcaws]

The "Come off it, you know I'd die for you" line that Lockwood gives to Lucy took me out when I saw it on Tumblr but with context it's like... It's so much better.

He says this after she tells him he shouldn't have jumped after her into a gaping dark hole that opened up in the earth and swallowed her into these hidden catacombs infested with ancient ghosts. She says "you shouldn't have come" and he says the line. He gives her his coat, the one he's ALWAYS wearing. The one that he wears like a mask or a cape, you know. His uniform that isn't a uniform. They're huddled in the dark with candles and they really should get out of there but he takes a minute to sit her down and make sure she's okay even though they're surrounded by the dead. They don't even know if the passage lets out anywhere. Lockwood didn't even know she was alive when he jumped in with no way to get back up!

It's not quite Percy jumping into Tartarus for Annabeth in terms of utter disregard for personal risk, but in the context of their universe, I think it's damn close enough.

[hiddenvioletsgrow]

The Hollow Boy hurts so much because Lucy didn’t leave out of petty jealously or a misunderstanding. She left because of the intense fear she’d cause the person she loved most(Lockwood) to die and what’s worse is, though it wasn’t true in the end, Lockwood was so close to actually fulfilling the fetch and then the fortune. His tie to life was that weak and his love for Lucy that strong.

[3storyofmylife3]

I wonder if the show would’ve made Lucy join Fittes instead of being a freelancer.

Like it would’ve hurt more because Lockwood had said to her “I can’t compete with this (Fittes)”.

And Lucy who assured him she didn’t care turns arounds and joins them😭.

[skullandco]

Started listening to The Hollow Boy on audiobook a little while ago and I'm constantly trying to prepare myself for the titanic emotional blow I'm going to face at You-Know-Which-Bit so wish me luck everyone.

Especially since I'm probably gonna be out and about IN PUBLIC when I listen to it.

Pray I'm strong enough.

[justjudethoughts]

Dancing phantoms on the terrace, are they second-hand embarrassed?

[vryfmi]

do you ever think about "penny for your thoughts" lines which were conversation starters used by both skull and lockwood when lucy was spiraling in THB, but only one of them actually listened and supported her, and it's not lockwood, or are you normal

[bobbys-not-that-small]

"Lockwoods a pedant!"

screenshots from THB, part 5/?

[waterisntreal]

How many nights after Lucy left do you think Lockwood spent lying awake wondering if she would become another person that he wasn’t there to save

[itripandfallalot]

I love these two passages juxtaposed together, because Lockwood immediately realizes the strength of Lucy's Talent, and as much as he's stunned and impressed (see here), he's scared this early on, which turns into a huge point of tension in their relationship.

Lucy is "feisty" and emotional early in the interview—a trait that attracts ghosts. Couple that with her Talent, and yikes.

I'll admit, I struggled to understand why Lockwood frowned here, but I think a big reason is that he sees the risk with Lucy almost instantly. She's able to connect with sources so powerfully here, drawing from them a level of specificity and detail that I'm sure was unnerving.

And given Lockwood's past, I think he finds this extremely worrisome. Lucy is too good not to pass up as an employee, but I think this is why, even early on, we see him pay such close attention to her. When he finds out she kept Annie Ward's source, he loses it at her, and when she starts to get too close to ghosts, obviously he's worried, given what happened to Jess.

But I think he clocked her right here as both a marvel, and someone he was going to have to look out for given her immense Talent and her emotions. I think part of the reason we see the tension explode in THB is that Lockwood has been worried and concerned since Lucy's interview. That early on. That long. But he had to take a risk—she's too good. And then THB, that calculated risk blows up in his face. But I'll get to that later. :D