What is it about locklyle's dynamic that intrigues you and endears them to you?
(btw this is not meant in a "explain yourself and i'm challenging you on this" way, but in a "i'd love to know more about your conception of these two characters who are also dear to me" way)
I LOVE THIS QUESTION okay buckle up lovelies
disclaimer: I tend to be a pretty basic girl when it comes to shipping. and yes i recognize that’s boring but i don’t care.
First of all (and maybe most important) I love their friendship. They bicker and tease and banter. They’re partners in crime. They find “greater peace and pleasure in one another’s company” than anyone else. They trust each other so deeply they can walk into death together and not be overcome. Friendship is the foundation of their love—and isn’t that exactly how it should be?
They meet each other where they’re at but they refuse to let the other person stay there. Lockwood gives Lucy trust and the opportunity to prove herself after she suffered something that could have made her lose all confidence… as well as the opportunity to learn to work with difficult people. Lucy takes one look at Lockwood’s emotional walls and secrets and steadfastly demands she be let in..
Lucy is the unwanted one. The girl who leaves. and Lockwood is the boy who gets left. Those are maybe their deepest wounds. And they hurt each other there… and still their friendship endures. Maybe grows stronger, because then they make it right.
And I think the climax of TEG is so telling because Lockwood begs Lucy to leave. The boy who was always abandoned is begging for it now, because it means she’ll be alive. And Lucy chooses to stay. Because she doesn’t want to live in a world without him in it.
Not to mention the fact that Lockwood chooses to stay with her, too. The way he says “you keep me safe”. Or him always demanding she stay behind while knowing she won’t listen to a word he says.
And “pick a box, Lucy.” and “at least we’d have the pleasure of each other’s company before my untimely end”. and “come off it, you know i’d die for you.” and “the room was brighter with him in it.”
If that’s not love, I don’t know what is.
(And I’m not even BRINGING UP the deliciously awkward tension and banter and her swinging down on a BLOODY TRAPEZE TO SAVE HIS BEHIND maybe i need a part 2…)
