35 PortlandRow.

What lies beyond truth is love.

爱即真相。

*participation work in 西冷计划 2026

landlord with a tragic past

[id: a two panel comic with dialogue being tumblr reblog branch. Holly and Lucy (Lockwood and Co books) stand in Portland Row's library, Lucy talking to skull in the jar at a mantepiece, Holly on the foreground is saying judgingly: "listen i consider myself an empathic person but after a certain point i get sick of other people’s problems. my friend is always talking about how the jewel-eyed skull on their mantlepiece is tormenting them w its sinister beauty and im over it. like dude i don’t want to talk about this anymore. get rid of the fucking skull". in the second panel Lucy and skull turn towards Holly with angry expressions, Lucy's saying: "you’ are biased against my skull", to which Holly, looking to the side indiferently, is saying: "i’m not having this argument again man"./end id]

35 Portland Row texts Part 4: Lucy and the skull

Like I think it is intended to be ambiguous, specifically for those who would like to believe of the ghost had passed on, but it’s pretty clear from its last conversation with Lucy that it is interested in becoming an associate member of Lockwood and Co and it’s just kind of being like what? Who me? I would never? In its usual way.

And I always interpreted the green flicker Lucy saw of the corner of her eye as like possible wishful thinking, but really, when you think about what happened, it is totally in character for the skull

Like EVEN though it’s daytime and the skull SHOULD NOT POSSIBLY be able to fully manifest without the silver glass jar, it heard Lockwood totally fumbling asking Lucy out and her being an oblivious DORK about it.

And it is SO DETERMINED to manifest to make fun of her and Lockwood, that it ACTUALLY manages to appear for a moment.