sorry george i love you but i am clocking you in a fight

(if you don't know the character just go off of vibes)

actually its george and its salty from lockwoods tears

lockwood gives this to lucy when she leaves in THB btw

forever grateful for the gentle nature of Lockwood's teasing of Lucy. as someone who also grew up in a highly critical household, it's lovely. he calls her silly and says that she's maddening in the softest tone of voice in the world, almost like he knows, like he doesn't want her to think for one second that he means it badly

you're a liability, he says. meaning that, sure, she makes things harder sometimes--where George calls her unhinged, Lockwood calls her quirky--but he wouldn't change it for the wide world. she could lose her Talent tomorrow and she would still have a home and a family and him, now and always

NO WAY THIS IS SO COOL AND CUTE OMG

lucy carlyle would’ve rocked tights under denim shorts with doc martens and you literally cannot convince me otherwise

lucy carlyle would’ve rocked tights under denim shorts with doc martens and you literally cannot convince me otherwise

I can’t believe Lucy got the skull in the divorce.

No one was ready for this level of girl boss queen energy she served likeeee she gagged the hell out of lockwood and george they had to pick their jaws up off the floor

there will never be another character that is so me ever again

I love Lucy Carlyle so much.

She’s just so real. I love how she has real flaws and insecurities, it just makes her so much more relatable. I don’t know how Jonathan Stroud was able to perfectly portray the experience of being an insecure teenage girl, but he really nailed it. The way she reacted to Holly, the way she saw herself, the way she dressed, all of it was so relatable, at least to my experiences.

I really understand why she was jealous of Holly, in that situation I would have been jealous too. I understand her struggle with her appearance, how and why she chooses to dress down because she doesn’t feel comfortable dressing up. And it never feels like she’s just being “not like the other girls” it feels like she’s a real girl with real insecurities.

But my absolute favorite part about it is that her insecurities never define her, they’re just there and she’s accepted and she’s an amazing main character. I’m so sick of seeing girls in media being like “I’m so insecure uwu” but you just know that she’s actually gorgeous. Lucy never feels like that for me. Yeah, I think she’s prettier than how she views herself, I think everyone is. But I never imagine her as the unattainably pretty that most girls in media are, and she still gets the boy lmao.

She’s just so special to me and I love her.

Lockwood & Co where everything’s exactly the same but they’re all wearing hoodies all the time

you guys don’t get it he was HER protector first!!!

Anyway. Sorry to be an English major on main but yes all stories have meanings and say things

annabeth watching the poseidon, the god percy never defended and actively insulted not to hesitate to save him at the arch when athena, who annabeth had always defended and loved actively let the mother of monsters in to somewhere that would’ve been a safe haven for her

annabeth watching percy get offered godhood after losing luke, thalia joining the hunteresses and sacrificing everything in battle

annabeth watching thalia get offered a position as a huntress after annabeth was the one actively looking to join them

annabeth watching hermes, the father luke renounced shout at her and blame her for his downfall because hermes cares about luke so much whilst her godly parent doesn’t seem to care whether she lives or dies

annabeth watching a mortal (rachel) and percy essentially take over leading her quest after training to lead a quest since she was seven years old

annabeth watching both of percy’s parents try to look after him whilst she can’t seem to find one half decent parent who cares about her

yeah she’s better than me i’d burn olympus to the ground

the way that jonathan stroud wrote lucy and lockwood as characters that directly parallel each other in everything!!! she Listens and he Sees. he’s the title character and she’s the narrator. she has this great power and he wants to build a great agency. when apart she’s just as reckless as he is. even down to their likes and dislikes: she hates orange juice pulp and he loves it if only to pretend he’s a whale. she leaves to protect him and he comes back to protect her. she wants to communicate with ghosts and he wants to fight them. they have matching white streaks!!!! they are the most alike and the most different and that is why they work. literally no one has ever created such a compelling relationship with such compelling characters!!!!

I love Lucy Gray so of course I hate Coriolanus

reading about them is so painfully good i cant describe it

Honestly, I think from the moment that Percy found out that not every demigod has a loving mortal parent they can depend on, when they already can't depend on the gods, and that Annabeth specifically, hasn't had anyone take care of her like that since she was 7, he decided he would be the one to.

They take care of each other up to that point, but I think that's when he starts noticing how much she takes care of them. She already knew if she didn't no one else will. She protects them against humans, she stands with them against monsters, she always brings up the rear of the group when they're running, and she is always the first one to make a move when they're fighting. She does it because no one is going to protect her if she doesn't do it herself. No one is going to protect Grover and Percy if she isn't.

In the arch, he pretty much tells her he would fight the gods for her, and then he goes on to do just that.

Athena, the one person who was supposed to protect her willingly pushes monsters her way, she lets Echidna and the chimera into a place that was supposed to be safe. Her decision is that Annabeth should be punished, and say what you want, but I think she knew that Annabeth would think through every scenario and know that someone had to stay and hold them back. And I think she knew that Annabeth would be the one to stay. Because that's the way she raised her, knowing that no one cared whether she lived or died. And I think that's the cruellest part.

Which is why Percy's sacrifice means so much more. He not only made the decision to trade his life for hers and fight the monster so she and Grover could escape, but he also made the conscious choice to push back against Athena's wishes. He fought a goddess for her, Athena said "Annabeth will die for her impertinence" and Percy said "Not today, not ever"