Lockwood & Co.
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| Name: | Lockwood & Co |
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| Creator: | Jonathan Stroud |
| Date(s): | books: 2013-2016; show: 2023 |
| Medium: | book series, tv series |
| Country of Origin: | United Kingdom |
| External Links: | Wikipedia, official website |
| Click here for related articles on Fanlore. | |
Lockwood & Co is a young adult fantasy book series written by Jonathan Stroud, author most famous for writing The Bartimaeus Trilogy. The series consists of five books: The Screaming Staircase, The Whispering Skull, The Hollow Boy, The Creeping Shadow, and The Empty Grave; and one novella: The Dagger in the Desk.
Canon
Books
In Lockwood & Co, readers are introduced into an AU where after an outbreak of ghosts in London, the government utilizes children's predisposition to sensing paranormal and employs them as ghost hunters. Lucy Carlyle, a young teen fresh from training to be a paranormal agent, quits her old job after a falling out with her lazy and inept adult boss and joins Lockwood & Co. Lockwood & Co is a small, unsuccessful business run solely by Anthony Lockwood, a handsome teenage boy with a sparkling personality and even more sparkly teeth, and grumpy and irritable George Cubbins, a short and fat boy who is more inclined to laze about and stuff his face than face any ghosts. Readers explore yet another amazing and fantastic world created by Stroud and follow Lucy's adventures with Lockwood & Co as she tackles difficult paranormal cases, explore her teammate's mysterious past, and discover some secrets about herself too.
Show
The Netflix adaptation also titled Lockwood & Co premiered on January 27, 2023. In this, the characters have been aged up to older teenagers. George's last name has also been changed to Karim.
The first season follows the plot of the first two novels. The show was canceled in May 2023.
Characters
+ appears only in the books
Fandom
The main ship is Lucy/Lockwood (also called Lucewood, or Locklyle). Other popular ships are Lucy/Lockwood/George and Lockwood/George. Gen fics and art are also very popular. The main trio is often called the Iron Trio or Ghost Trio.
Fandom is active on Tumblr, Twitter, and TikTok, where there is currently a large push to #SaveLockwoodandCo in the face of cancellation by Netflix in May 2023. Save Lockwood & Co is the tumblr home for efforts to get the show picked up by another studio. There are also Discord groups for the general show, and ship specific ones. The Lockwood Chaos Discord is currently active with over 400 members. They have an AO3 collection with 238 fics as of 6/13/2023.
Fanfiction
Tropes often written about are hurt/comfort, angst, found family, and general trio friendship. Characters are often aged up. The 5+1 format has flourished in this fandom, increasing with the release of the show.
Fanfiction on Archive of Our Own for Locklyle increased by over 700 in 2 months after the show's release. As of March 31, 2023, there are 830 works under the TV show, and 1156 works under the novel; many works are tagged with both properties. Fanworks also exist on Fanfiction.net; it hosts 222 fics for the books and show.
Ships
- Lucewood
- George/Lockwood
- Skull/Cubbins
- Lucy/Holly
- Lockwood/Kipps
- Lockwood/Holly
- Bones/Lockwood
- Lucy/Skull
- Lucy/George
- Lucy/Kipps
- George/Holly
- COT3 Lockwood/Lucy/George
Events
- Lockwood&Co BigBang Active in 2018.
- Lockwood & Co Angst Week 2023~
- Locklyle Week 2023~
- Lockwood & Co Appreciation Week 2023~
- This appreciation week was ran from the tumblr of manikas-whims, not a specific account for the event.
- This big bang has three options for authors: teeny bang (5-10k words), mini bang (10-20k words), and big bang (20k+ words). The reserve agent role is for people who've signed up to be fill-ins for when author's drop out; they only need to write half of the original word count. Artists create at least one piece for teeny and mini bangs, and at least two pieces for a big bang. Almost anything falls under art: traditional and digital fanart, moodboards, gifs, etc. Cheerleaders help keep the artists and writers going, and help beta the work.
- Announcement Post Weekly writing challenge where creators have 48 hours to write for a random photo prompt.
Lockyle Week 2023 Prompts
Lockwood & Co Angst Week 2023 Prompts
Fanworks
| Examples Wanted: Editors are encouraged to add more examples or a wider variety of examples. |
Fanart
- Lucy Carlyle by YukiTheDemigod
- Anthony Lockwood by niji707
- George Cubbins by fantasyfanrocks1
- Scene from Screaming Staircase by YukiTheDemigod
- george’s turn by lucy-j-carlyle
Fanfic
- Incidents by BlueSuedeShoes23. Locklyle
- Ghosts aren't the only thing keeping Lucy Carlyle up at night. Lately, it seems to Luce that Lockwood has been using any excuse he can to make her blush. Is it all in her head, or is Anthony Lockwood a notorious tease? A series of loosely-connected oneshots.
- Old Ghosts and New Family by Flames and Fairy Tales. Gen Fic
- A phone call with bad news sends the members of Lockwood and Co. up to the North of England so Lucy can be with her family. Meanwhile, the agency tries to deal with a dangerous ghost haunting the local train station.
- thus with a kiss... by IndecisiveScribbler. Lucy/Norrie.
- A post-case celebration at 35 Portland Row leads into Lucy telling the story of her first kiss.
Meta
Zines
- Skull Zine-- a zine dedicated to The Skull.
- Night : A Lockwood and Co. Zine Published 10/31/18.
Archives & Fannish Links
- Lockwood & Co works at AO3
- Lockwood & Co & crossover works at FFN
- Tumblr tags: lockwood and co
- Lockwood & Co Wikia