the ❰❰ captions ❱❱ meme

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THE ❰❰ CAPTIONS ❱❱ MEME

o1. Drop a comment header listing your character and their canon.

o2. Under it, reply with comments with icons, pictures or gifs of the character, just one per comment — please link and content warn for any major spoilers or sensitive images!

o3. Tag around ICly with what your character thinks everyone else is doing, 'thinking' or "saying" in their images. The more absurd, the truer to life.

o4. Thread onwards, profit...!

Comments

Anthony Lockwood | Lockwood and Co

[recklessenough]

[recklessenough]

[reparo]

That's very considerate.

[recklessenough]

I was raised to always be a good host.

[ Skewering one's guest probably went against that ideal, but shhhh. ]

[reparo]

And are you used to dealing with a lot of people breaking and entering in you house?

[recklessenough]

Are we counting both dead and alive? Or only the living?

[reparo]

The living - it's not as if ghosts are going to steal your possessions. What use have they got for things, you know?

[recklessenough]

Well they may not steal things, but the ghosts have the nearly one hundred percent murder rate if they get in your house.

Of the two, I'd rather have to deal with filing a B&E report, than being dead.

[reparo]

Huh - we must be familiar with different ghosts.

[recklessenough]

I'm finding that to be the case, with most people I meet here.

So yes, short version, the dead having been rising and visiting the living for about five decades, and if a ghost touches a living person, it kills. The death count in England alone is close to two million.

[reparo]

I am making a lot of assumptions here, mind you, but something tells me we are from two completely different Englands. All my ghosts do is annoy students at a boarding school.

[vestments]

( marc may not be especially appearance-proud, but— )

Were you told you'd grow into the jacket?

[recklessenough]

Hey now! [ He has impeccable fashion sense and all his suits are tailor made!

Wait. The suits are tailor made. His overcoat however... ]

Actually, that's my work overcoat. It's designed to be a little large because it has to hold and cover my kit. It's not easy to tuck a rapier, salt bombs, magnesium flares, a torch, thermometer, and Greek fire in a Saville Row pocket!

[vestments]

I know a guy — New York, ( not saville row ), very good at fitting to precise needs and means.

Crescent darts. Truncheon. Etcetera.

( "etcetera" he says, but there isn't really anything else. )

He has specific days depending on which way your needs fall.

[recklessenough]

Tempting. [ Actually his voice sounds genuine right there. Lockwood is more than a bit of a secret clothes horse. ] But I don't get out of London very often, work keeps me busy. I also doubt that your friend exists in my version of Earth.

[ Another pause, but then quickly. ] Crescent darts?

[vestments]

Same reason I don't often leave New York these days. But you know what they say: all work and no play.

—Throwing darts shaped like crescent moons. ( obviously. )

[recklessenough]

I find the idea of play to be overrated. [ Having time to 'play' means down time. Down time means time to think. Lockwood tries to avoid that at all costs. ]

Ah. I'd think the shape would make targeting a challenge, unless you throw on a horizontal?

[vestments]

That depends on the what, in my experience. Sometimes the two align. ( or — marc agrees, actually. he tries to avoid being 'marc spector' as much as he possibly can. )

I manage well enough.

[recklessenough]

I'll take your word for it. [ Nope. Just nope. Down time lead to contemplation, consideration of emotions, the grieving of loss. Lockwood ain't got no time for that. ]

I can manage a good pitch with a salt bomb, but prefer to keep my hand on any bladed weapon.

[vestments]

I've found few can go wrong with fists.

A baseball bat's a good second.

[recklessenough]

Re: Anthony Lockwood | Lockwood and Co

[recklessenough]

[downswing]

You had encountered fresh means to join skirmish.

[recklessenough]

Not as inaccurate a read of the situation as one might expect.

[recklessenough]