the ❰❰ captions ❱❱ meme

[groundrules]

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

[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]

Fists and baseball bats go through ghosts without harming them.

Also, touching a ghost is instant death, so I'll stick with the salt bombs and the rapier.

[vestments]

Not if you're wearing the right outfit.

( but also, to be fair, marc typically does not deal with ghosts. )

And what's death to someone that's already dead?

[recklessenough]

My friends tend to get upset when I try to make that argument.

[ And we'll move the conversation right along, as he probably hadn't meant to say that aloud. ]

My outfit serves me well for the job I do, as I expect yours does for you. Since you have such a fine tailor.

[vestments]

I don't have any friends.

( not precisely true, still—. )

My outfit's designed for a purpose.

( marc "i want to be seen" spector. )