"no, please. go ahead and sit down. god knows i need a break from miss mystic falls planning."
life was a never ending stream of social events, now with a few murders sprinkled in. if carol didn't drink, she was going to lose her mind. a glass of wine was totally acceptable as long as she kept her composure. thank god that carol lockwood was good at keeping her composure above all else.
people spoke. whispers carried. let them say what they'd like , richard knew this : for most men , self-determination was a curse. what creature wanted to take the blame ?? to wrap the noose around their neck knowing that every maligned action that ultimately led them to their death was their own ?? better to be sheep ---- to rest cosseted in the wool pulled over their eyes. they'd wake in the morning , bland and uncurious , satiated in half-hearted murmurs. they'd die comforted by the thought that there was no other way things could've gone. this was how mystic falls functioned and how it always would.
he slid into the booth across from his wife. took her hand and pressed his lips to the back of it. " not overworking yourself , i hope ?? " a pointless question. he wouldn't of married her if she were lacking in ambition. " everything will go as it's meant to. " it had to. christ alive , something needed to go their way ....
โ FULL NAME:ย richard benjamin lockwood
โ AGE & DOB:ย fifty & december 28th ( capricorn )
โ SPECIES: werewolf ( untriggered )
โBIRTHPLACE & CURRENT RESIDENCE:ย mystic falls , virginia
โCURRENT OCCUPATION:ย mayor of mystic falls
โPAST OCCUPATION(S): city councilman , senior strategy & transformation managing consultant , channel strategy and program manager , senior project manager , project manager , private capital analyst
โGENDER IDENTITY & SEXUALITY :ย cis man & bisexual
โNATIONALITY & ETHNICITY:ย us american & mexican ( latino ) & white
โพย BACKGROUND โฝ
โFINANCIAL STATUS:ย wealthy
โEDUCATION LEVEL: college-educated ( bachelor's )
โSPOKEN LANGUAGE(S): english & spanish
โRELIGION:ย aesthetically catholic ; in practice ---- atheist
โพย RELATIONSHIPS โฝ
โFAMILY :ย charles & marรญa florencia lockwood ( parents ) ; mason lockwood ( brother ) ; tyler lockwood ( son ) jeffrey & gracie lockwood-hamilton ( nephew / niece )
โBEST FRIEND:ย grayson & miranda gilbert ( rip ) , bill forbes ( bailed ) , abby bennett-wilson ( also bailed )
โADVERSARY: to call alaric , liz , or logan an adversary would be to overestimate the importance they have to him ( but they do not vibe )
โPARTNER(S): carol lockwood
โTHEME SONG:ย mount everest - labrinth
โMOTTO/QUOTE:ย " you take it outside , fight your battles like men , and move on. best lesson my dad taught me. so let's settle it. fight. "
โพย HEADCANONS & FUN FACTS โฝ
โ richard taught mason to smoke cigarettes/cigars when they were kids ; despite this , he used to hate when mason ( or anyone else ) would smoke weed because of the smell ---- it gives him a headache ..... this doesn't mean he didn't find other ways to get high when he was younger and he still smokes when he's away from the public / when he can make it seem more classy and less nicotine addiction
โ double-majored in business and political science at whitmore college graduated summa cum laude , and had an incredibly difficult time rejecting the consulting jobs he was offered in nyc to come home and manage the family finances / estate / legacy
โ can count the number of people outside of his family that he's cared about on one hand. was closest with bill & grayson growing up ( though he got unexpectedly close with miranda and abby later on ). they were painfully well-loved by the community despite not being particularly good people ( around one another was the best time to let the mask slip ). with grayson & miranda dead and bill & abby doing god knows what , he's become more draconian and apathetic. there were plans that everyone knew. roles everyone knew. rules to abide by ..... then there weren't. richard isn't a fan of the change.
โ he does care for tyler , but would not have chosen to have any child in another life.
โ does not enjoy nature unless it's behind glass
โ unfortunately , quite similar to his own father.
โ were you wondering who the caroline forbes of the friend group was ? it wasn't bill ..... grayson left his stolen medical supplies strewn about the room once too often and richard tried to stab him with a pair of iris scissors in retaliation. he drove grayson and bill equally insane.
โ despite everything , he really does love carol and wants only good things for her. this does not make him a great husband.
โ hates holidays
โ intentionally staged an accident for a 18th vase because he was sick of looking at it
โ hates that he's in too respectable a position to get in a tousle anymore. he used to love a fight.
โ often thinks about the ways he could kill someone he's in polite conversation with when they begin to grate on him
โ frequently gets headaches because of how sensitive he is sensorially. relatedly , he needs to work in silence and doesn't care for too sweet or sour things
โ sometimes looks at carol and wonders who she may have been if they never married
โ there's a small scar creeping down from richard's temple from when mason accidentally smashed his head off the staircase when they were fighting as kids
โ at sixteen , he hit a dog with his car while driving home drunk from a party with carol , miranda , grayson , bill , and abby ( he got his license first ). the dog wasn't dead yet , but wasn't going to make it. there was a handgun in the glove compartment of his dad's car. grayson shot the dog. when they got back in the car , they told everyone it richard did it.
โพย POWERS & ABILITIES โฝ
โ telling people what to do & stressing out his wife / child & manipulating unsuspecting townsfolk & waiting until he gets in the car to start screaming
Hunger, Redโto sate a hunger or to stoke it, to feel hunger as a furnace, to trace its edges like teethโis this a thing you, singly, know? Have you ever had a hunger that whetted itself on what you fed it, sharpened so keen and bright that it might split you open, break a new thing out? Sometimes I think thatโs what I have instead of friends.
amal el-mohtar and max gladstone, this is how you lose the time war