every single l&co character is basically a different taste of āsole survivorā trope
Lucy is the most obvious and most āby the bookā example of said trope. it was sheer luck that saved her, and now sheās not only heavily traumatised by witnessing death of all her childhood friends in that mill but also suffered from townsfolkās judgemental looks at her. ādid she chicken out and left others to die?ā, āif she helped, would have others make it to the morning?ā thatās the hardest part in being the last survivor - others will judge you for the fact that you are alive. no wonder Lucy had left her hometown.
Lockwood isā¦ wellā¦ how do i put well an orphan. but heās also the last survivor of his parentsā idea. yes, he didnāt know it till the very end, but heās been unconsciously following and improving upon it. if Celia and Donald were killed because of their discovery, and Jessica died due to her inexperience with ghosts, Lockwood had overcome all of it. he completed his parentsā work and neutralized many sources to save even more people.
George, on the other hand, isnāt that much of a survivor in the literal sense, unless you look at it from very specific angle. George was eager for knowledge, he was asking questions, was trying to get to bottom of it ever since he worked for fitties. but times and times again he was punished, restrained. where others had given up in their researches, embraced propaganda, George stayed true to himself. yes he was fired, in order to cut him off the access to said knowledge, but he never gave up. also worthy of note: he was the only one who survived looking into bone mirror.
out of team of four Holly was the sole survival. that traumatic experience made her leave agent path but stay in the agency, now working in office of rotwell. Holly has great fear of poltergeists, and that fear isnāt gone, on contrary, after events in aickmereās store, it might have gotten worse. she probably blames herself in both cases, too.
Kipps is a miraculous survival of fitties regime. not only he worked so close to them, but constantly was going against inner agencyās plans. yet somehow Kipps wasnāt all that affected. he quit and wasnāt chased after or anything. maybe fitties dismissed him as a threat and just didnāt want to waste any resources on him. another point to make is that Kipps lived to his twenties. not many children in that universe make it that far.
Flo however is at most interesting example, because her trauma had broken her. no fantastic overcoming the harshness, no trying to make things work. just compare her livelihood to others: she developed severe claustrophobia (where she barely can stay in doors and have a roof over her head) after what she went through - death of her colleagues and nightmare of protecting herself with improvised weapon till morning. Flo left her agent career for good and cut ties with everything from her life prier the event. she works alone and far from people, barely resembling a person herself. itās tragic really
even skull! last of Bickerstaffās followers who couldnāt pass on after what theyāve discovered during theirsās life time. all of them were obsessed with death, yet, scared of it immensely. mirror had turned those people into restless souls not ready to leave living plane, but only skull, last remaining witness of deviceās creation, came in terms with death and moved on by himself, without his source being destroyed or thrown into fire oh wait a second
in conclusion why do lucy holly and flo all have same backstory
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