Oh, I saw in the notes that you want!
First of all, this is considering the Editor to not be someone we already know (though I love those theories). Also, I imagine him as a guy because, you know, gendered first language 🤷
- Mr. Editor was never involved with a secret organization in all of his life, which is one of the reasons Lemony chose him specifically for the job.Â
- He learned the stuff the same way we all did: reading the books. He had no idea of what he was getting into. He only accepted this job because the idea of a supposedly dead wanted criminal risking everything to publish children’s literature was too intriguing for him to let the chance pass.
- He was suspicious of Lemony at first, but started trusting him when they were around book five. Mr. Editor started believing he was a truly good person with good intentions and innocent of what he was accused of. Then he got to read the draft of book eight, with all the confessions, which made him realize he knew nothing of Lemony. I am writing a fic about this.
- Lemony tries to be all mysterious, but when he is not out of the city doing research, he mostly stays in the same small apartment, of which Mr. Editor has not only the address but a spare key as well.Â
- Mr. Editor visits him constantly and his visits almost always start with “what the heck, Lemony?”. Usually, it refers to the contents of one of his books, or to the fact that Lemony completely ignores all duties related to his books except for writing them. Sometimes, it refers to some careless public action, or to the state of the apartment, or to the state the Editor finds Lemony in. A few times it is only to keep the habit.
- Lemony doesn’t want to have anything but a purely professional relationship to his Editor, as everyone who gets close to him gets in heavy danger. But Mr. Editor is not having any of it.
- I mentioned the state the Editor finds Lemony in sometimes. Lemony has some hard days in which he feels especially down, with no motivation to work or to even get up from whatever place he slept on (usually a messy, paper covered couch, or the seat at his working table). He gets overwhelmed by loss and grief and a feeling that his work is for nothing and that everything will stay horrible no matter what he does. The Editor at first has no idea of what to do, since he can’t relate to Lemony’s life experiences at all, but he starts researching about mental health and tries to do whatever he can to help.
- It’s hard for him to convince Lemony to get out of the apartment, or to even open his curtains, because he is also very scared and convinced that his enemies could be anywhere, but the Editor manages to sometimes. They walk together, or go to a nearby restaurant for some root beer or another drink.
- (They never get tea because the one time they did, Lemony started acting very weirdly after the Editor got sugar with his. They don’t talk about it. The Editor eventually understands, after book twelve.)
- The Editor has constant headaches since he started working with Lemony but he doesn’t regret it.
- The Editor sometimes literally drags Lemony around.
- They got drunk together once. It was a whole night of only making fun of each other’s names.
- Lemony never calls the Editor by his first name. It’s always “Mr. Editor”. At first, it is to keep the distance between them, later it’s just because it would feel weird to do it.
- The Editor calls Lemony in many different ways, depending on his mood.Â
- Mr. Editor can easily tell if a letter supposedly from Lemony is real or fake. He never got it wrong.
- Mr. Editor sent many letters to Lemony, both to his apartment and to many temporary addresses. Lemony keeps them all but never answered any.
- After The End, the Editor once asked jokingly if he was a volunteer now. Lemony replied, very serious, that he could be if he wanted to. The Editor made a comment about matching tattoos, to which he received as answer an awful stare and an embarrassing silence.
- The Editor was one of the first people Lemony showed willingly his tattoo to in years, and one of the few non-volunteers to ever see it.
- It kills Mr. Editor inside that he can’t publicly defend Lemony from the accusations he keeps receiving.
- Whenever Mr. Editor shows any negative emotion to Lemony, the first thing Lemony says is “You know you don’t need to do this. You can leave me any time.”
- (It also kills Mr. Editor inside to hear it.)
- Even after their work together was finished, they kept in touch. This was helpful when Lemony decided to publish again. No riddles or crazy codes to get the manuscripts this time.
(Real life publishing situations do not affect my hcs let me be happy with my writer and editor otp)
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