Manipulative is interesting :) I suppose I very much notices both Lockwood and Nelly because at the time i was trying very hard to figure out how to plot a thing I was trying to write. I was about a person coming into a situation and slowly discovering what's been going on, but it wasn't exactly a detective plot. And I was having a lot of trouble with them figuring it out step by stem - how to make both plots interact interestingly rather than take from each other, how the protagonist might try to figure things out, and how they might manage to, without taking steps too big and without just being told. WH started out like it was going to do exactly that, and I was excited to read something that did what I was trying to do and see what made it work - but then it didn't really. So I certainly noticed Nelly and Lockwood.
I always thought that story about Lockwood's failed little ~romance was meant to be silly and funny, another example of his buffoonery--like how he mistakes a pile of dead rabbits for cats or piteously falls neck-deep in snow. IIRC, he had merely ~decided they were in love after sharing a bunch of glances and hadn't even talked to her, essentially fabricating a Great Romance in his mind that didn't actually exist.
Och, the way you describe it makes it seem so interesting and delightful...
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I suppose I very much notices both Lockwood and Nelly because at the time i was trying very hard to figure out how to plot a thing I was trying to write. I was about a person coming into a situation and slowly discovering what's been going on, but it wasn't exactly a detective plot. And I was having a lot of trouble with them figuring it out step by stem - how to make both plots interact interestingly rather than take from each other, how the protagonist might try to figure things out, and how they might manage to, without taking steps too big and without just being told. WH started out like it was going to do exactly that, and I was excited to read something that did what I was trying to do and see what made it work - but then it didn't really. So I certainly noticed Nelly and Lockwood.
I always thought that story about Lockwood's failed little ~romance was meant to be silly and funny, another example of his buffoonery--like how he mistakes a pile of dead rabbits for cats or piteously falls neck-deep in snow. IIRC, he had merely ~decided they were in love after sharing a bunch of glances and hadn't even talked to her, essentially fabricating a Great Romance in his mind that didn't actually exist.
Och, the way you describe it makes it seem so interesting and delightful...