#my headcanon is he gets a peculiar twist in his gut when he sees her first thing

[demonbarberofbeepbeep]

morning toddheads

#swucy #doomed lovers doomed doomed doomed #each blinded by their own particular madness #but reaching for reach other REACHING REACHING #the way he's always looking away from her #always brooding on his wrongs what happened who knows how many years agooo #he's weeping for yesterday #but sweeney it's right in front of you #they're both such deeply broken people #lucy careening from begging to soliciting to harassing to prophecying with her fractured mind #but still she gets this little bit of lucidity to ask again and again #don't i know you mister? #and he just can't see her #my headcanon is he gets a peculiar twist in his gut when he sees her first thing #he writes it off #he doesn't want to even consider that it could be her #that would be too painful #he's still hoping to come home to a loving wife and child #the way things were #and then right after that mrs lovett tells him that she is dead #and then he doesn't see her again til he murders her #but she haunts fleet street #she's looking for her family even if she can't quite remember them #poor thing... #lucy barker #text post meme #idk at first i couldn't see the love between them #because you never see it in their interactions until she's dead #but then all i could see was the love #it's driving both of them