Jean Thompson Locke was a member of the Locke family. She was the youngest daughter of Chamberlin Locke, and sister of John, Mary, and Ian Locke. She was also the great-grandmother of Tyler, Kinsey, and Bode Locke.
History[]
Jean Locke was born around the beginning of the twentieth century. For the first two decades of her life, Jean was aware and accustomed to the Locke's collection of magic keys.[1] When she was three, her father gave her and her sister, Mary, a dollhouse replica of Keyhouse as an early birthday present, along with a magic key to go with it. When they were playing with it, Jean left the key in the lock, and kept it active, allowing a spider to enter the dollhouse and, in effect, cause it to be giant in the real house, capturing many of the family members along the way. It chased her and her siblings through the house, until Jean was left alone with her cat Tiberius to confront it, unable to remove the key. Before the spider could finish her, Tiberius stuck its paw into the dollhouse and crushed the spider, saving Jean. That night, Tiberius slept in the dollhouse, allowing Jean to cuddle up in safety with her giant feline friend.[2] On a later date, Jean was present with the rest of the family, to see her brother, Ian, off as he departed to the moon.[3]
In Pale Battalions Go[]
In 1915, Jean wrote a fraudulent letter to help her brother, John, enlist in World War I. But the attempt was thwarted when their father brought John back before he could enlist, and John claimed he used the Music Box to compel her, so she wouldn't get into trouble. John eventually snuck off to the battlefield with the Anywhere Key, but when he was forced to retreat, he opened the way to Keyhouse, letting German forces in.[4][5] Jean witnessed a paranoid soldier accidentally impale her mother with his riffle. She ran away, where another soldier found her in her toy room, and she used the Teddy Key to cause all the stuffed bears to attack and kill the soldier. Her father arrived soon after, and she told him there were soldiers in the house and that her mother was hurt. Her mother died, and shortly after the funeral, her brother, John died, taking his own life.[6]
Hell & Gone[]
In 1927, she found her father, collapsed, as he crawled out of the Wellhouse. Inside was a monstrous echo of her late-brother, John, now suffering in Hell. After the echo faded when it left the Wellhouse, Jean cared for her father, as Mary went to England, planning to save their brother's soul.[7]
Grindhouse[]
In the 1930s, Jean continued living at Keyhouse with her sister, as well as her nephews and brother-in-law. Gangsters invaded Keyhouse, holding the whole family hostage. Two of the gangsters took the sisters upstairs, planning to rape them, and they went to the respective rooms. In Jean's room, the man, Louis Dassin, tore her dress, and Jean crawled through the Gender Door with Louis following after her. When they emerged, Jean, now a man, was much stronger and able to overpower the now-female Louis. After Mary and her boys killed the other two gangsters, the Locke family chased the female Louis out of Keyhouse.[1]
Later life[]
She lived through World War II and was known to her great-grandchildren as Jean Ray.[8] She was presumably, injured by the War, or involved in it,[9] as her lover, Hans Riffel, created a key that made adults forget about the key's magic as soon as they stepped into Keyhouse.[8] Its purpose was said to "stop adults from getting their hands" on the keys—making children, like Duncan or Bode Locke, most able to seek out and find the keys.[10]
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References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Locke & Key: Grindhouse. August 29, 2012
- ↑ Locke & Key: Small World. November 23, 2011
- ↑ Locke & Key: Open the Moon. November 23, 2011
- ↑ Locke & Key: ...In Pale Battalions Go... #1. August 26, 2020
- ↑ Locke & Key: ...In Pale Battalions Go... #2. October 7, 2020
- ↑ Locke & Key: ...In Pale Battalions Go... #3. December 16, 2020
- ↑ Locke & Key: Hell & Gone #1. April 14, 2021
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Locke & Key: Clockworks #3, "The Tamers of the Tempest". December 14, 2012
- ↑ Locke & Key: Guide to the Known Keys. November 23, 2011
- ↑ Locke & Key: Clockworks #4, "The Whispering Iron". February 1, 2012