Mary Brigid Locke was a member of the Locke family. She was a daughter of Chamberlin and Fiona Locke, sister of John, Ian, and Jean Locke, mother of Owen and an unnamed son, and wife of Art.
History[]
Mary and her family grew up with the magic of the Keys in their lives. For her tenth birthday gift, she and her sister, Jean, were given a Dollhouse of Keyhouse, with the Small World Key. Shortly after, because of the key, that night, she and her siblings had to combat a spider that enter into the Dollhouse while the key activated it, causing it to become huge in Keyhouse and attacked the family.[1] She was also present with her family, to see her brother, Ian, off when he left for the moon.[2]
In Pale Battalions Go[]
In 1915, Mary found John, now aged to adulthood, injured, as German soldiers infiltrated Keyhouse from a door opened by the Anywhere Key. Mary tried to get John into the Mending Cabinet, but a soldier stopped her and tried interrogating John. Mary used the Small World Key, and stabbed the soldier with a now-giant pencil. After Henrik Veidt knocked out Eric Murnau, he dragged him back through the door to the battlefield, telling the family he fatally injured Fiona. Mary took the Anywhere Key from the lock, and as the link to Keyhouse began to vanish, she warned the soldier not to come looking for them. Shortly after her mother's funeral, John soon took his own life.[3]
Hell & Gone[]
In October 4, 1927, Mary went to Wych Cross, England to speak with Roderick Burgess. She brokered a deal with him: one of the keys for an audience with an eternal being. She hoped this being might have had knowledge to deal with demons, which she could use to free her late brother, John, from Hell, and he can make peace with their father before he dies. When she arrived to Wych Cross, a boy wearing an unusual helmet had answered the door. He mentioned the mask gave him more interesting dreams, and took her to see his father. She met Rodrick, and gave him the key, and he took her to the basement, where the being was ritually confined in a globe, surrounded by a magic circle. She tried speaking to it, but it did not respond to her pleas. Rodrick laughed, saying that he only promised an audience with the creature, but never guaranteed that it would help her. While Rodrick's back was turned, to leave, Mary saw the being silently swipe sand onto his glass prison, and drew the picture of the helmet that the boy was wearing, earlier. Later, using the Anywhere Key, she snuck into the boy's room, and told him that the Anywhere Key could take him to all the places he's always wanted to go. She let him take the key to the American wild west, and once she was alone, she put on the helmet and held the jewel with it, and went into the world of dreams.[4]
To be added...
Grindhouse[]
At some point, Mary continued living in Keyhouse with her husband, kids, and sister.
Sometime in the 1930s, their home was invaded by the Dassin brothers, and they held the family hostage. When two of the gang members planned to rape Mary and Jean, the sisters took them upstairs. While Jean dealt with her attacker, changing both their genders, Mary tricked the leader, Phillipe Dassin, into entering a room that was activated by the Bitey Key, causing him to be eaten. Her boys tricked the last gangster to go through the Ghost Door and trap him as a ghost, and the family scared off Jean's victim, now a female, out of Keyhouse.[5]
Info[]
Trivia[]
- Gabriel Rodriguez revealed via Twitter that Mary's character design was inspired by Falbalá from the Asterix comics, Barbarella, and Conan the Barbarian's Bêlit.[6]
- Both Gabriel Rodriguez and Joe Hill have stated Mary Locke as one of their top favorite characters in the series.[7]
References[]
- ↑ Locke & Key: Small World. November 23, 2011
- ↑ Locke & Key: Open the Moon. November 23, 2011
- ↑ Locke & Key: ...In Pale Battalions Go... #3. December 16, 2020
- ↑ Locke & Key: Hell & Gone #1. April 14, 2021
- ↑ Locke & Key: Grindhouse. August 29, 2012
- ↑
@GR_comics (Gabriel Rodriguez) on Twitter
- ↑ Locke & Key Creators Rank their Favorite Characters in the Series