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[do-you-know-this-queer-character]

Do you know this queer character?

Duncan is Gay and uses he/him pronouns!

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TV Series Discussion: Locke & Key

Season 2 (2021)

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After their dad's murder, three siblings move with their mom to his ancestral estate, where they discover magical keys that unlock powers — and secrets.

Source: Netflix (2020)

So Very Lacking

Sometimes you seat down for a show, the plot's there, the acting's good. It's just going to be an entertaining time with the show. Yet, somehow, you're bored. That show is this season of Locke & Key for me.

I spent months on these ten episodes, ten episodes that I could put on 1.5x speed and play in the background. But I did not because even doing that was not worth my time. I did ultimately finish the show and it was upon finishing that I realised what was the problem with this season.

Locke & Key Season 2 picked up where the previous season left off. There was no time jump but it still felt like a period of time had passed. The villain of season 2 remained the same as season 1. Unfortunately, that's really where season 2 fell off. Dodge in this season seemingly had an evil plan: To create the demon key. And that was it.

We spent episode after episode for nothing much to develop. It was fun watching the Lockes do everything to regain Duncan's memories. However, it stopped being fun after Erin was killed. It became so boring afterwards. There was no strong main plot at all.

Everything felt absolutely below mediocre this season. The only thing I really enjoyed was watching the kids have an adult guidance once Duncan's memories were restored.

Personally, Locke & Key Season 2 was a filler season. An entire season was utterly unnecessary. Everything here could have been compressed into the first few episodes to build the storyline for the next villain.

Rating: ★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5)

More on Locke & Key here: Season 1

[hitchell-mope]

Great(.) Now he’s made the key forbidden fruit. Perfect(.)

[seaglassdinosaur]

Let’s take a moment to be grateful Duncan made it through the comic. Because Joe Hill really likes writing lines that are ironic and bitter in hindsight.

And in Clockworks volume 5, after the Black Door Incident little Duncan says:

Like. Let’s just be glad Hill didn’t do anything with that. No mental health crises for Duncan, no murder attempt that Dodge stages to look like a suicide so as to cover his tracks, no, Duncan’s absolutely fine. Probably the most stable member of the Locke family. That’s a win.

[readtilyoudie]

Bonus:

Locke and Key Vol 6

[ace-with--a-mace]

bitches be like "we need more evil women in media" and they cant even handle tashi duncan from challengers (2024)

[kal-derash]

Updating to add that Aaron is also Gil from Ginny and Georgia and Duncan from Locke and Key

But Shawn is Wesley from The Rookie and Brad from Cadet Kelly

It took me the longest time to realize that Shawn Ashmore (Bobby Drake from X-Men and Mike Weston from the Following)

Was not in fact Aaron Ashmore (Johnny Jaqobis from Killjoys and Jimmy Olsen from Smallville)

& that they were twins.

[jesterjaxx]

comic from a 2 month old conversation about Duntrent's first kiss being a shotgun to share a hit

Bonus Duncan when he gets home:

[fauxunraveling]

[donaweasley]

I need more...a LOT more on Duncan Locke!! Some reader-insert fics, too! Please!!

AARON ASHMORE as Duncan Locke in Locke & Key, Season 2

[effyoukeyhouse]

I didn't read the Locke & Key "...Only Bad" edition YET, but I read the summary on the wikia, since it snatched my interest as soon as I read the description: "an all-new ending… only bad." Ever since I finished the comics I've been hungry for more content about the Locke family after the canon series, so how could I wait to get a copy?

Spoilers under the cut.

Trigger warnings for: death, depression, suicide, mentions of sexual assault, alcoholism below

HOLY MCFUCKING SHIT

And of course, since I'm a slut for canon divergences and AUs, my mind tried to speculate on how the series would diverge from there, how the plot would proceed. I wondered about how Tyler and Kinsey would find the keys and stop Dodge without Bode, but I came to one conclusion in the end:

The plot wouldn't proceed at all. Because when you think about it, Bode is the reason his family survives the first arc of the series. And his death would spell that of his family's.

Tyler

In Issue #4 of "Welcome to Lovecraft", there's a scene where Tyler is stewing in his own guilt and self-loathing over what he believes is his part in his father's death. In the comic, it is strongly implied he's contemplating suicide, and in the audible it's confirmed.

But Bode comes and interrupts him, asking about a knock-knock joke. After Bode leaves, Tyler puts any thoughts of suicide out of his mind, fearing how it would affect Bode.

But now? After seeing his little brother get literally sliced in two by a freak accident? So soon, after his father's death, the death Tyler believes he's responsible for? Not to mention the likelihood of Tyler's guilt-warped mind twisting Bode's death into his own fault too? Not only would there be nothing to stop Tyler from committing suicide, it’d be likely he’d do it much sooner.

Kinsey

In Issue #3 of the first arc, Kinsey was constantly reliving the moment she was hiding with Bode on the roof while Sam was looking for Tyler. Not just while she was breaking down in her room by herself, but she took this everywhere she went. Kinsey responded to her trauma by keeping her head down and staying hidden in social settings. She seems to find a healthy way to deal with it at the end of the issue, but we see that wound reopened after the news of Joe Ridgeway's death comes out in Issue #2 of the "Head Games" arc.

Kinsey is ultimately afraid of losing people, a fear set off by her father dying and reinforced by both Joe Ridgeway dying.

If Kinsey saw her little brother die from simply a freak accident that could happen to anyone at any moment? Literally the same day Kinsey herself said she couldn't stop crying over what happened? She only spiral further and further into her own fears and grief, taking an even heavier toll on her than what we saw in canon. Kinsey wouldn't be able to get to a better state like she did in canon, probably not heeding Ellie's advice or taking Jackie's offer of friendship.

Nina

Through most of the main series of Locke & Key, we see Nina's alcoholism and her mental state get progressively worse, until it escalates to her hitting Kinsey in Issue #6 of "Crown of Shadows". The grief over her husband's death and the trauma of her sexual assault makes an unhealthy combination with the fact that she doesn't talk about her problems with anyone. So, she lets herself stew in her grief and drown her sorrows.

If Bode died when and how he did in "...Only Bad"? With her previous trauma still fresh in her mind? Nina's alcoholism would get a whole lot worse and a lot faster, and even more so after Tyler commits suicide. The resentment and anger between her and Kinsey would very likely get worse and come quicker too, considering they’re both in terrible places mentally and emotionally.

Duncan

Something to note about Duncan is that we never see him properly grieve his brother. He says in Issue #2 of "Welcome to Lovecraft" that keeping himself busy helps. A personal headcanon of mine is that Duncan has this "I don't wanna burden others with my problems" mentality, so he just shuts it in and keeps quiet, which seems consistent with his canon personality.

But it would wear down on him so much harder if Bode died so soon after his brother did, with Tyler following not long after. And Duncan would try to be there for his last two living relatives, trying to be the peacekeeper or the shoulder to cry on, not just for them but in an attempt to ignore his own grief, and that would very much put a lot of strain on him too. I can even picture him starting to resent Kinsey and Nina, wanting to leave but unable to leave them like this and feeling trapped as a result.

Dodge

Bode was Dodge’s ticket out of the Wellhouse in canon. He was young and naive enough to trust a mysterious voice in a well, and could be convinced to get them the Anywhere Key after Sam arrived. Neither Tyler (if he were alive at that point) nor Kinsey would be as receptive to a mysterious voice in a well as Bode would be. So, Dodge had to trust Sam to get them out.

Which would probably go as well as it did when Sam tried to get the Omega and Anywhere Keys from Rendell.

Sam

Sam would come to Keyhouse similar to how he did in canon. He’d demand the Anywhere Key and the Omega Key, and neither Nina, Duncan, nor Kinsey would know what he was talking about. Even if Kinsey, the last living Locke child, found a magic key, she probably wouldn't think much of it. Why would she? It's just some old key. And as in canon, Sam wouldn’t notice the Anywhere Key in Kinsey’s bracelet. None of the Lockes would be able to give Sam what they don't know about, and he would almost certainly kill them all.

In Conclusion:

Tyler would commit suicide over the combined grief and guilt of his father's and brother's deaths. Kinsey's fear and grief would multiply to a debilitating degree with no hope of things getting better. Nina's drinking problem would worsen at a quicker pace. Duncan's grief and stress would wear him down and make him a mess alongside his last surviving family. Sam would kill off the rest of the Locke family and go back to jail or get shot to death. Finally, Dodge would stay trapped in the Wellhouse, and with no living Locke children to come to the house and find keys for them, probably forever.

It really is an “Only Bad” ending.

For everyone.

[iamaya03]

LISTEN TO ME PLEASE THE THEATRE KID INSIDE ME IS FIGHTING WITH THE CHALLENGERS DEMONS. ART IS ELPHABA. TASHI IS GLINDA. PATRICK IS FIYERO. PLS PLS PLS PLS

[hitchell-mope]

The boy just got locked in a snow globe. Let him have this.

[atomicradiogirl]

here are my favorite quotes from dune messiah cause frank herbert cooked so hard

“save your praise for those who can be swayed by it”

“beloved,” she whispered. “have i troubled you?” her arms enclosed his future as they enclosed him. “not you,” he said. “oh… not you.”

“paul saw the moon become an elongated sphere. it rolled and twisted, hissing — the terrible hissing of a star being quenched in an infinite sea. it was gone. no moon. the earth quaked like an animal shaking its skin.”

“the flesh surrenders itself. eternity takes back its own.”

“they’ve blinded my body, but not my vision”

“awakening, she’d found paul sitting beside her, his eyeless sockets aimed at some formless place beyond. chani stilled a fit of trembling when he aimed those eyeless sockets at her.”

“i was baptized in sand and it cost me the knack of believing. who trades in faiths anymore? who’ll buy? who’ll sell?”

“we have eternity, beloved.” “you may have eternity. i only have now.” “but this is eternity.”

“he felt his body through her touch: dead flesh carried by time eddies. he reeked of memories that had glimpsed eternity. Past and Future became simultaneous.”

“you cannot see!” “i don’t need eyes to see you.”

“if you need something to worship, then worship life—all life, every last crawling bit of it! we’re all in this beauty together!”

“this myth he’d made out of intricate movements and imagination, out of moonlight and love, out of prayers older than Adam, and gray cliffs and crimson shadows, laments and rivers of martyrs—what had it come to at last? when the waves receded, the shores of Time would spread out there clean, empty, shining with infinite grains of memory and little else. was this the golden genesis of man?”

“there are problems in this universe for which there are no answers.”

“people are subordinate to government, but the ruled influence the rulers.”

“he is the fool saint, the golden stranger living forever on the edge of reason.”

[readtilyoudie]

Locke and Key Vol 6

[angelfoodscake]

ok i need to actually work on my duncan gijinka