#lock lore

As far as the hierarchy of Locks go, he's second to none outside of Jarovin. Whereas the other Locks are varying tiers of plane sweepers (inklings, lesser wills, greater wills), Leothal is a plane eater. Ie. when Jarovin is into recycling vast swaths of the cosmos, Red gets fed. This obviously doesn't happen very often, and it's somewhat a point of contention for Red... but he is patient. He'll wait eons for his day.

He has his place at North Cliff and all Locks give him wide berth. He has no love for the other wills.

Hons fucks around and finds out at some point.

In the past I'd framed the relationship between Red and Jarovin as rather antagonistic, but it's not really that. They operate on an understanding in maintaining a certain balance/shared goal and that if Red steps a toe too far out of line Jarovin will correct him. This doesn't necessarily stop toes from testing boundaries, but Leothal is generally respectful of that fact. He's opportunistic, not an idiot; he doesn't delight in needling Jarovin, and he's not about to mutiny.

If you happen to catch Jarovin outside of Lock form, and uncovered, he's got some gnarly scars. No one knows what they're from and he will not explain them.

There are certainly theories.

You already said your favourite books, but I'm curious about who your favourite author you would say is, like in general, and what is it that encourages you most to write?

omg you always have the best questions, i know it's taken me ages to respond to this but i plan on going back and answering some others that you've sent in!! they always get my brain whirring into action!!

i'd say that my favorite authors are fyodor dostoevsky, anne carson and shirley jackson. they've consistently written pieces that amaze and move me. dostoevsky's vast knowledge of the human psyche and theology, shirley jackson's haunting prose, and anne carson... i struggle to put into words the emotions i experience when reading anything by her. it's like being punched in the gut line after line yet i keep crawling back for more. i often return to her her translation of kassandra's prophecy in agamemnon by aeschylus on a frequent basis. it's just pure brilliance.

ALRIGHT SO every few months some random subject tends to grab my attention, the latest being perfume. i feel bad for my friends because they've had to hear me talk about notes and rank samples for weeks now. i just find it to be fascinating. i've always had a strong sense of smell and i like smelling good idk. it's a nice little confidence booster and makes me feel extra put together and ready to face the day.

at the moment, my favorite perfume is rabanne's million gold for her. i would bathe in this scent if i could. it's sweet, slightly floral, but you get this delightful freshness from the pear that has me sniffing my wrist like a madman. a close runner-up is YSL's black opium. i have a rather cutesy aesthetic (pastel clothes/accessories, pink/youthful makeup, etc) so i don't know if it 'fits' me but idc it smells sexy and addicting. some others i like are burberry's her intense and goddess, carolina herrara's good girl blush, and noyz's only human and 12:00.

Generally, Lockian scars translate to physical form in some way, regardless of the form. Like Vrax, who was blitzed by Hons - all his Lockian forms, and any other forms he takes, are a bit buggered. They come out a little weird in the manifesting. And like Jeih, who also got blitzed by Hons; he rebounded gold and a little scrambled, and rolled with it.

Marks are a little different; they may not show up in Lockian form but may appear in other forms (like Ary’s mark, or Jura’s mark). Marks tend to be intentional, and purposeful, and at least between Locks mutually and gracefully received.

No one knew about Jarovin’s scars because they don’t appear on his Lockian form. It wasn’t until Scott shows up and Jarovin randomly pops into human guise around North Cliff are they really revealed. Generally he’s clothed such that they’re not seen, he almost always has his vest on at the very least. The scars stretch the length of his torso front and back and down one leg. If they affect him in any way, he doesn’t let on.

So there’s some debate among Locks if they’re scars or marks.

No one knows where they came from; in the Locks’ long memory no one ever remembers Jarovin fighting anyone, or anything. He’s different to the rest of them as well, they know, both in nature and in scale; he’s not an entity one fights. So they’re puzzled. Who would try? And who/what would even be able to do that kind of damage to an entity like that?

Although his song was the first to be heard his origins are also obscure so the Locks are split; some believe he acquired them at his beginning somehow, some believe something went down between him and another creature like him, and then some theorize that at some point there was beef between him and Red at the beginning and it somehow escaped the notice of… everyone. And this beef was either settled in a mutual agreement. Or blood.

To be fair, the Locks only vaguely remember when Red showed up on the scene, although Red himself maintains he was late second generation/early hierarchy-born (third generation). A lot was going on at the time, and no one wants to be the one to share memories with him to verify.

I can do some of them, sure.

JAR-oh-ven is right, although the spanish version sounds cool too.

Aryion always reads like Ah-rye-on in my head.

Jeihirin - Jeh-here-in. Shortened to either J-eh or Jey.

Locks experience Leothal like fleas would a trapdoor spider. He's approachable, but there's no escaping what he is underneath all those layers of reality, and that he's just waiting. And what he's waiting for is kind of unclear so it puts them on edge.

All Locks, regardless of tier, are used to being the big predators in the cosmos and are only barely accepting of the concept that they can be predated on by their own kind. Jarovin's influence prevents conflict in this area, for the most part, but Red's existence is an enduring reminder of that delicate balance.

so if the abyssal plane expands, it will need to be trimmed down again, and he’s the one who gets fed from said trimming? am i understanding right?

I doubt a drifting person might show up where he spends his time at North Cliff (sort of like in your Scott/Jarovin snippet), but on the off chance somebody (lock or not) stumbled upon him, would he simply ignore them? Be irritated? Curious?

Sure!

I've been thinking about that lately, because Scott does stumble across him at North Cliff at some point. The Locks know where Red is most times and they generally avoid him. He's not concerned with what the other wills are doing, he's got his own thing going on, so there's not much overlap.

Scott knows none of this, can't sleep and goes exploring to find the artist(s) that does all the cool sculpture reliefs around North Cliff, and thinks he's on his way to finding Jarovin again and ends up finding Red instead.

Nothing necessarily happens to Scott and I'm not sure what happens in the context of the conversation (or if there is much conversation)... but Scott leaves the encounter feeling particularly unsettled and with a bunch more questions.