Lock 0 is a Cataphract clone that defected from the Stelis Bridge—and more specifically the House Hymn—army on Ides after the death of their partner, Key 0. Standing tall and large at 6'3", they are a quiet person who is partial to stealth and negotiations over violence, but they are also practical and tactically-minded, and don't hesitate to use force when they deem it necessary.

Outside of tactical settings they find themself to be extremely awkward as they don't quite relate to the "human" experience, and prefer comfortable silence to small talk. They are quick to grow attached and base their strong sense of duty in individual people instead of factions or employers.

History

The Lock & Key Tango Pilot models were produced on Ides in the years following the Moonfall of Ifey, in response to the surge in conflict between the Stelis Bridge and the Endless Chapter. Created with custom machines and immediately sent through the clone academy of Castle Vocalion, Lock and Key were made to be Special Operations agents; stealing intel and capturing high-ranking personel from the opposition was their designated specialty.

When each of them first woke up, exactly at the same time, the first thing Lock and Key 0 felt were each other, before they could even parse that they themselves existed. They've always had a curiously strong psychic connection, even for a Cataphract pair, and that may have been one of the reasons they performed so well as a duo during the worst of the post-moonfall conflict. At some point early on in their service, they were paired into a small squad with another Cataphract duo, Beck 9 and Call 7. Lock and Key still performed their own Spec Ops missions, but more and more they became part of this tactical strike team designed to open up enemy defenses from the inside and let the heavy cavalry in.

Eventually, a number of years after Lock and Key had become an official item, the House Hymn sent their youngest child and her forces—the Vesper Chapel—to Ides. Castle Vocalion, powerful on Ides and Ides only, gifted Lock's strike squad to the Vesper Chapel as a sign of good will between subfactions. Lock and Key served under Blase Hymn and her Chapel for a good few years before they were sent on a mission that went catastrophically terrible. Key was killed—and their mech destroyed—attempting to protect Lock from an opposing Waltz, and Lock immediately escaped, defecting from the Stelis army and fleeing into Aeon Group territory, where they eventually took up transport work in Tinseltown.

Story in the Campaign

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