Tyler Locke

Tyler Locke is the deuteragonist of the first season of the Netflix show Locke & Key and returns as the quarternery character in its second season. Struggling from the guilt of a strained relationship with his father in the wake of his untimely demise, he is initially skeptical when in their new home inherited from their ancestors, his little brother introduces him to the mysterious keys there. He is eventually forced to witness their power by the evil thug that killed his father and the anti-heroine who has the guilt of unintentionally enabling it. He is played by Connor Jessup.
==Biography==
===Past===
Little is known about Tyler's past, but he played hockey since he was nine years old, and he eventually fell in with a group of high-schoolers and grew close with a student named Sarah Johnson. He was also known to take Spanish. He had a strained relationship with his father, and hence was appalled when he told him to befriend Sam Lesser, emphasizing that he had never offered it as an option. He felt like his father always took time to criticize his tiniest mistakes and lecture him on the nature of morality. He also met Sam's father; the two got on well.
===Season One===
====Welcome to Matheson====
Eventually, Sam unexpectedly arrived at their house in advance of Tyler, locking the door and menacing Rendell with a gun. As Tyler struggled with the door lock, his friend murdered his father in cold blood while he watched helplessly. Although he cared about his friends, the family drama made them all fall by the wayside. Tyler was deathly silent; as they passed by Ohio he made his first comment in hours. School proved to be a glowing ember in the dark twist of events; he played hockey well despite wanting to play center, and was noticed by the popular kids, namely Javi, Brinker Martin, and Eden Hawkins, who invited him to their party. Arriving at Javi's residence, he was disappointed to see cheap vodka and Cheese Whiz among the refreshments. He found Jackie Veda and began flirting with her while she was using a Paintball app until Eden approached both of them. (more to come....)
===Season Two===
Tyler struggles with the discovery that he will lose his memories of the magic on his 18th birthday after his girlfriend Jackie begins losing her memories of it as her birthday approaches. With the Keepers of the Keys having found a way to keep their memories into adulthood, Tyler attempts to find out exactly how they did it, rescuing Erin Voss from where she has been trapped inside of her own head for 23 years with Kinsey's help. Erin eventually reveals that the Keepers of the Keys had Duncan Locke create a new key for them, the Memory Key, before they removed his memories of the magic. Erin has Tyler return Duncan's memories to him, but they fail to properly reintegrate so Erin and Tyler seek out the Memory Key to fix the problem. Using Erin's memories, the two discover that Rendell had hidden the key at Matheson Academy where Tyler manages to find and recover it. Using the Memory Key, Tyler properly restores Duncan's memories just before Kinsey and Bode return with the revelation that Gabe is actually Dodge and that it was the missing Ellie Whedon whom they had sent through the Black Door, not Dodge.
Erin is killed by Dodge who forces Duncan to create a new key for her, the Demon Key, and starts implanting demons into townspeople with it. This becomes personal for Tyler when Dodge places a demon into Jackie. Desperate to save his girlfriend, Tyler decides that they must craft a new key, the Alpha Key, to "unlock" a demon from their host's soul in order to save Jackie. Tyler locates some Whispering Iron hidden in his father's old fishing lure, but Tyler is forced to craft the new key himself under the guidance of Duncan due to the nature of the magic behind the keys' creation. Tyler succeeds in using the Alpha Key to free Jackie, but the key's effects prove fatal to Jackie and she dies in Tyler's arms shortly thereafter, devastating him.
Alongside Duncan, Kinsey and Scot, Tyler assaults Dodge's cliffside home in order to retrieve the Demon Key and defeat Dodge and her forces. Tyler kills several of the demons with the Alpha Key before Duncan discovers that he can control them as the creator of the Demon Key. At the end of the battle, Tyler sneaks up behind Dodge as she strangles Kinsey with the Chain Key and stabs Dodge in the back of the head with Alpha Key, killing her and getting revenge for the death of Jackie. Much to everyone's surprise, the real Lucas Caravaggio emerges from the wreckage, having been freed from Dodge's control of his body by Tyler's use of the Alpha Key on the demon, surviving unlike the other hosts due to Lucas' status as an Echo. They are also reunited with Ellie who had managed to escape from the Black Door.
With the threat over, an emotionally devastated Tyler decides to go on a road trip until after his 18th birthday in a classic car gifted to him by Duncan. Tyler gives his siblings the keys that are in his possession and erases videos of himself and Jackie demonstrating the magic, deciding that he is going to lose his memories of the magic and all of the pain that comes with it rather than use the Memory Key to hold on to his memories as Tyler had originally intended.
===Season Three===
Tyler now lives in Montana where he has a job as a construction worker and a new girlfriend named Carly. Tyler remains distant from his family and, as he had hoped, has no memory of the magic. Tyler eventually returns for Duncan's wedding where he gets drunk, causing him to briefly regain his memories, much like when his mother Nina got drunk.
With the danger from Frederick Gideon heating up and his family acting strange, Tyler eventually decides to stay to help and reconcile with his family with Carly's support. At Tyler's request, Kinsey uses the Memory Key to restore Tyler's lost memories of the magic and he rejoins the fight against the demons. Shortly after regaining his memories, Tyler has to deal with the return of Dodge who was accidentally pulled through time by Bode and is now possessing his brother's body. With Gideon laying siege to Keyhouse, the Lockes are reluctantly forced to work with their old enemy against the greater threat, but the effects of the Timeshift Key send Dodge back home and causes Bode's body to be erased from existence, leaving Bode trapped as a ghost. With the help of Sam Lesser, Bode is eventually able to return while Sam is resurrected as well, reuniting Tyler with his former friend. Although the Lockes are less than pleased with Sam's return, they agree to work with him with Sam being remorseful for the murder of Rendell. Sam eventually sacrifices himself to allow Tyler, Kinsey and Ellie to escape a dying man's head, leaving Tyler and Kinsey visibly saddened by his loss.
Using the Alpha Key, Kinsey eventually manages to kill Gideon who is shoved through a portal back to his own world by Nina as he dies. Tyler realizes that tossing the keys into the portal closes it and he advocates that they must give up the keys and the magic for good, something that Nina and Kinsey agree with him on. After using the Timeshift Key to visit Rendell in the past for a final goodbye, the Lockes toss the keys into the portal, first using the Memory Key on Kinsey and Bode to ensure that they will not lose their memories of the magic.
Afterwards, Tyler decides to return to his life in Montana with Carly, but he promises to remain in closer contact with his family this time. He also plans a road trip with Carly.
==Personality==
Tyler was described by Jackie Veda as a good brother, strong and kind, and had a good sense of who he was. Although Tyler doubted some of these things, he is loyal to his family with his heart in the right place, and while he can be pessimistic and worry the worst is going to happen to everyone, he often has good reason for thinking in such ways. Still, he possesses the great courage of his kin and does not hesitate to risk his well-being at any given time if it means those he cares for will be in better conditions. He is compassionate as shown by his relationship with Sam Lesser and his horror at watching him die, all in spite of Sam's attempts on his life and murdering Rendell. After Sam's resurrection, Tyler is willing to work with him, recognizing that they need all of the help that they can get and he is visibly saddened by Sam's final death.
Tyler's relationship with Rendell has been increasingly strained by his high school experience. He is haunted by his father's death since he believes he was responsible, and the revelation that the events were his own father's actions only brings himself to question his father's intentions further.
==Powers and Abilities==
*Alchemy: Thanks to being trained by his uncle Duncan, Tyler is capable of using alchemy to create new keys. Tyler was able to create the Alpha Key which is capable of killing demons and separating them from their hosts, albeit at the cost of the host's life.
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