Lockworld Q&A

I suppose they might run around shirtless sometimes.  In human form they’d probably have the shapes, at least, to keep with the illusion.  In half-morph or sphinx form they may or may not - it’s likely they’d have a hint of the shapes or nothing at all.  It really depends on the personality and how they translate themselves.

At some point I’ll have a pic or two to show of Jeih & Kyrin and/or Ary and Iro hanging out in one of their transitory forms nekked, I’ve been meaning to play with that subject for a bit now.

Yup, they merge into one creature and become a completely new Lock, entirely its own thing.  The personality of a descendant is based on how the combined priorities of the two previous Locks sort themselves out and the decisions it makes afterward.  The descendant will have an innate understanding of its parents’ lives, but I don’t know that they retain any specific memories.  It understands what they understood in a general sense.  Depending on how the priorities rearrange the descendant may develop similar tenancies and likes/dislikes to one parent or another - for instance, Ceras is very much like Iro in where his focus lies and in how he achieves his goals.  And you know when Jeih and Kyrin deproduce their descendant is going to make a beeline for Ary; because he was so important to both Jeih and Kyrin, finding him would probably be one of the descendant’s priorities. 

I hope that makes sense, trying to explain the more abstract functions of Locks can be difficult.

They do have something of a maturation stage, actually!  Intelligence-wise they’re like every other Lock, they know what they are and what they can do from the get-go.  They can function at the basic level that all Locks function at.  But the new priority-arrangement that their personality will be based around is untested.  So the maturation process for them is basically the development of that personality, them figuring out how to interact with different things outside of basic Lock behavior and learning what they like and dislike.

Newly formed descendants are inquisitive things that typically stick to Tsaritartion-space until they get themselves sorted.  They sort themselves pretty quickly, but during that brief interval of exploration they’re curious and weirdly innocent.  Child-like, but in a very odd sort of way. 

He’d recognize it pretty quickly.  It might catch him off guard, certainly, but it wouldn’t take him long to catch on.  New descendants feel new, like blank slates to other Locks, but usually Locks are distantly aware of when a pair ‘leaves’ to deproduce and similarly notices when a blank slate emerges from that union.  Barring that, I think the Jeih/Kyrin descendant ends up a light gold, so it’d be pretty obvious. XD

They don’t sleep normally, but they do doze and rest here and there and they enjoy being comfortable while doing so.  Aryian is particularly guilty of this (his love for soft things being fairly well known), but he’s also found a way to redirect his consciousness to a state that allows him to mimic sleep.  During those time it’s really hard to wake him and he’s got no notion of what happens to his physical form while he’s out, which leaves him susceptible to trolling and shenanigans and snuggling from other Locks.  Like Jeih, although more then one Lock has curled up with Aryian when his mind was away.      

The only time a Lock actually truly sleeps is when it’s put into a torpor, which is the really deep state of peaceful rest brought on by Jarovin’s presence.

Marks don’t always manifest in the same way, it depends on the injury and the personalities involved.  Vrax was just short of obliterated.  Yahn was deliberately vivisected.  The black ‘V’ mark on Yahn’s chest is the remnant of that experience.  It was also a traumatic event for Jeih even though he had yet to wake, and his mark from the event is his gold color.