We want no part of your chiral network or the UCA
– Lockne to Sam about connecting to the network
Lockne is an ex-Bridges member and a gifted technician who serves as the overseer of Mountain Knot City. She is the twin sister of Mama and one of the creators of the Chiral Network.
Story[]
Background[]
Mama and Lockne were born conjoined and subsequent surgery was performed to separate the the two identical twins. Both were born with DOOMS that granted them the ability to feel each other’s emotion and communicate with each other irrespective of their locations. Daughters of parents who worked for NASA prior to the Death Stranding, they grew up feeling like the world was a bigger and larger place before. Gifted with great intellect, they decide to enter Bridges, driven by the organization's ideology to bring the people of the nation together once again and then the world and soon found themselves as accomplished technicians, each responsible for creating half of the Chiral Network: Mama created the hardware, and Lockne wrote its software. Their equal genius and close bond was so great that many believed they were the "same person in two bodies".
BRIDGES I[]
At one point Mama and Lockne were chosen by Amelie to participate in the first expedition to the west, an expedition with the aim of reuniting the survivors and convincing them to join the Chiral Network and the UCA. Though the sisters share a great many traits, their few differences tend to stand in complete opposition to one another. For one, Målingen has never wanted kids, while Lockne loved them, but was infertile. At some point, Lockne was in a relationship with someone from BRIDGES I, but unfortunately, it ended tragically in accident. His sudden departure left her greatly depressed. However, he did have sperm frozen possibly in preparation of the unforeseen. Sensing her sister's distress, Målingen offered to be the surrogate mother of her child.
Strangely, around the child's due date, Målingen suddenly cut off all communications with her and disappeared. Lockne was furious as she thought that Målingen had ran off with her child, and closes all contact with Bridges.
Sam's expedition[]
During his expedition, Sam is forced to head to Mountain Knot City due to chiral peaks due to the faulty Q-pid, which only Lockne can fix, according to her sister. When Lockne refuses to join Mountain Knot City to the network and the chiral peaks worsen due to the faulty Q-pid, Mama's agreed to reunite with her sister to repair the Chiral Network and stop the chiral peaks, but for that she must cut the connection with the BT daughter in order to leave her place. That's why she fabricates a cuff link with a mix of Sam's blood-chiral crystals blade for Sam and orders him to cut the umbilical cord with her child. When Sam does this, he sends the baby to the Beach, but also left Mama at the border of dead, because cutting the cord freed her but also terminated the link that kept her in the living's world.
Eventually they reached Mountain Knot City with Mama almost dead, and Lockne finally learned the circumstances behind Målingen's sudden disappearance. On her child's birthday, there was a terrorist attack on South Knot City, and she became trapped under the hospital ruins while waiting for her C-Section to begin. She eventually did give birth to a daughter beneath the rubbles, but she soon died by suffocation, and became a BT. Oddly though, she was still bound to Målingen by a beached umbilical cord. Målingen's vital signs has already ceased by the time rescuers reached her. However, she stayed "alive" because her BT daughter is bound to its birthplace and deathplace, and Målingen through the umbilical cord. Mama decided that it was probably for the best to cut off communications with Lockne, as this news would surely bring about more suffering.
This revelation repaired the relationship between the two, but moments later Mama dies in front of her sister, because to get there she had to cut the link with the BT baby, also causing the end of her link with the world of the living. Moments after one of the Lockne's eyes turn blue, indicating that Målingen's soul entered her body and now "two minds coexist in one body". Lockne then repairs Sam's Q-pid so he can resume his journey to Edge Knot City, rejoining Bridges in the process.
Averting the Last Stranding[]
When, due to the complete Chiral Network, the Beaches of all human beings began to connect with that of Amelie, an Extinctive Entity, which began the Last Stranding, the last great extinction, Lockne is brought by Fragile, along with Heartman and Deadman, in Capital Knot City, waiting for Sam to join them.
During the month that Sam was missing on his Beach, Mama's soul, along with Heartman, scours all the Beaches in hopes of finding his friend. When, thanks to Die-Hardman's gun, they locate Sam, Mama confirms his presence and brings him back to the land of the living.
With the Last Stranding stopped and the UCAs finally formed, Mama and Lockne, both realized that after their baby became a BT, they became depressed (similar to post-partum depression) and turned inwards to a life of isolation, feel it is time to fulfill their original dream of going to space and pledge to do so.
Personality[]
Lockne is a reticent person because all of her loss. The first time we encounter her in the game, she seems only worried about the facility of Mountain Knot and tell us that she doesn't want to join the UCA.
When the soul of Målingen enters her body, she experiences a change in her personality: being more relaxed and funny like Mama was. But it's not really her own personality, but her sister that now coexists in the same body.
Physical Description[]
Lockne is almost physically identical to her sister Målingen, only more slender due to her sister's development during pregnancy. Her hair is also a darker brown, cut at shoulder-length and her eyes are green (Mama's are blue).
She wears a distinctive Bridges-issued vest-like blue coat that sports a high collar, that can slightly obscure her lower face, shielding her nose & mouth if necessary. Beneath that is a skintight gray bodysuit upper and black leggings. Both underlying pieces cling tightly to her body.
Abilities[]
Lockne like her sister born with DOOMS. Alongside Målingen, she designed the Chiral Network. She wrote all the software for it and the Q-Pid. She's also directly in charge at Mountain Knot City while also taking over as Support for Sam, after Mama's passing, redesigning and developing some of Sam's equipment & weaponry.
In the end, her knowledge of the network is vital to repair it and avoid the sixth extinction.
Notes[]
- Sam initially confuses Lockne for her twin sister Mama upon meeting her for the first time.
- Apart from their clothing, the twins are distinguished by Lockne having hazel eyes and Mama having blue eyes. After her twin Målingen's apparent death, Mama's soul "returns" to Lockne's body, as they were born conjoined twins, becoming one, once again. Two souls in one body. Causing Lockne's eyes to develop Heterochromia, one eye becomes blue, while the other remains hazel.
- At the end of the adventure, during Die-Hardman's presidential speech, Lockne wears Mama's overalls and the same haircut.
- Lockne and Mama are categorized as "Homo faber" (craftspeople) by Heartman.
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