Lockwood & Co. RPG

Anthony Lockwood, often referred to simply as Lockwood, is the head of Lockwood & Co., one of the smallest and most rundown agencies in London. He is known for his elegance and mystery, recklessness, calmness, and enthusiasm during psychic investigations, attractive appearance, dazzling smile, skill in fencing, and his ability in clairvoyance.

Age: 18 years old

Early Life: His parents, Donald and Celia Lockwood, died, and the house at 35 Portland Row was inherited by him. This building was his childhood home, and his parents were "some kind of researchers or colleagues" who traveled a lot. Lockwood mentioned that their ghosts were the first ones he encountered.

His sister, Jessica Lockwood, was six years older than him. She died at the age of fifteen due to an accident involving one of her parents' dangerous artifacts. It is believed that the artifact was a ghost pot from Indonesia. Jessica was handling a box of artifacts when the pot broke, allowing the ghost inside to attack her. Lockwood stood at the garden gate, refusing to help her with the box she was working on. He rushed to help her but was too late. This event marked the beginning of Lockwood's transformation into a withdrawn, distant person, "empty" from the loss of the love and care his sister provided.

Agent Training: After his sister's death, Lockwood became an agent, training under the Grave Digger, Nigel Sykes, who gave him his first job. While working for Sykes, Lockwood participated in fencing competitions, where he defeated the significantly older Quill Kipps, resulting in mutual animosity for a year.

New Agency: Disillusioned with the large agencies in London, such as Fittes and Rotwell, Anthony Lockwood founded Lockwood & Co. as an independent agency without adult supervision. Although Lockwood wasn't wealthy, he inherited money from his parents, as well as the house at 35 Portland Row, which he owned as the only surviving family member. Soon after, George Cubbins joined him. George was a versatile person with average talent in each of the three main abilities: sight, touch, and hearing, but whose research skills were unparalleled. George had previously worked at the Fittes agency but was fired for his excessive curiosity about delicate matters that were considered out of his league.

After this incident, Lockwood placed an advertisement in local newspapers describing Lockwood & Co. as a "renowned paranormal investigation agency" and stated that they were looking for a new junior employee to analyze and contain ghost sightings on location. The advertisement was a lie since Lockwood & Co. was not renowned, but Lockwood desperately needed a new agent. At first, it seemed like nothing would come of it, as most applicants wasted their time. Lockwood was about to finish a long day of interviews when an unexpected applicant arrived: Lucy Carlyle, who had just arrived in London and had seen the ad.

To Lockwood's delight, Lucy turned out to be exactly the candidate he was looking for. She convincingly demonstrated her abilities using her power of touch to feel psychic traces on objects he showed her. Moreover, she didn't lie, like some other candidates, when shown an object with no psychic traces, and showed resilience when shown the most mysterious and dangerous object in the agency: the Skull.

Personality: Lockwood is naturally charismatic. He is often seen with a smile on his face and will usually try to lighten the mood or move through a meeting as quickly as possible. In his work, he is tireless, passionate, and driven by ambitions that he has yet to fully understand. With a sharp mind and even quicker reflexes, Lockwood easily takes the leadership role. It has been noted that his calm and confident demeanor can soothe even the most frightened individuals. Despite this, he is just as unpredictable, prone to changing subjects that make him uncomfortable, and Lucy even says that he has no other joys or hobbies besides work, and on weekends, he usually lies around lazily or reads gossip magazines.

Anthony Lockwood is also very secretive about his parents and past, often interrupting conversations or even leaving the room if reminded of them. He is intelligent and works to rid the city of ghosts without bothering to try to understand them (which he considers a waste of time). His goal is to own one of the top three agencies in London, and his competitive spirit often shows when challenged. Calm, polite, and kind almost in any situation, he is described as "daring" and "a little reckless." However, he often gets into trouble despite his good intentions. Although the well-being of his team is always his top priority, sometimes his drive to complete a task blinds him to potential dangers. Despite his charisma and ability to empathize, his bravery tends to be paired with recklessness and sometimes even borderline suicidal tendencies. There is a part of him that seems empty and longs for death due to the losses he has suffered in life.

Physical Attributes: Lockwood is tall and slender, and he can almost always be seen in a long coat and casual business attire. Both Lucy and Flo have noted that he prefers slightly tight suits. As an agent, he usually carries a rapier.

Lockwood is described as a pale person with dark eyes. One of his most frequently mentioned and distinctive features is his smile, which he often uses to his advantage, trying to get information or calm a crowd. It is implied that he can easily alter his smile depending on the situation, for example, using a slightly less intense version to calm frightened clients and shining brightly at other times.

He has dark brown hair, and the Skull claims he spends a lot of time fixing it in the bathroom.

Abilities:

Sight: Lockwood has exceptionally good sight and is able to visually detect death glow, residual energy, and, so far, all types of ghosts. Despite his age, his talent remains undiminished.

Fencing: Lockwood is an experienced and highly skilled fencer who reached the finals of a fencing championship at a very young age. He was able to defeat Quill Kipps.

Tidbits:

He had a mobile toy with tiny iron animals, his favorite of which was a smiling giraffe.

He dislikes being called "Tony" or "Big A."

He likes Parma ham and orange juice with pulp because when straining it through his teeth, he feels like a whiskered whale.

Lucy Joan Carlyle is an agent with an incredible talent for listening, which is linked to her sense of touch. She moved to London seeking a successful career, but instead, she ended up at the smallest agency in the city, Lockwood & Co.

Age: 18 years old

Early Life: Lucy Joan Carlyle was born in the fourth official decade of the Problems in a rural town in northern England. She was born into a family of nine: her mother, father, and six sisters. Her father was a porter at the railway station in the town and an alcoholic. He died when Lucy was five years old, after an accident in which he was hit by a train. Her mother was a laundress who worked at two small hotels in the town and kept to herself. The maternal love she had was largely destroyed by work and fatigue, and she had little energy left for her daughters, with Lucy being the seventh and youngest. As a result, Lucy was left to her own devices, cared for by her sisters.

From the beginning, Lucy knew she had a talent. Although the talent runs in her family, none of the other family members were suited for the agency. When Lucy was eight years old, her mother immediately sent her to apprentice under Jacobs, a former Fittes agent. By the time she was eleven, she had completed the third level, and a few years later, at fourteen, she was involved in the incident at Whitburn Mill.

Training: Jacobs discovered that although Lucy’s talent allowed her to see visitors well enough, she heard them better than anyone else. The agent rewarded Lucy with a rapid promotion. She passed the first and second-level exams twice as fast, and on her eleventh birthday, she received her third level as well as her first rapier and the Fittes Guide for Ghost Hunters.

Incident at Whitburn Mill: Lucy, along with several other agents, was sent to Whitburn Mill. A local lumber company wanted to use it as a regional office but wanted to first ensure that it was safe. Lucy and her colleagues used their talents and compiled reports. Lucy felt uneasy and tried to convince Jacobs to order the others to retreat, but he refused. It was a long time before they noticed something: a small glowing figure crouching at the end of a passage leading deeper into the mill. The ghost turned out to be a Shifter, a dangerous type-two ghost strong enough to change its form during its manifestation. Everyone except Lucy and Agent Jacobs was killed.

Appearance: Lucy mentioned that she grew into a tall girl with sharp facial features – more solid than she would have liked. She had large eyes, thick eyebrows, an overly long nose, and pouty lips. Her dark hair was cut into a messy hairstyle, as ectoplasm avoided bob cuts. She considered herself unattractive, though, as her mother would say, appearance was not her profession.

Abilities: Lucy has extremely sharp hearing, often linked to her sense of touch. She has average vision, but hearing and touch are her strong suits. Lucy is the only person, besides Marissa Fittes, who was able to communicate fully with Type Three. Moreover, Lucy is capable of interacting with all types of visitors, empathizing with them, and searching for motivation for their return to the living world. She shares a strong emotional connection with them, which is innovative but risky. Lucy’s strength is so great that it attracts Visitors, and they focus their attention on her whenever they encounter the agents. This is extremely dangerous, as Lucy is a very emotional girl who often gets angry, upset, or sad, which makes the Visitors stronger.

Tidbits:

Lucy seems to have a quick temper.

Lucy doesn't have many female friends.

Lucy’s last name, Carlyle, is often misspelled as "Carliles."

She dislikes orange juice because the pulp gets stuck between her teeth.

She has a fear of heights.

George Cabins is a ghost hunter and deputy at Lockwood & Co., one of the smallest paranormal investigation agencies in London. As the brain of the agency and the team's lead researcher, he prefers to carefully plan things in advance.

Age: 18 years old

Early Life: He grew up in an ordinary family with no significant or tragic deaths. In the TV series, he mentions that he had never been outside of London. It’s unknown whether George worked elsewhere before joining Fittes agency, where he was fired six months later for insubordination, and before joining Lockwood & Co. at least a year before Lucy Carlyle joined, as he mentions living in the house at 35 Portland Road for a year during his interview with Lucy. He has three siblings, all of whom are engineers, and complains to Lockwood that he may have to tell his parents that he "lost another job" due to Lockwood’s reckless actions.

Personality: George cannot stand hypocrites and has a somewhat caustic sense of humor. He has an unhealthy interest in the origins of the Problem, the nature of ghosts, and the afterlife, which has sometimes led him into serious trouble. He also has a strange habit of drawing crude caricatures on the fabric of his thoughts. That being said, he is a diligent, passionate, and skilled researcher who feels at home among dusty archives or surrounded by stacks of reference books in the library.

George tends to act "by the book" – the complete opposite of Lockwood’s carefree approach to ghost hunting. Despite this, his curiosity about the Problem sometimes leads him to do things outside the norm, such as stealing paranormal artifacts and experimenting with them.

Appearance: Plump, with sandy blond hair and blue eyes, George wears glasses that he constantly takes off to wipe the lenses with his shirt or sweater. George often looks disheveled – even in "decent" clothes, he comes across as a bit of a slob.

Abilities: George has an impressive tactile talent, though perhaps not as strong as Lucy Carlyle’s. He also has the gift of sight (though weaker than Anthony Lockwood’s), but he is not very talented in hearing. He is considered a versatile person, not particularly skilled in any one area but possessing some talent in everything. He is also an experienced researcher, capable of spending hours combing through obscure archives and articles to find important historical details. Additionally, he has the ability to consume a lot of unhealthy food...

The Skull is the name given to a particularly dangerous Third Type ghost whose source is a skull. After being caught by the Fittes agency from the sewers, the skull was placed in a jar made of silver glass. Stolen from the Fittes agency by George Cabins, the skull ended up in the hands of Lockwood & Co. There, it underwent torturous experiments by Cabins before revealing itself by speaking to Lucy Carlyle, the agency's newest member. The skull sometimes provided the team with useful information, but it also had a tendency to act perversely, revealing dangerous secrets, making witty remarks, and carelessly suggesting random murder as a solution to problems. The jar it was contained in was made of silver glass by the "Sunrise" company.

Vitality: Little is known about the skull's past before it became a ghost, though it is known that it was alive during the mid-to-late Victorian era.

Ghostliness: After death, this individual became a Third Type ghost. The rarest and most unusual Third Type spirits had the ability to directly communicate with those who possessed the appropriate Talent. At some point, the skull stated that what set it apart was that it wanted to return. This detail may hold the key to understanding how the skull returned as a ghost. Although the time of its death is unknown, its skull was found in the Lambeth sewers, and the spirit mentioned that it met a grim end. Lockwood mentions in the fifth book that the young man had been dead for 60 years before being locked in the sealed jar and handed over to the Fittes agency. They claimed they would destroy the relic in furnaces, but in reality, they kept it for their own research. The ghost remained in the jar for another 50 years until it was stolen by George Cabins shortly after he was fired from the agency. Lucy discovered that she had a connection with the jar containing the ghost.

After the theft, the skull was transported to 35 Portland Road, London, where it became the property of Lockwood & Co., George’s new employer. There, it underwent numerous experiments by George in search of information about ghosts. George moved it from place to place, submerged the jar in water, placed it in an oven – he did everything possible hoping to provoke a reaction. However, the ghost only manifested as a murky green plasma, which sometimes coalesced into a disgusting face and expressed crude emotions.

Personality: The skull was perverse and sarcastic, often enjoying attempts to create conflict between the members of Lockwood & Co. It also had a cruel nature and would not hesitate to suggest murder as a solution to problems. Despite this, the skull could be helpful and sometimes offered valuable advice that aided Lockwood & Co. in their cases. The skull also seemed to value friendship, as its bad behavior was sometimes curtailed by Lucy threatening to leave it where it would never be found if it didn't help her.

Relationships:

The skull hated George Cabins, who had previously regularly tormented it with experiments. However, at times it seemed puzzled by George and his obsession with the mysteries of the afterlife.

Skull was not as hostile toward Lockwood as it was toward George.

Lucy can hear what Skull is saying. Only she can do it.

The Skull's appearance consists of ectoplasmic plasma shimmering with a pale green light inside the ghost jar. Its terrifying face is fully formed, the ectoplasm clinging so closely to the skull that the bones beneath remain indistinguishable. The ghost's nose is long, its eye sockets sunken and wide. Its lips curl into a wicked grin, and faint sparks flicker deep within its hollow eyes.