| NOTE: This article is about the demon that possessed Eden, and not the human high school student, nor her alternate variant from the third season, neither of whom are Inconsistently Heinous. Therefore, none of the human nor demonic variant's actions should be added either. |
| “ | This is your army? I could've turned half this town by now. | „ |
| ~ Eden Hawkins to Gabe. |
Eden Hawkins is the pseudonym of a cameo character in the first season of Locke & Key, the main antagonist in the second season, and the posthumous overarching antagonist in the third season. She possessed a high school girl from Matheson Academy and schemed to take over the world by forging the Demon Key, but she was betrayed by Gabe. Enraged, she summoned Captain Frederick Gideon, being happy that an omnicidal demonic monster she already had a relationship with possessed him, but the aforementioned demon promptly killed her. Her true name remains a mystery, having assumed the name and identity of Eden following her possession.
She is played by Hallea Jones.
Her Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Her Heinous?[]
In General/Background[]
- While her true origin is unclear, she is shown to be extremely callous and sadistic when it comes to getting what she wants. There is also no indication she has moral agency issues or that this demon doesn't understand right and wrong.
- She seeks to murder innocent children on three occasions simply for not acting like adults, being Karl and Kinsey and Bode Locke respectively. This also shows her hypocrisy since none of them are as childlike as she is.
- She activates the Crown of Shadows after two coast men tell her and Gabe they cannot be in the Drowning Caves. She makes Gabe assume they are going to possess them so she will not stop her, so when they beat the men to death, Gabe looks visibly distraught since he's not nearly as evil as she is, in a harrowing establishing character moment.
- She is so rude and insufferable to innocent Uber drivers that she has a 1.3 star approval rating.
- Ultimately, she simply does not care how many innocent people are murdered by an apocalyptic eldritch creature possessing a crazy serial killer, just as long as she can open the Black Door and get her way. Unlike the other demons who have standards, some degree of honor or sincere regard for others, this one is an extremely sadistic misanthrope who cares about absolutely nobody but herself and to put it bluntly, there's really no reason for any of her sins besides that they entertain her. Throughout the season, she subverts every possible redeeming quality.
- Despite the heinous standard, she passes for committing the most graphic homicide in the entire show upon an underage victim, and for summoning a dreaded serial killer from the pinnacle of King George III's reign of terror on purpose and telling him to come with her out of the Wellhouse, despite having just learned that he's possessed by an omnicidal eldritch monster.
- Although Gabe had slightly more resources than her, he refused to use them to their maximum potential, and the resources he does use aren't as much as Eden, and while he's trying to put an end to the Locke trio, she's trying to endanger everyone in Matheson and beyond.
- Although Frederick Gideon has a much more direct role in threatening billions of lives, he is far more powerful than her, had much easier access to the keys, and was immune to gunfire, so it is extremely unfair to compare Eden to Gideon.
Season 2[]
- She tries to impersonate Kinsey Locke, only to learn that the Identity Key cannot transform the user into a real person when Gabe briefly turns into "The Well Lady" to illustrate his point.
- Upon being playfully questioned by Karl, a teenage vendor, she tears at his facial skin until he dies and justifies this by claiming that "the service sucks". Then she takes to casually eating popcorn with his blood all over her which Gabe rightfully thinks is nauseating and infuriating to suddenly discover.
- Hints are also dropped that Gabe doesn't feel comfortable leaving her alone for more than a couple minutes at a time, since it's the reason he finds her and Karl's corpse before anyone else does.
- She goads Gabe to murder Kinsey repeatedly and later threatens to do it herself.
- She uses the Music Box Key to demonize Scot Cavendish by telling him to pummel Gabe under mind control and sneaks into Keyhouse to put the music box back. Even though it's on Gabe's orders, she seems very eager to do it.
- When Jackie Veda expresses concern for Eden, she rudely insults her.
- She later tells Carole Hawkins, the woman who conceived her host body, that she should murder her husband with a hammer for cheating on her, assuring her it will make her happy.
- While Carole understandably assumes she's kidding, Eden's intentions count nonetheless.
- Arriving at Keyhouse fully intending to kidnap Duncan, she steals Duncan's alcohol from the refrigerator, despite Tyler protesting against it.
- She tries to murder Bode, threatening to snap the 10-year-old in half.
- While he was teasing her and had Jamie Bennett trap her, this way too much of an overreaction.
- After Gabe gives her the boot and goes to the key-making cabin without her, she pummels Kinsey and leaves a gash in Scot's arm with a shard of broken glass.
- Even though Gabe would not just use the Demon Key on anyone, Eden admits she would have transmuted half the town, meaning thousands of people, needlessly.
- Gabe tells her they already have who they need for now and that the goal is not to transform the entire world like Eden apparently intends.
- This is presumably why she got the boot in the first place, even if Gabe does not want to.
- Granted, contradictory indications are given as to whether or not possessed humans are in terrible pain, but there is no doubt they lose a lot of free will. Eden knows this and seems to have sadistically looked forward to it from day one.
- She is extremely manipulative towards Josh Bennett, as she tricks him into joining her in the Drowning Caves so she can use him to raise an army of demons against Gabe, purely out of childish spite.
- She murders Javi by slicing his neck with his ice skates and pushing him into the desert. He had tried to kill her after learning what she and Josh Bennett were up to and Gabe had ordered it of him, but she had already planned on killing him in advance without his or Gabe's knowledge.
- When Josh's memory of being in the caves is automatically erased by supernatural forces, she openly snarls that she wishes it was rational to kill him in his own home.
- After Gabe receives his comeuppance, she childishly desecrates his memorial at Matheson Academy, owing to her continued spite towards him.
- She summons an obviously evil serial killer Frederick Gideon from the dead, intending to use him as a pawn. This makes her responsible for everyone he goes on to do harm upon. Even if she didn't know he was possessed, she still knows what horrible things the host has done because Josh Bennett told her he terrorized the North Shore and killed a lot of people. Furthermore, she says having an omnicidal and malevolent demon possessing him is, in her own words, "so much better." Knowing she is facing a monster who desires omnicide, she firmly yet nervously tells him it's time to leave the Wellhouse with her, all but confirming she is on board to help him with his apocalyptic goals.
What Makes Her Inconsistent?[]
- She is too comedic to be Near Pure Evil, as she is rarely taken seriously by humans and fellow demonic entities alike, thanks to her clumsy and eccentric personality, childlike high-pitched voice, and cartoonish self-awareness.
Trivia[]
- Her alternate timeline version doesn't count due to very minimal screen time and the fact that all of her actions such as goring Karl were done off-screen and none were given any elaboration to make her remotely heinous at all, with her only line being an expression of surprise at Bode's actions.
- She is one of two Inconsistently Heinous characters from Locke & Key with the other being Sam Lesser.
External Links[]
- Eden Hawkins on the Villains Wiki
- Eden Hawkins on the Locke & Key Wiki
