Ginsey

Ginsey is the non-binary ship between Gabe and Kinsey Locke from the Locke & Key fandom.

Season 1
Kinsey meets Gabe at the Savini Squad reunion. He surprises her from behind by showing up dressing as a lobster. He introduces himself by saying he was Gabe and takes the mask off. That's when they have their first interaction. Bode tells Kinsey Dodge is evil, and believing him, she is thus alarmed when Dodge enters their home, Keyhouse Manor, desiring to reclaim her magical keys. Kinsey doesn't see her again for the rest of the skirmish.

Later on, Kinsey was using the Music Box Key, punishing Eden for being rude to Scot. She was embarrassing her in front of the whole school. Gabe sees that she was controlling Eden's actions and approaches to her. Instead of deny it, she confessed it, and he showed himself excited about it joining her and takes over to create a hilarious spectacle, despite Scot's advices to stop. After school, he walks her home through the woods and they bond talking about the keys, about what they did to Eden and about his life. Gabe told Kinsey his parents were getting divorced and that's why he moved to Matheson. When they arrived at her house, she says she's glad that he's there and he thanks for it.

Later night, Kinsey was texting Scot and she received a text from Gabe making her smile.

Next day Scot was showing the Savini Squad what he filmed with Kinsey (using the Keys) and Gabe threw an ironic comment, realizing they used his keys. Kinsey noticed that. She then proposes to film in a cave close to her house, but the group isn't convicted it. Gabe encourages Kinsey's idea and they finally agree to the idea. They go to the cave and find it spectacular, but Kinsey desired to keep going inside. Her friends didn't want to because it felt dangerous and the sea was rough. Kinsey assures it's totally safe. Gabe knowingly supported Kinsey's idea and followed her, forcing the Savini to follow them as well. Kinsey followed the whispering calling her and found a door. The Savini Squad realized the tide had risen and had to leave at once; otherwise they would drown. Scot wants to go for Kinsey, but Gabe says he's going and he should go with the rest of the group. Scot agrees and leaves, losing all the filming equipment. Gabe finds Kinsey trying to open the door, completely drawn by it. He tells her that they need to go or they will die. Kinsey finally listens to Gabe and leaves. When they get to the place where they came from it was completely flooded. Kinsey is shocked and Gabe tells her they can do that. They went inside the cold water and start swimming. With difficulties, they made it. At the end of the way, was Scot who was justifiably very pissed and fights with Kinsey for putting everyone in danger. The Savini Squad left leaving Kinsey and Gabe behind. Later on they're drying themselves, and Kinsey considers her mistake. Gabe cherishes Kinsey trying to making feel better, saying that he's glad they went there and she's a badass. Kinsey looked at Gabe and kissed him. Then he kissed her back. He said he should go and he would see her tomorrow, with her nodding. After she turns around, he proceeds to head upstairs and unsheath his Identity Key and Anywhere Key in complete secret, opening the door into Javi's house whilst reverting back to "his" true form without Kinsey's knowledge.

Kinsey has an incident in her house, and Gabe appears next day at her door with Jackie who went to see Tyler, and they both went with food. Gabe meets Nina, Kinsey's mother, and she says she's glad they're dating, making Kinsey feel embarrassed. Then they went upstairs to Kinsey's room, and they talk. He sees she's gotten accepted to this art school; she isn't thrilled to go, but he admits he isn't happy about not seeing her in the entire summer; she likes that of course, but then confess he's probably the only one who's going to miss her since the Savini Squad is still mad at her. Gabe tells her that they will not be for that long, that it'll pass. Then Kinsey told Gabe the reason of the incident, making Gabe tell that he's gonna keep her secret, and she says she knows that. They hugged and got interrupted by Scot who went to visit her. When Scot sees Gabe backs off and leaves, but Gabe isn't very pleasant either so he leaves a bit after. She attempted to rig her attempt to retake her Omega Key, oblivious to Gabe's real identity and still thinking the keys somehow belong to the Lockes because of what Bode had said in the third episode. She does, however, learn that Dodge and Lucas Caravaggio are one and the same.

Kinsey then talks to both Scot and Gabe saying they're both amazing and she likes them both, so she shouldn't pick one, instead she proposes to date the both of them, leaving them very confused.

Kinsey was dealing with Dodge, this demoness that wanted to take back her keys from her family, and Gabe shows up with backup to help. They found Dodge's body completely knocked out, and with the whole group, took her to the cave, opening the door that was the portal that derives to the realm of demonology where it came from, and closed it for good. Defeating Dodge, they go to her house to celebrate her victory. Scot talks to Kinsey and says he's not okay with sharing her so he's not in, but he wants to keep being friends. At the end of the season, it's implied that Kinsey and Gabe are starting to date, and It's also revealed that Gabe was Dodge all along, who thankfully still lives.

Season 2


Gabe and Kinsey are together. It's the premiere of their movie and they start to promote it in the streets. In the way Kinsey finds out Scot doesn't work where he used to work anymore, and Gabe noticed she wasn't pleased by the news. A demon possessing Eden without Kinsey's knowledge is reckless and obnoxious and kept doing childishly irritating things that pissed Gabe off (Eden's nonsense would've pissed off anybody), eventually asking Gabe if she could turn into Kinsey, and Gabe, being irresistibly snarky by nature, let her give it a try. "He" shows Eden "his" chillingly beautiful face and proceeds to tell her he doesn't want to miss his red carpet with Kinsey and Scot.

Gabe arrives at the premiere where Kinsey is talking to Scot, who hasn't seen in the whole summer. They go into the sala and watch the movie, but Eden is bored and she leaves, making Gabe feel worried. He leaves after her, because he knows she's probably making trouble, and he was right, but Kinsey feels bad about him leaving, since it was their debut as actors and a big scene they made was coming.

They go to a party, but Gabe is exhausted because of Eden and tells Kinsey he feels bad and needs to go, that he knows it was a special night for her but he will make it up for her, he apologies, kiss her and go. Kinsey again, feels a bit disappointed and annoyed.

Next day, the happy non-binary couple is coming back to school and they're juniors. Gabe shows himself very excited and tells Kinsey he reserved a place at a Pizza Restaurant in a great table just for them, and Kinsey answers that no girl can say no to that. Later, the Savini Squad reunites, there's a new girl in the group and Kinsey is showing her the powers of the keys. She sits and takes Gabe's hand, but when she suggest Scot to tell his news, she drops it, leaving Gabe very confused. At the restaurant date, they talk about Scot and Gabe asks Kinsey if she doesn't want Scot to leave. She backs off and denies it. Then they sit and he asks her about the creation of the keys, she answers she doesn't know how to make keys. Kinsey asks Gabe about his parents and he maintains his appropriate cover story that they're divorcing, saying they're boring and they're not going to visit him. Later on, they're at Kinsey's house. She's on top of him, making out, and she stops to suggest going inside his head, since he's been in hers. He feels surprised about it, and freaks out because if she goes inside his head, she'll see some wholesomely feminine memories and hear some erotic demon screeches and find out the truth about who he is for sure. Being childish and toxic by nature, Kinsey gets butthurt and asks him to leave.

Next morning at school, Gabe finds Kinsey very closed to Scot and interrupts them. Scot leaves them, but Kinsey who's still pissed at him, walks away from him. This perturbs Gabe, who's realizing she's pulling away from him and he feels the need of fixing that. Eden asks him why would he do that if he can make his own keys now, meaning, he doesn't need her anymore. Gabe responds that since she's a Locke, she's special. Eden questions him since he's not fawning over Tyler (though he did flirt with him at a party once) and Bode (he's not a pedophile and has better things to do than fall in love with narcissistic ten-year-olds) as he is with Kinsey, saying he was catching feelings for her.

Later in Doug's house at the Savini Squad meeting, Doug asks Gabe if he could help him with the costume. Gabe doesn't want to leave but Kinsey looks at him almost smiling and he couldn't say no. A few minutes after, he comes back, and again sees Kinsey very closed to Scot.

"He" has the same crisis a lot of lesbians have, that they're less likely to win in a love triangle than the heterosexual alternative. So he makes Eden to grab the music box to control Scot and make him being aggressive towards him, making Kinsey being worried and being with him again. Scot swears to Kinsey that he didn't do it, and that he thought Gabe had something to do with that. Kinsey defends him and gets defensive. Scot then tells her he saw him with Eden, implying something was happening between the two of them. Again, Kinsey defends him and she ends in bad terms with Scot. Later that night, Kinsey returns his fear into her head, and they assist to a party. Kinsey senses a weird vibe between Eden and Gabe, and even more after seeing them together alone in a room. Eden leaves them alone, and Gabe asks her if they should leave, she responds sure, but when he walks to her and wants to hold her hand, Kinsey's reflection went off, and then she says it was a little shock. She returns to her home, and talks to her mom who notices Kinsey was sad. Kinsey asked her mother how to realize if something is a red flag or just something blowing away of proportion. Her mother advices that there's no way to know, but she should follow her gut.

After the failure of making their key, Eden asks Gabe why they just don't squeeze Kinsey's neck and force her to make their key, which he responds that they were going to do things in his way. He goes to Kinsey's house sure about taking the music box and forced her to help him, but when he's there and sees that she's mad at him, he regrets and tries to make amends. Kinsey confronts him about him and Eden and he gives admittedly questionable explanations. She forgives him, but she isn't sure. Later night, at Jackie's birthday party, Kinsey talks with Eden about her new relationship with Gabe, but her version differs from his, leading Kinsey to Scot to help her to go inside Eden's head because now she believes something was going on between them, making her comparable to Frederick Gideon, who had infiltrated Peter Locke's sanctuary because Peter was a freaking terrorist. They go inside her head, and Kinsey discovers the whole truth. She discovers Gabe wasn't a real teenage boy, and it was a identity created by the Identity Key and in reality, he was Dodge the whole time, meaning that Dodge still lives.

Kinsey, being a xenophobic bigot by nature, cannot accept Gabe is the same person he was yesterday and chooses to be heartbroken and fearful. She returns to her home, and tells the news to her family, and in that moment, Gabe shows up, who now knows that Duncan is the Locke who can make keys and wants to find out if the remembers how to do it. But Tyler and Kinsey lie to him and make him leave by threatening him with the Hercules Key, which would have forced him to lay bare his remarkable strength to defend himself.

Kinsey feels very guilty and like an idiot for being in a relationship with him for months, and in a moment of shortsighted sadness, she watches photos of the two of them on her phone.

Next day, Eden questions Gabe about the fact that he didn't use the Music Box Key and force Kinsey to make the key, to which he responds that not all Lockes can make a key and ironically she replied that he spent the whole summer with her for nothing, to which he makes the correct decision to push the brat back onto the couch. Later Gabe and Kinsey meet at the Matheson Festival, where Kinsey paints on kid's faces. He surprises her from behind, scaring Kinsey to death. She asks him what he was doing that day and he says he wanted to keep her company and also wanted a painting. She paints a lobster claw on his neck and he keeps asking about Duncan. An uncomfortable Kinsey asks if they can't talk about something else, since he wouldn't stop asking. Then he tells her that he knows that's a family matter, but promises he's always gonna be there for her and hopes she knows that. Later on, Eden sees Duncan using the Anywhere Key and texts Gabe telling him that Kinsey lied to him because her uncle is fixed. He leaves very upset and in the process, Erin Voss, determined to "get rid of" the magical keys, tries to trap him and murder him in cold blood, but is stopped by Eden and she ends up killed by them.

Again, Eden tells him that he's fooling himself and they all know about who he is, but he's in denial and responds Kinsey wouldn't lie to him. Kinsey who is very sad about Erin's death, decides that is moment to put an end to all of that and be judge, jury, and executioner, so with her family and the help of Scot, they made this plan to trap him in the well and vanish him from existence. She calls him and tells him that Duncan is fixed. Next day, Gabe arrives with Eden at the Key House and Kinsey seems very happy to receive them. They're supposedly about to shoot a new film and Gabe and Kinsey are the main couple. He senses something is wrong because the rest of the Savini Squad isn't there, but he decides to trust Kinsey. Tyler takes Eden with him so they couldn't be together, and with Jamie's help they trapped her inside a glass. Tyler joins the rest of the group and with the excuse of needing something for the film, he offers himself to help and uses the Anywhere Key to open the door into the Wellhouse. Kinsey is distracting Gabe by holding his hand and getting really close, as if they were about to kiss, and in that moment, a bird fortuitously comes out in the room, and Gabe realizes what was happening. They start fighting, and Gabe shows his demon face. Eden gets to escape from the glass, and helps Gabe defend himself. He takes Bode and Duncan and leaves Eden to whatever fate Keyhouse Manor would intend, as her blowing their cover by getting drunk had been the last straw. Gabe ended a relationship with two indescribably toxic teenage girls in one day.

Gabe threats Duncan to make him the key he wants or he would kill Bode. This time, successfully, he gets his key, but he wants more. He wants Kinsey with him.

With his new demon army, starting his reign, Eden visits him and tells him that even he left her behind, she would forgive him for the sake of their plan, but Gabe dismiss what she says because she has always been dragging him down with her insufferable immaturity and she's insignificant to him. Eden threats to kills Kinsey and he gets his army to show up advicing she should think twice about whether she wants to do that or not. Eden leaves and Gabe sends his army to get Kinsey. This is the first time they face each other after the truth being revealed in both sides. Kinsey asks him what he wants from her, and he says it's an obvious thing. He wants her to join him, but the insidiously harmful Kinsey predictably says she would never do that so he should do it all by himself. He replies that he wants her to want to join him. Bode gets there and ruins everything.

Next morning, he uses the Anywhere Key and visits Kinsey at Keyhouse Manor. This time, alone, he explains he didn't want to force her into that, he wanted her to want it because it mattered to him, since what they had was special. Kinsey cries and tells him that what they had was a total lie, but Gabe doesn't agree since he considers his feelings were real. She keeps pushing and saying she would never choose to be with him neither be like him for what Gabe gets tired and tells her that if she doesn't he would kill her mother, and courteously gives her a day to think.

Next day, Gabe gives the order to his army to kill Kinsey's mother, since he knew she wouldn't show up. Then he talks to his new loyal soldier and tells him that if he feels like killing the rest of the Lockes he could, but not Kinsey. He says "Kinsey?" and Gabe responds "yeah", but then he says her name again, warning Gabe that Kinsey was there. His faces lights up. They talk and Gabe is sincere by saying that he thought she wouldn't show up, but she says that she's there. He feels joy about it. Kinsey tells him that all she did was to think about his offer, but he says he wanted her to want to join him, instead he trapped her and left her without a choice, Gabe is much more than a hilariously mundane homo sapien and replies that he is not soulless or untruthful. Kinsey childishly questions his love for her, and he answers that if he didn't love her she would be dead, but she doesn't agree and spitefully calls his feeling the needing of controlling, and that anyways he won't be able to do that, since that's the only thing she can actually do, is to control her own fate. Kinsey then walks to the top of the roof, and Gabe starts to freak out, she jumps from it, and he runs to it to see her falling, but in that moment she turned the Angel Key and big wings opened and starts flying. Gabe screamed in disbelief since she played with his feelings again, to get him distracted. In that moment, his army sees Tyler, Duncan and Scot trying to get to the Demon Key, and warn Gabe about it. He dons his iconic Crown of Shadows to try to stop them, but Kinsey descended and took the crown from his head. He takes her leg and dropped her to the floor. They fight for the crown and Kinsey wins it, leaving flying. In that moment, Gabe decides it's about damn time he took his real form back and leave that one behind.

In a final battle between the two of them; now they've both decided to kill each other, Dodge has the lead and is about to kill Kinsey, on the verge of tears at the necessity of the commendable act, but Tyler shows up from behind and inserts the Alpha Key on Dodge's back, dispossessing her from Lucas' body. Peace and justice have yet to win the day, and the house collapses into the sea while the Lockes make off with their enemy's keys.

Quotes
"You have that effect on people. You have this energy that I think we'd all follow anywhere. I mean, I would. You're badass."

- Gabe to Kinsey. S01E06.

Fanon
Ginsey is the ship name for Gabe and Kinsey from the Netflix show, called Locke & Key. Portrayed by Griffin Gluck, Laysla De Oliveira, and Emilia Jones.

Fans started shipping Ginsey way harder in the second season, since they claimed the chemistry between the characters was unmatched, and also loved the fact that Gabe is a charismatic antihero. He's a demon who came from a world full of chaos and destruction, and never knew anything related to love, but when he started dating Kinsey he fell for her for real. His plans would've ended up very differently if he hadn't loved her at all. He was blinded by it and his partner in crime, Eden, recalled that many times. Gabe's almost whole arc in the second season was trying to protect Kinsey and wanting her to join him.

Ginsey's competition is the ship of Kinsey and Scot, but for obvious reasons their fandom isn't as strong or committed as the Gabe/Kinsey is.

Fandom
FAN FICTION

VIDEOS
 * Ginsey on Youtube
 * Ginsey on TikTok
 * on Instagram

Trivia

 * The locke&key official account has acknowledged the Ginsey ship.