Galatea

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* Gorgon Family

## Meta

> "*Do I alsssso need a ssswimboy?*"
> ― Beans, Season 6
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**Galatea**, or Sabine "Beans" Nixon, is a young Gorgon member of Big Team.

## Appearance

Beans is a 5 foot tall 13 year old girl with green, scaly skin, large red reptilian eyes, fangs, and long pointy ears.

She has green snakes for hair, about the length of a shoulder length bob.

She normally wears a super oversized old coat to hide in, but it doesn't really work.

Halfway down her upper thighs turn into a mess of green snakes, which function as her "legs". Think dark sun gwyndolin from dark souls!

She is very babie. Her face is round and she has full black lips that can't properly close around her fangs, giving her trouble saying the letter S. Her nose is cute and buttony. The scales on her cheeks and brows are slightly iridescent. She is legally blind, and wears very strong prescription glasses which make her large eyes look normal sized when viewed through them.

## Powers

Beans has snakes for hair, which she can't control and do nothing useful. She also has a mess of snakes for legs, which is less useful than regular legs. Her eyes, however, can turn things to stone.

The petrification has limits, but can be very powerful if done well and, you know, not in a panic like she usually does. It is possible, with the right amount of focus, to turn things into a specific type of stone, and she can un-petrify things that have been petrified by her and maybe others (at the very least, by Euryale).

Gorgons are very magically talented, and since joining the Thaumaturgy Club at Big High Sabine has learned a few spells, as well as directly from Angrboda. She is still a baby mage, however.

## Background

### Pre-Big Team

Beans was a 13 year old boy from Pennsylvania, Nat's cousin Steve, who suddenly turned into a girl gorgon! She ran away from home to halcyon because that's where weirdos go, and that's how she thinks of herself now. Beans is trans, but doesn't quite realize it yet - it's why she's not completely unhappy with the situation. She's like a trans egg who transitioned before she knew she wanted to, and doesn't quite know why she's so happy now!

### Post-joining Big Team

Sabine moved into the Big Team Base, and started going to Big High. Technically she should still have been a middle schooler, but Smoke thought it best for her to go to Big High, which had more resources for super kids.

Sabine met her Gorgon mother Euryale in an ancient and crumbling Greek temple on an island near Halcyon. Euryale wanted to take her back to Greece with her (she lives on Lesbos), but Sabine and the gang managed to convince her to stay in Halcyon with Beans for a while.

After Runa showed up to retrieve her wayward daughter, Cadenza realized who Beans was. A lot of tears were shed, but the end result was that Sabine and Euryale moved into the Nixon household.

## Relationships

### Family

**Euryale**

Euryale is Sabine's Gorgon mother, an ancient blue gorgon who may or may not be the Euryale of Greek myth. She claims she lost track of how old she is, and she certainly has the bearing and wisdom of someone who has lived for a very long time.

Sabine loves Euryale very much and could not be more thrilled to get to know her.

**Natalie Nixon**

Natalie, or Cadenza, is Sabine's cousin on her dad's side. They haven't been close since they were children, since their parents grew apart due to their differing views on superpowers. Sabine is very excited to rekindle the easy friendship they had as children, though, when she would draw while Nat sang during family visits.

**Runa**

Runa is an enormous Asgardian Forest Cat, sent by Freya to watch over the Medusa bloodline. Rather than watch the baby Sabine as one would a prisoner, however, Runa took one look at her and decided that this tiny, hairless kitten was now her daughter. She's very powerful, somewhat magical, full of feline motherly instincts and fiercely protective.

**Scott & Tanya Nixon**

Scott and Tanya Nixon are Sabine's uncle and aunt on her dad's side. She hadn't seen them for a few years when she ran away from home.

**Reginald & Sally Nixon**

Reginald and Sally Nixon are Sabine's human parents. They live back in Clearfield, Pennsylvania, where Sabine fled from after she turned into a gorgon.

### Friends

**Inge**

Inge was one of the first people on the Big Team Beans met, and is one of her favourites. She thinks he is very smart and nice and strong, and they hang out a lot!

**Echo**

It's nice to have someone (close to) your own age around, and Sabine and Echo hang out a lot at school.

**Beatrice**

Sabine is still a little afraid of Beatrice - she's an intimidating lady and the ex-villain thing sure doesn't help - but she also feels safe around her. It's complicated.

**Samantha**

Beans thinks Samantha is so cool! She knows so much magic, and she's got really good style, and she's really pretty, and she's not afraid to be assertive! Sabine thinks she might want to be like her when she is older, or maybe she wants to... well, Samantha is just really cool!

**JD**

JD is another person at school she thinks is really cool! She's still not sure what the whole swimperson deal is, but she'll do her best!

**Brenna**

Brenna is very strong and very nice and a god (?). She knitted socks for Sabine's snakes, which was super nice and helps her to keep warm.

## Additional Scenes

* Magic Beans (3/5/2021) - Wherein Samantha teaches Sabine a spell.

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