Gabe Kirk

**Gabriel (Gabe) Simon Kirk** is a member of The Showstoppers. He's a closeted punk living with radically religious parents from an extremely conservative family. He has a secret stash of records under his bed, despite not actually owning a record player to play them on.

## Biography

### Background Information

Gabe and Roz Beridze are from Monroeville, Alabama. Their families moved to Albuquerque during their middle school years.

His introduction to the punk scene was through the band My Chemical Romance, which led him to Frank Iero, which led him to Dave Hause and so on. Every time Authority Zero comes into town, he will be there, having a fake ID on hand just in case it isn't all-ages.

## Appearance

Gabe's design is made up of circles, triangles and angles. His color palette consists of blues, blacks and silvers.

He has straightened hair and seems to have brown eyes. He has freckles covering his body that he always tries to hide. He is very short and small is statue, but don't let looks fool you because he can knock someone out if absolutely necessary.

Before joining the basketball team, he would only wear whites and blacks. After getting his letterman jacket, Roz told him he should wear more colors. Since then, he's usually seen wearing a blue hoodie with a blue plaid button-up shirt, blue jeans and white sneakers with light grey socks.

## Personality

Gabe is determined, resilient, hardworking, ignorant and a little cold. He isn't quite sure of his own emotions. His sense of humor is incredibly deadpanned, to the point where no one is sure when he's actually joking or not. He strives off of others' love for him, fearing of losing the love of his parents and God. He likes being at home, writing. He feels uneasy whenever his ideas are questioned and his sense of reality crumbles a little bit more. He is very rarely ever truly enraged, but can be a little bit more aggressive when someone hurts someone he cares about. He wants to be the child his parents always wanted.

## Skills

* Songwriting
* Composing
* Cooking
* Piano
* Drums
* Basketball
* Music

## Relationships

* Leah Mullins: Gabe and Leah become friends after finding each other at a punk show. Gabe and Leah don't get along at first, but they slowly begin to form a genuine care and respect for each other.

* Roz Beridze: Gabe's parents set him and Roz up when they were in elementary school and they've stayed together ever since. It's more for appearances though. They love each other, they just don't feel any different than they would as friends.

* Chan Smith: Despite what Chan thinks, their hatred is truly one-sided. Gabe only pretends to hate Chan because that's what he's told to do, but he doesn't understand why everyone keeps insisting that he should.

* Colin Woods: Mr. Woods becomes close to a father figure for Gabe, more caring that his actually father is. He becomes someone that Gabe can confide in when dealing with something he can't talk about with his actual parents.

* Don Holland: Gabe and Don very quickly become best friends, bonding over a song-battle with an Authority Zero song. Gabe feels as though, with Don and his friends, he can start over and be his true self without anyone outside of their inner circle knowing.

## Trivia

* Gabe as generalized anxiety, social anxiety, depression and OCD. Though his parents don't believe in mental illness and therefore has no official diagnoses.
* Gabe has agoraphobia (fear of situations one can't control), aviophobia (fear of flying), erotophobia (fear of sexual love), hadephobia (fear of Hell), hamartophobia (fear of error or sin), and hydrophobia (fear of water).
* Gabe's birthday is June 18.
* ChéSnail gave him the last name Kirk just to include a Star Trek joke in his first interaction with Don, who is canonically a Star Trek fan.

## Gallery

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