Principal Swift

* Principal Swift
* Granis

**Granis**, known on Earth as **"Principal Principle Swift"**, is the tritagonist of the Disney Channel series, *Gabby Duran & The Unsittables*.

He is played by **Nathan Lovejoy**.

## Personality

He is an eccentric school principal and extraterrestrial being who enlists Gabby to babysit the young aliens in his charge. He has a very wacky personality.

## Biography

Principal Swift is hiding in Earth with his nephew, Jeremy until Jeremy grows up. He became principal of Havensburg Junior High to fit it in Earth. In So Your Gor-Monite Child is Going to Explode, Principal Swift gives Gabby the responsibility to babysit Jeremy. Principal Swift decides to permanently give Gabby the job of babysitting aliens.

In Dia De La Dina, it was Swift's last day on Earth. He tries to do activities for his last day on Earth. Later, he finds out that he isn't needed on his planet, Gor-Mon and has to stay on Earth to protect Jeremy. In The Darkness, he hides in a rubbish bin since he's been rejected by his home planet. Since he is an alien, Gor-Mons have weird symptoms when feeling unwanted or depressed.

## Relationships

### Gabby Duran

Gabby and Principal Swift first interacted when Gabby tried to get herself expelled. After seeing her defiance, Principal Swift thinks that she can babysit aliens.

### Jeremy

Jeremy is Principal Swift's nephew. Principal Swift doesn't really take him out to do normal things like watch movies or other things.

## Trivia

* His true identity is a shape-shifting orange Gor-Mon named Granis.
* He keeps a supply of Gor-Monite Mints.
* He resides with his nephew, Jeremy,  at 5758 Schaffer Street.
* It is revealed Principal Swift adopted the form of a human named Bodean Jones by eating one of his hairs.
* Principal Swift appeared in a hypothetical scene in which Gabby imagined him and Jeremy being carted away by government agents in gurneys, Hannibal Lecter style.
* He seems rather obsessed with the Hemsworth acting brothers.
* He claims to have been on Earth for 2 years as revealed in Dia De La Dina.
* He has a strong mistrust of birds.
* He has no counterpart in the books, That version of Gabby Duran secretly works for **A.L.I.E.N.**. (**A**ssociation **L**inking **I**ntergalactics and **E**arthlings as **N**eighbors) under the supervision of the mysterious Edwina.
* He loves to drink out of a “fancy drinking stick” (really a plunger).
* He started the rumor, Crybaby Duran, to increase Gabby's popularity but all it did was have people make fun of her.
* He compiled a list of 158 personal secrets which he shared with Jeremy.
* Being an alien, he never learned how to ride a bike and he used training wheels when he was riding one.
* In the D.U.M.B. Altered Timeline Swift never finds a suitable babysitter for his nephew, thus he becomed overtaxed handling Jeremy, the school, and the alien community. When he is fired from being Principal for being caught sleeping at school and replaced with Principal Kipper, he is also replaced as Jeremy's guardian by Glor-Bron. Tossed out of the Swift home, he becomes a waiter at Luchachos. His mental state is shown to be deteriorating, as he spends his free time tending to an effigy of his nephew, dubbed "Jeremy 2.0," that he constructs from scraps collected from Luchachos garbage in The Fault in Our Star Night.
* In  Warm, Thick, and Saucy, Swift reset his shapehifting matrix, thus he can no longer assume the forms he took prior to that point in time.
* Shapes **Principal Swift** has assumed:
	+ A middle-aged human male based on Bodean Jones
	+ A potted plant in So Your Gor-Monite Child is Going to Explode
	+ A orange puddle of goo due to the "The Darkness" in The Darkness
	+ Bruce Duran in It's Christmas, Gabby Duran!
	+ A talking sandwich and Bodean Jones in Warm, Thick, and Saucy.
	+ A bike in The Bubble.
	+ A bowl of Zoodles in Magic Hours.
* Episodes **Principal Swift** does not appear:
	+ Olivia Gone Wild
	+ Who is Joey Panther?
	+ Vortex & Night Train

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## References

1. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/BpSA5WWDkLy/