Galen Wavefair

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Gang leader (former)

Gang member (former)

Galen Wavefair is a half-triton rogue hailing from the southern islands known as the Knives. He is played by Ryan Lovegood.

> "I hope you know you aren't forgotten."
>
> —Galen Wavefair, about Theodora,
> Episode Four: Songs from the Sea of Trees

## Description

### Appearance:

Galen is a half-triton man of nimble but muscular build. He has primarily human features, which he capitalizes on by wearing his blue-black hair long to cover his Triton ears and donning a tall collar or cowl to cover his gills. His eyes, a bit sunken in, are a piercing ocean blue. Dark circles beneath his eyes stand out against his fair complexion. He has a scar running across the bridge of his nose and another on his left cheekbone, which pairs nicely with his strong, inquisitive brow. His right ear, though rarely visible when his hair is down, is loaded with piercings.

His body is covered in faint swirling golden markings, resembling Triton magick and runes, though the marking are typically covered by Galen's dark clothing.

### Personality:

Galen's tendency for aloofness and sardonic humor is often undercut by moments of genuine empathy. Although he appears withdrawn, he, will occasionally reveal a softer side to his party members - particularly Gris Littlefoot and Lione LaBelle. After revealing his reliance on the substance known as Sundrop, he confesses that he knows he should change for the better, but isn't sure he's capable of it.

In the party, Galen plays the role of loose cannon, vacillating between rational behavior (as when he instructed Lione to stay close to him upon arrival in Aquara) and instigating chaos.

## Biography

### Background:

Galen lived what appeared to be a normal, quaint life growing up. However, that didn't last. When Galen was young, his father disappeared. After battling his inner struggle, it was revealed to him by his mother, Cassandra, that his father had left to join the Triton Guard. Galen and Cassandra haven't seen their father and husband since. Following the abandonment of his father, Galen sought relief and an outlet within Aquara.

Galen fell quickly into the depths of the criminal underground. Having no father, he felt like he had something to prove. Galen quickly became a master thief and rogue. If you didn't see Galen while walking the Lower Decks, you can be sure that he saw you first. Galen's quick rise gave way to him eventually taking head role of The Brigade, Aquara's most dangerous criminal organization. Galen oversaw drug operations, heists, petty thievery, and more nefarious activities. With his (at that moment in time) fleeting lover Bee Boffkin and his right-hand Caleb "Stryke" Skymore by his side, Galen was on top of the world and living the lavish life underneath the Upper Decks.

But, with power, comes a desire for more. Galen always had plans to leave Aquara. So one day, he gathered his wealth, his trusty daggers (whom he lovingly nicknamed 'Prick' and 'Fang'), and his other belongings and stowed away on the first ship he found. With his criminal contacts, he'd have no problem moving from city to city, taking as he pleases. Eventually, he'd find himself in Eylas where he'd encounter a Lady In Red, a Drunken Elf, and a Grandmother who appears to be lost. That is where Galen's new story begins.

## Relationships:

### Bee Boffkin: Ex-Lover

   Bee Boffkin is Galen's former lover and close friend. Initially, Bee was attracted to Galen because he represented the danger she’d been craving since she left her hometown, but they soon struck up a fast friendship. Each found the other charming, and their relationship was one built on mutual respect and similar values - *Me and Mine first, always.* As Galen became more involved in the Brigade, Bee stuck close by, though, never one for commitment, she never fully invested in the gang or its ventures. Rather, her involvement with the Brigade came from her relationship with Galen -- a messy, "friends-with-benefits who also rob unsuspecting citizens" dynamic complicated by Bee’s aversion to commitment and Galen’s not-so-secret soft side.  He knew he could count on her to run contraband to the mainland any time she decided to return home (or to pay a short visit to the various nobles who sent her patronage), but also knew that her connection to the Brigade itself was tenuous.

The dynamic between Bee and Galen has always been an odd one. She spends the time they are surrounded by people teasing him, but when no one can hear them, she can take on a softer, more serious side. She knows him less as the emotionless, sardonic ex-leader of the brigade and more as the young man who once took her to his mother’s home and spent the whole evening tidying her house, leaving a bag of gold on the table to make sure she was never left wanting. Bee is the sort of person who has a soft spot for soft people, and that moment’s stuck with her.

Much of their realtionship was forged on rooftops, looking to the horizon as the sun rose over the ocean. Galen would sip sundrop (a habit Bee detested, but she was never one to tell someone how to live their life) and tell her that someday he’d leave here-- take all his money and find adventure elsewhere. And she’d respond, teasingly, that it sounds like he’s just trying his best to be exactly like her.

Their relationship means she knows the most of Galen’s past of everyone he knows-- about his father leaving when he was young, about his mother’s vacillating between overprotective and distant, about the way that Sundrop is one of the few things that makes him feel completely alive. About the way that he closes himself off and tries his best to seem hard because on the inside he’s still the ten year old boy standing on the sea shore, desperately calling his father’s name into the ocean breeze.

When he returns to Aquara, she makes it clear that she's missed him -- and seems to hint at deeper feelings, taking care of his mother with fierce tenacity and gentle love. Galen hints at returning these emotions, telling her that by leaving he "hurt the ones that he loved most."