Gaela Scarborough

* Gaela
* Gavin

* 2018
* 1997

**Beyond Comics**

* Cinder Isle: The Cure

**Animation Series**

* Awakening

**Gaela Scarborough**, formerly **Gavin Scarborough**, is one of the main characters of Cinder Isle. She was the only person in Cinder Isle who was cursed by Sylvana's gender curse. Due to this affliction, when the T1G1 Virus hit Cinder Isle, Gavin became the last man remaining in the city before Alistair managed to cure her. She is in a relationship, and now married, with Zack Houlton, whom she started dated when she was still Gavin, and Zack was still Zoey.

## Appearance

As Gavin, he has short brown hair, gray eyes, and a skinny build during the beginning of Cinder Isle. As the days progressed, however, his build got bigger and his height increased. This was due to the effect getting infected by the T1G1 Virus as a person already cursed by the Gender Curse, which made him turn into what he was attracted to the most.

As Gaela, she retains her brown hair, but now longer, and her body turned into what Zoey's body looked like prior to their transformations, which includes the freckles on her face and her 34F cup size breasts. She has red lips, wears red nail polish, and she also usually wears white dangling earrings.

Her appearance in Awakening 21 years later remains very similar to her teenage self, except for some slight wrinkles around her eyes due to her age.

## History

### Early Life

Born as Gavin due to inheriting the gender curse from his biological mother (Unnamed) he was the only child of her and his father Wade. At some point in his youth his mother walked out on both of them and left Gavin alone with Wade saddened by his mother's sudden disappearance and the fighting that had led up to it. After a while however Wade remarried to a woman named Clairissa who herself had a son named Chase a little older than Gavin. Throughout his childhood Gavin had formed a close friendship with Shane Gardiner and Zack Houlton, two other boys who shared similar interests to him. The trio maintained their friend group throughout their years in middle and high school.

### Awakening

Over twenty years after the events of Cinder Isle, Gaela and Zack are already married and now have two children, Ricky and Jackie, as well as a niece Sophia and nephew Henry after Shane and Natalie also got married and had kids. At some point Alistair gave Gaela a book on sorcery to read for her own pleasure despite not being a sorcerer herself. One day while her kids were staying with their Aunt, Uncle, and Cousins for a weekend, Gaela became reinfected with her old Gender Curse as a result of Sylvana Huntington's return and successful breach of Alistair's curse vault. Once reinfected she becomes one of the Enlightened making her eyes turn red and she cuts herself before attempting to Attack Zack intent on infecting him with the curse as well. Zack however manages to lock her in their bedroom before she can hurt her and to his relief Alistair and his apprentice Isabelle arrive soon after and are able to help re-cure Gaela just as she manages to break through the bedroom door and nearly attack the three of them.

Alistair removes Gaela's enhanced curse and brings her to her senses. She is confused at first but after realizing Alistair has turned himself human and something big is clearly going on both she and Zack welcome him and the rest of his reformed Sapphire Legion into their home for a while so they can recover from the recent battle. Gaela and Zack do their best to make them comfortable and call Shane and Natalie to give them a heads up about what is going on. They are all understandably concerned after learning that thanks to Sylvana's efforts a new and worse version of the T1-G1 virus has now begun to spread across the globe. Not only turning all infected into women again but also making them the mindless servants of Sylvana. As the Legion begins to settle in and rest for the night Shane and Natalie arrive with the kids. While Gaela is happy to see them safe, she and Zack tell Ricky and Jackie that they need to stay a few more days with Shane and Natalie so the Legion can stay in their rooms while they recover. She then joins the rest of the Quad in a brief reunion with Alistair, concerned about the situation but happy to at last see him in flesh and blood.

### Cinder Isle: The Cure

In the non-canon Beyond comic Cinder Isle: The Cure, Gavin seems to be less nervous when talking to girls than his canon counterpart, as evidenced by his lack of stutter when talking to Zoey. However, Gavin also seems to not have a crush on Zoey, at least visibly, since during their vacation on the ski resort, when Zoey decides to wear more feminine clothing to impress and flirt with Gavin, Gavin doesn't seem to show any kind of interest on flirting back to her. His lack of reaction caused Zoey to be embarrassed and mad at him, which prompted Zoey to leave Gavin alone and talk to Natalie instead.

## Personality

Gavin is very shy and nervous around girls, to the point that he stutters whenever trying to talk to them. Around his best friends Zack and Shane however, he has no problem communicating with them regarding their interests, such as video games and movies. When turned into Zoey, Gavin had a hard time talking to her, even if Zoey has pointed out repeatedly that she is still the same Zack that she's friends with.

Once Zoey offered Gavin to make out with him, he would become more confident around women, and won't stutter anymore. Gavin's newfound confidence would become key to asking Zoey out for a date. This would also be apparent even when Gavin turned into Gaela.

Gavin is very studious, and would spend his free time reading books or studying, if not playing games or watching movies. This was instrumental in piecing together a shattered Alistair statue.

Gavin is also generally nice to everyone, even when he gets nervous around girls. Exceptions include the school bullies Bridget and Frank, and when he got angry at a newly revived Alistair for blaming them for spreading the virus in Cinder Isle.

When she got transformed into Gaela, she is seen to be much more joyful, daring, and outgoing, as evidenced by wanting to join Alistair in destroying the Abomination in the forest, and her skipping school with Zack to go outside the island after being stuck in it for over a year.

## Relationships

### Zack/Zoey Houlton

During the beginning of the story, Gavin is best friends with Zack. When Zack transformed into Zoey, Gavin would be very shy around her and would stutter whenever trying to talk to her. His stutter became worse when he and Zoey saw each other naked in a shower room. Zoey would then try to get rid of Gavin's stutter by offering him to kiss her, which turned out to be successful, and Gavin now feels more confident talking to girls due to this.

When Gavin saw Zoey trying out new clothes at a shop, they expressed their feelings of attraction towards one another and agreed to go on a date. This relationship would then continue in secret for some time, and they would limit their sexual activities so as to prevent Gavin from getting infected. When they found out that Gavin was immune to the virus, Zoey would try to convince him to go all the way, and Gavin reluctantly agrees after some hesitation.

After their first full-on intercourse, Gavin would finally tell the truth to Zoey that he wants to be a woman, which shocked Zoey at first, but became accepting afterwards. When Alistair transformed Gavin into Gaela, she expresses her desire to still be in a relationship with Zoey, even if she transforms back into Zack and Gaela takes the role of being the girlfriend.

### Shane Gardiner

Shane is also one of Gavin's best friends, along with Zack. Their relationship is more akin to being siblings, which further became a reality once they became step-siblings after their parents' affair got exposed.

### Natalie Pembroke

While Natalie joined their group, there is not much interaction shown between Gavin and Natalie, at least until Gavin transformed into Gaela. After Natalie expressed her desire to stay as a woman, she and Gaela bonded over the things about womanhood that they both enjoy.

## Abilities

Gavin/Gaela possesses above-average intelligence, being able to ace his exams perfectly and getting a 4.0 GPA. When Zoey and the other girls grabbed the pieces of a completely shattered statue of Alistair, Gaela was able to determine what kind of mineral the statue pieces are, based on her knowledge from her science classes.

With help from the Nurse ghost, she was able to piece together two thousand and twenty pieces of the Fox statue from scratch in just under two months, despite Gaela not knowing what the finished figure looks like. This is compared to Isabelle's attempt to fix Alistair during the comic series Fractured in a month, where she already knows what Alistair looks like and has access to magic herself.

## Gallery

Sneak Peek of Gaela's appearance (uploaded on Twitter)Gaela letting out her inner diva (1) (posted on Cinder Isle Page 660)Gaela letting out her inner diva (2) (posted on Cinder Isle Page 660)Gaela wearing a wedding dress (posted on Cinder Isle Page 696)
## Trivia

* Gaela was one of the participants in the SapphireFoxx Waifu Tournament. She was paired against Zoey in the Maine Qualifiers round to represent Cinder Isle in the tournament, in which she lost against Zoey.

## See also

* Zack Houlton
* Shane Gardiner
* Natalie Pembroke