Gaertlan

**Gaertlan** is a resident of the Braided Island and Lilyth's admirer.

## Appearance

Gaertlan has pale green skin, dark green hair, jagged teeth, and a small, pointed nose. Like the other male islanders, he wears a tunic with a cut down the middle, tied around his waist with rope, and knee-length shorts, both made of a light green fabric. He also wears sandals tied to his legs with rope, and has rope tied around his neck and his wrists.

## Personality

He has a crush on Leelathae and quickly gets flustered around her, but the latter is unaware and oblivious to his vague courting attempts.

## History

Not much is known of Gaertlan, just that he is a good friend of Leelathae who is not-so-secretly in love with her. She, however, is oblivious to this.

One day, Gaertlan tried to get Leelathae to go to the Pottery Festival with him and their friends, but she was much more interested in her usual routine of feeding the animals on the island. He went to the festival without Leelathae, but still made a courting vase, planning to give it to her later. The person in charge said it was more like a rejection urn. However, Gaertlan came to Leelathae’s home to a heartbreaking sight of her nursing the handsome and injured foriegner Jack, crying into his vase.

As time passed, he anxiously waited for Jack to heal from his injured heel so that he would leave and Gaertlan would have Leelathae to himself again. When the day finally came, Gaertlan and his other friend happily escorted Jack with Leelathae back to his crew. Gaertlan, in particular, declared that "this day could not come soon enough" and that he would "put [Jack’s] butt on that boat" himself if he could have. As he and the other friend began to leave, he offered to help Leelathae feed the island animals, but received no answer. He and his other friend turned around just in time to see Leelathae jump off the island territory and onto the boat with Jack, declaring that she was coming with him. Gaertlan and his other friend nicely requested that Jack return Leelathae, but Jack simply commanded his crew members continue rowing towards the ship, taking Leelathae to bring to his homeland as his fiancé, much to the anger of Gaertlan and his other friend, who shouted insults after him.

## Relationships

#### Leelathae

Gaertlan was in love with Leelethae, something she was oblivious to. He made her a courting vase at the Pottery Festival, although the potter said it looked more like a rejection urn, a grim foreshadowing of events to come. When he came to visit her, he found her nursing and acting closely with a foreigner, Jack, and saw the love on their faces, prompting tears from him into his new urn. When Jack’s ankle finally healed, Gartlan was happy, thinking things would go back to normal after he left. However, Leelathae ultimately chose to leave the island to be with Jack, leaving Gaertlan behind.

#### King Jack

Gaertlan hated Jack for attracting Leelathae’s affection. When Jack’s ankle healed, Gaertlan was happy, knowing that he would now leave the island and Leelathae. Gaertlan helped personally escort Jack back to his ship crew and happily watched him row away from the island. When Leelathae jumped onto the rowboat to go with Jack to his homeland, Gaertlan politely gestured at him to return her, only to shout insults after Jack when the former instead obliged Leelathae, taking her away from Gaertlan forever.

## Notes & Trivia

* He is the only named resident of the Braided Island besides Lilyth.