Tyler Galpin

## About

Tyler is the son of Sheriff Donovan Galpin and his wife, Francoise. After his birth, his mother ended up suffering from postpartum depression, which caused her hyde to be triggered. Francoise would eventually be confined to a psychiatric hospital for treatment.

At some point in Tyler's life, his mother died, and an emotionally distant Donovan chose to focus on his job rather than raise his son out of fear that his son would inherit his late wife's outcast condition. Because of this, Donovan would consistently refuse to talk about Francoise with Tyler, leading to a strained relationship between the two. Growing up, Tyler would develop serious anger and emotional issues, which he would take out on other individuals, such as Nevermore Academy student Xavier Thorpe, when he and his friends assaulted him on the previous Outreach Day and destroyed a mural he painted. This incident, according to Tyler, led him to be sent off to boot camp, where he claimed that after this experience, he wanted to change his ways and become a better person. He was also mandated to attend court-ordered therapy sessions with Dr. Valerie Kinbott.

Prior to meeting Wednesday Addams, Tyler was working a shift in the Weathervane Cafe when he was approached by Laurel Gates, who had been living under the alias of Marilyn Thornhill, a botany teacher at Nevermore. Gates knew the truth about Tyler's hidden outcast nature and began manipulating him by revealing the truth about his mother. At some point, Marilyn held Tyler captive in a cave, where she injected him with various plant-derived chemicals to unlock his hyde and then tortured and brainwashed him in order to effectively render him her willing slave.

Being held under Marilyn's complete control, Tyler was then ordered to begin killing people hiking in the woods outside Jericho while in his hyde form and then collect parts of their bodies to bring back to his master as part of a necromancy ritual she had planned on performing in order to resurrect Joseph Crackstone.

## Description

Tyler can be described as a handsome boy. He is tall and has green eyes as well as brown hair. He likes to wear jackets and shirts. When he was working at the Weathervane, he wore the café's red apron and brown clothes. At the Rave'N, he wears a white suit.

However, when he transforms, he becomes a mutated creature. He then has gray skin, and his eyes become bloodshot and bigger. He also has sharp, deadly claws. The transformation causes the tearing of his clothes; he is always naked when he returns to his human form.

## Personality

Before the events of the first season, Tyler likely had behavioral and anger issues. This was due to his father's negligence and his mother's death when he was a kid. In high school, he was friends with Lucas Walker, Jonah, and Carter, three other boys, and they liked to bully outcasts together. On 2021 Outreach Day, Tyler and his friends assaulted Nevermore student Xavier Thorpe, who was assigned to paint a wall. His mural was destroyed in the process. Tyler was then ordered by the court to be followed by a therapist, Dr. Valerie Kinbott. He then distances himself from his friends. He now appears to be very kind, sweet, and helpful, despite the fact that he is still distant from his father. However, when Marilyn Thornhill unlocked his hyde, his personality drastically changed.

Manipulated, tortured, and drugged by Thornhill's plant cocktails, Tyler not only developed a twisted and primal loyalty to her but also a sadistic and bloody nature. He is hungry for murder and blood and loves to hear his victims screaming out when he kills them. Tyler now enjoys chaos and likes the fact that he genuinely serves his master's plan to succeed. He had absolutely no qualms about manipulating Wednesday and leading her through her investigation to Thornhill.

## Appearances

### Season 1

#### *Chapter I: Wednesday's Child Is Full of Woe*

Tyler is first seen in Weathervane attempting to get the espresso machine to work. He is startled when Wednesday appears out of nowhere. After Wednesday gives Tyler her order, he informs her that the machine isn't working and that the instructions are in Italian. Wednesday fixes the machine, and as payment, he offers to drive her to Burlington Station after his shift. In response, Wednesday tries to bribe him with forty dollars to leave his shift early, resulting in Tyler telling her to either wait or find someone else to drive her.

Tyler sees Lucas, Carter, and Jonah harassing Wednesday and attempts to make them leave her alone. He is told by all four people to stay out of it. After the fight was over, Tyler asked Wednesday how she knew how to fight, to which she told him her uncle taught her. After his dad, the sheriff, enters Weathervane, he begins to explain what happened.

At the Galpin house, Tyler is going through his father's old police files when he finds Gomez Addams' file.

In his room, Tyler hears knocking on his window. He opens it to find Thing. Freaked out, he grabbed a bat and started trying to hit Thing with it. After many failed attempts, Thing takes the bat from him. Tyler then sits down, as instructed by Thing, and calls Wednesday. Tyler calls Thing Wednesday's pet, to which Thing gives him the middle finger.

At the Harvest Festival, Tyler talks with his dad, who tells him not to go anywhere near Wednesday. Donovan then tells Tyler to be home by 12, then changes it to 12:30 a.m. Tyler finds Wednesday at the dart booth talking to Xavier.

In the parking lot, Tyler gives Wednesday the police file he found on her father. As they walk to Tyler's car, Jonah, Lucas, and Carter show up with baseball bats.

When Wednesday has a vision, Tyler catches her before she hits the ground. After the vision, he tries to get Wednesday to follow him so that they can leave. Wednesday follows after Rowan instead.

## Powers / Skills / Weaknesses

### Weaknesses

* **Mind control:** Being a hyde, the first person that would awaken Tyler's hyde would have made him the slave of this person, as later happened with Marilyn Thornhill.

## Relationships

### Donovan Galpin

Tyler and his father had a rocky relationship since Francoise died, because Donovan was afraid of the eventual possibility that Tyler inherited Francoise's hyde genes and therefore decided to stay away and focus on his job, emotionally distancing himself. Tyler grew up with anger and abandonment issues because of that, always arguing with his father about his mom, whom Donovan refuses to talk about, as well as arguing about Wednesday. Donovan refuses to go to Tyler's therapy sessions with Dr. Valerie Kinbott. Despite that, Donovan still cares for his son; this is shown when he hugs him after he had to shoot him to prevent him from killing Enid Sinclair in his hyde form.