Name: Galen Walker

Gender: Male, pansexual

Age/DOB: ~16, aged, RY2

Origin: Rookery-born to Repurposed parents

Family: Spliced dads, Nigel and Gene, full brother Niven who has gone off to Midnight Falls Weyr**, with half-sister Desi, aunt Jennifer, other relatives ** (zek says: since that person has left the nexus discord this brother is back home now)

Other: As time goes on, Galen will absolutely enjoy romance options - they're everywhere, after all...

Height: 5'11"

Weight: 130* Icarus significantly lightens his frame, he's very well toned and does like to show off his form

Hair: brown-tinted black, normally stiff fro, typically kept in braids or dreadlocks and styled however he feels will look the best for his friends to notice him showing off; is high back length

Eyes: vibrantly red, has always been this color, and is reflective of his powers, tend to glow in a deep crimson shade when he's using his abilities; narrow and almond-shaped, under thick brows; does not need glasses like Gene does

Appearance: dark tan skin that's ruddy more than yellowish, though significantly lighter than Nigel's and more creamy than Gene's. He has no significant scars or markings, though has some faint freckles if he's out in the sun; prefers to wear the Icarus undersuit with modifications, and likes red outfits - he's had Wilson make him a number of things to look this good. His face is angular and he has a sharp nose, high cheekbones, and broad, pleasant lips. His voice is strong and deep, and he enjoys laughing as much as whispering.

Icarus Processing: yes, while he was being put together, since he's a splice job. Only Gene had been treated so there were not as many inherited traits. This lightened his body weight, and strengthened his bones and muscles considerably, he's about 2x stronger than normal, and heals a good deal faster as well.

Image Credits: Meiker / Shidabeeda Casual Magic Boy

Genetic Abilities: as both of his dads show, he has the typical Vortal Suite of telepathy, empathy, and Vortal sight - he's best with empathy, at short (20 meters) range, but his mental voice is as strong at close range as it is at 200 meters. Oddly his Sight seems to work best with dragons, rather than humanoids, and he can spot a specific dragon if he knows what to look for (and they have a Vortal presence) at over 1 mile. Also though, as both dads... he is a pyrokinetic and light-producer to an extreme. Though his early gestation was in a surrogate mother, after 6 months it was absolutely time to pull him out, because his powers had already started devloping. He has command over visible light but also extends into infrared and ultraviolet to a degree, so he can both see and produce 'heat vision', detecting traces of heat or leaving false trails for others to follow. He doesn't have the control over visible light that Nigel does, but he can still draw the eye to sparkles, strobes, and has been called a Walking Rave when he's drunk... His fire can be refined down to near-laser precision and plasma-heat, and he can set up heat traps that his dragon then sets off with a spark. For outright flame production those insulated gloves are important: while he doesn't get burned by anything he creates, Wilson has had to give his clothing a careful processing to make them resist being burned by whatever catches fire after he gets to a place. Galen can manipulate existing flames, as long as there is enough oxygen to keep any small flame going, he can move a fire around, or cause it to sputter out, or even change shape. He can point and shoot like a flamethrower, accurate to around 20 meters, or fanned out to a cone that's good for a 10 meter gout - any of these flames will kill human-sized creatures in moments, even heavily armored Combine troops or Synth soldiers are fried in their armor shells. He can also produce a snipe flame burst, about a 5 foot long spear-like beam that is accurate to over 200 meters as long as the air is clear. This does require a bit of patience and stability, he can't do that trick on dragonback. He has many other tricks for that. He likes to burst fire as though shelling is coming down on an area, and he's often sent overhead first to do this in order to distract the enemies for others to take out on the ground.
Skills or Profession: Since Gene has also had Pythagoras treatments, Galen is among the smarter or at least qucker-thinking members of the newer generation. He uses this mainly in combat settings, however, taking orders from Paxton or Geoff and putting them into action on the fly, and coming up with solutions to immediate problems. Though he can keep up with Gene, he knows that dad is more nerdy than some, and keeps track of the lab stuff only so that he doesn't look like an idiot talking to others... Galen is a combat rider, through and through, and he has had combat training downloads as well as the standard array of survival and navigation sets. The fashion hound thing he picked up all by himself.
Personality: Gregarious, passionate, and steadfast, Galen is aptly named - he is lively and strong willed after all, but has a sense of stability around him even though his powers are all quite 'active' in nature. His combat training gets set aside the moment he's on the ground, and he doesn't consider fighting with other humans to be worth doing - he'll break up a fight, not contribute to it. He certainly has a way with people, and though he's not one to set out to seduce someone specifically he does find it quite easy because well look at him. That's not to say he's particularly vapid or a playa', he does want to raise a family somehow, in the future - and whether that's with a gal that complements his powers, or a guy who knows how to have a good time, he doesn't seem to care. It's very clear that some of the other pyokinetic folks around are the 'target audience' for Melissa's lab-rat purposes, but Galen is young and doesn't really have any specific person in mind to settle with. Maybe there will be more than one.

Events or History: He is among the young Rookery-born kids, having been spliced up in Rapture and not back on the Repurposed world. He does know that his dads are somewhat disparate in actual age, but then again he was grown mostly in a vat after having been gestated for a while in a proper surrogate, and aged promptly due to the needs of the Rookery. Though some others have needed time as a child to grow into their powers, pyrokinetics come easily to his dads, and their contribution to his downloaded skills has proven to be exactly as effective as them sitting down and teaching him manually. He was aged to around 11 on exiting the labs, and by the time he was 15 the Hallowed Silk dragons were being shown off. The match with Livoyee is quite true and sound, and it was caring for a young dragon that made Galen realize that he would certainly want to be a dad himself someday.

They reside in the Rookery, and are sent to combat sites quite frequently.

Dragon

Name: Livoyee (velvet skies, lalli voy yee)
Gender: Male
Size/Shoulder/Length: Medium-Small (long) 8'6" s / 44' l / 42' ws
Colors: contrast violet body and limbs with lilac chest; wingsails indigo with violet-white star patterns (real stars); horns purple; frills lilac, claws darker purple, eyes usually yellow
Features: long dragon mutt; mixed hide with some scale armor visible on tail and wing arms, back; four legs with 4-clawed paws fore and more canine hind with heel claws; two leathery wings with three visible fingers and sails that extend farther than visible; blunt face with external ears, two upswept horns, canine nose, wide mouth with small teeth and lots of them; spiny floof at head, rump, and tail tip (flexible like cat's whiskers but thick, and have extremely prickly surfaces that can be used as defense); these features are all inherited by siblings, but may pass differently based on partner; egg layer, will likely want any offspring to inherit Vortigese naming structure
Powers: Winged Flight (shiny 4) Velvet is able to powerfully fly in virtually any location wide enough to handle his size, and is fast in the air as well as good for powerful maneuvers. He doesn't tire easily, it takes quite a bit of effort or performance with difficult moves to even begin to wind him. He doesn't soar particularly much, preferring sprints and dives, quickly changing directions, and impressive spiraling to anything like slowly gliding around. He does combine this with his local teleportation to produce an impressive fighting skill. that said, he doesn't care much for pulling or carrying goods, and will really only allow Galen to ride him unless it's a dire emergency. He definitely prefers being in the air solo so he can do breakneck moves without worrying about losing someone or breaking something. In addition however, he can add a 'shiny' component to the air behind his wings, leaving a dark patch with visible stars, which remains in the air for around 2 minutes as he concentrates. This is as close to dimensional travel as he can get, however, you can't use this illusion to move to those stars beyond. Also this power works in any level of ambient lighting, be it in a hangar bay, cavern, evening sky, Xen, or broad daylight somewhere outside. It's always the same color scheme and density of stars as shown on his wings. This absolutely throws off any enemies, as he can easily turn circles around any flying creature or vehicle, to briefly disorient it enough to hit it out of the air.
Teleportation 5 (dimension 1) As quick and strong as he is while doing complicated moves, his teleportation power matches it and compliments it very well. He can only use a localized teleport, and it's somewhat short ranged (from 'right next to where he was' to about 2 miles), but he does it in rapid succession, while turning or twisting, to different heights or altitudes, or even just 'around a corner' provided he knows the area is clear for his size. This makes him an incredibly good combat dragon, since he can spew flames, drag the night sky into view, and show up right behind an enemy all at the same time. If he's using other Vortal abilities he conserves his teleportation until needed, and values surprise, so he makes sure that if a Combine enemy sees him teleporting, they don't make it back to base to tell anyone about it. His teleportation can move himself and whatever he's carrying, but that's all, and he doesn't us it outside of combat for the most part. As above, his family's inherited dimensional travel is limited to visuals of the stars, though it technically is 'teleport'.
Communication Telepathy/Empathy 4 (verbal, invis 1) While he tends to be quiet, he's not completely silent mentally, and has a good telepathic range both with his rider, as well as any other Vortal mind within about 10 miles. He doesn't really give a shit about philosophy or big-brain stuff, he's not dumb at all he just gets bored quickly and wants to talk about tactics or the lay of the land instead, so he'll hang with the other combat dragons to do so. Though he can speak a bit verbally and does have a raucous chirping voice, he only speaks to swear in Vort. And though he visually can camouflage himself with that Shiny power of his (at least, at night) his Vortal energy is such that anyone with aura sight will spot him with ease due to his 'velvet' feeling presence.
Technology 6, as a Healing Den and Xenian denizen, many of the siblings of this unusual pair have an added power beyond what their parents have, that of technological sense or manipulation. Livoyee is among the strongest with that power, and he uses it to disrupt Combine technology and communications as he flies over their locations. It is close range, he can do this within about 10 meters at most, but it is instant, and his sense with it is slightly broader at 20 meters - he can sense while flying and quickly decide what to do as his effects move into range. If he's able to settle down and wander through a facility rather than strafing it, he can collect data, even alter it, but he's not the tech head of the family, so generally someone else will be on hand to tell him what exactly to do with the things he uncovers in this manner. But one of his favorite things to do is fly around looking for Combine scanners or manhacks, and reprogram them on the fly, so they distract or attack their creators. He can use virtually any form of technology equally well, from Pyrrhan tools to Vortigaunt systems, Human-made equipment, to Combine tech.
Assisted Fire 5, though unable to breathe fire like some dragons Livoyee seems to know just how fire and burning works, to the point of being a bit of a pyromaniac when he's left to his own devices. He actually has used his technological know-how in that manner, to create for himself and others in his family a 'lighter', producing a spark that can light whatever flammable substance they've got on hand. He will use this in conjunction with both his own teleportation to ignite a location that's already vulnerable (say, with gas or oil spilled thanks to him causing a valve to open) or his rider's own powers to cause a major conflagration. Utilizing his tech sense, he can put effort into pinpointing weak spots for his rider's fire, and in minutes they can reduce a normally-secure location to ash.
Parentage: Azhnach (Starpath) and Lipatan Lallitae, siblings 1, 2, 3, Taanumitae, 6
Origin: Hallowed Silk RY6 Healing Den / Rookery
Other Info: He really loves having a bond friend like Galen, because those flames are just perfect for destroying enemies. If he could change anything about himself, he'd probably say 'give me fire breath'. He's the kind of jock dragon that would get shitfaced and light farts at parties. But he's not so haphazard, and knows the value of protecting his Rookery from harm on the inside.