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. |
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Dragon Name: Livoyee (velvet skies, lalli voy yee) |
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