Age: 21
Affiliation: Member of the Insomnian Defense Force
Likes: Training, Insomnia, His family, Other recruits, Anyone stronger than him
Dislikes: Cold weather, Being sick, Awkward conversations, When his mother is upset, House Golden
Other info: He's a meathead through and through; he's not much good at book smarts types of things and had to heavily rely on tutors and his dad's help with school. As a result, he ended up dropping out of high school at 16 and enlisted in the defense force. The technical youngest age to enlist is 17, but he forged his dad's signature for permission to join early. Having not told his parents about dropping out and joining the defense force... You can imagine how well that went over.
Bio: When Gale was a young boy, he experienced the brunt of his mother's stress on one occasion. He'd been acting out and wasn't listening as children of his age tend to do, and his mother grabbed his arm and pulled him towards her so hard that it bruised. He remembers well that she had this look upon her face like something had possessed her, but it wouldn't be until he was older that he would understand that this ghost had been the spirit of a traumatic history that still kept her tight in it's grip. Thankfully at that time, his dad had heard the commotion and had intervened before anything else happened. He remembers just as clearly the sound of his mother's wailing cries over something he could never comprehend.
His mother never raised a hand to him again, but that didn't mean that she was completely normal. When she found herself struggling with dealing with him she'd wrap her arms around him in an embrace and hug him so tightly that he found it would start to become difficult to breathe, but he'd never say anything or try to push her away out of fear. She'd tell him over and over again that she loved him, and he was sure that she did, even if he was afraid of her.
As he got older he did his best to behave and keep his mother at arms length, preferring to stay close to his father instead. She was overbearing and overprotective, making it difficult for him to socialize when he was young either because he wasn't allowed to go out or because she would show up wherever he went and her disquieting aura would frighten the other kids, or she'd simply act in a way that ended up making him feel sorry for making her stressed over him. Sure, his dad tried to do things to improve the situation, but he was busy with his work and couldn't magically fix his mother.
Around the time he was entering high school, he stayed out too late and caused his mother to have a panic attack. She explained to him at this time a bit of her past; how she'd grown up in an orphanage that was very cruel to her and it made her a bit different from other moms. She wished that he could forgive her for being such a terrible parent, and he immediately switched to being extremely protective and close to her rather than the other way around. He wished desperately that he could make right the injustice his mother faced...for the crimes the Golden House were never punished for.
Of course, the easiest way to do this was by joining the Defense Force. And his parents both were as upset as one would expect when they found out he'd dropped out of school and joined illegally, but he knew in his heart it was the right choice. Because they didn't want him to get in trouble for forging his dad's signature, they decided that the only choice was to just let him do what he wanted and hope that he would see the error of his ways and only serve for the minimum two years.
Well... as it turned out, Gale was nothing short of a genius when it came to military matters. Shooting? He was a perfect shot at every gun they handed to him almost immediately. He absorbed every fighting skill he was shown and could replicate the moves others demonstrated on his first try. Two months into training, he managed to drop Vash himself onto the ground. They said that it was a pure fluke and didn't let him spar with him again after that, but many of the other recruits were convinced that he truly had bested the best in record time.
Although his parents were filled with mixed emotions to hear that their son had graduated basic training with honors and distinction, especially when one of the commanders leading the ceremony described him as 'a natural born killer', they were at least glad that he had found something he was passionate about and saw that he was well loved by the other enlistees around him and highly respected.
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