Squid Galvanic/IF-23.224

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Origins

In the far reaches of the universe there was a lone wanderer who found herself in the depths of space, stranded with no way home. Rather than despair, Squid Galvanic looked inside herself to find a companion and spent countless seconds, hours, weeks, or years suspended within her own mind. Until she was interrupted by a disturbance in the cosmos - a great shifting of weight as a black hole was opened and the sun was destroyed. Curious at it's cause, she traveled to the source of the disturbance to find the Baltimore Crabs at the center of it all. Intrigued, and having had quite enough mediation for now, she opted to join their ranks and become a part of the team.

A Place on the Crabs

Galvanic has been described as a "fine tuned machine" and takes an extensive amount of time training, mediating, and centering herself to optimize her performance. She is particularly interested in the phenomenon of Carcinizatoin and how it may have an effect on the mind over the body.

Galvanic also takes a considerable interest in the written form, and practices calligraphy and poetry, both the writing of her own, as well as the reading of other more abstract works. After teammate Pedro Davids put her in touch with his long-time writing partner Valentine Games she has drafted several poems to send, but admitted that "I don't think I can compete with my teammate, who's words are written from the heart." Pedro has not only refused to comment, but also requested several times that Galvanic's comment be stricken from the record.

A Place in Baltimore

When returning to earth, Galvanic found that the many lives of the people of Baltimore were loud, chaotic, and uncontrollable, and she fell in love with it even if it was overwhelming at times. In order to help her acclimatize, fellow interdimensional traveler Parker Parra suggested she try doing "normal human stuff", and helped Galvanic find a role working at the National Aquarium in Baltimore. She took quite well to the work, and enjoyed talking to guests about the wonders of various underwater creatures. When asked how she felt about having to feed some of the shark exhibits live squids (considering her own squid-like nature), Galvanic simply responded: "Don’t worry about it.”

The new arrivals to the Crabs over the course of the expansion era were a source of great joy for Galvanic, who was happy to have a selection of the many strange people of the immaterial plane come to her. Lorcan Smaht was a big hit with Galvanic’s children, who discovered that ey did a lot of wrestling when ey was younger, and was bombarded with requests to roughhouse with them, with especially insistent requests to be suplexed by the pitcher. Enid Marlow was another player that fascinated Galvanic, but more in line with the way that someone would be fascinated with a small angry cat. Looking at Marlow’s record of catastrophes Galvanic admitted that “Maybe Enid would benefit from worrying about things, just a little.”

Galvanic’s most exciting reunion however came with the addition of Alston Cerveza, who she was delighted to see again, just as much as he was to see her. When asked how they knew each other Galvanic simply responded “Oh you know how it is with Danish assassins” and did not provide any further details. Galvanic’s children were likewise delighted to see Cerveza again, insisting on getting souvenirs from his many adventures, something that he happily provided as Galvanic applauded his great consideration as their godfather.

The Event Horizon

In season 24 as the map opened up and the many teams of the ILB were able to steer towards their fates, Galvanic took this development in stride, almost as if she was waiting for this to happen, and this was a logical next step for the splort. Many of the newer members of the Crabs were surprised when she sprung into action, taking charge in a way they had never seen, but the ascended members of the team were very familiar with her leadership in the original Black hole.

Staring into the maw of the newest Horizon to explore, Galvanic set off with her crew beside her once more into the unknown.