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mwahahahahah demon ciel (totally original idea amiright)

i gave him a headcanon birthday.. it's on December 1

some art :)) for the prompt “Ghost”

Everyone featured is someone whose death haunts him in some way. Individual explanations below!

Vemrin was the first person Galen ever killed. He’d been in combat plenty, as a Mando medic, but he was there in a healing capacity only. Even in the Sith Academy he felt terrible about hurting people in duels… but at the end of the day, Galen was forced to kill Vemrin or be killed, and he chose himself. He never really forgave himself for that

Vette didn’t die until KOTET but he hurt her much earlier than that, in the early years of his apprenticeship. Consistent use of the dark side as well as wanting to earn his master’s approval caused Galen to act more and more callous, especially towards underlings. After an incident I’ve talked about previously, his relationship with Vette was never really the same… although he worked to turn things around, the damage had been done. She left the crew soon afterward.

Jaesa, in my version of events, joins Galen to get revenge on Baras and then goes back to the Jedi, where she is recruited by the Revanites. Galen always had a pretty toxic relationship with her, and having to fight her during SoR really didn’t help. He blames himself for her defection and death: he could have saved her, if only he had been there, if only he’d seen her sooner, if only—

Quinn was Galen’s partner, general, and strategist for YEARS, and in that time they became very close. When Galen’s mission to Zakuul was ambushed by the Eternal Fleet, they both intended to go down with the ship. Galen survived, Quinn did not. Galen didn’t find out until five years later, in the middle of having leadership thrust upon him that he did not want. He never really was able to grieve until much later, after the war.

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