Gavin "Galvatron" B.

Gavin is a human, from Earth.

Getting whisked into space wasn't initially his plan for life, but then again he never had one to begin with.

Personality
Gavin’s thoughts are a bit all over the place. He’s not sure what he wants at all, he just kind of knows what he doesn’t want. He has done a lot of bad things that have left him quite twitchy about many things wishing to do better than his crappy start in life gave him. He’s determined to make his life better and control his awry emotions but doesn’t find it the easiest thing to do, especially when his mind tells him the angry punch-everything option is the way to go. He just wants to feel good/better again.

Pre-Cyclonus/Pre-AU's beginning
Sadly, his life was destined to go downhill before he was even born. Born to a Scottish thug and a Danish drug smuggler, his father loved his mother more than he loved the child he was to have with her, so when she died in childbirth and her drug-smuggling ring vanished, it was fair to say Gavin ended up getting the blame for what happened despite being a newborn.

After a few years of being hidden away, his father was eventually arrested for his neglect and mistreatment and Gavin placed into care.

The behaviour of his father - that he refuses to talk about - left the young boy a little unstable to say the least, unfortunately leading him to be put back into care a few times, even proving too much for the one family that really did try their best. He denies it but now he has a clearer head he regrets his behaviour towards them.

With a life in and out of care, he eventually ended up turning to gangs and substance abuse to try and paste together the cracks in his life.

Inadvertently following in his father’s footsteps he became a well-known thug notorious for wearing a horribly wide grin as he beat the living snot out of people.

This all backfired one day as he, in turn, got ganged up on. Those who cornered him in a back alley mockingly cut his mouth open like a smile and beat him up quite viciously before leaving him to either bleed out or be saved by a passerby.

He was eventually saved as a concerned local heard the commotion and called the authorities. He spent several weeks in a hospital recovering from the blood loss and some infection that had set in from lying in the damp trash-covered floor of the alley.

Feeling sick after being left helpless for such a long time, and for starting to see aspects of his father in himself, Gavin vowed to do better, or at least get a job and not end up in a hospital again. Maybe just be a “”“normal”“” member of society and just fade away into a monotonous life without being under attack.

This didn’t work out too well for him.

A lifetime of criminal records, facial scarring and some temper issues left him jobless and stuck in a rut of useless anger management classes and repetitive job search.

Hating the monotonous lifestyle he began regretting everything and feeling bleak about his future.

Current/AU-ongoing
It might be best if you just read it for yourself.

Trivia

 * Leonard Nimoy was Galvatron's VA in the 80's movie, while Frank Welker took over again for Seasons 3 and 4. The accent comes from the fact he's Scottish.


 * Gavin’s original hair colour is a fairly vibrant shade of red, he practically uses blue hair dye to make his hair purple allowing his vivid natural shade to do the rest.
 * Yes, Galvatron is an angry ginger Scottish man, you’re welcome. The Danish part of him is inspired by Galvatron’s design in the 1984 cartoon.
 * Gavin has many scars on his body, most of them were treatable so they would not scar but Gavin refused to get help from doctors or treat the injuries right causing scarring.
 * He loses his eye after venturing into Space.
 * He was brave (or dumb) enough to take on a Sparkeater with a baseball bat.
 * He has odd tastes in food and is perfectly fine with eating a raw onion like an apple.
 * He is a Decepticon-biased neutral in the case of the Autobot/Decepticon fighting.
 * Being neutral he ends up making Autobot friends as well as Decepticon friends.
 * Megatron eventually adopts him, officially giving him the name “Galvatron”.
 * Gavin panics around needles and empty/blank rooms in particular.
 * As a child, he turned some of his aggression on his dead mother believing that if she were still alive his father would love him.