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== Background & Personal Life == | == Background & Personal Life == | ||
Galen is openly gay. Istvhan describes him as having "definite tastes, and they [do] not run to women."<ref>Paladin's Strength, ch. 5</ref> He jokes with Clara about any "handsome lay ''brothers''" of her order that she might want to set him up with. He is sexually experienced, and considers sex "as complicated as you chose to make it."<ref>Paladin's Hope, ch. 9</ref> Prior to his marriage to Piper, he doesn't believe himself to be worthy of love beyond sex, and fears accidentally killing | Galen is openly gay. Istvhan describes him as having "definite tastes, and they [do] not run to women."<ref>Paladin's Strength, ch. 5</ref> He jokes with Clara about any "handsome lay ''brothers''" of her order that she might want to set him up with. He is sexually experienced, and considers sex "as complicated as you chose to make it."<ref>Paladin's Hope, ch. 9</ref> Prior to his marriage to Piper, he doesn't believe himself to be worthy of love beyond sex, and fears accidentally killing a partner while in a berserker rage. He also fears intimacy on the grounds that being a paladin is a "high-mortality profession," and believes "the only cure for him [is] a sharp knife."<ref>Paladin's Hope, ch. 18</ref> Fortunately, Piper literally interrupts this line of thinking by exclaiming "spongiform erectile tissue." So there's that. | ||
He has a thing for attractive hands, something that attracts him to Piper from the beginning. <blockquote>"Insomuch as Galen had a type, it was 'male with good hands.' His first great love had been another youth at the Saint of Steel's temple, who had not been conventionally attractive but had possessed quite exquisite hands." - Paladin's Hope, ch. 4 </blockquote> | He has a thing for attractive hands, something that attracts him to Piper from the beginning. <blockquote>"Insomuch as Galen had a type, it was 'male with good hands.' His first great love had been another youth at the Saint of Steel's temple, who had not been conventionally attractive but had possessed quite exquisite hands." - Paladin's Hope, ch. 4 </blockquote> | ||