Damon Gallows

Specialist in Final Decisions

Content Note: This page discusses themes of control, fear, and decisive action in a non-graphic way.

Damon is the first character I ever created — long before I had the vocabulary for why he felt necessary. He began as a childhood attempt to make sense of fear, certainty, and the allure of clean conclusions. Over the years, he evolved alongside me, shifting from a simple sketch into a long-term study of restraint, inevitability, and the quiet logic of endings.

I. Overview

FILE: G-01

SUBJECT: Damon Gallows

CLASSIFICATION: Specialist in Final Decisions

STATUS: Active

ACCESS LEVEL: Restricted

Observational Notes

Does not blink enough.
Crunches hard candies instead of letting them dissolve.
Reads marginalia before the main text.
Prefers rooms with closed doors, even when alone.
Pauses slightly too long before answering questions.

Damon has always been the character I use when something needs to be handled without fuss or feelings. He’s not a good person, and he doesn’t pretend to be one — he’s efficient, self-assured, and a little too comfortable with being the final word in a situation.

He’s pretentious, sharp, and weirdly charismatic in a way that makes people trust him right up until they realize they shouldn’t. His purpose is simple: he brings things to an end. Everything else about him is just decoration.

II. Origins

Damon didn’t start as a character at all. For a long time, he was just a recurring shape — a collection of sketches, half‑formed ideas, and strange little moments that kept showing up in my writing and dreams. I didn’t give him a name, or a purpose, or even a personality. He was more like a shadow I kept accidentally drawing, a pattern I didn’t realize I was repeating.

Eventually, those fragments started to connect. The way he stood, the tone he used, the calmness that felt more unsettling than comforting — all of it slowly solidified into something coherent. He became a person before I consciously decided he should be one. The name came later, and the last name even later than that, once I finally understood what kind of character he was becoming.

His in‑universe origins are intentionally vague, but his real origin is simple: Damon grew out of the parts of my imagination that were sharp, controlled, and difficult to look at directly. He wasn’t created so much as discovered, and he’s been evolving ever since.