Gale Cobalt

Instructions

This is a quick sketch of Gale! he's Max's dad as well as a craftsman in the Lanes! the burn scar on the side of his face was when he got in a fight with some of Silco's idiots for messing with something of Max's in the shop. he was let off with a warning, hence the scar is a reminder, but also a trophy of surviving against people who k1|| for a living. Some fun things about Mr. Cobalt is that in his younger days, he actually used to be a fighter and that's how he met his Wife, who is unfortunately out of the picture for reasons that will be explained in a minute. in the ring, they used to call him "Clock Out", since he always had a pocket watch on him in fights. his wife, Selene, used to be a frequent visitor to the fights, scouting and betting if she wasn't in a fight as well. they called her "Fuse" in the ring. when people heard there was a relationship going on between Clock Out and Fuse, people were going crazy over it. of course, this was when he was early twenties. in his late twenties, Max came into the picture. Gale and Selene dropped out of the fight scene and started up the shop (Name in progress) and got an orange cat named Cog. Gale used to invent and tinker, so this was a good field for him. Selene usually ran the counter and sometimes helped with orders. it was great! that was until Selene got sick. no medical remedies really helped it, and it didn't help that Max also just had his amputation at the ripe age of 3. things felt out of control. Word got out about medicine that would possibly cure Selene, but it required her to leave Zaun, to leave Piltover, to go overseas. she never came home. but it was ok, Cobalts keep the gears spinning. all he could do was hold up his promise of being ready to do anything to help Max. after about 3 years, things began to get seriously concerning and Gale knew he had to do something to protect his son. the rates of kids surviving in Zaun were low and he didn't want to test it. the poor kid had enough problems coming for him and all he could do was delay those. he knew a friend who usually bounced between Zaun and Piltover and got a route to get his son to the outersides, hoping that the enforcers would just ignore him until he could defend himself. it hurt. it hurt so bad. but Max would be ok, he was a smart kid already. he would be ok. he would find a family that could give him what he needed at less of a price. * After Silco took over, Gale became more on edge. his goons would show up to the shop occasionally for usual orders and he'd serve them. business is business. but when they touched the first thing he taught Max to make, a metal butterfly, that's when he got the same fight energy he had back in his "Clock Out" days. let's just say some didn't leave without a bruise or two, maybe a broken arm, a cracked skull. oh well. but he didn't leave unscathed either. they burned the side of his face, leaving him slightly blind in that eye. It hurt so bad, but you know what, he didn't care. he did what he thought was right, even if he would be possibly walking on eggshells for the next whoever knows how long. but that's the lore of Gale so far.