Garry The King

Garry the king was the previous ruler of Wurmapalooza, the world quite literally at the center of the constantly expanding universe. Before his death, he was also the father to Larry the wurm and Bob the basterd, as well as the husband to Gurtha the Squint.

Background
Garry the king was born and raised, like the majority of wurms, on the planet of Wurmapalooza. It was on this world that Garry was tought how to rule and lead an entire species through the many hardships that being the center of the universe could have.

Garry had several younger siblings, their names being Jairy, Mary, Dairy and Carl. His siblings continue to live on Wurmapalooza, and news of his death has not yet reached their ears.

When Garry was 451, he was crowned the new king of Wurmapalooza, and made to rule on his own. Then, on his 473rd birthday, he met his soon to be wife Gurtha. Reaching this day, however, was not without its hardships.

Garry's Hardship
Garry’s parents (the then King and Squint) were killed by assailants of an alien race while on a rare journey outside Wurmapalooza for a diplomatic mission. Garry swore revenge upon this race and their government when appointed King and against the advice of his younger sister Mary, Garry lead an army of 100,000 wurms to the alien’s planet, Glizbarla, where he was met with fierce resistance. Both sides fought intensely for weeks, but eventually Garry’s forces were reduced to just 10,000 wurms and he was forced to retreat. The enemy was able to follow this retreat and invaded the planet of Wurmapalooza in a counterattack. Back on home turf the wurms were able to handily defeat the aliens thanks to their improved gravity magic, but not before they had destroyed an entire civilian city and left many nearby areas pocked with the damage of war.

Garry was left in shock from the destruction his actions had caused. He had allowed his emotions to get the better of him and refused to listen to those around him when their judgement would have served better. His lack of experience and poor temperament had caused the deaths of so many, and he swore to himself that when the day should come that he would have children of his own he wouldn’t allow them to make the same mistakes.

Some years later Garry met Gurtha, and many years after that she fell pregnant with Larry and Bob. Garry decided to put his long-time plan into action, sending out groups of scouts throughout the universe. He tasked them with finding a suitable star system where he would be able to terraform a planet that his children could learn about the responsibilities of ruling without putting his own people in danger once more. Garry set about preparing Mary to take the throne of Wurmapalooza in his absence and ensuring any other systems that required his attention would be able to be handled effectively. After several months of searching one of the groups came back with a report on the Cobaqua system, where there was a dwarf-planet sized rock floating in a free orbit around the system’s star, ripe for terraforming. Garry left the planet of Wurmapalooza with Gurtha and a small escort of guards that would return to Wurmapalooza once the planet had been properly established.

Raising Future Kings
Garry attempted to raise his sons to follow the traditional system of Wurmapaloozian rulership. Not being the most studious of wurms in his younger years he was forced to pass off most of these duties to advisors and tutors. Even so, Garry taught the  boiz  what he could. He was normally quite harsh in his teachings, praying his sons wouldn't repeat the mistakes of his past.

Garry had always shown favouritism to Bob through the years, and Bob found himself preferring his father over his mother in kind. Still, regardless of these facts Garry couldn't help but see that Larry was the better child for the position of King, and set about sending a message to Wurmapalooza of his decision.

Unbeknownst to Garry and indeed everyone else, Bob had been intercepting many of the messages that Garry had been sending out for quite some time now, and this message was no exception. As soon as he saw the contents contained within, he was set into a deep spiteful rage, and his plan of retaliation was hastily set into motion.

The Death of Garry
At the age of 797, Garry came into contact with an incredibly rare but deadly virus. It was created through the combined efforts of Wazukami and Wazaparla, spread throughout the universe in incredibly sparse quantities. Slazgard managed to come across a small sample of the disease and set about to assassinate Garry through it. Using spies he had had implanted in the castle of Aquaris some years prior, Slazgard had the virus placed into Garry's food.

Appearance
Being a wurm, Garry's arms and legs were both very short, at 2cm long each. Before Garry left wurmapalooza, he would most commonly be seen wearing the wurmian crown. Afterwards, however, he wore his own family hat, Marko. The colour of Garry's skin is a nice rosy red in colour.

Personality
Garry saw the battle of Glizbarla as being his fault on multiple sides. For one he realised that he shouldn't have have initiated it in the first place, but secondly that if he had only been stronger he could have reduced their losses or even turned the war around completely. As such Garry held a strong focus on the combat side of his magic, paying little attention to the day-to-day applications of it.

Garry was often quite rash and he had quite a temper to him, sometimes acting on impulse with his decisions. Despite this he never again allowed himself to reach the point he had with Glizbarla, showing that his temperament and rationale had at least improved.

Garry was a very loving and caring wurm, often using these emotions as motivators for his actions.