Gavroche 'Twist' Dawkins

Authored by Russell Watt

Character Biography

Shortly after he was born, Gavroche’s mother died and the squealing baby that was the result of her dalliance with his father grew up a ward of the state in the den of iniquity that was Fagin Prime. Since the boy could crawl, he was getting into and out of scrapes, it seemed no matter the space, he could twist himself out of it, and thus his moniker of Twist was formed.

By the age of 8, he had become a lookout and by 10, he was sought out by one of the nastiest gang leaders of Fagin Prime, Sykes Thernardier. Gavroche had fallen into a spiral of deceit and murderous trouble and it was unlikely he would have seen his 13th birthday, but for the actions of a Starfleet Captain and his team of extraction experts. These officers had heard of the world

Be careful as you go
‘Cos little people grow
And little people know
When little people fight,
We may look easy pickings
But we got some bite!
So never kick a dog
Because it’s just a pup
You’d better run for cover when the pup grows up
And we’ll fight like twenty armies
And we won’t give up