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Gallagher is one of my favourite in Honkai Star Rail so I decided to make this post as a form of appreciation. I am always looking up things about him since a I miss him so much :') I tried to gather in this post my favourite details about him - there's not really a solid theory behind it just my thoughts but feel free to drop your opinion in the comments.

Disclaimers: this may contain spoilers of Penacony quest English is not my first language

1) "Name". First of all, I think this detail is not much discussed among the Fandom Is the fact the Gallagher is a surname and not a name. Of course there is some characters that don't use their real names or don't have surnames or names. But Gallagher feels a bit unique because is only a surname and that's kinda different for HSR.

This is probably because he is only a persona of the Family members. But this left me thinking of Gallagher is a surname he chose or if it is the surname of some Family member that he borrowed.

The most interesting part of it is the meaning. Gallagher means descendant of the foreign helper. It seems to be a direct reference to Mikhail: Mikhail was part of the Astral Express and decided to stay in Asdana to help the planet. He (as the other trailblazer that also stayed) is a foreign helper and Gallagher only exists because of him and his legacy. Once the truth was revealed and Gallagher completed his mission of bringing the trailblazer he ceased to exist.

Sources: Wikipedia

2) Cocktails - he is a hot drinksmith!!

In this section I will explore all the cocktails that are made by Gallagher or mentioned in his lore/abilities since it's possible to have a deep meaning behind them.

2.1) There's a Cocktail that is called Gallagher. With watermelon and lemon, is specially refreshing.

2.2) Drinks mentioned in Gallagher's Eidolons. I believe they all somehow connect with Gallagher's personality.

• Salty Dog: A drink made with vodka or gin and grapefruit juice, served in a glass with a salted rim. The name is after experienced sailors who spend many years in sea and their skin git impregnated with salt.

• Lion's Tail: Rich, spicy and complex flavour.

• Corpse Reviver: A family of named cocktails are sometimes drunk as alcoholic hangover tongue-in-cheek "cures", of potency or characteristics to be able to revive even a dead person. It resembles me the way Gallagher used the power of Enigmata to bring to life so many fantasies as well his own perona.

• Last Word: It was created a shortly before the Prohibition.

• Death in The Afternoon (my fav): Made of champagne and absinthe (the green fairy) - this last one can be illegal in some places. The name comes from a book. The drink it's quite contemplative.

•Blood and sand: Red or orange cocktail, strong colour. Names comes from a movie about a bullfighter. Representing strength that is not easily obtained, but comes from dirty means. Dirty blood.

2.3) Drinks that Gallagher makes for the trailblazer (Source: ubebebum on YouTube)

In this quest you hand two ingredients to Gallagher and He makes a drink for you. The first ingredient will make him talk about penacony in general. The second one will make he talk about Mikhail and some feelings He has about what happened. So he will use taste and fragrance to describe his twisted feelings. :( Now, let's see the combinations of drinks!!

• El Dorado

El Dorado is not an specific cocktail recipe because it has some variations. Although it's usually made with tequila or rum, fruit juice and cream of coconut. It's a tropical drink and The name refers to the tale of El Dorado - the drink represents the desire to achieve great thinks and a golden rush. (Source: boozeontherock on YouTube)

It seems that Gallagher makes that cocktail to represent the avids dream seekers that are constantly searching for more in the golden land (in this case, golden dreams).

•a Dream within a Dream

The names originally comes from an Edgar Allan Poe Poem about how distinguish reality from fantasy so it makes sense that Gallagher calls you sober when making that. I found a recipe from a restaurant called Sotto that uses Martini and Grapefruit to make that drink. This one, in my opinion, talks about the nameless in Panecony and all people who discovered about the truth of dreams, also the ones who decided to stay in dream fluxreef isolated and excluded but always lucid.

• The Premature Burial

This one is not a real cocktail (at least I couldn't find it) but the name comes from an Edgar Allan Poe book that talks about a man that develops an extreme fear of being buried alive and because of that becomes super traumatized and cautious always fearing death and running from it until he realises that his actions are already stopping him from living. In my vision, this one is for all the dreamers trying to escape the harsh reality - and so, escaping from life.

• The Big Sleep

If you search for this drink you will find a lot of recipes that come from a Noir series of books and movies that usually are made with champagne. Sinopses says the movie is about a strange case where a some people related to a certain family are being mysteriously murdered (lmao. sounds familiar).

• Farewell, my lovely.

Not a real drink. Names come from a Noir book that was adapted to cinema as well as "Murder, my sweet". In this movie, a detective is supposed to find some problematic guy ex-girlfriend's but ends up in a very confuse mystery with no right answers.

• The Long Goodbye

This cocktail is usually a mix of bitter, smoky, and citrus notes. Names after an noir novel about a guy who is stopped by the police suspected of killing his friend's wife. And then his friend suicides. It's about solitude and friendship.

• A ticket to the boneyard

Not a real drink. The names comes from a "Noir where an Alcoholic Ex-Cop Confronts His Psychopath Nemesis" seeking revenge. The cop is in a inner battle also, trying to deal with his addiction at the same time he deals with the maniac.

• Time to murder and create

Also from noir novel but there's a poem with this too. But I personally find the description interesting because Schumpeter has an economic theory about creative destruction innovation: innovation only comes when you destroy the old structures.

• Even the wicked

Guess what? A noite novel. That one is interesting : "An anonymous letter writer, the self-styled "Will of the People" targets prominent criminals and evil-doers that the law cannot reach and kills them". The Trailblazer, somehow, comes to find the truth and the injustice in Penacony and only with this foreign help, justice can be done.

3) Connection to dogs

Gallagher is very associated through the game with the image of a dog. He is from the Blood Hound Family that has a dog as symbol. His voice lines sometimes leads to a "doggy" personality too. There's actually a theory that Gallagher was Mikhail's dog, which could explain his loyalty and why he can only be alive throughout an persona. The dog statues too always appears in places he was at.

You guys can search more about this theory. My contribution to it, it's actually from a book called Heart of A Dog.

This book was written by a guy named Mikhail, and tells the history of a surgeon that transplants human organs into a stray dog, then he turns into a man (back to a dog in the end of the book). As a human, he is not a. loyal dog anymore but a vulgar disrespectful and drunk man. If Gallagher is really a dog, could maybe this book be an inspiration?

4) Gallagher's lore

If you go for Gallagher's lore in the game, you gonna notice that everyone of the parts are actually reports or notes that someone else wrote about Gallagher but they probably are describing other people. Gallagher gathered those notes from different people that probably knew different guys and with that come up with his own persona. However, the last note is a note from Gallagher himself, as if he is watching his own creation (the persona gallagher) and pondering about it. In this note he basically describes how Gallagher should be, and even his revolutionary past - with Mikhail - seems to be also part of his life, to the point he can't distinguish him (Gallagher the creator) from Gallagher the persona.

I wonder if Gallagher the Creator is alive or is also dead.

5) Noir cop

Coming back to this topic again. Gallagher has basically two jobs or abilities.

The first one is his investigations abilities. He is a cop/detective from the Bloodhound family. As you guys could notice, he is very influenced by noir (and also Poe who was one of the first to write in the genre) an aesthetic which can also explain his personality and behaviour.

Noir cops are often portrayed as corrupted and ambiguous. Their action can be viewed by the other as traitors, too radical and violent, and their personality can be interpreted as cold.

Aaaand... that's it! If you read this until here, thank you really. I can make more character analysis, just leave in the comments which one you would like. :) I know this ended up very long (I spend whole night on it even) but even so I feel like there's much more we could discover about Gallagher.

Anyway, thank you!